17-18 July 2011
Barcelona, Spain
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Special session on
**Logics for Games and Social Choice**
CLIMA XII
12th International Workshop on
Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems
http://centria.di.fct.unl.pt/events/climaXII/sessions.html
Barcelona, Spain, July 17-18, 2011.
Affiliated with IJCAI'11.
Submission deadline: April 4/8th.
Preliminary Call for Papers
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Proceedings: LNCS/LNAI volume (available at the workshop).
JLC Special Issue: Selected extended papers will be published in a
Special Issue of the Journal of Logic and Computation.
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INTRODUCTION
Logic and game theory form two theoretical underpinnings of
multi-agent systems. On one hand, formal logic is a foundation for
knowledge representation and reasoning, and opens the door to
techniques for formal specification and automated verification. On the
other hand, the interaction of rational decision makers has been
studied in game theory for a long time. However, traditional game
theory is not concerned with formal languages or reasoning systems,
nor with computational issues, and until relatively recently formal
logic has not been concerned with game theoretic issues. For reasoning
about interesting properties of many, if not most, multi-agent
systems, we need game theoretic concepts such as strategies,
preferences, etc. In particular, many multi-agent systems can be seen
as implementing social choice mechanisms.
We invite papers on logical formalisation of concepts related to games
and social choice, including but not limited to the following topics:
- Logics for strategic reasoning
- Logics for coalitional ability
- Preference representation
- Logical approaches to bounded rationality and limited cognition
- Formal verification of games
- Logic for mechanism design
- Logical aspects of computational social choice
- Judgment aggregation
- Logical foundations of games and social choice
- Epistemic logic
SUBMISSION
We welcome and encourage the submission of high quality, original
papers, which have not been accepted for publication nor are currently
under review for another journal or conference.
Papers are submitted to the special session by following the
submission instructions for CLIMA:
http://centria.di.fct.unl.pt/events/climaXII/submissions.html
The special session on Logics for Games and Social Choice is chosen
under "category" in Easychair.
PROCEEDINGS AND POST-PROCEEDINGS
LNCS Proceedings: All the accepted papers (including special session
papers) will be published by Springer as a volume in Lecture Notes in
Computer Science, and will be available in time for the workshop.
JLC Special Issue: After the workshop, authors of selected papers will
be invited to extend and re-submit their work to be considered for inclusion
in a CLIMA Special Issue of the Journal of Logic and Computation.
Important dates:
* Submission: April 4th (Abstracts) / April 8th (Papers)
* Notification: May 4th
* Camera Ready: May 16th
Special Session Organiser:
* Thomas gotnes, University of Bergen, Norway
In case of questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at
thomas.agotnes@infomedia.uib.no (enquiries particularly related to the
special session) or clima2011@easychair.org (general CLIMA
enquiries).
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Thomas gotnes
Department of Information Science and Media Studies
University of Bergen
P.O. Box 7802, N-5020 Bergen, Norway
Tel: (+47) 55584105 Fax: (+47) 55589149
Thomas.Agotnes@infomedia.uib.no
http://folk.uib.no/nmita/