LCD Call for Papers

[Wiebe van der Hoek]

CALL FOR PAPERS LCD'07 : Workshop on Logics and Collective Decision making

http://lcd07.fr.tc/March 13-14, 2007, Lille, France
Erasmus International Institute MSH Nord-Pas-de-Calaislcd07 at hotmail.fr

We would like to welcome you to a workshop on the connections between logics 
and collective decision making theories that is to take place in Lille on March 
13-14, 2007. Group decision-making problems occur every time a collective 
choice has to be made from several individuals that have conflicting interests 
or preferences. There has been recently a growing interest on the use of logic 
as the basic tool for formalizing and computing those problems. This is in 
particular true in two close fields of research. The first one lies at the 
intersection of game theory and logics, especially by exploring how modal 
logics may be used to model and reason about games. A second one, which focuses 
on the logical insights into rational collective choice, has recently emerged 
around problems of judgment aggregation and beliefs/goals merging, on the one 
hand, and logical formalization of welfare distribution processes (social 
software), on the other. These two domains propose further formal refinements, 
using logical tools, of the classical theories of collective decision-making, 
by offering new evaluation criteria of and new ways of building social choice 
procedures. These new insights into these collective decision-making theories 
also offer new perspective to political philosophy and ethics. The workshop 
aims at sparking off interaction between social choice theorists, computer 
scientists, logicians and philosophers. The workshop will take place at the 
University of Lille 3, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France.

Invited Speakers
Ken Binmore (DE, University College London)
Franz Dietrich (University of Maastricht and LSE)
Wiebe van der Hoek (DCS, University of Liverpool)
Gabriella Pigozzi (CSC, University of Luxembourg)

CALL FOR PAPERS The aim of this workshop is to promote interaction between 
researchers in the areas of logics and collective decision-making theories.We 
invite submissions of abstracts in the interface of the above or related areas 
that investigate common problems. A non-exhaustive list of topics of interest 
include +logics of collective decision-making and social software+belief 
merging and judgment aggregation+social-choice theoretical approaches to logics 
and to the philosophy of logics+logics and deliberative democracy+preference 
representation and social choice+choice and game theory in political philosophy 
and ethics+formal perspective in politics and ethics+epistemic foundations of 
solution concepts and reasoning in bargaining games

Submission details Authors should send an abstract (in pdf or postscript) to 
lcd07 at hotmail.fr by January, 31st. Submissions should typically be 3 pages long 
(excluding bibliographical references). There will be no published proceedings, 
so there is no copyright problem for presenting works already published. The 
mail should contain the authors' name, affiliation(s) and current position(s). 
We strongly encourage PhD students to submit, as we might organize a student 
session. Notification of acceptance will be given by February, 9th.

Important Dates Submission of Abstracts         January 31, 2007
Notification of Acceptance     			February 9, 2007
LCD'07 Workshop                			March 13-14, 2007

Program Committee
Thomas Agotnes (Bergen University College)
Salem Benferhat (CRIL, University of Artois)
Johan van Benthem (ILLC, University of Amsterdam)
Cristina Bicchieri (University of Pennsylvania)
Giacomo Bonanno (University of California)
Laurence Broze (EQUIPPE, University of Lille)
Patrice Canivez (STL, University of Lille)
Samir Chopra (Brooklyn College of the City University of New York)
Franz Dietrich (University of Maastricht and LSE)
Ulle Endriss (ILLC, University of Amsterdam)
Marc Fleurbaey (CERSES, Université of Paris 5)
Thibault Gajdos (EUREQua, Université of Paris 1)
Andreas Herzig (IRIT, University of Toulouse)
Wiebe van der Hoek (University of Liverpool)
Hubert Jayet (EQUIPPE, University of Lille)
Frédéric Jouneau (EQUIPPE, University of Lille)
Sébastien Konieczny (CRIL, University of Artois) (co-chair)
Barteld Kooi (University of Groningen)
Jérome Lang (IRIT, University of Toulouse)
Christian List (LSE)
Pierre Marquis (CRIL, University of Artois)
Nicolas Maudet (LAMSADE, University of Paris 9)
Eric Pacuit (ILLC, University of Amsterdam)
Rohit Parikh (Brooklyn College of the City University of New York)
Marc Pauly (Stanford University)
Philip Pettit (Princeton University)
Gabriella Pigozzi (University of Luxembourg)
Shahid Rahman (STL, University of Lille) (co-chair)
Maurice Salles (CREM, University of Caen)
Jean-Christophe Vergnaud (EUREQua, University of Paris 1)
John Weymark (Vanderbilt University, University of Nashville)
Mike Wooldridge (University of Liverpool)

Organizing Committee
Cédric Dégremont
Patricia Everaere
Emmanuel Genot
Emeline Huart
Laurent Keiff

You can contact us via lcd07 at hotmail.fr