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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;">3rd
Evolution in Cognition 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;">2018
Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2018)</span></p>
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July 15-19, Kyoto, Japan<br>
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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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http://gecco-2018.sigevo.org</a><br>
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href="https://sites.google.com/champlain.edu/eic2018"> </a><a
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Submission Deadline: March 27th, 2018</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="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="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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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:
justify;">Prof. Kenji Doya<br>
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<p dir="ltr"
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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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;">Dr.
Joshua Auerbach, Champlain College<br>
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Richard Duro, Universidade da Coruna, Spain</span></p>
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Harold P. de Vladar, </span>KLI – Konrad Lorenz Institute
for Evolution and Cognition Research, Vienna.<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;">===
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 2018: 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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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;">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 </span><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;">March,
27th, 2018: Papers Submission Deadline</span></p>
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10th, 2018: Notification of Acceptance</span></p>
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24th, 2018: Camera-Ready Paper Submission</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;">July
15 or 16th, 2018: Workshop</span></p>
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