SOCREAL 2013

In the past two and a half decades, a number of attempts have been made in order to model various aspects of social interaction among agents including individual agents, organizations, and individuals representing organizations. The aim of SOCREAL Workshop is to bring together researchers working on diverse aspects of such interaction in logic, philosophy, ethics, computer science, cognitive science and related fields in order to share issues, ideas, techniques, and results.

The first SOCREAL Workshop was held on 9 - 10 March 2007, and the second SOCREAL Workshop was held on 27 - 28 March 2010. Building upon the success of SOCREAL 2007 and 2010, its third edition, SOCREAL 2013, will be held on 25 - 27 October 2013 under the Auspices of Center for Applied Ethics and Philosophy (CAEP), Graduate School of Letters, Hokkaido University, and Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas: Prediction and Decision Making (23120002) of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), Japan.

SOCREAL 2013 will consist of lectures by invited speakers and presentations of submitted papers. Researchers from various fields, including logic, philosophy, ethics, computer science, cognitive science are hereby invited to submit an extended abstract (up to two thousand words) by 24 June 2013 both to CAEP (caep@let.hokudai.ac.jp) and to yamada@let.hokudai.ac.jp. The abstract should be written in English and sent as an attachment in pdf format. Each abstract should include a title, names and contact details of all the authors. It is requisite for at least one of the author(s) of each accepted paper to attend the workshop and present the paper. The working language of SOCREAL Workshop is English.

You can learn what SOCREAL Workshop is like from the web-site of SOCREAL 10.