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IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development
Special Issue on Representations and Architectures for Cognitive Systems

Guest editors:

Giorgio Metta, Italian Institute of Technology & University of
Genoa, ITALY
Gordon Cheng, Technical University Munich, GERMANY
Tamim Asfour, University of Karlsruhe, GERMANY
Barbara Caputo, Idiap Research Institute, Martigny, SWITZERLAND
John K. Tsotsos, York University, CANADA

Forewords
The expected progress in machine learning and robotics shall enable 
tasks where robots have to have sophisticated cognitive skills. Unlike 
well-accepted computational models, advances in neuroscience suggest 
that the underlying architecture that yields such cognitive skills may 
not necessarily be the result of a single monolithic algorithm. 
Tantalizing results of neuroscience are elucidating the roles of 
different brain areas and their specific learning, sensorial and/or 
motor modality.

We can envisage architectures where multiple modes, actions, and 
learning components interact to achieve a given task. Examples exist in 
the domain of humanoid robotics, where one might like to learn about 
attention, reaching, grasping but also to select appropriate actions 
depending on the environmental and object affordances. Moreover, the 
discovery of suitable representations is fundamental to the success of 
these architectures.

In this enlarged view of cognitive systems, the almost forgotten 
concepts of active vision are revisited together with simultaneous 
sensory and motor, as well as multimodal learning. For example, in 
object categorization new methods are being developed that enable 
abstractions and effective representations, keeping into account the 
structure of object categories, their associated affordances and how 
embodiment, context and task affects modeling and learning for an 
autonomous agent.

This special issue of the Transactions of Autonomous Mental Development
calls for papers in order to provide a snapshot of the state of the art 
in the development of artificial cognitive systems. One or more of the
following topics (but not necessarily limited to) are welcome:

* Architectures integrating communication, control and cognitive abilities
* Combination of different learning modes (e.g. reinforcement learning,
unsupervised learning)
* Representations suitable for scalable cognitive architectures
* Developmental components in system-level architectures
* Attention and action selection
* Cortical-like representations and computation
* Tool use in task solving, understanding of affordances
* Essential Computational building blocks supporting cognitive
architectures

Important dates
* Deadline for submissions: Feb 1st, 2010
* Decision of the first round of review: March 15th, 2010
* Final decision: April 15th, 2010
* Camera ready: May 1st, 2010
* Electronic publication: May 10th, 2010
* Printed version: July 10th, 2010

Submission procedure
Two kinds of submissions are possible:

Regular papers, up to 15 double column pages;
Correspondence papers either presenting a "perspective" that includes
insights into issues of wider scope than a regular paper but without 
being highly computational in style or presenting concise description of 
recent  technical results, up to 8 double column pages.

Instructions for authors:
http://ieee-cis.org/pubs/tamd/authors/

We are accepting submissions through Manuscript Central at:
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tamd-ieee (please select "Cognitive 
Systems" as the submission type)

When submitting your manuscript, please also cc to giorgio.metta (at) iit.it

More information:
For more information, please contact Giorgio Metta at giorgio.metta (at)
iit.it