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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>=======================================================================</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Extended Deadline - Special Issue in IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>========================================================================</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>Dear Colleagues,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>Following several requests, we are granting an extension to the deadline for the submission of papers to the second edition on the special issue in the IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems (TCDS) to 31<sup>st</sup> January 2022.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>Below are the relevant details.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>Quick Links</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>=================</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>*Second Edition of the Special Issue on Emerging Topics on Development and Learning*</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>Journal: IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems (TCDS) <br>Journal Link:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span lang=IT><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><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>Special Issue:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span lang=IT><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><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>***Submission deadline (<b>extended</b>): 31 January 2022***</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 style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>Overview</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>========</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span 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><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>The primary list of topics of interest include, but not limited to:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>- Principles and theories of development and learning;</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>- Development of skills in biological systems and robots;</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>- Models on the contributions of interaction to learning;</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>- Non-verbal and multi-modal interaction;</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>- Nature vs. nurture, developmental stages;</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>- Models on active learning;</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>- Architectures for lifelong learning;</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>- Emergence of body and affordance perception;</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>- Analysis and modelling of human motion and state;</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>- Models for prediction, planning and problem solving;</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>- Models of human-human and human-robot interaction;</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>- Emergence of verbal and non-verbal communication;</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>- Epistemological foundations and philosophical issues;</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>- Robot prototyping of human and animal skills;</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>- Ethics and trust in computational intelligence and robotics;</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>- Social learning in humans, animals, and robots.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'> </span> <o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>Contributions</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>============</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 style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>The special issue is open to novel contributions. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span 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><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 style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>Guest Editors</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>===========</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>- Dingsheng Luo (Lead guest editor) (dsluo@pku.edu.cn)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span lang=IT style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>- Angelo Cangelosi (angelo.cangelosi@manchester.ac.uk)</span><span lang=IT><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span lang=IT style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>- Alessandra Sciutti (alessandra.sciutti@iit.it)</span><span lang=IT><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>- Weiwei Wan (wan@sys.es.osaka-u.ac.jp)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span lang=IT style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>- Ana Tanevska (ana.tanevska@iit.it)</span><span lang=IT><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span lang=IT> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>For further information, please contact the editors.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>Regards,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>the Guest Editors</span><o:p></o:p></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></div></body></html>