[Amdnl] Evolution in Cognition Workshop: call for contribution

[Stéphane Doncieux]

3rd Evolution in Cognition Workshop

to be held as part of the


2018 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2018)

  July 15-19, Kyoto, Japan


Organized by ACM SIGEVO

http://gecco-2018.sigevo.org <http://gecco-2018.sigevo.org>


Webpage: https://sites.google.com/champlain.edu/eic2018/

  Submission Deadline: March 27th, 2018




=== Topic ===


Evolution by natural selection has shaped life over billions of years 
leading to the emergence of complex organism capable of exceptional 
cognitive abilities. These natural evolutionary processes have inspired 
the development of Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs), which are optimization 
algorithms widely popular due to their efficiency and robustness. Beyond 
their ability to optimize, EAs have also proven to be creative and 
efficient at generating innovative solutions to novel problems. The 
combination of these two abilities makes them a tool of choice for the 
resolution of complex problems.


There is evidence that the principle of selection on variation is at 
play in the human brain, as proposed in Changeux’s and Edelman’s models 
of Neuronal Darwinism, and more recently properly reformulated in the 
theory of the Neuronal Replicators. Consequently, the idea of an 
interaction between evolutionary processes and cognition over 
physiological time scales has been gaining some traction. Since the 
development of human cognition requires years of maturation, it can be 
expected that artificial cognitive agents will also require months if 
not years of learning and adaptation. It is in this context that the 
optimizing and creative abilities of EAs could become an ideal framework 
that complement, aid in understanding, and facilitate the implementation 
of cognitive processes. Additionally, a better understanding of how 
evolution can be implemented as part of an artificial cognitive 
architecture can lead to new insights into cognition in humans and other 
animals.


The goals of the workshop are to depict the current state of the art of 
evolution in cognition and to sketch the main challenges and future 
directions. In particular, we aim at bringing together the different 
theoretical and empirical approaches that can potentially contribute to 
the understanding of how evolution and cognition can act together in an 
algorithmic way in order to solve complex problems. In this workshop we 
welcome approaches that contribute to an improved understanding of 
evolution in cognition using robotic agents, in silico computation as 
well as mathematical models.


Keywords: Evolutionary Computation, Evolution, Cognition, Darwinian 
Neurodynamics, Neuronal Darwisnism, robotics.


=== Invited speakers ===


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    Prof. Kenji Doya

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    Additional invited speakers will be announced in the near future.


=== Organizers ===


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    Prof. Stéphane Doncieux, University Pierre and Marie Curie, France

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    Dr. Joshua Auerbach, Champlain College

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    Prof. Richard Duro, Universidade da Coruna, Spain

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    Dr. Harold P. de Vladar, KLI – Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution
    and Cognition Research, Vienna.


=== Submissions and deadlines ===


Accepted submissions:

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    Original: experimental work, position papers as well as overviews of
    author's recent work are all welcome. These submissions will be
    included in the proceedings and be presented during the workshop

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    Abstracts submitted as poster to GECCO 2018: the authors of selected
    abstracts will be given a talk. The abstract won’t be included in
    the proceedings.

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    Hot-of-the-press: authors can submit a recently published work.
    Selected articles will be given a talk.



Submission: extended abstracts (2-4 pages) and long papers (8 pages) are 
accepted. They should follow ACM template. The submission process will 
use the GECCO submission system. Please ask any question you may have to 
eic_ws at isir.upmc.fr:


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    March, 27th, 2018: Papers Submission Deadline

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    April, 10th, 2018: Notification of Acceptance

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    April, 24th, 2018: Camera-Ready Paper Submission

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    July 15 or 16th, 2018: Workshop


GECCO is sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery Special

Interest Group on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (SIGEVO). SIG

Services: 2 Penn Plaza, Suite 701, New York, NY, 10121, USA,

1-800-342-6626 (USA and Canada) or +212-626-0500 (Global).



Stéphane Doncieux, Josh Auerbach, Richard Duro and Harold P. de Vladar


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