14 Sep 2020
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Call for Papers
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CIFMA 2020
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2nd International Workshop on Cognition:
Interdisciplinary Foundations, Models and Applications
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 14 September 2020
https://cifma.github.io
Co-located with SEFM 2020
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CIFMA 2020 WILL BE AN ENTIRELY VIRTUAL EVENT
Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, following the decision taken by the
SEFM 2020 organisers, also CIFMA 2020 will not take place physically
but will be replaced by a virtual event.
As usual, CIFMA 2020 accepted contributions will be included in the
LNCS post-proceedings and all accepted papers will have to be
presented at the virtual conference in order to be included in the
LNCS volume.
How the virtual conference will be organised is still under
consideration, e.g., live presentations and/or recorded ones.
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IMPORTANT DATES
Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cifma2020
Paper Abstract Submission deadline: Wednesday 22 July 2020 (EXTENDED)
Paper Submission deadline: Wednesday 29 July 2020 (EXTENDED)
Accept/Reject Notification: Wednesday 26 August 2020
Pre-proceedings Final version due: Monday 7 September 2020
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Cognition encompasses many aspects of intellectual functions and
processes such as attention, knowledge, memory, judgment, reasoning,
problem solving, decision making, comprehension and production of
language. Although it originated from the field of psychology, it goes
beyond the individual human mind and behaviour, and involves and
affects the interaction with the environment in which humans act.
The increasing complexity of the environment with which humans
interact is no longer restricted to their natural living environment
and the other humans populating it, but includes a large technological
support consisting of physical and computational systems, virtual
worlds and robots. This fact has expanded the scope of studying
cognition to a large number of disciplines well beyond psychology.
Cognitive processes are analysed from different perspectives within
different contexts, notably in the fields of linguistics, anesthesia,
neuroscience, psychiatry, psychology, education, philosophy,
anthropology, biology, systemics, logic, and computer science. These
and other different approaches to the analysis of cognition are
synthesised in the developing field of cognitive science, a
progressively autonomous academic discipline.
The objectives of this new international workshop are:
1. to bring together practitioners and researchers from academia,
industry and research institutions who are interested in the
foundations and applications of cognition from the perspective of
their areas of expertise and aim at a synergistic effort in
integrating approaches from different areas;
2. to nurture cooperation among researchers from different areas and
establish concrete collaborations;
3. to present formal methods to cognitive scientists as a general
modelling and analysis approach, whose effectiveness goes well beyond
its application to computer science and software engineering.
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KEYNOTE SPEAKER
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Johan van Benthem
Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC), University of Amsterdam
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Title: "Interfacing Logical Theory and Human Practice"
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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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Authors are invited to submit, via Easychair, research contributions
or experience reports. The submission link is:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cifma2020
All papers should be written in English and prepared using the
specific LNCS templates available at
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.
Submissions are required to report on original, unpublished work and
should not be submitted simultaneously for publication elsewhere.
There are six categories of submissions
* Research papers:
to present original research and the analysis, interpretation and
validation of the research findings.
* Position papers:
to present innovative, arguable ideas, opinions or frameworks which
are likely to foster discussion at the workshop.
* Interdisciplinary Project papers:
To describe a new interdisciplinary research project, or the status of
an ongoing project or the outcomes of a recently completed project.
* Case Study papers:
to report on case studies, preferably in a real-world setting.
* Tool papers:
to present a new tool, a new tool component or novel extensions to an
existing tool.
* Tool Demonstration papers:
to demonstrate the tool workflow(s) and human interaction aspects, and
evaluate the overall role of the tool and impact on cognitive science.
Contributions will be in the form of
- Regular papers:
between 12 and 15 pages for submission
(and between 12 and 16 pages for post-proceedings camera-ready).
- Short papers:
between 6 and 8 pages for submission
(and between 6 and 9 pages for post-proceedings camera-ready).
- Presentations:
extended abstract up to 4 pages, which will be included in the
pre-proceeding but not published in the post-proceedings.
"Short papers" and "Presentations" can discuss new ideas which are at
an early stage of development and which have not yet been thoroughly
evaluated.
The program committee may reject papers that are outside these lengths
on the grounds of length alone.
Submitted papers will be refereed for quality, correctness,
originality and relevance. Notification and reviews will be
communicated via email. Accepted papers (both Full papers and Short
papers) will be included in the workshop programme and will appear in
the workshop pre-proceedings as well as in the LNCS post-proceedings.
Pre-proceedings will be available online before the Workshop.
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LIST OF TOPICS
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Contributions to the workshop cover the areas of education, research
and technology, either in general or with a focus on formal methods.
