Network Events

10 October 2010

Third EUCogII Members Conf., Palma de Mallorca, 8-9.10.2010

Next EUCogII members' conference, on October 8th & 9th, in Palma de Mallorca.

29 January 2010

Second EUCogII Members Conf., Zurich, 29.01.2010

"Development of Cognition in Artificial Agents"

10 October 2009

First EUCogII Members Conf., Hamburg, 10-11.10.2009

"Challenges for cognitive systems"

Sponsored Events

6 October 2010

5th French computational neuroscience conference, Neurocomp'10, 06 - 08.10.2010

NeuroComp is an annual event in France, which brings together the computational neuroscience community and the experimental neuroscience community, favoring the advancement of artificial cognitive systems. The meeting will take place in Lyon this year. It will include a tutorial day where students will be able to learn about development of artificial cogntitive neural systems and comparison with neurophysiology data.

To be held in Lyon, France on 6th -- 8th October 2010.

24 September 2010

Autumn School - Neuronal Dynamics for Cognitive Robotics, 24.09 - 01.10.2010

Neuronal dynamics provides a powerful theoretical language with which embodied and situated cognitive systems can be designed and modeled. This summer school will provides a hands-on and down-to-earth introduction to neuronal dynamics ideas and will enable participants to become productive within this framework.

To be held at the "Institut für Neuroinformatik", Ruhr-Universität, Bochum on 24th September -- 1st October 2010

1 September 2010

Workshop on Recogniton and Action for Scene Understanding (REACTS2011), 01 - 02.09.2010

The workshop on Recognition and Action for Scene Understanding (REACTS2011) is an international event which will be hold in Malaga, September 2011. The aim of this workshop is meant to bring together researchers which address the problem of Scene Understanding from the perspective of the different involved research communities. Scene Understanding has become a popular topic in Computer Science which combines abilities such as perception, analysis and interpretation of both indoor and outdoor scenes. Hence, it involves joining efforts and sharing knowledge from different research areas such as Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Machine Intelligence, Software Engineering and Cognitive Sciences. Scene Understanding underlies many abilities such as visual search, visual exploration and attention guidance, 3D object classification or human behaviour description and recognition. However, many other abilities such as spatio-temporal processing or multi-sensor fusion can also rely on this topic.

To be held in Malaga, Spain on 1st -- 2nd September 2010.

News

State of the art

Objectives

The main objective of the ‘State of the art' activity will be to foster interdisciplinary collaboration between the different groups working in Artificial Cognitive Systems within the FP7, and other Cognitive Sciences disciplines, to take advantage of research that can be useful to the goals of building Artificial Cognitive Systems. To this end, the WP will produce a linked textual and graphical presentation of the state of the art in cognitive systems that is linked to further information and people.

Responsible project partners: Ron Chrisley, Tom Ziemke, (Vincent C. Müller)

Representation of the state of the art - 1.1.

On the website, we will provide a wiki for the establishment of a representation of the state of the art in cognitive systems. The wiki will be editable only by members of the network and selected further authors. It is structured by the responsible project partners. The wiki is overlaid with a map, where each node is an issue in cognitive systems, connected to other nodes, and super-nodes. This will be done as a "topic map", based on an XML input to the standard ISO/IEC 13250:2003. (The area of automatic "knowledge visualisation" from wikis is fast developing, see e.g. the work of Chaomei Chen, Drexel and Katy Börner, Indiana or http://www.visualcomplexity.com.)

Articles linked to the representation - 1.2

The nodes in the wiki of WP 1.1. are linked to articles describing the state of the art in the particular issue. These articles are on two levels (in the manner of the Encyclopaedia Britannica), first a one-paragraph explanation, then a deeper ‘state of the art' survey article of around 5-20 pages. These articles may constitute links to already extant treatments. Members of the network who want to become associated with the particular issue are invited to write these articles in a member-peer reviewed wiki structure. Of course, we do not envisage that we can produce a complete account of all the state of the art. (This latter format of linked state of the art articles has been used in various areas with success, and we will link to extant relevant achievements, e.g. those in http://www.scholarpedia.org or Aaron Sloman's "Controversies in Cognitive Systems Research".)

Experts linked to the representation - 1.3

The nodes and articles of the representation will be linked to people who are experts in the area, both members and non-members of the network; linked to short descriptions and then the websites of these individuals. In this fashion, the representation becomes a "who is who?" of cognitive systems, and a resource for finding expertise. How comprehensive this who-is-who becomes depends on how many people want to be in it.

Thematic workshops - 1.4

The network will organize and provide support for a broad range of Thematic Workshops on specific issues of interest. Providing support to the initiatives of network members, and making them open to the rest of the network, may be the best way to foster interaction among members along the areas of interest of the network. The output of these meetings will also be available through the website.
The thematic workshops will be organised in particular problems that occur in the map of the state of the art (e.g. is eye-hand coordination a problem of vision?), and will contribute towards the clarification of the state of the art and the writing of the articles on the state of the art. We expect to fund about 3 workshops per year in all.

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