CALL FOR PAPERS
LCD'07 : Workshop on Logics and Collective Decision making
http://lcd07.fr.tc/
March 13-14, 2007, Lille, France

Erasmus International Institute MSH Nord-Pas-de-Calais
lcd07@hotmail.fr

We would like to welcome you to a workshop on the connections between
logics and collective decision making theories that is to take place in
Lille on March 13-14, 2007.

Group decision-making problems occur every time a collective choice has
to be made from several individuals that have conflicting interests or
preferences. There has been recently a growing interest on the use of
logic as the basic tool for formalizing and computing those problems.
This is in particular true in two close fields of research. The first
one lies at the intersection of game theory and logics, especially by
exploring how modal logics may be used to model and reason about games.
A second one, which focuses on the logical insights into rational
collective choice, has recently emerged around problems of judgment
aggregation and beliefs/goals merging, on the one hand, and logical
formalization of welfare distribution processes (social software), on
the other. These two domains propose further formal refinements, using
logical tools, of the classical theories of collective decision-making,
by offering new evaluation criteria of and new ways of building social
choice procedures. These new insights into these collective
decision-making theories also offer new perspective to political
philosophy and ethics. The workshop aims at sparking off interaction
between social choice theorists, computer scientists, logicians and
philosophers.

The workshop will take place at the University of Lille 3, Villeneuve
d'Ascq, France.

Invited Speakers

Ken Binmore (DE, University College London)
Franz Dietrich (University of Maastricht and LSE)
Wiebe van der Hoek (DCS, University of Liverpool)
Gabriella Pigozzi (CSC, University of Luxembourg)

CALL FOR PAPERS

The aim of this workshop is to promote interaction between researchers
in the areas of logics and collective decision-making theories.
We invite submissions of abstracts in the interface of the above or
related areas that investigate common problems. A non-exhaustive list
of topics of interest include

+logics of collective decision-making and social software
+belief merging and judgment aggregation
+social-choice theoretical approaches to logics and to the philosophy
of logics
+logics and deliberative democracy
+preference representation and social choice
+choice and game theory in political philosophy and ethics
+formal perspective in politics and ethics
+epistemic foundations of solution concepts and reasoning in bargaining
games

Submission details

Authors should send an abstract (in pdf or postscript) to
lcd07@hotmail.fr by January, 31st.
Submissions should typically be 3 pages long (excluding bibliographical
references). There will be no published proceedings, so there is no
copyright problem for presenting works already published. The mail
should contain the authors' name, affiliation(s) and current
position(s). We strongly encourage PhD students to submit, as we might
organize a student session. Notification of acceptance will be given by
February, 9th.

Important Dates

Submission of Abstracts January 31, 2007
Notification of Acceptance February 9, 2007
LCD'07 Workshop March 13-14, 2007

Program Committee

Thomas Agotnes (Bergen University College)
Salem Benferhat (CRIL, University of Artois)
Johan van Benthem (ILLC, University of Amsterdam)
Cristina Bicchieri (University of Pennsylvania)
Giacomo Bonanno (University of California)
Laurence Broze (EQUIPPE, University of Lille)
Patrice Canivez (STL, University of Lille)
Samir Chopra (Brooklyn College of the City University of New York)
Franz Dietrich (University of Maastricht and LSE)
Ulle Endriss (ILLC, University of Amsterdam)
Marc Fleurbaey (CERSES, Université of Paris 5)
Thibault Gajdos (EUREQua, Université of Paris 1)
Andreas Herzig (IRIT, University of Toulouse)
Wiebe van der Hoek (University of Liverpool)
Hubert Jayet (EQUIPPE, University of Lille)
Frédéric Jouneau (EQUIPPE, University of Lille)
Sébastien Konieczny (CRIL, University of Artois) (co-chair)
Barteld Kooi (University of Groningen)
Jérome Lang (IRIT, University of Toulouse)
Christian List (LSE)
Pierre Marquis (CRIL, University of Artois)
Nicolas Maudet (LAMSADE, University of Paris 9)
Eric Pacuit (ILLC, University of Amsterdam)
Rohit Parikh (Brooklyn College of the City University of New York)
Marc Pauly (Stanford University)
Philip Pettit (Princeton University)
Gabriella Pigozzi (University of Luxembourg)
Shahid Rahman (STL, University of Lille) (co-chair)
Maurice Salles (CREM, University of Caen)
Jean-Christophe Vergnaud (EUREQua, University of Paris 1)
John Weymark (Vanderbilt University, University of Nashville)
Mike Wooldridge (University of Liverpool)

Organizing Committee

Cédric Dégremont
Patricia Everaere
Emmanuel Genot
Emeline Huart
Laurent Keiff

You can contact us via lcd07@hotmail.fr