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Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 22:15:58 -0500
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Subject: Workshop on Cognitive Agents and Multi-agent Interaction
Workshop on Cognitive Agents and Multi-Agent Interaction
at ICCS2001 (Aug 27-31, Beijing)
Background
Computational models of cognitive agents that incorporate aspects of
reactive, deliberative, goal-driven, adaptive, autonomous, learning,
communicative, competitive, and collaborative behaviors provide an
attractive paradigm for addressing foundational questions in Cognitive
Science.
Artificial intelligence, in its early days, started out with the goal of
designing intelligent agents. However, faced with the enormous complexity of
the task, the focus soon shifted to modelling specific aspects of
intelligence, often in highly restricted domains. In recent years, some
researchers have begun to focus on putting the pieces together with the goal
of designing intelligent agents. There is also a growing interest in
multi-agent systems that address aspects of coordination and communication
among groups of agents.
On the other hand, historically, the main focus of research in Cognitive
Science has been on specific components of cognition (e.g., perception,
memory, learning, language). Recent developments in computational modelling
of cognitive agents and multi-agent systems provide new avenues for
addressing foundational questions in Cognitive Science
Against this background, the workshop seeks to bring together cognitive
scientists with diverse backgrounds and expertise to discuss research
problems and exchange recent results that have broad implications for
understanding cognition in computational terms at the whole systems level.
We invite full papers, extended abstracts, or position papers on all aspects
of cognitive agents and multi-agent interaction including, but not limited
to:
* Cognitive architectures (including alternative formalisms for modelling
reactive, deliberative, autonomous, rational, learning, communicating
agents).
* Ontologies, knowledge representations, and inference for cognitive
agents and multi-agent systems (including reasoning about space, time,
and behaviors).
* Multi-agent organizations (e.g., democracies, economies, cultures, and
their
coordination structures and mechanisms).
* Learning and adaptation in cognition (including learning in dynamic
environments consisting of active, distributed information sources).
* Language and communication (signs, symbols, syntax,
semantics, and pragmatics of communication among cognitive agents).
* Multi-agent coordination (cooperation, competition etc. in multi-agent
societies).
* Computational abstractions, languages, and tools for modelling
cognitive agents and multi-agent interaction.
* Evolution of cognitive behavior.
The workshop is open to all members of the Cognitive Science community.
However, the number of participants is limited. Consequently, authors of
accepted papers will be given priority in terms of attendance. All workshop
participants must register for the Cognitive Science conference. The
organizers will make a concerted effort to ensure a good mix of established
researchers, graduate students and junior researchers with diverse
backgrounds.
Important Dates and Deadlines
* Deadline for submission of full papers (up to 6 pages) or abstract (1
page): May 15, 2001.
* Notification of acceptance: May 31, 2001.
* Deadline for receipt of camera-ready papers: June 30, 2001
Note:
A special issue of Cognitive System Research is planned for the selected
papers of the Workshop (to be edited by Charles Ling, Vasant Honavar, and
Ron
Sun). See http://www.cecs.missouri.edu/~rsun/journal.html
Instructions for Authors
Electronic submission (postscript, pdf, or MS Word) is strongly encouraged.
Each paper will be refereed for technical soundness, relevance,
significance, and clarity of presentation.
Send all submissions to:
Prof. Charles Ling
Department of Computer Science
University of Western Ontario
ling(a)csd.uwo.ca
http://www.csd.uwo.ca/faculty/ling
Organizers
Prof. Vasant Honavar
Department of Computer Science
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011
honavar(a)cs.iastate.edu
http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~honavar/
Prof. Charles Ling
Department of Computer Science
University of Western Ontario
ling(a)csd.uwo.ca
http://www.csd.uwo.ca/faculty/ling
Prof. Ron Sun
CECS Department
University of Missouri-Columbia
201 Engineering Building West
Columbia, MO 65211-2060
rsun(a)cecs.missouri.edu
http://www.cecs.missouri.edu/~rsun
For further details, see:
http://www.cecs.missouri.edu/~rsun/wsp01.html
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University of Missouri-Columbia fax: (573) 882 8318
201 Engineering Building West
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Workshop on Cognitive Agents and Multi-Agent Interaction</h2></center>
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A symposium at <a href="http://www.iccs2001.com">ICCS2001</a> (Aug 27-31,
Beijing, China)</span></h3></center>
<b>What's New:</b>
<p>A special issue of <a
href="http://www.cecs.missouri.edu/~rsun/journal.html">Cognitive
System Research</a> is planned for the selected papers accepted by the
Workshop (to be
<br>edited by Charles Ling, Vasant Honavar, and Ron Sun).
<br>
<p><b>Background</b>
<p>Computational models of cognitive agents that incorporate aspects
of reactive, deliberative, goal-driven, adaptive,
autonomous,learning,
communicative, competitive, and collaborative behaviors and
multi-agent
interaction provide an attractive paradigm for addressing foundational
questions in Cognitive Science.
<p>Artificial intelligence, in its early days, started out with the goal
of designing intelligent agents. However, faced with the enormous complexity
of the task, the focus soon shifted to modelling specific aspects of
intelligence,
often in highly restricted domains. In recent years, some researchers have
begun to focus on putting the pieces together with the goal of designing
intelligent agents. There is also a growing interest in multi-agent systems
that address aspects of coordination and communication among groups of
agents.
<p>On the other hand, historically, the main focus of research in Cognitive
Science has been on specific components of cognition (e.g.,
perception,
memory, learning, language). Recent developments in computational modelling
of cognitive agents and multi-agent systems provide new avenues for
addressing foundational questions in Cognitive Science
<p>Against this background, the workshop seeks to bring together cognitive
scientists with diverse backgrounds and expertise to discuss research
problems
and exchange recent results that have broad implications for understanding
cognition in computational terms at the whole systems level. We invite
full papers, extended abstracts, or position papers on all aspects of
cognitive
agents and multi-agent interaction including, but not limited
to:
<ul>
<li>
Cognitive Architectures (including alternative formalisms for modelling
reactive, deliberative, autonomous, rational, learning, communicating
agents).</li>
<li>
Ontologies, knowledge representations, and inference for cognitive
agents and multi-agent systems (including reasoning about space, time,
and behaviors).</li>
<li>
Multi-agent organizations (e.g., democracies, economies, societies, and
associated coordination structures and mechanisms).</li>
<li>
Learning and adaptation in cognition (including learning in dynamic
environments consisting of active, distributed information
sources).</li>
<li>
Language and communication (signs, signals, symbols, syntax,
semantics,
and pragmatics of communication among cognitive agents).</li>
<li>
Multi-agent coordination (cooperation, competition etc. in multi-agent
societies).</li>
<li>
Computational abstractions, languages, and tools for
modelling
cognitive agents and multi-agent interaction.</li>
<li>
Evolution of cognitive behavior .</li>
</ul>
The workshop is open to all members of the Cognitive Science community.
However, the number of participants is limited. Consequently, authors
of accepted papers will be given priority in terms of attendance. All
workshop
participants must register for the Cognitive Science conference. The
organizers
will make a concerted effort to ensure a good mix of established
researchers,
graduate students and junior researchers with diverse backgrounds.
<p><b>Important Dates and Deadlines</b></span>
<ul>
<li>
Deadline for submission of full papers (up to 6 pages) or abstract (1 page):
May 15, 2001.</li>
<li>
Notification of acceptance: May 31, 2001.</li>
<li>
Deadline for receipt of camera-ready papers: June 30, 2001</li>
</ul>
<b>Instructions for Authors</b></span>
<p>Electronic submission (postscript, pdf, or MS Word) is strongly
encouraged.
Each paper will be refereed for technical soundness, relevance,
significance,
and clarity of presentation.
<p><b>Organizers</b></span>
<p>Prof. Vasant Honavar
<br>Department of Computer Science
<br>Iowa State University
<br>Ames, IA 50011
<br><a href="mailto:honavar@cs.iastate.edu">honavar(a)cs.iastate.edu</a>
<br><a
href="http://www.cs.iastate.edu/%7Ehonavar/">http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~hona
var/</a>
<p>Prof. Charles Ling
<br>Department of Computer Science
<br>University of Western Ontario
<br><a href="mailto:ling@csd.uwo.ca">ling(a)csd.uwo.ca</a>
<br><a
href="http://www.csd.uwo.ca/faculty/ling">http://www.csd.uwo.ca/faculty/ling
</a><a href="http://www.csd.uwo.ca/faculty/ling"></a>
<p>Prof. Ron Sun
<br>CECS Department
<br>University of Missouri-Columbia
<br>201 Engineering Building West
<br>Columbia, MO 65211-2060
<br><a href="mailto:rsun@cecs.missouri.edu">rsun(a)cecs.missouri.edu</a>
<br><a
href="http://www.cecs.missouri.edu/~rsun">http://www.cecs.missouri.edu/~rsun
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Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Eotvos University
Budapest, Pazmany P. setany 1/A
PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE SEMINAR
(http://hps.elte.hu/seminar)
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7 May 4:00 PM 6th floor 6.54
(Language: English, except all participants speak Hungarian)
K a t a l i n F a r k a s
Philosophy, Central European University, Budapest
The limits of knowledge
This is a critical introduction into the ideas of Timothy Williamson's
Knowledge and its limits (Oxford Univ. Press, 2000), a book which is
considered by many as the most original and significant contribution to
epistemology in the last few decades.
Working on theories of knowledge has been a flourishing enterprise in
the twentieth century. Various versions of foundationalism,
coherentism, causal theories, reliabilism, subjunctive theories,
contextualist theories - and no doubt other theories - have been
defended and criticised with great erudition.
Williamson's book breaks a new path in approaching questions of
knowledge. Here are some of the main claims of the book:
- knowing is - contrary to what most contemporary theories of knowledge
hold - a state of mind
- the state of knowing is unanalysable to further constituents - it is,
to use Williamson's terminology, a prime condition
- hence it is not possible to give necessary and sufficient conditions
for knowing - Gettierology was a waste of time
- the state of knowing is explanatory in actions just like states of
beliefs and desires are
The organizer of the seminar: László E. Szabó
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Laszlo E. Szabo
Department of Theoretical Physics
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Eotvos University, Budapest
H-1518 Budapest, Pf. 32, Hungary
Phone/Fax: (36-1)372-2924
Home: (36-1) 200-7318
Mobil/SMS: (36) 20-366-1172
http://hps.elte.hu/~leszabo
