FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS AKRR'08 - ADAPTIVE KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION AND REASONING
Following the successful 2005 conference, AKRR 2008 will be organized in Finland in 17-19 September 2008 at Haikko Manor, Porvoo, 30-40 minutes from Helsinki. The conference site was elected in 2007 by Mercury International to be the best one in Finland. More information will be available at http://www.cis.hut.fi/AKRR08/ Conference site: http://www.haikko.fi/kokoukset/en_GB/presentation/ The conference is co-organized with the ESTSP'08, European Symposium on Time Series Prediction. BACKGROUND In the modern society, knowledge representation and reasoning are underlying building blocks in various kinds of information systems and networks. Knowledge representation and reasoning are also central themes in cognitive science and epistemology. Relevant questions include how do humans know, understand, anticipate, make decisions and collaborate, and, on the other hand, how to analyze, model and simulate complex phenomena in general. Relevant modeling methods include statistical machine learning, artificial neural networks, signal processing, pattern recognition and dynamical systems. AUDIENCE The aim of the AKRR'08 conference is to bring together scientists who study complex phenomena in empirical sciences and scientists who develop computational methods for dealing with complexity. From the empirical sciences, we especially welcome researchers in cognitive science, sociology, educational psychology, economics and medicine. From the methodological sciences, we welcome researchers who develop, for instance, statistical machine learning, dynamical systems theory and adaptive systems. The conference also aims to be relevant for practitioners who encounter complex phenomena continuously and who are looking for new ways to deal with challenges related to management and strategic decision making. SPECIAL THEMES * Adaptive systems in organizational theory and economic sciences * Computational wisdom, modeling emotions and decision making * New generation of semantic web: social and multimodal grounding of knowledge and understanding * Adaptive systems in medical education, research and practice * Adaptive machine translation: towards global connection TOPICS We invite novel high-quality papers that are related to the conference themes including but not limited to: Themes related to empirical sciences * Adaptive, dynamical and probabilistic models and simulations of social and societal structures and processes * Probabilistic and pattern-based reasoning on financial and economical phenomena * Non-symbolic ontologies and adaptive knowledge representation for the web * Emergent and evolutionary representations for creative and design processes * Models of natural language understanding and translation * Learning schemas and language games * Cognitive models of perceptually grounded reasoning processes * Multimodality in cognitive and artificial systems * Analysis and modeling of emotions and decision making * Relationship between individual, social and cultural development * Natural and artificial general intelligence * Analysis and development of conceptual spaces * Emerging representations in active agents * Empirical and theoretical study of practices and activities Methodological themes * Contextuality in statistical analysis and reasoning * Models of temporal processes and reasoning * Knowledge representation and reasoning in non-stationary environments * Spatial representations of knowledge * Analyses of the limitations of logic-based representations and reasoning * Hybrid systems and emergence of symbolic representations * Continuous formal systems * Dynamical systems models of knowledge * Pattern-based reasoning * Unsupervised and reinforcement learning models for knowledge acquisition and representation * Bayesian models of learning and reasoning * Emergent representations based on independent component analysis and self-organizing maps * Biologically inspired computing including artificial immune systems IMPORTANT DATES * Paper submission due: 15 February 2008 * Acceptance notification: 11 April 2008 * Deadline for early registration: 24 June 2008 * Camera-ready paper due: 23 May 2008 * Symposia and conference: 17-19 September 2008 ORGANIZERS Programme committee and conference chair Timo Honkela Helsinki University of Technology Adaptive Informatics Research Centre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organizing committee chair Olli Simula Helsinki University of Technology Adaptive Informatics Research Centre [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Mt-list mailing list
