31 Jul - 3 Aug 2013
Beijing, China
Hi,
AGI-12, the Fifth Conference on Artificial General Intelligence, is in
just a couple months --- Dec 8-11 at Oxford University in the UK, see
http://agi-conf.org/2012 . We hope you can make it!
But as well, we've already started planning for next year's AGI event:
AGI-13, which will be in Beijing, China, July 31-Aug 3 2013. Note that
the IJCAI international AI conference is in Beijing immediately after
AGI-13, so there's an opportunity to take in both conferences on the same
trip.
At the end of this email you'll find the preliminary Call for Papers for
AGI-13. The paper submission deadline is March 1, 2013.
AGI-13 is a unique opportunity, not only to keep up to date with (and
contribute to) the frontiers of international AGI research, but also to
get a sense of the scope of AGI research going on these days in China and
Asia more broadly. We expect AGI-13 to attract a mix of AGI conference
regulars, international IJCAI presenters, and Chinese and other Asian
researchers working on AGI-related areas, who may not have interfaced
significantly with the Western AGI community before.
Please mark the dates for AGI-13 on your calendars, and start thinking
about what paper you might like to submit.
Thanks,
Ben Goertzel
Chair, AGI Conference Series
Pei Wang
Chair, AGI-13, Beijing
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PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS: AGI-13
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The Sixth Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI-13)
July 31, 2013 -- August 3, 2013, Beijing, China
Website: http://www.agi-conf.org/2013/
The original goal of the AI field was the construction of "thinking
machines" -- that is, computer systems with human-like general
intelligence. As this task turned out to be way more difficult than
initially expected, the majority of AI researchers have spent the last
decades focusing on the less ambitious goal referred to as "narrow AI" --
the production of AI systems exhibiting intelligence only with respect to
specific, highly constrained tasks. In recent years, however, more and
more researchers have recognized the necessity -- and feasibility -- of
returning to the original goals of the field. Reasons for the new optimism
in attempting to tackle the mentioned old goals are based on new
developments in computer science, engineering, and insights in disciplines
trying to understand cognition. Examples of such developments are the
dramatic increase in computing resources, the digital availability of huge
amounts of knowledge, new machine learning paradigms, the possibility to
build highly sophisticated robotic applications, and new findings and
inspiration from neuroscience and cognitive science. Increasingly, there
is a call for a transition back to facing the more difficult issues of
"human-level intelligence" and more broadly "artificial general
intelligence (AGI)."
The AGI conference series (http://www.agi-conf.org/) is the premier
international forum for cutting-edge research focusing on the original
goal of the AI field ? the creation of thinking machines with general
intelligence at the human level and ultimately beyond. The AGI conference
series is held in cooperation with AAAI, and AGI-13 will co-locate with
IJCAI-13.
Like its predecessors, AGI-13 will gather researchers in AGI and
associated disciplines for wide-ranging presentation and discussion of
approaches, architectures, algorithms and ideas relevant to the
advancement of artificial general intelligence.
*** Topics ***
As in prior AGI conferences, we welcome papers on all aspects of AGI R&D,
with the key proviso that each paper should in some way contribute
specifically to the development of Artificial General Intelligence.
Appropriate topics for contributed papers include, but are not restricted
to:
- Agent Architectures
- Autonomy
- Benchmarks and Evaluation
- Cognitive Modeling
- Collaborative Intelligence
- Creativity
- Distributed AI
- Implications of AGI for Society, Economy and Ecology
- Integration of Different Capabilities
- Knowledge Representation for General Intelligence
- Languages, Specification Approaches and Toolkits
- Learning and Learning Theory
- Motivation, Emotion, and Affect
- Multi-Agent Interaction
- Natural Language Understanding
- Neural-Symbolic Processing
- Perception and Perceptual Modeling
- Philosophy of AI
- Rationality
- Reasoning, Inference, and Planning
- Robotics and Virtual Embodiment
- Simulation and Emergent Behavior
*** Panel Discussions ***
The conference will be divided into themed sessions, determined based on
the distribution of topics of the accepted papers; and each themed session
will be concluded by a panel discussion.
