Sponsored Events
Please note that members' participation at sponsored events, unlike at 'network events', is not necessarily financially covered by the network. Please check with the organizers and the EUCogII coordination office.
6 October 2010 - 5th French computational neuroscience conference, Neurocomp'10, 06 - 08.10.2010
5th French computational neuroscience conference, Neurocomp'10, 06 - 08.10.2010 [Read the entire article]
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
Autumn School - Neuronal Dynamics for Cognitive Robotics, 24.09 - 01.10.2010 [Read the entire article]
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
Workshop on Recogniton and Action for Scene Understanding (REACTS2011), 01 - 02.09.2010 [Read the entire article]
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.
24 August 2010 - SAB2010 - Simulation of Adaptive Behavior: From Animals to Animats 11, 24 - 28.08.2010
SAB2010 - Simulation of Adaptive Behavior: From Animals to Animats 11, 24 - 28.08.2010 [Read the entire article]
SAB2010 - the eleventh SAB conference - will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the founding one that has been held in Paris in 1990. SAB conferences afford a new approach to cognitive science, complementary to traditional AI - the "animat approach". They are held every two years in Europe, USA and Japan.
To be held in Paris, France on 24th -- 28th August 2010
27 July 2010 - Enaction and Cognitive Science, 27.06 - 03.07.2010
Enaction and Cognitive Science, 27.06 - 03.07.2010 [Read the entire article]
The fifth in a series of summer schools examining the enactive approach to cognitive science and cognitive systems research. The particular theme of the 2010 school will be "skill", and will focus on domains such as ecological psychology and dynamic sensorimotor approaches to cognition. Questions addressed will include how skills can be conceptualised and operationalised for psychological and modelling research, particularly within the context of embodied, embedded and enactive conceptions of cognition. The role and form of the interaction between the cognitive system and its environment will be examined, as will the distinctions (if any) between different kinds of skill (cognitive, performative, social).
To be held in Tipperary, Ireland on 27th June -- 3rd July 2010.
18 July 2010 - VVV 2010, the iCub summer school, 18 - 29.07.2010
VVV 2010, the iCub summer school, 18 - 29.07.2010 [Read the entire article]
The iCub Summer School, "Veni Vidi Vici", serves to consolidate and disseminate skills in software engineering for humanoid robots. Our goal is to foster long-lived academic collaboration on robot software across the boundaries and lifetimes of individual projects.
This year it will be held in Sestri Levante, Italy on 18th July -- 29th July 2010
22 June 2010 - First European Summer School on Life & Cognition, 22 - 26.06.2010
First European Summer School on Life & Cognition, 22 - 26.06.2010 [Read the entire article]
The first European Summer School on "Life & Cognition" will offer an advanced training on contemporary scientific research about life and cognition, by focusing on some of the central theoretical issues in the fields of biological and cognitive sciences. In particular, the school will put the emphasis on the continuity between biological organization and cognitive capacities and will explore some of those concepts and problems (e.g. autonomy, embodied and extended cognition, emergence, functional mechanisms, minimal living/agent systems,...) which could play a pivotal role in an integrated scientific framework of life and cognition. The school will apply a resolutely interdisciplinary approach, by bringing together international experts with diverse backgrounds, including philosophy, cognitive science, theoretical biology and sciences of complexity.
To be held in Donostia - San Sebastian, Basque Country, Spain on 22th -- 26th June 2010.
16 June 2010 - 11th International Multisensory Research Forum 16 - 19.06.2010
11th International Multisensory Research Forum 16 - 19.06.2010 [Read the entire article]
The event is a symposium at the International Multisensory Research Forum conference to be held in Liverpool. This meeting takes place since 1999 in different cities. The International Multisensory Research Forum (IMRF www.imrf.info) is the leading society fostering research into multisensory processing in biological systems. The forum brings together world leading experts from experimental sciences: neurosciences, psychology, and modeling. The annual conference attracts 200-300 international delegates, features an annual special issue in a high impact journal, and a web presence to foster multisensory research.
To be held in Liverpool, UK on 16th -- 19th June 2010.
