11.11.97
5 Ankündigungen
Sehr geehrtes Mitglied der Gesellschaft für Kognitionswissenschaft,
diese Mitteilung enthält fünf Ankündigungen unterschiedlicher Länge.
Auf besonders breites Interesse dürfte das Zweite Interdisziplinäre
Kolleg (IK98) stoßen. Diese siebentägige Veranstaltung bietet
ein extrem reichhaltiges und abwechslungsreiches Programm.
Bei den Dozenten und Organisatoren sind die Mitglieder der GK stark vertreten,
und die Gesellschaft als ganze unterstützt die Veranstaltung.
Die beste Empfehlung bietet aber das Programm selbst.
In dieser Mail ist nur eine kurze Beschreibung in Textform enthalten. Die WWW-Seite
des IK98 bietet eine Fülle von Informationen und Verbindungen nach anderen Seiten,
die auch unabhängig von der Veranstaltung lesenswert sind.
Besten Gruß
Anthony Jameson
Schriftführer der GK
Zweites Interdisziplinaeres Kolleg, IK98 Guenne am Moehnesee, 7.-14.3.1998 >> http://www.tzi.informatik.uni-bremen.de/ik98 << Was ist das Interdisziplinaere Kolleg? Das Interdisziplinaere Kolleg (IK) ist eine intensive interdisziplinaere Fruehjahrsschule zum Generalthema "Intelligenz und Gehirn". Die Schirmwissenschaften des IK sind die Neurowissenschaft, die Kognitionswissenschaft, die Kuenstliche Intelligenz und die Neuroinformatik. Angesehene Dozenten aus diesen Disziplinen vermitteln Grundlagenkenntnisse, fuehren in methodische Vorgehensweisen ein und erlaeutern aktuelle Forschungsfragen. Ein abgestimmtes Spektrum von Grund-, Theorie- und Spezialkursen, sowie an disziplinuebergreifenden Veranstaltungen teilweise mit praktischen Uebungen richtet sich an Studenten und Forscher aus dem akademischen und industriellen Bereich. Veranstalter ist die Gesellschaft fuer Informatik (GI) mit Unterstuetzung von: FB 1 (KI) der GI, Fachgruppe 0.0.2 (NN) der GI, European Neural Network Society (ENNS) und German Chapter (GNNS), DFG-Graduiertenkolleg "Signalketten in lebenden Systemen", Neurowissenschaftliche Gesellschaft, GMD, Gesellschaft fuer Kognitionswissenschaft. In den letzten Jahren gab es in Deutschland einen interdisziplinaeren Aufbruch. Er fand im Herbst 1996 einen ersten Hoehepunkt in der Tagung "Wege ins Hirn" (http://www.hlrz.kfa-juelich.de/~peters/WegeInsHirn/). Dort wurde auch beschlossen, das IK als Nachfolgerin der bekannten KI-Fruehjahrschulen (KIFS) auszurichten. Diese Aufbruchstimmung ging beim ersten IK im Fruehjahr 1997 auf die Teilnehmenden und Dozierenden ueber. Die Kurse und die Atmosphaere fanden grossen, oft sogar enthusiastischen Anklang. Das IK findet nun alljaehrlich statt. Als Veranstalter fungiert die Gesellschaft fuer Informatik (GI), mit Unterstuetzung von Fachverbaenden der beteiligten Disziplinen. Veranstaltungsort Das Tagungsheim ist die Familienbildungsstaette "Heinrich-Luebke-Haus" in Guenne (Sauerland). Dies Haus liegt abgeschieden am Moehnesee im Naturpark Arnsberger Wald. Die Teilnehmer sind im Tagungsheim untergebracht. Alles foerdert einen konzentrierten, geselligen Austausch zwischen den Teilnehmern auch abends nach den eigentlichen Kursveranstaltungen. Schwerpunktthema Das IK-98 hat als besonderen Schwerpunkt das Thema "Sprache und Kommunikation", das in mehreren weiterfuehrenden Kursen von unterschiedlichen Disziplinen her beleuchtet wird. Kurse und Dozenten Grundkurse G1 Neurobiologie (Gerhard