AGI 2013 - The Sixth Conference on Artificial General Intelligence

The Sixth Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI-13), July 31, 2013 ? August 3, 2013, Beijing, China
The original goal of the AI field was the construction of “thinking machines” ? that is, computer systems with human-like general intelligence. As this task turned out to be way more difficult than initially expected, the majority of AI researchers have spent the last decades focusing on the less ambitious goal referred to as “narrow AI” ? the production of AI systems exhibiting intelligence only with respect to specific, highly constrained tasks. In recent years, however, more and more researchers have recognized the necessity ? and feasibility ? of returning to the original goals of the field. Reasons for the new optimism in attempting to tackle the mentioned old goals are based on new developments in computer science, engineering, and insights in disciplines trying to understand cognition. Examples of such developments are the dramatic increase in computing resources, the digital availability of huge amounts of knowledge, new machine learning paradigms, the possibility to build highly sophisticated robotic applications, and new findings and inspiration from neuroscience and cognitive science. Increasingly, there is a call for a transition back to facing the more difficult issues of “human-level intelligence” and more broadly “artificial general intelligence (AGI).”
The AGI conference series (http://www.agi-conf.org/) is the premier international forum for cutting-edge research focusing on the original goal of the AI field ? the creation of thinking machines with general intelligence at the human level and ultimately beyond. The AGI conference series is held in cooperation with AAAI, and AGI-13 will co-locate with IJCAI-13.
Like its predecessors, AGI-13 will gather researchers in AGI and associated disciplines for wide-ranging presentation and discussion of approaches, architectures, algorithms and ideas relevant to the advancement of artificial general intelligence.
Topics
As in prior AGI conferences, we welcome papers on all aspects of AGI R&D, with the key proviso that each paper should in some way contribute specifically to the development of Artificial General Intelligence. Appropriate topics for contributed papers include, but are not restricted to:
Agent Architectures
Autonomy
Benchmarks and Evaluation
Cognitive Modeling
Collaborative Intelligence
Creativity
Distributed AI
Implications of AGI for Society, Economy and Ecology
Integration of Different Capabilities
Knowledge Representation for General Intelligence
Languages, Specification Approaches and Toolkits
Learning and Learning Theory
Motivation, Emotion, and Affect
Multi-Agent Interaction
Natural Language Understanding
Neural-Symbolic Processing
Perception and Perceptual Modeling
Philosophy of AI
Rationality
Reasoning, Inference, and Planning
Robotics and Virtual Embodiment
Simulation and Emergent Behavior
Panel Discussions
The conference will be divided into themed sessions, determined based on the distribution of topics of the accepted papers; and each themed session will be concluded by a panel discussion.
Special Session on Cognitive Robotics and AGI
In the spirit of similar Special Sessions at former AGI conferences, this Special Session will feature papers giving new AGI ideas inspired by current research in Cognitive Robotics.
Keynotes / Tutorials / Workshops/ Demonstrations
Keynote speeches will be delivered by leading scientists in the area of AGI and adjacent disciplines; they will be announced at a later stage at the website of AGI-13.
Tutorials, workshops, and demonstrations will be held alongside the conference. For the requirements for proposals, please see the AGI-13 website. Call for papers of the approved workshops will also be announced there at a later time.
Organization
Conference Chair: Pei Wang (Temple University, USA)
Organizing Committee: Pei Wang, Kai-Uwe Kühnberger, Sebastian Rudolph, Stephen Reed, Anirban Bandyopadhyay, Rod Furlan, Ben Goertzel, Marcus Hutter, Rafal Rzepka, Zhongzhi Shi, Byoung-Tak Zhang
Program Co-Chairs: Kai-Uwe Kühnberger (University of Osnabrück, Germany), Sebastian Rudolph (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)
Publicity Chair: Rod Furlan (Quaternix Research Inc., Canada)
Co-Chairs of the Special Session on Cognitive Robotics and AGI: David Hanson (Hanson Robotics, USA), Il-Hong Suh (Hanyang University, Korea)
Poster and Demonstration Chair: Bo An (Institute of Computing Technology, China)
Tutorial and Workshop Chair: Kristinn Thórisson (Reykjavik University, Iceland)
Local Committee: Xihong Wu, Dingsheng Luo, Beihai Zhou (Peking University, China)
Important Dates
Full paper submission: March 1, 2013
Acceptance Notification: April 20, 2013
Camera-ready copy: May 15, 2013
Conference: July 31, 2013 ? August 3, 2013
Submission Information
All papers have to be submitted via the conference submission page, to be announced at the AGI-13 website.
Papers will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science/Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. Paper templates for both LaTeX and Word may be found here: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs/lncs+authors... . Use the templates for “LNCS Proceedings and Other Multiauthor Volumes”. The LaTeX template (use of which is preferred) is also given directly here: ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/llncs/latex2e/llncs2e.zip.
There are two types of submissions:
Full papers (up to 10 pages): Original research in the above areas.
Technical Communications (up to 4 pages): Results and ideas with interest to the AGI audience, including reports about recent own publications, position papers, and preliminary results.
All accepted papers will be included in the proceedings, with Technical Communications clearly marked as such. All full papers and selected Technical Communications will be invited to give a talk at the conference. All accepted papers that are not chosen for talks can be presented as posters.
Papers must be in English, should not exceed the lengths constraints for the respective type of submission, and must be formatted according to the LNCS guidelines. More information about Springer’s LNCS series is available on the Springer LNCS Web site. Papers must be submitted in PDF (Adobe’s Portable Document Format) format and will not be accepted in any other format. Papers that do not follow the guidelines specified above can be rejected automatically without a review. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the paper there.