Connectionists: [Meetings] Deadline extension - IEEE Int. Conf. Development and Learning (ICDL) 2025

Matej Hoffmann matej.hoffmann at fel.cvut.cz
Thu Mar 13 04:21:53 EDT 2025


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Dear colleagues,

Due to multiple requests, we are happy to grant a two-week extension of 
the submission deadline for the regular paper submissions and the 
workshop and tutorial proposal submission.

Full papers:March  28, 2025.

Workshop and tutorial proposals—deadline:March 28, 2025.


We would also like to draw your attention to the template which we have 
updated. Please kindly use this one: 
https://ras.papercept.net/conferences/support/support.php 
<https://ras.papercept.net/conferences/support/support.php>. If you have 
already submitted, you will be able to update it also during the 
camera-ready submission stage.


We are also happy to announce that the BabyBot and BabyObserve Challenge 
winners will receive a prize of 150$, sponsored by the IEEE RAS TC 
Cognitive Robotics.


Travel grants are available through IEEE CIS - see 
https://icdl2025.fel.cvut.cz/travel-grants/ 
<https://icdl2025.fel.cvut.cz/travel-grants/>.


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CfP  IEEE ICDL 2025

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https://icdl2025.fel.cvut.cz/ <https://icdl2025.fel.cvut.cz/>

16–19  September 2025 in Prague; Czechia

2025  IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL)

We  invite submissions to explore, extend, and consolidate the 
interdisciplinary boundaries of this exciting research field. In 
addition to the usual paper submission-selection process, we announce 
two Challenges:  the BabyBot  Challenge  that will award computational 
models that capture core aspects of specific psychology experiments and 
(new!!)  BabyObserve Challenge  that will foster the community’s 
discoveries in research related to the development of cognition and 
learning and go beyond what is currently in focus. Submissions that 
address both challenges at the same time are also welcome. There is a 
prize of 150$ for the winners of the challenges!

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Important  Deadlines

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Contributed  papers (6–8 pages)—extended deadline: March 28, 2025.

Workshop and tutorial proposals—extended deadline: March 28, 2025.

Journal  Track—deadline: April 1, 2025.

Late-breaking  results (1-page abstracts)—deadline: June 13, 2025.


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Speakers

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Jeff  Krichmar (University of California, Irvine, USA)

Masako  Myowa-Yamakoshi (Kyoto University, Japan)

Giulio  Sandini (IIT Genoa, Italy)

Tilbe  Göksun (Koç University, Turkey)

Josef  Šivic (CIIRC, CTU in Prague, Czechia)


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Topics

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ICDL

  is a unique conference gathering researchers from both computational 
science (including robotics, AI, cognitive architecture) and 
developmental studies (psychology, linguistics, anthropology, education, 
philosophy) for a fertile exchange sharing ideas, perspectives,  
knowledge, research findings on how humans and animals develop sensing, 
reasoning and actions, including interactive ecologies and how these 
capabilities can be implemented in computing (embodied) systems. This 
approach goes hand in hand with the goal of both  understanding human 
and animal development and how this can be applied to improve future 
intelligent technology including all kinds of artificial systems that 
will be in close interaction with humans.

Topics  of interest include (but are not limited to):

–  general principles and theories of development and learning;

–  embodied learning in biological systems and robots;

–  development of skills in biological systems and robots;

–  developmental stages and sensitive periods;

–  architectures for cognitive development and life-long learning;

–  emergence of body knowledge and affordance perception;

–  learning control of body movement;

–  (models of) curiosity, intrinsic motivations, exploration, play and 
active learning;

–  (models for) prediction, planning and problem solving;

–  developmentally-inspired machine learning;

–  applications of machine learning to human and animal development;

–  emotional development and the role of emotion in learning;

–  emergence of verbal and nonverbal communication;

–  metacognitive skills and the role of metacognitive learning and 
explicit communication;

–  (models of) human–human and human–system interaction;

–  epistemological foundations and philosophical issues;

–  the relationship between evolution and development;

–  ethics in modeling learning and development.


