Connectionists: [meetings] Call for Poster Abstracts: 2019 Joint IEEE Int. Conf. on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics: Deadline Extended

[Jim Tørresen]

Dear Colleagues,

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CALL FOR TWO-PAGE POSTER ABSTRACTS: 
9th Joint IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-EpiRob 2019)
19-22 August 2019, Oslo, Norway
Web page: https://icdl-epirob2019.org
An IEEE Computational Society sponsored conference

==== Important Dates ====
Submission deadline: April 14, 2019
Author notification: May 14, 2019
Camera ready due: June 1, 2019
Conference: August 19-22nd 2019

==== Overview ====  
ICDL-EpiRob is a unique conference gathering researchers from computer science, robotics, psychology and developmental studies to share knowledge and research on how intelligent biological and artificial systems develop sensing, reasoning and actions. This includes development of cognitive and social abilities through dynamic interactions with their physical and social environments. This is with a twofold objective: to gain a better understanding of human and animal intelligence, and to enable artificial systems with more adaptive and flexible behaviors. 

This will be the ninth time the conference is organized, and we invite submissions for the conference in 2019 to explore, extend, and  consolidate the interdisciplinary boundaries of this exciting research field.

==== Submissions ==== 
To encourage discussion of late-breaking results or for work that is not sufficiently mature for a full paper, we welcome 2-page abstracts. This gives authors the opportunity to present their latest research results to the community, and is also an opportunity for researchers new to the field to participate in the conference. Two-page poster abstracts should present work within the conference scope that is original and new. These submissions will NOT be included in the IEEE Xplore conference proceedings. Accepted abstracts will be presented during poster sessions. To submit a contribution, follow the link under ICDL-EPIROB 2019 here: https://ras.papercept.net/conferences/scripts/start.pl

==== Scope and  Topics ==== 
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
* principles and theories of development and learning;
* development of skills in biological systems and robots;
* nature vs nurture, developmental stages;
* models on the contributions of interaction to learning
* models on active learning
* architectures for lifelong learning;
* emergence of body and affordance perception;
* analysis and modelling of human motion and state
* models for prediction, planning and problem solving;
* models of human-human and human-robot interaction;
* emergence of verbal and non-verbal communication;
* epistemological foundations and philosophical issues;
* robot prototyping of human and animal skills
* ethics in computational intelligence and robotics 

==== Confirmed Keynote Speakers ====
Prof. Aude Billard, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Prof. Hod Lipson, Columbia University, USA
Prof. Michael J. Frank, Brown University, USA
Prof. Dr. Stefanie Höhl, University of Vienna, Austria
See https://icdl-epirob2019.org/keynotes/

==== Organizing committee ====
General  chairs:  Jim Torresen (University of Oslo, Norway  ) and Kerstin Dautenhahn (University of Waterloo, Canada/University of Hertfordshire, UK) 
Program chairs:  Kai Olav Ellefsen (University of Oslo) and Katharina J. Rohlfing (Paderborn University, Germany)
Finance / Website Chairs: Kyrre Glette and Charles Martin (University of Oslo)
Publicity  chairs: Bruno  Castro  da Silva (UFRGS, Brazil), Kazi Shah Nawaz Ripon (NTNU, Norway) and Ryo Kurazume (Kyushu University, Japan)
Bridge chair:  Tetsuya Ogata (Waseda University, Japan) and Emre Ugur (Bogazici University, Turkey)
Local chairs:  Bruno Laeng and Tor Endestad (University of Oslo)


Best regards from the organising committee, 
Bruno  Castro  da Silva, Kazi Shah Nawaz Ripon and Ryo Kurazume (Publicity chairs)
Kai Olav Ellefsen and Katharina J. Rohlfing (Program chairs)
Jim Torresen and Kerstin Dautenhahn (General  chairs)