fellous@pipiens.usc.edu (Jean-Marc Fellous) (12/17/90)
My general goal (PhD thesis in Computer Science) is to find (if possible ?) models of Emotions to be applied to the different aspects of Computer Science (AI, DAI, Neural Networks, Brain Theory, Logic ...). I would appreciate any suggestion, comment, reference and contacts with people interested in this exiting topic. In the meantime, here is an annoucement - __________________________________________________________________________ / U.S.C \ | | | C N E Student Workshop on Emotions | | | | CALL FOR PAPERS | | ***************** | \__________________________________________________________________________/ The Center For Neural Engineering of the university of Southern California invites all students interested in Emotions to submit a paper to be eventually presented during a one-day Workshop (of a date t.b.a. at the End of February 1991). The Workshop is opened to Graduate students (MA,MS,PhD) and College Seniors irrespective to their major (faculty will only be considered for publication), having pursued (or pursuing) research activities on such aspects of Emotions as - The nature of Emotion - The physiology of Emotion - The perception of Emotions - The relations between Emotion and Cognition - Developemental aspects of Emotion - Artificial Intelligence models of Emotions - Neural network models of Emotions - Philosophical issues of Emotion and reductionism - ... Applicants should send a 2 page summary of the proposed paper and a letter of motivation in which they state their status, major, interests, name, address and telephone number (for reply). Materials should be submitted by January 31st to Jean-Marc Fellous Center for Neural Engineering University of Southern California Los Angeles CA 90089-2520 Telephone (213) 740 3506 email fellous@rana.usc.edu ps: Travel expenses will not be covered by the CNE, but lunch will be provided. pps: Authors of the chosen papers will receive a copy of the presented papers (by mail if they could not attend the Workshop). Thank you, Jean-Marc
danforth@riacs.edu (Douglas G. Danforth) (12/18/90)
In <28883@usc> fellous@pipiens.usc.edu (Jean-Marc Fellous) writes: >My general goal (PhD thesis in Computer Science) is to find (if possible ?) >models of Emotions to be applied to the different aspects of Computer Science >(AI, DAI, Neural Networks, Brain Theory, Logic ...). >I would appreciate any suggestion, comment, reference and contacts with >people interested in this exiting topic. ... >Thank you, >Jean-Marc Might I suggest you look at chapter 10, page 107, of Pentti Kanerva's book for a discussion of "good" and "bad" states in systems built from associative memories. He suggests that some states are inherently good or bad (built-in) and that action sequences can be learned that will choose actions that lead toward good states and away from bad (one might be tempted to assign an emotion to such behavior :) Kanerva, P. (1988). "Sparse Distributed Memory", Cambridge, MA., MIT Press. -- Douglas G. Danforth (danforth@riacs.edu) Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science (RIACS) M/S 230-5, NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA 94035
teskridg@nmsu.edu (Tom Eskridge) (12/19/90)
For the use of emotions in problem solving and daydreaming, see Erik T. Mueller's book: Mueller, E.T. (1989) Daydreaming in Humans and Machines: A Computer Model of the Stream of Thought, Ablex Publishing Corp, Norwood, NJ. tom eskridge computing research laboratory, new mexico state university teskridg@nmsu.edu