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-=== A friendly competition in preparation for the RoboCup@Home  ===+=== Call for submissions: 9th workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Cognition   ===
  
-Last week, we hosted a friendly competition for the first time in the rooms of the new Robotics Apartment at our Institute for Artificial Intelligence (IAI): The [[https://ai.uni-bremen.de/robocupsuturo23|SutuRoboCup]] pitted the University of Bielefeld's TIAGo ([[https://pal-robotics.com/robots/tiago/|PAL robotics]]) robot against the IAI's HSR ( [[https://mag.toyota.co.uk/toyota-human-support-robot/|Human Support Robot - Toyota]]) robot in a friendly head-to-head match in preparation for the RoboCup@Home competition in July.+The 9th workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Cognition will be held at the Institute for Artificial Intelligence's TAB building on September 14 and 15, 2023. The goal of the AIC workshop series is to provide an international scientific forum for the discussion and presentation of theoretical and applied research developments in the areas of cognitive-inspired artificial intelligence, cognitive artificial systems, computational cognitive science and neuroscience.
  
-=== Looking back at the SutuRoboCup  ===+=== Background  ===
  
-The SutuRoboCup is an outgrowth of the SUTURO student project, which computer science students at the University of Bremen can take as part of their Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees. The three-day event, a mock-up of the World Cup, gave the teams from Bielefeld and Bremen the opportunity to test their robots under competitive conditions, to get to know each other and exchange ideas.+The main motivation for the AIC events lies in the fact that, historically, research in Artificial Intelligence has been based on a strong collaboration with other disciplines within the realm of the cognitive sciences.
  
-The University of Bielefeld's TIAGo robot competed against the IAI's HSR robot in four challenges within the Houshold Robotics (“at home”) category: Cleaning the table, Serving breakfast, Storing groceries and General Purpose Service Robotics (GPSR).+Many of the original founders of AI as a research discipline aimed to develop human-level AI systems by taking inspiration from the heuristics of human cognition. This goal is still pursued (albeit with different interpretations) by many researchers around the world, and is one of the main challenges for the AI community. Indeed, the collaboration between AI and Cognitive Science has produced mutual benefits over the years. 
  
-<carousel infinite=true&slidesToShow=1&slidesToScroll=1&adaptiveHeight=false> +In AI, this partnership has led to the realization of better intelligent systems. In cognitive science, in turn, this partnership has enabled the development of cognitive models and architectures that provide a better understanding of human reasoning. 
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-Both teams followed different approaches. The Bremen team focused on one challenge, whereas the Bielefeld team tried to solve several challenges at the same time and came up with a good approach for most of them.+In recent years, after a period of partial fragmentation of research directions, the area of cognitively inspired artificial systems is gradually attracting renewed attention from both academia and industry, and the awareness of the need for additional research in this interdisciplinary field has gained widespread acceptance. 
  
-The HSR robot from Bremen emerged as the winner of the SutuRoboCup after scoring points in the "serving breakfast" challenge, in which the robot managed to pick two items from two different shelfs and place them on the breakfast table.  However, both robots only partially completed most of the challenges in the competition, since both teams have just started their work. This  made for some entertaining scenes and was also eagerly commented on in the livestream accompanying the event.  +=== Call for submissions  ===
-Examples of these entertaining moments, which occurred at many points, included the HSR robot moving towards the window to grab objects reflected in its glass, or the TIAGo robot repeatedly announcing its entry into a room with a spoken "knock knock".+
  
-All in all, the students were able to develop a good idea of the real RoboCup and how difficult it is for the robots to have to find their way around in a new environment. +We invite all researchers who are interested in the overall goal and the topics of interest (below) of the AIC workshop series to submit their scientific contributions to the AIC scientific journal. 
-Besides the honour of winning, the teams were also able to win trophies, with which both sides walked out of the SutuRoboCup at the end of the three days. The general playful spirit with which the two teams met is to remain with them: later, at the real RoboCup, HSR and Tiago will compete in different leagues and not be direct competitors.+AIC is a peer-reviewed scientific venue that particularly welcome papers raising challenging questions, innovative ideas and out of the box thinking, which will hopefully promote interesting discussions at the workshop. The participation of early state researchers in particular is encouraged. Topics of interest for the AIC community include but are not limited to:
  
-{{ :20230329_155323.png?600|}}+- Knowledge Representation and Cognition (e.g. Neural Networks models, 
 +Conceptual Spaces, Ontologies and representation of common sense)
  
-<WRAP centeralign> +- Cognitive Architectures (e.g. SOAR, ACT-R) and Cognitive modelling for Artificial Systems 
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-{{:20230329_162147.png?direct&200|}} +- B.I.C.A. (Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures) and systems 
-</WRAP>+Cognitive Robotics 
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 +- Human Robot Interaction 
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 +- Commonsense Reasoning 
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 +- XAI-Explainable Artificial Intelligence 
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 +- Evaluation of cognitively driven AI systems compared with other AI approaches 
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 +- Cognition and Semantic Web 
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 +- Methodological open questions on AI and Cognition 
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 +- Automated reasoning: deductive, probabilistic, diagnostic, causal and analogical inference 
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 +- Historical and theoretical relation among Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence 
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 +- Knowledge discovery and acquisition 
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 +- Modelling of human learning and knowledge acquisition in complex domains 
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 +- Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing Understanding 
 +Logic and Reasoning 
 + 
 +- Evolutionary Computation 
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 +- Spatial Cognition and Computation 
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 +- Cognitively inspired Machine Learning 
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 +- Computational Theories of Learning 
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 +- Computational Creativity 
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 +- Cognitive and the Moving Image 
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 +- Computational Models of Narrative Understanding (Visuo-Auditory Narrativity, Perception) 
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 +- Decision Support Systems 
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 +=== Rules for submissions  === 
 + 
 +All submissions must be written in English and must be formatted according to the information for LNCS Authors. All papers must present original work that is not currently under review.  
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 +We welcome the following types of contributions: 
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 +- Full research papers (8 to 14 pages) 
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 +- Short research papers (4 to 7 pages) 
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 +- Extended abstracts of recently published journal papers (1 to 2 pages) 
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 +Full research paper submissions must describe original and completed work, with inclusion of mature results and evaluation. Short research paper submissions can present a work in progress/position paper or include a small focused contribution with preliminary results.  
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 +- Extended Abstract: Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract of their recently published journal articles within the field of AI and cognition. The original article should be accepted and published no earlier than 2022.
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