Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 16:47:29 +0100
From: Paul Vogt
Subject: Re: Conference announcement

This one is there too. Unfortunately with an overlapping date...

************** AISB 2005 CONVENTION ******
>
> Social Intelligence and Interaction in Animals, Robots and Agents
>
> CALL FOR SYMPOSIUM PROPOSALS
>
> ************** DEADLINE: 31 July 2004 *********
>
> The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of
> Behaviour (AISB) is pleased to announce its forthcoming convention and
> to invite proposals for the Symposia which will largely constitute the
> event.
>
> DATES: from 12-15 April 2005 inclusive
>
> LOCATION: University of Hertfordshire, de Havilland Campus, Hatfield,
> England
>
> WEBSITE: aisb2005.feis.herts.ac.uk (to be updated regularly)
>
> FORMAT: up to ten serial/parallel Symposia on AI or Cognitive Science
> topics preferably related to the overall Convention theme of Social
> Intelligence and Interaction in Animals, Robots and Agents
>
> CONVENTION CHAIRS, ORGANIZERS and LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS:
> Kerstin Dautenhahn (General chair, K.Dautenhahn@...)
> Chrystopher Nehaniv (Vice-chair)
>
> Local Organizing Committee:
> Rene te Boekhorst
> Lola Canamero
> Kerstin Dautenhahn
> Chrystopher Nehaniv
> Daniel Polani
>
> ***********************************************************************
> THE AISB'05 SYMPOSIA
>
> By default an AISB'05 Symposium will last for two days within the four
> days of the Convention. However, we will also consider proposals for
> one-day and three-day Symposia.
>
> Each Symposium will have a Programme Chair, who will be responsible for
> administration of the programme, recruiting a programme committee,
> arranging the refereeing of extended abstracts for presentation of
> papers at the event, and collecting full papers for a pre-proceedings.
> It
> is hoped that each Symposium programme chair will try to arrange for
> post-Convention publication of revised papers from the Symposia in the
> form
> of book, special journal issue, etc. Given that the name of the Society
> includes the phrase "Simulation of Behaviour'' we welcome Symposia that
> have a Cognitive Science or interdisciplinary flavour as opposed to a
> more
> narrowly Artificial Intelligence flavour.
>
> ***********************************************************************
> OTHER ASPECTS OF THE CONVENTION
>
> We plan for there to be approximately four invited plenary keynote
> talks.
>
> ***********************************************************************
> CONVENTION THEME:
> SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE AND INTERACTION IN ANIMALS, ROBOTS AND AGENTS
>
> Humans are above all social animals. For artificially intelligent
> systems,
> can it be otherwise?
>
> Intelligence in humans and other animals has many facets and is
> expressed
> in a variety of ways in how the individual in its lifetime - or a
> population on an evolutionary timescale - deals with, adapts to, and
> co-evolves with the environment. Traditionally, social or emotional
> intelligence has been considered different from a more problem-solving
> oriented view of human intelligence. However, more and more evidence
> from a
> variety of different research fields highlight the important role of
> social
> and emotional intelligence across all facets of intelligence in humans.
>
> The Convention theme Social Intelligence and Interaction in Animals,
> Robots
> and Agents reflects a current trend towards increasingly
> interdisciplinary
> approaches that are pushing the boundaries of traditional science and
> are
> necessary in order to answer deep questions regarding the social
> nature of
> intelligence in humans and other animals, as well as to address the
> challenge of synthesizing computational agents or robotic artifacts
> that
> show aspects of biological social intelligence. Exciting new
> developments
> are emerging from collaborations among computer scientists,
> roboticists,
> psychologists, sociologists, cognitive scientists, primatologists,
> ethologists and researchers from other disciplines, e.g. leading to
> increasingly sophisticated simulation models of socially intelligent
> agents, or to a new generation of robots that are able to learn from
> and
> socially interact with each other or people. Such interdisciplinary
> work
> advances our understanding of social intelligence in nature, and leads
> to
> new theories, models, architectures and designs in the domain of
> Artificial
> Intelligence or other sciences of the artificial. New advancements in
> computer and robotic technology facilitate the emergence of multi-modal
> "natural" interfaces between computers or robots and people, including
> embodied conversational agents or robotic pets/assistants/companions
