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AAAI-05 Workshop on
MODULAR CONSTRUCTION OF HUMAN-LIKE INTELLIGENCE
http://ai.ru.is/events/AAAI05ModularWorkshop/
July 9/10, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania
Paper submission deadline: April 20
Building intelligent systems that can collaborate and interact socially
with people requires integrating numerous technologies in complex ways.
For the A.I. researcher such integration can involve anything from
programming in multiple languages and connecting multiple computers, to
integrating several diverse theoretical models of perception,
communication, planning and action. The task requires a diverse set of
skills and tools to be applied and is clearly a challenge for the
field. We are looking for papers describing work on the theoretical as
well as practical issues of integrating broad human-like skills into
working systems.
With a rising interest in humanoid agents and robots for the home, the
push for creating well-rounded intelligent beings makes the issue of
integration increasingly relevant. Waiting for a single inventor,
graduate student, professor, university, or even company, to invent and
develop all of the needed tools and technologies for such systems is
not a viable option it will take close collaboration between
individuals, teams, organizations, industry and academia. However,
collaboration is often hindered by different language being used for
similar things and different sets of solutions being used for solving
related problems, making integration a difficult problem.
Be it physical robots or virtual humans, we are looking for papers
describing work on the theoretical as well as practical issues of
integrating broad human-like skills into working systems, and work that
evaluates current and past architectural efforts towards building
humanoid systems. Also relevant is work on new frameworks and
techniques for bridging between systems, as are practical solutions and
tools for making systems integration and the work of the A.I. developer
easier in this respect.
Of special interest would be any rapid prototyping tools and tools for
exploring and comparing A.I. architectures. Anyone who is building
large, working systems, in software or hardware, that integrate
multiple diverse components in any combination be it planning,
reasoning, natural language, computer vision, hearing, gesture,
emotion, common sense and have taken a moment to reflect on the
integration problem, should find an audience for their work in this
workshop.
WORKSHOP FORMAT
There will be two kinds of presentations, long and short. Long
presentations are 25 minutes; short presentations are 15 minutes. Both
kinds are followed by a 10 minute discussion period. Depending on
submissions, select papers may be chosen to have a slightly longer time
for presentation. There will be a 1-hour discussion period at the end
of the day.
PUBLICATION
Papers will be included as AAAI technical reports in the AAAI Digital
Library.
DATES
April 20 : Deadline for submissions of contributions
May 11: Authors' notification.
May 18: Submission of camera ready contribution for the workshop notes
IMPORTANT: Accepted papers only have *one week* to prepare a
photoready copy. We regret this tight timeline, but are unable to
affect these dates, which are due to scheduling problems in the
conference itself.
July 9 or 10: Workshop
PAPER FORMAT AND SUBMISSIONS
Papers should be no longer than 8 pages in the style specified by AAAI:
http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/macros-link.html.
Send submissions as a single pdf file by email to the Workshop Chair
(thorisson AT ru.is). The name of the file should be the last name of
the first author. Please specify in your email whether you wish to do a
full or a short presentation. Confirmation will be sent via email when
your submission has been successfully received.
Selection will be based on relevance to the workshop, quality of the
work and clarity of presentation.
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Jan Allbeck, U. Penn
Elisabeth Andr? Augsburg U.
Ruth Aylett, Heriot-Watt U.
Norman Badler, U. Penn
Cynthia Braezael, M.I.T.
Joanna Bryson, U. of Bath
Magy Seif El-Nasr, Penn. State
Peter Gorniak, M.I.T.
Jon Gratch, USC/ICT
Ian Horswill, Northwestern U.
W. Lewis Johnson, USC/ISI
Stefan Kopp, Bielefeld U.
Thor List, U. of Edinburgh
Anton Nijholt, U. of Twente
Catherine Pelachaud, U. of Paris
Scott Prevost, Animated Speech Corp.
Zsofia Ruttkay, U. of Twente
Push Singh, M.I.T.
Bill Swartout, USC/ISI
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Kris R. Thisson, Ph.D.
Workshop Chair
Assistant Professor
School of Computer Science
Reykjavik University
Ofanleiti 2
103 Reykjavik, Icleand
Tel: +354 599-6200
Fax: +354 599-6201
Email: XXXX@XXXXX.COM
Hannes Vilhjalmsson, Ph.D.
Research Scientist
Information Sciences Institute
University of Southern California
Tel: +1 (310) 448-8720
Email: XXXX@XXXXX.COM
Stacy C. Marsella, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor
Dept. of Computer Science
Project Leader
Information Sciences Institute
University of Southern California
Tel: +1 (310) 448-8407
Email: XXXX@XXXXX.COM