*************************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS TARK XII Twelfth conference on Theoretical Aspects of Rationality and Knowledge Stanford University, July 6-8, 2009 URL: http://ai.stanford.edu/~epacuit/tark09 *************************************************************************** About the Conference *************************************************************************** The mission of the TARK conferences is to bring together researchers from a wide variety of fields, including Artificial Intelligence, Cryptography, Distributed Computing, Economics and Game Theory, Linguistics, Philosophy, and Psychology, in order to further our understanding of interdisciplinary issues involving reasoning about rationality and knowledge. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, semantic models for knowledge, belief, and uncertainty, bounded rationality and resource-bounded reasoning, commonsense epistemic reasoning, epistemic logic, knowledge and action, applications of reasoning about knowledge and other mental states, belief revision, and foundations of multi-agent systems. TARK XII will have a partial overlap with the Tenth ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC'09) held at Stanford University *************************************************************************** Important Dates *************************************************************************** Submission of Abstracts: March 16, 2009 Notification of Authors: April 27, 2009 Camera ready copy of accepted papers: June 10, 2009 Conference: July 6-8, 2009, Stanford University *************************************************************************** Submission Details *************************************************************************** Submissions are now invited to TARK-XII via easychair: https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=tark2009 Strong preference will be given to papers whose topic is of interest to an interdisciplinary audience, and papers should be accessible to such an audience. Papers will be held to the usual high standards of research publications. In particular, they should 1) contain enough information to enable the program committee to identify the main contribution of the work; 2) explain the significance of the work -- its novelty and its practical or theoretical implications; and 3) include comparisons with and references to relevant literature. Papers should be no longer than ten double-spaced pages (4,000 words). Optional technical details such as proofs may be included in an appendix. An email address of the contact author should be included. Papers arriving late or departing significantly from these guidelines risk immediate rejection. One author of each accepted paper will be expected to present the paper at the conference. Economists should be aware that special arrangements have been made with certain economics journals (in particular, with International Journal of Game Theory, Games and Economic Behavior, Journal of Economic Theory, and Mathematical Social Sciences) so that publication of an extended abstract in TARK will not prejudice publication of a full journal version. For economists concerned that publishing in the TARK proceedings might prejudice eventual publication in Econometrica or Theoretical Economics, since our main goal is to have as interesting a conference as possible, it is acceptable for authors of accepted extended abstracts to publish only short abstracts in the TARK proceedings. (Note that this is not a problem for authors who plan to submit to any of the International Journal of Game Theory, Games and Economic Behavior, Journal of Economic Theory, and Mathematical Social Sciences, for which we have agreements in place.) *************************************************************************** Invited Speakers *************************************************************************** TBD *************************************************************************** Programme Committee *************************************************************************** Krzysztof Apt, Centrum voor Wiskunde & Informatica Johan van Benthem, University of Amsterdam and Stanford University Felix Brandt, University of Munich Amanda Friedenberg, Arizona State University Rica Gonen, Yahoo! Research Joe Halpern, Cornell University Gil Kalai, Hebrew University Daniel Lehmann, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Martin Meier, The Institute for Economic Analysis - CSIC, Barcelona Eric Pacuit, Stanford University Andres Perea, Maastricht University Riccardo Pucella, Northeastern University Olivier Roy, University of Groningen Burkhard Schipper, University of California at Davis Sonja Smets, Vrije Universiteit Brussel Olivier Tercieux, CNRS affiliated with Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques *************************************************************************** Workshop Organizers *************************************************************************** Aviad Heifetz (Program Chair) The Department of Economics and Management The Open University of Israel e_mail: aviadhe at openu.ac.il Joseph Y. Halpern (Conference Chair) Computer Science Department Cornell University e-mail: halpern at cs.cornell.edu Eric Pacuit (Local Organizer) Department of Philosophy Stanford University email: epacuit at stanford.edu *************************************************************************** Further Information *************************************************************************** The meetings will take place at the Graduate School of Business on Stanford's campus. More information about registration fees and local accommodation will be available at a later date.