Workshop on Analogy

------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- Rejected message: sent to koglist(a)cogpsyphy.hu by SCHOOL(a)COGS.NBU.ACAD.BG follows. Reason for rejection: sender not subscribed. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Workshop Advances in Analogy Research: Integration of Theory and Data from the Cognitive, Computational, and Neural Sciences Sofia, July 17-20, 1998 Aims: This workshop is intended to stimulate the researchers in the field of analogy to cooperate more intensively and to integrate various approaches and data in their study. Its aim is to advance our understanding of the cognitive mechanisms of analogy-making, i.e. how people notice/perceive analogies, how they retrieve analogs from memory or how they construct them, how they map and transfer knowledge from one domain to another, how they combine knowledge from multiple analogs or how they combine analogy with rule-based reasoning, how they generalize and learn from the analogies made, how they use analogies for problem solving, explanation, argumentation, creation. What is the place of analogy among the various cognitive processes, such as perception, thinking, memory, learning, etc. What is the role of analogy in human development? Which are the brain structures involved in analogy-making processes? What kind of deficits do brain-damaged patients exhibit? This workshop will be highly interdisciplinary and will make a serious attempt to integrate the knowledge researchers have accumulated on analogy-making in various domains: Artificial Intelligence/Computational Modeling, Cognitive Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Neuropsychology, Philosophy, Cognitive Linguistics, as well as various applications in Education, Legal and Political Reasoning, etc. A serious attempt will be made to integrate all the positive results obtained so far in theories of analogy-making, computational modeling, and experimental work. The workshop participants will participate in numerous formal and informal discussions which we hope will lead to systematization of the knowledge in the field, formulating established facts, open issues, and ideas for new approaches. Format of the workshop The workshop will consist of key talks (45 min) (see the list of key talks), short papers (20 min), poster presentations, round table thematic discussions, working group sessions, informal discussions, concluding discussions on ideas for future work and cooperative projects. Pre-Proceedings of the workshop (containing all the accepted papers) will be published in advance and distributed to the participants, so that we can focus on discussions and joint work at the workshop. Submission instructions Paper and poster submissions should be made both electronically (in RTF format) and in hard copy (A4 or US letter (11" x 8.5") paper format) following these instructions. Papers should be no more than 8 pages long, poster abstracts - one page. The text should be formatted in two columns with an overall width of 14 cm and length of 20 cm, with 0.7 cm between the columns. Use 10 point Times Roman with 11 point vertical spacing, unless otherwise specified. The title should be 14 point, bold, centered, 0.5 cm below the top margin. Authors' names should be in 11 point, bold, and centered; authors' affiliation, postal address, and e-mail address should be in ordinary 10 point, centered. First-level headings should be 12 point, bold, initial caps, and centered. Second-level headings should be 11 point, initial caps, bold, and flush left. Third-level headings should be 10 point, bold, initial caps, and flush left. Use standard APA citation format, e.g. (McClelland & Rumelhart, 1981). Send your submissions electronically to analogy(a)cogs.nbu.acad.bg and my regular mail to: Boicho Kokinov - Analogy'98 Cognitive Science Department New Bulgarian University 21, Montevideo Str. Sofia 1635, Bulgaria Timetable Deadline for workshop registration - March 1st, 1998 Deadline for submission of papers - March 1st, 1998 Deadline for poster abstracts - March 20th, 1998 Notification of Acceptance - April 15th, 1998 Invited participants' deadline for papers - June 1st, 1998 Publication of the Workshop Proceedings - June 30th, 1998 Workshop - July 17-20, 1998, (arrival 16th, departure 21st) Participants and Funding Participation in the workshop is mainly by invitation to ensure high quality and balance of representatives of various schools of thought, of various disciplines, of various countries and continents. The organizers hope that all these schools and geographic regions will be represented. The following list of invitees is provisional and open for additions. The workshop is, however, open to other participants as well, up to the upper limit of 50 participants. The organizers are looking for some funding which would allow us to support some of the participants for their participation in the workshop. However, as this is still uncertain, we would like to kindly ask the potential participants to look for their own funding sources and to try to ensure their participation in advance. Co-events The workshop will take place during the 5th International Summer School in Cognitive Science (July 13-25, 1998) which will offer an opportunity to have external critics and advisors from well known researchers working in other areas of cognitive science. Location Sofia is an old city