[CogSci] Extension: AAAI FS on Common Model of Cognition

[Christian Lebiere]

The submission deadline for the AAAI FS on CMC has been extended to Sunday
July 29 (midnight).

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AAAI 2018 Fall Symposium on “A Common Model of Cognition,” October 18-20,
2018

This symposium is a direct follow-on to the 2017 AAAI Fall Symposium on “A
Standard Model of the Mind.”  Our goal is to engage the international
research community in developing a common model of cognition – that is, a
community consensus concerning mental structures and process to the extent
that such exists – with a focus specifically on human-like minds, including
artificial minds that are either inspired by human ones or are similar
because of common functional goals. After the first meeting, we formed
online working groups covering the following topics: (1) procedural and
working memories; (2) declarative memory; (3) metacognition and reflection;
(4) language processing; (5) emotion, mood, affect and motivation; (6)
higher-level knowledge, rational and social constraints; (7) lower-level
neural and physiological constraints; and (8) perceptual and motor systems.
The intent of these working groups is to develop a statement of the best
consensus in each area given the community’s current understanding of these
components of cognition and how they fit together. The goal of this year’s
meeting to provide a forum to focus on extending the model based on the
progress made in the working groups while engaging new participants to the
process. Interested people can participate in the effort by subscribing to
the Common Model list and joining the working groups of interest. (See
https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/common-model. List archives
provide instructions on joining the working groups.)

Format
There will be a combination of parallel working group sessions that focus
on the major components, and plenary sessions for working group
presentations and discussions of general topics drawn from submitted
papers. There also will be a poster session for accepted papers not
presented in the other sessions.

Submissions
Full papers (up to 6 pages) or short position papers (2 pages) can be
submitted to sm at ict.usc.edu by July 29, 2018 (midnight). They can address
fundamental issues with the concept of a common model, describe alternative
formulations, or make proposals for extension to the common model or its
components. While contributions from all perspectives are welcome, those
arising from a cognitive architecture approach — and yielding implications
for the computational structure and function of the mind and its parts —
are expected to be most directly relevant.

Organizing Committee
John Laird (University of Michigan, laird at umich.edu),
Christian Lebiere (Carnegie Mellon University, cl at cmu.edu),
Paul S. Rosenbloom (University of Southern California, rosenbloom at usc.edu)

For More Information
People considering writing position papers are encouraged to visit the
symposium website (http://sm.ict.usc.edu), which has additional background
resources.  You can also contact any member of the organizing committee.
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