12.798, Calls: Cognitive Science (ICCS2001)

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Subject: 12.798, Calls: Cognitive Science (ICCS2001)

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Date:  Wed, 21 Mar 2001 10:40:22 +0900
From:   <clee at snu.ac.kr>
Subject:  Cognitive Science (ICCS2001)

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Date:  Wed, 21 Mar 2001 10:40:22 +0900
From:   <clee at snu.ac.kr>
Subject:  Cognitive Science (ICCS2001)




The Third International Conference on Cognitive Science (ICCS2001)
        August 27-31, 2001, Beijing, China

        SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT

(Please visit http://www.ICCS2001.com for details and updates)

The Third International Conference on Cognitive Science (ICCS) will be
held in Beijing, China on August 27-31, 2001. The purpose of this
Conference is to bring together researchers from various active areas in
cognitive science for update of research progress. The Conference has
arranged fifteen plenary talks and organized ten symposia covering broad
areas in cognitive science.

CONFIRMED PLENARY SPEAKERS

Robert Desimone, National Institute of Mental Health, USA
Peter Fox, University of Texas, USA
Glynn Humphreys, University of Birmingham, UK
Jaegwon Kim, Brown University, USA
Walter Kintsch, University of Colorado, USA
Sylvan Kornblum, University of Michigan, USA
Donald MacLeod, University of California, San Diego, USA
James McClelland, Carnegie-Melon University, USA
Vimla Patel, Columbia University, USA
Ernst Poeppel, University of Munich, Germany
Paul Smolensky, Johns Hopkins University, USA
George Sperling, University of California at Irvine, USA
Mandyam Srinivasan, Australian National University, Australia
Keiji Tanaka, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan
Larry Weiskrantz, Oxford Univeristy, UK


CONFIRMED SYMPOSIA

Animal Cognition
Chair: Shaowu Zhang, Australian National University, Australia
Co-chair: Mandyam Srinivasan, Australian National University, Australia
Submission: swzhang at rsbs.anu.edu.au

Cognition and Brain Imaging
Chair: Kang Cheng, The RIKEN Institute, Japan
Co-chair: Yan Zhuo, University of Science and Technology of China
Submission: kcheng at mailman.riken.go.jp

High-level Cognition: Theoretical Issues and Applications
Chair: Jiajie Zhang, University of Texas at Houston, USA
Co-chairs: Vimla L. Patel, Columbia University, USA
  Edwards H. Shortliffe, Columbia University, USA
  Jack W. Smith, University of Texas at Houston, USA
  James P. Turley, University of Texas at Houston, USA
  Todd R. Johnson, University of Texas at Houston, USA
Submission: Jiajie.Zhang at uth.tmc.edu

Convergent Approaches to Vision
Chair: Sheng He, University of Minnesota, USA
Co-chairs: Zhonglin Lu, University of Southern California, USA
  Frans Verstraten, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Submission: sheng at tc.umn.edu

Mathematical Modeling of Cognition
Chair: Jun Zhang, University of Michigan, USA
Co-chairs: In Jae Myung, Ohio State University, USA
  Xiangen Hu, University of Memphis, USA
  Ching-Fan Sheu, DePaul University, USA
Submission: junz at umich.edu

Emergence and Development of Embodied Cognition
Chair: Rolf Pfeifer, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Co-chairs: Max Lungarella, University of Zurich, Switzerland
  Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Electrotechnical Laboratory, Tsukuba, Japan
  Olaf Sporns, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA
  Giorgio Metta, University of Genova, Italy
  Giulio Sandini, University of Genova, Italy
  Rafael Nunez, University of Fribourgh, Switzerland, and UC Berkeley, USA
Submission: lunga at ifi.unizh.ch

Language Acquisition
Chair: Geraldine Legendre, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Co-chairs: Chungmin Lee, Seoul National University/UCLA
  Sook Whan Cho, Sogang University, Korea
Submission: clee at humnet.ucla.edu

Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Chair: Charles Ling, University of Western Ontario, Canada
Co-chairs: Ron Sun, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA.
  Vasant Honavar, Iowa State University, USA
Submission: ling at csd.uwo.ca

Multiculture Identities: A Socio-Cognitive Perspective
Chair: Chi-yue Chiu, The University of Hong Kong
Co-chairs: Veronica Benet-Martinez, University of Michigan, USA
  Fiona Lee, University of Michigan, USA
  Ying-yi Hong, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Submission: cychiu at hkusua.hku.hk

Cognitive Science in Education
Chair: Mitchell J. Nathan, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
Co-chairs: Brigid Barron, Stanford University, USA
  Joseph C. Campione, University of California at Berkeley, USA
  Shari Ellis, University of Florida, USA
  Susan R. Goldman, Vanderbilt University, USA
  Mindy Kalchman, University of Toronto, Canada
  Erno Lehtinen, University of Joensuu, Finland
  Anthony Petrosino, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Submission: nathanm at stripe.colorado.edu

