-- Call for Chapters --

"Artificial Cognition Systems"

A book edited by Angelo Loula, Ricardo Gudwin and Joćo Queiroz

http://www.dca.fee.unicamp.br/projects/artcog/book/

* Chapter proposal deadline: October 30, 2004

(Please feel free to forward this Call to any colleague or associate, that
might be interested in the subject of this book.)

Introduction

How could sign processes be meaningful to the artificial agents and
systems? This is a recent major issue concerning experiments in
artificial intelligence and cognitive science. An early regard about
it was the statement of the symbol grounding problem. It has been
suggested that situatedness and embodiment are a first step towards
the development of grounded meaningful processes. But most of these
approaches rely on low-level cognitive processes, bringing up the
question of how could higher-level ones be comprised and how would
they interact with lower-level ones. It has been claimed that formal
theoretical support, such as from semiotics, especially when
associated to biologically inspired approaches, is one fertile
framework that accounts for the modeling and simulation of the
emergence and the development of different levels of meaning
processes. Bringing in a formal theoretical support and biologically
inspired approaches to computational experiments dealing with meaning
processes is a promising venture in the research of artificial systems
and agents, specially in the study of learning, adapting and evolving
autonomous agents, like epigenetic robotics, evolutionary robotics,
artificial life and simulations in adaptive behavior.

The Overall Objective of the Book

This book intends to propagate theoretical frameworks about meaning
processes and high-level cognitive processes to those starting to be
acquainted with the recent approaches to artificial agents and
systems, and also to those already familiar but seeking further
information about it. Besides, it will gather recent research efforts
concerning the development of new artificial systems, specially
biologically inspired artificial agents, focusing particularly on
their development of meaning processes. Researchers from diverse
fields will be invited to contribute to this project, as many others
will be asked to respond to call for contributions, trying to identify
recent research efforts. The growing research effort towards the
attainment of different meaning processes by artificial systems has
been constantly presenting new scientific and technological advances
to the artificial intelligence area. This book will present the most
promising accomplishments in this direction.

The Target Audience

Due to its inherited multi-disciplinarity, this book may have a
diverse audience composed of different communities. This audience
involves researchers from areas such as: Computer Science, Artificial
Intelligence, Artificial Life, Cognitive Robotics, Computational
Neuroscience, Computational Linguistics, Cognitive Science,
Semiotics, and Philosophy.


Recommended topics include but are not limited to the following:
* Formal theoretical discussions
* Embodiment and situatedness
* Meaningful adaptive behaviors
* Interactions between high and low level cognition
* Emergence of meaning processes
* Biologically inspired agents

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before
October 30, 2004, a 2-5 page manuscript proposal clearly explaining
the mission and concerns of the proposed chapter. Authors of accepted
proposals will be notified by November 30, 2004 about the status of
their proposals and sent chapter organizational guidelines. Full
chapters are expected to be submitted by March 30, 2005. All submitted
chapters will be reviewed on a blind review basis. The book is
scheduled to be published by Idea Group, Inc., www.idea-group.com,
publisher of the Idea Group Publishing, Information Science
Publishing, IRM Press, CyberTech Publishing and Idea Group Reference
imprints.

Important Dates
* October 30, 2004: Proposal submission deadline
* November 30, 2004: Notification of Acceptance
* March 30, 2005: Full chapters are due
* June 15, 2005: Notification about needed revisions
* August 25, 2005: Revised chapters due
* October 30, 2005: Final accepted chapters and disks


Inquiries and Submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word
document) or by mail to:

Angelo Loula, Ricardo Gudwin and Joćo Queiroz
{angelocl, gudwin, queirozj)@dca.fee.unicamp.br
Editors of "Artificial Cognition Systems"

http://www.dca.fee.unicamp.br/projects/artcog/book/

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