The 8th Game Theory Practice Meeting

 

The 8th Game Theory Practice Meeting

Dedicated to Global and International Issues

 

July 11-12, 2011

Riverside California

Game Theory Practice (GTP) has quite an impressive history. The first four biannual meetings on Game Theory Practice in Genoa (Italy, 1998), Valencia (Spain, 2000), Hilvarenbeek (The Netherlands, 2002), and Elche (Spain, 2004) were general in nature. Another meeting focusing on Game Practice and the Environment was held in Alessandria (Italy, 2002). The 6th GTP meeting in Zaragoza (Spain, 2006) was dedicated to Development, Natural Resources and the Environment, and the 7th meeting in Montreal (Canada, 2007) was dedicated to Energy, Environment and Natural Resources.

After a non-typical pause, the 8th GTP meeting will be held in Riverside California. It will be dedicated to Transboundary and Global Issues, including natural resources (water, fisheries, and forestry), environment, climate change, terrorism, peace talks, weapon control, trade, technology transfer, and migration.

With globalization, we see more frequent and increased competition over natural resources such as land, fisheries, forests, water, and environmental pollution. In addition, global agreements on trade, migration, climate change, and technology transfer are becoming more apparent in various forums. The purpose of the meeting is to demonstrate the usefulness of Game Theory in these fields.

The meeting will be held on July 11-12, 2011. It will include invited keynote presentations, invited tutorials, and contributed papers.

We have confirmation from the following invited speakers:

• Guillermo Owen (Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA) – to speak on Game Theory applied to terrorism
• Ngo van Long (McGill University, Montreal, Quebec) – to provide tutorial on application of Dynamic Games to global and transboundary issues
• Johan Eyckmans (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) - to provide tutorial on application of game theory to global and international agreements

Several scholarly journals are being approached for consideration of special issues and publishers have expressed interest in an edited book.

Call for Papers

Papers applying Game Theory to Transboundary and Global Issues, relevant to policy makers, international agencies and academic researchers are sought.

Applications of Game Theory to issues in natural resources (e.g., fisheries, forestry, water), environment, climate change, trade, technology transfer, migration and alike, are encouraged. Papers may address issues such as: (1) formation and stability of international agreements; (2) the tradeoff between fairness and efficiency; (3) accounting for environmental values in a development context; (4) globalization effects, such as climate change and trade.

Please submit a short version of your paper in a 12-page (1.5 spaced) format for review and selection consideration by January 10, 2011. Papers will be reviewed by 2 reviewers and if accepted, authors will be asked to submit the full paper (<25 page 1.5 spaced) 2 months prior to the meeting. A template for preparing a full paper will be available by October 2010.

We plan several peer reviewed publications, therefore, we seek original papers only.

Timetable:

• 10 January 2011: Short papers due
• 15 February 2011: Acceptance decision sent
• 30 April 2011: Full papers due
• 31 May 2011: Final program ready/proceedings produced

Papers should be sent, by e-mail, to:

Dr. Ariel Dinar
Water Science and Policy Center
Dept of Environmental Sciences
University of California, Riverside
adinar@ucr.edu

http://www.wspc.ucr.edu/gtp/callforpapers.html