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MODELLING ADAPTIVE AND COGNITIVE SYSTEMS (ADAPCOG 2008)
www.artificial.eng.br/adapcog08.htm
Call for Workshop Papers (CFP)
Modelling Adaptive and Cognitive Systems (ADAPCOG 2008)
at SBIA/SBRN/JRI Joint Conference, www.sbia2008.ufba.br,
October 26-30, 2008, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
What are the mechanisms underlining the emergence of cognitive and
adaptive processes? What kind of theoretical and empirical
constraints
must we consider to model and simulate these processes in artificial
agents and systems? How can processes and representations be
meaningful to artificial agents? These are some of the questions that
building and simulating computational models can help answer.
Artificial Life, Animats, Synthetic Ethology, Evolutionary Robotics
and Computational Semiotics are some of the interdisciplinary areas
of
research involved in the synthetic design of artificial cognitive
systems and creatures. These areas have been designing artificial
environments that work as experimental labs, where it is possible to
test the predictions derived from theoretical models, and provide us
with op****tunities to specify theories with computational formalisms.
Moreover, it provides a new generation of more flexible and robust
artificial systems able to interact with an unpredictable dynamical
world, thus ever more 'intelligent' technological artifacts.
Due to its inherited multi-disciplinarity, this workshop will have a
diverse audience composed of different communities. This audience
involves researchers from areas such as: Artificial Intelligence,
Artificial Life, Cognitive Robotics, Computational Neuroscience,
Computational Linguistics, Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Science,
Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Cognitive Science.
*Topics
The workshop seeks contributions in topics within computational
models
and experiments involving adaptive and cognitive systems. Topics of
interest for this special track on cognitive systems include among
others:
- Adaptive behavior modeling and simulation
- Evolution of complex adaptive behavior
- Artificial Life, Animats, Robotics and multi-robots models
- Agent-based models of biological systems and processes
- Artificial systems as models of biological processes
- Biosemiotic processes and systems
- Modeling of meaning and information processing
- Representation and symbol grounding
- Emergence, Complexity and Self-organization
- Epistemological and Methodological issues
It is of special interest of this workshop, computer models and
simulations of cognitive processes inspired by biological/empirical
motivations. Researchers dealing with issues related with
representation
in artificial systems (e.g. symbol grounding, language, meaning) are
particularly encourage to submit contributions to the workshop.
*Im****tant Dates
June 25, 2008 - Submission Deadline
July 25, 2008 - Notification to authors
August 15, 2008 - Camera-ready copies of papers
October 26-30, 2008 - Joint Conference SBIA/SBRN/JRI 2008
October 26-30, 2008 - ADAPTCOG 2008
*Submission Instructions
You are invited to submit papers to the upcoming Workshop on
Modelling
Adaptive and Cognitive Systems. Papers must be written in English and
may have a length of up to 10 pages, including tables, figures, and
references. Like the main conference, papers must conform to the
Springer LNCC/LNAI style. It is recommended that authors use
Springer-Verlag template files (see
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html,
section
"Proceedings
and Other Multi-author Volumes" for formatting instructions)
to minimize possible conflicts of paper length when preparing the
camera ready.
Papers should be formatted in PDF (preferred) or PostScript,
and submitted electronically only, through the JEMS
Conference
Management System web site at
[https://submissoes.sbc.org.br/sbia2008].
Submission is a three-step process. In a first step authors
are required to register as new authors with JEMS. After registration
as author the login data will be sent to the specified email address.
This data can be used to access the system. In a second step
authors have to register their paper (click the submit paper button
in JEMS). The third step consists on uploading the paper.
Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by at least two program
committee members and/or additional reviewers/referees.
Accepted papers will be made public in the website
(abstracts only) and published in the Proceedings of the Workshops
of the SBIA-SBRN-JRI 2008, on CD-ROM (full papers). Selected papers
will be invited to submit an extended version to be published in a
tentative special issue of an international journal to be announced.
Any other questions regarding papers submission may be directed
to one of the organizers.
*Chairs
Angelo Loula
angelocl AT ecomp.uefs.br, www.artificial.eng.br
DEXA, State University of Feira de Santana (UEFS), Feira de Santana,
BA, Brazil
DCA/FEEC, State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, SP,
Brazil
Jo=E3o Queiroz
queirozj AT ecomp.uefs.br, www.semiotics.pro.br
Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), Salvador, BA, Brazil
Graduate Studies Program on History, Philosophy and Science Teaching
(UFBA/UEFS)
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