[Swarm Announce] [Swarm-Modelling] FW: [SIMSOC] AAAI Fall Symposium: EMERGENT AGENTS AND SOCIALITIES:SOCIAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL ASPECTS OF INTELLIGENCE

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> Subject: [SIMSOC] AAAI Fall Symposium: EMERGENT AGENTS AND
> SOCIALITIES:SOCIAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL ASPECTS OF INTELLIGENCE
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> From: Goran Trajkovski <address@hidden>
> 
> To: <address@hidden>
> 
> 2007 FALL AAAI SYMPOSIUM
> 
> EMERGENT AGENTS AND SOCIALITIES:
> SOCIAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL ASPECTS OF INTELLIGENCE
> 
> Washington, DC * November 8­11, 2007
> 
> 
> http://pages.towson.edu/gtrajkov/FSS07
> http://www.aaai.org/Symposia/Fall/fss07.php
> 
> The study of agency and multiagent systems crosses disciplinary boundaries
> by focusing on society, culture and communication as emerging from
> interactions of autonomous agents. Poised at the intersections of AI,
> cybernetics, sociology, semiotics and anthropology, this strand of
> multiagent systems research enables a powerful perspective illuminating
> not
> only how we live and learn, but also, through focusing on emergence, how
> we
> anticipate the future.
> 
> This symposium focuses on second order emergence. The constituents in a
> system are aware of an emergent phenomenon and adapt accordingly. New
> agents
> emerge as human and nonhuman agents interact, hinting at new qualities
> that
> may enable us to push the use of technology to its maximum capacity, and
> in
> the process imbricating both the observer and the observed in successive
> cycles of emergence.
> 
> In most studies to date, the non-human agent is subordinate to the human
> agents. Without the human input (and in the absence of another obstacle),
> the non-human agent goes nowhere. On the other hand, if we look at these
> interactions as emergent socialities, the non-human agent has a pivotal
> role­that of amanuensis for all subsequent social interaction. That is,
> without the non-human agent, there can be no emergent social interaction
> to
> begin with.
> 
> Theories of emergence suggest a dynamic, multi-directionality of
> perception
> organized socially as multi-agent systems. What is less studied is the
> messiness of those multi-agent systems themselves, the way they involve
> complex ³translations³ between human and non-human agents, or
> ³transcodings²
> between different representational and discursive modalities.
> 
> The symposium proposes to delve into the messiness of the social,
> approaching it from multiple perspectives simultaneously<computational,
> sociological, linguistic and cybernetic<in such a way as to stimulate our
> own sites of emergence at the borders of these disciplines.
> 
> 
> Focal areas:
> 1)  Concepts, definitions and theories
> 2)  Cognitive aspects of emergence in interactions
> 3)  Tools and methods for studying emergent phenomena
> 4)  Simulations and experiments in agency, interaction, and emergence
> 5)  Emergent of society, and societal phenomena
> 6)  Organization and societies, interaction and communication
> 
> 
> 
> ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
> 
> Goran Trajkovski (co-chair), Towson University, USA
> Samuel Collins (co-chair), Towson University, USA
> 
> Laszlo Gulyas, AITIA International Inc., Hungary
> Michael North, Argonne National Laboratories, USA
> Keith Sawyer, Washington University in St Louis, MO, USA
> Richard Schilling, Cognition Group Inc, USA
> Georgi Stojanov, American University in Paris, France
> 
> 
> Please submit all questions to Goran Trajkovski, address@hidden
> (http://pages.towson.edu/gtrajkov)
> 
> Submission details
> Those interested in participating in this symposium should send either a
> full paper (8 pages maximum) or a position paper (1-2 pages) in AAAI
> format
> in PDF to address@hidden
> 
> The abstracts are due by May 1, 2007. Acceptance/rejection notices will be
> mailed on or about May 21, 2007. Full versions of papers will be expected
> by
> July 1st, 2007, and, if accepted, the camera-ready version of the paper
> will
> be due by September 1, 2007.
> 
> Limited financial support is available for students-participants of this
> symposium.
> 
> 
> --
> Cordially yours,
> Goran Trajkovski
> http://pages.towson.edu/gtrajkov
> 
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