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Subject: Communication between Human and Artificial Agents
[2] From: Carlos Areces <Carlos.Areces_at_loria.fr> (46)
Subject: Conference on Logic, Computability and Randomness,
Buenos Aires, January 10-13, 2007
[3] From: Charles Ess <cmess_at_drury.edu> (59)
Subject: ECAP'06 - Program now online
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Subject: CFP: Formal Ontologies Meet Industry - Second
International Workshop
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Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 11:41:38 +0100
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Subject: Communication between Human and Artificial Agents
CALL FOR PAPERS
[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement]
Workshop on
COMMUNICATION BETWEEN HUMAN AND ARTIFICIAL AGENTS
http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~ckemke/IAT06Workshop/workshop.html
as part of the
The 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent
Technology (IAT-06)
18-22 December 2006, Hong Kong
http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/iwi06/iat/
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
The ability to communicate in a complex manner with others, to
exchange ideas and thoughts, to convey factual information as well as
wishes, goals, and plans, to issue commands, instructions and
questions, and to express emotions and interact on a social level, is
one of the most important and distinguishing aspects of humankind. If
artificial agents want to progress to the next level, and truely and
deeply interact with humans, they must possess expanded communicative
abilities.
Agent communication languages, like ACL and KQML, have been a focus
of attention in recent years. They have been shown to be effective
for communication among agents in multi-agent systems, or for simple
human-agent interaction, but they are far from reflecting the
complexity of human communication. Architectures for agents and agent
systems designed so far include representations of mental states,
believes and intentions, sensory information, formal representations
of actions and action ontologies, and the integration of context and
situation information, which serve as a basis for implementing
intelligent agent behavior and communication among agents, but they
still lack an in-depth, elaborate connection to human communication
skills, regarding form and content. Interdisciplinary research
integrating methods and models from linguistics, psychology,
philosophy, and other areas with computer science, has provided some
basis for the extension of artificial agents and their "human"
characteristics and abilities.
Building on the approaches developed so far, this workshop focuses on
new methods and models to describe and implement communication
between human and artificial agents, in all forms and on all levels.
The ultimate goal of this endeavour is to bridge the gap between the
richness, complexity and expressiveness of human communication, and
the (in)ability of artificial agents to deal with it and to (inter)
act adequately within cooperation with humans.
Topic Areas:
* models of communicative behaviour, communication languages
* natural language processing, interpretation of verbal
expressions by agents
* dialog structures
* action representation, action theory, action ontology
* knowledge representation, ontologies
* context, including physical, spatial, temporal and semantic
context
* gestures and facial expressions
* multi-modal communication
* speech and speech characteristics in communication
* cooperative behaviour, negotiation, judgement
* social norms and roles, social behaviours, social interaction
* learning of interactive behaviours, learning in interactions,
imitation learning
* distant communication, wireless communication
* others
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Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 07:32:57 +0100
From: Carlos Areces <Carlos.Areces_at_loria.fr>
Subject: Conference on Logic, Computability and Randomness,
Buenos Aires, January 10-13, 2007
Conference on Logic, Computability and Randomness 2007
January 10 to 13, 2007, Buenos Aires, Argentina
http://www.dc.uba.ar/people/logic2007/
The theme of the conference will be algorithmic randomness and
related topics in logic, computability and complexity.
The program will consist of invited talks, contributed talks and discussions.
The conference will be held at Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales,
Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
The meeting is sponsored by the Association for Symbolic Logic.
There is no registration fee. Student members of the ASL
can apply for travel grants (the approval process takes a few weeks).
Submissions
Abstracts of contributed talks should be sent by October 1st 2006, to
logic2007_at_dc.uba.ar.
Plenary Speakers
Eric Allender (Rutgers University)
Roberto Cignoli (CONICET, Argentina)
Serge Grigorieff (Universite Paris 7) -to be confirmed-
Joos Heintz (University of Buenos Aires / University of Cantabria)
Carl Jockusch (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Antonin Kucera (Charles University, Prague)
Steffen Lempp (University of Wisconsin)
Wolfgang Merkle (University of Heidelberg)
Andre Nies (University of Auckland) -to be confirmed-
Joseph S. Miller (University Connecticut)
Jan Reimann (University of Heidelberg)
Claus-Peter Schnorr (University of Frankfurt am Main)
Theodore Slaman (University of California)
Sebastiaan Terwijn (Technical University of Vienna)
Program Committee
Rod Downey (Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand)
Denis Hirschfeldt (University of Chicago, USA)
Veronica Becher (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Local Organizers
Veronica Becher, Santiago Figueira, Daniel Gorin, Sergio Mera,
Mariano Perez Rodriguez.
