4th Annual International Conference on Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures, Second Annual Meeting of the BICA Society
Arlington, Virginia, USA, November 4-6, 2011
© 2011 BICA Society
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PS1: Opening Keynotes (chair: Salvatore Gaglio)
– Introduction (Alexei Samsonovich)
– Murray Shanahan (keynote)
Paper/Abstract: Murrayp Shanahan. Serial from Parallel, Unity from Multiplicity: What Emerges from Global Workspace Architecture
– Antonio Chella (keynote)
Paper/Abstract: Antonio Chella and Riccardo Manzotti. Towards Externalist Robotics
CS1: Physically & Virtually Embodied Learning BICA (chair: Christian Lebiere)
– Jeff Krichmar (invited)
Paper/Abstract: Jeffrey Krichmar and Hiroaki Wagatsuma. Neuromorphic and Brain-Based Robots
– Brandon Rohrer
Paper/Abstract: Brandon Rohrer. Biologically Inspired Feature Creation for Multi-Sensory Perception
– Alan Diamond
Paper/Abstract: Alan Diamond, Owen Holland and Hugo Gravato Marques. The Role of the Predicted Present in Artificial and Natural Cognitive Systems
– Kyohei Kushiro
Paper/Abstract: Kyohei Kushiro and Junichi Takeno. Development of a Robot that Cognizes and Learns Unknown Events
CS2: Episodic Memory and Hippocampus-Inspired Learning (chair: Christian Lebiere)
– Craig Vineyard
Paper/Abstract: Craig M. Vineyard, Stephen J. Verzi, Michael L. Bernard, and Thomasp Caudell. A Multimodal Hypertensor Architecture for Association Formation
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– Ben Walker & Dustin Dalen
Paper/Abstract: Benjamin Walker, Dustin Dalen, Zachary Faltersack, and Andrew Nuxoll. Extracting Episodic Memory Feature Relevance Without Domain Knowledge
– Andrew Coward
Paper/Abstract: Andrew Coward and Tom Gedeon. Architectures of Complex Learning Systems
– Ben Goertzel
Paper/Abstract: Ben Goertzel, Joel Pittb, Zhenhua Caib, Jared Wigmoreb, Deheng Huangb, Nil Geisweillera, Ruiting Lianb, and Gino Yub. Integrative General Intelligence for Controlling Game AI in a Minecraft-Like Environment
CS3: ‘B’ in BICA (chair: Marco Ortolani)
– Owen Holland
Paper/Abstract: Owen Holland, Alan Diamond, Bhargav Mitra and David Devereux. The What, Why and How of the BI in BICA
– Chris Connolly
Paper/Abstract: Chris Connolly, Richard Rohwer and Zhiqiang Wang. From Biology to Inspiration and Back: Is the Pallidal Complex a Reservoir?
– Ion Juvina
Paper/Abstract: Ion Juvina, James A. Grange, and Christian Lebiere. From Repetition Suppression in Stroop to Backward Inhibition in Task Switching: An Example of Model Reusability
– Gabriele Modena
Paper/Abstract: Jan Treur. Physiological Model-Based Decision Making on Distribution of Effort over Time
CS4: Social Cognition, Emotions & the Self in BICA (chair: Ion Juvina)
– Rosario Sorbello 1
Paper/Abstract: Giuseppe Balistreri, Rosario Sorbello and Antonio Chella. A Natural Human Robot Meta-Comunication through the Integration of Android’s Sensors With Environment Embedded Sensors
– Charles Peck
Paper/Abstract: Charles C. Peck and James Kozloski. The Computational Basis of Emotions and Implications for Cognitive Architectures
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– HyunRyong Jung
Paper/Abstract: Hyunryong Jung, Arjun Menon and Ronald C. Arkin. A Conceptual Space Architecture for Widely Heterogeneous Robotic Systems
– Rosario Sorbello 2
Paper/Abstract: Antonio Chella, Rosario Sorbello, Giovanni Pilato, Giuseppe Balistreri, Salvatore Maria Anzalone, and Marcello Giardina. An Innovative Mobile Phone Based System for Humanoid Robot Expressing Emotions and Personality
– Michael Sellers
Title: Emotions in AI: Starting a Deeper Discussion
– Emotional Panel
CS5: Social Learning and Language Acquisition (chair: Giuseppe Lo Re)
– Nicole Pennington
Paper/Abstract: Nicole Pennington, Benjamin Goodrich and Itamar Arel. Contrasting Infant Perception Data with a Reinforcement Learning Visual Search Model
– Mary Freiman
Paper/Abstract: Mary D. Freiman and Jerry T. Ball. Automatic Verb Valency Pattern Recognition
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– Brian Harrington
Paper/Abstract: Brian Harrington. ASKNet: Leveraging Bio-Cognitive Models in Natural Language Processing
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– Josefina Sierra
Paper/Abstract: Josefina Sierra-Santibáñez. First Order Logic Concepts in Fluid Construction Grammar
