SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30th 2006

 9:00 - 9:30                 Registration

Morning Session

 9:30 - 9:45                 Welcome & Introductions to the workshop (Martin V. Butz)

 9:45 -10:25                Presentations: Anticipatory Frameworks (Chair: Giovanni Pezzulo)

·          9:45 Cognitively Inspired Anticipation and Anticipatory Learning Mechanisms for Autonomous Agents

                               A. Negatu, S. D’Mello, S. Franklin

·          10:05 Perception, Logic and Action through Structured Motivated Associative Pandemonium

                               J. V. Jackson

  10:25 - 11:00             Poster Spotlights

 11:00 - 11:30             Coffee break with Poster Presentations

 11:30 - 12:50             Presentations: Forward Predictive Perceptual Models (Chair: Martin Butz)

·          11:30 An Information Theory Based Anticipation Architecture

                                                               P. Capdepuy, D. Polani, & C. L. Nehaniv

·          11:50 Learning a Visual Forward Model for a Robot Camera Head

                                                               W. Schenck, & R. Möller

·          12:10 Toward an Implementation of a Biologically Inspired Expected Perception Mechanism

                                                               R. Prevete, M. Santoro, E. Catanzarriti, & G. Tessitore

·          12:30 A Computational Model of Spatial Memory Anticipation during Visual Search

                                                               J. Fix, J. Vitay, & N. P. Rougier

 12:50 - 14:30             Lunch Break

Afternoon Session

14:30 – 15:10            Presentations: Anticipations for Improvisation and Evolution (Chair: Christian Balkenius)

·          14:30 A Framework for Anticipatory Machine Improvisation and Style Imitation

                                                               A. Cont, S. Dubonov, & G. Assayag

·          14:50 Evolutionary Robotics: From Simulation to the Real World using Anticipation

                                                               C. Hartland,  N. Bredeche

15:10 – 16:00           Panel Discussion: Benefits of Anticipatory Mechanisms (G. Baldassarre, M. Butz, & G. Pezzulo)

 16:00 - 16:30             Coffee break with Poster Presentations

 16:30 – 17:30            Presentations: Social Anticipation (Chair: Gianluca Baldassarre)

·          16:30 Backward vs Forward-Oriented Decision-Making in the Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma: A Comparison between two Connectionist Models

                                                               E. Lalev,  M. Grinberg

·          16:50 An Anticipatory Trust Model for Open Distributed Systems

                                                               M. Gómez, J. Carbó, & C. Benac-Earle

·          17:10 The Benefits of Anticipation: An Experimental Study

                                                               B. Johansson, C. Balkenius

 17:30 – 18:00             Panel Discussion: Open Problems in Anticipatory Behavior Systems (G. Baldassarre, M. Butz, & G. Pezzulo)

 18:00                            Farewell – Social Dinner Plans