From jeedward at yahoo.com Tue Feb 5 14:53:17 2008 From: jeedward at yahoo.com (John Edward) Date: Tue Feb 5 14:53:31 2008 Subject: [DevRob] Draft paper submission deadline is extended: ARCS-08 Message-ID: <800192.88081.qm@web45903.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> Dear Colleagues and Friends Kindly share the announcement below with those who may be interested: thank you in advance. Sincerely John Edward ARCS-08 Draft paper submission deadline is extended The 2008 international Conference on Automation, Robotics and Control Systems (ARCS-08) (website: www.PromoteResearch.org ) will be held during July 7-10 2008 in Orlando, FL, USA. We invite draft paper submissions and the deadline for submission is extended until February 19 2008 due to several requests from the authors. The conference will be held at the same time and place where several major events (please see below) are taking place. Sincerely John Edward ? International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition (AIPR-08) ? 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URL: http://emergent.brynmawr.edu/pipermail/devrob/attachments/20080205/dff924ed/attachment.htm From giovanni.pezzulo at istc.cnr.it Wed Feb 20 06:58:38 2008 From: giovanni.pezzulo at istc.cnr.it (Giovanni Pezzulo) Date: Tue Feb 26 15:32:20 2008 Subject: [DevRob] CFP: ABiALS 2008 - The fourth workshop on Anticipatory Behavior in Adaptive Learning Systems Message-ID: Apologies for any multiple copies received. CALL FOR (EXTENDED) ABSTRACTS: ============================================================================ ========== The fourth workshop on Anticipatory Behavior in Adaptive Learning Systems ABiALS 2008 26 June 2008, Munich http://www.psychologie.uni-wuerzburg.de/ABiALS/ (In collaboration with the euCognition Meeting "The Role of Anticipation in Cognition") Deadline for *four-pages abstract* submission: 14 April 2008 Full papers will be published as post-proceedings in the Springer LNAI series ============================================================================ ========== This year, ABiALS invites submission of four-pages (EXTENDED) ABSTRACTS to be discussed (or shown as posters) during the workshop. Abstract submissions should be sent electronically via email in pdf or ps format to: giovanni.pezzulo@istc.cnr.it, indicating in the subject line "ABiALS2008 submission". Submitted abstracts should have a maximal length of FOUR PAGES in 10pt, one-column format. Please use the LNCS Springer-Verlag style at http://www.springeronline.com/comp/lncs/authors.html. Abstracts will be reviewed for acceptance by the program committee and the organizers. After the workshop, *authors of accepted abstracts will be invited to submit a full paper* (up to 20-pages) for post-proceedings publication in the Springer LNAI series, as has been done in 2002 and 2006. Objectives ---------- ABiALS is an interdisciplinary workshop investigating the influence of anticipations on behavior and learning. ABiALS is designed to help investigate how anticipations can influence, initiate, and guide behavior and learning as well as how anticipatory influences can be implemented in an adaptive learning system. In ABiALS 2008, expertise of researchers from various disciplines including neuroscience, cognitive psychology, machine learning, artificial intelligence, control, and vision research are combined to shed further light on the concept of anticipation. Essentially, it is investigated how knowledge about the future influences actual behavior, including influences on attention, action decision making and control, as well as (behavioral and model) learning. Key interests include: ---------------------- -Anticipatory mechanisms and representations for model learning -Model-predictive, adaptive control architectures -Anticipatory, adaptive systems / agents -Distinctions of anticipatory mechanisms -Anticipatory mechanisms in animals and humans List of Topics -------------- -Behavioral psychological and neuroscientific insights on anticipatory behavior and future-oriented capabilities. -Anticipatory functionalities and neural substrates for anticipatory mechanisms in the brain. -Anticipations in decision making and goal-directed behavior. -Trade-off between simple stimulus-response vs. more complex anticipatory driven behavior. -Exploiting anticipations to direct or speed-up motor learning. -Anticipatory mechanisms in motor learning and motor control. -Anticipatory speed-up of sensory processing. -Curiosity and novelty detection during learning and behavior. -Epistemic actions for directed information search and directing attention. -Modular integration of anticipatory mechanisms in cognitive system architectures. -Suitability of predictive representations for anticipatory mechanisms. -Hierarchical predictive and anticipatory architectures. -Anticipations in interaction with motivations and emotions. -Social anticipatory capabilities. -Evolutionary development from reactive to anticipatory capabilities. Important dates --------------- Deadline for abstract submission: 14 April 2008 Notification of acceptance: 14 May 2008 Final version of abstract due: 1 June 2008 ABiALS 2008 Workshop: 26 June 2008 Full paper submission for post-proceedings publication: mid/end September Venue ----- ABiALS 2008 will be held in collaboration with the Fifth Six-Monthly euCognition Meeting "The Role of Anticipation in Cognition" http://www.eucognition.org/six_monthly_meeting_5.htm Venue: Room K13 Municon - Munich Airport Conference Centre (to be confirmed) Important notice ---------------- We are applying for designing ABiALS 2008 as a "euCognition Official Event". In this way euCognition members would be eligible to have all their travel and accommodation costs reimbursed. Applying for euCognition membership is free and very easy. More information will appear soon in the ABiALS website http://www.psychologie.uni-wuerzburg.de/ABiALS/ Program Committee ----------------- We are contacting again the members of the ABiALS 2006 program committee: Christian Balkenius, Edoardo Datteri, Oliver Herbort, Pier Luca Lanzi, Ralf Moeller, Tony Prescott, Jesse Reichler, Alexander Riegler, Deb Roy, Samarth Swarup, Stewart W. Wilson. Organizers ---------- Giovanni Pezzulo Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC)-CNR, Via S. Martino della Battaglia 44, I-00185 Rome, Italy. Martin V. Butz Dep. of Psychology, University of W?rzburg, R?ntgenring 11, 97070 W?rzburg, Germany Olivier Sigaud AnimatLab, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6 (Lip6), 104 avenue de Pr?sident Kennedy, 75016 Paris, France Gianluca Baldassarre Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC)-CNR, Via S. Martino della Battaglia 44, I-00185 Rome, Italy.