CFP: Evolution and Cooperation

The 3rd Lund Conference on Games, Interaction, Reasoning, Learning and Semantics (G.I.R.L.S.14@LUND) welcomes submissions from researchers in philosophy, cognitive science, economics & linguistics, using agent based models with bounded rationality, models of evolutionary dynamics, and other naturalistic approaches. The primary conference aims are to foster cooperation between these groups and help establish common ground.

G.I.R.L.S. 14@LUND will be themed around Evolution and Cooperation.

Invited speakers:

Anna Dreber Almenberg (Department of Economics, Stockholm Schools of Economics, Sweden) https://sites.google.com/site/annadreber/
Agneta Gulz (Lund University Cognitive Science, University of Lund, Sweden) http://www.fil.lu.se/person/AgnetaGulz
Natalia L. Komorova (Department of Mathematics, University of California Irvine, USA) http://www.math.uci.edu/~komarova/ (to be confirmed)
Jason McKenzie Alexander (Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, London School of Economics, UK) http://evolve.lse.ac.uk/jalex/Home.php
Friederike Mengel (Department of Economics, University of Essex, UK) https://sites.google.com/site/friederikemengel/

We welcome submissions that bear upon one or several of the following subjects:

• Models of social learning and cooperative learning.
• Models of signaling, cooperation, and reciprocal altruism (in both human and non-human animals).
• Empirical results on human and non-human cooperation, learning and signaling 
• Applications of agent-based models of cultural evolution.
• Theoretical foundations of multi-agent models with bounded rationality.
•  Algorithmic, evolutionary game-theoretic, and algorithmic game-theoretic models of strategic agents in cooperative setting.
• Empirical results concerning agent strategies in game-like settings.

Submission format

An anonymous short abstract of 250-500 words (exclusive bibliography) to be submitted in pdf format through our EasyChair account (link below) on February 7th, 2014, prepared for anonymous peer-review. Authors will be notified of decision  by March 15th, 2014 at the latest.

Abstracts can be submitted to be considered as a talk or as a poster. Abstracts which are not offered a talk will automatically be considered for a poster slot.

To accommodate the varying publishing conventions in disciplines among authors submitting to  G.I.R.L.S., authors will have the option to provide either an extended abstract (2-to-4 pages, including bibliography) or a short paper (6-to-8  pages, exclusive bibliography) for inclusion in the electronic proceedings of the conference no later than April, 10th, 2014.

Short abstracts should include the following information:

• For theoretical papers: Clearly state the main result, indicate the method & assumptions.

• For empirical papers: Briefly state the method & results, and indicate their significance.
• For simulation-based papers: Briefly describe simulation environment, boundary conditions & assumptions; state the main results & their significance.

Important dates

February 7th, 2014: Submission deadline (250-500 words abstract) on  https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=girls14
March 15th, 2014: Notification to authors.
April 10th, 2014: Submission of extended abstracts or short papers.

Organizing committee: Emmanuel Genot (Department of Philosophy, University of Lund) Justine Jacot (Department of Philosophy, University of Lund) Erik Mohlin (Nuffield College and Department of Economics, University of Oxford)
Cailin O'Connor (Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science, UC Irvine)
Philip Pärnamets (Department of Cognitive Science, University of Lund)

For any questions, send an email at this address: [email protected]