| AISB'11 Programme (ver. 1.0) | |||||||
| 04-Apr-11 | |||||||
| 11:00h | AISB registration opens (Computer Science Lobby, until 18:00h). | ||||||
| 12:30 - 14:00h | Lunch (The Pod, Computer Science) | ||||||
| Symposium on SNAMAS (CSE/082, CompSci) |
Human Memory for Artificial Agents (CSE/083, CompSci) | ||||||
| 14:00 - 15:30h Session M1 |
Introduction of symposium and participants |
14:00-14:10h Introduction. 14:10-14:35h Paulo Gomes, Ana Paiva and Carlos Martinho. Between Downward Spirals and Habituation: Emotion Intensity in Virtual Agents' Memory Retrieval (short paper). 14:35 - 15:00h Michal Čermák, Rudolf Kadlec and Cyril Brom. Towards modeling false memory using virtual characters: a position paper (short paper). 15:00 - 15:25h Joana Campos and Ana Paiva. Towards modeling false memory using virtual characters: a position paper (short paper). |
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| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee break | ||||||
| 16:00 - 17:30h Session M2 |
Software session | 16:00 - 16:30h José F Castro A Memory Structure that Gives Meaning to the Notions of Knowledge and Belief (Long paper) 16:30 - 16:55h Nate Derbinsky and John Laird A Preliminary Functional Analysis of Memory in the Word Sense Disambiguation Task (Short paper) 16:55 - 17:25h Uma Ramamurthy and Stan Franklin Memory Systems for Cognitive Agents (Long paper) |
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| 18:00 - 19:30h | Welcome reception (The Pod, Computer Science) | ||||||
| 05-Apr-11 | 05-Apr-11 | ||||||
| Time | Symposium on SNAMAS (CSE/082, CompSci) |
Symposium on Architectures for Active Vision (CSE/266) | Symposium on Human Memory for Artificial Agents (CSE/083) | Towards a Comprehensive Intelligence Test (RCH/017) | Computational Models of Cognitive Development (CSE/267) | ||
| 9:00 - 10:00h | AISB Plenary Speaker: Alan Baddeley. Working memory. (RCH/037, The Hub) | AISB Plenary Speaker: Alan Baddeley (RCH/037, The Hub) | |||||
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee break | Coffee break | |||||
| 10:30 - 12:30h Session TU1 |
10:30 - 11:00h Introductionary speech
by Christiano Castelfranchi 11:00 - 11:30h Paul Chapron, Christophe Sibertin-Blanc Analysis of the power network among the actors of a social organization 11:30 - 12:00h Cristiano Castelfranchi The Logic of Power. How my Power Becomes his Power 12:00 - 12:15h Discussion about sesseion 1 12:15 - 12:45h Nicola Santoro, Walter Quattrociocchi, Paola Flocchini, Arnaud Casteigts and Frederic Amblard Time-Varying Graphs and Social Network Analysis: Temporal Indicators and Metrics |
10:30 - 10:45h Introduction to AAV 10:45 - 11:00h Melanie Burke, University of Leeds Functional brain architecture underlying eye movements 11:00 - 11:30h Melanie Burke, University of Leeds Functional bran architecture underlying eye movements 11:30 - 11:55h Y. Gatsoulis, E. Kerr, J.V. Condell, N.H. Siddique and T.M. McGinnity A visual novelty detection filter based on bag-of-words and biologically-inspired networks 11:55 - 12:20h Alex Cope and Kevin Gurney A biologically based model of active vision |
10:30 - 10:55h Paul Baxter, Rachel Wood, Tony Belpaeme and Marco Nalin On Memory Systems for Companion Robots: Technical Trends and Implications (Short paper) 10:55 - 11:25h Matthias U. Keysermann, Alex A. Freitas and Patricia A. Vargas Implementing a data mining approach to episodic memory modelling for artificial companions (Long paper) 11:25 - 12:30h Open Discussion & END |
10:30 - 11:30 Huma Shah Turing's misunderstood imitation game and IBM's Watson success 11:30 - 11:50 Yaman Kayihan Human Computer Visual Test 11:50 - 12:10 Antony Galton, Ed Keedwell, and Mike Barclay Reference Object Selection Intelligence (ROSI) Test 12:10 - 12:30 Patrick Fogarty Can Machines Think? A Proposal for an Augmented Scientific Turing Test |
