CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
AISB Symposium on
Imitation in Animals and Artifacts*
Edinburgh, Scotland
Symposium Chairs:
Kerstin Dautenhahn (Univ. Reading) and
Chrystopher Nehaniv (Univ. Hertfordshire)
* Supported by a grant from the Engineering and Physical Sciences
Research Council (EPSRC)
DRAFT Program:
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Wednesday, 7th April 1999
09:00-10:00
Keynote Talk:
Josep Call (University of Liverpool, UK)
[confirmed]
Emulation in Relation to Other Forms of Social Learning
10:00-10:40 Paper Session
Mark Gardner (Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College, UK)
Do animals learn to imitate as well as learning by imitation?
Oliver Goodenough (Vermont Law School, USA)
Information Replication in Culture: Three Modalities for the
Transmission of Culture Elements
10:40 Coffee/Tea Break
11:00-12:00 Paper Session:
Mikael Heimann (Gteborg University, Sweden)
Imitation in early infancy: A fuzzy picture or a clear vision?
Stefan Vogt (Lancaster University, UK)
Constraints in human imitative behaviour
Tony Charman & Chi-Tai Huang (UCL, UK)
Pre-schoolers Imitating Failed Attempts: Reading Intentions vs.
Object Affordances
12:00-12:20 Paper Presentation:
J. Fritz & K. Kotrschal (Konrad Lorenz Forschungsstelle, Austria)
Social constraints and profitability of social learning
12:20-12.30: Poster introduction:
Christine Caldwell (University of St. Andrews, Scotland)
Observational Learning in the Marmoset Monkey (Callithrix
jacchus)
Gianluca Baldassarre (University of Essex, UK)
Trial-and-Error Learning, Noise and Selection in Cultural
Evolution: An Study Through Artificial Life Simulations
Bernhard Voelkl (University of Vienna, Austria)
Social Foraging Strategies - A Case Study of the Interaction
between Local Enhancement and Following Behaviour
and others
12:30 Lunch
14:00-15:00
Keynote Talk:
Andrew Whiten (University of St. Andrews, Scotland)
[confirmed]
Cognitive Issues in Imitation: Studies with Child and
Chimpanzee
15:00-15:30 Discussion
15:30 Coffee/Tea Break
15:45-16:35
Keynote Talk:
Andrew Meltzoff (University of Washington, USA)
16:35-17:15 Paper Session
Mike Oliphant (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Cultural Transmission of Communication Systems
Simon Kirby (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Learning, Bottlenecks and Infinity: a working model of the
evolution of syntactic communication
17:15 End of Day
Evening - Harold Cohen: AI and Visual Creativity
Thursday, 8th April 1999
09:00-10:00
Keynote Talk:
Cecilia Heyes (UCL, UK)
[confirmed]
Transformation and Associative Theories of Imitation
10:00-10:40 Paper Session
Jason Noble and Peter M. Todd (Max Planck Institute for Human
Development, Germany) :
Is it really imitation? A review of simple mechanisms in social
information gathering
Elio Tuci, Jason Noble and Peter M. Todd (Max Planck Institute for
Human Development, Germany)
"I'll have what she's having": Asimulation analysis of the
copying of food preferences in Norway rats
10:40 Coffee/Tea Break
11:00-12:00:
Keynote Talk:
Elisabetta Visalberghi (Istituto di Psicologia, CNR, Rome, Italy)
[confirmed]
"Do Monkeys Ape?" Ten Years After
12:00-12:30: Paper Presentation
John Demiris and Gillian Hayes (University of Edinburgh, UK):
Active Imitation
12:30 Lunch
14:00 AISB Convention Plenary talk:
Margaret Boden: Creativity and Evaluation
15:30 Coffee/Tea Break
16:00-17:15 Paper Session:
Aude Billard (Edinburgh, Scotland and LAMI-EPFL, Switzerland)
Imitation Skills as a Means to Enhance Learning of a Synthetic
Proto-Language in an Autonomous Robot
Cynthia Breazeal (MIT AI Lab, USA)
Imitation as Social Exchange between Humans and Robots
Brian Scassellati (MIT AI Lab, USA)
Knowing What to Imitate and Knowing When You Succeed
17:15 End of Day
Evening - Mark Turner: The Literary Mind
Friday, 9th April 1999
09:00-10:00
Keynote Talk:
Henry Lieberman (MIT Media Lab, USA)
[confirmed]
Art Imitates Life: Programming by Example as an Imitation
Game
10:00-10:30 Paper Presentation
Dolores Caamero, Josep Lluis Arcos, and Ramon Lopez de
Mantaras (Spanish Council for Scientific Research (CSIC), Spain)
Imitating Human Performances to Automatically Generate
Expressive Jazz Ballads
10:30 Coffee/Tea Break
11:00 Paper Session
James R. Hurford (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Overcoming the Learning Paradox: Redundant Messages and
Noisy Signals.