Roth) G2 Kuenstliche Neuronale Netze - Theorie und Praxis (Guenther Palm, Helge Ritter) G3 Einfuehrung in die KI (Ipke Wachsmuth) G4 Kognitive Systeme - Eine Einfuehrung in die Kognitionswissenschaft (Gerhard Strube) Theoriekurse T1 Das komplexe reale Neuron (Helmut Schwegler) T2 Connectionist Speech Recognition (Herve Bourlard) T3 Perception of Temporal Structures - Especially in Speech (Robert F. Port) T4 Sprachstruktur - Hirnarchitektur ; Sprachverarbeitung - Hirnprozesse (Helmut Schnelle) Spezialkurse S1 Hybride konnektionistische und symbolische Ansaetze zur Verarbeitung natuerlicher Sprache (Stefan Wermter) S2 Intelligente Agenten fuer Multimedia-Schnittstellen (Wolfgang Wahlster, Elisabeth Andre) S3 Neurobiologie des Hoersystems (Guenter Ehret) S4 Sprachproduktion (Thomas Pechmann) Disziplinuebergreifende Kurse D1 Fuzzy und Neurosysteme (Rudolf Kruse) D2 Zeitliche Kognition (Ernst Poeppel, Till Roenneberg) D3 The origins and evolution of language and meaning (Luc Steels) D4 Kontrolle von Bewegung in biologischen Systemen und Navigation mobiler Roboter (Josef Schmitz, Thomas Christaller) D5 Optimieren neuronaler Netze durch Lernen und Evolution (Heinz Braun) D6 Koordination von Sprache und Handlung (Wolfgang Heydrich, Hannes Rieser) D7 Dinamik spikender Neurone und zeitliche Codierung (Andreas Herz) Abendprogramm In visionaeren, feurigen und/oder kuehnen "after-dinner-talks" werden herausragende Forscher und Forscherinnen zu Kontroversen einladen. Kursunterlagen Zu allen Kursen wird es schriftliche Dokumentationen geben, welche als Sammelband allen Teilnehmern ausgehaendigt werden. Wissenschaftlicher Beirat Um die Anliegen des Interdisziplinaeren Kollegs in den verschiedenen deutschen Forscherkreisen bekanntzumachen und zu vertreten, hat sich folgender Beirat aus namhaften Wissenschaftlern gebildet: Wolfgang Banzhaf, Wilfried Brauer, Armin B. Cremers, Christian Freksa, Otthein Herzog, Wolfgang Hoeppner, Hanspeter Mallot, Thomas Metzinger, Heiko Neumann, Hermann Ney, Guenther Palm, Ernst Poeppel, Wolfgang Prinz, Burghard Rieger, Helge Ritter, Claus Rollinger, Werner von Seelen, Hans Spada, Gerhard Strube, Helmut Schwegler, Ipke Wachsmuth, Wolfgang Wahlster. Organisationskomitee Thomas Christaller, Bernhard Froetschl, Christopher Habel, Herbert Jaeger, Anthony Jameson, Frank Pasemann, Bjoern-Olaf Peters, Annegret Pfoh, Raul Rojas (Gesamtleitung), Gerhard Roth, Kerstin Schill, Werner Tack. Tagungsbuero Christine Harms, c/o GMD, Schloss Birlinghoven, D-53754 Sankt Augustin, Telefon 02241-14-2473, Fax 02241-14-2472, email christine.harms@gmd.de Weitere Informationen Detaillierte Infos zum Hintergrund und dem Tagungsprogramm des IK-98 sind auf dessen Internet-homepage (http://www.tzi.uni-bremen.de/ik98/) abrufbar.[Zurück zur Übersicht]
THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF CONSCIOUSNESS
CALL FOR PAPERS, POSTERS & WORKSHOP PRESENTERS
FOR A CONFERENCE ON:
NEURAL CORRELATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS: EMPIRICAL AND CONCEPTUAL ISSUES
HANSE-WISSENSCHAFTSKOLLEG
JUNE 19-22, 1998: BREMEN, GERMANY
The second conference of the Association for the Scientific Study of
Consciousness will be held from June 19-22, 1998, in Bremen, Germany,
hosted and sponsored by the Hanse Institute for Advanced Study.
