[agents] DCC10 Call for papers

[Giuseppe Vizzari]

FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DESIGN COMPUTING AND COGNITION  
(DCC'10 or DCC10)
Bringing artificial intelligence, cognitive science and computational  
theories to design research
http://mason.gmu.edu/~jgero/conferences/dcc10/

12–14 July 2010
University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

preceded by Workshops
10–11 July 2010

Conference Chair: John Gero
Local Chair: Stephan Rudolph
Conference Manager: dcc10 [at> gmu.edu


Call for papers:

Design is a fundamentally important topic in disciplines ranging from  
the more commonly associated fields of engineering, information  
technology and architecture, to emerging areas in the social sciences  
and life sciences.

One of the foundations for change in our society comes from designing.  
Its genesis is the notion that the world around us either is unsuited  
to our needs or can be improved. The need for designing is driven by a  
society's view that it can improve or add value to human existence  
well beyond simple subsistence. As a consequence of designing, the  
world that we inhabit is increasingly a designed rather than a  
naturally occurring one. In that sense it is an "artificial" world.  
Designing is a fundamental precursor to manufacturing, fabrication,  
construction or implementation. Design research aims to develop an  
understanding of designing and to produce models of designing that can  
be used to aid designing.

Design research can be carried out in variety of ways. It can be  
viewed as largely an empirical endeavor in which experiments are  
designed and executed in order to test some hypothesis about some  
design phenomenon or design behavior. This is the approach adopted in  
cognitive science. The results of such research can form the basis of  
a computational model. A second view is that design research can be  
carried out by positing axioms and then deriving consequences from  
them. If the axioms can be mapped onto design situations then the  
consequences should follow. This is the approach adopted in  
mathematics and logic and forms the basis of a small but powerful area  
in design research. A third view, and the most common one in the  
computational domain, is that design research can be carried out by  
conjecturing design processes, constructing computational models of  
those processes and then examining the behaviors of the resulting  
computational systems.

The conference theme of design computing and cognition recognizes not  
only the essential relationship between human cognitive processes as  
models of computation but also how models of computation inspire  
conceptual realizations of human cognition.

This conference series aims to provide an international forum for the  
presentation and discussion of state-of-the-art and cutting edge  
research and developments in design computing and cognition.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

     * Agents in design
     * Artificial intelligence in design
     * Biologically-inspired design
     * Collaborative design
     * Cognitive theories applied to design
     * Computational theories applied to design
     * Creative design
     * Design in practice
     * Digital media in design
     * Evolutionary approaches in design
     * Games and design
     * Human cognition in design
     * Learning from human designers
     * Machine learning in design
     * Multi-modal design
     * Situated computing in design
     * Virtual environments in design
     * Visual and spatial reasoning in design

Researchers from all fields employing computation and or cognition in  
design are invited to participate.

Attendees are invited to participate in the conference in the  
following ways:

* Submit a full-length paper on completed research relating to design
   computing and cognition.
* Submit a poster describing ongoing research; there will be time for
   oral presentations of posters.
* Submit a proposal for a half-day workshop on a topic related to
   design computing and cognition.

More details about submission procedures are available at: http://mason.gmu.edu/~jgero/conferences/dcc10/submission.html

Important dates:

- Paper abstracts due: 18 December 2009
- Papers for review due: 29 January 2010
- Poster abstracts due: 5 February 2010
- Workshop proposals due: 22 February 2010
- Authors informed of results of paper reviews: 19 March 2010
- Accepted revised papers due: 2 April 2010
- Accepted poster abstracts: 5 May 2010


For more information please see http://mason.gmu.edu/~jgero/conferences/dcc10/