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

Project Information

EUCogII

2nd European Network for the Advancement of Artificial Cognitive Systems, Interaction and Robotics

Project no.: 231281

Coordination Action

European Commission, 7th Research Framework Programme,
Information and Communication Technologies,
2007-3, 3.2.2.: Artificial Cognitive Systems, Interaction, Robotics

Funding: 1,908.337 Euros

Duration: 36 months (Feb. 2009 - Jan. 2012)

http://www.eucognition.org

Project Partners

ANATOLIA, Vincent C. Müller, Amerikaniko Kollegio Anatolia, Greece (Coordinator)
HIS, Tom Ziemke, Högskolan i Skövde, Sweden
RUB, Gregor Schöner, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
RUG, Tjeerd Andringa, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Netherlands
UIB, Antoni Gomila, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain
UKE, Andreas K. Engel, Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany
UOS, Ron Chrisley, University of Sussex, United Kingdom
UZ, Rolf Pfeifer, Universität Zürich, Switzerland
VUB, Luc Steels, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

Project Summary

Research in artificial cognitive systems currently suffers from fragmentation and the lack of a clear agenda. It is for this reason that EUCogII establishes a closely cooperating research community in Europe that develops its vision for the discipline. The project sets up a network of several hundred European researchers in the wider area of artificial cognitive systems, with an emphasis on participants in projects of FP7 ICT “Cognitive Systems, Interaction, Robotics”, building on the achievements of the FP6 project .

This EUCogII community will meet in about 30 events with over 1000 participants during the project duration and participate in web-based work throughout. In these network activities its members are invited to step back from their day-to-day research, talk to people other than the usual experts in their sub-field and consider the bigger picture. It is this bigger picture of aims and methods that is needed for coherent artificial cognitive systems research and funding, and that EUCogII helps to clarify by its coordination action.

The activities are structured in four content work packages: (1) ‘state of the art’, (2) ‘challenges’, (2) ‘education’ and (4) ‘outreach’: (1) The network establishes and maps the a basic image of what is the ‘state of the art’ in the discipline, with an emphasis on the coherence of the whole. (2) It formulates a set of specific medium and long-term challenges for cognitive systems; these challenges provide a direction for research and a measure of its success. (3) The network contributes to the education of future researchers by the formulation of European aims for specific educational programmes in cognitive systems, by providing material for such programmes and by specific training events for its members. (4) The partners reach out to the members of the network and to the wider community in a variety of events where researchers meet regularly, such as the bi-annual members meetings, workshops, summer-schools, and faculty/student exchanges. These activities are carried out on and supported by the network website, described in work package (5). Work packages (6) and (7) ensure efficient network coordination and management.

We expect that the EUCogII will lead to a close-knit community of well-trained researchers, who have a clear sense of what has been achieved and of the challenges that lie ahead.

Participant Details

1. VINCENT C. MÜLLER

Associate Professor of Philosophy
Anatolia College/ACT
P.O. Box 21021
55510 Pylaia, Greece
Phone: +30-2310-398 211
Mobile: +30-6942-606171
E-Mail:
http://www.typos.de

2. TOM ZIEMKE

Professor of Cognitive Science
Director of Cognition & Interaction Lab
Informatics Research Centre
University of Skövde
PO Box 408, 54128 Skövde, Sweden
Phone: +46-500-448330 / +46-73-0249435
Fax: +46-500-448399
E-Mail:
http://www.his.se/english/research/informatics/research-groups/coin/

3. GREGOR SCHÖNER

Director, Institute für Neuroinformatics
Ruhr-Universität-Bochum
Universitätsstr. 150
Gebäude ND, Raum 04/583, 44801 Bochum, Germany
Phone: +49-234-32-27965
Fax: +49-234-32-14209
E-Mail:
http://www.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/thbio/members/profil/Schoener/index.html

4. TJEERD ANDRINGA

Director of Education in Artificial Intelligence
Department of Artificial Intelligence
University of Groningen
P. O. Box 407, 9700 AK Groningen, The Netherlands
phone: +31 0 50 363 6958
E-Mail:
http://www.ai.rug.nl/~tjeerd/
http://www.ai.rug.nl/research/acg/people/tjeerd.html

5. ANTONI GOMILA

Professor of Psychology
Departament de Psicologia
Universitat de les Illes Balears
Edifici Beatriu de Pinós, despatx 10
Cra. de Valldemossa, km 7.5. Palma, Spain
Phone: +34 971 172 388
Fax: +34 971 172 309
E-Mail:
http://www.uib.es/facultat/psicologia/professorat/agomila.html

6. ANDREAS K. ENGEL

Professor of Physiology
Adjunct Professor of Psychology
Director, Dept. of Neurophysiology and Pathophysiology
University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
Martinistr. 52, 20246 Hamburg, Germany
Phone: +49-40-42803-6170
Fax: +49-40-42803-7752
E-Mail: , E-Mail:
http://www.40hz.net

7. RON CHRISLEY

Director, Centre for Research in Cognitive Science, COGS
Department of Informatics
University of Sussex
Falmer BN1 9QH, United Kingdom
Phone: +44 1273 678581
Fax: +44 1273 877873
E-Mail:
http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/users/ronc/

8. ROLF PFEIFER

Director, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Dept. of Informatics, University of Zürich,
Andreasstr. 15, 8050 Zürich, Switzerland
Phone: +41 44 635 43 20/53
Fax: +41 44 635 45 07
E-Mail:
http://www.ifi.uzh.ch/ailab/

9. LUC STEELS

Director, VUB AI Lab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels, Belgium
Phone: +32 2 629 37 00
Fax: +32 2 629 37 29
E-Mail:
http://arti.vub.ac.be/~steels/
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http://www.csl.sony.fr/staff/member/?username=steels

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