From jeedward at yahoo.com Fri May 14 16:01:37 2010 From: jeedward at yahoo.com (John Edward) Date: Fri May 14 15:33:35 2010 Subject: [DevRob] Call for papers : ARCS-10, USA, July 2010 Message-ID: <7973.70019.qm@web45915.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> It would be highly appreciated if you could share this announcement with your colleagues, students and individuals whose research is in automation, robotics, control engineering, and related areas. Call for papers : ARCS-10, USA, July 2010 The 2010 International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Control Systems (ARCS-10) (website: http://www.PromoteResearch.org ) will be held during 12-14 of July 2010 in Orlando, FL, USA. ARCS-10 is an important event in the areas of Automation, Robotics, Control Systems and related areas. The conference will be held at the same time and location where several other major international conferences will be taking place. The conference will be held as part of 2010 multi-conference (MULTICONF-10). MULTICONF-10 will be held during July 12-14, 2010 in Orlando, Florida, USA. The primary goal of MULTICONF is to promote research and developmental activities in computer science, information technology, control engineering, and related fields. Another goal is to promote the dissemination of research to a multidisciplinary audience and to facilitate communication among researchers, developers, practitioners in different fields. The following conferences are planned to be organized as part of MULTICONF-10. ? International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition (AIPR-10) ? International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Control Systems (ARCS-10) ? International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Genomics and Chemoinformatics (BCBGC-10) ? International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (CCN-10) ? International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems and Web Technologies (EISWT-10) ? International Conference on High Performance Computing Systems (HPCS-10) ? International Conference on Information Security and Privacy (ISP-10) ? International Conference on Image and Video Processing and Computer Vision (IVPCV-10) ? International Conference on Software Engineering Theory and Practice (SETP-10) ? International Conference on Theoretical and Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (TMFCS-10) MULTICONF-10 will be held at Imperial Swan Hotel and Suites. It is a full-service resort that puts you in the middle of the fun! Located 1/2 block south of the famed International Drive, the hotel is just minutes from great entertainment like Walt Disney World? Resort, Universal Studios and Sea World Orlando. Guests can enjoy free scheduled transportation to these theme parks, as well as spacious accommodations, outdoor pools and on-site dining ? all situated on 10 tropically landscaped acres. Here, guests can experience a full-service resort with discount hotel pricing in Orlando. We invite draft paper submissions. Please see the website http://www.PromoteResearch.org for more details. Sincerely John Edward -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://emergent.brynmawr.edu/pipermail/devrob/attachments/20100514/07ade2ab/attachment-0001.htm From juergen at idsia.ch Mon May 17 09:07:02 2010 From: juergen at idsia.ch (Schmidhuber Juergen) Date: Mon May 17 08:38:51 2010 Subject: [DevRob] Overview on intrinsic motivation / previous work? Message-ID: <586D9D80-ADBD-4F11-9CFF-959C33A81C1F@idsia.ch> Dear friends and colleagues, here is the draft of an overview submission on intrinsic motivation (IM) to IEEE TAMD: http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/ieeecreative.pdf The survey section IV discusses related work by others, and I'd like to improve it. Some of you may have done important work on IM which is still missing - if so, please send useful text fragments on this to juergen@idsia.ch (including sentences pointing out the relation to work by others), plus bibtex references, and tell me where in Section IV you feel this could be mentioned; I'll try to check / edit this, and add it where appropriate! This is rather urgent as I am a bit under deadline pressure here. Cheers, Juergen http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/interest.html Formal Theory of Creativity & Intrinsic Motivation (1990-2010): The simple but general formal theory of creativity and intrinsic motivation (1990-) is based on the concept of maximizing intrinsic reward for the creation or discovery of novel, surprising patterns allowing for improved prediction or data compression. It generalizes the traditional field of active learning, and is related to old but less formal ideas in aesthetics theory and developmental psychology. It has been argued that the theory explains many essential aspects of intelligence including autonomous development, science, art, music, humor. This overview first describes theoretically optimal (but not necessarily practical) ways of implementing the basic computational principles on explorative, intrinsically motivated agents or robots, encouraging them to provoke event sequences exhibiting previously unknown but learnable algorithmic regularities. Emphasis is put on the importance of limited computational resources for online prediction and compression. Discrete and continuous time formulations are given. Previous practical but non-optimal implementations (1991, 1995, 1997-2002) are reviewed, as well as several recent variants by others (2005-). A simplified typology addresses current confusion concerning the precise nature of intrinsic motivation.