From: Timo Honkela tho(a)james.hut.fi Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 13:48:08 -0800 ( PST) To: cogling(a)ucsd.edu Subject: Final CFP: AKRR'05 incl. Adaptive Models of Knowledge, Language and Dear Colleagues, I would like to express our enthusiasm over next summer's conference on Adaptive Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (AKRR'05) In June 15-17 2005. Keynote speakers include: - Prof. Jonathan Evans (University of Plymouth) who has conducted extensive research on human reasoning emphasizing that reasoning is primarily pragmatic, probabilistic and highly contextualised by relevant prior knowledge and beliefs. - Dr. Aapo Hyvarinen (University of Helsinki) who is one of the leading experts of Independent Component Analysis that appears to be a basis for many exciting developments including "next generation Latent Semantic Analysis". - Dr. Gabriella Vigliocco (University College London) who has conducted research on many exciting topics related to language processing combining behavioural experiments, imaging studies and statistical models. As a part of the AKRR'05 conference, we organize AMKLC'05 symposium on "Adaptive Models of Knowledge, Language and Cognition". AMKLC'05 is chaired by Ann Russell, University of Toronto. The programme committee includes number of prominent researchers including Angelo Cangelosi (University of Plymouth), Brian MacWhinney (CMU) and Chris Sinha (University of Portsmouth). Also in the AKRR'05 conference we have a very high-quality programme committee that includes, for example, Lee Giles (Pennsylvania State University; developer of CiteSeer) and Deb Roy (MIT Media Lab; director of Cognitive Machines Research). In addition, you might find the following two symposia interesting: 1) Emergent Models of Language for Speech Processing and Machine Translation (EML'05), chaired by Krista Lagus, Helsinki University of Technology; 2) Knowledge Representation in Bioinformatics (KRBIO'05), chaired by Catherine Bounsaythip, VTT Biotechnology. Finnish Cognitive Linguistics Association (FiCLA) organizes a preconference workshop on "Cognitivism Meets Dynamism" chaired by Oili Karihalme (University of Turku). Please, find more detailed information below and at the conference web site http://www.cis.hut.fi/AKRR05/ Please, note the submission deadline 29th of January for most of the events. For EML'05 symposium the deadline is 19 March 2005. Best regards, Timo Honkela ------------------------=====================------------------------ Final Call for Papers International and Interdisciplinary Conference on ADAPTIVE KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION AND REASONING Espoo, Finland, 15-17 June 2005 Helsinki University of Technology http://www.cis.hut.fi/AKRR05/ ---------------------=============================------------------- Conference Topic ---------------- AKRR'05 conference focuses on adaptive approaches of knowledge representation and reasoning. The basic idea is to bring together evidence from various disciplines including computer science, experimental psychology, brain research and cognitive science. Methodogical basis lies in probability theory, statistics, artificial neural networks, dynamical systems theory and related disciplines. Specific symposium and workshop topics in the conference are: * Knowledge Representation of Biological Information http://www.cis.hut.fi/AKRR05/krbio05/ The KRBIO'05 symposium focuses on the representation of information in several areas of life sciences taking into account the complexity, dynamics and co-occurrence of the phenomena, and the heterogeneous sources of information. * Adaptive Models of Knowledge, Language and Cognition http://www.cis.hut.fi/AKRR05/amklc05/ The AMKLC'05 symposium focuses on emergence, complexity and self-organization in cognitive and social systems: how knowledge is being created and established within human and computer-mediated networks and the role of language as an adaptive medium for knowledge building. * Emergent Models of Language for Speech Processing and Machine Translation In the EML'05 symposium, the use of emergent models in the area of language technology is explored. For example, we are interested in the discovery of models of syntatical structures and grammars, language models and their constituents, basic representational units such as morphemes and phonemes. * FiCLA Workshop: Cognitivism meets Dynamism We invite presentations on approaches related to the dynamical phenomena within cognitive linguistics. Themes can be related to categorization, constructions, forces, motivations, presuppositions and activity. For the AKRR'05 conference we invite novel high-quality papers that are related to the conference themes including but not limited to: * contextuality in statistical analysis and reasoning * Bayesian models of learning and reasoning * dynamical systems models of knowledge * spatial representations of knowledge * analyses of the limitations of logic-based representations and reasoning * highly contextual reasoning based on very high-dimensional representations * statistical machine learning * pattern-based reasoning * unsupervised and reinforcement learning models for knowledge acquisition and representation * knowledge capture * continuous formal systems * emergent representations based on independent component analysis (ICA) and self-organizing maps (SOM) * emergence of symbolic representations * cognitive models of perceptually grounded reasoning processes * knowledge representation and reasoning in non-stationary environments * explicit and implicit knowledge * internal and external representations * models of temporal processes and reasoning * subjective and intersubjective representation of time * knowledge representation and reasoning in the brain * non-symbolic ontologies and adaptive knowledge representation for the web * adaptive, dynamical and probabilistic representations of social and societal structures and processes * adaptive knowledge representation of industrial processes * probabilistic and pattern-based reasoning on financial and economical phenomena * emergent and evolutionary representations for creative and design processes Proceedings and Special Journal Issue ------------------------------------- The conference papers will be published by Helsinki University of Technology as printed proceedings and they will also be made available through the web to ensure wide distribution. In addition, the authors of the best papers will be invited to extend their papers for journal publication(s) including a special issue of the International Journal of Neural Systems. The conference is supported by PASCAL network (http://www.pascal-network.org/) Committees ---------- * Programme committee chair, AKRR'05 - Timo Honkela Helsinki University of Technology * Programme committee, AKRR'05 - Helena Ahonen-Myka, University of Helsinki, Finland - Esa Alhoniemi, University of Turku, Finland - Andrew Coward, Australian National University, Australia - Walter Daelemans, Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium - Stefan Frank, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands - Lee Giles, Pennsylvania State University, USA - Lars Kai Hansen, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark - Melanie Hilario, University of Geneva, Switzerland - Johan Himberg, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland - Colin G. Johnson, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK - Michael Klein, University of Stuttgart, Germany - Vangelis Karkaletsis, N.C.S.R. Demokritos, Greece - Krista Lagus, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland - Vuokko Lantz, Nokia Research Center, Finland - Haibo Li, Umeå University, Sweden - Bruce MacLennan, University of Tennessee, USA - Petri Myllymäki, University of Helsinki, Finland - Pavol Návrat, Slovak University of Technology, Slovakia - Guenter Neumann, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany - Erkki Oja, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland - Masoud Nikravesh, University of California, Berkeley, USA - Deb Roy, MIT Media Lab, USA - Pavel Smrz, Masaryk University, Czech Republic - Dimitrios Stamovlasis, Education Research Center, Greece - Peter Tino, University of Birmingham, UK - Stefan Wermter, University of Sunderland, UK - Ricardo Vigário, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland * Programme committee chair, AMKLC'05 - Ann Russell, University of Toronto * Programme committee, AMKLC'05 - Henrik Bruun, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland - John Bullinaria, University of Birmingham, UK - Angelo Cangelosi, University of Plymouth, UK - Ritva Engeström, University of Helsinki, Finland - Roberta Ferrario, Institute for Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, Italy - Stefano Franchi, University of Auckland, New Zealand - Kai Hakkarainen, University of Helsinki, Finland - Francis Heylighen, Free University of Brussels, Belgium - Timo Honkela, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland - Jussi Karlgren, SICS, Sweden - Tarja Knuuttila, University of Helsinki, Finland - Kirsti Lonka, Karolinska Institute, Sweden - Brian MacWhinney, Carnegie Mellon University, USA - Alexander Riegler, Free University of Brussels, Belgium - Ann Russell, University of Toronto, Canada (chair) - Pirita Seitamaa-Hakkarainen, University of Joensuu, Finland - Chris Sinha, University of Portsmouth, UK - Matti Sintonen, University of Helsinki, Finland - Jaakko Särelä, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland - Earl Woodruff, University of Toronto, Canada * Organizing committee chair - Prof. Olli Simula Helsinki University of Technology * Organizing committee - Marjukka Ankkuriniemi, Incint Oy - Timo Honkela, Helsinki University of Technology - Tiina Lindh-Knuutila, Helsinki University of Technology - Matti Pöllä, Helsinki University of Technology - Petri Saarikko, Helsinki University of Technology -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ .