Call for Papers

Call for Workshop Papers (CFP)

MODELLING ADAPTIVE AND COGNITIVE SYSTEMS (ADAPCOG 2008)

at SBIA/SBRN/JRI Joint Conference, www.sbia2008.ufba.br,

October 26-30, 2008, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

Call for Papers deadline EXTENDED to July, 6th!

*Topics

The workshop seeks contributions in topics within computational models and experiments involving adaptive and cognitive systems. Topics of interest for this special track on cognitive systems include among others:

- Adaptive behavior modeling and simulation

- Evolution of complex adaptive behavior

- Artificial Life, Animats, Robotics and multi-robots models

- Agent-based models of biological systems and processes

- Artificial systems as models of biological processes

- Biosemiotic processes and systems

- Modeling of meaning and information processing

- Representation and symbol grounding

- Emergence, Complexity and Self-organization

- Epistemological and Methodological issues

It is of special interest of this workshop, computer models and simulations of cognitive processes inspired by biological/empirical motivations and/or formal theoretical principles. Researchers dealing with issues related with representation in artificial systems (e.g. symbol grounding, language, meaning) are particularly encourage to submit contributions to the workshop.

*Important Dates

July 06, 2008 - Submission Deadline Extended

August 05, 2008 - Notification to authors

August 20, 2008 - Camera-ready copies of papers (updated)

October 26-30, 2008 - Joint Conference SBIA/SBRN/JRI 2008

October 26-30, 2008 - ADAPTCOG 2008

*Submission Instructions

You are invited to submit papers to the upcoming Workshop on Modelling Adaptive and Cognitive Systems. Papers must be written in English and may have a length of up to 10 pages, including tables, figures, and

references. Like the main conference, papers must conform to the Springer LNCC/LNAI style. It is recommended that authors use Springer-Verlag template files (see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html, section "Proceedings and Other Multi-author Volumes" for formatting instructions) to minimize possible conflicts of paper length when

preparing the camera ready.

Papers should be formatted in PDF (preferred) or PostScript, and submitted electronically only, through the JEMS Conference Management System web site at [https://submissoes.sbc.org.br/sbia2008]. Reviewing for papers will be double blind, i.e. blind to the identities of the authors and their institutions and to the identities of the reviewer. Please, EXCLUDE AUTHORS' NAMES AND INSTITUTIONS from the submitted manuscript, they will be included in camera ready versions only.

Submission is a three-step process. In a first step authors are required to register as new authors with JEMS. After registration as author the login data will be sent to the specified email address. This data can be used to access the system. In a second step authors have to register their paper (click the submit paper button in JEMS). The third step consists on uploading the paper. Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by at least two program committee members and/or additional reviewers/referees.

Accepted papers will be made public in the website (abstracts only) and published in the Proceedings of the Workshops of the SBIA-SBRN-JRI 2008, on CD-ROM (full papers). Selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version to be published in a tentative special issue of an international journal to be announced.

Any other questions regarding papers submission may be directed to one of the organizers.

*Chairs

Angelo Loula

angelocl AT ecomp.uefs.br, www.artificial.eng.br

Dept. of Exact Sciences, State University of Feira de Santana (UEFS), Feira de Santana, BA, Brasil

Dept. of Computer Eng. and Industrial Automation, FEEC, State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, SP, Brasil

João Queiroz

queirozj AT ecomp.uefs.br, www.semiotics.pro.br

Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), Salvador, BA, Brasil

Graduate Studies Program on History, Philosophy and Science Teaching

(UFBA/UEFS)

*Program Committee (UPDATED!)

Fabiana Bertoni (UEFS)

Guilherme Bittencourt (UFSC)

Angelo Cangelosi (University of Plymouth)

Anthony Chemero (Franklin and Marshall College)

Gerd Doeben-Henish (Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences)

Charbel El-Hani (UFBA)

James Fetzer (University of Minnesota Duluth)

Maria Eunice Gonzalez (UNESP)

Ricardo Gudwin (UNICAMP)

Pim Haselager (University of Nijmegen)

Bruce MacLennan (University of Tennesee)

Lorenzo Magnani (University of Pavia)

Mihai Nadin (University of Texas)

Matheus Pires (UEFS)

Frederik Stjernfelt (University of Aarhus)

Jon Umerez (University of the Basque Country)