BICA 2015: 2015 ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON BIOLOGICALLY INSPIRED COGNITIVE ARCHITECTURES
PROGRAM

Days: Friday, November 6th Saturday, November 7th Sunday, November 8th

Friday, November 6th

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08:30-10:00 Session 1A: Reservoir Computing 1
08:30
Biological and Brain Foundations of Reservoir Computing ( abstract )
09:00
A cognitive neural model of executive functions in natural language processing ( abstract )
09:30
Partially embodied motor control: towards a natural collaboration between body and brain. ( abstract )
08:30-10:00 Session 1B: CS1
08:30
Human Cognition in Preparation for Problem Solving ( abstract )
09:00
Towards Integrated Neural-Symbolic Systems for Human-Level AI: Two Research Programs Helping to Bridge the Gaps ( abstract )
09:30
Modeling Sensorimotor Learning in LIDA Using a Dynamic Learning Rate ( abstract )
08:30-10:00 Session 1C: CS2
08:30
Motor memory: representation, learning and consolidation ( abstract )
08:50
Designing, Implementing and Enforcing a Coherent System of Laws, Ethics and Morals for Intelligent Machines (including Humans) ( abstract )
09:10
A First Look at the Visual Attention Executive for STAR: The Selective Tuning Attentive Reference Model ( abstract )
10:30-12:00 Session 2A: CS3
10:30
Interregional and interlevel connections for active perception ( abstract )
11:00
Rapid path planning in maze–like environments using attractor networks ( abstract )
11:30
Mirroring Autobiographical Memory by Cognitive Architecture ( abstract )
10:30-12:00 Session 2B: Reservoir Computing 2
10:30
Reservoir Computing Properties of Neural Dynamics in Prefrontal Cortex ( abstract )
11:00
Structuring Autobiographical Experience for a Narrative Companion Robot ( abstract )
10:30-12:00 Session 2C: CS4
10:30
The Distributed Adaptive Control of Consciousness in Animals and Machines ( abstract )
11:00
The need for high level compilers for generating low level behaviors ( abstract )
11:30
Using a Distributional Semantic Vector Space with a Knowledge Base for Reasoning in Uncertain Conditions ( abstract )
14:00-15:00 Session 3: Plenary 1
14:00
Does the cerebral cortex exploit the computational power of delay coupled recurrent networks? ( abstract )
14:30
Deciphering the brain's navigation system ( abstract )
15:00
How a naïve agent can construct the notion of space ( abstract )
15:30
No Direct Ontological Access – The Feature we Share ( abstract )
16:00-18:00 Session 4A: Developmental Learning
16:00
Modeling Biological Agents Beyond the Reinforcement Learning Paradigm ( abstract )
16:20
Constructing Phenomenal Knowledge in an Unknown Noumenal Reality ( abstract )
16:40
Managing the observation of agents activity as an interpretation process: a Modeled Traces approach ( abstract )
17:10
Autonomous object modeling based on affordances in a dynamic environment ( abstract )
16:00-18:00 Session 4B: Enaction
16:00
How could the enactive paradigm inspire computer science? ( abstract )
16:30
Origins and Evolution of Enactive Cognitive Science: Toward an Enactive Cognitive Architecture ( abstract )
17:00
Evolving Conceptual Spaces for Symbol Grounding in Language Games ( abstract )
17:30
Multi-dimensional memory frames and action generation in the MHP/RT cognitive architecture ( abstract )
16:00-18:00 Session 4C: Computational Narrative
16:00
Narrative Effects and Lessons for BICA ( abstract )
16:30
Towards narratologically inspired cognitive architectures ( abstract )
17:00
Evolution-inspired Construction of Stories: Iterative Refinement of Narrative Drafts as a Social Cycle ( abstract )
Saturday, November 7th

