[alife] Call for chapters - Semiotics and Intelligent Systems Development

[Angelo Conrado Loula]

-- Call for Chapters --

"Semiotics and Intelligent Systems Development"
A book edited by Ricardo Gudwin and João Queiroz
http://www.dca.fee.unicamp.br/projects/artcog/book2/
* Chapter proposal deadline: April 15, 2005

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

Introduction:

/Semiotics/ is a field of research involved in the study of signs and
meaning processes, from the point of view of formal sciences,
linguistics, and philosophy. The ideas and concepts from semiotics are
used by different researchers, as a source of insights, within computer
science. Our aim with this book is to present different works that
attempt to put together semiotics and AI techniques in order to create
new kinds of intelligent systems. This interdisciplinary area, based on
investigations of sign processes and dedicated to the development of
artificial intelligent systems, is dubbed /Computational/ /Semiotics/.
It proposes a new kind of approach to intelligent control and
intelligent systems, where an explicit account for the notion of sign is
prominent. This focus on the notion of sign processes allows the
inheritance of a large body of theory developed under the scope of
semiotics studies that are put into service in order to help artificial
intelligence walk through new frontiers and bridge theoretical gaps that
have disturbed artificial intelligence studies for quite some time.
In this volume, we aim at presenting the most representative research
projects in /Computational Semiotics/. Considering the relevance of
Computational Semiotics for future developments in Artificial
Intelligence, we envision that this is going to be the major
contribution of this work. Even though the main developments in the area
stayed apart from the mainstream for about 25 years, during the last
decade, it began to attract the attention of a growing number of
researchers, being the foundation for new kinds of theoretical
frameworks and technologies.

The Overall Objective of the Book

This book intends to propagate theoretical frameworks about the use of
signs and sign systems in different research being conducted by
investigators from different fields around the world. We hope it will be
the first wide-scope account of the field of Computational Semiotics,
not focusing particularly on any of the different approaches proposed
until now, but giving the reader the opportunity to contemplate the many
tendencies in the field. Our intention is that the reader, after reading
this book, will gain a clear vision of the field as a whole, will be
able to understand why it is attracting the attention of the leading
edge of the community involved in AI, and will know the main challenges
and promises associated with it.

The Target Audience

Due to its inherited multi-disciplinary aspect, this book may have a
diverse audience composed of different communities.  The audience may
involve researchers from areas such as Computer Science, Artificial
Intelligence, Artificial Life, Cognitive Science, Semiotics, and
Philosophy.

Recommended topics include but are not limited to the following:

* formal theoretical discussions regarding sign systems
* simulation of meaning processes
* semiotic cognitive information processes
* organizational semiotics
* sign processing in autonomous agents
* GFACS and other semiotic operators
* general architectures of semiosis in artificial systems
* general architectures of intelligence based on semiotics
* applications of computational semiotics
* semiotics and the knowledge sciences
* methodological aspects of computational semiotics
* semiotics in control systems
* semiotics and knowledge representation
* semiotics and computational linguistics
* semiotics and information systems
* semiotics and evolutionary systems
* semiotics and artificial life
* semiotics, complexity and emergence

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before April
15, 2005, a 2-5 page manuscript proposal clearly explaining the mission
and concerns of the proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will
be notified by May 15, 2005 about the status of their proposals and sent
chapter organizational guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be
submitted by August 15, 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 <http://www.idea-group.com/>, publisher
of the Idea Group Publishing, Information Science Publishing, IRM Press,
CyberTech Publishing and Idea Group Reference imprints.

Important Dates

*     April 15, 2005: Proposal submission deadline
*     May 15, 2005: Notification of Acceptance
*     August 15, 2005: Full chapters are due
*     October 15, 2005: Notification about needed revisions
*     November 15, 2005: Revised chapters due
*     December 31, 2005: Final accepted chapters and disks

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

Ricardo Gudwin and João Queiroz
{gudwin, queirozj)@dca.fee.unicamp.br
Editors of "Semiotics and Intelligent Systems Development" 
http://www.dca.fee.unicamp.br/projects/artcog/book2/
DCA/FEEC/UNICAMP
Av. Albert Einstein - 400
Caixa Postal 6101
Campinas (SP)  13083-970
Brazil
Phones: +55 (19) 3788-3819, +55 (19) 3788-3706
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