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-- Carlos Eduardo Areces INRIA Lorraine INRIA Lorraine. 615, rue du Jardin Botanique 54602 Villers les Nancy Cedex, France phone : +33 (0)3 54 95 84 90 fax : +33 (0)3 83 41 30 79 e-mail : carlos.areces_at_loria.fr www : http://www.loria.fr/~areces visit : http://hylo.loria.fr -> The Hybrid Logic's Home Page --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 07:33:45 +0100 From: Charles Ess <cmess_at_drury.edu> Subject: ECAP'06 - Program now online Dear Humanists, With apologies for duplications and cross-postings - please distribute to appropriate lists and colleagues: On behalf of the Program Committee for ECAP'06, we are very pleased to announce that the conference program is now available on the conference website, <www.eu-cap.org> - then follow the link on the left-hand side of the page to "Conference Program" As a reminder: COMPUTING AND PHILOSOPHY E-CAP 2006_at_NTNU Norway Norwegian University of Science and Technology Dragvoll Campus, Trondheim, Norway, June 22-24, 2006 Conference Co-Chairs: Charles Ess (Drury University / NTNU): <cmess_at_drury.edu> May Thorseth (NTNU): <may.thorseth_at_hf.ntnu.no> http://www.eu-cap.org E-CAP is the European conference on Computing and Philosophy, the European affiliate of the International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP, www.iacap.org). E-CAP is organized in cooperation with the Association of Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence (SIGART) E-CAP is the premier European venue for current research, reflection, and lively discussion of all aspects of the "computational turn" that has emerged over the past several decades, and continues to expand and develop as a result of the multiple interactions between philosophy and computing. The "culture" of E-CAP, like its sister CAP conferences in North America and Asia-Pacific, discourages paper reading - and stresses instead the presentation of ideas and lively discussion, along with informal networking. We are very pleased with the quality and scope of the program of presentations now established for ECAP'06 - we believe you will find it of compelling interest indeed! On behalf of the Program Committee and presenting authors, we invite your participation in ECAP'06. - Charles Ess (co-chair) - May Thorseth (co-chair) - Johnny S=F8raker (local coordinator) Charles Ess Distinguished Research Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies <http://www.drury.edu/gp21> Drury University 900 N. Benton Ave. Voice: 417-873-7230 Springfield, MO 65802 USA FAX: 417-873-7435 Home page: http://www.drury.edu/ess/ess.html Co-chair, CATaC'06: http://www.catacconference.org Co-chair, ECAP'06: http://www.eu-cap.org Professor II, Globalization and Applied Ethics Programmes Norwegian University of Science and Technology NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway http://www.anvendtetikk.ntnu.no/pres/bridgingcultures.php Exemplary persons seek harmony, not sameness. -- Analects 13.23 --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 07:34:45 +0100 From: fomi <fomi_at_loa-cnr.it> Subject: CFP: Formal Ontologies Meet Industry - Second International Workshop *********************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS Apologies for multiple copies of this message *********************************************** Second International Workshop on Formal Ontologies Meet Industry http://www.loa-cnr.it/fomi December 14-15, 2006 University of Trento ******************************************************** This event is jointly organized by: - Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR, Trento - University of Trento - University of Verona - Creactive Consulting S.r.l., Affi ******************************************************** Following the great success of the previous edition, we are glad to invite you to attend the second Formal Ontologies Meet Industry Workshop (FOMI 2006). Description =========== FOMI aims to become an international forum where researchers in different disciplines and practitioners of various industry sectors meet to analyze and discuss issues related to methods, theories, tools and applications based on formal ontologies. It is nowadays widely understood that the semantic dimension and model driven approaches play an important role not only in research fields but also in networked economy. In particular, it has emerged that semantic based applications are relevant in distributed systems such as networked organizations, organizational networks, and in distributed knowledge management. Namely, these knowledge models in industry aim at providing a framework for information and knowledge sharing, reliable information exchange, meaning negotiation and coordination between distinct organizations or among members of the same worldwide organization. The business world also considers this issue of strategic relevance and keeps paying particular attention to it because many theoretical results have already been proved effectiveness in real applications like data warehouse construction, information infrastructure definition, and all processes and applications of knowledge management. With the application of new methodologies and techniques in the everyday practice and the accessibility of new theoretical results in this area, developing new tools based on more sophisticated frameworks has become a common need. This is an important reason for the increasing interest in the employment of formal ontologies in fields like medicine, engineering, financial and legal systems, and other business practices. In all these fields, a new emerging trend is to evaluate the interdependencies between theories and methods of formal ontology and the activities, processes, and needs of enterprise organizations. A typical example of this is the evaluation of the benefits that huge organizations can obtain by implementing ontology based systems. Objectives ========== The workshop is a forum to meet and discuss problems, solutions, perspectives and research directions for researchers and practitioners. We welcome papers or project descriptions that aim at applying formal ontologies in industry. In particular, - theoretical studies on formal ontologies committed to provide sound bases for industrial applications and to allow formal representation of corporate knowledge; - business experiences on case studies that single out concrete problems and possible solutions; the experience analysis should provide useful insights on social and strategic aspects that might be relevant in the creation and deployment of formal ontologies as well as useful criteria or methods to evaluate ontologies and their effectiveness in applications. ******************************************************** Topics of Interest ================== Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - ontology methodologies in business practice; - ontologies and corporate knowledge; - ontologies adaptation within organizations; - formalization of the know-how; - representation of artifacts and design; - representation of functionalities; - representation of knowledge and business processes; - linguistic representation in organizational knowledge; - linguistic problems in organizational standard code and codification processes; - enterprize modeling; - ontology evaluation; - ontology effectiveness; - ontology changes and developments within organizations; - representation of business services; - ontologies and electronic catalogs; - ontologies and e-commerce; - ontologies and marketing; - ontologies in the practice of engineering; - ontologies in the practice of medical sciences; - ontologies in finance; - ontologies and e-government. 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