Connectionists: CFP for Workshop on Memory and Learning Mechanisms in Autonomous Robots

[DaeEun Kim]

Call for Papers:

Workshop on Memory and Learning Mechanisms in Autonomous Robots
co-located with ECAL 2005 (European Conf. on Artificial Life)

http://www.ecal2005.org/workshops.html

The aim of this workshop is to explore how to process memory for
complex robotic tasks and how to represent/encode plasticity
in robot controllers.  The study of memory structure and the
development of new learning algorithms to model neuronal plasticity
are a central challenge for adaptive behaviour research. The
workshop aims to bring together researchers interested in these
topics to discuss new ideas and alternative solutions which might
open up yet unexplored research lines. We encourage the submission
of work which propose provocative new ideas, discuss controversial
aspects on memory and learning mechanisms for autonomous adaptive
agents.

The topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to:

 mechanisms for memory and learning
 neural plasticity
 neuromodulation
 spiking neural networks
 gas-net
 homeostatic networks
 representational / non-representational memory
 evolution of short / long term memory
 evolution of learning mechanisms
 reinforcement learning in non-Markovian environment
 forward model / cerebellar network


Important Dates

 Submission deadline: 15th May,  2005
 Notification date: 15th June, 2005
 Final date for camera-ready copies: 22nd, June, 2005


Organisers:

Dr. Elio Tuci,  IRIDIA, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Email: etuci at ulb.ac.be

Dr. DaeEun Kim, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain
Sciences, Germany
Email: daeeun at cbs.mpg.de


Program committee (confirmed)

 Dr. Marco Dorigo, IRIDIA, Universite Libre de Bruxelles
 Dr. Dario Floreano, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
 Dr. John C.T. Hallam, University of Southern Denmark
 Dr. Pier Luca Lanzi, Politecnico di Milano
 Dr. Ralf Moeller, University of Bielefeld
 Dr. Stefano Nolfi, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Tecnologies
 Dr. Ezequiel Di Paolo, University of Sussex
 Dr. Juergen Schmidhuber, Dalle Molle Inst. for Artificial Intelligence
 Dr. Tom Ziemke, University of Skoevde


You may find more information at
http://www.psy.mpg.de/home/kim/www/memory/memory_workshop.html

Thank you.





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DaeEun Kim

Cognitive Robotics
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Amalienstr. 33
80799, Munich
Germany
Tel) +49-89-38602-333
Fax) +49-89-38602-199
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