6-8 July 2009
Stanford CA, U.S.A.
* Preliminary Call for Papers * Twelfth Conference on Theoretical Aspects of Rationality and Knowledge TARK XII http://ai.stanford.edu/%7Eepacuit/tark09/index.html July 6-8, 2009 Stanford University 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. Submissions are now invited to TARK-XII. *Abstracts can be submitted here: <http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?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. Abstracts 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. TARK XII will have a partial overlap with the Tenth ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC'09) <http://www.sigecom.org/ec09/> at Stanford University Key Dates: Submission of Abstracts: March 2, 2009 Notification of Authors: April 27, 2009 Camera ready copy of accepted papers: June 10, 2009 Conference: July 6-8, 2009, Stanford University Program Committee: Krzysztof Apt <http://homepages.cwi.nl/%7Eapt/>, Centrum voor Wiskunde & Informatica Johan van Benthem <http://staff.science.uva.nl/%7Ejohan>, University of Amsterdam and Stanford University Felix Brandt <http://www.tcs.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/%7Ebrandtf/>, University of Munich Amanda Friedenberg, Arizona State University Rica Gonen <http://www.ricagonen.com/>, Yahoo! Research Joe Halpern <http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/halpern/>, Cornell University Gil Kalai, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Daniel Lehmann <http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/%7Elehmann/>, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Martin Meier, The Institute for Economic Analysis - CSIC, Barcelona Eric Pacuit <http://ai.stanford.edu/%7Eepacuit>, Stanford University Andres Perea <http://www.personeel.unimaas.nl/a.perea/>, Maastricht University Riccardo Pucella <http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/riccardo/>, Northeastern University Olivier Roy <http://www.philos.rug.nl/%7Eolivier/>, University of Groningen Burkhard Schipper <http://www.econ.ucdavis.edu/faculty/schipper/>, University of California at Davis Sonja Smets <http://www.vub.ac.be/CLEA/sonja/>, Vrije Universiteit Brussel Olivier Tercieux <http://www.pse.ens.fr/tercieux/>, CNRS and Paris- Jourdan Sciences Economiques Program Chair: Aviad Heifetz The Department of Economics and Management The Open University of Israel 108 Ravutski str., P.O. B. 808 Raanana 43107, Israel Tel: +972-9-7781878 Fax: +972-9-7780668 e_mail: aviadhe at openu.ac.il_ Local Organizer: Eric Pacuit Department of Philosophy Stanford University Office: Bldg. 90, Room 92B Office Number: (650) 723-4678 epacuit AT stanford DOT edu Conference Chair: Joseph Y. Halpern Computer Science Department Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 phone: +1 607 255 9562 fax: +1 607 255 4428 e-mail: halpern at cs.cornell.edu