-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [WI] CfP: CIFMA 2020 - 2nd International Workshop on Cognition: Interdisciplinary Foundations, Models and Applications Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2020 10:47:47 +0600 From: Antonio Cerone antonio.cerone@nu.edu.kz Reply-To: Antonio Cerone antonio.cerone@nu.edu.kz To: wi@lists.kit.edu CC: Graziani, Pierluigi pierluigi.graziani@uniurb.it

[Apologies for cross-posting]

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers

============ CIFMA 2020 ============

=================================================================================== 2nd International Workshop on Cognition: Interdisciplinary Foundations, Models and Applications

Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 14 September 2020

https://cifma.github.io

Co-located with SEFM 2020 ===================================================================================

CIFMA 2020 WILL BE AN ENTIRELY VIRTUAL EVENT

Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, following the decision taken by the SEFM 2020 organisers, also CIFMA 2020 will not take place physically but will be replaced by a virtual event. As usual, CIFMA 2020 accepted contributions will be included in the LNCS post-proceedings and all accepted papers will have to be presented at the virtual conference in order to be included in the LNCS volume. How the virtual conference will be organised is still under consideration, e.g., live presentations and/or recorded ones.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES

Submission link:https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cifma2020 Paper Abstract Submission deadline: Wednesday 8 July 2020 Paper Submission deadline: Wednesday 15 July 2020 Accept/Reject Notification: Wednesday 26 August 2020 Pre-proceedings Final version due: Monday 7 September 2020 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Cognition encompasses many aspects of intellectual functions and processes such as attention, knowledge, memory, judgment, reasoning, problem solving, decision making, comprehension and production of language. Although it originated from the field of psychology, it goes beyond the individual human mind and behaviour, and involves and affects the interaction with the environment in which humans act. The increasing complexity of the environment with which humans interact is no longer restricted to their natural living environment and the other humans populating it, but includes a large technological support consisting of physical and computational systems, virtual worlds and robots. This fact has expanded the scope of studying cognition to a large number of disciplines well beyond psychology. Cognitive processes are analysed from different perspectives within different contexts, notably in the fields of linguistics, anesthesia, neuroscience, psychiatry, psychology, education, philosophy, anthropology, biology, systemics, logic, and computer science. These and other different approaches to the analysis of cognition are synthesised in the developing field of cognitive science, a progressively autonomous academic discipline.

The objectives of this new international workshop are:

1. to bring together practitioners and researchers from academia, industry and research institutions who are interested in the foundations and applications of cognition from the perspective of their areas of expertise and aim at a synergistic effort in integrating approaches from different areas; 2. to nurture cooperation among researchers from different areas and establish concrete collaborations; 3. to present formal methods to cognitive scientists as a general modelling and analysis approach, whose effectiveness goes well beyond its application to computer science and software engineering.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KEYNOTE SPEAKER -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Johan van Benthem

Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC), University of Amsterdam Amsterdam, The Netherlands

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION GUIDELINES -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Authors are invited to submit, via Easychair, research contributions or experience reports. The submission link is:https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cifma2020

All papers should be written in English and prepared using the specific LNCS templates available athttp://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Submissions are required to report on original, unpublished work and should not be submitted simultaneously for publication elsewhere.

There are six categories of submissions

* Research papers: to present original research and the analysis, interpretation and validation of the research findings.

* Position papers: to present innovative, arguable ideas, opinions or frameworks which are likely to foster discussion at the workshop.

* Interdisciplinary Project papers: To describe a new interdisciplinary research project, or the status of an ongoing project or the outcomes of a recently completed project.

* Case Study papers: to report on case studies, preferably in a real-world setting.

* Tool papers: to present a new tool, a new tool component or novel extensions to an existing tool.

* Tool Demonstration papers: to demonstrate the tool workflow(s) and human interaction aspects, and evaluate the overall role of the tool and impact on cognitive science.

Contributions will be in the form of

- Regular papers: between 12 and 15 pages for submission (and between 12 and 16 pages for post-proceedings camera-ready).

- Short papers: between 6 and 8 pages for submission (and between 6 and 9 pages for post-proceedings camera-ready).

- Presentations: extended abstract up to 4 pages, which will be included in the pre-proceeding but not published in the post-proceedings.