CALL FOR PAPERS

  The conference invites oral and poster presentations of research in
cognition, broadly defined. Contributions are welcome from, but not
limited to, cognitive psychology, artificial intelligence, cognitive
neuroscience, linguistics, philosophy, cognitive anthropology, social
cognition, and comparative cognition. English will be the official
working language of the conference. All submissions and presentations
will be in English. The maximum length of a full paper is 5 pages (A4 or
Letter size), with font-size of at least 12 pt. For poster presentation,
please submit a one-page abstract.

  All accepted papers and abstracts will be published in a conference
proceedings by the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)
Press. Review and selection of submissions will be handled by organizers
of corresponding symposium. But if your submission is not categorized
into any symposium announced so far, it will be reviewed and selected by
the conference organizing committee.

SUBMISSION

  Electronic submission is highly encouraged. Preferred file formats are
Microsoft Word, HTML, Postscript, PDF and plain text. Please e-mail the
file as an attachment to the corresponding symposium organizer. If you
don't think your submission would be categorized into any symposium
announced so far, please send it to iccs2001org at blcs.ac.cn (or
iccs2001org at mail.blcs.ac.cn). An e-mail message confirming the receipt
of your submission be sent to you within 3 days. In case you fail to
receive such a message, please send your paper/abstract again, and
contact iccs2001org at etang.com

REGISTRATION

  Registration fee:
    US$ 160, before June 30
    US$ 250, after July 1, and on-site.

The method for payment and on-line registration will soon be announced
via email and on webpage
http://www.iccs2001.com/html%20files/registration/registration.htm


IMPORTANT DATES (Revised)

  Registration beginning: March 1
  Submission deadline (full-length paper and abstract): April 30
  Notification of acceptance: May 31
  Submission of camera-ready papers: June 30

CONFERENCE VENUE

The conference will be held in the China Hall of Science and
Technology, locating on No.3 Fuxing Road, which is about 5km west of
the center (Tian-an-men Square) of Beijing.

ACCOMMODATION

Hotel information will be available within a few days. We will inform
you via email and on webpage
http://www.iccs2001.com/html%20files/hotel/hotel.htm

ABOUT BEIJING

As it is well-known, Beijing is the most attractive city of China. The
historic sites include the Great Wall, the Forbidden City, the Lama
Temple, the Summer Palace ... to mention but a few. The end of August
is a rather good season in Beijing, with temperature 20-30 C (70-85 F)
normally. For further introduction to Beijing, please visit
http://www.beijing.gov.cn/english/index.htm

SPONSORS

Ministry of Science and Technology of China;
Chinese Academy of Sciences;
Ministry of Education of China;
National Nature Science Foundation of China.
  -and-
Beijing Laboratory of Cognitive Science, University of Science &
Technology of China
Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Xian Jiaotong
University
Microsoft Research China
State Key Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Institution of Automation,
Chinese Academy of Sciences
State Key Laboratory on Machine Perception, Peking University
State Key Laboratory of Intelligent Technology and Systems, Tsinghua University
Psychology Department, Hong Kong University

Conference Chair

Lin Chen, Beijing Laboratory of Cognitive Science, University of Science
& Technology of China

Program Committee

Chair: Huisheng Chi, Peking University, China
Co-Chairs: Chungmin Lee, Seoul Nat'l University/UCLA
  Yasuhiro Katagiri, ATR, Japan
  Chaoyi Li, Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences,
China
  Bo Zhang, Tsinghua University, China
  Chon-wen Shyi, National Chung-Cheng University, Taiwan

Organizing Committee

Chair: Nanning Zheng, Xian Jiaotong University, China
Co-Chairs: Koiti Hasida, Electrotechnical Laboratory, Japan
  Charles Ling, University of Western Ontario, Canada
  Yan Zhuo, University of Science and Technology of China, China
  Kang Cheng, The RIKEN Institute, Japan
  Chi-yue Chiu, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
  Sheng He, University of Minnesota, USA
  Geraldine Legendre, Johns Hopkins University, USA
  Mitchell J. Nathan, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
  Rolf Pfeifer, University of Zurich, Switzerland
  Peter Slezak, University of New South Wales, Australia
  Jiajie Zhang, University of Texas at Houston, USA
  Jun Zhang, University of Michigan, USA


For more details and updates please visit the conference web site at
http://www.ICCS2001.com

Further inquiries about the conference should be addressed to
iccs2001org at blcs.ac.cn (or iccs2001org at mail.blcs.ac.cn).

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