CFP: ACE-2004: 2nd Call For Papers (Affective Computational Entities)

*** Call For Papers *** Call For Papers *** Call For Papers ***


                   --------------------------------
                               ACE-2004
                   Affective Computational Entities

                    http://ace2004.isr.ist.utl.pt/
                   --------------------------------

            Chairs: Rodrigo Ventura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
                    Carlos Pinto-Ferreira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
                    Paolo Petta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


   at the 17th European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research
           (EMCSR 2004, http://www.ai.univie.ac.at/emcsr/)

              April 13 - 16, 2004, Vienna, Austria (EU)

                Submission deadline: November 21, 2003
                --------------------------------------

      (This deadline differs from the default EMCSR deadline of
                          October 24, 2003)


Introduction and Scope
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The 17th European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research
(http://www.ai.univie.ac.at/emcsr/) will be hosting the ACE symposium
for the third time, after ACE-2000
(http://www.oefai.at/~paolo/conf/ace2000/), and ACE-2002
(http://www.oefai.at/~paolo/conf/ace2002/). Since the emergence of
emotions as a research area pursued within the Artificial Intelligence
(A.I.) community, the validity and viability of inspiration based on
views on emotions from biology, neuroscience, or psychology has been a
controversial topic. But along with this dispute, valid work has been
published on a variety of related topics, at levels ranging from
experimental testbeds and applications, to theories and architectures.

Within the emotion-inspired research in A.I., two directions of
research can be distinguished: one concerning emotional aspects in
communicating with or modeling of humans (and other natural beings);
and another one concerning the contributions of emotional aspects to
agent architectures at the micro -- i.e., individual agent -- and
macro -- i.e., mult-agent -- levels. The 2004 edition of the ACE
symposium addresses the latter research direction of emotions in the
context of A.I.: the construction of agents and agent societies,
taking inspiration from natural emotion phenomena.

Therefore, contributions addressing, but not limited to, the following
issues are welcome:

    * implementations involving emotion-based agents
    * robots using emotions to cope with their environment
    * emotions as a source of motivation
    * agent architectures based on emotions
    * perceiving and emotions
    * reasoning and emotions
    * learning and emotions
    * creation of representations biased by emotions
    * the impact of emotions in agent societies
    * theoretical aspects of emotions and A.I.

Of particular relevance to the symposium is work that evaluates and
analyses successes and failures of emotion-inspired components of
agents or multi-agent systems, presents novel emotion-inspired
functionalities, or critically assesses theoretical requirements for
emotion-inspired architectures.

As for all EMCSR symposia, accepted contributions will be included in
the conference proceedings distributed at the conference.


Organisation
~~~~~~~~~~~~

  Session Chairs:

    Rodrigo Ventura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
    Carlos Pinto-Ferreira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
    Paolo Petta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


  Programme Committee:
  (confirmed as of Octover 9th)

    Luis Botelho
    Christian Balkenius
    Lola Canamero
    Luis Custodio
    Jonathan Gratch
    Ian Horswill
    Eva Hudlicka
    Andrew Ortony
    Mannes Poel
    Matthias Scheutz


Submission Details
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

For details on how to prepare the draft final paper, see the
submission guidelines for the main EMCSR conference published on the
EMCSR 2004 homepage (http://www.ai.univie.ac.at/emcsr/). Draft Final
Papers must not exceed 10 single-spaced A4 pages (maximum 43 lines,
max. line length 160 mm, 12 point), in English. They have to contain
the final text to be submitted, including graphs and
pictures. However, these need not be of reproducible quality. They
must carry the title, author(s) name(s), and affiliation (including
e-mail address) in this order, and must include an abstract.

Please notice that *for this particular symposium* submission will be
possible in *electronic format only*. To submit a paper, email it to
the address [EMAIL PROTECTED], in PDF format.

  Accepted Papers:

Authors of accepted papers will be notified by December 19, 2003; the
list will also be published on the ACE2004 web site. After the event,
a second round of more extensive reviews is planned which is to lead
to the publication of extended versions of selected contributions in
an edited collection.


  Important Dates:

Paper submission deadline ................... November 21, 2003
Notifications of acceptance/rejection ....... December 19, 2003
Camera-ready copies due .....................  January 30, 2004


Further Information
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

For information about paper formatting, registration, and
accommodation, see the EMCSR 2004 Web site at
http://www.ai.univie.ac.at/emcsr/.


*** Call For Papers *** Call For Papers *** Call For Papers ***

[ comp.ai is moderated.  To submit, just post and be patient, or if ]
[ that fails mail your article to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, and ]
[ ask your news administrator to fix the problems with your system. ]