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Call for Abstracts: KNAW Academie Colloquium "New perspectives on Games and Interaction", February 2007 (Amsterdam)

Call for Abstracts

KNAW Academie Colloquium: New perspectives on Games and Interaction
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
February 5-7, 2007

http://www.illc.uva.nl/KNAW-AC/

Confirmed Speakers and Commentators:  S. Abramsky, A. Baltag, G. Bonanno,
A. Brandenburger, B. de Bruin, P.  Dekker, U.  Endriss, E. Gr?del, W.
Hodges, G. J?ger, N. Komarova, D. Lehmann, E. Pacuit, A. Rubinstein, D.
Samet, G. Sandu, B. Skyrms, S. Tijs, J. V??n?nen, W. van der Hoek, H.
 van
Ditmarsch, J. van Eijck, P. van Emde Boas, Y. Venema, W. Wadge, I.
Walukiewicz

   Recently, the dynamic and interactive aspects of logical reasoning,
communication, and information processing have become central in logic,
linguistics and computer science. It is the interplay of many actors with
goals and preferences, whether human or computational, which underlies
their core tasks. To account for these interactive aspects, the notion of
a 'game' as a mathematical model of strategic interaction between players
with their own preferences on the possible outcomes has proved to be
important in all those disciplines. The purpose of this colloquium is to
encourage these incipient interactions between the various disciplines
thinking about games and interaction, and clarify their common concerns
and potential for fruitful collaboration.

   The colloquium will be organized as an Academie Colloquium of the Royal
Acedemy of the Netherlands (KNAW) and will consist of fifteen invited
talks by international speakers that cover various aspects of games in
logic, computer science, economics, and linguistics. Each talk will be
followed by a commentary and discussion.

   We also plan eight shorter talks of 15+5 minutes (15 minutes talk, 5
minutes discussion) selected from submitted abstracts. We invite
researchers to submit abstracts for these shorter talks before our
deadline of

 =09NOVEMBER 29th, 2006.

We would like to emphasize the importance of the active involvement of
junior scientists, and therefore particularly encourage PhD students and
junior postdocs to submit abstracts.

   Submitted abstracts should not exceed 2 pages (including bibliography).
Only electronic submissions in PDF format will be accepted. The authors
should send an email with subject "Submission KNAW-Academie Colloquium" to
Robert van Rooij <R.A.M.vanRooij@uva.nl>, with the PDF file of the
abstract as an attachment, and the following information in the body of
the email in plain text:

 =09(*) =09Title of abstract.
 =09(*)=09Author names.
 =09(*)=09Surface mail, email address, and phone number of the
 =09=09contact author.

Important Dates
 =09(*) =09Deadline for Submission: November 29, 2006
 =09(*) =09Notification of Acceptance: December 5, 2006