8 April 2010 - Twelfth Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop, 08 - 10.04.2010
Twelfth Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop, 08 - 10.04.2010 [Read the entire article]
NCPW stands for Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop. The workshop aims at bringing together researchers to discuss emergent models that address topics of human cognition. These models are mostly, but not exclusively, of the connectionist/neural network kind and are applied to cognitive processes. The cognitive aspects that are addressed range from developing models that bridge the gap between brain and behaviour to developing robots that are able to navigate in unknown territory without external feedback. NCPW sets the researcher and their field at its centre by providing only plenary talks, supporting student submissions, and allowing lots of time for informal discussions. NCPW produces a proceedings book that for many younger scientists forms an important milestone in their work. Importantly, it is one of the few books that collate papers from researchers with as varied a background as psychology, computer science, robotics, mathematics, and cognitive scientists.
To be held in Birkbeck, University of London, London, UK on 8th -- 10th April 2010.
31 March 2010 - Two-day Symposium on AI-Inspired Biology (AIIB)
Two-day Symposium on AI-Inspired Biology (AIIB) [Read the entire article]
(Not Biologically Inspired AI -- BIAI !)
There are many ways in which research in AI/Robotics can be and has been inspired by biology. This includes the initial inspiration for AI in its earliest days. That is not the topic of this symposium! There also can be, and has been, inspiration in the reverse direction, which has not been so widely recognised.
The symposium is an opportunity for researchers on both sides of the natural/artificial cognition divide, including biologists studying animal cognition, to acknowledge and evaluate past examples of AI-inspired biology, to report on ongoing projects, and above all to identify opportunities for new ways in which advances in our understanding of natural/biological cognition can be or need to be inspired by concepts, problems, theories and techniques from AI/Robotics, including analysis of requirements for human-like or animal-like robots.
To be held at AISB'10 on the third and fourth days 31st March--1st April 2010
15 March 2010 - Toward Autonomous, Adaptive, and Context-Aware Multimodal Interfaces: Theoretical and Practical Issues
Toward Autonomous, Adaptive, and Context-Aware Multimodal Interfaces: Theoretical and Practical Issues [Read the entire article]
The school will afford a change of perspective in verbal and nonverbal communication, where the research focus moves from "communicative tools" to "communicative instances" and ask for investigations that take into account the environment and the context in which the communicative acts take place.
To be held in Caserta, Italy on 15th -- 19th March 2010.
12 March 2010 - Interdisciplinary College 2010, 12 - 19.03.2010
Interdisciplinary College 2010, 12 - 19.03.2010 [Read the entire article]
The Interdisciplinary College (IK) is an annual, intense one-week international spring school which offers a dense state-of-the-art course program in neurobiology, neural computation, cognitive science/psychology, artificial intelligence, robotics and philosophy. It is aimed at students, postgraduates and researchers from academia and industry. By combining humanities, science and technology, the IK endeavors to intensify dialog and connectedness between the various disciplines. Participants come mainly from European countries, lecturers from all over the world. Courses include up-to-date introductions to the main fields of the IK, as well as an in-depth treatment of focus topic, which is changing from year to year.
To be held in in Günne at Lake Möhne on 12th -- 19th March 2010.
9 March 2010 - RobotDoC Robotics Research Methods Workshop
RobotDoC Robotics Research Methods Workshop [Read the entire article]
This is the first training event of the Marie Curie ITN "RobotDoC: Robotics for Developmento of Cognition" (in Plymouth UK). This workshop will provide PhD students with a series of lectures and hands-on workshops on Research Methods.
This event will begin on the 9th of March 2010 and end on the 11th of March 2010.
26 January 2010 - Planning Meeting in preparation of workshops 'Ethical Implications of Cognitive Systems: Bio and Techno Approaches'
Planning Meeting in preparation of workshops 'Ethical Implications of Cognitive Systems: Bio and Techno Approaches' [Read the entire article]
Advances in internet and robotic technologies, as well as biotechnologies are likely to produce large-scale changes in social organization, as well as far-reaching environmental impacts. This raises ethical questions about the responsibility of technological developments in these fields.
