FOURTH CONFERENCE ON
LOGIC AND THE FOUNDATIONS OF GAME AND DECISION THEORY
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LOFT 4
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Organized by Giacomo Bonanno (University of California Davis),
Enrico Colombatto (ICER and University of Turin)
and Wiebe van der Hoek (University of Utrecht)
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June 30 - July 2, 2000
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ICER - Villa Gualino - Viale Settimio Severo, 63 - 10133 Torino, Italy (http://www.icer.it)
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Final Program
(Note: the last 5 minutes of each talk will be reserved for discussion)
June 30(Friday)

9:10-9:20 Opening of the conference
 
9:20 - 10:00
Arnis Vilks 
(with Thorsten Clausing)
  Backward induction in general belief structures with and without strategies
10:00 - 10:40
Pierpaolo Battigalli
(with Giovanni Maggi)
  Imperfect contracting

  coffee break 

11:10 - 12:00
Dov Samet
  Learning to play by evaluation
12:00 - 12:40 Adam Brandenburger
(with Jerome Keisler)
  Epistemic conditions for iterated dominance 

    lunch 

2:10 - 2:50 Hans van Ditmarsch   Dynamic knowledge logic and knowledge games
2:50 - 3:40
Joe Halpern
  A computer scientist looks at game theory

  coffee break 

4:10 - 4:50
Paul Harrenstein
(with W. van der Hoek, J-J Meyer and C Witteveen)
  A modal interpretation of Nash equilibria and some related concepts
4:50 - 5:30
Freek Stulp 
(with Rineke Verbrugge)
  A knolwedge-based algorithm for the internet protocol TCP

      Welcome dinner: ristorante Gufo Bianco,
corso Dante 129c (Te. 011-6692577), 8:30 pm    



 
  July 1  (Saturday)
9:20 - 10:10 Wiebe van der Hoek
(with J. Jaspars and E. Thijsse)
  A general perspective on only knowing 
10:10-11:00 Rachel McCloy
(with Ruth Byrne)
  Mental models and human deductive reasoning

  coffee break 

11:30 - 12:20 Johan van Benthem   Ways of playing games: an analysis in dynamic-epistemic logic
12:20 - 1:00 Marc Pauly   A logical framework for coalitional effectivity in dynamic procedures
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    lunch 
2:30 - 3:20 Itzhak Gilboa   Cognitive foundations of inductive inference and probability
3:20 - 4:00 Annette Bleeker
(with Jan van Eijck)
  Epistemic action and change

  coffee break 

4:30 - 5:10 Mario Gilli   Rational learning in imperfect monitoring games

    Dinner at ristorante La Pace,
via Galliari 22 (Tel. 011-6505325), 8:30 pm 


 
  July 2  (Sunday)
9:20 - 10:10 Philip Dawid   Prequential analysis: a game-theoretic approach to probability and statistics
10:10 - 10:50 Martin Meier   An infinitary probability logic for type spaces

  coffee break 

11:20 - 12:00 Klaus Nehring Bayesian belief dynamics with imperfect memory
12:00 - 12:50 Giacomo Bonanno Beliefs based on information

    lunch 

2:20 - 3:00 Alexandru Baltag  A logic for suspicious players: epistemic actions and belief-update in games
3:00 - 3:50 Samson Abramsky Game Semantics: a compositional analysis of systems of interacting agents

  coffee break 

    dinner 



Invited participants:
Alessandro Agostini
Thorsten Clausing
Frederic Koessler
R. Ramanujam
Robert van Rooy
Beatriz Rumbos
Elias Thijsse
Fernando Tohme
Bernard Walliser
Cees Witteveen