This is a forwarded message From: Kerstin Dautenhahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, January 11, 2005, 6:47:02 PM Subject: [alife] CFP: Social Intelligence and Interaction in Animals, Robots and Agents (AISB 2005)
===8<==============Original message text=============== Please circulate. -------------------------------------- First Call for Participation SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE AND INTERACTION IN ANIMALS, ROBOTS AND AGENTS (AISB 2005) ***Early registration deadline: 31 January 2005*** AISB 2005 is the annual convention of SSAISB, the largest Artificial Intelligence Society in the United Kingdom. The convention consists of a collection of individual symposia, in addition to five invited plenary talks. 12-15 April, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield The theme for the 2005 annual convention of SSAISB is SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE AND INTERACTION IN ANIMALS, ROBOTS AND AGENTS. The convention will be organized by the Adaptive Systems Research Group in the School of Computer Science at University of Hertfordshire. The convention theme reflects the 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. The convention will facilitate the synthesis of new ideas, encourage new insights as well as novel applications, mediate new collaborations, and provide a context for lively and stimulating discussions in this exciting, interdisciplinary, and growing research area. Ten symposia (ranging from one-day to three-days) will run at the convention, organized by UK, European as well as international experts in the field of Social Intelligence and Interaction. --Second International Symposium on the Emergence and Evolution of Linguistic Communication (EELC'05) --Agents that Want and Like: Motivational and Emotional Roots of Cognition and Action --Third International Symposium on Imitation in Animals and Artifacts --Robotics, Mechatronics and Animatronics in the Creative and Entertainment Industries and Arts --Robot Companions: Hard Problems and Open Challenges in Robot-Human Interaction --Conversational Informatics for Supporting Social Intelligence and Interaction - Situational and Environmental Information Enforcing Involvement in Conversation --Next Generation Approaches to Machine Consciousness: Imagination, Development, Intersubjectivity, and Embodiment --Normative Multi-Agent Systems --Socially Inspired Computing Joint Symposium (consisting of three tracks: Memetic Theory in Artificial Systems & Societies, Emerging Artificial Societies, and Engineering with Social Metaphors) --Virtual Social Agents Joint Symposium (consisting of three tracks: Social Presence Cues for Virtual Humanoids, Empathic Interaction with Synthetic Characters, Mind-minding Agents) In order to complement this programme, five plenary speakers known for pioneering work relevant to the convention theme will present at the convention: --Nigel Gilbert (University of Surrey) --Hiroshi Ishiguro (Osaka University, Japan) --Alison Jolly (Sussex University) --Luc Steels (VUB and Sony) --Jacqueline Nadel (National Centre of Scientific Research, Paris). For details on the symposia, including accomodation and registration (early registration deadline: 31 January 2005), please consult URL: http://aisb2005.feis.herts.ac.uk/ For questions regarding the convention, please contact the Chair Prof. Kerstin Dautenhahn (K.Dautenhahn AT herts.ac.uk) ----------------------------------------------------- Dr. Kerstin Dautenhahn Professor of Artificial Intelligence Adaptive Systems Research Group http://adapsys.feis.herts.ac.uk/ The University of Hertfordshire, School of Computer Science College Lane, Hatfield, Hertfordshire AL10 9AB, United Kingdom URL: http://homepages.feis.herts.ac.uk/~comqkd E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: +44-1707-284-303 Tel: +44-1707-284-333 _______________________________________________ alife-announce mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.idyll.org/listinfo/alife-announce ===8<===========End of original message text=========== Carlos Gershenson... Centrum Leo Apostel, Vrije Universiteit Brussel Krijgskundestraat 33. B-1160 Brussels, Belgium http://homepages.vub.ac.be/~cgershen/ “Knowledge brings more questions than answers”