The search for neural correlates of consciousness (NCC) -- specific
systems in the brain that correlate directly with states of conscious
experience -- has become an active area of research in recent years.
Methods such as single-cell recording in monkeys and brain imaging and
electrophysiology in humans, applied to such phenomena as blindsight,
implicit/explicit cognition, and binocular rivalry (among others), have
generated a wealth of data. At the same time a number of theoretical
proposals about NCC location have been put forward. In addition,
important conceptual questions raised by this work are beginning to be
addressed.
The ASSC conference will bring together neuroscientists, psychologists,
and philosophers to focus on these issues. Empirical data from many
different paradigms will be presented, along with proposals about what
these results suggest concerning NCC location. Theorists will address
conceptual and methodological issues concerning the search for NCCs. The
conference will provide an opportunity for experimental and theoretical
researchers to jointly compare and contrast NCC proposals, to consider
key foundational questions, and to assess the current state and future
of this area of research.
Confirmed speakers include: Ansgar Beckermann, Ned Block, David
Chalmers, Patricia Churchland, Antonio Damasio, Stephen Engel, Hans
Flohr, Nick Franks, Melvyn Goodale, Valerie Gray Hardcastle, Christof
Koch, Nikos Logothetis, Thomas Metzinger, Ernst Pöppel, Joëlle Proust,
V. S. Ramachandran, Gerhard Roth, Arash Sahraie, Wolf Singer, and
Petra Stoerig.
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CALL FOR PAPERS & POSTERS
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It is intended that the topic of the conference will be covered in an
interdisciplinary manner and towards this end speakers are invited to
discuss these issues from physiological, psychological and philosophical
perspectives.
Submissions will be accepted as either poster or talk, depending on
their quality, their suitability to the topics addressed by this
conference and the available slots. Any person may present only one
submission, but may be co-author on more than one. Oral presentations
will be limited to 25 minutes, to be followed by a five minute
discussion period.
Concurrent sessions will take place at Holiday Inn and Übersee Hotel.
Poster sessions, symposia and all plenary lectures will take place at
Die Glocke.
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WORKSHOPS
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This notice is also intended as a call for workshop presenters. One of the
aims of this meeting is to allow researchers to gain a background in areas
that they may know little about. Towards that end a number of workshops are
planned. Is there a topic you or perhaps someone in your laboratory might
want to present? Some participants in the conference would be very
interested in learning about technical matters such as fMRI or other
important brain imaging techniques. Others might enjoy a seminar on a
philosophical topic. If you have recently published a book or major article
on some topic you might want to lead a discussion on it. As with papers the
focus of all workshops should naturally fit within the overall theme of the
conference. A non-exclusive list of topics that we intend presenting given
sufficient interest include background briefings in:
* The latest methods and implications of various brain scanning
techniques (e.g. fMRI, EEG, SQUID, ERP)
* Blindsight
* Neural network or other theoretical models of processing in areas
related to conscious activity
* Neglect
* Differences and similarities between conscious and unconscious
processing
* Current models of the visual system
* Criteria for the ascription of consciousness
* Philosophical issues concerning relations between neural
activities and consciousness
* Please suggest other sample topics, or modify the above!!
Workshops will be held in parallel sessions on the morning and afternoon
of June 19th. Each workshop is intended to last approximately
three hours. The sizes of workshops will vary between a minimum of 10 to
a maximum of around 25 people. Workshops that do not achieve the minimum
enrollment of 10 people will not be offered. Workshop presenters will
receive a minimum honorarium of 900 DM. The cost of attending workshops
will be 75 DM.