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Submission

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We  accept four types of research submissions.

The submissions are available through the PaperPlaza 
(https://ras.papercept.net/conferences/scripts/start.pl 
<https://ras.papercept.net/conferences/scripts/start.pl>)  system. 
Detailed instructions are at https://icdl2025.fel.cvut.cz/submission/ 
<https://icdl2025.fel.cvut.cz/submission/>.


Full  6-page paper submissions (up to  2 extra pages with additional 
charge)—deadline:March  28, 2025.

Papers of up to 6 pages in IEEE double column format will undergo 
peer-review, and accepted and presented submissions will be included in 
the conference proceedings published by IEEE Xplore. Up to two extra 
pages are acceptable for a publication fee of $100 per  page. Accepted 
papers will be invited for presentation either in oral or poster format 
Please make use of the template provided at 
https://ras.papercept.net/conferences/support/support.php 
<https://ras.papercept.net/conferences/support/support.php>

Workshop  and tutorial proposals—deadline:March 28, 2025.

Workshops  proposals can be submitted for one-day or half-day-workshop 
that will take place on the first day of the conference. The proposals 
should motivate the topic and provide a schedule.

Journal-track posters—deadline:April  1, 2025.

Journal  track poster submissions must be about a journal paper that has 
been published the March 2024 – March 2025 period (online ahead of print 
is fine) on a topic relevant to the conference.


Late-breaking  posters with 1-page abstract—deadline: June 13, 2025.

To  encourage discussion of late-breaking results or for work that is 
not sufficiently mature for a full paper, we will accept 1-page 
abstracts. These submissions will not be included in the conference 
proceedings. Accepted abstracts will be presented during the  poster 
session.


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BabyBot  Challenge Paper Award

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Babybot  Challenge papers are expected to establish a strong link 
between developmental psychology and robotics and/or computational 
modeling. Submissions will be judged by the following criteria:

–  How well does the computational model (e.g., an artificial system, 
which can be a robot, artificial system, or a software agent) represent 
the particular features of the experimental research addressed.

–  How closely the performance of the model replicates the experimental 
findings and how parsimonious is the model.

–  How explicit the model is about cognitive mechanisms and the

–  The extent of the novel insights or explanations generated by the 
model, and importantly whether the model make interesting and testable 
predictions.

We  encourage the authors to tag their submission for “Babybot 
Challenge” award during contributed paper submission, which would 
indicate that there is significant content that puts the paper in the 
spotlight of “Babybot Challenge”.

Prize for winner: 150 $.

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BabyObserve  Challenge Paper Award

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This  Challenge is new, and its intention is to foster the community’s 
discoveries in research related to the development of cognition and 
learning that go beyond what is currently in focus.

BabyObserve  Challenge papers are expected to introduce novel or “edge 
case” phenomena to the ICDL community from observations of child 
development, but also related mechanisms, interplays of skills, 
properties of (environmental and / or social) ecologies that promote  it.


Observations  can result in quantitative or qualitative research that is 
further described in the paper.

Submissions  will be judged by the following criteria:

–  How innovative is the phenomenon and why it is important for the ICDL 
community

–  How well is the phenomenon described to inspire computational models

–  How well is the phenomenon theoretically grounded or linked to the 
existing literature


We  encourage the authors to tag their submission for “BabyObserve 
Challenge” award during contributed paper submission, which would 
indicate that there is significant content that puts the paper in the 
spotlight of “BabyObserve Challenge”.

Prize for winner: 150 $.

General  chair: Matej Hoffmann

Program  chairs: Alessandra Sciutti, Emre Ugur, Katharina J. Rohlfing

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-- 
Matej Hoffmann, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Cybernetics
Faculty of Electrical Engineering
Czech Technical University in Prague
Karlovo namesti 13
121 35 Praha 2, Czech Republic
+420 224 357 387
https://sites.google.com/site/matejhof/home
https://cyber.felk.cvut.cz/humanoids
IEEE ICDL 2025 General Chairhttps://icdl2025.fel.cvut.cz/
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