BICA 2019: 2019 Annual International Conference on Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures Microsoft Building 25 (The Reactor), 15700 NE 39th Street Redmond, WA, United States, August 15-18, 2019 |
Conference website | http://bica2019.bicasociety.org |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bica2019 |
Abstract registration deadline | March 1, 2019 |
Submission deadline | March 1, 2019 |
BICA 2019 is the 10th Annual International Conference on Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures, which is also the Tenth Annual Meeting of the BICA Society. Started as a continuation of AAAI Fall Symposia on BICA (2008, 2009), the BICA conference demonstrated a steady growth in popularity over years, with remarkable success in many parts of the world (2010, 2011: Washington, D.C.; 2012: Palermo, Italy; 2013: Kiev, Ukraine; 2014: MIT, Boston, MA; 2015: Lyon, France; 2016: New York, USA; 2017: Moscow, Russia; 2018: Prague, Czech Republic: http://bicasociety.org/meetings). This year's BICA conference is held on the Main Microsoft Campus in Seattle, WA USA.
Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures (BICA) are computational frameworks for building intelligent agents that are inspired from biological intelligence. Biological intelligent systems, notably animals such as humans, have many qualities that are often lacking in artificially designed systems including robustness, flexibility and adaptability to environments. At a point in time where visibility into naturally intelligent systems is exploding, thanks to modern brain imaging and recording techniques allowing us to map brain structures and functions, our ability to learn lessons from nature and to build biologically inspired intelligent systems has never been greater. At the same time, the growth in computer science and technology has unleashed enough computational power at sufficiently low prices, that an explosion of intelligent applications from driverless vehicles, to augmented reality, to ubiquitous robots, is now almost certain. The growth in these fields challenges the computational replication of all essential aspects of the human mind (the BICA Challenge), an endeavor which is interdisciplinary in nature and promises to yield bi-directional flow of understanding between all involved disciplines.
Submission Guidelines
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:
- Research Papers describing new exciting advances or preliminary results in experiment, theory, modeling or technology;
- Position Papers describing original visions of an area, a problem or a challenge, supported by a minireview;
- Abstracts for local distribution only (without publication), describing a talk, a demo, a discussion panel, or a poster.
List of Topics
- Artificial Intelligence
- Cognitive Science
- Neuroscience
- Social, Economic and Educational Sciences
Committees
Program Committee
- Alexei Samsonovich (NRNU MEPhI): PC Chair
- Antonio Chella (University of Palermo, Italy)
- Christian Lebiere (CMU, USA)
- Vladimir Redko (ISA RAN, RF)
- Thomas Collins (USC, USA)
- plus over 100 PC Members
Organizing committee
- Alexei Samsonovich (NRNU MEPhI, RF, and GMU, USA): General Chair
- David Kelley (AGI): Local Chair, Future of AI Workshop Chair
- Paul Robertson (DOLL, Inc., USA)
- Kamilla R. Jóhannsdóttir (Reykjavik University, Iceland)
- Antonio Chella (University of Palermo, Italy)
- Olivier Georgeon (Catholique University of Lyon, France)
- Christian Lebiere (CMU, USA)
- Jan Treur (VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Confirmed Speakers
- Peter Boltuc
- Antonio Chella
- Olga Chernavskaya
- Steve DiPaola
- Olivier Georgeon
- Ricardo Gudwin
- Ignazio Infantino
- Kamilla Jóhannsdóttir
- Magnus Johnsson
- Frank Krueger
- Robert Laddaga
- John Laird
- Antonio Lieto
- Umberto Maniscalco
- James Olds
- Rosario Sorbello
- Junichi Takeno
Publication
BICA 2019 proceedings will be published in Elsevier's Cognitive Systems Research and in Springer's Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing. A possibility remains for the third publication venue: Elsevier's Procedia Computer Science.
Venue
- The conference will be held at the Microsoft Main Campus in Seattle, WA USA. Address: Microsoft Building 25 (The Reactor), 15700 NE 39th Street, Redmond, Washington, USA.
- For convenient lodging, we recommend Aloft Seattle Redmond (15220 NE Shen Street, Suite 150, Redmond, Washington 98052).
- All recommended and discounted housing options for participants are available here: http://bica2019.bicasociety.org/venue
Registration
Registration is open at http://bica2019.bicasociety.org/registration. Early-Bird registration deadline is April 1st.
Contact
All questions about submission, participation and discounts should be emailed to Alexei Samsonovich (Alexei.Samsonovich@gmail.com).
Sponsors and Co-Organizers:
- BICA Society
- AGI
- Microsoft
- BCG