victor@WATSON.IBM.COM (Nicola Santoro) (04/05/91)
CALL FOR PAPERS
IJCAI-91 WORKSHOP
EVOLUTION AND CHAOS IN COGNITIVE PROCESSING
Sydney, Australia, 24th August 1991
Goals
Recently, there has been considerable interest and progress in the
study of systems of entities which, using only a simple set of local
rules, exhibit complex and robust global behavior. Much of this
activity has occurred in specialized research communities
investigating Artificial Life, Genetic Algorithms, Chaos Theory, and
Non-Linear Complex Systems. It is clear that many of the issues
being addressed by these groups have a strong intersection with the
goals and interests of the AI community - e.g. evolution and
behavior.
The goal of the Workshop is to provide a forum for researchers in
evolutionary processes and discrete chaos theory to investigate the
links between these two fields with respect to AI and cognitive
processing. This investigation is a first step towards answering the
following questions: Is an evolutionary model of cognition plausible?
How can correct, simple rules be determined which achieve a desired
global behavior? Is chaos theory a useful tool for the design and
analysis of evolutionary systems such as genetic algorithms and
classifier systems?
Topics of interest for the Workshop include:
* Genetic algorithms
* Classifier systems
* Artificial life
* Discrete chaos
* Discrete non-linear systems
* Cellular automata
* Emergent behaviors
* Non-classical evolutionary systems
* Evolutionary epistemology
* The application of the above topics to cognitive processing
Where possible, we encourage examination of the links to AI.
Format
All accepted papers will be presented in either a plenary or poster
session. In order to provide ample opportunity for discussion, most
presentations will be posters. Panel discussions will summarize the
findings of each area in the workshop and identify open problems
and future research directions.
Submissions
Intended authors are invited to submit either a full paper (max.
15 pages), or a short paper (3-5 pages); all other participants should
submit a summary of previous relevant work with expected
contributions. All accepted papers will appear in the workshop
proceedings; the full papers will be considered for inclusion in a
planned book. Five copies should be submitted by May 13, 1991 to:
Workshop on Evolution and Chaos in Cognitive Processing
c/o Dwight Deugo
School of Computer Science,
Carleton University, Ottawa,
Canada, K1S 5B6,
(613) 788-4333,
FAX (613) 788-4334
e-mail: dwightdeugo@scs.carleton.ca
Authors will be notified of the committee's decision by June 17,
1991. The final version and the workshop registration form and fees ($US65.00)
will be due by July 15,1991
Organizing Committee
Rob Black, Dwight Deugo, and Una-May O'Reilly (Carleton University)
Program Committee
Franz Oppacher and Nicola Santoro (Carleton University); Kenneth
De Jong (George Mason University); Christopher G. Langton (Los Alamos
National Laboratory)