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SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS
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WORKSHOP PROPOSALS MUST BE RECEIVED BY JANUARY 31st 1998
PAPER AND POSTER SUBMISSIONS MUST BE RECEIVED BY FEBRUARY 28TH 1998
Submissions to be a presenter of either a paper, workshop or poster must
include the following information:
1. Title.
2. An abstract of 150-250 words
3. Name(s)
Institutional affiliation(s)
Postal address(es)
Email address(es)
Telephone and fax numbers
Membership status in the Association for the Scientific Study of
Consciousness (Full member, Affiliate, or Nonmember)
For papers and poster presenters:
4. A specification of which co-author will present the paper/poster at the
meeting
5. Be sure to indicate whether this is submitted as a
a. Spoken presentation
b. Poster
And also, if your spoken presentation cannot be
fit into the program, please indicate your willingness
to present it as a poster instead: Yes__ No__
Please send - using email where possible - paper and poster proposals to:
ASSC 2
Hanse Institute for Advanced Study
Fischstrasse 31
27749 Delmenhorst
Germany
Email: ASSC2@uni-bremen.de
Phone: ++49-(0)4221-9160-120 ; Fax: ++49-(0)4221-9160-125
Workshop proposals to:
Patrick Wilken
ASSC Conference Committee
Department of Computer Science
Monash University
Clayton VIC 3168
Australia
Email: patrickw@cs.monash.edu.au
Phone: +61-3-9905-5227; Fax: +61-3-9905-5146
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FURTHER INFORMATION
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Forms for paper, poster, and workshop submissions, registering at the
conference, and application for membership in the society are all
available from the ASSC website: <http://www.phil.vt.edu/ASSC/>. Please
check this site for updates to program information and general
information about the society's activities. In addition you can find out
more about two ASSC journals by checking out the following websites:
Consciousness & Cognition: http://www.idealibrary.com/
http://www.europe.idealibrary.com/
PSYCHE: http://psyche.cs.monash.edu.au/
Please address any further enquiries regarding the conference to the ASSC
organising committee at <ASSC2@uni-bremen.de>. The conference organizing
committee consists of: William Banks, David Chalmers, Christof Koch,
Thomas Metzinger, Antti Revonsuo, and Patrick Wilken.
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WORKSHOP ON
Deception, Fraud and Trust in Agent Societies
Minneapolis/St Paul, USA, May 9, 1998
Autonomous Agents '98
FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
Description of the workshop:
The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers that
can contribute to a better understanding of trust and deception
in agent societies.
Most agent models assume secure and reliable communication to
exist between agents. However, this ideal situation is seldom met
in real life. Therefore, many techniques (e.g. contracts,
signatures, long-term personnel relationships) have been evolved
over time to detect and prevent deception and fraud in human
communication, exchanges and relations, and hence to assure trust
between agents.
In recent research on electronic commerce trust has been
recognized as one of the key factors for successful electronic
commerce adoption. In electronic commerce problems of trust are
magnified, because agents reach out far beyond their familiar
trade environments. Also it is far from obvious whether existing
paper-based techniques for fraud detection and prevention are
adequate to establish trust in an electronic network environment
where you usually never meet your trade partner physically, and
where messages can be read or copied a million times without
leaving any trace. Trust building is more than secure
communication via electronic networks, as can be obtained with,
for example, public key cryptography techniques. For example, the
reliability of information about the status of your trade partner
has very little to do with secure communication. With the growing
impact of electronic commerce distance trust building becomes
more and more important, and better models of trust and deception
are needed. One trend is that in electronic communication
channels extra agents, the so-called Trusted Third Parties, are
introduced in an agent community that take care of trustbuilding
among the other agents in the network. For example, in some cases
the successful application of public key cryptography critically
depends on trusted third parties that issue the keys. Although we
do not focus in this workshop on techniques for secure
communication (e.g. public key cryptography), we would welcome
analyses about the advantages and limitations of these techniques
for trustbuilding.
