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[Joseph Halpern]

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		    CALL FOR PAPERS: TARK VIII
Eighth conference on THEORETICAL ASPECTS OF RATIONALITY AND KNOWLEDGE

July 8-10, 2001
The Certosa di Pontignano, University of Siena, Italy
http://www.tark.org/


ABOUT THE CONFERENCE
The bi-annual TARK conferences bring together researchers from a wide
variety of fields, including Artificial Intelligence, Cryptography,
Distributed Computing, Economics, Game Theory, Linguistics, Logic,
Philosophy, and Psychology -- to further our understanding of
interdisciplinary issues involving reasoning about rationality and
knowledge. Topics of interest include semantic models for knowledge, belief
and uncertainty, bounded rationality and resource-bounded reasoning,
commonsense epistemic reasoning, logics of knowledge and action, formal
analysis of games, applications of reasoning about knowledge and other
mental states, belief revision, and the role of knowledge in general
information flow. TARK has been influential in building interfaces between
disciplines, and accelerating new research trends, both through the actual
event and the circulation of its proceedings. The 2001 conference will
again serve this important purpose by its mix of contributed and invited
talks reflecting the state of the art. Recently, TARK and LOFT (the
Conference on Logic and Foundations of Game and Decision Theory) have been
coordinated, so that they are held in alternating years.


PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Johan van Benthem (chair, Amsterdam and Stanford, johan at wins.uva.nl)
Samson Abramsky (Computer Science, Edinburgh), Giacomo Bonanno (Economics,
UC Davis), Nicola Dimitri (Economics, Siena), Joseph Halpern (Computer
Science, Cornell), Wiebe van der Hoek (Computer Science, Utrecht), Angelika
Kratzer (Linguistics, Amherst), Bart Lipman (Economics, Madison), Hans Rott
(Philosophy, Regensburg), Ariel Rubinstein (Economics, Tel Aviv and
Princeton), Gabriel Sandu (Philosophy, Helsinki), Yoav Shoham (Computer
Science, Stanford), Tuomas Sandholm (Computer Science, Washington U., S.
Louis)


LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS
Professors Nicola Dimitri and Alessandro Vercelli, Department of Political
Economics, University of Siena, SIENA, Italy, tel. +.39.577.232695, fax
+.39.577.232661, email dimitri at unisi.it
	

INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS
Submissions are now invited to TARK-VIII. Please submit a detailed
electronic abstract (not a full paper) plus 14 copies by ordinary mail to
the address below. 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 original 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 practical or theoretical implications; and they should 3)
include comparisons with and references to relevant literature.
Abstracts should not exceed ten double-spaced pages (4,000 words). If
possible, an email address for the contact author should be included.
Papers arriving late or departing significantly from these guidelines risk
immediate rejection. The deadline for submission of abstracts is February
14, 2001. Authors will be notified of acceptance by April 14, 2001.
Camera-ready copies of accepted papers are due by May 14, 2001. One author
of each accepted paper will be expected to present the paper at the
conference. The conference proceedings with accepted contributed papers and
invited lectures will be published.


ADRESS FOR SUBMISSIONS
TARK 2001, c/o Ms. Ingrid van Loon, Institute for Logic, Language and
Computation, University of Amsterdam, Plantage Muidergracht 24,1018 TV
AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands,
tel. + 31.20.5256519, fax +31.20.5255206, email ingrid at wins.uva.nl