[alife] Call for Papers ADAPCOG2008 - Modelling Adaptive and Cognitive Systems

[Angelo Loula]

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  MODELLING ADAPTIVE AND COGNITIVE SYSTEMS (ADAPCOG 2008)

  www.artificial.eng.br/adapcog08.htm

  Call for Workshop Papers (CFP)

  MODELLING ADAPTIVE AND COGNITIVE SYSTEMS (ADAPCOG 2008)

  at SBIA/SBRN/JRI Joint Conference, www.sbia2008.ufba.br,

  October 26-30, 2008, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

  What are the mechanisms underlining the emergence of cognitive and
  adaptive processes? What kind of theoretical and empirical constraints
  must we consider to model and simulate these processes in artificial
  agents and systems? How can processes and representations be
  meaningful to artificial agents? These are some of the questions that
  building and simulating computational models can help answer.

  Artificial Life, Animats, Synthetic Ethology, Evolutionary Robotics
  and Computational Semiotics are some of the interdisciplinary areas of
  research involved in the synthetic design of artificial cognitive
  systems and creatures. These areas have been designing artificial
  environments that work as experimental labs, where it is possible to
  test the predictions derived from theoretical models, and provide us
  with opportunities to specify theories with computational formalisms.
  Moreover, it provides a new generation of more flexible and robust
  artificial systems able to interact with an unpredictable dynamical
  world, thus ever more 'intelligent' technological artifacts.

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

  *Topics
  The workshop seeks contributions in topics within computational models
  and experiments involving adaptive and cognitive systems. Topics of
  interest for this special track on cognitive systems include among
  others:
  -       Adaptive behavior modeling and simulation
  -       Evolution of complex adaptive behavior
  -       Artificial Life, Animats, Robotics and multi-robots models
  -       Agent-based models of biological systems and processes
  -       Artificial systems as models of biological processes
  -       Biosemiotic processes and systems
  -       Modeling of meaning and information processing
  -       Representation and symbol grounding
  -       Emergence, Complexity and Self-organization
  -       Epistemological and Methodological issues

  It is of special interest of this workshop, computer models and
  simulations of cognitive processes inspired by biological/empirical
  motivations. Researchers dealing  with issues related with representation
  in artificial systems (e.g. symbol grounding, language, meaning) are
  particularly encourage to  submit contributions to the workshop.

  *Important Dates

  June 25, 2008  - Submission Deadline
  July 25, 2008  - Notification to authors
  August 15, 2008 - Camera-ready copies of papers
  October 26-30, 2008  - Joint Conference SBIA/SBRN/JRI 2008
  October 26-30, 2008  - ADAPTCOG 2008

  *Submission Instructions

  You are invited to submit papers to the upcoming Workshop on Modelling
  Adaptive and Cognitive Systems. Papers must be written in English and
  may have a length of up to 10 pages, including tables, figures, and
  references. Like the main conference, papers must conform to the
  Springer LNCC/LNAI style.  It  is  recommended  that authors  use
  Springer-Verlag  template  files  (see
  http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html, section    "Proceedings
  and    Other    Multi-author Volumes"  for  formatting instructions)
  to  minimize possible conflicts of paper length when preparing the
  camera ready.

  Papers  should  be  formatted  in  PDF  (preferred)  or PostScript,
  and    submitted    electronically only, through  the  JEMS Conference
  Management  System web site at
  [https://submissoes.sbc.org.br/sbia2008].

  Submission  is  a  three-step  process.  In  a  first  step authors
  are required to register as new authors with JEMS. After registration
  as author the login data will be sent to the specified email address.
  This data can be  used  to  access  the  system.  In  a  second  step
  authors have to register their paper (click the submit paper  button
  in  JEMS).  The  third  step  consists  on uploading the paper.
  Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by at  least two program
  committee members and/or additional reviewers/referees.

  Accepted   papers   will   be   made   public   in   the website
  (abstracts only) and published in the Proceedings of  the  Workshops
  of  the SBIA-SBRN-JRI  2008, on CD-ROM (full papers). Selected papers
  will be invited to submit an extended version to be published in a
  tentative special issue of an international journal to be announced.

  Any  other  questions  regarding  papers  submission may be directed
  to one of the organizers.

  *Chairs
  Angelo Loula
  angelocl  AT ecomp.uefs.br, www.artificial.eng.br
  DEXA, State University of Feira de Santana (UEFS), Feira de Santana,
BA, Brazil
  DCA/FEEC, State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, SP, Brazil

  João Queiroz
  queirozj AT ecomp.uefs.br, www.semiotics.pro.br
  Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), Salvador, BA, Brazil
  Graduate Studies Program on History, Philosophy and Science Teaching
  (UFBA/UEFS)