The notion of trust is definitely important in other domains of
agents' theory, beyond that of electronic commerce. It seems even
foundational for the notion of "agency" and for its defining
relation of acting "on behalf of". So, trust is relevant also in
HC interaction; consider the relation between the user and
her/his personal assistant (and, in general, her/his computer).
But it is also critical for modeling groups and teams,
organisations, coordination, negotiation, with the related
trade-off between local/individual utility and global/collective
interest; or in modelling distributed knowledge and its
circulation. In sum, the notion of trust is crucial for all the
major topics of Multi-Agent systems.
Thus what is needed is a general and principled theory of trust,
of its cognitive and affective components, and of its social
functions.
Analogously the study of deception not only is very relevant for
avoiding practical troubles, but it seems really foundational for
the theory of communication. First, because it challenges Grice's
principles of linguistic communication; second, because the
notion of "sign" itself has been defined in semiotics in relation
to deception: "In principle, Semiotics is the discipline studying
whatever can be used for lying" (U. Eco).
Thus not only practical defences from deception (like
reputations, guaranties, etc.), but also a general and principled
theory of deception and of its forms (including fraud) are
needed.
We would encourage an interdisciplinary focus of the workshop as
well as the presentation of a wide range of models of deception,
fraud and trust(building). Just to mention some examples; AI
models, BDI models, cognitive models, game theory and also
management science theories about trustbuilding.
Suggested topics include, but are not restricted to:
* models of deception and of its functions
* models of trust and of its functions
* models of fraud
* role of trust and trusted third parties (TTP) in electronic commerce
* defensive strategies and mechanisms
* ways to detect and prevent deception and fraud
WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION
The full-day workshop will be aimed at creating an informal
atmosphere for stimulating discussions, interdisciplinary
exchange and deep understanding of each other's pespective.
We plan to have both:
Paper presentations:
Long presentations (25-30 min) of the accepted papers, plus
10-15 minutes for discussion (possibly with discussants). Plenary
discussion at the end.
Panel sessions:
A couple of topics will be selected for a focused
discussion. Some of the attendees will be requested to
participate as panelists. The panels chairs will circulate prior
to the workshop a list of questions for the panelists.
The accepted papers will be published in the workshop
proceedings. The publication of a revised version of the accepted
papers is being negotiated with a high quality publisher.
SUBMISSION: CRITERIA, FORMATS, PROCEDURE
The workshop welcomes submissions of original, high quality
papers addressing issues that are clearly relevant to trust,
deception and fraud in agent-based systems, either from a
theoretical or an applied perspective. Papers will be peer
reviewed by at least two referees from a group of reviewers
selected by the workshop organizers.
Submitted papers should be new work that has not been published
elsewhere or is not about to be published elsewhere.
Paper submissions: will include a full paper and a separate
title page with the title, authors (full address), a 300-400 word
abstract, and a list of keywords. The length of submitted papers
must not exceed 12 pages including all figures, tables, and
bibliography. All papers must be written in English.
* The authors must send by email the title page of their paper by
January 15th.
* Submissions must be send electronically, as a postscript or
MSword format file, by January 20th.
* The authors must also airmail one hard copy of their paper to
two of the organizers as soon as possible after the
electronic submission.
* No submissions by fax or arriving after the deadline will be
accepted.
