THE CENTRAL AND EAST EUROPEAN CENTER FOR COGNITIVE SCIENCE INVITES
APPLICATIONS FOR:
1. One-year post-doctoral fellowships for the 2003/2004 academic year (with
a possible extension);
2. Two-year Ph.D. studentships (starting in October 2004).
For more information:
http://www.nbu.bg/cogs/events/2004/positions.html
Central and East European Center for Cognitive Science
New Bulgarian University
21 Montevideo Str.
Sofia 1618, Bulgaria
phone: (+3592) 8110-401
e-mail: office(a)cogs.nbu.bg
THE CENTRAL AND EAST EUROPEAN CENTER FOR COGNITIVE SCIENCE INVITES
APPLICATIONS FOR:
1. One-year post-doctoral fellowships for the 2003/2004 academic year (with
a possible extension);
2. Two-year Ph.D. studentships (starting in October 2004).
For more information:
http://www.nbu.bg/cogs/events/2004/positions.html
Central and East European Center for Cognitive Science
New Bulgarian University
21 Montevideo Str.
Sofia 1618, Bulgaria
phone: (+3592) 8110-401
e-mail: office(a)cogs.nbu.bg
Meghívó
A Magyar Alkalmazott Nyelvészek és Nyelvtanárok Egyesülete,
a Magyar Szemiotikai Társaság
és a Szimmetria Kör
tisztelettel meghívja tagjait és minden érdeklodot 2004-es évadzáró közös
nyilvános ülésére.
Az ülés díszvendége
Solomon Marcus
professor emeritus,
a Bukaresti Egyetem nyugalmazott matematika professzora,
a matematikai nyelvészet egyik megalapítója.
Angol nyelven tartandó eloadásának címe:
IN THE PALINDROMIC WORLD
(A palindromok világában)
Az ülés idopontja: 2004. június 28. hétfo du. 2 óra
Az ülés helye: Eötvös Lóránd Tudományegyetem,
Bölcsészettudományi Kar,
(Általános és Alkalmazott Nyelvészeti Tanszék)
Budapest VIII. Múzeum körút 4.
D épület, I. emeleti Nagyeloadó
Szépe György Voigt Vilmos
Darvas György
a MANYE elnöke a Magyar Szemiotikai Társaság elnöke a Szimmetria Kör
nevében
Gecso Tamás
Szollosy-Sebestyén András
az ELTE BTK Ált. és Alk. Nyelvészeti Tanszék vezetoje a MANYE
fotitkára
Solomon Marcus professzor eloadása a MANYE, a Magyar Szemiotikai Társaság és
a Szimmetria Kör rendezésében az ELTE BTK D épület I. emeleti
nagyeloadójában 2004. június 28-án hétfon, du. 2-tol:
A palindromok világában
A palindrom olyan sorozat, amely azonos saját megfordításával. Példának
okáért: aba, abccba, ababa.
A palindromok világa a leheto legkisebb komplexitású tükörszimmetria világa.
Ez az oka annak, hogy a komplexitás fogalmának megközelítéséhez vezeto egyik
út alapkövének tartják. A palindromikus 2002-es év alkalmat adott arra, hogy
áttekintsük a palindromikus dátumok sorát a történelemben.
Mind a természetes nyelvekben, mind a matematikai nyelvben vannak palindrom
szerkezetek; a sakk, és más hasonló játékok pedig ilyen felépítésu
helyzeteken alapulnak. A szimmetria egy vonalon, illetve egy síkon egy
egyeneshez, vagy a térben egy síkhoz képest hasonló palindrom helyzeteket
jelenítenek meg. Az úgynevezett végtelen szavak többnyire nem nélkülözhetik
a nem triviális palindromokat, sot, palindromikus komplexitásuk fontos
paraméter.
Mindenkit szeretettel várunk!
Szollosy-Sebestyén András
a MANYE fotitkára
Tisztelettel megh�vok minden �rdekl�d�t
az ELTE PPK Pszichol�giai Doktori Iskol�j�n
beny�jtott Ph.D. �rtekez�sem nyilv�nos v�d�s�re.
A disszert�ci� c�me:
NYELVI RENDSZEREK KAPCSOLATA K�TNYELV�EKN�L
T�mavezet�k: Dr. Czigler Istv�n, egyetemi tan�r
Dr. Juliet Langman, Associate Professor
Opponensek: Dr. K�nya Anik�, egyetemi docens
Dr. Lengyel Zsolt, egyetemi tan�r
A bizotts�g
eln�ke: Dr. Pl�h Csaba, egyetemi tan�r, az MTA levelez� tagja
Tagok: Dr. Bartha Csilla, egyetemi docens
Dr. Szab� Csaba, egyetemi docens
A v�d�s id�pontja: 2004. j�nius 25, 14 �ra
A v�d�s helye: ELTE BTK, VIII. M�zeum krt 4/A, fszt., Kari Tan�csterem
A disszert�ci� egy p�ld�nya j�nius 22-t�l megtekinthet�
az ELTE Pszichol�giai Int�zet k�nyvt�r�ban,
Budapest, VI. Izabella u. 46
Polonyi T�nde �va
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Tisztelettel megh�vok minden �rdekl�d�t
az ELTE PPK Pszichol�giai Doktori Iskol�j�n
beny�jtott Ph.D. �rtekez�sem nyilv�nos v�d�s�re.
