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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">(Apologies for cross-posting)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dear colleagues,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We are pleased to announce that
the submission deadline for the first international workshop </span><strong>“Wanting
What is Needed: From Homeostatic Control to Adaptive Behavior”</strong><span
style="font-weight: 400;"> has been extended to </span><strong>August
12, 2026</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The workshop will be held on
October 19 in Berlin, Germany, as part of The 18th
International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive
Behavior (SAB 2026).</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Workshop website:</span><a
href="https://wwin-workshop.github.io/sab2026"><span
style="font-weight: 400;"> </span><span
style="font-weight: 400;">https://wwin-workshop.github.io/sab2026</span><span
style="font-weight: 400;"><br>
</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">Keywords (including
but not limited to): internal states, homeostasis, allostasis,
reinforcement learning, decision making, robotics, adaptive
behavior</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">======================================</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Aims of the workshop</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">======================================</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Classical reinforcement
learning and cognitive models often begin with externally
specified rewards. Biological organisms, by contrast, are
autonomous learning agents whose behavior is constrained by
the need to sustain their own viability. This workshop asks
how internal physiological regulation can ground
decision-making, value formation, and motivated behavior.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We aim to foster a shared
interdisciplinary conversation across machine learning,
artificial intelligence, robotics, neuroscience, biology,
physiology, ethology, and control theory. The goal is to
clarify how homeostatic and allostatic regulation can
contribute to adaptive behavior in both biological organisms
and artificial agents.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Invited speakers</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">======================================</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">* Lilian A. Weber (Osnabrück
University)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">* Lola Cañamero (CY Cergy Paris
University)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">* Antonio Damasio (University
of Southern California, online)<br>
<br>
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">======================================</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Extended abstracts for
lightning talks and posters</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">======================================</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">* Extended abstracts of up to 3
pages (main text)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">* References, appendices, and
acknowledgements are not included in this limit</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">* Springer LNCS style (template
available on the workshop website)</span><span
style="font-weight: 400;"><br>
<br>
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">======================================</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Important dates</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">======================================</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">* Extended Abstract Submission
Deadline: August 12, 2026</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">* Notification of Acceptance:
August 19, 2026</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">* Workshop Date: October 19,
2026 (afternoon)<br>
<br>
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We welcome contributions from
researchers working across the biological and artificial
sciences and look forward to receiving your submissions.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Best regards,<br>
</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mehdi Khamassi</span><span
style="font-weight: 400;"><br>
</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">CNRS / Sorbonne
Université</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On behalf of the organizing
committee:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Naoto Yoshida — Kyoto
University</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br>
</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ismael Freire — Sorbonne
Université</span><br>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Boris Gutkin — École Normale
Supérieure</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br>
</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Henning Sprekeler —
Technical University of Berlin</span><span
style="font-weight: 400;"><br>
</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Louis L’Haridon — ENSEA /
CNRS</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br>
</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lola Cañamero — CY Cergy
Paris University</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br>
</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mehdi Khamassi — CNRS /
Sorbonne Université</span></p>
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Mehdi Khamassi, PhD, HDR
Research director (DR2), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Institute of Intelligent Systems and Robotics, Sorbonne Université
ISIR - BC 173, 4 place Jussieu, 75005 Paris, France
phone: +33 6 50 76 44 92
email: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:mehdi.khamassi@sorbonne-universite.fr">mehdi.khamassi@sorbonne-universite.fr</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://pages2.isir.upmc.fr/mkhamassi/">https://pages2.isir.upmc.fr/mkhamassi/</a>
Co-director of the master's program in cognitive science (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://cog-sup.fr">https://cog-sup.fr</a>)
Sorbonne Université / Université Paris Cité
Visiting Researcher at the Institute of Communication and Computer Systems
National Technical University of Athens, Greece
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://robotics.ntua.gr/people/">https://robotics.ntua.gr/people/</a></pre>
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