Contributed by: Michael Breitner ANNOUNCEMENT AND SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS Seventh International Symposium on Dynamic Games and Applications December 16-18, 1996 Shonan Village Center, Kanagawa, Japan General Information The seventh international symposium on dynamic games and applications will be held for the first time in Asia. The symposium has been scheduled in the week following the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control. Participants will have an opportunity to hear state-of-the-art lectures on a wide range of game-theoric models and applications. Symposium Location All the sessions and the conference dinner will be held at the Shonan Village Center, located in the central part of the Miura Peninsular. Travelling distances from Narita airport and Tokyo station to Shonan Village is about 150 minutes and 90 minutes respectively, by railroad and bus. Transportation arrangements will be made for participants. Program The three day technical program will consist of plenary sessions and presentations of contributed papers. The topics include, but are not limited to the following: Zero-sum dynamic games Computational methods Pursuit-Evasion problems Robust controller design Nonzero-sum dynamic games H-infinity controller design Stochastic sequential games Dynamic games modeling in economics Incentive strategies Energy, environment and resource management Cooperative equilibria AI and dynamic game theory Dynamic bargaining models Worst case and minimax design Evolutionary games Tutorials A preconference day of tutorials on the topic of minimax problems in guidance and control as well as economics will be organized by Professor Kimio Kanai; it will be held on December 15, at the National Defense Academy, Yokosuka. Publication All accepted papers will be included in a volume of proceedings made available to registered participants by the secretary of the 7th ISDG symposium. Authors will have the opportunity to submit their contributed papers for publication in a special volume of the Annals of the International Society of Dynamic Games (Birkhauser, publisher). Registration and Accomodation Participants can pay the registration fee (20,000yen) either by a credit card, bank transfer or check. The fee covers all the conference materials including one volume of the proceedings. (The current foreign currency exchange rate of 1.00US$ is 94.00yen to 98.00yen in August 1995) DEADLINES !!! A temporary schedule is as follows APRIL 1, 1996 : Titles and extended abstracts June 1, 1996 : Notification of acceptance September 1, 1996: Full paper All the papers are to be submitted to the Program Chairman: Professor Jerzy A. Filar School of Mathematics University of South Australia The Levels, Pooraka South Australia 5095 AUSTRALIA Fax 61-8-302-3381 E-mail debbie@zarniwoop.levels.unisa.edu.au Scholarships The SICE International Scholarship will be granted to selected foreign participants under the age of 35, in the amount of 100,000yen each. Further information on registration procedure, and submission guidelines will be published later. For other information, please contact: Professor Fumiaki Imado Secretariat Seventh International Symposium on Dynamic Games and Applications Department of Mechanical Systems Engineering Shinshu University 500 Wakasato Nagano, Nagano 380 JAPAN Tel 81-262-26-4101 Fax 81-262-24-4505 E-mail imado@imado1.shinshu-u.ac.jp