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We are pleased to invite you to submit papers to the 8th Joint IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics which will be held in Tokyo at Waseda University. Please see below for further details.</div>
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NEWS: Keynote Speakers announced </div>
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Prof. Oliver Brock (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany) http://www.robotics.tu-berlin.de/menue/team/oliver_brock/</div>
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<span style="font-size:10pt">Prof. Kenji Doya (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan) https://groups.oist.jp/ncu</span><br>
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Prof. Peter Marshall (Temple University, U.S.A.) http://www.cla.temple.edu/psychology/faculty/peter-marshall/</div>
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NEWS: BabyBot Challenge Paper Award and prize announced</div>
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NEWS: Call for workshops</div>
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Submission deadline: April 1, 2018</div>
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8th Joint IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics</div>
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Conference: September 16th – 20th, 2018</div>
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=== Resume ===</div>
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The past decade has seen the emergence of a new scientific field in which computational techniques are employed to study how intelligent biological and artificial systems develop sensorimotor, cognitive and social abilities through dynamic interactions with
their physical and social environments, with a twofold objective: to gain a better understanding of human and animal intelligence, and to enable artificial systems with more adaptive and flexible behaviors.</div>
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The two most prominent conference series of this area, the International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL) and the International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics (EpiRob), are joining forces for the seventh time and invite submissions for a joint
meeting in 2018 to explore, extend, and consolidate the interdisciplinary boundaries of this exciting research field. In addition to the usual paper submission-selection process, the BabyBot Challenge will crown computational models that capture core aspects
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=== Topics ===</div>
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Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):</div>
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<span style="font-size:10pt">– general principles of development and learning;</span><br>
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<span style="font-size:10pt">– development of skills in biological systems and robots;</span><br>
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<span style="font-size:10pt">– nature VS nurture, critical periods and developmental stages;</span><br>
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<span style="font-size:10pt">– architectures for cognitive development and life-long learning;</span><br>
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<span style="font-size:10pt">– emergence of body knowledge and affordance perception;</span><br>
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<span style="font-size:10pt">– models for prediction, planning and problem solving;</span><br>
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<span style="font-size:10pt">– models of human-human and human-robot interaction;</span><br>
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<span style="font-size:10pt">– emergence of verbal and non-verbal communication skills;</span><br>
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<span style="font-size:10pt">– epistemological foundations and philosophical issues;</span><br>
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<span style="font-size:10pt">– models of child development from experimental psycho</span><br>
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Full six-page paper submissions: Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings and will be selected for either an oral presentation or a featured poster presentation. </div>
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Two-page poster abstract submissions: To encourage discussion of late-breaking results or for work that is not sufficiently mature for a full paper, we will accept 2-page abstracts.</div>
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Tutorials and workshops: We invite experts in different areas to organize either a tutorial or a workshop to be held on the first day or second day of the conference. Tutorials are meant to provide insights into specific topics through hand-on training and
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- How well does the computational model (e.g. an artificial system,</div>
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model, and importantly whether the model make interesting and</div>
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testable predictions.</div>
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spotlight of "Babybot Challenge".</div>
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=== Workshops ===</div>
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We invite researchers to submit a one/two pages resume of their intended workshops with indication of the invited speakers, duration (half day or full day), open to paper/poster submission and website.</div>
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Submission deadline: April 1st, 2018</div>
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Notification due: June 15th, 2018</div>
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Final Version due: July 15th, 2018</div>
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Conference: September 16th – 20th, 2018</div>
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Tetsuya Ogata (Waseda University, Japan)</div>
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<span style="font-size:10pt">Angelo Cangelosi (Plymouth University, UK)</span><br>
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<span style="font-size:10pt">Tadahiro Taniguchi (Ritsumeikan University, Japan)</span><br>
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<span style="font-size:10pt">Erhan Oztop (Özyeðin University, Turkey)</span><br>
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<span style="font-size:10pt">Alessandra Sciutti (Italian Institute of Technology, Italy)</span><br>
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<span style="font-size:10pt">Hiroki Mori (Waseda University, Japan)</span><br>
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<span style="font-size:10pt">Alexandre Pitti (University of Cergy-Pontoise, France)</span><br>
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<span style="font-size:10pt">Shingo Shimoda (Riken, Brain Science Institute, Japan)</span><br>
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<span style="font-size:10pt">Hiromi Mochiyama (Tsukuba University, Japan)</span><br>
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Alex Pitti: alexandre.pitti@u-cergy.fr</div>
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Hiroki Mori: mori@idr.ias.sci.waseda.ac.jp</div>
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Umay Suanda: s.suanda@uconn.edu</div>
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