Program

Program

Sunday, 24: Registration

Monday, 25: Foundations

9:30-11.00	Luigia Carlucci Aiello (University of Roma, "La Sapienza", Italy) Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
11:00-11:30	Coffee break
11:30-13:00	John Taylor (King's College, London, UK) Neural modelling of higher order cognitive processes
13:00-15:00	Lunch
15:00-16:30	Marco Gori (University of Siena, Italy) Connectionist Models for Data Structures
16:30-17:00	Coffee break
17:00-18:30	Igor Aleksander (Imperial College, London, UK): Neuromodelling vs. Neural Networks

Tuesday, 26: ASEIT (Advanced School on Electronics and Information Technology) Open International Workshop on Subsymbolic Techniques and Algorithms *

9:30-10.30	Peter Gärdenfors (Lund University, Sweden) Symbolic, conceptual and subsymbolic representations
10:30-11:00	Coffee break
11:00-12:00	Igor Aleksander (Imperial College, London, UK) Neural representation modelling
12:00-13:00	Teuvo Kohonen (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland) Self-organizing maps - part I: fundamentals
13:00-14:30	Lunch
14:30-15:30	John Taylor (King's College, London, UK) From subsymbolic to symbolic processing
15:30-16:00	Coffee break
16:00-17:00	Ronald Arkin (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) Multiagent robotic systems
17:00-18:30	Open discussion

Wednesday, 27: Representation

9:30-11.00	Peter Gärdenfors (Lund University, Sweden) Conceptual Spaces - part I
11:00-11:30	Coffee break
11:30-13:00	Peter Gärdenfors (Lund University, Sweden) Conceptual Spaces - part II
13:00-15:00	Lunch
15:00-16:30	Teuvo Kohonen (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland) Self Organizing Maps - part II: topological representation of manifolds and symbol sets
16:30-17:00	Coffee break
17:00-18:30	Luigia Carlucci Aiello (University of Roma, "La Sapienza", Italy) Symbolic Representations

Thursday, 28: Excursion

Friday, 29 (9:30-13:00): Visual Perception

9:30-11.00	Giovanni Adorni (University of Parma, Italy), Stefano Cagnoni (University of Parma, Italy) Evolutionary Techniques for Vision and Robotics
11:00-11:30	Coffee break
11:30-13:00	Antonio Chella (Univ. of Palermo, Italy), Marcello Frixione (Univ. of Salerno, Italy), Salvatore Gaglio (Univ. of Palermo, Italy) Cognitive Architectures for Artificial Vision
13:00-15:00	Lunch
15:00-16:30	Vito Di Gesù (Univ. of Palermo, Italy) Algorithms for computer vision
16:30-17:00	Coffee break
17:00-18:30	Open Workshops

Saturday, 30: Action

9:30-11.00	Pietro Morasso (University of Genoa, Italy) Motion Maps
11:00-11:30	Coffee break
11:30-13:00	Christian Balkenius (Lund University, Sweden) Reinforcement Learning in Autonomous Robots
13:00-15:00	Lunch
15:00-16:30	Luc Steels (Free University of Brussels, Belgium) The self-organisation of grounded languages on autonomous robots (part I)
16:30-17:00	Coffee break
17:00-18:30	Luc Steels (Free University of Brussels, Belgium) The self-organisation of grounded languages on autonomous robots (part II)