[alife] 2nd Call for abstracts: Workshop on Social Learning and Cultural Evolution at ALife XV, Cancún, Mexico, July 2016

[James Borg]

*** 2ND CALL FOR ABSTRACTS ***

First International Workshop on “Social Learning and Cultural
Evolution (SlaCE)” @ ALIFE XV in Cancun, Mexico, 4-8 July 2016.
http://www.climbinggiants.com/slace/index.html


*** Important Dates and Information ***
Submission deadline: 29th May, 2016
Notification of acceptance: 10th June, 2016
Submission website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=slace2016
Workshop website: http://www.climbinggiants.com/slace/index.html
Contact e-mail: slace2016 at easychair.org

*** Overview and Scope ***
The workshop aims to provide an interdisciplinary overview of the
fields of social learning and cultural evolution. By doing this we
hope to extend the scope of research in the social learning ALife
community to incorporate more interdisciplinary concepts and provide a
firm basis for interdisciplinary discussion and collaboration. We also
hope to provide a robust background for research on social learning
and cultural evolution from multiple perspectives. This is aimed to
help newcomers to the field in their initial research and to
invigorate established researchers in the field to re-consider the
bigger interdisciplinary questions of the field.

The workshop will consist of short presentations from contributors on
their work in the field (current or historical), collective research
goals and milestones in social learning and cultural evolution or new
concepts, modelling techniques or research questions.

*** Topics of Interests ***
Presenters are encouraged to address any of the following topics (this
list is not exhaustive):
- Social Learning Mechanisms
- Social Information Transfer
- The interaction between social and non social learning
- The interaction between learning and evolution
- Environmental Variability, Environmental Complexity, and Social Learning
- Social Learning Strategies
- Social Learning and Life History Evolution
- Models of Learning in Nature
- The Evolution of Culture
- Communication
- Social Networks and Social Contagion on networks
- Group structure and learning bias
- Social Robotics
- Grounded (Animat) models of Social Learning
- Do our definitions match those used in other related fields (i.e
Imitation, Culture, ...)
- Human Cultural Evolution (Cumulative Culture)
- Co-operation
- Gene-Culture Co-Evolution/ Dual Inheritance Theory
- Philosophy of Culture
- Memetics

*** Submission Details ***
We ask potential contributors to submit an extended abstract (1 page).
We are open to presenters who are contributing during the main ALife
conference to also talk about this work during the workshop in order
to have additional discussion. PhD students and young career academics
who are new to the field are encouraged to submit to this workshop.

Submission website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=slace2016
Workshop website: http://www.climbinggiants.com/slace/index.html
Contact e-mail: slace2016 at easychair.org

*** Organizers ***
Chris Marriott <dr.chris.marriott at gmail.com>,
Paul Smaldino <paul.smaldino at gmail.com>,
Peter Andras <p.andras at keele.ac.uk>,
James Borg <j.borg at keele.ac.uk>

*** Keynote Speakers ***
Dr. John Bullinaria (University of Birmingham)
Further keynote speakers to be announced soon

Kind Regards,
James, Chris, Peter and Paul

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 James Borg
 Teaching Fellow & PhD Candidate
 School of Computing and Mathematics
 Room CR122
 Colin Reeves Building
 Keele University
 Keele, Staffordshire
 United Kingdom, ST5 5BG
 Phone: (01782) 733415
 email: j.borg at keele.ac.uk
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