10:30 - 10:54h Mark Lee (Aberystwyth) Psychology and Developing Robots 10:54 - 11:18h Honghai Liu (Portsmouth) Hand Skill Transfer: a Cognitive Challenge 11:18 - 11:42h Norbert Krueger (Southern Denmark) Vision for Cognition: Prior Knowledge and Development 11:42 - 12:06h Mark Steedman (Edinburg) Where does compositionality come from? 12:06 - 12:30h John Alexander (Aberdeen) Hierarchical Knowledge Structures |
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| 12:30 - 14:00h | Lunch (The Ron Cooke Hub) | ||||||
| 14:00 - 14:30 | AISB Plenary Speaker: Mark Steedman. The Statistical Problem of Language Acquisition. (RCH/037, The Hub) | AISB Plenary Speaker: Mark Steedman (RCH/037, The Hub) | |||||
| 15:00 - 16:30h Session TU2 |
15:00 - 15:30h Zach Lewkovicz, Samuel Thiriot and Philippe Caillou How detailed should social networks be for labor market's models? 15:30 - 16:00h Sascha Holzhauer , Friedrich Krebs and Andreas Ernst Considering baseline homophily when generating spatial social networks 16:00 - 16:30h Enrico Franchi, Federico Bergenti and Agostino Poggi Selected Models for Agent-based Simulation of Social Networks |
15:00 - 15:45h Ben Tatler, Unversity of Dundee Vision in natural behaviour 15:45 - 16:10h Brian Sullivan, Leif Johnson, Dana Ballard and Mary Hayhoe A modular reinforcement learning model for human visuomotor behavious in a driving task 16:10 - 16:35h Martin Hulse, Sebastian McBride and Mark Lee Multi-modal visual attention for robotics active vision systems - a reference architecture |
15:00 - 15:50 Blay Whitby Let's Stop Being Self-Obsessed 15:50 - 16:10 C. White, D. Bell Towards the Measurement of Plasticity and Innateness in Artificial Agents 16:10 - 16:30 Graham Wallis Le Petit Challenge |
15:00 - 15:30h Katherine E. Twomey and Jessica S. Horst All Things Considered: Dynamic Field Theory Captures Effect of Categories on Children's Word Learning 15:30- 16:00h Anne S. Warlaumont, Gert Westermann, and D. Kimbrough Oller Adult Input Causes Less Precise Imitation in a Neural Network Model of Infant Vowel Perception and Production 16:00 - 16:30h Alexandra Varga and Michiel van Lambalgen Infants' Flexible Closed World Reasoning and Imitation-for-Learning |
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| 16:30 - 17:00 | Coffee break | Coffee break | |||||
| 17:00 - 18:30h Session TU3 |
17:00 - 17:30h Julia Schaumeier, Jeremy Pitt, Moez Draief and Pallapa Venkataram Adaptive Security Scheme for Open Networks 17:30 - 18:00h Francesca Giardini, Walter Quattrociocchi and Rosaria Conte Rooting opinions in the minds: a cognitive and computational model of opinions and their dynamics 18:00 - 18:30h Mauricio Salgado and Elio Marchione Bridging the Gap: Multilevel and Agent-Based Modelling in the Analysis of Differential School Effectiveness |
17:00 - 17:25h David G. Harrison and Marc De Kamps A Dynamical Model of Feature-Based Attention with Strong Lateral Inhibition to Resolve Competition Among Candidate Feature Locations 17:25 - 17:50h Rebecca Naylor, Simon O'Keefe, Jim Austin and Netta Cohen Coordination of multi-layered neural computation - a Neural Pipeline approach 17:50 - 18:15h David J. Yates and Tom Stafford Visual search performance can be enhanced by instructions that alter eye movements |
17:00 - 17:20 Elpida S. Tzafestas Knowing me, knowing you: On the relevance of a mind reading test for general testing of intelligence 17:20 - 18:30 Everybody Round Table Discussion |
