AMKLC'05 - Symposium on Adaptive Models of
Knowledge, Language and Cognition

The AMKLC'05 symposium focuses on emergence, complexity and self-organization in cognitive and social systems: how knowledge is being created and established within human and computer-mediated networks and the role of language as an adaptive medium for knowledge building. Following researchers like Maturana, Varela, Von Foerster, Gärdenfors, Glenberg, MacWhinney, Steels and many others, the symposium encourages investigation on the relationship between knowledge and language. An underlying assumption for the symposium is that in order to analyze, model and understand the individual cognitive and social level of knowledge formation and the role of language in such contexts, one has to take into account the underlying dynamic adaptation processes and the embodied, multimodal pattern recognition basis of knowledge.

In AMKLC'05 symposium we are, in addition to the general theme introduced above, interested in the perspective of applied cognitive science: how do knowledge, language and cognition emerge in complex organizations and systems; what models offer explanatory framework for the emergence; which tools are useful in supporting efficient innovation, knowledge creation and communication.

• Discourse environments
• Emergence of knowledge building and innovation
• Emergence of understandings or misunderstandings
• Models of learning and innovation
• Design structures to foster learning and innovation
• Self-organizing models of language and cognition
• Analytic methods to understand emergent cognition
• Agent-based, neural-network and evolutionary models of cognition, knowledge and language learning and use

Submissions

Important dates

• Paper submission due: 11 February 2005 (updated!)
• Acceptance notification: 14 March 2005
• Deadline for early registration: 21 March 2005
• Camera-ready paper due: 8 April 2005
• AMKLC'05 symposium: 15 June 2005
• AKRR'05 conference: 15-17 June 2005

For more detailed information about the above issues, please refer to the web page of
AKRR05 conference (http://www.cis.hut.fi/AKRR05/) or contact arussell AT oise.utoronto.ca

Programme committee

• Henrik Bruun, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
• John Bullinaria, University of Birmingham, UK
• Angelo Cangelosi, University of Plymouth, UK
• Ritva Engeström, University of Helsinki, Finland
• Roberta Ferrario, Institute for Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, Italy

• Stefano Franchi, University of Auckland, New Zealand
• Kai Hakkarainen, University of Helsinki, Finland
• Francis Heylighen, Free University of Brussels, Belgium
• Timo Honkela, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
• Jussi Karlgren, SICS, Sweden

• Tarja Knuuttila, University of Helsinki, Finland
• Kirsti Lonka, Karolinska Institute, Sweden
• Brian MacWhinney, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• Alexander Riegler, Free University of Brussels, Belgium
• Ann Russell, University of Toronto, Canada (chair)

• Pirita Seitamaa-Hakkarainen, University of Joensuu, Finland
• Chris Sinha, University of Portsmouth, UK
• Matti Sintonen, University of Helsinki, Finland
• Jaakko Särelä, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
• Earl Woodruff, University of Toronto, Canada

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