BICA 2012

 Updated registration page for Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures 2012 is available at http://bicasociety.org/2012/
The first 3 interested early registrants will receive, in addition to general benefits, a free BICA Convention t-shirt and a free set of BICA 2010-2011 DVDs with free shipping.
Cheers,
-Alexei

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> From: "Antonio Chella 062003" <antonio.chella@unipa.it>
> Subject: Connectionists: BICA 2012 Call for Papers - DEADLINE EXTENSION
> Date: May 29, 2012 3:25:00 PM EDT
> To: connectionists@cs.cmu.edu
> 
> BICA 2012 CALL FOR PAPER - DEADLINE EXTENSION
> 
> **********************************************************
> Due to many requests, the deadline for paper submission 
> has been postponed to June 15 2012.
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> 
> Annual International Conference on Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures (BICA), Third Annual 
> Meeting of the BICA Society
> Palermo, Italy, October 31st  - November 3rd 
> http://chilab.dinfo.unipa.it/bica2012/ 
> 
> The challenge of creating a real-life computational equivalent of the human mind, known as the BICA 
> Challenge, calls for our joint efforts to develop biologically-inspired intelligent agents that can be 
> accepted and trusted by the human society in various roles, on an equal footing with human agents. 
> The main objective of BICA 2012 is to take a significant step forward towards the BICA Challenge.
> 
> The topics of BICA 2012 will include (but will not be limited to):
> -	models capable of inducing the sense of presence in artifacts;
> -	the critical mass of a human-level learner;
> -	emotional competence and social intelligence in artifacts;
> -	machine consciousness and BICA;
> -	models of perception, cognition and action; 
> -	robust and scalable learning mechanisms;
> -	realistic neural networks for BICA;
> -	human-like episodic and semantic memory;
> -	metacognition in BICA; 
> -	self-regulated, bootstrapped and meta-learning; 
> -	language acquisition and symbol grounding; 
> -	non-von-Neumann computational systems for BICA;
> -	a roadmap to the BICA Challenge.
> 
> Format: 
> A two-day conference including keynote talks, paper presentations, panel discussions and exhibits.
> 
> Chairs:
> General Chair: Antonio Chella (University of Palermo, Italy) 
> Program Chairs: 
> Kamilla Johannsdottir (Reykjavik University, Iceland), Roberto Pirrone (University of Palermo, Italy)
> Local Organization Chair: Rosario Sorbello (University of Palermo, Italy) 
> 
> Confirmed keynote talks: 
> Karlheinz Meier (University of Heidelberg, Germany)
> Hiroshi Ishiguro (Osaka University, Japan)
> Giorgio Ascoli (George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA)
> Igor Aleksander (Imperial College, London, UK)
> Giulio Sandini (IIT and University of Genoa, Italy)
> Kristinn R. Thórisson (IIIM and Reykjavik University, Iceland)
> Ricardo Sanz (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain)
> Pentti Haikonen (University of Illinois at Springfield, USA)
> Christian Lebiere (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA)
> Michele Migliore (CNR, Palermo, Italy)
> Soo-Young Lee (KAIST, Republic of Korea)
> Alexei Samsonovich (George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA)
> Raul Arrabales (Univerdidad Carlos III, Madrid, Spain)
> Ignazio Licata (ISEM, Palermo, Italy)
> 
> Submission categories are: 
> - short abstracts;
> - extended abstracts;
> - position papers up to two pages;
> - research papers up to six pages. 
> Submissions longer than six pages are welcome; a fee per extra page will be charged to authors.
> 
> Paper and abstract submission:
> Please submit your paper using the EasyChair Conference System:
> http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bica2012 
> 
> The conference proceedings will be published in a volume of the Advances in Intelligent and Soft 
> Computing Book Series by Springer (indexed by ISI, Scopus, DBLP, among others). See Instructions for 
> Authors: http://www.springer.com/series/4240  
> 
> Extended versions of selected papers will be published after the conference in a special issue of the 
> journal BICA (Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures, published by Elsevier) and in a special issue 
> of the International Journal of Machine Consciousness (published by World Scientific).
> 
> NEW CRITICAL DATES:
> April 1st : submission site opened;
> June 15st : EXTENDED submission deadline; 
> July 15th : EXTENDED notification of acceptance;
> July 30th : EXTENDED camera ready papers due (Springer template mandatory);
> October 31st : pre-conference workshops and reception;
> November 1st  - 2nd : BICA 2012 conference;
> November 3rd : Excursion.
> NOTE: Please submit paper abstract as soon as possible!
> 
> Information about BICA 2012 can be found at http://chilab.dinfo.unipa.it/bica2012/   
> We are looking forward to seeing you in Palermo! Vi aspettiamo!
>