A disszert�ci� c�me:
NYELVI RENDSZEREK KAPCSOLATA K�TNYELV�EKN�L
T�mavezet�k: Dr. Czigler Istv�n
Dr. Juliet Langman
Opponensek: Dr. Bartha Csilla, egyetemi docens
Dr. Lengyel Zsolt, egyetemi tan�r
A bizotts�g eln�ke: Dr. Pl�h Csaba, egyetemi tan�r, az MTA levelez� tagja
A v�d�s id�pontja: 2004. j�nius 25, 14 �ra
A v�d�s helye: ELTE BTK, VIII. M�zeum krt 4/A, fszt., Kari Tan�csterem
A disszert�ci� egy p�ld�nya j�nius 22-t�l megtekinthet�
az ELTE Pszichol�giai Int�zet k�nyvt�r�ban,
Budapest, VI. Izabella u. 46
Polonyi T�nde �va
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**** SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS *****
**NEWS: added invited talks**
International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Knowledge Management (P2PKM)
-- www.p2pkm.org --
August 22, 2004 - Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Collocated with MobiQuitous 2004 (www.mobiquitous.org)
Scope of workshop
-----------------
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) computing has received significant attention from the
side of research labs and academia, largely due to the popularity of
commercialized P2P file sharing applications such as Napster, Morpheus and
KaZaa. In the P2P model, peers exchange data and/or services in completely
decentralized distributed manner. Peers are autonomous, and are free to
choose what other peers to interact with, and, in this point-to-point
interaction, peers possess equal functional capabilities.
On the other hand, Knowledge Management (KM) is increasingly viewed as a
core capacity in order to compete in the modern social and economic
environment. Researchers and practitioners agree that those intellectual
assets that are embedded in working practices, social relationships, and
technological artefacts constitute the only source of value that can sustain
long term differentiation, quality of services, innovation, and
adaptability. Nonetheless, even due to a debatable success of current KM
implementations, still unclear is how such matter should be managed in
highly complex, distributed, and heterogeneous settings.
In the last couple of years, P2P and KM have followed different but
converging paths. In fact, P2P technologies have left their initial
"computational", "anarchoyd", and spontaneous fashion to embrace more
service level domains and business settings. On the other hand, KM is
questioning its centralized assumption based on the implicit belief that
knowledge is managed successfully when it can be standardized and
controlled. In this sense, it seems that while P2P is looking for value
added domains to better exploit its technological potential, KM is looking
for a technological paradigm more able to fit an emerging distributed
organization of knowledge.
The convergence of P2P and KM creates new challenges for researchers to
address: new methodologies to model, design, and deploy distributed KM
solutions; theories and algorithms to represent the social and semantic
dimensions of a knowledge network; mechanisms to cope with the dynamic
autonomous nature of P2P and to provide means to support emergent network
self-organization. New technologies should be provided in order to support
full operational functioning of P2P KM systems, ensuring high extensibility
of the solutions along several dimensions, such as scalability in the number
of peers, size and kind of supported knowledge bases, level of heterogeneity
in knowledge representation, robustness, etc. Various technologies can
contribute to P2P KM solutions: Semantic Web, with new instruments for
knowledge representation, in particular ontologies, as well as with
(totally) mechanized means for locating, retrieving and processing of data;
database technology, with formal semantics for P2P data sharing; multi agent
technology, with innovation solutions of agent-mediated knowledge
management; and so on.
The P2PKM workshop is intended to serve as an active forum for researchers
and practitioners, where they will have the possibility to exchange and
discuss research results, novel ideas and experiences, laying in the
intersection of the P2P, KM and Semantic Web, database, multi agent, as well
as other related technologies. It aims at provoking a discussion around the
hypothesis of convergence of P2P and KM areas, and, in particular, at
exploring synergies among those that need to provide a distributed
technological answer to the distributed management of knowledge, and those
that are interested in exploring the substantial implications of the P2P
paradigm on important aspects of organizational life such as KM.
