<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><div>Call for Papers – Call for Tutorials and Special Sessions<br>IEEE CONFERENCE ON DEVELOPMENT AND LEARNING, AND EPIGENETIC ROBOTICS<br>IEEE ICDL-EPIROB 2011<br>Frankfurt am Main, Germany<br>August 24—27, 2011<br><a href="http://www.icdl-epirob.org/">www.icdl-epirob.org</a><br><br>Conference description<br>The past decade has seen the emergence of a new scientific field that<br>studies how intelligent biological and artificial systems develop<br>sensorimotor, cognitive and social abilities, over extended periods of<br>time, through dynamic interactions of their brain and body with their<br>physical and social environments. This field lies at the intersection<br>of a number of scientific and engineering disciplines including<br>Neuroscience, Developmental Psychology, Developmental Linguistics,<br>Cognitive Science, Computational Neuroscience, Artificial<br>Intelligence, Machine Learning, Robotics, and Philosophy. Various<br>terms have been associated with this new field such as Autonomous<br>Mental Development, Epigenetic Robotics, Developmental Robotics, etc.,<br>and several scientific meetings have been established. The two most<br>prominent conferences of this field, the International Conference on<br>Development and Learning (ICDL) and the International Conference on<br>Epigenetic Robotics (EpiRob), are now joining forces and invite<br>submissions for a joint meeting in 2011, to explore and extend the<br>interdisciplinary boundaries of this field.<br><br><br>Keynote speakers<br>Andrew Barto, University of Massachusetts Amherst,<br>Jean Mandler (overview talk), University of California, San Diego<br>Erin Schuman, Max Planck Insitute for Brain Research, Framkfurt am Main<br>Michael Tomasello, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig<br><br><br>Call for papers<br>We invite submissions for this exciting window into the future of<br>developmental sciences. Submissions which establish novel links<br>between brain, behavior and computation are particularly encouraged.<br><br>Topics of interest include – but are not limited to:<br>·<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>The development and emergence of perceptual, motor, cognitive,<br>emotional, social, and communicational skills in biological systems<br>and robots<br>·<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>General principles of development and learning<br>·<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Neural and behavioral plasticity<br>·<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Grounding of knowledge and development of representations<br>·<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Biologically inspired architectures for cognitive development and<br>open-ended development<br>·<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Models of emotionally driven behavior<br>·<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Mechanisms of intrinsic motivation, exploration and play<br>·<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Embodied cognition: Foundations and applications<br>·<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Social development in humans and robots<br>·<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Use of robots in applied settings such as autism therapy<br>·<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Epistemological approaches to Epigenetic / Developmental Robotics<br><br>Submissions will be accepted in two categories:<br>Full six-page papers: Accepted manuscripts will be included in the<br>conference proceedings published by IEEE. They will be selected for<br>either an oral presentation or a featured poster presentation at the<br>conference; featured posters will have a 1 minute "teaser"<br>presentation as part of the main conference session. For articles<br>requiring more than six pages, up to two additional pages may be<br>submitted at an extra charge.<br><br>Two-page poster abstracts: The aim of this format is to encourage<br>dissemination of late-breaking results or work that is not<br>sufficiently mature for a full paper. These submissions will NOT be<br>included in the conference proceedings (but the short abstracts will<br>appear online at Frontiers in Neurorobotics<br><a href="http://www.frontiersin.org/neurorobotics/about">http://www.frontiersin.org/neurorobotics/about</a>). Accepted abstracts<br>will be presented during the evening poster sessions.<br><br>Manuscripts should be submitted through the online conference<br>management system, available at the conference website<br><a href="http://www.icdl-epirob.org/">www.icdl-epirob.org</a>. For the paper preparation, follow the<br>instructions at the conference website.<br><br>Call for tutorials<br>We invite experts in different areas to organize a 3-hour tutorial,<br>which will be held on the first day of the conference. Participants in<br>tutorials are asked to register for the main conference as well.