Subject: (4) Workshop: Mutual Knowledge, Common Ground and Public Information
From: Wolfgang Heydrich <100732.1675@compuserve.com>
Sender: Wolfgang Heydrich <100732.1675@compuserve.com>
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Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 15:28:42 -0500

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                          ESSLLI-98 Workshop on 
             MUTUAL KNOWLEDGE, COMMON GROUND AND PUBLIC INFORMATION 
                           August 24 - 28, 1998

                       A workshop held as part of the 
        10th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information 
                               (ESSLLI-98) 
                August 17 - 28, 1998, Saarbrueken, Germany

                        ** LAST CALL FOR PAPERS **


ORGANISERS: Wolfgang Heydrich and Hannes Rieser (Hamburg/Bielefeld)

Web site: http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~esslli98/workshops.html

BACKGROUND
The topic of the workshop is in the common focus of several disciplines: 
cognitive science, linguistic pragmatics & semantics, philosophical logic, 
AI, and psychology.  It concerns research in areas like discourse analysis,

coordination, presupposition and accomodation, as well as the formal 
reconstruction of dialogue and interaction.  There are obvious connections 
to problems of group-epistemology and general (philosophical) concepts like

intersubjectivity.  The topic constitutes a field of discussion where 
empirical and formal methodologies meet (from controlled experiments and 
discourse analysis to, say, non-well-founded set theory).

We invite contributions from all the fields mentioned above, which may 
focus on:

  - foundational problems (epistemic logic, social ontology, set theory),
  - descriptive and experimental work in psychology, linguistics and 
    ethnomethodology,
  - applications in models of agent's behaviour based on e.g., intention 
    analysis, Gricean accounts or speech act theory,
  - computer simulation implementing the concepts mentioned.
                        
WORKSHOP FORMAT:
The workshop will consist of five sessions (90 min. each) of presentation 
and discussion of contributed papers.  It will take place during the second

week of the Summer School and will be open to all members of the LLI 
community.

SUBMISSIONS:
All reserchers in the area, but especially Ph.D. students and young 
reserachers, are encouraged to submit a two-page abstract (hard copies or 
by e-mail) to one of the following addresses:

   Prof.Dr. Hannes Rieser              PD Dr. Wolfgang Heydrich
   University of Bielefeld             University of Hamburg
   Fak. Lili                           Germanisches Seminar
   Postfach 100131                     Von-Melle-Park 6
   D-33501 Bielefeld                   D-20146 Hamburg
   Germany                             Germany
   rieser@lili.uni-bielefeld.de        heydrich@lili.uni-bielefeld.de
   phone: 0049-521-1063666             phone: 0049-40-4222501
   fax: 0049-521-1062996               fax: 0049-40-4222603
        
The deadline for submission of abstracts is February 15, 1998.  
Notification of contributors will be given around April 15, 1998.

Contributors of selected papers will be asked to provide extended abstracts
(five pages) to be distributed as work-shop notes.  The deadline for 
submission of extended abstracts is May 15, 98.

REGISTRATION:
Workshop contributors will be required to register for ESSLLI-98, but they 
will be elligible for a reduced registration fee.

IMPORTANT DATES:
        Feb 15, 98: Deadline for submissions
        Apr 15, 98: Notification of acceptance
        May 15, 98: Deadline for final copy
        Aug 17, 98: Start of workshop
        
FURTHER INFORMATION:
To obtain further information about ESSLLI-98 please visit the ESSLLI-98
home page at http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/esslli