BICA 2016: 2016 ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON BIOLOGICALLY INSPIRED COGNITIVE ARCHITECTURES
PROGRAM

Days: Saturday, July 16th Sunday, July 17th Monday, July 18th Tuesday, July 19th

Saturday, July 16th

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10:30-11:00Coffee Break
12:30-14:00Lunch Break
15:30-16:00Coffee Break
Sunday, July 17th

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10:00-10:30Coffee Break
10:30-12:30 Session 9A: BICA agents and systems

12:15-12:30 - discussion

Chair:
Location: U311
10:30
On the perceptual advantages of visual suppression mechanisms for dynamic robot systems ( abstract )
10:45
Cartesian Abstraction ( abstract )
11:00
Computational Locality in HaveNWant Semantic Networks ( abstract )
11:15
Towards a Cognitive Multi-Agent System for Building Control ( abstract )
11:30
SiMA-C: A Foundational Mental Architecture ( abstract )
11:45
A Case-Driven Methodology for the Interdisciplinary Development and Examination of Mental Architectures ( abstract )
12:00
Design of Neuromorphic Cognitive Module based on Hierarchical Temporal Memory and demonstrated on Anomaly Detection ( abstract )
12:30-14:00Lunch Break
15:00-15:30Coffee Break
15:30-17:30 Session 12A: From the brain to advanced BICA

17:15-17:30 - discussion

Location: UL102
15:30
Critical Branching Neural Computation ( abstract )
15:50
The Individuation of Social Systems: A Cognitive Framework ( abstract )
16:05
A Formal Model of Script Construction Based on Salience and Abstraction ( abstract )
16:20
Automatic Case Generation to Enable Advanced Behaviors in Agents ( abstract )
16:35
Learning Task Goals Interactively with Visual Demonstrations ( abstract )
16:50
Continuous Phone Recognition in the Sigma Cognitive Architecture ( abstract )
17:05
Adaptive Modelling of Trauma: Development and Recovery of Patients ( abstract )
15:30-17:30 Session 12B: Motivations and evaluations

17:15-17:30 - discussion

Location: U311
15:30
A Cognitive-Affective Architecture for ECAs ( abstract )
15:45
Modeling the Interaction of Emotion and Cognition in Autonomous Agents ( abstract )
16:00
Sparse Holographic Graph Neuron ( abstract )
16:15
Recognizing permuted words with Vector Symbolic Architectures: "A Cmabirgde tset for mahcenis" ( abstract )
16:30
Implementing and Growing a 'Seed' Safe/Moral Motivational System for 50PH14 ( abstract )
16:45
An Analysis of the CHC model for Comparing Cognitive Architectures ( abstract )
17:00
Evaluation of Cognitive Architectures Inspired by Cognitive Biases ( abstract )
Monday, July 18th

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09:00-10:00 Session 13: Plenary
Location: U100
09:00
Towards Solving the Hard Problem of Consciousness: The Varieties of Brain Resonances and the Conscious Experiences that they Support ( abstract )
10:00-10:30Coffee Break
10:30-12:30 Session 14A: Creative & emotional

12:00-12:30 - discussion

Location: UL102
10:30
Exploiting Interactive Genetic Algorithms for Creative Humanoid Dancing ( abstract )
10:45
Analyzing and discussing primary creative traits of a robotic artist ( abstract )
11:00
A Hypothesis on the Nature of "Aesthetic" Emotions and the Concept of "Masterpiece” ( abstract )
11:20
Dynamical unstable processes in the brain: a biologically inspired communication mechanism from "conscious" to "unconscious" actors. ( abstract )
11:40
A test for believable social emotionality in virtual actors ( abstract )
10:30-12:30 Session 14B: Vision and applications

12:15-12:30 - discussion

Location: U311
10:30
Convolutional Neural Network with Biologically Inspired Retinal Structure ( abstract )
10:45
The bilingual Stroop test from the view of the Information Images Theory ( abstract )
11:00
Influence of the modern Web communication on the psychological characteristics of the rising generation (12-13 year old) from the view of the Information Images Theory ( abstract )
11:15
A Generative Probabilistic Model for Leaning Complex Visual Stimuli ( abstract )
11:30
Classification Based on Multilayer Extreme Learning Machine for Motor Imagery Task from EEG signals ( abstract )
11:45
Music Inspired Framework for Remediating Emotional Deficits in Autism ( abstract )
12:00
Lose a leg but not your head — extension of a biologically-inspired walking architecture towards a cognitive system ( abstract )
12:30-14:00Lunch Break
15:00-15:30Coffee Break
16:00-18:00 Session 17A: Language, vision and consciousness

17:35-18:00 - discussion

Location: UL102
16:00
What are the Computational Correlates of Consciousness? ( abstract )
16:20
Conceptual Spaces for Cognitive Architectures: A Lingua Franca for Different Levels of Representation ( abstract )
16:35
The Virtual Reality of the Mind ( abstract )
17:05
Design Index for Deep Neural Networks ( abstract )
17:20
The Enacted KOAN -- An Agent's Knowledge of Agency ( abstract )
16:00-18:00 Session 17B: Applied neural-conscious

17:30-18:00 - discussion

Location: U311
16:00
Color Vision Consciousness System Capable of Additionally Learning New Knowledge ( abstract )
16:15
Study on the Environmental Cognition of a Self-evolving Conscious System ( abstract )
16:30
Development of Self-Cognition through Imitation Behavior ( abstract )
16:45
Robot science discussion on the onset of dissociative identity disorder (DID) ( abstract )
17:00
Using a Conscious System to Construct a Model of the Rubin’s Vase Phenomenon ( abstract )
17:15
Implications of time-delay effects on the computational capability and memory capacity of neuronal architectures ( abstract )
Tuesday, July 19th

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09:00-10:30 Session 18A: BICA theory and evaluations

10:00-10:30 - discussion

Location: UL102
09:00
The performance comparison problem: Universal task access for cross-framework evaluation, Turing tests, grand challenges, and cognitive decathlons ( abstract )
09:30
DANNA: A Neuromorphic Software Ecosystem ( abstract )
09:45
Which Features Matter How Much When? ( abstract )
10:30-11:00Coffee Break
11:00-12:15 Session 19B: BICA visual
Location: UL102
11:00
On Virtual Characters that Can See ( abstract )
11:15
Psychologically inspired planning method for smart relocation task ( abstract )
11:30
The Cognitive Systems Toolkit and the CST Cognitive Architecture ( abstract )
11:45
Motivational Engine with Autonomous Sub-Goal Identification for the Multilevel Darwinist Brain ( abstract )
12:00
A Framework based on Semantic Spaces and Glyphs for Social Sensing on Twitter ( abstract )
12:30-14:00Lunch Break
14:00-16:00 Session 21A: Closing session

14:30-15:15 - poster summaries

15:15-16:00 - closing discussion

Location: UL102
14:00
Pattern Turnover within Synaptically Perturbed Neural Systems ( abstract )
14:15
Facilitate Data Exploration with Storytelling ( abstract )
16:00-16:30Coffee Break