Topics are organised in possibly overlapping categories and include,
but are not restricted to:
* Interdisciplinary Foundations of Cognition:
- philosophy of cognition
- human memory and memory processes
- attention
- perception, visual cognition and situated cognition
- cognitive models and architectures
- languages for cognitive science
- social cognition
* Cognitive Robotics:
- autonomous knowledge acquisition
- motor babbling
- learning by imitation
- cognitive architectures for robotics
* Cognitive Linguistics:
- cognitive approaches to grammar
- cognitive and conceptual semantics
- conceptual organisation
- cognitive phonology
- dynamical models of language acquisition
- computational models of metaphor and language acquisition
* Cognitive Learning:
- learning theories
- cognitive development
- problem solving
- metacognition
* Cognitive Neuroscience and Medicine:
- biomedical signal and image processing
- biomedical sensors and wearable systems
- brain-computer interfaces and neural prostheses
- brain mapping
- neural and rehabilitation engineering
* Logics and their application to:
- human-computer interaction
- human behaviour
- human reasoning and problem solving
- visual reasoning
- human-robot interaction
- linguistics
* Software Engineering and Formal Methods:
- integration of cognitive models and cognitive architectures within the
software design and verification process
- cognitive aspects in cyber-physical systems and their verification
- socio-technical systems
- cognitive aspects in safety analysis and verification of safety-critical
systems
- cognitive security
- cognition hacking
- formal frameworks for trust reasoning
- formal methods for the modeling and analysis of robotic systems
- formal methods for the modeling and analysis of human behaviour
- formal methods for the modeling and analysis of human interaction with
computers and robots
- application of formal methods to cognitive psychology
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PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
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Pierluigi Graziani, Department of Pure and Applied Sciences,
University of Urbino, Italy
Pedro Quaresma, Department of Mathematics, University of Coimbra, Portugal
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PROGRAM COMMITTEE (provisional)
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Samuel Alexander, The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission New York
Regional Office, USA
Oana Andrei, School of Computing Science, University of Glascow, UKJohn A.
Barnden, School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, UK
José Creissac Campos, Department of Informatics, University of Minho,
Portugal
Antonio Cerone, Department of Computer Science, Nazarbayev University,
Kazakhstan
Peter Chapman, School of Computing, Edinburgh Napier University, UK
Luisa Damiano, Department of Ancient and Modern Civilizations, University
of Messina, Italy
Anke Dittmar, Institute of Computer Science, Rostock University, Germany
Pierluigi Graziani, Department of Pure and Applied Science, University of
Urbino, Italy
Yannis Haralambous, Computer Science Department, IMT Atlantique, France
Matej Hoffmann, Department of Cybernetics, CTU Prague, Czech Republic
Bipin Indurkhya, Cognitive Science Department, Jagiellonian University,
Poland
Reinhard Kahle, Department of Mathematics, NOVA University Lisbon, Portugal
Karl Lermer, Safety Critical Systems Research Lab, ZHAW, Switzerland
Kathy L. Malone, Graduate School of Education, Nazarbayev University,
Kazakhstan
Paolo Masci, US National Institute of Aerospace (NIA), US
Paolo Milazzo, Department of Computer Science, University of Pisa, Italy
Henry Muccini, Department of Information Engineering, Computer Science and
Mathematics, University of L?Aquila, Italy
Eugenio Omodeo, Department of Mathematics and Earth Sciences, University of
Trieste, Italy
Graham Pluck, Department of Computer Science, Nazarbayev University,
Kazakhstan
Giuseppe Primiero, Department of Philosophy, University of Milan, Italy
Ka I Pun, Department of Computing, Mathematics and Physics, Western Norway
University of Applied Sciences, Norway
Pedro Quaresma, Department of Mathematics, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Anara Sandygulova, Department of Robotics, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan
Giuseppe Sergioli, Department of Philosophy, University of Cagliari, Italy
Sandro Sozzo, School of Business, Centre for Quantum Social and Cognitive
Science, University of Leicester, UK
Mirko Tagliaferri, Department of Pure and Applied Science, University of
Urbino, Italy
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PUBLICATION
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Accepted regular and short papers will be published after the Workshop
by Springer in a volume of Lecture Notes in Computer Science
(http://www.springer.com/lncs), which will collect contributions to
some workshops co-located with SEFM 2020.
Condition for inclusion in the post-proceedings is that at least one
of the co-authors has presented the paper at the Workshop.
One or more journal special issue(s) with selected papers may be
planned, depending on the number and quality of submissions.
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CONTACT
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All inquiries concerning CIFMA 2020 submissions and scientific
programme should be sent to cifma2020@easychair.org
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