Seventh conference on
THEORETICAL ASPECTS OF RATIONALITY AND KNOWLEDGE
TARK VII
(previously: Theoretical Aspects of Reasoning about Knowledge)
July 22-24, 1998
Evanston, Illinois, USA
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About the conference
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The mission of the bi-annual 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 formal reasoning about
rationality and knowledge. Topics of interest include, but are not limited
to, semantic models for knowledge, for belief, and for uncertainty, bounded
rationality and resource-bounded reasoning, commonsense epistemic
reasoning, epistemic logic, knowledge and action, applications of reasoning
about knowledge and other mental states, and belief revision.
TARK VII will be coordinated with the 1998 Microeconomic Theory Workshop at
Northwestern University, sharing talks for about a day and a half, on
topics that are of interest to both audiences. Previously a
by-invitation-only conference, TARK is now open to all interested
attendees.
Information for Authors
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Submissions are now invited to TARK-VII. Please submit 15 copies of a
detailed abstract (not a full paper) to the address below. Strong
preference will be given to papers whose topic is of interest to an
interdisciplinary audience, and papers should be written so that they are
accessible to such an audience. Papers that are submitted to the
TARK-Microeconomic Theory joint sessions should be identified as such, and
will be separately evaluated by the two program committees. Based on
interest considerations, a paper may be accepted for presentation in one
event but not in the other. Conversely, the committees may include a
regular TARK submission in the joint sessions.
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).
If possible, an email address for the contact author should be included.
Papers arriving late or departing significantly from these guidelines risk
immediate rejection.
Economists should be aware that special arrangements are being made with
certain economics journals (in particular, with International Journal of
Game Theory, Games and Economic Behavior, and Journal of Economic Theory)
so that publication of an extended abstract in TARK will not prejudice
publication of a full journal version.
The deadline for submission of abstracts is March 4, 1998. Authors will be
notified of acceptance by May 1, 1998. Camera-ready copies of the accepted
papers will be due by June 3, 1998. One author of each accepted paper will
be expected to present the paper at the conference. The conference
proceedings will be published.
Program Committee
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Michael Bacharach (University of Oxford, Philosophy, Economics, and Statistics)
Cristina Bicchieri (Carnegie-Mellon University, Philosophy)
Craig Boutilier (University of British Columbia, Computer Science)
Eddie Dekel (Northwestern University, Economics)
Adam Grove (NEC Research Institute, Computer Science)
Aviad Heifetz (Tel-Aviv Univeristy, Economics)
John Horty (University of Maryland, Philosophy and Computer Science)
Daniel Lehmann (Hebrew University, Computer Science)
Ron van der Meyden (University of Technology, Sydney, Computer Science)
John-Jules Meyer (Utrecht University, Computer Science)
Drazen Prelec (MIT, Psychology and Management)
Aldo Rustichini (Tilburg University, Economics)
Robert Stalnaker (MIT, Philosophy)
Program Chair
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Itzhak Gilboa (Boston University and Tel-Aviv University, Economics)
email: gilboa@econ.bu.edu
Address for Submissions
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TARK
c/o Games and Economic Behavior
Kellogg Graduate School of Management
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL 60208
USA
Local Arrangements
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Eddie Dekel
Department of Economics
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL 60208
USA
email: dekel@merle.acns.nwu.edu
(708) 491-4414 (phone)
(708) 491-2530 (fax)
Latest details on the conference can be found at http://www.tark.org.