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       THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF DYNAMIC GAMES
       E-LETTER, issue No. 35, September 3, 1999

       Edited by Raimo P. Hamalainen and Harri Ehtamo
       Systems Analysis Laboratory, Helsinki University of Technology
       ISDG@HUT.FI http://www.hut.fi/Units/SAL/isdg 

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             Dear Dynamic Game Theorist,

This is the thirtyfifth issue of the Society's electronic newsletter. The
basic minimum work principle in editing this e-letter is that the READERS
send important notes and information about symposia, conferences and
workshops of dynamic games, as well as abstracts of Ph.D.  theses, papers
and books, which they want to be included in the newsletter.  The format
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     Raimo P. Hamalainen        and         Harri Ehtamo


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Contributed by Pierre Bernhard <bernhard@essi.fr>                  Aug 3


Dear colleagues,

Please find below the minutes of the two sessions of the executive
board of the ISDG held in Ischia, as they were very faithfuly drafted by
Alain Haurie.

I wish you all a nice autumn.

P. Bernhard

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Minutes of the EC meetings in Ischia

The first meeting was held on Sunday July 18, from 18h30 to 20h00.
The following persons were present:

P. Bernhard
M. Breitner
H. Ehtamo
V. Gaitsgory (invited)
A. Haurie
A. Melikyan
J. Morgan
G.J. Olsder (invited)
L. Petrosjan
O. Pourtallier
G. Zaccour

The President proposed the following agenda:

1. Legal existence of the Society
2. Publications
3. Relations with the ISGT
4. Meeting 2000
5. Meeting 2001 (Workshop)
6. Meeting 2002

L. Petrosjan added the following point to the agenda:

7.Possible session in the IMC (Beijing)

The agenda was adopted.


1. Legal existence of the Society

The President recalls that in the general assembly held at Maastricht, the
principle of establishing formal bylaws for the Society, associated with
membership fees, has been adopted. He declares that he will make a precise
proposal at the next general assembly to be held at the occasion of the
Adelaide meeting, in December 2000. He indicates that the French
legislation (Loi de 1901) permits the creation of an official body without
too many hurdles. However the French banking system will not allow easily
transactions in US$.

Decision-1: Each member of the EC should explore in his/her own
country the possible arrangements for registration of the ISDG and for the
financial and banking operations. These infos should be circulated as soon
as possible and a decision where to locate the Society will then be taken.


2. Publications

2.1 Linking the International Game Theory Review with the ISDG

Leon Petrosjan presents the International Game Theory Review (IGTR)
that has just published its first issue. The journal is a quarterly
review with at least 6 papers per issue. The journal has a wide scope and
does not specialize uniquely in Dynamic Game Theory although the editorial
board is mostly composed of members of the ISDG. The present circulation
is modest (< 100). The editors of the journal (L. Petrosjan, D. Yeung and
S.  Jorgensen) want to increase the submission rate and propose to have
special issues with guest editors.

In order to emphasize the relationship between the IGTR and the ISDG
it is proposed to have a fourth editor who will be appointed by the
ISDG and to negotiate with the publisher (World Scientific Publishers) a
reduced subscription rate for ISDG members.

Decision-2.1: A special issue of the IGTR will be edited by J. Morgan and
A. Haurie, on the basis of the papers presented at the Ischia meeting.

Decision-2.2: The ISDG President will put in place a designation
procedure for the fourth editor of the IGTR. The present editors
should inform the publisher. A final decision will be taken at the
general assembly to be held in Adelaide (Dec 2000).

2.2 Annals of the ISDG

The development of closer links between the ISDG and IGTR may affect
the Annals. T. Basar, editor of the Annals should be consulted and,
eventually, a new contract with Birkhauser should be negotiated. This will
be a necessity when the ISDG will raise membership fees and distribute the
Annals to members instead of having the Annals paid with the conference
registration fee.


3. Relations with the ISGT

The International Society of Game Theory (ISGT) has been announced a
year ago in Maastricht. It is now organized, with a secretariat,
bylaws and a scheduled conference, in Bilbao, Spain, July 2000. The
ISDG should enter into formal discussion with the ISGT in order to
coordinate the activities (e.g. avoid conflicting dates for
conferences), implement joint memberships, etc.

A decision is made to invite Michael Maschler to participate in the
second EC meeting scheduled for Tuesday July 20.


4. Meeting 2000

This topic will be discussed at the second EC meeting, since A. Nowak, the
SC chairman is not yet arrived.


5. Meeting 2001 (Workshop)

The workshops of Sils (August 1997) and Ischia (July 1999) have been
successful. A similar meeting could be scheduled in Spring/Summer
2001.  This workshop could also be skipped, due to the proximity of
the ISDG symposium to be held in December 2000.

