New Perspectives on Games and Interaction
Robert van Rooij, Krzysztof Rafal Apt · 2011
In the period February 5-7, 2007 we organized in the historie building of the Dutch Royal Academy of Sciences (KN AW) in Amsterdam the Academy Colloquium titled "New Perspectives on Games and Interaction" .The program consisted of 14 invited lectures, each followed by a commentary, and 8 contributed talks.Traditionally, logic and linguistics have been studied from a statie and non-interactive point of view emphasizing the structure of proofs and meanings.In computer science, dynamic processing of information has always played a major role, but from a non-interactive machine perspective.More recently, the dynamic and interactive aspects of logical reasoning, communication, and information processing have been much more central in the three above-mentioned disciplines.Interaction is also of crucial importance in economics.Mathematical game theory, as launched by Von Neumarm and Morgenstern in 1944 in their seminal book, followed by the contributions of Nash, has become a standard tooi in economics for the study and description of various economie processes, including competition, cooperation, collusion, strategie behaviour and bargaining.These different uses of games in logic, computer science, linguistics and economics have largely developed in isolation.The purpose of the workshop was to bring together the researchers in these areas to encourage interactions between these disciplines, to clarify their uses of the concepts of game theory and to identify promising new directions.This volume consists of the contributions written by the speakers.It testifies to the growing importance of game theory as a tooi to capture the concepts of strategy, interaction, argument at ion, communication, cooperation and competition.We hope that the reader will find in the papers presented in this volume useful evidence for the richness of game theory and for its impressive and growing scope of use.We take this opportunity to thank Benedikt Löwe and Johan van Benthem for their cooperation in the preparations of the scientific programme of the Colloquium.