CFP: SAB'02-Workshop: On Growing up Artifacts that Live

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                   SAB'2002 Workshop

           ON GROWING UP ARTIFACTS THAT LIVE
           Basic Principles and Future Trends 

         http://www.nero.uni-bonn.de/ws-grow.html

         August 10, 2002, Edinburgh, Scotland (UK) 


To be held in conjunction with SAB'02 Conference
http://www.isab.org.uk/sab02


     Important dates
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     5 April,  2002:  Submission of papers, up to 1o pages 
     3 May,    2002:  Notification of acceptance 
    14 June,   2002:  Deadline for camera-ready papers 
   4-9 August, 2002:  SAB'02 Conference
   10 August,  2002:  Workshop, Edinburgh 


 Call for Participation
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One of the most challenging features of living artifacts
           is the ability to grow.
One of the most interesting features of growing 
      is the special capability to grow up.


  Aim and scope
=================

The aim of the workshop is to enlighten basic principles 
and fundamental requirements to enfore artifacts that can 
grow up.

To "Grow Up" means, that the system starts with a basic, 
pre-structured set of functionalities and develops its 
individual capabilities during livetime in close interaction 
with the environment.  A schedule for temporal development will
drive the artefact through a a well defined sequence of stages 
from the infancy state to an individually matured entity. Along 
this sequence the artefact will learn with respect to, and in 
interaction with the environment, thus piling up experience, and
leading to new qualitative stages of behaviour. Besides adequate
learning and adaptaion rules, the organisation of the memory and
the modular structure of the system must be featured to enable 
this ontogenetic process of development.

Below you will find a brief summary of theses and principles 
that are said to lead to a living, up-growing artefact: 
 - One of the most challenging features of living artifacts
	is the ability to grow.
 - One of the most interesting features of a growing artefact
	is the special capability of growing up.
 - Growing up  means the evolution from an infant-like
	pre-defined state to a fully matured entity.
 - Growing up  requires a special organisational structure
	of the entire artefact, that allows to grow up.
 - Growing up  requires interaction with the environment,
	including the interaction with other  "living artifacts".
 - Growing up  requires the capability of learning from the
	experience acquired in interaction with the environment.
 - Learning from experience  requires a specialised structure
	of the underlying system.
 - The specialised structure (e.g. systemic architecture)
	is covering: adaptive structures, learning schemes,
	organisation of memory and reasoning, ... 

Fundamentals from psychology, from memory organisation,
from theory of learning (machine learning and psychology),
underlying systemic architectures enabling the required
capabilities, cognition science and behavioural knowledge
and further principles are within the scope of the workshop.

The workshop will envisage, but not be limited to the 
topics listed below:
 - Internal models and representation 
 - Architectures for autonomous agents
 - Behavioural sequencing 
 - Learning and development 
 - Psychology of learning 
 - Motivation and emotion 
 - Emergent structures and behaviours 
 - Evolutionary and co-evolutionary approaches 

Not only the state of the art, but actual and novel ideas
and future trends are focused by this workshop.
Especially unconventional, Blue-Sky like ideas 
are welcome, and will be considered valuable for 
presentation and discussion within the workshop.

Therefore an open, hopefully, brain storming discussion will be
part of the workshop.
The talks and the posters will be on an open basis, 
encouraging scientists to present even unusual ideas.


  Paper submission and publication
=====================================

Papers not exceeding 10 pages in 10pt, one-column format 
(Springer LNCS style), should be submitted electronically (PDF or PS)
as attachment files to the following email address: 
ws-grow at nero.uni-bonn.de
In case electronic submission is causing problems, please contact 
the organisers.  Formatting instructions, including a Latex template: 
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html

All submissions will be reviewed for acceptance as talks or 
poster presentation by the program committee and the organisers. 
Authors of selected papers will be asked for an extended paper 
submission after the workshop for publication.

Since the topic of the workshop is aiming beyond state of the art
development, involving a variety of different fields, 
the authors are asked to facilitate the accession to the content 
of their contribution by including a brief introductory passage 
at the beginning of the article.



     Important dates
==========================
   5 April,  2002:  Submission of papers 
   3 May,    2002:  Notification of acceptance 
  14 June,   2002:  Deadline for camera-ready papers 
 4-9 August, 2002:  SAB'02 Conference
  10 August, 2002:  Workshop, On Growing up Artifacts that Live 



   Programme / Scientific Committee
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 Alois Knoll, Technical University Munich (TUM), Germany
 Andy M. Tyrell, The University of York, United Kingdom 
 Horst-Michael Gross, Ilmenau Technical University, Germany
 Tim Pearce, University of Leicester, United Kingdom
 Ulrich Rueckert, University of Paderborn, Germany
 Giulio Sandini, University of Genova, Italy
 Thomas Christaller, Fraunhofer Institute AiS, Germany
 Bruno Apolloni, University of Milan, Italy
 Peter Ross , School of Computing, Napier University, Edinburgh, Scotland (UK)
 Georg Dorffner, Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence 
(OFAI), Austria
 Erich Prem, Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (OFAI), 
Austria
 David Willshaw, Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation, 
	The University of Edinburgh, Scotland (UK)
 Giovanna Morgavi, Istituto per i Circuiti Elettronici,
	National Research Council (ICECNR), Italy
 Nils Goerke, Neuroinformatics, University of Bonn, Germany


   Organisers
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Nils Goerke 
Division of Neuroinformatics (NERO), University of Bonn
Roemerstr. 164, D-53117 Bonn, Germany
http://www.nero.uni-bonn.de
E-Mail: goerke at nero.uni-bonn.de

Peter Ross
School of Computing, Napier University, Edinburgh, 
Scotland (UK)
http://www.soc.napier.ac.uk

Georg Dorffner
Erich Prem
Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (OFAI),
Vienna, Austria 
http://www.ai.univie.ac.at/oefai/oefai.html

Giovanna Morgavi
Istituto per i Circuiti Elettronici, National Research Council, (ICECNR),
Genova, Italy
http://www.ge.cnr.it 

David Willshaw
Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation, The University of Edinburgh,
Edinburgh, Scotland (UK)
http://www.informatics.ed.ac.uk/research/ianc/



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Hope to see you in Edinburgh for the workshop

Best regards
                 Nils Goerke