From ianfasel at cs.arizona.edu Sun Jul 4 17:27:54 2010 From: ianfasel at cs.arizona.edu (Ian Fasel) Date: Sun Jul 4 16:56:29 2010 Subject: [DevRob] Call For Participation: IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning 2010 Message-ID: <48177583-BDBB-4402-AF1E-AC4EAE0CD46E@cs.arizona.edu> Call For Participation IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DEVELOPMENT AND LEARNING 2010 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor USA 18-21 August 2010, Ann Arbor, USA http://www.icdl-2010.org This is an invitation to attend the Ninth IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning 2010. The conference will be composed of a single track with 4 keynote addresses, 24 oral paper presentations, 30 full paper posters, and poster highlights. ICDL-2010 will be held at the Rackham Building, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA, 18-21 August 2010. Registration is required to attend. See below for: A. General Information B. Topical Scope C. Registration Information D. Student Travel Scholarships for Full-Time Students E. Keynote Addresses F. Detailed Congress Schedules/Programs G. Location of ICDL 2010 H. List of Co-Sponsors of ICDL 2010 We look forward to seeing you in August. General Co-Chairs Professor Benjamin Kuipers, University of Michigan Professor Thomas Shultz, McGill University Program Co-Chairs Professor Alexander Stoytchev, Iowa State University Professor Chen Yu, Indiana University http://www.eecs.umich.edu/icdl-2010/committee.html A. General Information: http://www.icdl-2010.org B. Topical Scope: The goal of the Ninth IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning is to bring together leading researchers in robotics, machine learning, neuroscience, and developmental psychology, in order to gain new insights about learning and development in natural organisms and robots. The scope of developmental processes to be considered is broad, including cognitive, social, emotional, and many other skills exhibited by humans and other animals. C. Registration Information: http://eecs.umich.edu/icdl-2010/registration.htm D. Financial Assistantship for full-Time Students: http://eecs.umich.edu/icdl-2010/grants.html Thanks to a generous gift from Microsoft Research, we can offer up to eight (8) student travel scholarships of $200 each, for graduate students attending ICDL-2010. (If additional funds become available, we may make more and/or larger awards.) The awards will be made, and funds distributed, at the conference. To apply, please send a hardcopy letter to Prof. Benjamin Kuipers, University of Michigan, Computer Science & Engineering Division, 2260 Hayward Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109. The letter should be on your university letterhead. Please provide: - your name - mailing address - email address - whether you are the author of a paper or poster to be presented - your estimated travel expenses for attending ICDL - a signed endorsement by your advisor The letter must be received by July 20, 2010. E. Keynote Addresses: http://www.icdl-2010.org F. Detailed Conference Schedules/Programs: http://eecs.umich.edu/icdl-2010/program.html G. Location of ICDL: http://eecs.umich.edu/icdl-2010/venue.html H. List of Co-Sponsors of ICDL 2010: http://www.eecs.umich.edu/icdl-2010/home.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://emergent.brynmawr.edu/pipermail/devrob/attachments/20100704/34e5ede4/attachment.htm From matthews at siu.edu Mon Jul 19 16:19:35 2010 From: matthews at siu.edu (Matthew Schlesinger) Date: Mon Jul 19 15:47:07 2010 Subject: [DevRob] EPIROB deadline moved to July 22 Message-ID: FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS ****** EXTENDED DEADLINE ****** ** Submission Deadline: July 22, 2010 ** TENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EPIGENETIC ROBOTICS: Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems Sweden, November 5-7, 2010 Confirmed speakers: Lola Ca?amero Her main research interests center around the study of adaptive intelligent behavior, which she is exploring with artificial autonomous creatures. Her focus is motivated behavior and social interactions, with particular emphasis on the role(s) that emotional phenomena play in them. To celebrate the tenth international conference on Epigenetic Robotics, the conference will be held at ?ren?s castle. As a participant you will have opportunity to feel the historic atmosphere of nature where the sea meets land, where the grandeur is joined with simplicity and where yesterday meets tomorrow. A delicious traditional goose dinner will be served at the conference dinner which is something that no one should miss! We are certain that as a participant at epigenetic robotics you will have a great conference with high quality research and an interesting and stimulating environment for discussions. http://www.epigenetic-robotics.org Epigenetic systems, whether natural or artificial, share a prolonged developmental process through which varied and complex cognitive and perceptual structures emerge as a result of the interaction of an embodied system with a physical and social environment. Epigenetic robotics has the twofold goal of understanding biological systems by the interdisciplinary integration between social/life and engineering sciences and, simultaneously, that of enabling robots and other artificial systems to autonomously develop skills for any particular environment (instead of programming them to solve particular goals for a specific environment). Interdisciplinary theory and empirical evidence are used to inform epigenetic robotic models, and these models can be used as theoretical tools to make experimental predictions in developmental psychology and other disciplines studying cognitive development in living systems. Submissions are welcome regarding all aspects of the study of cognitive development, including (but not limited to): - The roles of and interactions among motivation, emotion, and value systems in development - The development of emotional competencies and systems - The development of "social skills", such as imitation, synchrony processing, intersubjectivity, joint attention, intentionality, non-verbal and verbal communication, sensorimotor schemata, shared meaning and symbolic reference, social learning, social relationships, social cognition ("mind reading", "theory of mind") - The role of play in emotional, social, and cognitive development - The development of verbal and non-verbal communication - Links between (the development of) expression and communication - Architectures for autonomous development - Dynamical systems models of emotional, social, and cognitive development - The scope and limits of maturation, the mechanisms of open-ended development - The mechanisms of stage formation and stage transitions - Interaction between innate structure, ongoing developing structure, and experience - The interplay between embodiment, learning biases and environment - Algorithms for self-supervision, autonomous exploration, representation making, and methods for evolving new representations during ontogeny - Philosophical and social issues of development - The epistemological foundations of using robots to study development - The use of robots as theoretical tools (e.g., to make predictions) in the study of development in biological systems - The use of robots in applied settings (e.g., autism therapy) to study development in biological systems - Robots that can undergo morphological changes and how they can be used to study interplays among social, emotional, cognitive and morphological development SUBMISSION INFORMATION: ----------------------------------------- EpiRob10 will accept submissions in two categories: long papers (presenting more mature research ideas and results) or short abstracts (presenting more preliminary / ongoing work). Manuscripts submitted as long papers should have a maximum length of 8 pages using the usual EpiRob format (former SAB template modified for A4 paper). Manuscripts submitted as abstracts should have a maximum length of 2 pages using the usual EpiRob format. The style files for LaTeX are available in zip format and in tar format on the EpiRob10 website, where you can also find a Word style file. All submissions must be in PDF format (A4 paper). Accepted long papers will have oral presentations at the conference. Accepted abstracts will be presented as posters. Authors of accepted abstracts will also have the opportunity to make a brief oral presentation during a Poster Spotlight session. All submissions and camera-ready papers and abstracts should be sent as email attachments in PDF format (only) to: info@epigenetic-robotics.org IMPORTANT DATES: ----------------------------- July 22, 2010: Papers and abstracts submission deadline. September 7, 2010: Acceptance notification. September 28, 2010: Camera-ready versions of accepted papers and abstracts due in electronic format. November 5-7, 2010: Conference dates. Regards, EpiRob10 Committee