<br>Tutorials are meant to provide insights into specific topics as well<br>as overviews that will inform the interdisciplinary audience about the<br>state-of-the-art in child development, neuroscience, robotics, or any<br>of the other disciplines represented at the conference.<br><br>Submissions (max. two pages) should be sent no later than March 28th<br>to Katharina Rohlfing (<a href="mailto:kjr@uni-bielefeld.de">kjr@uni-bielefeld.de</a>) and Ian Fasel<br>(<a href="mailto:ianfasel@cs.arizona.edu">ianfasel@cs.arizona.edu</a>) including:<br>- Title of tutorial<br>- Tutorial speaker(s), including short CVs;<br>- Concept of the tutorial; target audience or prerequisites.<br><br>All proposals submitted will be subjected to a review process.<br><br><br>Call for special sessions<br>A special session will be an opportunity to present a topic in depth,<br>for which format a slot of 1.5 hours will be offered. Special session<br>organizers are invited to submit (1) a summary (250 words) describing<br>the topic, purpose and target audience of the session as well as (2)<br>abstracts of papers (each 250 words) that will constitute the group of<br>presentations. It is suggested that a special session includes three<br>oral presentations to allow for sufficient presentation and discussion<br>time. A discussant (from another discipline) may be added to the<br>special session.<br><br>Tutorial and Special Session proposals should be sent no later than<br>March 28th to Katharina Rohlfing (<a href="mailto:kjr@uni-bielefeld.de">kjr@uni-bielefeld.de</a>) and Ian Fasel<br>(<a href="mailto:ianfasel@cs.arizona.edu">ianfasel@cs.arizona.edu</a>).<br><br>All proposals submitted will be subjected to a review process.<br><br>Abstract and Paper Submission Deadline:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>April 11, 2011<br>Notification Due:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>May 30, 2011<br>Final Version Due:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>June 20, 2011<br>Conference:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>August, 24—27, 2011<br><br>Child-care<br>For families, child-care services will be provided. Please contact<br>Katharina Rohlfing (<a href="mailto:kjr@uni-bielefeld.de">kjr@uni-bielefeld.de</a>) concerning your interest in<br>child-care services by June 14. The detailed organization will be<br>planned according to the needs.<br><br>Organizing Committee<br>General Chairs: Angelo Cangelosi (Plymouth, UK) and Jochen Triesch<br>(FIAS, Frankfurt, Germany)<br>Program Chairs: Ian Fasel (University of Arizona, USA) and Katharina<br>Rohlfing (Bielefeld University, Germany)<br>Publications Chair: Francesco Nori (IIT Genova, Italy)<br>Publicity Chairs: Pierre-Yves Oudeyer (INRIA Bordeaux, France),<br>Matthew Schlesinger (Southern Illinois University, USA), Yukie Nagai<br>(Osaka University, Japan)<br>Treasurer: Gisbert Jockenhoeffer (FIAS Frankfurt, Germany)<br><br>Program Committee<br>Minoru Asada, Osaka University, Japan<br>Christian Balkenius, Lund University, Sweden<br>Tony Belpaeme, University of Plymouth, UK<br>Luc Berthouze, University of Sussex, UK<br>Angelo Cangelosi, University of Plymouth, UK<br>Eliana Colunga, University of Colorado, USA<br>Rick Dale, University of Memphis, USA<br>Kerstin Dautenhahn, University of Hertfordshire, UK<br>Gedeon Deak, University of California San Diego, USA<br>Kerstin Fischer, University of Southern Denmark<br>Anna Fisher, Carnegie Mellon University, USA<br>Christian Goerick, Honda Research Institute, Germany<br>Lakshmi Gogate, Florida Gulf Coast University, USA<br>Roderic Grupen, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA<br>Stephen Hart, Italian Institute of Technology, Genoa<br>Birger Johansson, Lund University, Sweden<br>Susan Jones, Indiana University, USA<br>Stefan Kopp, Bielefeld University, Germany<br>Benjamin Kuipers, University of Michigan, USA<br>Karl F. MacDorman, Indiana University, USA<br>Giorgio Metta, University of Genoa and IIT, Italy<br>Takashi Minato, Osaka University, Japan<br>Joseph Modayil, University of Alberta, Canada<br>Clayton Morrison, University of Arizona, USA<br>Yukie Nagai Osaka, University, Japan<br>Lorenzo Natale, Italian Institute of Technology, Italy<br>Tim Oates, University of Maryland Baltimore County<br>Pierre-Yves Oudeyer, INRIA, France<br>Katharina Rohlfing, Bielefeld University, Germany<br>Erol Sahin, Middle East Technical University, Turkey<br>Brian Scassellati, Yale University, USA<br>Mattew Schlesinger, Southern Illinois University, USA<br>Jürgen Schmidhuber, University of Lugano, Switzerland<br>Alessandra Sciutti, IIT, Italy<br>Jeff Siskind, Purdue University, USA<br>Nathan Sprague, Kalamazoo College, USA<br>Jun Tani, RIKEN, Japan<br>Juyang Weng, Michigan State University, USA<br>Heiko Wersing, Honda Research Institute, Germany<br>Britta Wrede, Bielefeld University, Germany<br>Chen Yu, Indiana University, USA<br>Hui Zhang, Indiana University, USA<br>Zhengyou Zhang, Microsoft Research, USA</div></body></html>