Special track at
the 23rd International FLAIRS Conference
in cooperation with the American Association for Artificial Intelligence
May 19th - 21st, 2010
Paper submission deadline: November 23rd, 2009
Notifications: January 22nd, 2010
Camera ready version due: February 22nd, 2010
Expanded submission for publication in JETAI: April 23rd, 2010
All accepted papers will be published as FLAIRS proceedings by the AAAI
A small number of submissions to this special track
will be selected for
publication in the Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence (JETAI)
What is the motivation for the C&AI special track?
There is little doubt that cognitive psychology and AI have had an immense impact on each other’s theoretical development. AI has explored and incorporated psychologically plausible models of human thought and behavior for a myriad of purposes, ranging from algorithmic fine-tuning to robotics and intelligent systems. In turn, cognitive psychology has made new discoveries and gained greater understanding by capitalizing on the processing capacities of computational techniques. The C&AI special track is motivated by this partnership of cognition and AI. The track will cover a wide-range of issues that pertain to the influence of cognitive psychology in AI and how insights obtained from computational principles can benefit the study of human cognition.
What are the goals?
The goal of this special track is to spotlight theoretical and experimental research that explains, integrates, and models human cognition with various computational approaches.
Who might be interested?
This special track is an open forum for interdisciplinary research that spans the domains of cognitive psychology, computer science, philosophy, and the learning sciences. If you use computational techniques to better understand cognitive phenomena, or are developing AI that instantiates cognitive processes, then this track is for you.
What are some example topics?
Given the scope of the C&AI special track, the following should be considered a list of possible areas of interest; however, all studies as they relate to cognition and AI are welcome.
Interested authors should format their papers according to AAAI formatting guidelines. Please download the AAAI author kit HERE. The papers should be original work (i.e., not submitted, in submission, or submitted to another conference while in review). Papers should not exceed 6 pages (2 pages for a poster) and are due by November 23rd, 2009. For FLAIRS-23, the 2010 conference, the reviewing is a double blind process. Fake author names and affiliations must be used on submitted papers to provide double-blind reviewing. Papers must be submitted as PDF through the EasyChair conference system, which can be accessed through the main conference web site (http://www.FLAIRS-23.info). Note, do not use a fake name for your EasyChair login - your EasyChair account information is hidden from reviewers. Authors should indicate the special track of C&AI for submissions. The proceedings of FLAIRS will be published by the AAAI. Authors of accepted papers will be required to sign a form transferring copyright of their contribution to AAAI. An author of each accepted paper is required to register, attend, and present the paper at FLAIRS.
Please, check the website http://www.flairs-23.info/ for further information.
Papers will be refereed and all accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings, which will be published by AAAI Press.
Based on the quality of submissions, the program committee will select a small number of C&AI special track papers for publication in the Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence (JETAI). To be eligible for selection, authors will be required to submit an expanded version of the original conference proceeding that contains significant theoretical or experimental additions. The expanded version will be peer-reviewed by program committee members and final decisions for acceptance will be made by the organizing committee. Because the organizing committee has secured special arrangements with the journal, questions about submission content should be referred to the organizing committee. However, authors can visit the JETAI “Instruction to Authors” site for basic formatting inquiries. Expanded papers must be submitted to Nicholas Duran (nduran@memphis.edu) by April 23rd, 2010.
Nicholas Duran, Department of
Psychology, University of Memphis, nduran@memphis.edu
Sidney D’Mello,
Department of Computer Science, University of Memphis, sdmello@memphis.edu
Rick Dale, Department of Psychology,
University of Memphis, radale@memphis.edu
Eric Dietrich Steven Gutstein
Art Graesser Anne Warlaumont
Danielle McNamara Jon Willits
Stan Franklin Stephen Briner
Christopher Kurby Kristy Snyder-Tapp
Patrick Jeuniaux Jenny
Roche
Questions regarding the C&AI special track should be addressed to the
track co-chairs:
Nicholas Duran, nduran@memphis.edu
Sidney D’Mello, sdmello@memphis.edu
Rick Dale, radale@memphis.edu
Questions regarding any other FLAIRS special tracks should be addressed to the special track co-ordinator: Philip McCarthy, philmccarthy1@gmail.com
Conference Chair: David
C. Wilson, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
Program Co-Chairs: Chas
Murray, Carnegie Learning, USA
Hans
Guesgen, Massey University, New Zealand
Special Tracks Coordinator: Philip
McCarthy, University of Memphis, USA
Janet Kolodner, Professor in the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute
of Technology
Eugene Charniak, Professor of Computer Science at Brown University
Herb Clark, Professor of Psychology at Stanford University
Paper submission site: follow the link for submissions at http://www.FLAIRS-23.info
C&AI special track web page: http://academic.nickduran.com/FLAIRS_C&AI.html
FLAIRS-2010 conference web page: http://www.flairs-23.info/
Florida AI Research Society (FLAIRS): http://www.flairs.com
For researchers submitting to C&AI, there are also 12 other special tracks that are open to new submissions. Please feel free to submit an additional research report to one (or more) of the following tracks:
1. Data Mining
2. Case-Based Reasoning
3. Artificial Intelligence Education
4. AI, Cognitive Semantics and Computational Linguistics: New Perspectives
5. Uncertain Reasoning
6. Applied Natural Language Processing
7. Games & Entertainment
8. AI Planning and Scheduling
9. AI and Second Language Learning
10. Learning in Intelligent Systems
11. Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
12. Intelligent Tutoring Systems
For more information, please consult the main conference web page: http://www.flairs-23.info/