[alife] Extended deadline for Epigenetic Robotics 2006: April 17th
Pierre-Yves Oudeyer
py at csl.sony.fr
Mon Apr 3 08:47:39 PDT 2006
In response to many requests, we are pleased to announce a deadline
extension to submit to Epigenetic Robotics 2006.
Epigenetic Robotics 2006, 20-22 September 2006, Paris, France
EXTENDED DEADLINE: April 17th, 2006
Sixth International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics:
Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems
website: http://www.epigenetic-robotics.org
<http://www.epigenetic-robotics.org/>
contact information: epirob06 at csl.sony.fr <mailto:epirob06 at csl.sony.fr>
Location: Hopital de la Salpêtrière, Paris, France
Keynote speakers 2006
Karen Adolph (Psychology Dpt, New York University, USA)
Andrew Barto (Computer Science Dpt, University of Massachusetts Amherst,
USA)
Philippe Rochat (Psychology Dpt, University of Emory, USA)
Gregor Schoener (Institut für Neuroinformatik, Ruhr-Universität-Bochum,
Germany)
Bruno Wicker (Institut de Neurosciences Cognitives de la Mediterranée,
France)
Conference themes
In the past 5 years, the Epigenetic Robotics annual workshop has
established itself as a unique place where original research combining
developmental sciences, neuroscience, biology, and cognitive robotics
and artificial intelligence is being presented.
Epigenetic systems, either 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 includes the two-fold goal of understanding
biological systems by the interdisciplinary integration between social
and engineering sciences and, simultaneously, that of enabling robots
and artificial systems to develop skills for any particular environment
instead of programming them for solving particular goals for the
environment in which they happen to reside.
Psychological theory and empirical evidence is being used to inform
epigenetic robotic models, and these models should be used as
theoretical tools to make experimental predictions in developmental
psychology.
This year we particularly encourage research resulting from actual
interdisciplinary collaboration.
Epigenetic Robotics themes include, but are not limited to:
* The development of: emotion, 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 scope and limits of maturation, the mechanisms of open-ended
development;
* The mechanisms of stage formation and stage transitions;
* The epistemological foundations of using robots to study development;
* The role of motivations, emotions, and value systems in development;
* Interaction between innate structure, ongoing developing structure,
and experience;
* The interplay between embodiment, learning biases and environment;
* The differences between learning and development;
* Algorithms for self-supervision, autonomous exploration,
representation making, and methods for evolving new representations
during ontogeny;
* Robots that can undergo morphological changes and how they can be used
to study the interplay between cognitive and morphological development;
Important Dates
April 17th, 2006: Deadline for submission of papers and posters
May 22th, 2006: Notification of acceptance for papers and posters
July 17th, 2006: Deadline for camera ready-papers & posters
September 20-22, 2006: Epirob 2006
Modes of submission
(1) Regular Submission (8-page max). After review, regular submission
will either be accepted or rejected (No revision as short papers or posters)
(2) Abstract Submission where authors submit one-page abstract. After
the review, selected authors will be invited to present a poster.
Posters will be allocated 1 or 2 pages in the Proceedings.
Submission instructions will be available from the EpiRob
website: http://www.epigenetic-robotics.org
<http://www.epigenetic-robotics.org/>
Related Scientific Events
On September 19, a day before EpiRob 2006 , an international symposium
on autism will be organized at the Hopital La Salpétrière
>From September, 25 to September, 30, the week just after EpiRob 2006,
The Ninth International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive
Behavior (SAB'06) (SAB'06) will be organized in Rome (http://www.sab06.org/)
Social and Cultural Events
A special banquet on a boat will be organized as well as several
cultural events including a guided visit to the Natural History Museum
and Le Louvre.
Organizing Committee 2006
Christian Balkenius (Cognitive Science, Lund University, Sweden)
Luc Berthouze (Neuroscience Research Institute, AIST, Japan)
Philippe Gaussier (Neurocybernetics team, ETIS CNRS, Cergy Pontoise
University, France)
Frédéric Kaplan (Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris, France)
Hideki Kozima (National Institute of Information and Communications
Technology, Japan)
Jacqueline Nadel (Hopital de la Salpêtrière, CNRS, France)
Pierre-Yves Oudeyer (Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris, France)
Christopher G. Prince (Computer Science Dpt, University of Minnesota
Duluth, USA)
Arnaud Revel (Neurocybernetics team, ETIS CNRS, ENSEA, France)
Program Committee 2006
Pierre Andry (Neurocybernetics team, ETIS CNRS, Cergy Pontoise
University, France)
Minoru Asada (Dpt of Mechanical Engineering, Osaka University, Japan)
Christian Balkenius (Cognitive Science, Lund University, Sweden)
Douglas Blank (Computer Science Dpt, Bryn Mawr College, USA)
Alexander Bernardino (Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa, Portugal)
Luc Berthouze (Neuroscience Research Institute, AIST, Japan)
Nadia Berthouze (Computer Science Dpt, Aizu University, Japan)
Mark H. Bickhard (Psychology Dpt, Lehigh University)
Aude Billard (Autonomous Systems Lab, EPFL, Switzerland)
Lola Canamero (Adaptive Systems Research Group, University of
Hertfordshire, UK)
Robert Clowes (Center for Research in Cognitive Science, University of
Sussex, UK)
Kerstin Dautenhahn (Adaptive Systems Research Group, University of
Hertfordshire, UK)
Yiannis Demiris (Intelligent and Interactive Systems, Imperial College, UK)
Luciano Fadiga (University of Ferrara, Italy)
Simone Fiori (Faculty of Engineering, Perugia University, Italy)
Paul Fitzpatrick (CSAIL, MIT, USA)
Philippe Gaussier (Neurocybernetics team, ETIS CNRS, Cergy Pontoise
University, France)
Lakshmi Gogate (SUNY Health Science Center at Brooklyn, USA)
George Hollich (Infant Language Lab, Purdue University, USA)
Frédéric Kaplan (Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris, France)
Annette Karmiloff-Smith (Institute of Child Health, UC London, UK)
Benjamin Kuipers (Computer Science Dpt, University of Texas, USA)
Hideki Kozima (National Institute of Information and Communications
Technology, Japan)
Max Lungarella (Dpt of Mechano-Informatic, University of Tokyo, Japan)
Yuval Marom (School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Monash
University, Australia)
Lisa Meeden (Swarthmore college, USA)
Giorgio Metta (LIRA-Lab, Genoa, Italy)
Jacqueline Nadel (Hopital de la Salpêtrière, CNRS, France)
Yukie Nagai (National Institute of Information and Communications
Technology, Japan)
Chrystopher Nehaniv (Adaptive Systems Research Group, University of
Hertfordshire, UK)
Pierre-Yves Oudeyer (Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris, France)
Christopher G. Prince (Computer Science Dpt, University of Minnesota
Duluth, USA)
Arnaud Revel (Neurocybernetics team, ETIS CNRS, ENSEA, France)
Giulio Sandini (LIRA-Lab, Genoa, Italy)
Brian Scassellati (Computer Science Dpt, Yale University, USA)
Matthew Schlesinger (Psychology Dpt, Southern Illinois University, USA)
Sylvain Sirois (Psychology Dpt, Manchester University, UK)
Georgi Stojanov (Computer Science Institute, SS Cyril and Methodius
University, Macedonia)
Gert Westermann (Psychology Dpt, Oxford Brookes University, UK)
Tom Ziemke (School of Humanities & Informatics, University of Skovde,
Sweden)
For more information contact epirob06 at csl.sony.fr
<mailto:epirob06 at csl.sony.fr>
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