ECM_MAI 2007

The fields of cognitive science, artificial intelligence, and the social sciences can together create a better understanding of cognition and social processes than they can independently of each other. Some efforts in social sciences, especially social simulations, have evolved an understanding of social processes in societies independently from the other two fields. However Sun (2006) among other has shown that there is relation between individual cognition and social processes. Can this connection be understood by exploring the relationship between computational cognitive modeling and social simulation? How is the cognition of a society different from individual cognition? In this session we will examine these questions and many more.  We invite submissions of research that investigate any of the following topics: (1) the relation between individual and social cognition, (2) multi-agent models that are related to advances in individual cognition, (3) social simulations that utilize cognitive science or artificial intelligence techniques, (4) aspects of social cognition that require modeling, and (5) the integration of cognitive models of learning into multi-agent
interaction.
 
 (Sun, R., 2006) Cognition and Multi-Agent Interaction, Edited by Ron Sun, 2006, Cambridge University Press. 

Authors are invited to submit their draft paper (between 5 to 7 pages - single space, font size of 10 to 12) to Sule Yildirim (suley@...) or Bill Rand (wrand@...) before the deadline. E-mail submissions in MS document or PDF formats are preferable. All reasonable typesetting formats are acceptable. These are general guidelines, if you would like to submit in a different format please contact the coordinators.
Papers must not have been previously published or current submitted for publication elsewhere. Upon acceptance authors will be asked to follow the IEEE style format in preparing their papers for publication (max. 7 pages).  The first page of the submission should include:

-Title of the paper
-Name, affiliation, postal address, e-mail address, telephone number and fax number for each author
-Name of the author who will present the paper should be indicated
-A maximum of five keywords

The session will begin with an overview of the topic by the coordinators, and the peer-reviewed papers will then be orally presented.  If time permits a wrap-up discussion will take place at the end of the session.

Extended Submission deadline: 15 March, 2007.
Notification of acceptance: 5 April, 2007.
Camera-ready due: 20 April, 2007.
Conference registration deadline: 20 April, 2007

See ICAI’07 website for complete details.

The conference proceedings will be published by CSREA Press (ISBN) in hardcopy. The proceedings will be available for distribution at the conference .

Some accepted papers will also be considered for journal publication (soon after the conference). All conference proceedings published by CSREA Press are considered for inclusion in major database indexes that are designed to provide easy access to the current literature of the sciences (database examples: ISI Thomson Scientific, IEE INSPEC, DBLP, ...).

Session Chairs

• Sule Yildirim, Hedmark University College
• Bill Rand, Northwestern University

Program Committee

·         Ron Sun, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

·         Tuncer Ören, University of Ottawa

·         Maarten Sierhuis, RIACS/NASA Ames Research Center

·         Angelo Cangelosi, University of Plymouth

·         Agnar Aamodt, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

·         Peter De Souza, Hedmark University College

·         Ashwin Ram, Georgia Tech

·         Levent Yilmaz, Auburn University

                                                                                      Rev Date: March 2, 2007