Corpora: TARK questionnaire

Joseph Halpern (halpern@CS.Cornell.EDU)
Tue, 18 Aug 1998 17:39:08 -0400 (EDT)

Although the past TARK conference was very successful -- at least,
judging by the comments of the attendees -- both attendance and number
of submissions declined from the previous TARK. The TARK organizing
committee would appreciate it if you could take the time to fill out the
following relatively short questionnaire. Your answers will help guide
us in planning for TARK 2000. Also, note that there are 9 conference
proceedings left at last count, available at $14 in the US and $15
outside the US (postage paid). If you are interested, send email to
Fran Walker (fwalker@nwu.edu); first come, first served. (The
proceedings will also be available from Morgan Kaufmann, but they will
probably charge over $40.) Please send your completed questionnaire to
halpern@cs.cornell.edu. Thanks for your help.
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1. How likely are you to go to the next TARK:
___ Quite likely
___ Likely if I have a paper in the conference and/or if there is funding
for my travel; unlikely otherwise
___ Likely if it is scheduled appropriately; unlikely otherwise
___ Unlikely

2. When is the best time for TARK, as far as you are concerned:
___ June
___ July-August
___ March, around spring break (in North America, at least)
___ other (please specify)

3. What would be your preferred type of location:
___ major center in North America
___ major center in Europe
___ a resort-style location in North America (like Asilomar)
___ a resort-style location in Europe (like Capri)

4. Should we consider having poster sessions and fewer talks (to allow
longer breaks between sessions, for discussion)
___ yes
___ no

5. Should we collocate with another conference (as we did this year with
the Northwestern Micro Conference), or run as an independent conference?
___ run as an independent conference
___ collocate with
___ an AI-related conference such as
___ KR (Knowledge Representation and Reasoning)
___ ICMAS (Int. Conf. on Multi-Agent Systems)
___ AAAI or IJCAI (the major AI conference, which get ~1000
attendees)
___ a game-theory/economics conference such as
___ the game theory conference envisioned by the
newly-created game theory society
___ Stony Brook
___ Northwestern Micro conference
___ LOFT (Logic and the Foundations of Game and Decision Theory;
essentially a European version of TARK)
___ another conference such as ________________

6. Would it be useful to precede TARK with half-day tutorials on topics
of interest (e.g., belief revision, solution concepts in games)?
If so, which ones?

Any further comments?