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Proposing a symposium

Organisers interested in holding a symposium at AISB 2018 are invited to submit a Proposal including:

  • A symposium title.
  • A 300-1000 word description of the scope of the symposium and its relevance to the convention, along with the nature of the academic events (talks, posters, panels, demonstrations, etc.).
    Topics include, but are not limited to: Liverpool
    • Computational Intelligence
    • Cognitive Phenomena such as Consciousness, Emotions, and Trust
    • Human and Machine Creativity
    • Human-Robot Collaboration
    • Simulation of Human and Animal Behaviour
    • Machine Ethics
    • Machine Learning and/or Knowledge Representation
    • AI for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences
    • Robots and Human Mental Health
    • Robots and Human Sexuality
    • Technical Mediation of Robust Communities
    • Modelling Cultural Evolution
    • Simulating Socio Technical Systems
    • AI, sensors and virtual reality
  • The organising committee (names, affiliations, contact details, previous experience in organising research meetings, if applicable).
  • Indication of whether the symposium is intended as a sequel to a previously held symposium or series of symposia at AISB or other events.
  • The proposed call for papers or abstracts, including the format of submissions that will be solicited (e.g. abstract, demo, poster, full/short papers, panels), the review model for accepting the contributions for presentation, and the proposed relevant dates. For reference, typically submission deadlines are late December; acceptance / revision requests are normally notified by February.
  • In addition, please include:
    • Your preferences about the intended length of the symposium as a number of days (preferably one or two, but anything from half a day to three), together with a brief justification, including the number of anticipated presentations and other participants.
    • Indication, if known already, or applicable, of invited speakers or panelists.
    • If possible, names and affiliations of the preliminary programme committee (please indicate whether they have agreed, even provisionally).
Proposers are welcome to submit–or otherwise be involved with–more than one proposal. Proposers (and attendees) need not already be members of the AISB and will not be required to become members, but will have the opportunity to join should they wish to. The format of submissions is defined by the organisers of the individual symposia, but any final papers or abstracts for the proceedings should conform to the AISB style available from the AISB web page. Chairs or individual authors may decide whether to publish their papers in an archival format; proceedings will have an ISSN provided by AISB, but may contain a mix of abstracts and full papers as suits the publication needs of the individual symposia or their authors.

Important dates

Completed proposals should be submitted to the committee via EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aisb2018

  • Deadline for symposium proposals: 15th September 2017
  • Notification to proposers of accepted symposia: 30th September 2017