Workshop
"Reasoning about other minds: Logical and cognitive perspectives"

This workshop takes place on Monday July 11, 2011 in Groningen, before the TARK conference. It aims to shed light on models of social reasoning that take into account realistic resource bounds. People reason about other people’s mental states in order to understand and predict the others’ behavior. This capability to reason about others’ knowledge, beliefs and intentions is often referred to as ‘theory of mind’. Idealized rational agents are capable of recursion in their social reasoning, and can reason about phenomena like common knowledge. Such idealized social reasoning has been modeled by modal logics such as epistemic logic and BDI (belief, goal, intention) logics and by epistemic game theory. However, in real-world situations, many people seem to lose track of such recursive social reasoning after only a few levels. The workshop provides a forum for researchers that attempt to analyze, understand and model how resource-bounded agents reason about other minds.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• Logics modeling human social cognition;
• Computational cognitive models of theory of mind;
• Behavioral game theory;
• Bounded rationality in epistemic game theory;
• Relations between language and social cognition;
• Models of the evolution of theory of mind;
• Models of the development of theory of mind in children;
• Bounded rationality in multi-agent systems;
• Formal models of team reasoning;
• Theory of mind in specific groups, e.g., persons with autism spectrum disorder;
• Complexity measures for reasoning about other minds.