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CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
(Deadline is fast approaching!!)
EMOTIONAL AND INTELLIGENT: THE TANGLED KNOT OF COGNITION
AAAI 1998 Fall Symposium Series
Omni Rosen Hotel, Orlando, Florida, October 23-25, 1998
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Research in neurobiology has provided evidence that emotions
pervade human intelligence at many levels, being inseparable from
cognition. Perception, attention, memory, learning, decision making,
social interaction or communication are some of the aspects
influenced by emotions. Their role in adaptation has likewise been
evidenced by these studies. In the AI community, the need to
overcome the traditional view that opposes rational cognition to
absurd emotion has also been acknowledged. Emotion is not regarded
anymore as an undesirable consequence of our embodiment that must
be neglected, but as a necessary component of intelligent behavior
that offers a rich potential for the design of artificial systems, and
for enhancing our interactions with them.
This symposium investigates the role of emotions in grounding
intelligent behavior, both at the individual and social levels. The
main focus is on artificial agents in all sorts of embodiments, and on
the possibilities for cross-fertilization between research in
artificial emotions and studies of emotions in animals and humans.
Submissions are welcome regarding, among others, the following
issues, in artificial or in biological systems:
- Models, architectures, and taxonomies
- Embodiment and biological aspects of emotion
- Emotion synthesis, expression, and recognition
- Emotions, adaptation, and behavior
- Emotions in cognition and learning
- Emotions in social interaction and communication
- Design and implementation issues
- Philosophical aspects
- Applications: art, autonomous and believable agents, education,
entertainment, interfaces, medicine, multi-agent systems, pets and
personal robots, wearable computing, etc.
Contributions from fields others than AI, ALife, and robotics (e.g.,
arts, biology, humanities, social sciences), are also strongly
encouraged.
Interaction among participants will be fostered. Discussion groups will
be formed before and during the symposium. Presentations will be short
and organized around panels. Poster sessions will allow for more
detailed and technical discussions.
More information about the symposium is available at
http://www.iiia.csic.es/~lola/ei-fs98.html
Submission Information:
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Potential participants who would wish to present their work at the
symposium should submit a short paper (up to 5000 words) or
extended abstract (1500 to 2500 words). Contributions should
describe work in progress, completed work, positions, or give
significant insight into the current state or perspectives of research
in artificial, animal, or human emotions. Other potential participants
should send a statement of interest (1 page), briefly describing
their work and their interest in the symposium. Some of the
participants will be asked to contribute a paper to the final
working notes. All participants will be invited to bring a poster
presenting their work.
E-mail submission (ASCII, UNIX compatible postscript, or RTF) is
strongly encouraged; otherwise, 3 hardcopies are required. Please send
your contributions to the symposium chair:
Dolores Canamero
IIIA-CSIC
Artificial Intelligence Research Institute
Spanish Scientific Research Council
Campus de la U.A.B.
E-08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain
E-mail: lola@iiia.csic.es
URL: http://www.iiia.csic.es/~lola
Phone: +34-3-580-9570
Fax: +34-3-580-9661
Important dates:
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April 15: Submissions due
May 15: Notification to authors
August 21: Camera-ready papers due
October 23-25: Symposium dates
Organizing Committee:
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Dolores Canamero (Chair) (IIIA-CSIC and LSI-UPC, Spain)
Kerstin Dautenhahn (University of Reading, UK)
Hiroaki Kitano (Sony CSL, Japan)
Ramon Lopez de Mantaras (IIIA-CSIC, Spain)
Chisato Numaoka (Sony CSL, France)
Marvin Minsky (MIT, USA)
Andrew Ortony (Northwestern University, USA)
Rosalind Picard (MIT, USA)
Takanori Shibata (MEL, Japan)
Aaron Sloman (University of Birmingham, UK)
Dolores Canamero
IIIA-CSIC lola@iiia.csic.es
Campus de la U.A.B. Phone: (34-3) 580 95 70
E-08193 Bellaterra Fax: (34-3) 580 96 61
(Barcelona), Spain http://www.iiia.csic.es/~lola
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