Statement about Austria's current political situation

Table of contents

• Latest news (updated Fri, 7 April 2000)
• Introduction
• Programme
• Organisation
• Submission Details
• Further information

News:

  7.Apr 2000:

• Final papers available online

 21.Feb 2000:

• Symposium Programme

 16.Dec 1999:

• Notification and camera-ready due dates updated

 20.Oct 1999:

• Extended submission deadline
• Programme committee finalised

  5.Oct, 14.Oct 1999:

• Additions to programme committee

 29.Sept 1999:

• Added currently confirmed programme committee

 27.Sept 1999:

• Marvin Minsky confirmed as EMCSR 2000 plenary speaker ("The Emotion Machine")

 24.Sept 1999:

• Web site on-line

Introduction:

In living systems, the Emotional appears to be related to numerous aspects of their ability to maintain control over essential/important facets of their relationship to their physical and social environments. Against the background of the intensifying dialogue between the sciences of the living and of the artifacts (engineering) this symposium is aimed at assessing the state of research relating the natural phenomenon of the Emotional to the world of the artificial for purposes of autonomy control.

By focussing on this issue, this symposium shall further the dialogue that was successfully established with a workshop on Grounding Emotions in Adaptive Systems at last year's International Conference of the Society for Adaptive Behaviour (SAB'98, Zurich, Switzerland), and continued at events including the AAAI 1998 Fall Symposium Emotional and Intelligent: The Tangled Knot of Cognition (Orlando, FL, USA) and the AA'99 Workshops on Autonomy Control Software and on Emotion-Based Agent Architectures (Seattle, WA, USA). In particular, the discussions around a position paper at the Autonomy Control Software workshop (presentation slides) gave directly rise to the idea of organising the present event.

Topics of interest:

• Survivability
      coping with unknown situations or bounding the hysteresis of vital parameters;
• Motivation
      internal processing leading to persistence or changes in behaviour;
• Adaptivity
      tuning of a pre-existing structure;
• Learning
      creation of new structures related to relevant aspects of the environment, "representations";
• Social Capabilities
      e.g. control over shared resources including other individuals; communication, empathy

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Submission Details:

For details on how to prepare the draft final paper, see the submission guidelines for the main EMCSR conference published on the EMCSR 2000 homepage (<URL:http://www.osgk.ac.at/emcsr/00/>). Draft Final Papers must not exceed 10 single-spaced A4 pages (maximum 43 lines, max. line length 160 mm, 12 point), in English. They have to contain the final text to be submitted, including graphs and pictures. However, these need not be of reproducible quality. They must carry the title, author(s) name(s), and affiliation (incl. e-mail address, if possible) in this order, and must include an abstract.

Please notice that for this particular symposium submission in electronic format as compressed e-mail attachment is strongly preferred; otherwise, send four hard copies of the draft final paper.

Address your submission to:

EMCSR 2000 Symposium O
c/o Rodrigo Ventura
Piso 6, Torre Norte
ISR/IST
Av. Rovisco Pais, 1
1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal, EU

e-mail: ace2000@isr.ist.utl.pt

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