Topics of interest include but are not restricted to:
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* Distributed Knowledge Management business cases and experiences;
* P2P to support (virtual) communities of practice and interest
networks;
* Organizational impacts of P2P technologies, and social adoption of
distributed technologies;
* Methodologies to analyse, design and deploy distributed KM solutions;
* Social models to design and support knowledge intensive collaborative
processes in a P2P environment;
* Data models and distributed query languages;
* Meta-data representation and management (e.g., semantic-based
coordination mechanisms, use of ontologies in P2P KM systems, etc.);
* Algorithms to discover distributed knowledge among interacting peers;
* Protocols, algorithms and techniques to support semantic
interoperability;
* Trust and reputation as means to support knowledge acquisition;
* Semantic Web and P2P KM systems;
* Agent-mediated knowledge management;
* P2P KM system architectures, infrastructure and middleware;
* Experience with deployed systems, performance evaluation and
benchmarking;
Important dates
---------------
Submission deadline: June 30th, 2004
Acceptance notification: July 16th, 2004
Camera ready due: August 2nd, 2004
Workshop date: August 22nd, 2004
Submission instructions
-----------------------
We invite the submission of high quality technical papers. The submitted
papers should be formatted as close as possible to the Springer LNCS style
and must not exceed 12 pages including figures and references. Interested
authors should submit their papers at the EDAS site (http://edas.info/)
within the submission deadline. PDF format is preferred, but other formats
(PS, DOC) are also acceptable. Accepted papers will be published in the CEUR
workshop electronic proceedings, and hardcopies of the proceedings will be
handed out at the workshop. At least one author of each accepted paper must
attend the workshop to present their work.
Workshop Co-Chairs
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Ilya Zaihrayeu
University of Trento, Italy
email: ilya(a)dit.unitn.it
Matteo Bonifacio
ITC-Irst, Italy
email: bonifacio(a)itc.it
Program Committee
-----------------
* Matteo Bonifacio, ITC-Irst, Italy
* David De Roure, University of Southampton, UK
* Stefan Decker, Information Sciences Institute at the University of
Southern California
* Dieter Fensel, University of Innsbruck, Austria
* Enrico Franconi, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
* Chiara Ghidini, ITC-Irst, Italy
* Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento, Italy
* Manfred Hauswirth, EPFL, Switzerland
* Matthias Klusch, DFKI, Germany
* Manolis Koubarakis, Technical University of Crete, Greece
* Gabriel Kuper, University of Trento, Italy
* Stefanie Lindstaedt, Austria's Competence Center for Knowledge
Management
* Deborah L. McGuinness, Stanford University, USA
* Alberto Montresor, University of Bologna, Italy
* Wolfgang Nejdl, University of Hannover and Learning lab Lower Saxony,
Germany
* Munindar P. Singh, North Carolina State University, USA
* Mike Papazoglou, Tilburg University, Netherlands
* Riccardo Rosati, Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy
* Wee Sion NG, National University of Singapore
* Steffen Staab, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
* Igor Tatarinov, University of Washington, USA
* Bernard Traversat, SUN Microsystems, USA
Invited Talks
-----------------
Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento, Italy. "A Peer-to-Peer Approach to
Distributed Knowledge Management"
Mark Maybury, the MITRE Corporation, USA. "Exploitation of Digital Artifacts
and Interactions to Enable Peer-to-Peer Knowledge Management"
Futher Information
------------------
For further information, please send an e-mail to: ilya(a)dit.unitn.it or
visit:
http://www.p2pkm.org/
Kedves Kognitív Népek!
Csatoltam a Szegedi Megismeréstudományi Csoport által szervezett őszi kurzus
listát.
Minden érdeklődőt várunk!
További információk:
http://kognit.edpsy.u-szeged.hu
üdv
Németh Dezső
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NEMETH Dezso
University of Szeged, Department of Psychology
Email: nemethd(a)edpsy.u-szeged.hu
Web: http://www.staff.u-szeged.hu/~nemethd/
Cognitive Sciences at University of Szeged: http://kognit.edpsy.u-szeged.hu
Below the proposal instructions please find the abstract, keywords, and a
link to the full text of the forthcoming BBS target article:
Survival with an asymmetrical brain: Advantages and
disadvantages of cerebral lateralization
Giorgio Vallortigara and Lesley J. Rogers
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TITLE: Survival with an asymmetrical brain: Advantages and disadvantages of
cerebral lateralization
AUTHORS: Giorgio Vallortigara and Lesley J. Rogers
ABSTRACT: Recent evidence in natural and semi-natural settings has revealed a
variety of left-right perceptual asymmetries among vertebrates. This includes
preferential use of the left or right visual hemifield during activities such
as searching for food, agonistic responses or escape from predators in
animals as different as fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals. There
are obvious disadvantages in showing such directional asymmetries because
relevant stimuli may happen to be located to the animals left or right at
random; there is no a priori association between the meaning of a stimulus
(e.g., its being a predator or a food item) and its being located to the
animal's left or right. Moreover, other organisms (e.g. predators) could
exploit the predictability of behavior that arises from population-level
lateral biases. It might be argued that lateralization of function can
enhance cognitive capacity and efficiency of the brain, thus counteracting
the ecological disadvantages of lateral biases in behavior. However, such an
increase in brain efficiency could be obtained by each individual being
lateralized without any need to align the direction of the asymmetry in the
majority of the individuals of the population. Here we argue that the
alignment of the direction of behavioral asymmetries at the population level
arises as an evolutionarily stable strategy under "social" pressures, i.e.
when individually asymmetrical organisms must coordinate their behavior with
the behavior of other asymmetrical organisms of the same or different
species.
KEYWORDS: Asymmetry, lateralization of behavior, brain evolution, brain
lateralization, evolution of lateralization, evolutionarily stable strategy,
hemispheric specialization, laterality, social behavior, development
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