AKRR'08

Final CFP: ADAPTIVE KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION AND REASONING

Following the successful 2005 conference, AKRR 2008 will be organized in Finland in 17-19 September 2008 at Haikko Manor, Porvoo, 30-40 minutes from Helsinki. The conference site was elected in 2007 by Mercury International to be the best one in Finland.

More information is available at http://www.cis.hut.fi/AKRR08/

The conference is co-organized with ESTSP'08, European Symposium on Time Series Prediction.

BACKGROUND

In the modern society, knowledge representation and reasoning are underlying building blocks in various kinds of information systems and networks. Knowledge representation and reasoning are also central themes in cognitive science and epistemology. Relevant questions include how do humans know, understand, anticipate, make decisions and collaborate, and, on the other hand, how to analyze, model and simulate complex phenomena in general. Relevant modeling methods include statistical machine learning, artificial neural networks, signal processing, pattern recognition and dynamical systems.

AUDIENCE

The aim of the AKRR'08 conference is to bring together scientists who study complex phenomena in empirical sciences and scientists who develop computational methods for dealing with complexity. From the empirical sciences, we especially welcome researchers in cognitive science, sociology, educational psychology, economics and medicine. From the methodological sciences, we welcome researchers who develop, for instance, statistical machine learning, dynamical systems theory and adaptive systems.

The conference also aims to be relevant for practitioners who encounter complex phenomena continuously and who are looking for new ways to deal with challenges related to management and strategic decision making.

CALL FOR PAPERS

We invite three kinds of papers:

If accepted to be published as proceedings papers, the papers will be presented at the conference either as talks or as posters.
 * Refereed papers for publication in the Proceedings, up to 8 pages.

proposals for a complete 90-minute symposium on current research topics. Symposium papers may be up to 8 pages with the exception of tutorial like survey papers that may be up to 15 pages.
 * Symposium papers related to one of the special symposia below or

solid scientific track record of publishing on the topics of their proposed talks, or b) established practitioners on a field relevant to the area of the conference or one of the symposia. Publication or practice based papers may either be submitted as 1-2 page abstracts or full papers with up to 8 pages with the exception of tutorial like survey papers that may be up to 15 pages. Papers in this category will be considered as invited papers.
 * Publication or practice based presentations by a) researchers with a

The papers that are accepted to be presented in the conference and included in the Proceedings will be labeled according to their category (peer reviewed, invited, keynote).

The conference and symposia topics and themes are described below.

TOPICS

We invite novel high-quality papers that are related to the conference themes including but not limited to:

Themes related to empirical sciences

social and societal structures and processes economical phenomena the web design processes
 * Adaptive, dynamical and probabilistic models and simulations of
 * Probabilistic and pattern-based reasoning on financial and
 * Non-symbolic ontologies and adaptive knowledge representation for
 * Emergent and evolutionary representations for creative and
 * Models of natural language understanding and translation
 * Learning schemas and language games


 * Cognitive models of perceptually grounded reasoning processes
 * Multimodality in cognitive and artificial systems
 * Analysis and modeling of emotions and decision making
 * Relationship between individual, social and cultural development
 * Natural and artificial general intelligence


 * Analysis and development of conceptual spaces
 * Emerging representations in active agents
 * Empirical and theoretical study of practices and activities

Methodological themes

environments reasoning
 * Contextuality in statistical analysis and reasoning
 * Models of temporal processes and reasoning
 * Knowledge representation and reasoning in non-stationary
 * Spatial representations of knowledge
 * Analyses of the limitations of logic-based representations and

acquisition and representation
 * Hybrid systems and emergence of symbolic representations
 * Continuous formal systems
 * Dynamical systems models of knowledge
 * Pattern-based reasoning
 * Unsupervised and reinforcement learning models for knowledge

component analysis and self-organizing maps
 * Bayesian models of learning and reasoning
 * Emergent representations based on independent
 * Biologically inspired computing including artificial immune systems

SPECIAL SYMPOSIA

The following symposia are being prepared. More information on them will be available at the conference web site http://www.cis.hut.fi/AKRR08/


 * Adaptive systems in organizational theory and economic sciences


 * Adaptive machine translation


 * Computational wisdom, modeling emotions and decision making

knowledge and understanding
 * New generation of semantic web: social and multimodal grounding of


 * Adaptive systems in medical education, research and practice

IMPORTANT DATES


 * Refereed paper submission due: 7 March 2008
 * Acceptance notification for refereed papers: 25 April 2008

symposium papers: 20 June 2008
 * Symposium proposal or paper submission due: 9 May 2008
 * Acceptance notification for symposia or

10 June 2008 presentations: 20 June 2008
 * Publication or practice based presentation submission due:
 * Acceptance notification for publication or practice based


 * Deadline for early registration: 15 July 2008


 * Camera-ready paper due: 1 August 2008


 * Symposia and conference: 17-19 September 2008

ORGANIZERS

Programme committee and conference chair

Timo Honkela Helsinki University of Technology Adaptive Informatics Research Centre timo.honk...@tkk.fi

Organizing committee chair

Olli Simula Helsinki University of Technology Adaptive Informatics Research Centre olli.sim...@tkk.fi 	 This CfP was obtained from WikiCFP