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

Challenges

Objectives

Based on the state of the art, looking into the future, cognitive systems research needs questions or challenges that define progress. These challenges are not (yet more) predictions of the future, but a guideline what are the aims and what would constitute progress. Such challenges can have a significant effect on research progress - as witnessed, for example, by David Hilbert's ‘23 problems' for mathematics in the 20th Century. As Hilbert's example shows, this effect is achieved even if the specific challenges are a result of the spirit of their time. Such challenges already exist for certain areas, such as the fields of data-mining, machine learning, pattern recognition or computer vision but we propose to extend this to other areas and to more general challenges that, we expect, will not be reached by narrow technical solutions but by deeper and integrated cognitive systems.

Responsible project partners: Antoni Gomila, Luc Steels, (Vincent C. Müller)

Description of work

One page list of challenges - 2.1.

A list of some 10-20 specific challenges for cognitive systems research, against which future developments can be measured. Each challenge will contain a one-sentence aim, and a detailed specification. Some will be long-term visions, but some will be medium-term.

Articles linked to the challenges - 2.2

The one-sentence challenges of 1.1 are linked to short articles describing what counts as meeting this challenge (and what is ‘cheating' and thus not meeting the challenge). Further links lead to discussion-pages about possible contenders to the challenge, to articles and nodes about the ‘state of the art' from WP 1 and other resources.

Roadblocks and how to overcome them - 2.3

On the way towards meeting the formulated challenges, researchers will face difficulties. It is important to identify these and understand their nature (whether they have to do with technical resources, computational power, approach, ...). The list of challenges will thus be linked to a list of obstacles and proposals to overcome them.

Thematic workshops - 2.4

The network will organize/provide support for Thematic Workshops on particular issues that pertain to the formulation of the challenges and their detailed description. We expect to fund about 3 workshops per year in all.

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