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<span
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call for contribution for the Evolution in Cognition Workshop,
deadline in one week.</span>
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">2nd
Evolution in Cognition Workshop</span></p>
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be held as part of the</span></p>
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">2017
Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2017)</span></p>
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July 15-19, Berlin, Germany</span></p>
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Organized
by ACM SIGEVO</span></p>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://gecco-2017.sigevo.org">http://gecco-2017.sigevo.org</a></span></p>
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Webpage:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://sites.google.com/champlain.edu/eic2017/">https://sites.google.com/champlain.edu/eic2017/</a></span></p>
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Submission Deadline: March 31st, 2017</span></p>
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Topic ===</span></p>
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">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.</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:
justify;"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">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.</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:
justify;"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">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.</span></p>
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Keywords:
Evolutionary Computation, Evolution, Cognition, Darwinian
Neurodynamics, Neuronal Darwisnism, robotics.</span></p>
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">===
Invited speakers ===</span></p>
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justify;">Prof. Eörs Szathmáry</p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:
justify;">Additional invited speakers will be announced in the
near future.</p>
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Organizers ===</span></p>
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Prof.
Stéphane Doncieux, University Pierre and Marie Curie, France</span></p>
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Joshua Auerbach, Champlain College<br>
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Richard Duro, Universidade da Coruna, Spain</span></p>
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Submissions and deadlines ===</span></p>
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Accepted
submissions:</span></p>
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">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</span></p>
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Abstracts
submitted as poster to GECCO 2017: the authors of selected
abstracts will be given a talk. The abstract won’t be
included in the proceedings.</span></p>
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justify;"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Hot-of-the-press:
authors can submit a recently published work. Selected
articles will be given a talk. </span></p>
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extended abstracts (2-4 pages) and long papers (8 pages) are
accepted. They should follow ACM template and should be sent in
electronic form (pdf) to </span><span
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href="mailto:eic_ws@isir.upmc.fr">eic_ws@isir.upmc.fr</a>:</span></p>
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">March,
31st, 2017: Papers Submission Deadline</span></p>
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">April,
14th, 2017: Notification of Acceptance</span></p>
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">April,
21th, 2016: Camera-Ready Paper Submission</span></p>
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justify;"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">July
15 or 16th, 2017: Workshop</span></p>
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