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    We are pleased to invite the submission of extended abstracts for
the following two-day symposium to be held in York next March as part of
AISB'01 - the 2001 Annual Convention of the British Society for the
Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour.

    The homepage for the symposium is at:
http://srsc.ulb.ac.be/AISB.html.


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Motivation
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This symposium will be devoted to interdisciplinary discussion of
the processes of nonconscious information processing and implicit
learning, in humans and in artificial intelligent agents.  AI systems
with implicit learning capabilities and computational models of implicit

learning will be presented, reflecting cognitive, connectionist and
composite methodologies and paradigms.  A major issue examined will be
the degree of salience that is to be ascribed to the possession of
implicit knowledge and the ability to acquire and employ it through
nonconscious mechanisms exhibited by different classes of
information-processing agents: humans, artificial agents and animals.

    The role of nonconscious information processing in many central
issues of artificial intelligence and the cognitive sciences will be
explored, including but not limited to, representation and inference,
problem-solving, perception, natural language understanding, learning
and induction, creativity and scientific discovery.  Theoretical
contributions, computer simulations and reports of empirical studies
are solicited from researchers in artificial intelligence, cognitive
science, psychology, computer science and philosophy.

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Programme Committee
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Dr. Axel Cleeremans, Co-Chair
Free University of Bruxelles, Belgium
Postal Address:  (for hardcopy submissions)
Seminar for Research in the Cognitive Sciences,
Free University of Bruxelles CP 122
Av. F. -D. Roosevelt, 50
1050 Bruxelles, Belgium
Email Address:
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Professor Pawel Lewicki, Co-Chair
University of Tulsa, USA
Postal Address:  (for hardcopy submissions)
Psychology Department, University of Tulsa,
600 South College Avenue
Tulsa, OK 74104, USA
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Dr. Zoltan Dienes
University of Sussex, UK
Dr. Bruce Edmonds
Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Professor Matthias Scheutz
University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA & University of Birmingham, UK
Dr. Michael Thomas
Institute for Child Health, London, UK
Professor Graziella Tonfoni
University of Bologna, Italy
Dr. Gerard Wolff
University of Wales at Bangor, UK
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Topics of Interest
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The following are some areas of research from which we would like to
attract both theoretical and empirical contributions.  This is not meant
to be an exclusive list, and submissions concerning any related topic
are encouraged.
*  Implicit learning in humans and artificial agents
*  Nonconscious information processing
*  Implicit versus explicit learning
*  Computational models of implicit learning
*  AI systems with nonconscious processing capabilities
*  Social aspects of nonconscious information processing
*  Nonconscious cognition in multi-agent societies
*  Implicit negotiation
*  Nonconscious facets of representation and inference
*  Nonconscious facets of natural language understanding

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Timetable
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Extended Abstracts Submission Deadline: 21st December 2000

Notification re: Extended Abstracts: 20th January 2001
Submission of Full Papers: 1st March 2001
The Convention: 21st-24th March 2001
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Contact Information
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If you have any questions about this symposium, please contact Pawel
Lewicki or Axel Cleeremans at the addresses given above.

If you have any general questions about the AISB'01 Convention, please
contact the convention chair, Simon Colton. ([log in to unmask])

If you have any questions about the local arrangements, please contact
the local arrangements chair, Eduardo Alonso.
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AISB'01 Convention Home Page (See this for accommodation, etc.).
(http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/~simonco/conferences/AISB01)