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Introduction
How could sign processes
be meaningful to the artificial agents and systems? This is a recent
major issue concerning experiments in artificial intelligence and
cognitive science. An early regard about it was the statement of the
symbol grounding problem. It has been suggested that situatedness and
embodiment are a first step towards the development of grounded
meaningful processes. But most of these approaches rely on low-level
cognitive processes, bringing up the question of how could higher-level
ones be comprised and how would they interact with lower-level ones. It
has been claimed that formal theoretical support, such as from
semiotics, especially when associated to biologically inspired
approaches, is one fertile framework that accounts for the modeling and
simulation of the emergence and the development of different levels of
meaning processes. Bringing in a formal theoretical support and
biologically inspired approaches to computational experiments dealing
with meaning processes is a promising venture in the research of
artificial systems and agents, specially in the study of learning,
adapting and evolving autonomous agents, like epigenetic robotics,
evolutionary robotics, artificial life and simulations in adaptive
behavior.
The
Overall Objective of
the Book
This book intends to propagate
theoretical frameworks about meaning processes and high-level cognitive
processes to those starting to be acquainted with the recent approaches
to artificial agents and systems, and also to those already familiar
but seeking further information about it. Besides, it will gather
recent research efforts concerning the development of new artificial
systems, specially biologically inspired artificial agents, focusing
particularly on their development of meaning processes. Researchers
from diverse fields will be invited to contribute to this project, as
many others will be asked to respond to call for contributions, trying
to identify recent research efforts. The growing research effort
towards the attainment of different meaning processes by artificial
systems has been constantly presenting new scientific and technological
advances to the artificial intelligence area. This book will present
the most promising accomplishments in this direction.
Due to its inherited multi-disciplinarity, this book may have a diverse
audience composed of different communities. This audience involves
researchers from areas such as: Computer Science, Artificial
Intelligence, Artificial Life, Cognitive Robotics, Computational
Neuroscience, Computational Linguistics, Cognitive Science,
Semiotics, and Philosophy.
Recommended topics
include but are not limited to the following:
- Formal theoretical discussions
- Embodiment and situatedness
- Meaningful adaptive behaviors
- Interactions between high and low level cognition
- Emergence of meaning processes
- Biologically inspired agents
SUBMISSION
PROCEDURE
Researchers and
practitioners are invited to submit on or before October 30, 2004, a
2-5 page manuscript proposal clearly explaining the mission and
concerns of the proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be
notified by November 30, 2004 about the status of their proposals and
sent chapter organizational guidelines. Full chapters are expected to
be submitted by March 30, 2005. All submitted chapters will be reviewed
on a blind review basis. The book is scheduled to be published by Idea
Group, Inc., www.idea-group.com, publisher of the Idea Group
Publishing, Information Science Publishing, IRM Press, CyberTech
Publishing and Idea Group Reference imprints.
Important Dates
- October
30,
2004: Proposal submission deadline
- November
30, 2004: Notification of Acceptance
- March
30,
2005: Full chapters are due
- June
15,
2005: Notification about needed revisions
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August 25,
2005: Revised chapters due
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October 30,
2005: Final accepted chapters and disks
Inquiries and Submissions
can be forwarded electronically (Word document) or by mail to:
Angelo Loula (angelocl [at] dca.fee.unicamp.br)
Ricardo Gudwin (gudwin [at] dca.fee.unicamp.br)
João Queiroz (queirozj [at] dca.fee.unicamp.br)
DCA/FEEC/UNICAMP
Av. Albert Einstein - 400
Caixa Postal 6101
Campinas (SP) 13083-970
Brazil
Phones: +55 (19) 3788-3819, +55 (19) 3788-3706
Fax : +55 (19) 3289-1395
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