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in artificial intelligence and cognitive systems modelling
continue to face foundational challenges in their quest to
develop plausible models and implementations of cognitive
capacities and intelligence. One of the methodological core
issues is the question of the integration between sub-symbolic
and symbolic approaches to knowledge representation, learning
and reasoning in cognitively-inspired models.</div>
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normal 13px/normal Arial; color: rgb(51, 50, 51); ">Network-based
approaches very often enable flexible tools which can discover
and process the internal structure of (possibly large) data
sets. They promise to give rise to efficient signal-processing
models which are biologically plausible and optimally suited
for a wide range of applications, whilst possibly also
offering an explanation of cognitive phenomena of the human
brain.</div>
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normal 13px/normal Arial; color: rgb(51, 50, 51); ">Still, the
extraction of high-level explicit (i.e. symbolic) knowledge
from distributed low-level representations thus far has to be
considered a mostly unsolved problem.</div>
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normal 13px/normal Arial; color: rgb(51, 50, 51); ">In recent
years, network-based models have seen significant advancement
in the wake of the development of the new "deep learning"
family of approaches to machine learning. Due to the
hierarchically structured nature of the underlying models,
these developments have also reinvigorated efforts in
overcoming the neural-symbolic divide.</div>
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normal 13px/normal Arial; color: rgb(51, 50, 51); ">The aim of
the symposium is to bring together recent work developed in
the field of network-based information processing in a
cognitive context, which bridges the gap between different
levels of description and paradigms and which sheds light onto
canonical solutions or principled approaches occurring in the
context of neural-symbolic integration to modelling or
implementing cognitive capacities.</div>
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particularly encourage submissions related to the following
non-exhaustive list of topics:</div>
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learning paradigms of network-based models addressing
different knowledge levels</div>
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biologically plausible methods and models</div>
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integration of network models and symbolic reasoning</div>
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cognitive systems using neural-symbolic paradigms</div>
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extraction of symbolic knowledge from network-based
representations</div>
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challenging applications which have the potential to become
benchmark problems</div>
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visionary papers concerning the future of network approaches
to cognitive modelling</div>
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& SUBMISSIONS =</div>
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normal 13px/normal Arial; color: rgb(51, 50, 51); ">The
deadlines for submissions, author feedback, etc. are bound to
the normal BICA 2014 deadlines (and, thus, are also subject to
the same changes and extensions). Please also have a look at <a
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current schedule is:</div>
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normal 13px/normal Arial; color: rgb(51, 50, 51); ">- Paper
submission due: May 26, 2014</div>
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review feedback: June 14, 2014</div>
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papers due: August 1, 2014</div>
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normal 13px/normal Arial; color: rgb(51, 50, 51); ">Submissions
can either be made in form of 500-word abstracts or as up to
6-page papers.</div>
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details on the submission process, formats, etc., please refer
to the BICA 2014 Call for Papers ( <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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SYMPOSIUM CO-CHAIRS =</div>
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C. Stewart, Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience, University of
Waterloo, Canada</div>
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Besold, Institute of Cognitive Science, University of
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