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– Leonid Perlowsky
Paper/Abstract: Leonid I. Perlovsky and R. Ilin. Neurally and Mathematically Motivated Architecture for Language and Cognition
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CS6: Emotions in BICA, in Humans and in Artifacts (chair: Charles Peck)
– Gabriele Modena
Paper/Abstract: Jan Treur. A Computational Agent Model Using Internal Simulation to Generate Emotional Dream Episodes
– Ricardo Sanz
Paper/Abstract: Ricardo Sanz and Guadalupe Sanchez. A Model of Emotion as Patterned Metacontrol
– Rony Novianto
Paper/Abstract: Rony Novianto and Mary-Anne Williams. Innate and Learned Emotion Network
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– Ignazio Infantino
Paper/Abstract: Salvatore Gaglio, Ignazio Infantino, Giovanni Pilato, Riccardo Rizzo and Filippo Vella. Vision and Emotional Flow in a Cognitive Architecture for Human-Machine Interaction
– Mark Finlayson
Paper/Abstract: Mark A. Finlayson and Patrick H. Winston. Narrative is a Key Cognitive Competency
– Minipanel (CS6)
CS7: BICA Models of Neurological & Cognitive Dysfunction (chair: Christine Lisetti)
– Ian Horswill
Paper/Abstract: Ian Horswill and Christine Lisetti. On the Simulation of Human Frailty
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– Azizi Bin Ab Aziz
Paper/Abstract: Azizi Ab Aziz and Michel C. A. Klein. Computational Modeling of Therapies Related to Cognitive Vulnerability and Coping
– Sebastien Naze
Paper/Abstract: Sebastien Naze and Jan Treur. A Computational Agent Model for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders
– Roseli Wedemann
Paper/Abstract: Roseli S. Wedemann, Luís Alfredo Vidal De Carvalho and Raul Donangelo. Access to Symbolization and Associativity Mechanisms in a Model of Conscious and Unconscious Processes
CS8: Machine Learning Approaches in BICA (chair: David Israel)
– Terry Stewart
Paper/Abstract: Terry C. Stewart and Chris Eliasmith. Neural Planning and Reasoning Using the Synaptic Connections of the Basal Ganglia and Thalamus
– Javier Snaider
Paper/Abstract: Javier Snaider and Stan Franklin. Extended Sparse Distributed Memory
– Tsvi Achler
Paper/Abstract: Tsvi Achler and Luis M. A. Bettencourt. Evaluating the Contribution of Top-Down Feedback and Post-Learning Reconstruction
CS9: Sensemaking from Biological Inspirations (chair: Christian Lebiere)
– Paul Kogut
Paper/Abstract: Paul Kogut, June Gordon, David Morgenthaler, John Hummel, Edward Monroe, Ben Goertzel, Ethan Trewhitt and Elizabeth Whitaker. Recognizing Geospatial Patterns with Biologically-Inspired Relational Reasoning
– Matthew Rutledge-Taylor
Paper/Abstract: Matthew F. Rutledge-Taylor, Christian Lebiere, Yury Vinokurov, James Staszewski, and John R. Anderson. Bridging the Gap: A Neurally Plausible Functional Model of Sensemaking
– Harold Klein
Paper/Abstract: Harold Klein. SPIRE – A BICA-Emulated Strategic Decision Support System
SPIRE: A BICA-emulated strategic decision support system
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BG1-BG6: Breakout Brainstorming Groups
– Embodied (leader: Ben Goertzel)
– Practical (leader: Itamar Arel)
– Fundings (leader: Frank Ritter)
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– Episodic (leader: Christian Lebiere)
– Metalearning (leader: Chris Poulin)
– Emotional (leader: Michael Sellers)
PS2: Roadmap to Human-Level AI (chair: Chris Poulin)
– Ennio Mingolla (invited)
Paper/Abstract: Ennio Mingolla. The emerging encounter of neuroscience and robotics
– Breakout Summaries
(Ben Goertzel, Itamar Arel, Terry Stewart, Chris Poulin, Michael Sellers, Junichi Takeno, Antonio Chella)
– Roadmap Panel
– BICA Society Panel
PS3: System Approach to the BICA Challenge (chair: Antonio Chella)
– Konstantin Anokhin (keynote)
Paper/Abstract: Konstantin Anokhin. Towards Cognitively Informed Models of Memory Storage, Retrieval and Processing in the Nervous System
– Witali Dunin-Barkowski (invited)
Paper/Abstract: Witali L. Dunin-Barkowski. Data Formats in Multineuronal Systems and Brain Reverse Engineering
– Keith Downing (keynote)
Paper/Abstract: Keith L. Downing. Evolving Neural Networks for Artificial Intelligence
CS10: Intelligent Tutoring & Assistance in Learning (chair: Rosario Sorbello)
– Mihai Boicu
Paper/Abstract: Mihai Boicu. Rapid Prototyping of a Cognitive System for Pediatric Telephone Triage Tutoring
