DECO2001 - CFP

[Max Lungarella]

We apologize for multiple postings of this call.


********************** CALL FOR PAPERS **************************

DECO2001 - Developmental Embodied Cognition

Workshop to be held in conjuction with the 
23rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
July 31st, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~deco/

PAPER DEADLINE: April 30, 2001
WORKSHOP DATE: July 31, 2001


SCOPE 

The objective of this workshop is to bring together researchers from
cognitive science, psychology, robotics, artificial intelligence,
philosophy, and related fields to discuss the role of developmental
and embodied views of cognition, and in particular, their mutual
relationship. The ultimate goal of this approach is to understand the
emergence of high-level cognition in organisms based on their
interactions with their environment over extended periods of time.


FOCUS 

The symposium will focus on research that explicitly takes development
in embodied systems into account, either at the level of empirical
work, computational models, or real-world devices. Finally,
contributions giving a broad and novel philosophical or methodological
view on embodied cognition are welcome.


CONTRIBUTIONS

Contributions are solicited from the following areas (but not restricted
to this list):

- Mechanisms of development (e.g. neural networks, dynamical systems,
information theoretic)
- Development of sensory and motor systems
- Perception-action coupling, sensory-motor coordination
- Cognitive developmental robotics
- Categorization, object exploration
- Communication and social interaction
- Methodologies
- Debates and philosophical issues (e.g. constructivism-selectionism,
  nature-nurture, scalability, symbol grounding)


ORGANIZATION

This will be a one-day workshop with a number of invited talks, a
poster session, and with lots of room for discussion. In order to
allow for more individual interactions, and to make better use of the
limited time we have for the workshop, accepted papers will generally
be as posters. The poster session will be over a cocktail to ensure a
relaxed atmosphere.


FORM OF CONTRIBUTION

Contributions should be in the form of full papers with a maximum of
five pages, which, if accepted, can be presented as posters at the
workshop. 

Accepted contributions will be assembled in a handout paper collection
for the participants of the workshop. At the workshop there will be a
discussion on potential further publication, e.g. as a special issue of
a journal or a book.

GUIDELINES FOR ABSTRACT/PAPER SUBMISSION

The contribution should be submitted electronically to
deco at cogsci.ed.ac.uk in pdf format. 

Information on how to convert LaTeX or Word documents to pdf can be
found at http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/cogsci2001/PDF.html


IMPORTANT DATES

Full papers submission: April 30, 2001
Notification of acceptance: May 31, 2001 
Workshop date: July 31, 2001


LINKS

Workshop page:  http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~deco
Cognitive Science Conference: http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/cogsci2001/


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Rolf Pfeifer (chair, AI Lab, University of Zurich, Switzerland)
Gert Westermann (co-chair, Sony CSL, Paris)
Cynthia Breazeal (MIT AI Lab, Cambridge, Mass., USA)
Yiannis Demiris (Laboratory of Physiology, Oxford University, UK)
Max Lungarella (AI Lab, University of Zurich, Switzerland)
Rafael Nunez (University of Fribourg, Switzerland, and University of
              California, Berkeley, USA)
Linda Smith (Department of Psychology, Indiana University, Bloomington,
IN, USA)