[alife] Call for Papers: the Swarm Cognition Workshop

[Elio Tuci]

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Call for Papers: Swarm Cognition Workshop
(http://laral.istc.cnr.it/swarm-cognition/Main_Page)
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The workshop is part of the 31st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive
Science Society (CogSci 2009 -
http://cognitivesciencesociety.org/conference2009)

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Overview

Swarm Cognition" is the juxtaposition of two relatively unrelated
concepts that evoke, on the one hand, the power of collective
behaviours displayed by natural swarms, and on the other hand the
complexity of cognitive processes in the vertebrate brain. With this
premise, the Swarm Cognition Workshop aims at promoting synergies
between diverse disciplines such as cognitive neurosciences,
psychology, ethology and swarm intelligence. Research work in Swarm
Cognition aims at identifying the operational principles of cognitive
behaviour by calling upon the underlying mechanisms of self-organising
systems, i.e., systems whose internal organisation changes without
being guided by an outside source.

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Important Dates

Paper submission deadline: 1 June 2009
Notice of acceptance: 12 June 2009
Camera ready deadline: 3 July 2009
Workshop date: 29 July 2009

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Format

We expect and encourage submissions about either work in progress or
final results. Additionally, already published work recast into the
Swarm Cognition framework are also eligible for presentation at the
workshop. In this case, contributions should necessarily provide: (i)
an introductory section that explains how the presented research fits
within the Swarm Cognition approach, (ii) a summary of the most
significant results obtained and (iii) a conclusion section that
outlooks future studies on Swarm Cognition.
Full papers have no page limits, meaning that we accept submissions
from single to several pages. Nevertheless, all authors are encouraged
to explain how their work fits within the Swarm Cognition framework
and contributes to the progress on the important questions identified
for the workshop.

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Submissions

All formatting guidelines (including word and latex style files) and
submission instructions are available on the workshop submission page:
http://laral.istc.cnr.it/swarm-cognition/Submissions/

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Topics and goals

The originality of this workshop is marked by the following: (i)
addressing cutting edge Swarm Cognition research issues; (ii)
involving a truly interdisciplinary cooperation; (iii) hosting world
leading keynote speakers in the field. This workshop is envisioned as
being a first meeting on Swarm Cognition. As such, the issues which
the workshop will raise are of interest to a surprisingly diverse
array of specialities. In no particular order, the following come to
mind:
+ Cognitive science
+ Neurosciences
+ Situated agents
+ Bounded rationality
+ Neuroeconomics
+ Evolutionary game theory
+ Cognitive ethology
+ Neural computation and distributed representations
+ Distributed computation
+ Population biology
+ Swarm intelligence
+ Reinforcement learning
+ Adaptive control
+ Cultural evolution
+ Cognitive sociology

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Dissemination

The material presented at the workshop will be fully accessible
through the workshop web site. Authors of paper accepted for the “Swam
Cognition” workshop will be invited to submit in September/October
2009 an extended version for review for publication on a special issue
on Swarm Cognition of the Swarm Intelligence Journal (Springer Verlag,
seehttp://www.springer.com/11721).

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Workshop Chairs

Dr. Vito Trianni - Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technology, CNR,
Rome, Italy
Dr. Elio Tuci - Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technology, CNR, Rome,
Italy

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Program Committee

- Andrea Cavagna (Centre for Statistical Mechanics and Complexity and
Institute for Complex Systems, CNR-INFM, Rome, Italy)
- Nikolaus Correll (Distributed Robotics Lab , MIT CSAIL, Cambridge, MA)
- Iain D. Couzin (Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Princeton
University, NJ)
- Marco Dorigo (IRIDIA, ULB, Brussels, Belgium)
- Carlos Gershenson (VUB, Brussels, Belgium - New England Complex Systems
Institute, Cambridge, MA)
- Simon Garnier (Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Princeton
University, NJ)
- Paul Graham (CCNR, Univesitiy of Sussex, Brighton, UK)
- Takashi Ikegami (University of Tokyo, Japan)
- Laurent Keller (Department of Ecology and Evolution, UNIL, Lausanne,
Switzerland)
- Stefano Nolfi (ISTC, CNR, Rome, Italy)
- Frank Pasemann (Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrueck,
Germany)
- Andrew Philippides (CCNR, Univesitiy of Sussex, Brighton, UK)
- Matt Schlesinger (Psychology Department, Southern Illinois University,
Carbondale, IL)
- Mototaka Suzuki (Department of Neuroscience, Columbia University, New
York, NY)
- Jun Tani (Lab. for Behavior and Dynamic Cognition, RIKEN Brain Science
Institute, Wako-shi, Saitama, Japan)
- Guy Theraulaz (Centre de Recherches sur la Cognition Animale, CNRS and
Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France)
- Steffen Wishmann (LIS, EPFL - Department of Ecology and Evolution, UNIL,
Lausanne, Switzerland)