CoDesign Lab EU / AIC 2024: 10th Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Cognition

Context

The main motivation behind the AIC events lies in the fact that, from a historical standpoint (and due to the previous influences of cybernetics in the study of natural and artificial systems), research in Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been based on a strong collaboration with Cognitive Science disciplines. Many of the original founders of "AI" as a research discipline, indeed, aimed developing human-level AI systems by taking inspiration from the heuristics adopted by human (or animal) cognition. This goal is still pursued (with varied interpretations) by many researchers all around the world and represents one of the main challenges for the AIC community.

The collaboration between AI and Cognitive Science, indeed, has produced - along the years - mutual benefits. In AI this partnership has driven to the realization of better intelligent systems. In turn, in cognitive science, this partnership allowed the development of cognitive models and architectures providing greater understanding on human thinking. In recent years, after a period of partial fragmentation of the research directions, the area of cognitively inspired artificial systems is progressively attracting a renewed attention both from academia and industry and the awareness about the need for additional research in this interdisciplinary field has gained widespread acceptance. We invite every researcher interested in the overall goal and in the topics of interest (below) of the AIC workshop series to submit their scientific contribution to AIC.

Call for Papers

AIC is a peer-reviewed scientific venue that particularly welcome papers raising challenging questions, innovative ideas and out of the box thinking and which, as a consequence, can help to promote interesting discussions at the workshop. The participation of younger researchers is encouraged as well.

We invite the research communities in all areas of artificial intelligence, computational cognitive science, and cognitive psychology and neuroscience to submit works related to the following topics:

Knowledge Representation and Cognition
(e.g. Neurosymbolic Models, Conceptual Spaces, Semantic Representation of Commonsense)
Commonsense Reasoning
Neurosymbolic approaches for spatio-temporal reasoning and learning
Declarative spatial reasoning
Reasoning about space, actions, and change
XAI-Explainable Artificial Intelligence
Evaluation of cognitively driven AI systems compared with other AI approaches
Methodological open questions on AI and Cognition
Automated reasoning: deductive, probabilistic, diagnostic, causal and analogical inference
Cognitive Architectures (e.g. SOAR, ACT-R) and Cognitive modelling for Artificial Systems
B.I.C.A. (Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures) and systems
Cognitive Robotics
Human-Machine Interaction

The listed topics are not exhaustive; we aim to foster the debate around all aspects of the suggested integration of artificial intelligence and cognition research.

Historical and theoretical relation among Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence
Knowledge discovery and acquisition
Modelling of human learning and knowledge acquisition in complex domains
Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing & Understanding
Logic and Reasoning
Spatial Cognition and Computation
Cognitively inspired Machine Learning
Computational Theories of Learning
Computational Creativity
Cognition and the Moving Image
Computational Models of Narrative Understanding (Visuoauditory Narrativity, Visual Perception)
Decision Support Systems
Assistive Technologies

Submission

GUIDELINES

Papers should be formatted according to the CEUR-ART style formatting guidelines here and submitted as a single PDF file. We welcome submissions across the full spectrum of theoretical and practical works including research ideas, methods, tools, simulations, applications or demos, practical evaluations, and surveys. Submissions that are 2 pages long (excluding references and appendices) will be considered for a poster, and submissions that are at least 5 pages and up to 7 pages long (again, excluding references and appendices) will be considered for an oral presentation. All papers will be peer-reviewed in a single-blind process and assessed based on their novelty, technical quality, potential impact, clarity, and reproducibility (when applicable).

Workshop submissions will be handled by EasyChair; the submission link is as follows: To be anounced

All questions about submissions should be emailed to the organizers.

IMPORTANT DATES in 2024

April 12 (extended): Paper submission deadline
May 20: Paper notification
June 7: Camera-ready submission deadine
June 10: Early registration deadline
July: Workshop date to be announced

Note: all submission deadlines are AoE (Anywhere on Earth).

PROCEEDINGS

The accepted papers will appear on the workshop website, snd will also be published as part of the workshop proceedings with CEUR-WS.org; this is also subject to the CEUR-WS.org preconditions. We do not accept publications that have already been published elsewhere at the time of the submission, or till the time of acceptance and publication as part of AIC 2024.

Workshop Program

Full workshop programme is available here: To be announced

Venue

To be announced

Workshop Chairs and Program Committee

ORGANISING CHAIRS

Mehul Bhatt
Örebro University, Sweden - CoDesign Lab EU

Prof. Mehul Bhatt is a Professor within the School of Science and Technology at Örebro University, Sweden. His research focusses on the formal, cognitive, and computational foundations for AI technologies with a principal emphasis on knowledge representation, semantics, integration of commonsense reasoning & learning, explainability, and spatial representation and reasoning. Visuospatial cognition and computation has been an area of intense activity from the viewpoint of interdisciplinary research.

ECAI 2020, Spain

Antonio Lieto
University of Salerno, Italy

Prof. Antonio Lieto is an Associate Professor in Computer Science (INF/01) at the University of Salerno, DISPC and a Research Associate at the ICAR-CNR Institute in Palermo (Italy), Cognitive Robotics and Social Sensing Lab. His research lies in Artificial Intelligence, Computational Cognitive Science and Human-Machine Interaction (with a focus on the following areas: Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Semantic/Language Technologies, Cognitive Systems and Architectures, Persuasive Technologies).