first established by the Thracians about 4000BC. There are still some ruins from the old Roman time city. The National History Museum holds some fascinating gold treasures from Thracian times. There is a small church with frescos from the 12th century painted in a realistic Renaissance style a long time before the Renaissance in Europe started. Not very far from Sofia is the beautiful Rila monastery as well as some old towns like Plovdiv (with an old town part and a Roman amphitheater) and Koprivstitza. You may also want to combine your trip with a holyday at the Black Sea side. Organizing Committee: Dedre Gentner (Northwestern Univ., USA) gentner(a)nwu.edu - Co-Director Keith Holyoak (Univ. of California at Los Angeles, USA) holyoak(a)lifesci.ucla.edu edu - Co-Director Boicho Kokinov (New Bunlgarian Univ., Bulgaria) kokinov(a)cogs.nbu.acad.bg edu - Co-Director Robert French (Univ. of Liege, Belgium) rfrench(a)ulg.ac.be Erica Melis (Univ. of Saarland, Germany) melis(a)cs.uni-sb.de List of key talks Umberto Eco - (not confirmed yet) Douglas Hofstadter - Analogy as the Core of Cognition Keith Holyoak - The Place of Analogy in a Physical Symbol System Dedre Gentner - Comparison and Cognition Gilles Fauconnier - Analogy and Conceptual Integration Jaime Carbonell - Analogy in Problem Solving, from the Routine to the Creative Boicho Kokinov - Analogy is like Cognition: Complex, Emergent, Context-Sensitive Mark Keane - Why Conceptual Combination is Seldom Analogy David Premack - Analogies in Chimpanzees Andy Meltzoff - The Origins and Early Development of Analogy in the Preverbal Period Usha Goswami - Analogical Reasoning in Children Graeme Halford - The Problem of Structural Complexity in Cognitive Processes: A Metric Based on Representational Rank Ken Forbus - Qualitative Mental Models: Simulations or Memories? Paul Thagard - Emotional Analogies James Hampton - Analogy is like categorization: thoughts on the role of conceptual structure in analogical reasoning Adam Biela - Analogical Resoning as a Base for Structuring Cognitive Schemata in New Situations: A Case of Economic Transformation in Post-Communist Countries List of invited participants Ron Ferguson (Northwestern University, USA) ferguson(a)ils.nwu.edu Ken Kurtz (Northwestern University, USA) kjk(a)nwu.edu Arthur Markman (Columbia University, USA) markman(a)paradox.psych.columbia.edu John Hummel (UCLA, USA) jhummel(a)lifesci.ucla.edu Richard Catrambone (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) rc7(a)prism.gatech.edu Charles Wharton (National Institutes of Health, USA) wharton(a)codon.nih.gov Barbara Spellman (U. of Virginia, USA) spellman(a)psyvax.psy.utexas.edu Laura Novick (Vanderbilt University, USA) novicklr(a)ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu Mary Jo Rattermann (Hampshire, USA) mratter1(a)swarthmore.edu Judy DeLoache (U. of Illinois, USA) jdeloach(a)[s.psych.]uiuc.edu Manuela Veloso(CMU, USA) mmv(a)cs.cmu.edu David Leake (Indiana University, USA) leake(a)cs.indiana.edu Robert Goldstone (Indiana University, USA) rgoldsto(a)ucs.indiana.edu Jim Marshall (Indiana University, USA) marshall(a)cogsci.indiana.edu Brian Bowdle (Indiana University, USA) bbowdle(a)indiana.edu Melanie Mitchell (Santa Fe Institute, USA) mm(a)santafe.edu Miriam Bassok (U. of Washington, USA) mbassok(a)u.washington.edu Roger Thompson (Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA, USA) r_thompson(a)acad.fandm.edu Nancy Nersessian (Georgia Tech, USA) nancyn(a)cc.gatech.edu John Clement (University of Massachusets, MA, USA) jclement(a)educ.umass.edu Eve Sweetser (UC Berkeley, USA) sweetser(a)cogsci.berkeley.edu Adele Goldberg (UCSD, USA) aegoldberg(a)ucsd.edu Lokendra Shastri (UC Berkeley, USA) schastri(a)icsi.berkeley.edu Thomas Ward (Texas A&M University, USA) tbw(a)psyc.tamu.edu Ronald Finke (Texas A&M University, USA) raf(a)psyc.tamu.edu Jim Herriot (Sun, USA) Jim.Herriot(a)Eng.Sun.COM Cameron Shelley (U. of Waterloo, Canada) cpshelle(a)watarts.uwaterloo.ca Bipin Indurkhya (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan) bipin(a)cc.tuat.ac.jp Hiroaki Suzuki (Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan) susan(a)ri.aoyama.ac.jp Tony Plate (Victoria U of Wellington, New Zealand) Tony.Plate(a)MCS.VUW.AC.NZ Pentti Kanerva (SICS, Sweden) kanerva(a)sics.se Robert French (University of Liege, Belgium) rfrench(a)ulg.ac.be John A Barnden (University of Birmingham, UK) <J.A.Barnden(a)cs.bham.ac.uk> Michael Ramscar (University of Edinburgh, UK) Michael(a)aisb.ed.ac.uk Bruce Burns (U. of Potsdam, Germany) burns(a)persius.rz.uni-potsdam.de Friedrich Wilkening ( U. of Tuebingen, Germany) wilk(a)mailserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de friedrich.wilkening(a)uni-tuebingen.de Michael Waldmann (Max-Planck Institute of Psychological Research in Munich, Germany) waldmann(a)mpipf-muenchen.mpg.de Meredith Gattis (Max-Planck Institute of Psychological Research in Munich, Germany) gattis(a)mpipf-muenchen.mpg.de Erica Melis (Univ. of Saarland, Germany) melis(a)cs.uni-sb.de Cristina Cacciari (University of Bologna, Italy) cacciari(a)psibo.unibo.it Stella Vosniadou (University of Athens, Greece) svosniad(a)atlas.uoa.ariadne-t.gr Merry Bullock (University of Vilnus, Estonia) mxb.apa(a)email.apa.org, merry(a)vm.ee Maciej Haman (University of Warsaw, Poland) MEH(a)sci.psych.uw.edu.pl Dan Simon (Haifa University, Israel) dsimon(a)research.haifa.ac.il