simon parsons nznaxjsscibrooklyncunyedu gtdt 2006 eighth workshop game theoretic decision theoretic agents hakodate japan 812 may 2006 conjunction aamas 06 workshop continuation tradition prior successful gtdt symposia workshops 19992005 last years game decision theories proved powerful tools design autonomous agents understand interactions systems composed many agents decision theory adopted paradigm designing agents handle uncertainty moderately complex environment act rationally achieve goals game theory building assumption agents rational selfinterested employed design mechanisms protocols interaction coordination communication negotiation coalition formation fair voting techniques marketbased resource management systems industrialscale information economies interesting recent results reported issue mechanism protocol design bounded rational agents result much gained bringing together researchers interested game theory decision theory present recent work applications techniques construction agents agent systems discuss crossover fields web page httpwwwscibrooklyncunyeduparsonseventsgtdtgtdt06 submission information submissions due february 1st 2006 please submit paper electronically 15 pages standard latex article style electronically postscript pdf simon parsons parsonsscibrooklyncunyedu authors notified acceptance papers february 19th 2006 topics interest solicit papers dealing limited following areas developments decision theory game theory applicable agentbased systems descriptions agent systems employing game theory decision theory empirical evaluations agent systems employing game theory decision theory position statements use game theory decision theory agent systems descriptions deployed systems welcome also interested use nonstandard variants decision theory including qualitative logical approaches approaches combine decision game theories organizers simon parsons department computer information science brooklyn college city university new york nznaxjsscibrooklyncunyedu piotr gmytrasiewicz department computer science university illinois chicago xtuytcsuicedu wed 06 aug 2008 182221 0500 uai call papers gtdt 06