SUBMISSION ADDRESS
for the electronic submission
Rino Falcone
falcone@pscs2.irmkant.rm.cnr.it
tel. +39 - 6 - 860 90 211
for the airmail hard copy
Babak Sadighi Firozabadi
Department of Computing - Imperial College
180 Queen's Gate - London SW7 2BZ - U.K.
and (notice "and")
Cristiano Castelfranchi
National Research Council - Institute of Psychology
Viale Marx, 15 - 00137 Roma - ITALY
tel +39 6 860 90 518
IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for the electronic title page January 15, 1998
Deadline for Paper Submission January 20, 1998
Notification of Acceptance/Rejection March 1, 1998
Deadline for camera-ready version April 1, 1998
Workshop May 9, 1998
Workshop organizers:
Cristiano Castelfranchi (co-chair)
National Research Council - Institute of Psychology- Rome - Italy
Yao-Hua Tan (co-chair)
EURIDIS - Erasmus University - Rotterdam - The Netherlands
Babak Sadighi Firozabadi
Department of Computing - Imperial College - London - UK
Rino Falcone
National Research Council - Institute of Psychology - Rome - Italy
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Apologies to those of you who receive multiple copies
ESSLLI-98 Workshop on
MUTUAL KNOWLEDGE, COMMON GROUND AND PUBLIC INFORMATION
August 24 - 28, 1998
A workshop held as part of the
10th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information
(ESSLLI-98)
August 17 - 28, 1998, Saarbrueken, Germany
** FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS **
ORGANISERS: Wolfgang Heydrich and Hannes Rieser (Hamburg/Bielefeld)
Web site: http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~esslli98/workshops.html
BACKGROUND
The topic of the workshop is in the common focus of several disciplines:
cognitive science, linguistic pragmatics & semantics, philosophical logic,
AI, and psychology. It concerns research in areas like discourse analysis,
coordination, presupposition and accomodation, as well as the formal
reconstruction of dialogue and interaction. There are obvious connections
to problems of group-epistemology and general (philosophical) concepts like
intersubjectivity. The topic constitutes a field of discussion where
empirical and formal methodologies meet (from controlled experiments and
discourse analysis to, say, non-well-founded set theory).
We invite contributions from all the fields mentioned above, which may
focus on:
- foundational problems (epistemic logic, social ontology, set theory),
- descriptive and experimental work in psychology, linguistics and
ethnomethodology,
- applications in models of agent's behaviour based on e.g., intention
analysis, Gricean accounts or speech act theory,
- computer simulation implementing the concepts mentioned.
WORKSHOP FORMAT:
The workshop will consist of five sessions (90 min. each) of presentation
and discussion of contributed papers. It will take place during the second
week of the Summer School and will be open to all members of the LLI
community.
SUBMISSIONS:
All reserchers in the area, but especially Ph.D. students and young
reserachers, are encouraged to submit a two-page abstract (hard copies or
by e-mail) to one of the following addresses:
Prof.Dr. Hannes Rieser PD Dr. Wolfgang Heydrich
University of Bielefeld University of Hamburg
Fak. Lili Germanisches Seminar
Postfach 100131 Von-Melle-Park 6
D-33501 Bielefeld D-20146 Hamburg
Germany Germany
rieser@lili.uni-bielefeld.de heydrich@lili.uni-bielefeld.de
phone: 0049-521-1063666 phone: 0049-40-4222501
fax: 0049-521-1062996 fax: 0049-40-4222603
The deadline for submission of abstracts is February 15, 1998.
Notification of contributors will be given around April 15, 1998.
Contributors of selected papers will be asked to provide extended abstracts
(five pages) to be distributed as work-shop notes. The deadline for
submission of extended abstracts is May 15, 98.
REGISTRATION:
Workshop contributors will be required to register for ESSLLI-98, but they
will be eligible for a reduced registration fee.
IMPORTANT DATES:
Feb 15, 98: Deadline for submissions
Apr 15, 98: Notification of acceptance
May 15, 98: Deadline for final copy
Aug 17, 98: Start of workshop
FURTHER INFORMATION:
To obtain further information about ESSLLI-98 please visit the ESSLLI-98
home page at http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/esslli
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Liebe Kollegen,
der Tagungsband mit 685 Seiten:
DuBOULAY & MIZOGUCHI (eds), Artificial Intelligence in Education:
Knowledge and Media in Learning Systems,
Proceedings of AI-ED 97 World Conference
on Artificial Intelligence in Education, Kobe, Japan;
Amsterdam: IOS-Press, ISBN 90 5199 353 6
ist erhaeltlich in Deutschland bei:
IOS Press
Spandauer Strasse 2
D-10178 Berlin
oder direkt bei Prof. Mizoguchi (miz@ei.sanken.osaka-u.ac.jp).
Mit freundlichem Gruss
Claus Moebus
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