[alife] Extended Deadline: Organisation, Cooperation and Emergence in Social Learning Agents Workshop (ECAL 2009)

[Dara Curran]

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***** EXTENDEND DEADLINE: 7th July 2009 *********

 

CALL FOR PAPERS

 

ORGANISATION, COOPERATION AND EMERGENCE IN SOCIAL LEARNING AGENTS

 

A EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICAL LIFE (ECAL 2009) WORKSHOP

 

BUDAPEST, HUNGARY, September 2009.

 

web: http://www.4c.ucc.ie/ECAL2009/

mail: d.curran at cs.ucc.ie

 

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INTRODUCTION

 

Social learning describes the process whereby an individual acquires 

information from another in a non-genetic manner. There has been much 

recent research on social learning in simulated agents spanning the 

initial conditions favourable to their evolution, the evolution of 

communication systems and some initial research on the impact of social 

learning on the performance of coordinated agents. This research has 

taken the form of robotic language games, agent-based simulations, game 

theoretic approaches and experiments with embodied robotic agents.

 

However, there are many issues regarding the impact of social learning 

which merit further exploration. In particular, the emergent effects of 

social learning on societies in terms of organisation and cooperation 

are still new areas of important research with great potential for 

furthering our understanding of such effects in natural systems.

 

This workshop will provide a venue for the dissemination and discussion 

of research spanning theoretical biology, multi-agent systems, game 

theory and artificial life.

 

 

OBJECTIVES

 

The main aims of this workshop will be to:

 

* Attempt to understand how social learning can lead to the emergence of 

  organised behaviour. In essence, can the addition of social learning 

  to an evolutionary system lead to more complex organised societies capable 

  of solving problems more efficiently?

 

* Analyse how social behaviour can lead to cooperative behaviour and what 

  conditions are necessary for the spread and survival of socially transmitted 

  cooperative norms.

 

* Understand how various approaches can impact the success or failure of social 

  learning to acheive these goals.

 

 

CALL FOR PAPERS

 

Contributions invited addressing one or more of the following topics (the list is 

not exhaustive) are invited:

 

* Social learning and coordination

* Social learning and cooperation

* Altruism and social learning

* Emergence of organisation and social structures

* Impact of social learning on evolutionary systems

* Communication and language

* The impact of topology

* Social hierarchies

* Kin selection

* Reputation and tags

 

 

ORGANISING COMMITTEE

 

Dara Curran, University College Cork

Colm O'Riordan, National University of Ireland, Galway

 

 

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

 

Michael Luck (King's College London, UK)

Laurent Keller, (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)

Dara Curran (University College Cork, Ireland)

Nathan Griffiths (University of Warwick, UK)

Federico Divila (Pablo de Olavide University Spain)

Angelo Cangelosi (University of Plymouth, UK)

Jason Noble (University of Southampton, UK)

Stefano Nolfi (Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies CNR, Italy)

Colm O’Riordan (NUI, Galway, Ireland)

Karl Tuyls (Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands)

Katja Verbeeck (University of Ghent, Belgium)

Daniel Kudenko (University of York, UK)

Paul Vogt (Tilburg University, Netherlands)

 

 

SUBMISSIONS

 

Papers have a maximum 8 page length.   

 

Each submission will be subject to full peer review. A selection of the best papers 

will be invited to submit to a special section of the Journal of Artificial Societies 

and Social Simulation (http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/).

 

Please format your paper using the Springer LNCS style.

 

Submissions should be sent to d.curran at cs.ucc.ie

 

 

IMPORTANT DATES

 

Submissions deadline: 07/07/2009

Notification of acceptance: 07/08/2009

Workshop begins: September (between the 12th and 17th)