> that
> we are increasingly sharing our home and work space with. People tend
> to
> create relationships with such socially intelligence artifacts, and are
> even willing to accept them as helpers in healthcare, therapy or
> rehabilitation. Thus, socially intelligent artifacts are becoming
> part of
> our lives, including many desirable as well as possibly undesirable
> effects, and Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science research can
> play an important role in addressing many of the huge scientific
> challenges involved. Keeping an open mind towards other disciplines,
> embracing work from a variety of disciplines studying human as well as
> non-human animals, might help create artifacts that might not only do
> their
> job, but that do their job right.
>
> The overall theme therefore allows a very broad range of Symposia, for
> example:
>
> -Human-computer interaction
> -Robot companions
> -Evolution of Communication
> -Social learning in animals and robots
> -Socially intelligent agents
> -Creativity and culture
> -Developing social minds
> -Artificial societies and organizations
> -Evolutionary computation, machine learning, and interaction
>
> ***However, it is to be emphasized that
> PROPOSALS IN ALL AREAS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND COGNITIVE SCIENCE
> WILL BE CONSIDERED***
>
> ***********************************************************************
> INTERNATIONAL NATURE
>
> Although the AISB may be thought of as a national AI society for the
> United Kingdom, we enthusiastically welcome Symposium proposals from
> anywhere in the world and participants from anywhere in the world in
> the
> Symposium programmes.
>
> ***********************************************************************
> MAKING A PROPOSAL
>
> Proposals should be made by EMAILING IN PLAIN TEXT to Kerstin
> Dautenhahn at
> K.Dautenhahn@..., enclosing the following information. (Prior
> informal email enquiries from possible proposers are welcomed):
>
> TITLE of Symposium
>
> NAME & AFFILIATION of Symposium Chair - including both postal and
> email addresses and both fax and telephone numbers.
>
> ABSTRACT for Symposium - not more than 200 words, explaining the
> remit of the Symposium. This should be suitable for inclusion in a
> call for papers.
>
> CASE FOR SUPPORT - not more than 1000 words, arguing the case for
> including your Symposium at the AISB'05 event. You may put observations
> about your own background and suitability in the Additional Comments
> section below.
>
> SYMPOSIUM LENGTH JUSTIFIACTION -- if you are proposing a Symposium of
> a length other than two days, please briefly indicate the reasons.
>
> PROGRAMME COMMITTEE - names and affiliations of (at least) four people
> who have agreed in principle to serve on your Symposium's programme
> committee. The programme committee should represent (at least) four
> different institutions, preferably including international
> participation.
> It should as far as possible cover the intended breadth of the
> Symposium,
> especially if it is multidisciplinary.
>
> ADDITIONAL COMMENTS -- no more than 500 words, on, for example, the
> relevance of your background to the proposed Symposium.
>
> BIBLIOGRAPHY -- any literature references cited above.
>
> Wording beyond the word limits will be deleted before the proposal is
> considered!!
>
> Proposals will be selected with the aid of the Committee of the AISB.
> Unless there are very special circumstances, please do not expect us to
> consider web pages or other documents referenced by the proposal.
>
> *** TO FACILIATE THE PROPOSAL CONSIDERATION PROCESS,
> PLEASE DO NOT SEND ANYTHING OTHER THAN PLAIN-TEXT EMAILS.
> SO, no Word attachments, postscript, HTML, etc.
>
> ***********************************************************************
> TIMETABLE
>
> Symposium Proposal submission deadline: 31 July 2004
> Notification re Symposium acceptance: 15th August 2004
> Suggested deadline for Call for Extended Abstracts: 10 September 2004
> Suggested Extended Abstract submission deadline: 31 October 2004
> Suggested Extended Abstract notification deadline: 30 November 2004
> Required submission deadline for Full Papers: 15 January 2005
>
> Convention: 12-15 April 2005
>
> ***********************************************************************
> *
> PLEASE NOTE SYMPOSIUM PROPOSAL DEADLINE: 31st July 2004!!!
> ***********************************************************************
> *

----- Original Message -----
From: "Simon Kirby " <simon@...>
To: <junwang4@...>
Cc: <lec+@...>
Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 4:07 PM
Subject: Conference announcement


> This conference calls for papers on models of the evolution of
communication
> (among other things).
>
> Best,
> Simon
>