[CogSci] Call for Participation - TransAIR Virtual Workshop on Cognitive Architectures for Robot Agents

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Call for Participation

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TransAIR Virtual Workshop on Cognitive Architectures for Robot Agents: 
Current Capabilities, Future Enhancements, and Prospects for 
Collaborative Development.


The workshop takes place from 22nd to 28th March, 2021.


Due to the virtual workshop format and the attendance of international 
audiences, we will schedule live sessions from 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. 
Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) / 2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Central European 
Time (CET).


Further details about the workshop and schedule will be available on the 
workshop website and social media channels:


Website: https://transair-bridge.org/workshop-2021 
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The workshop registration is open and can be found at our website: 
https://transair-bridge.org/workshop-2021 
<https://transair-bridge.org/workshop-2021>



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Workshop Overview

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This TransAIR workshop will bring together leading experts to address 
the challenges of developing cognitive architectures for robot agents. 
The primary goal of the workshop is to open a discussion on possible 
interdisciplinary collaborations and the identification of prospects for 
collaborative development, ideally in an open-source open-systems 
framework.

The agenda will contain discussions on what can be done in practice 
today, the innovations we can expect in the short term, and the advances 
that require longer-term research. We will also address the possibility 
of community-wide collaboration for consolidating operational cognitive 
architectures through joint development and common frameworks or 
interfaces. Invited experts will illustrate current capabilities by 
making reference to practical demonstrations of robot applications using 
their own cognitive architecture or their cognitive architecture of choice.



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Topics of Interests

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The workshop addresses a wide range of topics in cognitive architectures 
for robot agents, particularly addressing:

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    current capabilities,

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    future enhancements,

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    prospects for collaborative development,

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    potential for open science and open research in the context of
    AI-based robotics in the field of cognitive architectures.



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Virtual Venue

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Due to the uncertainties surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic and to ensure 
the well-being of participants, the workshop will be held virtually. We 
will use a virtual venue tool to offer a workshop experience which 
targets a composition of pre-recorded video presentations of invited 
talks accompanied with live Q&A session, live tutorials or interviews 
and live panel discussions. We are providing a complete virtual 
experience where you can customize your virtual avatar, explore the 
workshop by walking around our venue, listen to the pre-recorded invited 
talks, join the live Q&A and panel discussions or have group 
conversations while enjoying the virtual coffee break or private 
conversations.



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Invited Speakers and Panelists

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Leading experts are brought together to present their research and 
perspectives on the topic of the workshop. We have an excellent line-up:

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    Yiannis Aloimonos, University of Maryland

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    Minoru Asada, Osaka University

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    Tamim Asfour, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

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    Angelo Cangelosi, University of Manchester

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    Yiannis Demiris, Imperial College London

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    Kazuhiko Kawamura, Vanderbilt University

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    Jeffrey Krichmar, University of California

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    Sean Kugele, University of Memphis

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    John E. Laird, University of Michigan

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    Tomaso Poggio, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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    Helge Ritter, Bielefeld University

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    Matthias Scheutz, Tufts University

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    Alessandra Sciutti, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia

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    Ron Sun, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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    Agnieszka Wykowska, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia

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Organizing Committee

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    Michael Beetz, Institute for Artificial Intelligence, University of
    Bremen

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    Giulio Sandini, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, University of Genoa

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    David Vernon, Institute for Artificial Intelligence, University of
    Bremen

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    Christian A. Mueller, Institute for Artificial Intelligence,
    University of Bremen

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    Alexander Wich, Institute for Artificial Intelligence, University of
    Bremen

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    Jörn Syrbe, Institute for Artificial Intelligence, University of Bremen



Stay tuned for updates or find further information about the workshop on 
our website, social media channels or contact us via email: 
contact at transair-bridge.org <mailto:contact at transair-bridge.org>


Website: https://transair-bridge.org/workshop-2021 
<https://transair-bridge.org/workshop-2021>

Twitter: 
https://twitter.com/TransAIR12<https://twitter.com/TransAIR12>Facebook: 
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