TARK 2025: Call for Papers

The Twentieth Conference on Theoretical Aspects of Rationality and Knowledge (TARK 2025) will be held from July 14 until July 16, 2025, at the Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf in Germany.

Scope and Mission

The mission of the TARK conferences is to bring together researchers from a wide variety of fields, including Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Game Theory, Decision Theory, Philosophy, Logic, Linguistics, and Cognitive Science, in order to further our understanding of interdisciplinary issues involving reasoning about rationality and knowledge.

Topics of Interest

These include, but are not limited to, semantic models for knowledge, belief, awareness and uncertainty, bounded rationality and resource-bounded reasoning, commonsense epistemic reasoning, epistemic logic, epistemic game theory, knowledge and action, applications of reasoning about knowledge and other mental states, belief revision, computational social choice, algorithmic game theory, and foundations of multi-agent systems.

Content Requirements

Strong preference will be given to papers whose topic is of interest to an interdisciplinary audience, and papers should be accessible to such an audience. Papers will be held to the usual high standards of research publications. In particular, they should:

1. Contain enough information to enable the program committee to identify the main contribution of the work;
2. Explain the significance of the work—its novelty and its practical or theoretical implications; and
3. Include comparisons with and references to relevant literature.

Submission Style and Format

• Extended abstracts should be no longer than 10 pages (excluding references).
• Optional technical details such as proofs may be included in an appendix.
• One author of each accepted paper will be expected to present the paper at the conference.
• To format your paper, please use the EPTCS LaTeX style.
• TARK reviewing is not double-anonymised, so author names can be included in the submission.

Submission Deadlines

• Abstract registration deadline: March 24, 2025
• Submission deadline: March 28, 2025
• Notification of acceptance: May 2, 2025

Proceedings

There will be a proceedings for TARK 2025 at EPTCS (Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science). The proceedings of TARK 2025 will also be open access and available online.

Invited Speakers

• Kaushik Basu (Carl Marks Professor of International Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA)
• Elizabeth Maggie Penn (Political Science and Quantitative Theory and Methods, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA)
• Marcus Pivato (Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, France)
• Tuomas Sandholm (Angel Jordan University Professor of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA)

Chairs

• Conference chair: Joe Halpern, Cornell University
• Program chair: Adam Bjorndahl, Carnegie Mellon University
• Local organizing chair: Jörg Rothe, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf

Submission Link

Submissions can be made at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tark2025

Contact

E-Mail: tark25@hhu.de