[PlanetKR] CFP BICA 2012: Palermo, Italy, October 31st - November 3rd

[Mary-Anne Williams]

Annual International Conference on Biologically Inspired Cognitive
Architectures (BICA)

Third Annual Meeting of the BICA Society

Palermo, Italy, October 31st - November 3rd


Sponsored by the BICA Society http://bicasociety.org and by the University
of Palermo http://portale.unipa.it


CALL FOR PAPERS


The challenge of creating a real-life computational equivalent of the human
mind, known as the BICA Challenge, calls for our joint efforts to develop
biologically-inspired intelligent agents that can be accepted and trusted
by the human society in various roles, on equal with human agents.The main
scope of BICA 2012 is to take a significant step forward towards the BICA
Challenge.


The topics of BICA 2012 will include (not limited to):

- models for the sense of presence in artifacts;

- the “critical mass” of a human-level learner;

- emotional competence and social intelligence;

- machine consciousness and BICA;

- models of perception, cognition and action;

- robust and scalable learning mechanisms;

- realistic neural networks for BICA;

- human-like episodic and semantic memory;

- metacognition in BICA;

- self-regulated, bootstrapped and meta-learning;

- language acquisition and symbol grounding;

- non conventional computational systems for BICA;

- the roadmap to the BICA Challenge.


Format: 2-tracks, 2-day conference with keynote lectures, paper
presentations, panel discussions and exhibits.


Submission categories are:

- short abstracts;

- extended abstracts;

- position papers up to 2 pages;

- research papers up to 6 pages.


Publication venue: Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, Springer

See Instructions for Authors http://www.springer.com/series/4240


Selected papers will be published in BICA Journal published by Elsevier and
International Journal of Machine Consciousness published by World
Scientific.


Critical dates:

June 1st: submission deadline (Springer template mandatory);
June 30th: notification of acceptance;
July 15th: camera ready papers due;
October 31st: pre-conference workshops and reception;
November 1 - 2: BICA 2012 conference;
November 3rd: excursion in the surroundings of Palermo.

Venue: Grand Hotel Piazza Borsa, Palermo, Italy

http://www.piazzaborsa.it


Confirmed invited talks:

Karlheinz Meier (University of Heidelberg, Germany)

Giorgio Ascoli (George Mason University, Washington, USA)

Igor Aleksander (Imperial College, London, UK)

Alexei Samsonovich (George Mason University, Washington, USA)

Michele Migliore (National Research Council, Palermo, Italy)

Kristinn R. Thórisson (Reykjavik University, Iceland)

Pentti Haikonen (University of Illinois at Springfield, USA)


General Chair:

Antonio Chella (University of Palermo, Italy)

Program Chairs:

Kamilla Jóhannsdóttir (Reykjavik University, Iceland),
Roberto Pirrone (University of Palermo, Italy)

Local Organization Chair:

Rosario Sorbello (University of Palermo, Italy)


Organizing Committee:
Igor Aleksander (Imperial College, London, UK)
Ronald Arkin (Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA)
Raul Arrabales (Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, Spain)
Stan Franklin (The University of Memphis, USA)
Ashok K Goel (Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA)
Pentti Haikonen (University of Illinois at Springfield, USA)
Owen Holland (University of Sussex, Brighton, UK)
Christian Lebiere (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA)
Alexandr Letichevsky (Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics, Ukraine)
Riccardo Manzotti (IULM University, Milan, Italy)
Michele Migliore (National Research Council, Palermo, Italy)
David Noelle (University of California, Merced, USA)
Alexei Samsonovich (George Mason University, Washington, USA)
Ricardo Sanz (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain)
Brandon Rohrer (Sandia National Laboratories, USA)
Junichi Takeno (Meiji University, Japan)
Rodrigo Ventura (Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal)
Mary Anne Williams (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia)


Information about BICA 2012 can be found at http://bicasociety.org/2012/
We are looking forward to seeing you in Palermo! Vi aspettiamo!




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Professor Mary-Anne Williams
Associate Dean (Research and Development)
Director, Innovation and Enterprise Research Lab
Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology
University of Technology, Sydney
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Research and Development Office
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*P.O. 123 Broadway NSW 2007 Australia
Phone: + 61 2 9514 2663 (Gunasmin)
Facsimile: + 61 2 9514 2868
http://innovation.it.uts.edu.au/Mary-Anne
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