31 July - 3 Aug 2013
Beijing, China
*********************************************************** ** ** ** WORKSHOP: Call for papers & participation ** ** ** *********************************************************** ** Formalizing Mechanisms for Artificial ** ** General Intelligence and Cognition: "FormalMAGiC" ** ** ** ** Webpage: http://www.cogsci.uos.de/~formalmagic/ ** *********************************************************** The "Formalizing Mechanisms for Artificial General Intelligence and Cognition" (FormalMAGiC) international workshop will be held during the Sixth Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI-13), which will co-locate with IJCAI-13 in Beijing, China, between July 31, 2013 and August 3, 2013. The FormalMAGiC workshop invites researchers interested in formalizing computational models of AI or cognitive science to participate in and contribute to the workshop by submitting articles that illustrate their recent research or describe the advances in their work related to the intersection between the two fields. *********************************************************** *********************************************************** ** Relevant topics and audience ** *********************************************************** The idea of the workshop is to offer a venue for scientists who are interested in taking the work at the intersection between artificial general intelligence (AGI) and cognitive science to a rigid, more formal level. Though maybe considered well-characterized by some empiricists, several cognitive mechanisms need to have a formal jargon that allows implementations of AGI systems to base their representation and computation upon (in addition to their possible integration). A convergence to the prospected formal level can be obtained by emphasizing the importance of formally presenting essential cognitive mechanisms and human capacities in developing artificial models of intelligence. These models are expected to implement the mechanisms in order to achieve a human-like level of intelligence. This workshop discusses the formalization of the most important cognitive mechanisms and human abilities that have already been shown in literature to play essential roles in computational models of artificial (general) intelligence, using available techniques like learning or reasoning. Cognitive mechanisms and human capacities, in particular those related to general intelligence, have a wide range of possibilities that attract the interest of audience from various (sub)areas in artificial intelligence and cognitive science. Of special concern to the discussions and presentations during this workshop are the human capacities, such as (1) doing abstractions (generalizations or specializations), (2) creating similarity- and analogy-based decisions, (3) performing conceptual blending, (4) creating imaginative images and alternatives to reality, (5) coherently integrating cognition, or (6) bridging the gaps between well-known cognitive mechanisms, but the workshop is also open to contributions and treatments of other closely-related capacities. The workshop seeks initiative contributions that particularly help in demonstrating, formalizing, or implementing the aforementioned capacities (or the related ones) using probabilistic, symbolic, or logic-based approaches. Theoretical characterizations and representation of the essential parts thereof are very welcome (e.g. characterizing cognitive models and architectures, representing concepts for computing cognition (including quantum structures for cognition), modeling creative capacities in artificial models... etc.). This list is not by any means intended to be exhaustive; the intention is rather to mention the famous mechanisms that already showed importance in the literature of computing cognition, and for which a mature stream of (theoretical and/or practical) research is already established. *********************************************************** *********************************************************** ** Paper submission ** *********************************************************** All submissions related to one or more of the mentioned topics are welcome. Anyone interested in any of these directions or the closely related ones is invited to submit a research or position paper as basis for presentation and discussion during the workshop. Submissions should be sent to the workshop's email address (email: formalmagic@cogsci.uos.de) before 10-APRIL-2013 11:59pm (PST!). Accepted papers will be published online in the "Publication Series of the Institute of Cognitive Science" (PICS, ISSN 1610-5389), a scientific series from the Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrck, unless the authors instruct us otherwise. Note: Authors of accepted papers will give talks at the workshop. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference (and attend the workshop) and present the paper there (the workshop will be free of charge for the AGI-13 conference participants). *********************************************************** *********************************************************** ** Submission format ** *********************************************************** All papers should be submitted in accordance to the AGI-13 formatting style. Papers must be in English, should not exceed five pages (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, but the authors of accepted papers will eventually be requested to submit their TeX source file(s) for the camera-ready version (unless they prefer not to publish their contribution). *********************************************************** *********************************************************** ** Important Dates ** *********************************************************** First CFP: January 15, 2013 Paper Submission deadline: April 10, 2013 Acceptance Notification: April 20, 2013 Camera-ready version: April 30, 2013 Conference: July 31, 2013 -- August 3, 2013 *********************************************************** *********************************************************** For further information or inquiries, please visit the workshop's web page: http://www.cogsci.uos.de/~formalmagic/ You may also think about joining the workshop's Facebook page to share the interests, post questions, and get recent updates: Facebook : http://www.facebook.com/FormalizingMAGIC/ *********************************************************** ************************************************************************** eMail: formalmagic@cogsci.uos.de Home Page: http://www.cogsci.uos.de/~formalmagic/ Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/FormalizingMAGIC/ ************************************************************************** ************************************************************************** By Organizing Committee, "FormalMAGiC": (Formalizing Mechanisms for Artificial General Intelligence and Cognition) --- eMail: formalmagic@cogsci.uos.de Home Page: http://www.cogsci.uos.de/~formalmagic/ Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/FormalizingMAGIC/ **************************************************************************