2nd Call for Papers: Swarm Cognition Workshop
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2nd Call for Papers: Swarm Cognition Workshop
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The workshop is part of the 31st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive
Science Society (CogSci 2009 - http://cognitivesciencesociety.org/conference2009/)
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Important Dates
Paper submission deadline: 1 June 2009
Notice of acceptance: 12 June 2009
Camera ready deadline: 3 July 2009
Workshop date: 29 July 2009
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Overview
Swarm Cognition is the juxtaposition of two relatively unrelated
concepts that evoke, on the one hand, the power of collective
behaviours displayed by natural swarms, and on the other hand the
complexity of cognitive processes in the vertebrate brain. With this
premise, the Swarm Cognition Workshop aims at promoting synergies
between diverse disciplines such as cognitive neurosciences,
psychology, ethology and swarm intelligence. Research work in Swarm
Cognition aims at identifying the operational principles of cognitive
behaviour by calling upon the underlying mechanisms of self-organising
systems, i.e., systems whose internal organisation changes without
being guided by an outside source.
For up to date information, see the workshop website:
http://laral.istc.cnr.it/swarm-cognition
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Keynote Speakers
The workshop features 5 keynotes speakers:
+ Prof. Kevin Passino - Ohio State Univesity
+ Prof. Gustavo Deco - Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
+ Prof. Jean-Louis Deneubourg - Université Libre de Bruxelles
+ Prof. Gregor Schöner - Ruhr-Universität-Bochum
+ Dr. James Marshall - University of Bristol
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Interactive Discussion Forum
The workshop website hosts a discussion forum open to the public,
where people are invited to collaborate to develop issues related to
the epistemological basis of Swarm Cognition and its relation to other
disciplines. The forum is intended as an open place for discussion
related to Swarm Cognition. It should result in a coherent set of
issues to be further developed during the workshop.
At the moment, three lines of discussion (or articles) are set up for
collaborative development:
+ Swarm Cognition and Neuroscience
+ Swarm Cognition and Ethology
+ Swarm Cognition and Artificial Life
Other topics of discussion may be proposed by the users, upon
agreement with the organising committee. Workshop participants and all
interested people can contribute to the discussion by logging in the
workshop website and contributing with their own perspective. With
each article, a discussion page is provided where to debate about
controversial issues, or to further motivate some claim. Detailed
instructions are available at:
http://laral.istc.cnr.it/swarm-cognition/Forum_Instructions
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Format
We expect and encourage submissions about either work in progress or
final results. Additionally, already published work recast into the
Swarm Cognition framework are also eligible for presentation at the
workshop. In this case, contributions should necessarily provide: (i)
an introductory section that explains how the presented research fits
within the Swarm Cognition approach, (ii) a summary of the most
significant results obtained and (iii) a conclusion section that
outlooks future studies on Swarm Cognition.
Full papers have no page limits, meaning that we accept submissions
from single to several pages. Nevertheless, all authors are encouraged
to explain how their work fits within the Swarm Cognition framework
and contributes to the progress on the important questions identified
for the workshop.
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Submissions
All formatting guidelines (including word and latex style files) and
submission instructions are available on the workshop submission page:
http://laral.istc.cnr.it/swarm-cognition/Submissions/
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Topics and goals
The originality of this workshop is marked by the following: (i)
addressing cutting edge Swarm Cognition research issues; (ii)
involving a truly interdisciplinary cooperation; (iii) hosting world
leading keynote speakers in the field. This workshop is envisioned as
being a first meeting on Swarm Cognition. As such, the issues which
the workshop will raise are of interest to a surprisingly diverse
array of specialities. In no particular order, the following come to
mind:
+ Cognitive science
+ Neurosciences
+ Situated agents
+ Bounded rationality
+ Neuroeconomics
+ Evolutionary game theory
+ Cognitive ethology
+ Neural computation and distributed representations
+ Distributed computation
+ Population biology
+ Swarm intelligence
+ Reinforcement learning
+ Adaptive control
+ Cultural evolution
+ Cognitive sociology
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Dissemination
The material presented at the workshop will be fully accessible
through the workshop web site. Authors of paper accepted for the “Swam
Cognition” workshop will be invited to submit in September/October
2009 an extended version for review for publication on a special issue
on Swarm Cognition of the Swarm Intelligence Journal (Springer Verlag,
seehttp://www.springer.com/11721).
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Workshop Chairs
Dr. Vito Trianni - Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technology,
CNR, Rome, Italy
Dr. Elio Tuci - Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technology, CNR,
Rome, Italy
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Program Committee
Andrea Cavagna (Centre for Statistical Mechanics and Complexity and
Institute for Complex Systems, CNR-INFM, Rome, Italy)
Nikolaus Correll (Distributed Robotics Lab , MIT CSAIL, Cambridge, MA)
Iain D. Couzin (Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology,
Princeton University, NJ)
Marco Dorigo (IRIDIA, ULB, Brussels, Belgium)
Simon Garnier (Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Princeton
University, NJ)
Aldo Genovesio (Dipartimento di Fisiologia e Farmacologia, Sapienza
Università di Roma, Italy)
Carlos Gershenson (VUB, Brussels, Belgium - New England Complex
Systems Institute, Cambridge, MA)
Irene Giardina (Centre for Statistical Mechanics and Complexity, CNR-
INFM, Rome, Italy)
Paul Graham (CCNR, Univesitiy of Sussex, Brighton, UK)
Dirk Helbing (ETH Zurich)
Takashi Ikegami (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Laurent Keller (Department of Ecology and Evolution, UNIL, Lausanne,
Switzerland)
Stefano Nolfi (ISTC, CNR, Rome, Italy)
Frank Pasemann (Institute of Cognitive Science, University of
Osnabrueck, Germany)
Andrew Philippides (CCNR, Univesitiy of Sussex, Brighton, UK)
Matt Schlesinger (Psychology Department, Southern Illinois University,
Carbondale, IL)
Mototaka Suzuki (Department of Neuroscience, Columbia University, New
York, NY)
Jun Tani (Lab. for Behavior and Dynamic Cognition, RIKEN Brain Science
Institute, Wako-shi, Saitama, Japan)
Guy Theraulaz (Centre de Recherches sur la Cognition Animale, CNRS and
Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France)
Steffen Wishmann (LIS, EPFL - Department of Ecology and Evolution,
UNIL, Lausanne, Switzerland)