Final CFP: Epigenetic Robotics 2004 - deadline extension

Georgi Stojanov gs at ukim.edu.mk
Tue Mar 2 17:22:45 EST 2004 

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EPIROB2004		FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
EPIROB2004
EPIROB2004		Fourth International Workshop on Epigenetic
Robotics:
EPIROB2004	Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems
EPIROB2004	http://www.epigenetic-robotics.org
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EPIROB2004	August 25-27, 2004
EPIROB2004	Location: LIRA-Lab, University of Genoa
EPIROB2004	Genoa, Italy
EPIROB2004
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EPIROB2004	Extended Submission Deadline: March 21st, 2004
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This workshop focuses on combining developmental psychology,
neuroscience, biology, and robotics with the goal of understanding the
functioning of biological systems. Epigenetic systems, either natural
or artificial, share a prolonged developmental process through which
varied and complex cognitive and perceptual structures emerge as a
result of the interaction of an embodied system with a physical and
social environment.  Epigenetic robotics includes the two-fold goal of
understanding biological systems by the interdisciplinary integration
between neural and engineering sciences and, simultaneously, that of
enabling robots and artificial systems to develop skills for any
particular environment instead of programming them for specific
environments. To this aim, psychological theory and empirical evidence
should be used to inform epigenetic robotic models, and these models
should be used as theoretical tools to make experimental predictions
in developmental psychology.  We encourage the submission from
different disciplines such as robotics, artificial intelligence,
developmental psychology, biology or neurophysiology, as well as
interdisciplinary work bridging the gap between science and
engineering.


Subject Areas include, but are not limited to:

* The role of motivations, emotions, and value systems in development;

* The development of: concepts, consciousness and self-awareness,
emotion, imitation, intentionality, intersubjectivity, joint
attention, learning, motivation, non-verbal and verbal communication,
self, sensorimotor schemata, shared meaning and symbolic reference,
social learning, social relationships, social understanding ("mind
reading", "theory of mind"), value systems;

* Interaction between innate structure, ongoing developing structure,
and experience;

* Related issues in algorithms, robotics, simulated robots, and embodied
systems;

* Strong AI (true intelligence and autonomy) versus weak AI;

* Related issues from human and nonhuman empirical studies.


For summaries of the papers from the latest workshops see:
Zlatev and Balkenius (2001), Prince (2002), and Berthouze and Prince
(2003).

Please send any questions to the workshop co-chairs: 
Giorgio Metta (pasa at dist.unige.it) and Luc Berthouze
(Luc.Berthouze at aist.go.jp).

Sponsors
LIRA-Lab, University of Genoa, Italy
Communications Research Laboratory, Japan


Location
University of Genoa, Italy


Invited Speakers
        Luciano Fadiga, Dept. of Biomedical Sciences, University of
Ferrara, Italy
        Claes von Hofsten, Dept. of Psychology, University of Upssala,
Sweden
        Jrgen Konczak, Human Sensorimotor Control Lab, University of
Minnesota, USA
        Jacqueline Nadel, CNRS, University Pierre & Marie Curie, Paris,
France


Submissions
Papers not exceeding eight (8) pages should be submitted electronically
(PDF or 
Postscript) as attachment files to Luc Berthouze
(Luc.Berthouze at aist.go.jp). Extended 
abstracts (maximum two pages) can also be submitted, and will be
presented as posters 
(extended abstracts should also be submitted in PDF or Postscript as
attachments to 
Luc Berthouze (Luc.Berthouze at aist.go.jp). Further instructions to
authors will be 
posted on the workshop web page: http://www.epigenetic-robotics.org


Special issues
Authors of a selection of the best papers will be invited to submit an
extended 
version of their manuscript to one of two special issues on Epigenetic
Robotics to 
appear in Interaction Studies:
  http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_seriesview.cgi?series=IS
and the Cognitive Systems Research Journal:
  http://www.cecs.missouri.edu/~rsun/journal.html.


