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MODELLING ADAPTIVE AND COGNITIVE SYSTEMS (ADAPCOG 2008)

www.artificial.eng.br/adapcog08.htm

Call for Workshop Papers (CFP)

MODELLING ADAPTIVE AND COGNITIVE SYSTEMS (ADAPCOG 2008)

at SBIA/SBRN/JRI Joint Conference, www.sbia2008.ufba.br,

October 26-30, 2008, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

What are the mechanisms underlining the emergence of cognitive and
adaptive processes? What kind of theoretical and empirical constraints
must we consider to model and simulate these processes in artificial
agents and systems? How can processes and representations be
meaningful to artificial agents? These are some of the questions that
building and simulating computational models can help answer.

Artificial Life, Animats, Synthetic Ethology, Evolutionary Robotics
and Computational Semiotics are some of the interdisciplinary areas of
research involved in the synthetic design of artificial cognitive
systems and creatures. These areas have been designing artificial
environments that work as experimental labs, where it is possible to
test the predictions derived from theoretical models, and provide us
with opportunities to specify theories with computational formalisms.
Moreover, it provides a new generation of more flexible and robust
artificial systems able to interact with an unpredictable dynamical
world, thus ever more 'intelligent' technological artifacts.

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

*Topics
The workshop seeks contributions in topics within computational models
and experiments involving adaptive and cognitive systems. Topics of
interest for this special track on cognitive systems include among
others:
- Adaptive behavior modeling and simulation
- Evolution of complex adaptive behavior
- Artificial Life, Animats, Robotics and multi-robots models
- Agent-based models of biological systems and processes
- Artificial systems as models of biological processes
- Biosemiotic processes and systems
- Modeling of meaning and information processing
- Representation and symbol grounding
- Emergence, Complexity and Self-organization
- Epistemological and Methodological issues

It is of special interest of this workshop, computer models and
simulations of cognitive processes inspired by biological/empirical
motivations. Researchers dealing with issues related with representation
in artificial systems (e.g. symbol grounding, language, meaning) are
particularly encourage to submit contributions to the workshop.

*Important Dates

June 25, 2008 - Submission Deadline
July 25, 2008 - Notification to authors
August 15, 2008 - Camera-ready copies of papers
October 26-30, 2008 - Joint Conference SBIA/SBRN/JRI 2008
October 26-30, 2008 - ADAPTCOG 2008

*Program Committee
Fabiana Bertoni (UEFS)
Guilherme Bittencourt (UFSC)
Angelo Cangelosi (University of Plymouth)
Anthony Chemero (Franklin and Marshall College)
Gerd Doeben-Henish (Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences)
Charbel El-Hani (UFBA)
James Fetzer (University of Minnesota Duluth)
Maria Eunice Gonzalez (UNESP)
Ricardo Gudwin (UNICAMP)
Pim Haselager (University of Nijmegen)
Bruce MacLennan (University of Tennesee)
Lorenzo Magnani (University of Pavia)
Mihai Nadin (University of Texas)
Frederik Stjernfelt (University of Aarhus)
Jon Umerez (University of the Basque Country)
(to be completed)

*Chairs
Angelo Loula
angelocl AT ecomp.uefs.br, www.artificial.eng.br
DEXA, State University of Feira de Santana (UEFS), Feira de Santana, BA, Brazil
DCA/FEEC, State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, SP, Brazil

Joćo Queiroz
queirozj AT ecomp.uefs.br, www.semiotics.pro.br
Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), Salvador, BA, Brazil
Graduate Studies Program on History, Philosophy and Science Teaching
(UFBA/UEFS)