Call For Papers

8th International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL2009)
Shanghai, China, June 5-7, 2009
http://www.icdl09.org/

ICDL is a multidisciplinary conference pertaining to all subjects
related to the development and learning processes of natural and
artificial systems, including perceptual, cognitive, behavioral,
emotional and all other mental capabilities that are exhibited by
humans, higher animals, and robots.  Its visionary goal is to
understand autonomous development in humans and higher animals in
biological, functional, and computational terms, and to enable such
development in artificial systems. ICDL strives to bring together
researchers in neuroscience, psychology, artificial intelligence,
robotics and other related areas to encourage understanding and
cross-fertilization of latest ideas. Topics of interest include, but
are not restricted to:

(1)	Biological and biologically inspired architectures and general principles of development
(2)	Neuronal, cortical and pathway plasticity
(3)	Autonomous generation of internal representation, including feature identification
(4)	Neural networks for development and learning
(5)	Dynamics in neural systems and neurodynamical modeling
(6)	Attention mechanisms and the development of attention skills
(7)	Visual, auditory, touch systems and their development
(8)	Motor systems and their development
(9)	Language acquisition & understanding through development
(10)	Multimodal integration through development
(11)	Conceptual learning through development
(12)	Motivation, value, reinforcement, and novelty
(13)	Emotions and their development
(14)	Learning and training techniques for assisting development
(15)	Biological and biologically inspired thinking models and development of reasoning skills
(16)	Models of developmental disorders
(17)	Development of social skills
(18)	Philosophical and social issues of development
(19)	Robots with development and learning skills
(20)	Using robots to study development and learning

Best Paper Awards will be offered in ICDL2009. Four students will each
receive $250 Travel Awards to support their travel to the
conference. In addition to full-paper submissions, ICDL 2009 accepts
one-page abstract submissions to encourage late-breaking results or
for work that is not sufficiently mature for a full paper.


	Organizing Committee

General Chair: 
Juyang Weng, Michigan State University, USA 

General Co-Chairs: 
Tiande Shou, Fudan University, China 
Xiangyang Xue, Fudan University, China 

Program Chairs: 
Jochen Triesch, Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Germany 
Zhengyou Zhang, Microsoft Research, USA 

Publication Chair: 
Yilu Zhang, GM Research, USA 

Publicity Chair: 
Alexander Stoytchev, Iowa State University, USA 

Publicity Co-Chairs: 
Hiroaki Wagatsuma, RIKEN, Japan (Asia)
Pierre-Yves Oudeyer, INRIA Bordeaux - Sud-Ouest, France (Europe)
Gedeon Deák, University of California at San Diego, USA (North America)

Local Organization Sub-Committee: 
Hong Lu (Chair), Rui Feng (Hotel), Cheng Jin (Web), Yuefei Guo
(Finance), Wenqiang Zhang (Publication)