LOFT 2018: Call for papers

[Van Der Hoek, Wiebe]

                             LOFT13  2018: Call for Papers
Thirteenth Conference on Logic and the Foundations of Game and Decision Theory
                Bocconi University, Italy, July 16-18, 2018
                             web page: TBA

AIMS OF THE CONFERENCE
This is the 13th in a series of bi-annual conferences on the applications of
logical methods to foundational issues in the theory of individual and
interactive decision-making. Preference is given to papers which bring
together the work and problems of several fields, such as game and
decision theory, logic, computer science and artificial intelligence,
philosophy, cognitive psychology, mathematics and mind sciences.

The previous eleven conferences took place in Marseille (France), January 1994,
Torino (Italy), December 1996, December 1998, July 2000 and July 2002,
Leipzig (Germany), July 2004, Liverpool (UK), July 2006,
Amsterdam (The Netherlands), July 2008, Toulouse (France), July 2010, 
Sevilla (Spain), 2012, Bergen (Norway), 2014 and Maastricht (The Netherlands) 2016.

Among the topics of particular relevance are:

(*) Modal logics for games and protocols: epistemic and deontic logic,
multi-agent logic, temporal logic, dynamic logic, probabilistic and
multivalued logic, logic of belief revision.

(*) Foundations of game and decision theory: epistemic foundations of
solution concepts, information processing and communication in games,
belief formation and revision in games.

(*) Learning and information-processing models: economic aspects of
information processing, learning in game-theoretic contexts, inductive
learning and inductive decision making.

(*) Bounded rationality approaches to game and decision theory.

SUBMISSION INFORMATION:
The three-day conference will give opportunity for paper presentations and
discussions. Potential contributors should submit an extended abstract of
approximately 5 - 10 pages in PDF format through
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=loft2018
Note that the 10-page limit (excluding references and appendix) is a 
HARD CONTRAINT: submissions exceeding 10 pages will NOT be considered.
The deadline for submission is March 1, 2018, and authors will be notified of
acceptance decisions by April 15, 2018.
Papers that have appeared in print, or are likely to appear in print before
the conference, should not be submitted for presentation at LOFT. Should such a paper be
submitted, it will not be included in the program. 


PROGRAM CHAIRS:
Giacomo Bonanno, University of California Davis, USA
Pierpaolo Battigalli, Bocconi University, Italy
Wiebe van der Hoek, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom


PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
TBA

PUBLICATION OF CONTRIBUTED PAPERS:
We anticipate that, as in the past, a selection of papers presented
at LOFT12 will be published in one or two special issues of  journals.

For a list of publications based on previous LOFT conferences see
http://www.econ.ucdavis.edu/faculty/bonanno/loft.html

IMPORTANT DATES:
Deadline for submission: 1 March, 2018
Deadline for reviews: 1 April, 2018
Notification to authors: 15 April, 2018
Conference:  July 16-18, 2018

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Prof. Wiebe van der Hoek
Head of School of EEE&CS                      
University of Liverpool  
Editor-in-Chief of Synthese
http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~wiebe/     
tel (+44) 7970247480
wiebe at liverpool.ac.uk