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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=IT link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>=======================================================================</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Call for Papers - Special Issue in IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>========================================================================</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>Dear Colleagues,</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'> </span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>Following up on the success of the ICDL 2021 conference, we are pleased to announce a second edition on the special issue in the IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems (TCDS) on related topics.</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'> </span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>Below are the relevant details.</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'> </span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>Quick Links</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>=================</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>*Second Edition of the Special Issue on Emerging Topics on Development and Learning*</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>Journal: IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems (TCDS) <br>Journal Link:</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><a href="https://cis.ieee.org/publications/t-cognitive-and-developmental-systems"><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC'>https://cis.ieee.org/publications/t-cognitive-and-developmental-systems</span></a><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>Special Issue:</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><a href="https://wanweiwei07.github.io/files/ICDL2021_Special_Issue_Proposal_IEEE_Format.pdf"><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC'>https://wanweiwei07.github.io/files/ICDL2021_Special_Issue_Proposal_IEEE_Format.pdf</span></a><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'> </span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>Tentative timeline</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>================</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>*Submission deadline (<b>extended</b>): 15 January 2022*</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>First Reviews Completed: 15 March 2022</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>Final Decision: 30 June 2022</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span lang=EN-US> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>Overview</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>========</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>This special issue aims to track the state-of-the-art progress on development and learning in natural and artificial systems. It concentrates on development and learning from a multidisciplinary perspective. Researchers from computer science, robotics, psychology, and developmental studies are solicited to share their knowledge and research on how humans and animals develop sensing, reasoning and actions, and how to exploit robots as research tools to test models of development and learning. We expect the submitted contributions emphasize the interaction with social and physical environments and how cognitive and developmental capabilities can be transferred to computing systems and robotics. This approach goes hand in hand with the goals of both understanding human and animal development and applying this knowledge to improve future intelligent technology, including for robots that will be in close interaction with humans.</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'> </span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>The primary list of topics of interest include, but not limited to:</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>- Principles and theories of development and learning;</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>- Development of skills in biological systems and robots;</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>- Models on the contributions of interaction to learning;</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>- Non-verbal and multi-modal interaction;</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>- Nature vs. nurture, developmental stages;</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>- Models on active learning;</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>- Architectures for lifelong learning;</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>- Emergence of body and affordance perception;</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>- Analysis and modelling of human motion and state;</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>- Models for prediction, planning and problem solving;</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>- Models of human-human and human-robot interaction;</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>- Emergence of verbal and non-verbal communication;</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>- Epistemological foundations and philosophical issues;</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>- Robot prototyping of human and animal skills;</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>- Ethics and trust in computational intelligence and robotics;</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>- Social learning in humans, animals, and robots.</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'> </span><span lang=EN-US> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>Contributions</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>============</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span lang=EN-US> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>The special issue is open to novel contributions. </span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>Also extended versions of published conference papers (such as in ICDL 2021) are welcome, but they must have at least 30% new impacting technical/scientific material in the submitted journal version, and there should be less than 50% verbatim similarity as reported by a tool (such as CrossRef). Additionally, the conference papers and the detailed summary differences must be included as part of the journal submission to TCDS. All submissions will be reviewed as regular TCDS papers before acceptance.</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span lang=EN-US> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>Guest Editors</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>===========</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>- Dingsheng Luo (Lead guest editor) (dsluo@pku.edu.cn)</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>- Angelo Cangelosi (angelo.cangelosi@manchester.ac.uk)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>- Alessandra Sciutti (alessandra.sciutti@iit.it)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>- Weiwei Wan (wan@sys.es.osaka-u.ac.jp)</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>- Ana Tanevska (ana.tanevska@iit.it)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'> <o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>For further information, please contact the editors.</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'> </span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>Regards,</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>Alessandra (on behalf of all the Guest Editors)</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>----------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Alessandra Sciutti (PhD)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Researcher Tenure Track – P.I. CONTACT Unit<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia – Via Enrico Melen 83, Building B 16152 Genova, Italy<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>email: </span><a href="mailto:alessandra.sciutti@iit.it"><span lang=EN-US style='color:#0563C1'>alessandra.sciutti@iit.it</span></a> <span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>website: </span><a href="https://www.iit.it/people/alessandra-sciutti"><span lang=EN-US style='color:#0563C1'>https://www.iit.it/people/alessandra-sciutti</span></a><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>ERC website: </span><a href="https://www.whisperproject.eu/"><span lang=EN-US style='color:#0563C1'>https://www.whisperproject.eu/</span></a> <span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>An intro on my research (Video, Eng): </span><a href="https://youtu.be/LCkOjR_cvxI"><span lang=EN-US style='color:#0563C1'>https://youtu.be/LCkOjR_cvxI</span></a><span lang=EN-US> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>TEDx talk (Italian): </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=e0eMayWU_lc"><span lang=EN-US style='color:#0563C1'>https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=e0eMayWU_lc</span></a> <span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Our book on Modeling Human Motion: </span><a href="https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030467319"><span lang=EN-US style='color:#0563C1'>https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030467319</span></a> <span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>twitter: @alefreedot<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>