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 nine 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@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@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@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@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@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, Univ. of Fribourgh, Switzerland, and UC Berkeley, USA
Submission: lunga@ifi.unizh.ch
Language Acquisition
Chair: Geraldine Legendre, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Co-chairs:
Chungmin Lee, Seoul National University/UCLA
Submission: clee@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@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@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@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@blcs.ac.cn or iccs2001org@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@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/registration (mirror site: http://www.blcs.ac.cn/iccs2001/registration).
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/hotel (mirror site: http://www.blcs.ac.cn/iccs2001/hotel)
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.
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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 (mirror site: http://www.blcs.ac.cn/iccs2001) Further inquiries about the conference should be addressed to iccs2001org@blcs.ac.cn or iccs2001org@mail.blcs.ac.cn.
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