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What: CFP AAAI Fall Symposium 2009 on Multi-representational
Architectures for Human-level Intelligence.
When: Deadline is May 15
Submissions: Full (6 pages) or position (2 pages) papers
Submit to: Unmesh Kurup {kurupu@rpi.edu}
More Info: http://diagrams.ukurup.com/hybrid
A multiplicity of representational frameworks has been proposed for
explaining and creating human-level intelligence.  Each has been proven
useful or effective for some class of problems, but not across the board. 
This fact has led researchers to propose that perhaps the underlying
design of cognition is multi-representational, or hybrid, and made up of
subsystems with different representations and processes interacting to
produce the complexity of cognition. Recent work in cognitive
architectures has explored the design and use of such systems in
high-level cognition. 
	With the increasing interest in this topic, this seems a good time to
review the state of the research. The main aim of the symposium is to
bring together researchers who work on systems utilizing different types
of representations to explore a range of questions about the theoretical
framework and applications of such systems. Items of theoretical interest 
include fundamental questions about the nature and role of multiple
representations in high-level cognition as well as the control mechanisms 
and processes by which a system leverages these representations in
achieving problem solving goals.  In addition, the symposium also seeks
to identify problems and domains where such systems have been (or can be) 
successfully applied. 

Format
The symposium will include invited talks, paper presentations, working
groups and discussions with expert panels. Each paper presentation
session will end with a discussion where the presenters of that session
form the expert panel. In addition, the working groups will foster
further discussion on specific topics both theoretical and application
oriented. 

Submission
Interested participants should submit full papers (up to 6 pages in AAAI
format) or position papers (up to 2 pages) in PDF format to Unmesh Kurup
at kurupu@rpi.edu. Selected papers from the symposium will be published
as an AAAI technical report.

For more information, see the symposium web site at diagrams.ukurup.com/hybrid

Organizing Committee
Unmesh Kurup (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA), B. Chandrasekaran
(The Ohio State University, USA), Bonny Banerjee (Securboration, USA),
John Laird (University of Michigan, USA), Scott Lathrop (United States
Military Academy, USA), Marvin Minsky (MIT Media Lab, USA), Luis Pineda
(Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico), Samuel Wintermute
(University of Michigan, USA)