"Short papers" and "Presentations" can discuss new ideas which are at an early stage of development and which have not yet been thoroughly evaluated.

The program committee may reject papers that are outside these lengths on the grounds of length alone.

Submitted papers will be refereed for quality, correctness, originality and relevance. Notification and reviews will be communicated via email. Accepted papers (both Full papers and Short papers) will be included in the workshop programme and will appear in the workshop pre-proceedings as well as in the LNCS post-proceedings. Pre-proceedings will be available online before the Workshop.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- LIST OF TOPICS -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Contributions to the workshop cover the areas of education, research and technology, either in general or with a focus on formal methods. Topics are organised in possibly overlapping categories and include, but are not restricted to:

* Interdisciplinary Foundations of Cognition: - philosophy of cognition - human memory and memory processes - attention - perception, visual cognition and situated cognition - cognitive models and architectures - languages for cognitive science - social cognition

* Cognitive Robotics: - autonomous knowledge acquisition - motor babbling - learning by imitation - cognitive architectures for robotics

* Cognitive Linguistics: - cognitive approaches to grammar - cognitive and conceptual semantics - conceptual organisation - cognitive phonology - dynamical models of language acquisition - computational models of metaphor and language acquisition

* Cognitive Learning: - learning theories - cognitive development - problem solving - metacognition

* Cognitive Neuroscience and Medicine: - biomedical signal and image processing - biomedical sensors and wearable systems - brain-computer interfaces and neural prostheses - brain mapping - neural and rehabilitation engineering

* Logics and their application to: - human-computer interaction - human behaviour - human reasoning and problem solving - visual reasoning - human-robot interaction - linguistics

* Software Engineering and Formal Methods: - integration of cognitive models and cognitive architectures within the software design and verification process - cognitive aspects in cyber-physical systems and their verification - socio-technical systems - cognitive aspects in safety analysis and verification of safety-critical systems - cognitive security - cognition hacking - formal frameworks for trust reasoning - formal methods for the modeling and analysis of robotic systems - formal methods for the modeling and analysis of human behaviour - formal methods for the modeling and analysis of human interaction with computers and robots - application of formal methods to cognitive psychology

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Pierluigi Graziani, Department of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Urbino, Italy Pedro Quaresma, Department of Mathematics, University of Coimbra, Portugal

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PROGRAM COMMITTEE (provisonal) -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Samuel Alexander, The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission New York Regional Office, USA Oana Andrei, University of Glasgow, UK José Creissac Campos, University of Minho, Portugal Antonio Cerone, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan Peter Chapman, Edinburgh Napier University, UK Luisa Damiano, University of Messina, Italy Anke Dittmar, Universität Rostock, Germany Pierluigi Graziani, University of Urbino, Italy Yannis Haralambous, IMT Atlantique, France Reinhard Kahle, NOVA University Lisbon, Portugal Karl Reiner Lermer, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland Kathy Malone, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan Paolo Masci, National Institute of Aerospace, USA Paolo Milazzo, University of Pisa, Italy Henry Muccini, University of L’Aquila, Italy Eugenio Omodeo, University of Trieste, Italy Graham Pluck, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan Giuseppe Primiero, University of Milan, Italy Ka I Pun, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway Pedro Quaresma, University of Coimbra, Portugal Anara Sandygulova, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan Giuseppe Sergioli, University of Cagliari, Italy Sandro Sozzo, University of Leicester, UK Mirko Tagliaferri, University of Urbino, Italy

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PUBLICATION -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Accepted regular and short papers will be published after the Workshop by Springer in a volume of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (http://www.springer.com/lncs), which will collect contributions to some workshops co-located with SEFM 2020. Condition for inclusion in the post-proceedings is that at least one of the co-authors has presented the paper at the Workshop.

One or more journal special issue(s) with selected papers may be planned, depending on the number and quality of submissions.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTACT -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

All inquiries concerning CIFMA 2020 submissions and scientific programme should be sent tocifma2020@easychair.org mailto:cifma2020@easychair.org

-- Mailing-Liste: wi@lists.kit.edu Administrator: wi-request@lists.kit.edu Konfiguration: https://www.lists.kit.edu/wws/info/wi