17:00 - 17:30h Norbert Krueger, Mila Popovic, Leon Bodenhagen, Dirk Kraft and Frank Guerin Grasp Learning by Means of Developing Sensorimotor Schemas and Generic World Knowledge 17:30 - 18:00h Michael Miller Piagetian Autonomous Modeller 18:00 - 18:30h Timothy A. Furze and Brandon Bennett Using the Principles of Classical Conditioning to Learn Event Sequences |
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| 20:00 - end | Convention dinner | Convention dinner | |||||
| 06-Apr-11 | |||||||
| Time | Symposium on Computing and Philosophy (CSE/083) | Machine Consciousness (CSE/082) |
AI for Games (RCH/017) | Symposium on LLMMC (CSE102+103) |
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| 9:00 - 10:30h Session W1 | 9:00 - 9:50h Margaret Boden Creativity/Anonymity and Evolutionary Art 10:00 - 10:30h Simon Colton And Alison Pease On Impact and Evaluation in Computational Creativity: A discussion of the Turing Test and an alternative proposal |
9:00 - 9:45 John Taylor Can Functional and Phenomenal Consciousness be Divided? 9:45 - 10:30 Antonio Chella and Salvatore Gaglio High dimensional perceptual signals and synthetic phenomenology |
9:00 - Paolo Busetta An Introduction to CoJACK John Grey and Joanna Bryson Procedural Quests: A Focus for Agent Interaction in Role-Playing-Games |
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| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break | Coffee break | Coffee break | Coffee break | |||
| 11:00 - 12:30h Session W2 | 11:00 - 11:40h Mohammad Majid al‐Rifaie & Mark Bishop Creative or Not? Birds and Ants Draw with Muscles 11:45 - 12:25h Leighton Evans Object-oriented philosophy - the nature of the relations between humans and computational objects |
11:00 - 11:45 Uma Ramamurthy and Stan Franklin Self System in a model of cognition 11:45 - 12:30 Yasuo Kinouchi et al A model of primitive consciousness in an autonomously adaptive system under a framework of reinforcement learning |
11:00
- AI
algorithms Zhongjie Cai, Dapeng Zhang and Bernhard Nebel Playing Tetris Using Bandit-Based Monte-Carlo Planning Edward Powley, Daniel Whitehouse and Peter Cowling Determinization in Monte-Carlo Tree Search for the card game Dou Di Zhu Luciana Benotti and Nicolás Bertoa From game tutorials to game partners using natural language generation techniques |
11:00 - 11:30h Nur-Hana Samsudin and Mark Lee Constructing a Reusable Linguistic Resource for a Polyglot Speech Synthesis 11:30 - 12:00h Azniah Ismail and Suresh Manandhar Multi-word Level Context Features: Towards Context Feature Improvement 12:00 - 12:30h Ahmad R. Shahid and Dimitar Kazakov Using Multilingual Corpora to Extract Semantic Information |
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| 12:30 - 14:00h | 12:30 - 14:00h Lunch (The Ron Cooke Hub) 13:00-14:00h SSAISB AGM (RCH/037) |
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| 14:00 - 15:30h Session W3 | 14:00 - 14:40h Paul Schweizer Multiple Realization and the Computational Mind 14:45 - 15:25h Tom Froese, Keisuke Suzuki, Sohei Wakisaka, Yuta Ogai and Takashi Ikegami From Artificial Life to Artificial Embodiment: Using human-computer interfaces to investigate the embodied mind 'as-it-could-be' from the first-person perspective |
14:00 - 14:45 Klaus Raizer, André Luis Ogando Paraense and Ricardo Ribeiro Gudwin A Cognitive Neuroscience-inspired Codelet-based Cognitive Architecture for the Control of Artificial Creatures with Incremental Levels of Machine Consciousness 14:45 - 15:30 Joanna Bryson A Role for Consciousnessin Action Selection |
14:00
- Intelligent
environments and characters Richard Evans Representing Personality Traits as Conditionals Phil Carlisle, Steve Manning and Mark Grimshaw Social Objetcs - A framework for social interactions between videogame characters Luke Dicken and John Levine Influence Landscapes - From Spatial to Conceptual Representations Luke Dicken, Nicky Johnstone, John Levine and Phil Rodgers SPREE: The Strathclyde Poker Research Environment |