M. Breitner proposes to organize a workshop at Goslar, near the town
of Hanover in Germany. C. Deissenberg proposes to explore the
possibility to organize a workshop in Provence, France.

Decision-5: It is decided to wait for spontaneous proposals
(Breitner, Deissenberg or others). A final decision will be taken
before or at the Adelaide meeting.


6. Meeting 2002

There is a plan to hold the ISDG symposium in the St Petersburg
region.  Leon Petrosjan would chair the LOC and Prof. Raghavan would
chair the SC.  The EC observes that the information is not better at
present time than it was a year ago. Some members consider that it
would be less risky to organize the symposium in the St Petersburg
city than on a cruising boat (original idea).

Decision-6: Leon Petrosjan has to contact Prof. Raghavan and decide a date
(May or July 2002). Also a precise proposal with information about
accommodations, travel arrangements etc. should reach the President before
the end of this year (1999).

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The second meeting was held on Tuesday July 20, from 16h00 to 18h00.
The following persons were present:

P. Bernhard
M. Breitner
H. Ehtamo
V. Gaitsgory (invited)
A. Haurie
M. Maschler (invited)
A. Melikyan
J. Morgan
A. Nowak
G.J. Olsder (invited)
L. Petrosjan
O. Pourtallier
G. Zaccour

The President proposed the following agenda:

1. Meeting 2000
2. Relations with the ISGT
3. Possible session in the IMC (Beijing)

The agenda was adopted.


1. Meeting 2000

V. Gaitsgory presented the current state of the organization. The
symposium location has been changed to Glenneg, a suburb of Adelaide,
located on the seashore. The call for papers leaflet has been produced.

For dissemination of the information the following ideas were
suggested: 

- Distribute the leaflet at the 1999 IEEE-CDC.  
- Ask Tamer Basar about the possibility to obtain a co-sponsorship 
of the IEEE 
- Use "Local chapters" to disseminate the info 
- Explore the possibility of an IFAC co-sponsorship 
- Use the ISGT connection 
- Prepare a postscript file for an A3 poster that could be posted 
in different universities

A. Nowak reported on the program organization:

The list of plenary speakers includes already 4 names. There are
currently discussions to have also M. Shubik and ?. Sudderth invited
to give a tutorial on Market Games and a plenary lecture on stochastic
games.

Related discussion:

- A suggestion is also made to organize a tutorial on game theory
applications in finance. This could also be a mini-tutorial held in
conjunction with other parallel sessions (e.g., one hour).

- It is suggested to ask the authors who plan to submit their paper to the
Annals to bring their full paper with them at the conference, so as to
reduce the delay between the meeting and the publication of the related
Annals volume.


2. Relations with the ISGT

M. Maschler presents the ISGT organization. ISGT officials could be
invited to siege on the ISDG EC. M. Maschler will transmit the
expression of our interest in cooperation to E. Kalai and R. Aumann,
current heads of the ISGT.

The President of the ISDG should enter into formal contact with these ISGT
officials.


3. Possible session in the IMC (Beijing)

The ISDG encourages L. Petrosjan to organize a session on game theory in
the IMC.


Alain Haurie
Professor of Operations Research
HEC/SES
University of Geneva
102 Carl Vogt
CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland

Tel: +41 22 705 8132
Fax: +41 22 705 8104
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Contributed by David W. K. Yeung <dwkyeung@econ.hku.hk>           Aug 26


                   International Game Theory Review     

                         solicits manuscripts!


After an initial flurry of activities, submissions have since slowed
down.  In order to ensure a continuous flow of high quality papers, we
would appreciate it if you could encourage submissions of relevant
manuscripts to the Review among your colleagues and research circle(s). We
also urge you to consider editing a special volume for the Review. The
topic could be in any field that is outlined in the Review's "Aims and
Scope".

See information on IGTR in our home page at

http://www.wspc.com.sg/journals/igtr/igtr.html

Sincerely Thanks,

The Editors of IGTR

Steffen Jorgensen (stj@busieco.ou.dk)
Leon A. Petrosjan (lapetr@amk.apmath.spb.su)
David W. K. Yeung (dwkyeung@econ.hku.hk)
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Contributed by Koichi Mizukami <mizukami@es.hkg.ac.jp>            Aug 12

                      Change of Address!  

Prof. Mizukami has changed recently his working position. Please note that
both the mailing address and the e-mail address have been changed.

Professor Dr. Koichi MIZUKAMI
Graduate School of Engineering
Department of Electronics
Hiroshima Kokusai Gakuin University
20-1 Nakano 6, Aki-ku
Hiroshima, 739-0321, Japan

E-mail: mizukami@es.hkg.ac.jp
Tel: +81-82-820-2629
Fax: +81-82-820-2610
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End of ISDG E-LETTER issue No. 35, Sep 3, 1999