Call For Papers
8th International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL2009)
Shanghai, June 5-7, 2009
http://www.icdl09.org/
ICDL is a multidisciplinary conference pertaining to all subjects
related to the development and learning processes of natural and
artificial systems, including perceptual, cognitive, behavioral,
emotional and all other mental capabilities that are exhibited by
humans, higher animals, and robots. Its visionary goal is to understand
autonomous development in humans and higher animals in biological,
functional, and computational terms, and to enable such development in
artificial systems. ICDL strives to bring together researchers in
neuroscience, psychology, artificial intelligence, robotics and other
related areas to encourage understanding and cross-fertilization of
latest ideas. Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to:
(1) Biological and biologically inspired architectures and general
principles of development
(2) Neuronal, cortical and pathway plasticity
(3) Autonomous generation of internal representation, including
feature identification
(4) Neural networks for development and learning
(5) Dynamics in neural systems and neurodynamical modeling
(6) Attention mechanisms and the development of attention skills
(7) Visual, auditory, touch systems and their development
(8) Motor systems and their development
(9) Language acquisition & understanding through development
(10) Multimodal integration through development
(11) Conceptual learning through development
(12) Motivation, value, reinforcement, and novelty
(13) Emotions and their development
(14) Learning and training techniques for assisting development
(15) Biological and biologically inspired thinking models and
development of reasoning skills
(16) Models of developmental disorders
(17) Development of social skills
(18) Philosophical and social issues of development
(19) Robots with development and learning skills
(20) Using robots to study development and learning
ICDL2009 will feature invited plenary talks by world-renowned speakers,
a variety of special sessions aligned with the conference theme,
pre-conference tutorials, as well as regular technical sessions, and
poster sessions. Best Paper Awards will be offered. Four students will
each receive $250 Travel Awards to support their travel to the
conference. In addition to full-paper submissions, ICDL 2009 accepts
one-page abstract submissions to encourage late-breaking results or for
work that is not sufficiently mature for a full paper.
Organizing Committee
General Chair:
Juyang Weng, Michigan State University, USA
General Co-Chairs:
Tiande Shou, Fudan University, China
Xiangyang Xue, Fudan University, China
Program Chairs:
Jochen Triesch, Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Germany
Zhengyou Zhang, Microsoft Research, USA
Publication Chair:
Yilu Zhang, GM Research, USA
Publicity Chair:
Alexander Stoytchev, Iowa State University, USA
Publicity Co-Chairs:
Hiroaki Wagatsuma, RIKEN, Japan (Asia)
Pierre-Yves Oudeyer, INRIA Bordeaux - Sud-Ouest, France (Europe)
Gedeon Deák, University of California at San Diego, USA (North America)
Local Organization Sub-Committee:
Hong Lu (Chair), Rui Feng (Hotel), Cheng Jin (Web), Yuefei Guo
(Finance), Wenqiang Zhang (Publication)
Important Dates
January 25, 2009: Special session and tutorial proposals
February 8, 2009: Full papers
April 19, 2009: Accept/Reject notification for full papers
April 26, 2009: One-page poster abstracts
May 3, 2009: Accept/Reject notification for poster abstracts
May 10, 2009: Final camera-ready papers
Sponsors
Microsoft Research
Fudan University
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