14:00 - 14:45h Round Table | |||
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee break | ||||||
| 16:00 - 17:00h Session W4 | 16:00 - 17:00h Panel (Boden, Pease, Erden) Creativity |
16:00 - 17:00 Invited talk: Murray Shanahan Artificial Geneal Intelligence Requires Consciousness |
16:00 - Position papers Lynne Hall, Syaheerah Lutfi, Asad Nazir, John Hodgson, Marc Hall, Christopher Ritter, Susan Jones, Samuel Mascarenhas, Bridget Cooper, Ana Paiva and Ruth Aylett Games based learning for Exploring Cultural Conflict Fabio Abbattista, Giovanni Attolico, Valeria Carofiglio, Fabio De Felice and Giovanni Dimauro Recognition of Emotional Brain Activities in Virtual Reality Environment: A Position Paper |
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| 17:00 - 18:00h | Invited talk: Stephen
Wolfram. Intelligence and the Computational Universe. (LMB/002A) |
Invited talk: Stephen Wolfram. Intelligence and the Computational Universe. (LMB/002A) |
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| 07-Apr-11 | |||||||
| Time | Symposium on Computing and Philosophy (CSE/083) | Machine Consciousness (CSE/082) |
AI for Games (RCH/017) | ||||
| 9:00 - 10:00h | Invited talk: Katie Slocombe. Primate
communication: links to human language? (RCH/037) |
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| 10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee break | ||||||
| 10:30 - 12:30h Session TH1 | 10:30 - 11:30h Li Zhang Contextual Affect Modeling and Detection from Open‐ended Text‐based Dramatic Interaction 11:30 - 11:50h Nir Fresco The Information Processing Account of Computation 11:50 - 12:30h Kevin Magill and Yasemin J. Erden Autonomy and desire in machines and cognitive agent systems |
10:30 - 11:15 Ricardo Sanz Consciousness, Meaning and the Future Phenomenology 11:15 - 12:00 Steve Torrance Would a super-intelligent AI necessarily be (super-) conscious? 12:00 - 12:30 All Participants Discussion of topics raised in sessions W1-3 and TH1 |
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| 12:30 - 14:00h | Lunch (The Ron Cooke Hub) | Lunch (The Ron Cooke Hub) | 12:30-14:00h
Lunch (RCH) 13:00 - 14:00 The Science of Gaming: School outreach session (RCH/037) |
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| 14:00 - 15:30h Session TH2 | 14:00 - 14:40h Jiri Wiedermann The Singularity Might Indeed Be Near, But the Next Interesting Level of Intelligence Is Too Far 14:45 - 15:25h Michael Nicolaidis On the State of Superposition and the Parallel or not Parallel Nature of Quantum Computing: a controversy raising point of view |
14:00 - 14:45 David Gamez Information Integration, Data Integration and Machine Consciousness 14:45 - 15:30 Igor Aleksander, Michael Beaton World-Related Integrated Information: Enactivist and Phenomenal Perspectives |
14:00 - 14:45 Viv Hallam (Viking Fund) |
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| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee break | ||||||
| 16:30 - 18:00h Session TH3 | 16:00 - 16:40h William Duncan Using Ontological Dependence to Distinguish Between Hardware and Software 16:40 - 17:20h Florent Franchette Why is it necessary to build a physical model of hypercomputation? 17:20 - end Panel (TBC) |
16:00 - 17:00 Invited Talk: Owen Holland Self, representation, and experience in a cognitive system 17:00 - 18:00 Closing panel discussion Issues raised in TH2-3; also: "Machine Consciousness: What explanatory progress has been made? What are its future goals?" |
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