Connectionists: Deadline Extended to August 12 – Call for Extended Abstracts – WWIN 2026 Workshop @ SAB 2026

[Mehdi Khamassi]

(Apologies for cross-posting)

Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that the submission deadline for the first 
international workshop *“Wanting What is Needed: From Homeostatic 
Control to Adaptive Behavior”*has been extended to *August 12, 2026*.

The workshop will be held on October 19 in Berlin, Germany, as part of 
The 18th International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior 
(SAB 2026).

Workshop website:https://wwin-workshop.github.io/sab2026
<https://wwin-workshop.github.io/sab2026>Keywords (including but not 
limited to): internal states, homeostasis, allostasis, reinforcement 
learning, decision making, robotics, adaptive behavior

======================================

Aims of the workshop

======================================

Classical reinforcement learning and cognitive models often begin with 
externally specified rewards. Biological organisms, by contrast, are 
autonomous learning agents whose behavior is constrained by the need to 
sustain their own viability. This workshop asks how internal 
physiological regulation can ground decision-making, value formation, 
and motivated behavior.

We aim to foster a shared interdisciplinary conversation across machine 
learning, artificial intelligence, robotics, neuroscience, biology, 
physiology, ethology, and control theory. The goal is to clarify how 
homeostatic and allostatic regulation can contribute to adaptive 
behavior in both biological organisms and artificial agents.

======================================

Invited speakers

======================================

* Lilian A. Weber (Osnabrück University)

* Lola Cañamero (CY Cergy Paris University)

* Antonio Damasio (University of Southern California, online)

======================================

Extended abstracts for lightning talks and posters

======================================

* Extended abstracts of up to 3 pages (main text)

* References, appendices, and acknowledgements are not included in this 
limit

* Springer LNCS style (template available on the workshop website)

======================================

Important dates

======================================

* Extended Abstract Submission Deadline: August 12, 2026

* Notification of Acceptance: August 19, 2026

* Workshop Date: October 19, 2026 (afternoon)

We welcome contributions from researchers working across the biological 
and artificial sciences and look forward to receiving your submissions.

Best regards,
Mehdi Khamassi
CNRS / Sorbonne Université

On behalf of the organizing committee:

Naoto Yoshida — Kyoto University
Ismael Freire — Sorbonne Université
Boris Gutkin — École Normale Supérieure
Henning Sprekeler — Technical University of Berlin
Louis L’Haridon — ENSEA / CNRS
Lola Cañamero — CY Cergy Paris University
Mehdi Khamassi — CNRS / Sorbonne Université


-- 
Mehdi Khamassi, PhD, HDR
Research director (DR2), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Institute of Intelligent Systems and Robotics, Sorbonne Université
ISIR - BC 173, 4 place Jussieu, 75005 Paris, France
phone: +33 6 50 76 44 92
email:mehdi.khamassi at sorbonne-universite.fr
https://pages2.isir.upmc.fr/mkhamassi/

Co-director of the master's program in cognitive science (https://cog-sup.fr)
Sorbonne Université / Université Paris Cité

Visiting Researcher at the Institute of Communication and Computer Systems
National Technical University of Athens, Greece
https://robotics.ntua.gr/people/
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu/pipermail/connectionists/attachments/20260806/15984db2/attachment.html>