Workshop @ Ecal 2005 - call for papers

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............................Call for papers...........................

.......................Workshop @ ECAL 2005.......................

........Active Agents and Their Environments as Dynamical Systems.....
..................www.ecal2005.org/workshops.html .....................

.............Organized by the activate.d reading group................
.......................University of Sussex...........................

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ECAL2005, in September, will host a workshop on
"Active agents and their environments as dynamical systems" organised
by the activate.d reading group from the University of Sussex.

We are seeking papers within the broad range of the so called dynamical
systems approach to life and cognition, from both technical and
conceptual/philosophical perspectives.

Contacts are underway to publish the papers in the Journal of Adaptive
Behavior.

You may find detailed information about the workshop in our webpage at
www.informatics.sussex.ac.uk/users/eji21/activate.d/[email protected]
or through the workshop webpage at www.ecal2005.org/workshops.html


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PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
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Randall Beer, Case Western University.
Peter Cariani, Tufts Medical School.
Edwin de Jong, Universiteit Utrecht.
Ezequiel Di Paolo, University of Sussex.
Dario Floreano, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne.
Inman Harvey, University of Sussex.
Phil Husbands, University of Sussex.
Takashi Ikegami, University of Tokyo.
Scott Kelso, Florida Atlantic University.
Luis Mateus Rocha, Indiana University.
Tom Ziemke, University of Skovde.

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IMPORTANT DATES
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Submission deadline: 20th of May
Review results: 15th of June
Corrected papers due: 22nd of June

Papers must be emailed in pdf format to one of the organisers (see
addresses below) and will be reviewed by at least two independent
reviewers, in compliance with the host conference rules.

The work to be submitted may include (but is not limited to) topics such as:

* Embodied cognition (the exploitation by a cognitive agent, qua
cognitive, of all its physical properties).
* Evolution of intrinsic and extrinsic morphologies in artificial
agents.
* Robotics within the framework of the DSaLC (Dynamical Systems
approach to Life and Cognition).
* Cognition as brain/body/environment interaction.
* Online learning as dynamics occurring at different time scales.
* Synthesis of dynamical systems models which exhibit adaptive
behaviour.
* Self-organisation, selection and neutrality in the evolution of
dynamical systems.
* Agency, homeostasis and autopoiesis.
* The present dangers of the (conscious and unconscious) use of
GOFAI principles within a DSaLC framework.
* Dynamical systems tools for understanding adaptive behaviour.
* Behavioural dynamics of interest to cognitive science (e.g.
chaotic itinerancy, globally coupled chaotic systems).
* Dynamical systems architectures (i.e. neural networks, cellular
automata, other models) and their behavioural dynamics.
* Models of dynamical systems coupling.

Papers should be sent to either one of the workshop organisers:

Fernando Almeida e Costa Eduardo Izquierdo-Torres


You may find more information about the activate.d reading group at
www.informatics.sussex.ac.uk/users/eji21/activate.d