Connectionists: [CfP, extended deadline] ICDL-EpiRob 2011, 11th April

[Pierre-Yves Oudeyer]

Call for Papers – Call for Tutorials and Special Sessions
IEEE CONFERENCE ON DEVELOPMENT AND LEARNING, AND EPIGENETIC ROBOTICS
IEEE ICDL-EPIROB 2011
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
August 24—27, 2011
www.icdl-epirob.org

Conference description
The past decade has seen the emergence of a new scientific field that
studies how intelligent biological and artificial systems develop
sensorimotor, cognitive and social abilities, over extended periods of
time, through dynamic interactions of their brain and body with their
physical and social environments. This field lies at the intersection
of a number of scientific and engineering disciplines including
Neuroscience, Developmental Psychology, Developmental Linguistics,
Cognitive Science, Computational Neuroscience, Artificial
Intelligence, Machine Learning, Robotics, and Philosophy. Various
terms have been associated with this new field such as Autonomous
Mental Development, Epigenetic Robotics, Developmental Robotics, etc.,
and several scientific meetings have been established. The two most
prominent conferences of this field, the International Conference on
Development and Learning (ICDL) and the International Conference on
Epigenetic Robotics (EpiRob), are now joining forces and invite
submissions for a joint meeting in 2011, to explore and extend the
interdisciplinary boundaries of this field.


Keynote speakers
Andrew Barto, University of Massachusetts Amherst,
Jean Mandler (overview talk), University of California, San Diego
Erin Schuman, Max Planck Insitute for Brain Research, Framkfurt am Main
Michael Tomasello, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig


Call for papers
We invite submissions for this exciting window into the future of
developmental sciences. Submissions which establish novel links
between brain, behavior and computation are particularly encouraged.

Topics of interest include – but are not limited to:
·	The development and emergence of perceptual, motor, cognitive,
emotional, social, and communicational skills in biological systems
and robots
·	General principles of development and learning
·	Neural and behavioral plasticity
·	Grounding of knowledge and development of representations
·	Biologically inspired architectures for cognitive development and
open-ended development
·	Models of emotionally driven behavior
·	Mechanisms of intrinsic motivation, exploration and play
·	Embodied cognition: Foundations and applications
·	Social development in humans and robots
·	Use of robots in applied settings such as autism therapy
·	Epistemological approaches to Epigenetic / Developmental Robotics

Submissions will be accepted in two categories:
Full six-page papers: Accepted manuscripts will be included in the
conference proceedings published by IEEE. They will be selected for
either an oral presentation or a featured poster presentation at the
conference; featured posters will have a 1 minute "teaser"
presentation as part of the main conference session. For articles
requiring more than six pages, up to two additional pages may be
submitted at an extra charge.

Two-page poster abstracts: The aim of this format is to encourage
dissemination of late-breaking results or work that is not
sufficiently mature for a full paper. These submissions will NOT be
included in the conference proceedings (but the short abstracts will
appear online at Frontiers in Neurorobotics
http://www.frontiersin.org/neurorobotics/about). Accepted abstracts
will be presented during the evening poster sessions.

Manuscripts should be submitted through the online conference
management system, available at the conference website
www.icdl-epirob.org. For the paper preparation, follow the
instructions at the conference website.

Call for tutorials
We invite experts in different areas to organize a 3-hour tutorial,
which will be held on the first day of the conference. Participants in
tutorials are asked to register for the main conference as well.
Tutorials are meant to provide insights into specific topics as well
as overviews that will inform the interdisciplinary audience about the
state-of-the-art in child development, neuroscience, robotics, or any
of the other disciplines represented at the conference.

Submissions (max. two pages) should be sent no later than March 28th
to Katharina Rohlfing (kjr at uni-bielefeld.de) and Ian Fasel
(ianfasel at cs.arizona.edu) including:
- Title of tutorial
- Tutorial speaker(s), including short CVs;
- Concept of the tutorial; target audience or prerequisites.