*** Special Session on Cognitive Robotics and AGI ***
In the spirit of similar Special Sessions at former AGI conferences, this
Special Session will feature papers giving new AGI ideas inspired by
current research in Cognitive Robotics.
*** Keynotes / Tutorials / Workshops / Demonstrations ***
Keynote speeches will be delivered by leading scientists in the area of
AGI and adjacent disciplines; they will be announced at a later stage at
the website of AGI-13.
Tutorials, workshops, and demonstrations will be held alongside the
conference. For the requirements for proposals, please see the AGI-13
website. Call for papers of the approved workshops will also be announced
there at a later time.
*** Organization ***
- Conference Chair: Pei Wang (Temple University, USA)
- Organizing Committee: Anirban Bandyopadhyay (National Institute for
Materials Science, Japan), Rod Furlan (Quaternix Research Inc., Canada),
Ben Goertzel (Novamente LLC, USA), Marcus Hutter (Australian National
University, Australia), Kai-Uwe Kuehnberger (University of Osnabrueck,
Germany), Stephen Reed (TEXAI, USA), Sebastian Rudolph (Karlsruhe
Institute of Technology, Germany), Rafal Rzepka (Hokkaido University,
Japan), Zhongzhi Shi (Institute of Computing Technology, China), Pei Wang
(Temple University, USA), Byoung-Tak Zhang (Seoul National University,
Korea)
- Program Co-Chairs: Kai-Uwe Kuehnberger (University of Osnabrueck,
Germany), Sebastian Rudolph (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)
- Program Committee Members: to be announced later
- Publicity Chair: Rod Furlan (Quaternix Research Inc., Canada)
- Co-Chairs of the Special Session on Cognitive Robotics and AGI: David
Hanson (Hanson Robotics, USA), Il-Hong Suh (Hanyang University, Korea)
- Poster and Demonstration Chair: Bo An (Institute of Computing
Technology, China)
- Tutorial and Workshop Chair: Kristinn Thorisson (Reykjavik University,
Iceland)
- Local Committee: Xihong Wu, Dingsheng Luo, Beihai Zhou (Peking
University, China)
*** Important Dates ***
- Full paper submission: March 1, 2013
- Acceptance Notification: April 20, 2013
- Camera-ready copy: May 15, 2013
- Conference: July 31, 2013 -- August 3, 2013
*** Submission Information ***
All papers have to be submitted via the conference submission page, to be
announced at the AGI-13 website.
Papers will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer
Science/Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. Paper templates for both
LaTeX and Word may be found here:
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs/lncs+authors?SGWID=0-40209-0-0-0 .
Use the templates for "LNCS Proceedings and Other Multiauthor Volumes".
The LaTeX template (use of which is preferred) is also given directly
here: ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/llncs/latex2e/llncs2e.zip.
There are two types of submissions:
- Full papers (up to 10 pages): Original research in the above areas.
- Technical Communications (up to 4 pages): Results and ideas with
interest to the AGI audience, including reports about recent own
publications, position papers, and preliminary results.
All accepted papers will be included in the proceedings, with Technical
Communications clearly marked as such. All full papers and selected
Technical Communications will be invited to give a talk at the conference.
All accepted papers that are not chosen for talks can be presented as
posters.
Papers must be in English, should not exceed the lengths constraints for
the respective type of submission, and must be formatted according to the
LNCS guidelines. More information about Springer's LNCS series is
available on the Springer LNCS Web site. Papers must be submitted in PDF
(Adobe's Portable Document Format) format and will not be accepted in any
other format. Papers that do not follow the guidelines specified above can
be rejected automatically without a review. At least one author of each
accepted paper must register for the conference and present the paper
there.