Biological and ecological approaches to ethics appear to differ radically from approaches informed by technological and cognitive systems thinking. How is it possible to relate these two kinds of perspectives? To date there does not seem to be much systematic exploration of the relationship between ‘bio' and ‘techno' approaches to ethics, yet clearly there is a lot to explore.
This event will begin on the 26th of Jan 2010 and end on the 29th of Jan 2010.
15 November 2009 - International Workshop on Intrinsic Motivations and Cumulative Learning in Natural and Artificial Systems
International Workshop on Intrinsic Motivations and Cumulative Learning in Natural and Artificial Systems [Read the entire article]
The EU funded IM-CLeVeR project (c.n.231722) is organizing the Workshop, whose aim is to set a RoadMap for future research in Intrinsically-Motivated Cumulative Learning (IM-CL) by discussing which are the main open challenges and the most promising research directions of the field. The Workshop will be highly interdisciplinary, including researchers in machine learning, robotics, computational modeling, developmental psychology, neuroscience, and ethology.
This event will begin on the 15th Nov 2009 and end on the 17th Nov 2009.
12 November 2009 - EpiRob'09 - Ninth International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics: Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems
EpiRob'09 - Ninth International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics: Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems [Read the entire article]
The school will affords a change of perspective in verbal and nonverbal communication, where the
research focus moves from "communicative tools" to "communicative instances" and ask for investigations that take into account the environment and the context in which the communicative acts take place.
The consequences in Information Communication Technology (ICT) research should bring to the development of instantiated interactive dialogue systems and instantiated intelligent avatars able to act by exploiting contextual and environmental signals and process them by combining previous experience (memory) adapted to the problem instance.
This event will begin on the 12th Nov 2009 and end on the 14th Nov 2009.
1 October 2009 - The problem of agency in cognitive systems research
The problem of agency in cognitive systems research [Read the entire article]
The goal of this network action is to enable a 2-month collaboration between Dr. Tom Froese (an affiliate of the CCNR, University of Sussex, UK) and Prof. Shaun Gallagher, of the University of Central Florida and Hertfordshire. The general aim of the visit is to build on work that was funded by two network actions of the first euCognition, namely Froese's collaboration with Prof. Ziemke. That collaboration resulted in an important publication in the journal of AI; it made significant contributions toward a unified framework of intentional agency in order to diagnose some of the deep problems faced by our efforts in artificial cognitive system research.
This event will begin on the 1st Oct 2009 and end on the 1st Dec 2009.
29 August 2009 - International Summer School
International Summer School [Read the entire article]
International Summer School on Embodied Language Games and Construction Grammar, 29 August - 4 September 2009, Palazzone di Cortona, Tuscany (Italy).
20 July 2009 - Robot Learning Summer School
Robot Learning Summer School [Read the entire article]
This school will take place from the 20th until the 24th of July 2009 and is mainly designed for PhD students who want to acquire a good understanding of current research and open challenges in Learning Robots and for those people with a different background who want to introduce themselves to this area.
18 July 2009 - Research visit proposal in Reykjavik University
Research visit proposal in Reykjavik University [Read the entire article]
The goal of this action is to enable a 2 month research visit for Carlos Hernández -a PhD student at the Autonomous Systems Laboratory at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid- to the Reykjavik University / Center for Analysis and Design of Intelligent Agents (CADIA)
1 July 2009 - Active Vision in Autonomous Mobile Robots
Active Vision in Autonomous Mobile Robots [Read the entire article]
This action is to support the visit of Mr Barry Bentley, from the De Montfort University, to Professor Cangelosi's Adaptive Behaviour and Cognition lab at the University of Plymouth.
This event will begin on the 1st Jul 2009 and end on the 31st Dec 2009.
20 May 2009 - EUROBOT Conference 2009
EUROBOT Conference 2009 [Read the entire article]
The confecence will attempt to track current research progress of cognitive robots.
This event will take place from the 20th until the 25th of May.
23 April 2009 - Perception Course Development
Perception Course Development [Read the entire article]
The goal of the coordinators combined activity will be to give a new generation of perception researchers a set of novel, for the Anglo-Saxon community, tools to improve models of perception.
This event will begin on the 23d of April 2009 and end on the 30th of June 2009.