[alife] [CALL FOR PAPERS] IEEE Trans. on Cognitive System and Development: Special Issue on Cognitive Agents and Robots for Human-Centred Systems Special Issue on Cognitive Agents and Robots for Human-Centred Systems

[Dr Alessandro Di Nuovo]

[Apologies for multiple postings of this announcement]

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CALL FOR PAPERS

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Call for papers for a Special Issue on Cognitive Agents and Robots for
Human-Centred Systems: New models, methods and successful applications.



The special issue will be published in the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COGNITIVE
SYSTEM AND DEVELOPMENT (new name of IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTONOMOUS MENTAL
DEVELOPMENT)



IMPORTANT DATES

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* Paper submission deadline: 15 January 2016 (extended)

* First notification to authors: 15 May 2016

* Submission of revised papers: 30 June 2016

* Final acceptance: 31 August 2016

* Estimated publication: December 2016.



GUEST EDITORS

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Alessandro Di Nuovo, Plymouth University, UK & University of Enna Kore,
Italy (Lead GE)

Giovanni Acampora, Nottingham Trent University, UK

Matthew Schlesinger, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, USA



GENERAL AIM

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Next generation of Human-Centred Robotic Systems will coexist harmoniously
with people in composite environments. This requires the design of novel
autonomous cognitive systems that are able to develop a level of cognition
and motor intelligence that will provide autonomy in any environment
(household or industrial), effective interaction with humans, and
adaptation of their actions to an ever-growing range of open, dynamic
situations. These artificial cognitive systems will be able to reason,
behave and interact in a human-like fashion and develop the ability to
function effectively in circumstances not explicitly planned when the
system was designed. They are expected to be able to learn and predict
perceptual and functional changes, that result as a consequence of human
actions, and replicate human activities taking into consideration their own
capabilities and limitations. This ability makes it especially suited to
control complex systems, such as robots, which are designed to provide
services and proactively interact with people.

The aim of this special issue is to collect innovative research and
developments investigating all the aspects of modelling and applying
Cognitive Agents and Robots in Human-Centric environments, such as novel
engineering principles, models and applications of cybernetic systems
capable to autonomously progress their capabilities in an open-ended
process while socially interacting with human beings or with other
artificial agents in a real environment to benefit humans.



TOPICS OF INTERESTS

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A focus on developmental aspects of cognition, broadly conceived, and
highly interdisciplinary research works are especially encouraged. We would
like to collect work drawing on knowledge from artificial intelligence,
psychology, sociology, neuroscience, robot engineering, and related
domains. In particular, we encourage submissions on neural computation and
cognitive robotics models of sensorimotor, cognitive and social development
inspired by our understanding of human development. These include
evolutionary and developmental models of the origins of intrinsic
motivation, perceptual and motor development, social learning and
interaction, imitation, acquisition of communicative and linguistic skills,
and reasoning.

   The special issue particularly welcomes all the contributions in the
area of Artificial Cognitive Systems applied to human-centric environments,
with particular interest (but not limited to) the following topics:

* The development of perceptual, motor, cognitive, emotional, social, and
communication skills in artificial systems and robots

* Computational models of human cognition and interaction

* Engineering applications of Developing Cognitive Systems

* Use of robots in applied human-centred settings

* Epistemological foundations and philosophical issues.

* Artificial Agent cognitive development

* Natural language understanding

* Standard tools for the design of Cognitive Systems

* Medical Systems and Diagnosis

* Serious Games Theory and Applications

* Evolutionary Robotics

* Cognitive Systems for human wellbeing

* Ambient Assisted Living via Cognitive Agents

* Architectures for cognitive development and open-ended learning



SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

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We are accepting submissions through Manuscript Central at:
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tamd-ieee (please select the special issue
as the submission type)

Authors should mention that "this paper is for the special issue on
Human-Centred Systems" as a note to the Editor at the time of submission
through manuscript central.

Instructions for authors: http://ieee-cis.org/pubs/tamd/authors/

It is anticipated that the journal is going to change the name in IEEE
Transactions on Cognitive Systems and Development, please be advised that
the submission website will be updated accordingly.



For more information, please contact Alessandro Di Nuovo at
alessandro.dinuovo at plymouth.ac.uk