All proposals submitted will be subjected to a review process.


Call for special sessions
A special session will be an opportunity to present a topic in depth,
for which format a slot of 1.5 hours will be offered. Special session
organizers are invited to submit (1) a summary (250 words) describing
the topic, purpose and target audience of the session as well as (2)
abstracts of papers (each 250 words) that will constitute the group of
presentations. It is suggested that a special session includes three
oral presentations to allow for sufficient presentation and discussion
time. A discussant (from another discipline) may be added to the
special session.

Tutorial and Special Session proposals should be sent no later than
March 28th to Katharina Rohlfing (kjr at uni-bielefeld.de) and Ian Fasel
(ianfasel at cs.arizona.edu).

All proposals submitted will be subjected to a review process.

Abstract and Paper Submission Deadline:	April 11, 2011
Notification Due:				May 30, 2011
Final Version Due:				June 20, 2011
Conference:					August, 24—27, 2011

Child-care
For families, child-care services will be provided. Please contact
Katharina Rohlfing (kjr at uni-bielefeld.de) concerning your interest in
child-care services by June 14. The detailed organization will be
planned according to the needs.

Organizing Committee
General Chairs: Angelo Cangelosi (Plymouth, UK) and Jochen Triesch
(FIAS, Frankfurt, Germany)
Program Chairs: Ian Fasel (University of Arizona, USA) and Katharina
Rohlfing (Bielefeld University, Germany)
Publications Chair: Francesco Nori (IIT Genova, Italy)
Publicity Chairs: Pierre-Yves Oudeyer (INRIA Bordeaux, France),
Matthew Schlesinger (Southern Illinois University, USA), Yukie Nagai
(Osaka University, Japan)
Treasurer: Gisbert Jockenhoeffer (FIAS Frankfurt, Germany)

Program Committee
Minoru Asada, Osaka University, Japan
Christian Balkenius, Lund University, Sweden
Tony Belpaeme, University of Plymouth, UK
Luc Berthouze, University of Sussex, UK
Angelo Cangelosi, University of Plymouth, UK
Eliana Colunga, University of Colorado, USA
Rick Dale, University of Memphis, USA
Kerstin Dautenhahn, University of Hertfordshire, UK
Gedeon Deak, University of California San Diego, USA
Kerstin Fischer, University of Southern Denmark
Anna Fisher, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Christian Goerick, Honda Research Institute, Germany
Lakshmi Gogate, Florida Gulf Coast University, USA
Roderic Grupen, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
Stephen Hart, Italian Institute of Technology, Genoa
Birger Johansson, Lund University, Sweden
Susan Jones, Indiana University, USA
Stefan Kopp, Bielefeld University, Germany
Benjamin Kuipers, University of Michigan, USA
Karl F. MacDorman, Indiana University, USA
Giorgio Metta, University of Genoa and IIT, Italy
Takashi Minato, Osaka University, Japan
Joseph Modayil, University of Alberta, Canada
Clayton Morrison, University of Arizona, USA
Yukie Nagai Osaka, University, Japan
Lorenzo Natale, Italian Institute of Technology, Italy
Tim Oates, University of Maryland Baltimore County
Pierre-Yves Oudeyer, INRIA, France
Katharina Rohlfing, Bielefeld University, Germany
Erol Sahin, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Brian Scassellati, Yale University, USA
Mattew Schlesinger, Southern Illinois University, USA
Jürgen Schmidhuber, University of Lugano, Switzerland
Alessandra Sciutti, IIT, Italy
Jeff Siskind, Purdue University, USA
Nathan Sprague, Kalamazoo College, USA
Jun Tani, RIKEN, Japan
Juyang Weng, Michigan State University, USA
Heiko Wersing, Honda Research Institute, Germany
Britta Wrede, Bielefeld University, Germany
Chen Yu, Indiana University, USA
Hui Zhang, Indiana University, USA
Zhengyou Zhang, Microsoft Research, USA
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