Fourth Six-Monthly Meeting
10 & 11 January 2008
Hilton Molino Stucky, Venice

SOCIAL COGNITION

A competition for student members of euCognition was held on the afternoon of Thursday 10th January. Friday 11th January was devoted to the theme of social cognition.

Entrants for the competition made a 15 minute presentation on their cognitive systems research topics and a prize was awarded to the student who gave the best (i.e. most engaging and informative) presentation. The prize is a grant to cover the costs of travelling to a cognitive systems workshop or conference of her/his choice, subject to a maximum value of 1000 euro (normal reimbursement rules) plus the cost of registering for the conference/workshop. The winner was Tom Froese, University of Sussex.

There is a printable version of the meeting agenda here (pdf - 40kb)

Programme
  Thursday 10th January: Student Competition
14:30 Pick up badges
15:00 Student presentations
- Tom Froese, University of Sussex:   An enactive approach to social cognition (pdf - 0.3 Mb)
- Jakub Gemrot, Charles University in Prague:   Pogamut 2 - a platform for fast development of virtual agents behavior
- Jaime Gomez Ramirez, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid:   Naturalized epistemology for autonomous systems from a systemic approach
- Carlos Hernandez, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid:   A proposal for a conscious cognitive architecture
- Antoine Hiolle, University of Hertfordshire:   Attachment bonds for autonomous robot development
- Filip Korc, University of Bonn:   Modeling spatial interactions for context-based image interpretation
- Emilian Lalev, New Bulgarian University:   Simulated social dilemmas game playing in societies of anticipatory agents
- Vincent Martin, INRIA Sophia Antipolis:   Cognitive vision: supervised learning for image and video segmentation
- Alberto Montebelli, University of Skovde:   On cognition as dynamical coupling: an analysis of behavioral attractor dynamics
- Maria Niessen, University of Groningen:   A computational model of sound recognition
- Fabio Ruini, University of Plymouth:   Communication and distributed dontrol in multi-agent systems. A neural network-based controller system for MAVs' swarms
- Juraj Simko, University College Dublin:   Sequencing of abstract embodied gestures

18:30 Judges convene
19:00 Wine reception and announcement of winner
  Friday 11th January: Social Cognition
08:30 Pick up badges
09:00 Welcome
09:15 Fred Cummins, Executive Committee:   Consider the following ... (pdf - 3.5 Mb) and notes (pdf - 28 kb)
09:30 Stevan Harnad,Université du Québec à Montréal
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 Luc Steels, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
12:00 Panel and Audience Discussion
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Student Competition: presentation by winner & prize-giving
14:30 Jordan Pollack, Brandeis University:  
Beyond Competition in Evolution and Social Learning Communities (pdf - 4.2 Mb)
15:30 Tea Break
16:00 Michael Arbib, University of Southern California:  
Invention and Community in the Emergence of Language: Insights from New Sign Languages (pdf - 1.9 Mb)
17:00 Panel and Audience Discussion
18:00 Close
20:00 Dinner & After-dinner Speech
Jordan Pollack, Brandeis University:  
Mindless Intelligence: The Ectomental Manifesto (pdf - 2.2 Mb)