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08:30-10:00 Session 5: Plenary 2
08:30
The role of attention in human-robot communication ( abstract )
09:00
Minimally cognitive robotics: body representations and sensorimotor contingencies in quadrupedal and humanoid robots ( abstract )
10:30-12:00 Session 6: Plenary 3
10:30
AI: Again the Science of Cognitive Agents ( abstract )
11:00
Why and how we should build a zombie ( abstract )
11:30
A Generic Software Platform for Brain-Inspired Cognitive Computing ( abstract )
13:30-15:00 Session 7A: Consciousness
13:30
Development of a Self-Evolving Conscious System ( abstract )
13:52
Unified formalization of «natural» classification, «natural» concepts, and consciousness as integrated information by Giulio Tononi ( abstract )
14:14
Biologically Inspired Neural Robots ( abstract )
14:36
A Machine Consciousness Approach to Urban Traffic Control ( abstract )
13:30-15:00 Session 7B: Creativity
13:30
An automatic system for humanoid dance creation ( abstract )
13:52
Artwork creation by a cognitive architecture integrating computational creativity and dual process approaches ( abstract )
14:14
Image Coding and Pooling with a Bio-inspired Reaction-Diffusion Algorithm ( abstract )
14:36
Voice Pathology Detection based on Modified Voice Contour and SVM ( abstract )
13:30-15:30 Session 7C: Architecture
13:30
Guidelines for designing artifacts for the dual-process ( abstract )
13:52
Imitation of concept learning by honey bees using Vector Symbolic Architectures ( abstract )
14:14
A Parameter Estimation Method for Dynamic Computational Cognitive Models ( abstract )
14:36
TOWARD DEVELOPING AN ARCHITECTURAL TYPOLOGY BASED ON THE ECOLOGICAL CONCEPT OF AFFORDANCE ( abstract )
15:30-17:00 Session 8A: Spatial cognition
15:30
A Visual Sense of Space ( abstract )
15:52
Fly-The-Bee: A game imitating concept learning in bees ( abstract )
16:14
Pleasant and Unpleasant States in a Robot ( abstract )
16:36
Semiautonomous Control of Personal Mobility Based on Passenger's Collision Avoidance Judgment Timing ( abstract )
15:30-17:00 Session 8B: Knowledge representation
15:30
Integrating a Cognitive Framework for Knowledge Representation and Categorization in Diverse Cognitive Architectures ( abstract )
15:52
The Thermal Grill Illusion: A Study using a Conscious System ( abstract )
16:14
Use of a computational simulation model of drivers cognition to predict decision making and behaviour while driving. ( abstract )
16:36
A Rapid Pattern Recognition Architecture with A Multilayer Autonomous Ratio-Memory Cellular Nonlinear Network for Electronic Nose ( abstract )
15:30-17:00 Session 8C: Social Interactions
15:30
BICA and sex differences: we need to understand potential sex differences when developing computational models of human behavior ( abstract )
15:52
Anthropomorphic artificial social agent with simulated emotions and its implementation ( abstract )
16:14
Modeling of Stress/Interest State Controlling in Robot-Child Play Situation ( abstract )
16:36
A Remark on Biological Consciousness and Free Will ( abstract )
Sunday, November 8th

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08:30-10:00 Session 10: Plenary 4
08:30
True Machine Understanding: Implementing Cognitive Phenomenology? ( abstract )
09:00
Cognitive robotics towards real world applications ( abstract )
10:00-12:00 Session 11: Plenary 5
10:00
Cooperative Inference: Features, objects, and collections ( abstract )
10:30
A Comparison among Cognitive Architectures: A Theoretical Analysis ( abstract )
11:00
Cognitive Systems For Cooperative Human-Robot Interaction ( abstract )
11:30
Holons, intentions and system adaptation ( abstract )
13:30-15:10 Session 12A: Sensorimotor Learning
13:30
Human robot interaction in the absence of visual and aural feedback, Exploring the haptic and tactile senses ( abstract )
13:52
Estimating Human Movements Using Memory of Errors ( abstract )
14:14
Model-based Behavioral Causality Analysis of Handball with Delayed Transfer Entropy ( abstract )
14:36
Respective advantages and disadvantages of model-based and model-free reinforcement learning in a robotics neuro-inspired cognitive architecture ( abstract )
13:30-15:10 Session 12B: Emotion
13:30
NEUCOGAR: A Neuromodulating Cognitive Architecture towards the implementation of emotions in a computational system ( abstract )
13:52
Integrating Human Emotions with Spatial Speech Using Optimized Selection of Acoustic Phonetic Units ( abstract )
14:14
A Computational Cognitive Model Integrating Different Emotion Regulation Strategies ( abstract )
14:36
Evolving Synthetic Pain into Adaptive Self-Awareness Framework for Robot ( abstract )
13:30-15:00 Session 12C: Neural Networks
13:30
Columnar Machine: Fast estimation of structured sparse coding ( abstract )
13:52
Better Cell Assemblies ( abstract )
14:14
An approach for the binding problem based on brain-oriented autonomous adaptive system with object handling functions ( abstract )
14:36
Biologically Inspired Perception for Robotics in Hostile Environments ( abstract )