John R. Skoyles (London, UK)
Language and imitation: Informational processing and the
elementary units of speech.
Daniel Livingstone & Colin Fyfe (University of Paisley, UK)
Diversity through Imitation
12:30 Lunch
14:00-15:00
Keynote Talk:
James P. Crutchfield (Santa Fe Institute, USA)
15:00-15:30 Paper Presentation
Edmund Furse (University of Glamorgan, UK)
A Model of Imitation Learning of Algorithms from Worked
Examples
15:30 Coffee/Tea Break
15:45-16:05: Paper Session:
Yuzuru Sato & Takashi Ikegami (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Undecidability of the Imitation Game
16:05-17:15 Discussion
17:15 End of Symposium
Symposium Homepage: http://www.cs.herts.ac.uk/~nehaniv/aisb.html
Registration Information
is at
http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/daidb/people/homes/geraint/aisb99/registration.
html
For Accomodation Booking see
http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/daidb/people/homes/geraint/aisb99/#accom
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++ THE AISB'99 CONVENTION ++
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The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and
Simulation of Behaviour (AISB) is pleased to announce its
forthcoming Convention and to call for participation in
the symposia which constitute the event.
The AISB'99 Convention will be held in Edinburgh between
6th and 9th April 1999, inclusive, hosted by Edinburgh
College of Art and the Division of Informatics, University
of Edinburgh. It will consist of 10 workshops and symposia
on a wide range of themes in Artificial Intelligence and
Cognitive Science. An underlying theme of the Convention
this year is the study of creativity, though not all of
the events include an explicitly creative element.
Dates: from 6th April 1999 until 9th April 1999 inclusive.
Location: Edinburgh College of Art &
Division of Informatics, University of Edinburgh.
Format: ten serial/parallel symposia on specialist
AI/Cognitive Science topics.
Note that the events are open to all paying registrants,
and are not restricted to those presenting papers.
INVITED SPEAKERS
AISB'99 is pleased to welcome Prof. Margaret Boden as its
conference keynote speaker. Prof. Boden's talk (which will
be open to conference delegates only) will be entitled
`Creativity and Evaluation' and will be linked with a
plenary discussion about AI and creativity. The talk will
take place at 2pm on Thursday 8th April 1999.
In conjunction with the Edinburgh International Science
Festival, AISB'99 will also be hosting keynote talks on
issues concerning AI and the Creative Arts:
Prof. Harold Cohen, emeritus professor in the Department
of Visual Arts at the University of California at San Diego
and inventor of the robot painter, AARON, will speak about
Artificial Intelligence and Visual Creativity (7th April
1999);
Prof. Mark Turner, professor of English Language and
Literature on the Doctoral Program in Neuroscience and
Cognitive Science at the University of Maryland, will speak
about `The Literary Mind' (8th April 1999).
DELEGATE ACCOMMODATION
Delegate accommodation is to be handled by the Edinburgh
Convention Bureau. The Bureau's Conference Acccommodation
Booking service may be contacted by telephone on
+44-(0)131-473 3874, by fax on +44-(0)131-473 3636, or by
email on [log in to unmask] . Please quote `AISB'99
Convention' on all correspondence.
A wide variety of hotels and guest houses is available,
ranging in price from Sltg15.00 to Sltg100.00 per night.
LOCAL ORGANISERS:
Dr Andrew Patrizio, Edinburgh College of Art, Lauriston
Place, Edinburgh; [log in to unmask]
Dr Geraint Wiggins & Dr Helen Pain, Division of Informatics,
University of Edinburgh, 80 South Bridge, Edinburgh
EH1 1HN, Scotland Tel: +44-131-650 2702;
Fax: +44-131-650 6516; {geraint,[log in to unmask];
http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/~geraint/aisb99
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