Important Dates
March 1st, 2004: 	Deadline for submission of papers and posters
March 21st, 2004:	Extended submission deadline
April 21st, 2004:	Notification of acceptance for papers and
posters
May 21st, 2004: 	Deadline for camera ready-papers & posters
August 25-27, 2004: 	Workshop



Organizing Committee
Christian Balkenius (Cognitive Science, Lund University, Sweden)
Luc Berthouze (Neuroscience Research Institute, AIST, Japan)
Hideki Kozima (Communications Research Laboratory, Japan)
Giorgio Metta (LIRA-Lab, University of Genoa, Italy)
Christopher G. Prince (Computer Science, University of Minnesota Duluth,
USA)
Giulio Sandini (LIRA-Lab, University of Genoa, Italy)
Georgi Stojanov (Computer Science Institute, SS Cyril and Methodius
University, Macedonia)


Program Committee
Christian Balkenius (Cognitive Science, Lund University, Sweden)
Luc Berthouze (Neuroscience Research Institute, AIST, Japan)
Aude Billard (Autonomous Systems Laboratory, EPFL, Switzerland)
Daniel Bullock (Cognitive & Neural Systems Department, Boston
University, USA)
Kerstin Dautenhahn (Adaptive Systems Research Group, University of
Hertfordshire, UK)
Yiannis Demiris (Intelligent and Interactive Systems, Imperial College,
UK)
Luciano Fadiga (University of Ferrara, Italy)
Peter Grdenfors (Cognitive Science, Lund University, Sweden)
Philippe Gaussier (Universite de Cergy-Pointoise & ENSEA, France)
Gyorgy Gergely (Institute for Psychological Research, Hungarian Academy
of Sciences, Hungary)
Frdric Kaplan (Sony Computer Science Lab Paris, France)
Hideki Kozima (Communications Research Laboratory, Japan)
Valerie Kuhlmeier (Yale University, Department of Psychology, USA)
Max Lungarella (Neuroscience Research Institute, AIST, Japan)
Yuval Marom (School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Monash
University, Australia)
Giorgio Metta (LIRA-Lab, Genoa, Italy)
Jacqueline Nadel (CNRS, France)
Chrystopher Nehaniv (Adaptive Systems Research Group, University of
Hertfordshire, UK)
Rolf Pfeifer (AI Lab, University of Zurich, Switzerland)
Christopher G. Prince (Computer Science, University of Minnesota Duluth,
USA)
Deb Roy (Media Laboratory, MIT, USA)
Giulio Sandini (LIRA-Lab, Genoa, Italy)
Brian Scassellati (Department of Computer Science, Yale University, USA)
Stefan Schaal (Computer Science Department, USC, USA)
Matthew Schlesinger (Psychology Department, Southern Illinois
University, USA)
Sylvain Sirois (Department of Psychology, Manchester University, UK)
Michael Spratling (School of Psychology, Birkbeck College, UK)
Georgi Stojanov (Computer Science Institute, SS Cyril and Methodius
University, Macedonia)
Gert Westermann (Department of psychology, Oxford Brookes University,
UK)
Tom Ziemke (Department of Computer Science, University of Skovde,
Sweden)


Publication of Papers & Poster Abstracts
Papers and poster abstracts will be published in the proceedings, and
archived at 
CogPrints (http://cogprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk).



REFERENCES

Zlatev, J. & Balkenius, C. (2001). Introduction: Why "epigenetic
robotics"? 
Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics: 
Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems (pp. 1-4). Lund
University 
Cognitive Studies, Volume 85.
Available at:
http://www.lucs.lu.se/Epigenetic-robotics/Papers/Zlatev.Balkenius.2001.p
df

Prince, C. G. (2002). Introduction: The Second International Workshop on

Epigenetic Robotics. In C. G. Prince, Y. Demiris, Y. Marom, H. Kozima, &

C. Balkenius (Eds.) Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on 
Epigenetic Robotics: Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems. 
Lund, Sweden: Lund University Cognitive Studies Volume 94.
Available at:
http://www.cprince.com/PubRes/EpigeneticRobotics2002/Prince-Intro.pdf

Weng, J., McClelland, J., Pentland, A., Sporns, O., Stockman, I., Sur,
M., 
& Thelen, E. (2001). Autonomous mental development by robots and
animals. 
Science, 291, 599-600. 
Available at: http://www.cse.msu.edu/dl/SciencePaper.pdf

Berthouze, L. and Prince, C. G. (2003). Introduction: The Third
International 
Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics. In C. G. Prince, L. Berthouze, H.
Kozima, 
D. Bullock, G. Stojanov, & C. Balkenius (Eds.) 
Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics:
Modeling 
Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems. Lund, Sweden: Lund University
Cognitive 
Studies Volume 101. 
Available at:
http://www.d.umn.edu/~cprince/epigenetic-robotics/2003/intro.pdf

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