20.5, Calls: General Ling/France; General Ling/Hungary

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Subject: 20.5, Calls: General Ling/France; General Ling/Hungary

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1)
Date: 26-Dec-2008
From: Emiliano Lorini < lorini at irit.fr >
Subject: Workshop Logical Methods for Social Concepts 

2)
Date: 25-Dec-2008
From: Sergey Yolkeen < ipm4info at gmail.com >
Subject: Symmetry Festival 2009

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Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2009 12:33:10
From: Emiliano Lorini [lorini at irit.fr]
Subject: Workshop Logical Methods for Social Concepts

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Full Title: Workshop Logical Methods for Social Concepts 
Short Title: LMSC 

Date: 20-Jul-2009 - 31-Jul-2009
Location: Bordeaux, France 
Contact Person: Emiliano Lorini
Web Site: http://esslli2009.labri.fr 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics, Sociolinguistics

Call Deadline: 15-Feb-2009 

Meeting Description:

Workshop Logical Methods for Social Concepts (LMSC)
20-31 July, 2009 in Bordeaux
workshop organized as part of ESSLLI 2009 (http://esslli2009.labri.fr)
webpage: http://www.irit.fr/~Andreas.Herzig/Esslli09/ 

Call for Papers

Workshop Purpose:
Both computer science and the social sciences are interested in social concepts
such as power, cooperation, responsibility, delegation, trust, reputation,
convention, agreement, commitment, etc. The aim of this workshop is to study
whether logical approaches developed in the multi-agent system (MAS) domain are
adequate to express them in an accurate way. In particular, are existing logical
approaches sufficiently expressive to capture the main features of these social 
concepts? Are the basic assumptions in the existing logics for MAS too strong to
capture the fundamental aspects of social phenomena? Are some concepts relevant
for social theory missing in these logics? The workshop is intended to bring
together logicians and social theorists in order to provide a better
understanding of the potentialities and limitations of logical methods for the
analysis of social reality. Its scope includes not only the technical aspects of
logics for multi-agent systems, but also multidisciplinary aspects from social
sciences (e.g. economics, sociology, social philosophy) and a critical analysis
of the existing logical frameworks for the specification of social concepts.

Workshop Topics:
The following are some examples of topics that are relevant for the 
workshop:
- Logics of individual and collective powers;
- Logical approaches to game theory;
- Dynamic epistemic logics and logics of communication;
- Logics of normative systems and institutions;
- Logical approaches to trust and reputation;
- Logical approaches to organizational concepts (e.g. roles, responsibility,
delegation);
- Logics of social commitment and collective attitudes (e.g. common belief and
common knowledge, collective acceptance, joint intentions);
- Logics for mechanism design.

Workshop Organizers:
Andreas Herzig <http://www.irit.fr/~Andreas.Herzig> and 
Emiliano Lorini <http://www.irit.fr/~Emiliano.Lorini>

Invited speakers:
- Alexandru Baltag, Oxford University
- Rineke Verbrugge, University of Groningen

Workshop Programme Committee:
Thomas Ågotnes, Johan van Benthem, Guido Boella, Jan Broersen, Cristiano
Castelfranchi, Pilar Dellunde, Frank Dignum, Nicola Dimitri, Hans van Ditmarsch,
Davide Grossi, Andreas Herzig (co-chair), Wiebe van der Hoek, Jeff Horty, Andrew
Jones, Jérôme Lang, Emiliano Lorini (co-chair), Claudio Masolo, John-Jules
Meyer, Matthias Nickles, Eric Pacuit, Henry Prakken, Antonino Rotolo, Lambèr
Royakkers, Nicolas Troquard, Raimo Tuomela, Leon van der Torre

Submission Details:
Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract presenting an approach which
is relevant to the area of logic for multi-agent systems. Extended abstract
should have a maximum of 5 pages. The following formats are accepted: PDF, PS,
Word. (Latex-generated papers are preferred.) Please send your submission
electronically to both program chairs by the deadline listed below. The
submissions will be reviewed by the workshop's program committee and additional
reviewers. The accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings published
by ESSLLI. The format for the final versions will be made available in due
course. We 
plan to organize a special issue of the Journal of Applied Non-Classical Logics
(JANCL) based on selected papers presented at the workshop.

Important Dates:
Submissions: February 15, 2009
Notification: April 15, 2009
Preliminary programme: April 24, 2009
ESSLLI early registration: May 1, 2009
Final papers for proceedings: May 15, 2009
Final programme: June 15, 2009
Workshop dates: July 20-31, 2009

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Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2009 12:33:16
From: Sergey Yolkeen [ipm4info at gmail.com]
Subject: Symmetry Festival 2009

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Full Title: Symmetry Festival 2009 

Date: 31-Jul-2009 - 04-Aug-2009
Location: Budapest, Hungary, Hungary 
Contact Person: Sergey Yolkeen
Meeting Email: ipm4info at gmail.com
Web Site: http://symmetry.hu/ 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 15-Feb-2009 

Meeting Description:

You are kindly invited to submit for presentation your results in Symmetry
related investigations. The session 'Symmetry in Linguistics' will be held in
the framework of Symmetry Festival 2009, Budapest, Hungary. 

Call for Papers

Science and art program series, the most important triennial event to bring
together scientists, artists, educators and practitioners interested in symmetry
or in the consequences of its lack. 

The Session "Symmetry in Linguistics" gives a chance for the specialists that
apply Symmetry / asymmetry approaches to exchange their knowledge and to outline
the further researches.

Deadline for abstract submission: 15 February, 2009
Deadline for the acceptance/rejection of papers: 15 March, 2009
Deadline for early registration: 15 April, 2009
Deadline for submission of full papers 	15 June 2009
Opening of the Symmetry Festival: 31 July, 2009

All information is accessible at the sites: 
http://symmetry.hu/
http://conferences.hu/symmetry2009/scientific_programme.html

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