[agents] [CFP] Final CFP for Conference on Advances in Cognitive Systems

[Mohan Sridharan]

** Submission deadline is August 20 but we are extending this to August 24
for authors who let us know (acs21 at sift.net) and register their paper on
the Easychair page for the conference **

The Ninth Annual Conference on Advances in Cognitive Systems (
http://www.cogsys.org/conference/2021/) will take place from Monday,
November 15, to Thursday, November 18, 2021. Workshops will occur on Monday
and the regular program will begin on Tuesday. The event will be virtual,
as was last year's meeting.

The conference welcomes many types of research, including demonstrations of
new capabilities, empirical studies of implemented systems, and formal
analyses of complex tasks. The term "cognitive" refers to any computational
artifact that thinks or reasons, whether or not it works the same way as
humans.

The objective is to bring together a diverse set of researchers who pursue
the original goals of artificial intelligence. That is, the overarching
theme of the conference is to explain cognition in computational terms and
to reproduce a broad range of intelligent behaviors and human abilities in
computational artifacts.

Some functional abilities that arise in this context include:

* Problem Solving, Planning, and Heuristic Search
* Conceptual Inference, Reasoning, and Learning
* High-level Execution and Control
* Language Processing and Dialogue
* Vision and High-level Perception
* Memory Storage and Retrieval
* Meta-cognition and Meta-level Reasoning
* Multi-Tasking and Attention
* Structural Learning and Knowledge Capture
* Social Cognition and Interaction
* Cognitive Aspects of Emotion and Personality

Some research communities already address such issues, including those
dealing with cognitive architectures, commonsense reasoning, cognitive
robotics, qualitative modeling, and human-machine teaming. We encourage
participation from anyone who is interested in computational approaches to
complex cognition, human-level intelligence, and related topics.

**The submission deadline is August 20, 2021**. Papers should have no more
than sixteen (16) single-column pages and must follow the formatting
instructions (http://www.cogsys.org/instructions/). Authors of papers
accepted for oral presentation may be invited to publish an expanded
version in Advances in Cognitive Systems, an archival electronic journal
associated with the conference. Authors are encouraged to examine the
review form (http://www.cogsys.org/review-form/) before submission, as
referees will expect papers to address the questions therein.

Invited speakers
    Prof. Anthony Cohn, University of Leeds, UK
    Prof. Ute Schmid, University of Bamberg, Germany
    Prof. Gerd Gigerenzer, University of Potsdam, Germany

Workshops
    Goal reasoning
    Pedagogical advances in cognitive systems
   (We are open to other ideas: acs21 at sift.net)

Program Chairs
    Mark Burstein, SIFT LLC,  Boston Office.
    Mohan Sridharan, University of Birmingham, UK

Workshop Chairs
    Mohan Sridharan, University of Birmingham, UK
    David McDonald, SIFT LLC, Boston Office.

Organizing Committee
    Paul Bello, Naval Research Laboratory
    Michael Cox, Wright State University
    Matthew Klenk, Palo Alto Research Center
    Pat Langley, Institute for the Study of Learning and Expertise
    Jaime MacBeth, Smith College
    Sergei Nirenburg, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute


Regards,
--Mohan
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~sridharm/
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