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– Gautam Biswas (invited)
Title: Promoting the Use of Metacognitive Strategies in a Learning by Teaching Environment
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CS11: Imagery and Metacognition in BICA (chair: Marco Ortolani)
– Marco Ortolani
Paper/Abstract: Salvatore Gaglio, Giuseppe Lo Re, and Marco Ortolani. Cognitive Meta-Learning of Syntactically Inferred Concepts
– Paul Rosenbloom 1
Paper/Abstract: Paul Rosenbloom. Mental Imagery in a Graphical Cognitive Architecture
– Paul Rosenbloom 2
Paper/Abstract: Junda Chen, Abram Demski, Teawon Han, Louis-Philippe Morency, David Pynadath, Nicole Rafidi and Paul Rosenbloom. Fusing Symbolic and Decision-Theoretic Problem Solving + Perception in a Graphical Cognitive Architecture
– Eugene Surowitz
Paper/Abstract: Eugene J. Surowitz. Analytic General Intelligence: Constructing Space+Time for the Lowen Model
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– Metacognition Panel
CS12: Bridging the Gap between Natural and Artificial Intelligence (chair: Scott Fahlman)
– Paul Robertson
Paper/Abstract: Paul Robertson and Robert Laddaga. Learning to Find Structure in a Complex World
– Itamar Arel
Paper/Abstract: Thomasp Karnowski, Itamar Arel, and Steven Young. Modeling Temporal Dynamics with Function Approximation in Deep Spatio-Temporal Inference Network
– Scott Fahlman (invited)
Paper/Abstract: Scott E. Fahlman. Parallel and Serial Components in Human-Like Intelligence
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– Chris Long
Paper/Abstract: Art Pope, Chris Long, and Diane Bramsen. Physics-Based Simulation in the CASTLE Environment
– Vladislav D. Veksler
Paper/Abstract: Vladislav D. Veksler. Second life foraging: An Ecologically-Inspired Task to Drive Biologically-Inspired Cognitive Architectures
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CS13: Machine Consciousness and Human-Like BICA (chair: Roseli Wedemann)
– Riccardo Manzotti
Paper/Abstract: Riccardo Manzotti, Luca Papi, Cristina Amoretti and Soo-Young Lee. Does Radical Externalism Suggest How to Implement Machine Consciousness?
– Junichi Takeno
Paper/Abstract: Junichi Takeno. MoNAD Structure and the Self-Awareness
– Kazuki Katayama
Paper/Abstract: Kazuki Katayama and Junichi Takeno. Conscious Expectation System
– Mark Waser
Paper/Abstract: Mark Waser. Architectural Requirements & Implications of Consciousness, Self, and “Free Will”
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– Bill Kennedy
Paper/Abstract: William G. Kennedy. The Roots of Trust: Cognition Beyond Rational
CS14: Scalable Growth, Evolution and Design of BICA (chair: Tsvi Achler)
– James Peterson
Paper/Abstract: James K. Peterson. Small Brain Model Architectures
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– David Stracuzzi
Paper/Abstract: David Stracuzzi. A Plausible Logic Inference Engine
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– Muneo Kitajima
Paper/Abstract: Muneo Kitajima and Makoto Toyota. Four Processing Modes of In Situ Human Behavior
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– Minipanel (CS14)
CS15: Neuromorphism in BICA (chair: Jared Sylvester)
– Derek Monner
Paper/Abstract: Derek Monner and James A. Reggia. Towards a Biologically Inspired Question-Answering Neural Architecture
– Jared Sylvester
Paper/Abstract: Jared C. Sylvester, James A. Reggia and Scott Weems. Cognitive Control as a Gated Cortical Net
– Mark Reimers
Paper/Abstract: Mark Reimers. Genetic Construction of a Heterogeneous Network Controlling a Simple Simulated Autonomous Robot with Learning
– Fred Rothganger
Paper/Abstract: Fredrick Rothganger, Christina Warrender, Ann Speed, Brandon Rohrer, Asmeret Bier, and Derek Trumbo. Connecting Cognitive and Neural Models
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PS4: Closing Session (chair: Mary Freiman)
– Poster Reviews and Session Summaries
(Tsvi Achler, Vladislav Veksler, Michael Sellers, Charles Peck, Andrew Coward, Antonio Chella)
– David Vernon (invited)
Paper/Abstract: David Vernon. Reconciling Autonomy with Utility: A Roadmap and Architecture for Cognitive Development
– VideoPanels Review: Alexei Samsonovich
Paper/Abstract: Michael Q. Kalish and Alexei V. Samsonovich. VideoPanels Review: From Goal Understanding to Metacognition
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