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8th IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL2009)
Shanghai, June 5-7, 2009
http://www.icdl09.org/

ICDL is a multidisciplinary conference pertaining to all subjects related to the development and learning processes of natural and artificial systems, including perceptual, cognitive, behavioral, emotional and all other mental capabilities that are exhibited by humans, higher animals, and robots.  Its visionary goal is to understand autonomous development in humans and higher animals in biological, functional, and computational terms, and to enable such development in artificial systems. ICDL strives to bring together researchers in neuroscience, psychology, artificial intelligence, robotics and other related areas to encourage understanding and cross-fertilization of latest ideas. Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to:

(1)    Biological and biologically inspired architectures and general principles of development
(2)    Neuronal, cortical and pathway plasticity
(3)    Autonomous generation of internal representation, including feature identification
(4)    Neural networks for development and learning
(5)    Dynamics in neural systems and neurodynamical modeling
(6)    Attention mechanisms and the development of attention skills
(7)    Visual, auditory, touch systems and their development
(8)    Motor systems and their development
(9)    Language acquisition & understanding through development
(10)    Multimodal integration through development
(11)    Conceptual learning through development
(12)    Motivation, value, reinforcement, and novelty
(13)    Emotions and their development
(14)    Learning and training techniques for assisting development
(15)    Biological and biologically inspired thinking models and development of reasoning skills
(16)    Models of developmental disorders
(17)    Development of social skills
(18)    Philosophical and social issues of development
(19)    Robots with development and learning skills
(20)    Using robots to study development and learning

ICDL2009 will feature invited plenary talks by world-renowned speakers, a variety of special sessions aligned with the conference theme, pre-conference tutorials, as well as regular technical sessions, and poster sessions. In addition to full-paper submissions, ICDL 2009 accepts one-page abstract submissions to encourage late-breaking results or for work that is not sufficiently mature for a full paper.


  Organizing Committee

General Chair: Juyang Weng, Michigan State University, USA

General Co-Chairs: Tiande Shou, Fudan University, China Xiangyang Xue, Fudan University, China

Program Chairs: Jochen Triesch, Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Germany Zhengyou Zhang, Microsoft Research, USA

Publication Chair: Yilu Zhang, GM Research, USA

Publicity Chair: Alexander Stoytchev, Iowa State University, USA

Publicity Co-Chairs: Hiroaki Wagatsuma, RIKEN, Japan (Asia)
Pierre-Yves Oudeyer, INRIA Bordeaux - Sud-Ouest, France (Europe)
Gedeon Deak, University of California at San Diego, USA (North America)

Local Organization Sub-Committee: Hong Lu (Chair), Rui Feng (Hotel), Cheng Jin (Web), Yuefei Guo (Finance), Wenqiang Zhang (Publication)

  Important Dates

January 25, 2009: Special session and tutorial proposals
February 8, 2009: Full papers April 19, 2009: Accept/Reject notification for full papers
April 26, 2009: One-page poster abstracts May 3, 2009: Accept/Reject notification for poster abstracts
May 10, 2009: Final camera-ready papers

  Sponsors

IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
Cognitive Science Society
Microsoft Research