Workshop Organizers:
Sergei Artemov and Rohit Parikh


Workshop Purpose:
The workshop on rationality and knowledge intends to bring together researchers from a wide variety of fields - including Artificial Intelligence, Cryptography, Distributed Computing, Economics and Game Theory, Linguistics, Logic, Philosophy, and Psychology, in order to further our understanding of interdisciplinary issues involving reasoning about rationality and knowledge.


Workshop Topics:

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to

• semantic models for knowledge, for belief, and for uncertainty
• epistemic logic
• logics of knowledge and action
• formal analysis of games
• belief revision
• logics of proofs and justification
• the role of knowledge in general information flow.
• voting and social choice
• social software
• fair division

Submission details:
Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract describing original work. Submissions should not exceed 8 pages. The following formats are accepted: PDF, PS, ASCII text. Please send your submission electronically by RKworkshop@gmail.com by the deadline listed below. The submissions will be reviewed by the workshop's programme committee and additional reviewers. The accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings published by ESSLLI. The format for the final versions will be available on the workshop website. A selection of papers will be published in a special issue of a leading Journal in this area.


Workshop format:
The workshop is part of ESSLLI and is open to all ESSLLI participants. It will consist of five 90-minute sessions held over five consecutive days in the second week of ESSLLI. There will be 2 or 3 slots for paper presentation and discussion per session. On the first day the workshop organizers will give an introduction to the topic.


Important Dates:

• Submissions: March 8, 2006
• Notification: April 21, 2006
• Preliminary programme: April 24, 2006
• ESSLLI early registration: May 1, 2006
• Final papers for proceedings: May 17, 2006
• Final programme: June 21, 2006
• Workshop dates: August 7-11, 2006

Local Arrangements:
All workshop participants including the presenters will be required to register for ESSLLI. The registration fee for authors presenting a paper will correspond to the early student/workshop speaker registration fee. Moreover, a number of additional fee waiver grants will be made available by the OC on a competitive basis and workshop participants are eligible to apply for those. There will be no reimbursement for travel costs and accommodation. Workshop speakers who have difficulty in finding funding should contact the local organizing committee to ask for the possibilities for a grant.


Further Information:
About the workshop: www.cs.gc.cuny.edu/~sartemov/rkw
About ESSLLI: http://esslli2006.lcc.uma.es/give-page.php?id=1