[CogSci] 2nd CfP ICDL-EpiRob 2019 in Oslo, Norway

Katharina Rohlfing katharina.rohlfing at uni-paderborn.de
Tue Jan 8 00:32:52 PST 2019


Dear colleagues, please note the second Call for Papers. Happy New Year to you, Katharina.

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2nd CfP ICDL-EpiRob 2019

9th joint meeting of the International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL)
and the International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics (EpiRob)
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https://icdl-epirob2019.org<https://icdl-epirob2019.org/>

19 – 22 August 2019 in Oslo; Norway

We invite submissions to explore, extend, and consolidate the interdisciplinary boundaries of this exciting research field. In addition to the usual paper submission-selection process, the BabyBot Challenge will crown computational models that capture core aspects of specific psychology experiments.

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Important Deadlines
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22 February 2019: Paper Deadline (6 pages for papers or 2 pages for posters)
1 May 2019: Acceptance Notification
1 June 2019: Camera Ready Deadline

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Speakers
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Aude Billard, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Stefanie Höhl, University of Vienna

Hod Lipson, Columbia University

Michael J. Frank, Brown University

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Topics
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ICDL-EpiRob is a unique conference gathering researchers from both computer science, robotics, and psychology and developmental studies to share knowledge and research findings on how humans and animals develop sensing, reasoning and actions, including social properties through interaction with the environment and how these capabilities can be implemented in computing systems and robotics. This approach goes hand in hand is with the goal of both understanding human and animal development and how this can be applied to improve future intelligent technology including for robots that will be in close interaction with humans.

 Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
– general principles and theories of development and learning;
– development of skills in biological systems and robots;
– nature vs nurture, critical periods and developmental stages;
– models on the contributions of input / interaction to learning;
– models on active learning;
– architectures for cognitive development and life-long learning;
– emergence of body knowledge and affordance perception;
– analysis and modeling of human motion and state;
– models for prediction, planning and problem solving;
– models of human-human and human-robot interaction;
– emergence of verbal and non-verbal communication skills;
– epistemological foundations and philosophical issues;
– robot prototyping of human and animal skills
– ethics in computational intelligence and robotics

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Submission
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We accept two types of research submissions.
Full six-page paper submissions: Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings and will be selected for either an oral presentation or a featured poster presentation. Maximum two-extra pages can be acceptable for a publication fee of 10,000 JP Yen per page.
Two-page poster abstract submissions: To encourage discussion of late-breaking results or for work that is not sufficiently mature for a full paper, we will accept 2-page abstracts.

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Babybot Challenge Paper Award
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Babybot Challenge papers are expected to establish a strong link between developmental psychology and robotics and/or computational modeling. Submissions will be judged by the following criteria:
– How well does the computational model (e.g. an artificial system, which can be a robot or a software agent) represent the particular features of the experimental research addressed.
– How closely the performance of the model replicate the experimental findings, and how parsimonious is the model .
– The extent of the novel insights or explanations generated by the model, and importantly whether the model make interesting and testable predictions.

We encourage the authors to tag their submission for “Babybot Challenge” award during contributed paper submission, which would indicate that there is significant content that puts the paper in the spotlight of “Babybot Challenge”.

The prize for the winner of the Babybot Challenge is a Titan-V (GPGPU board) by Nvidia.

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Committee
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General chairs: Jim Torresen, Kerstin Dautenhahn
Program chairs: Kai Olav Ellefsen, Katharina J. Rohlfing
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