[alife] Call for Chapters - Artificial Cognition Systems

[Angelo Conrado Loula]

-- Call for Chapters --

"Artificial Cognition Systems"

A book edited by Angelo Loula, Ricardo Gudwin and João Queiroz

http://www.dca.fee.unicamp.br/projects/artcog/book/

* Chapter proposal deadline: October 30, 2004

(Please feel free to forward this Call to any colleague or associate, that 
might be interested in the subject of this book.)

Introduction

How could sign processes be meaningful to the artificial agents and 
systems? This is a recent major issue concerning experiments in 
artificial intelligence and cognitive science. An early regard about 
it was the statement of the symbol grounding problem. It has been 
suggested that situatedness and embodiment are a first step towards 
the development of grounded meaningful processes. But most of these 
approaches rely on low-level cognitive processes, bringing up the 
question of how could higher-level ones be comprised and how would 
they interact with lower-level ones. It has been claimed that formal 
theoretical support, such as from semiotics, especially when 
associated to biologically inspired approaches, is one fertile 
framework that accounts for the modeling and simulation of the 
emergence and the development of different levels of meaning 
processes. Bringing in a formal theoretical support and biologically 
inspired approaches to computational experiments dealing with meaning 
processes is a promising venture in the research of artificial systems 
and agents, specially in the study of learning, adapting and evolving 
autonomous agents, like epigenetic robotics, evolutionary robotics, 
artificial life and simulations in adaptive behavior. 

The Overall Objective of the Book

This book intends to propagate theoretical frameworks about meaning 
processes and high-level cognitive processes to those starting to be 
acquainted with the recent approaches to artificial agents and 
systems, and also to those already familiar but seeking further 
information about it. Besides, it will gather recent research efforts 
concerning the development of new artificial systems, specially 
biologically inspired artificial agents, focusing particularly on 
their development of meaning processes. Researchers from diverse 
fields will be invited to contribute to this project, as many others 
will be asked to respond to call for contributions, trying to identify 
recent research efforts. The growing research effort towards the 
attainment of different meaning processes by artificial systems has 
been constantly presenting new scientific and technological advances 
to the artificial intelligence area. This book will present the most 
promising accomplishments in this direction. 

The Target Audience

Due to its inherited multi-disciplinarity, this book may have a 
diverse audience composed of different communities. This audience 
involves researchers from areas such as:  Computer Science, Artificial 
Intelligence, Artificial Life, Cognitive Robotics, Computational 
Neuroscience,  Computational Linguistics, Cognitive Science, 
Semiotics, and Philosophy.


Recommended topics include but are not limited to the following:
* Formal theoretical discussions  
* Embodiment and situatedness 
* Meaningful adaptive behaviors
* Interactions between high and low level cognition 
* Emergence of meaning processes
* Biologically inspired agents 

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before 
October 30, 2004, a 2-5 page manuscript proposal clearly explaining 
the mission and concerns of the proposed chapter. Authors of accepted 
proposals will be notified by November 30, 2004 about the status of 
their proposals and sent chapter organizational guidelines. Full 
chapters are expected to be submitted by March 30, 2005. All submitted 
chapters will be reviewed on a blind review basis. The book is 
scheduled to be published by Idea Group, Inc., www.idea-group.com, 
publisher of the Idea Group Publishing, Information Science 
Publishing, IRM Press, CyberTech Publishing and Idea Group Reference 
imprints.

Important Dates
*     October 30, 2004: Proposal submission deadline 
*     November 30, 2004: Notification of Acceptance
*     March 30, 2005: Full chapters are due
*     June 15, 2005: Notification about needed revisions
*     August 25, 2005: Revised chapters due
*     October 30, 2005: Final accepted chapters and disks


Inquiries and Submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word 
document) or by mail to:

Angelo Loula, Ricardo Gudwin and João Queiroz
{angelocl, gudwin, queirozj)@dca.fee.unicamp.br
Editors of "Artificial Cognition Systems"

http://www.dca.fee.unicamp.br/projects/artcog/book/

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