Connectionists: Call for Papers for the BICA 2014 Symposium on "Neural-Symbolic Networks for Cognitive Capacities"

[Kai-Uwe Kuehnberger]

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Call for Papers for the
== BICA 2014 Symposium on Neural-Symbolic Networks for Cognitive 
Capacities ==


= WEBPAGE =

https://sites.google.com/site/bica2014nsncc/


= SCOPE =

Researchers in artificial intelligence and cognitive systems modelling 
continue to face foundational challenges in their quest to develop 
plausible models and implementations of cognitive capacities and 
intelligence. One of the methodological core issues is the question of 
the integration between sub-symbolic and symbolic approaches to 
knowledge representation, learning and reasoning in cognitively-inspired 
models.

Network-based approaches very often enable flexible tools which can 
discover and process the internal structure of (possibly large) data 
sets. They promise to give rise to efficient signal-processing models 
which are biologically plausible and optimally suited for a wide range 
of applications, whilst possibly also offering an explanation of 
cognitive phenomena of the human brain.
Still, the extraction of high-level explicit (i.e. symbolic) knowledge 
from distributed low-level representations thus far has to be considered 
a mostly unsolved problem.

In recent years, network-based models have seen significant advancement 
in the wake of the development of the new "deep learning" family of 
approaches to machine learning. Due to the hierarchically structured 
nature of the underlying models, these developments have also 
reinvigorated efforts in overcoming the neural-symbolic divide.

The aim of the symposium is to bring together recent work developed in 
the field of network-based information processing in a cognitive 
context, which bridges the gap between different levels of description 
and paradigms and which sheds light onto canonical solutions or 
principled approaches occurring in the context of neural-symbolic 
integration to modelling or implementing cognitive capacities.


= TOPICS =

We particularly encourage submissions related to the following 
non-exhaustive list of topics:

- new learning paradigms of network-based models addressing different 
knowledge levels
- biologically plausible methods and models
- integration of network models and symbolic reasoning
- cognitive systems using neural-symbolic paradigms
- extraction of symbolic knowledge from network-based representations
- challenging applications which have the potential to become benchmark 
problems
- visionary papers concerning the future of network approaches to 
cognitive modelling


= DATES & SUBMISSIONS =

The deadlines for submissions, author feedback, etc. are bound to the 
normal BICA 2014 deadlines (and, thus, are also subject to the same 
changes and extensions). Please also have a look at 
http://bicasociety.org/meetings/2014/cfp/ for possibly updated dates and 
deadlines.

The current schedule is:
- Paper submission due: May 26, 2014
- Paper review feedback: June 14, 2014
- Final papers due: August 1, 2014

Submissions can either be made in form of 500-word abstracts or as up to 
6-page papers.

For details on the submission process, formats, etc., please refer to 
the BICA 2014 Call for Papers ( 
http://bicasociety.org/meetings/2014/cfp/ ) and the BICA 2014 submission 
guidelines ( http://bicasociety.org/meetings/2014/submission/ ).


= SYMPOSIUM CO-CHAIRS =

- Terrence C. Stewart, Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience, University 
of Waterloo, Canada
- Tarek R. Besold, Institute of Cognitive Science, University of 
Osnabrück, Germany


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