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Modelling Cognitive Behaviour - 2009
Thursday, November 5th, 2009 (9am - 6pm)
Workshop of the Pascal2 Network of Excellence
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We are interested in understanding how cognitive behaviour is generated in various types of systems, and whether it is possible to model it in a mathematical fashion. By this we mean any behaviour that involves making informed choices, pursuing goals, adapting to the environment and perhaps learning from experience. At various levels of sophistication, this can be found in natural and artificial systems, ranging from single cells to plants, from animals to insect colonies, and of course including software agents and robots.
Probabilistic Inference and Dynamical Systems are some of the possible ways in which this kind of behaviour can be modeled, but also other languages exist (games theory, symbolic inference, ...) and are of interest in this context.
The idea is to present recent models of natural cognitive systems together with recent advances in modeling of artificial cognitive systems, and discuss their relations as well as differences.
Contact Nello Cristianini for more information (see below).
Programme:
coffee from 9am
* 9.30-10.10 Nello Cristianini, TBA
* 10.10-10.50 Barbara Webb, University of Edinburgh - "Insect Brains and Robot Control"
coffee
* 11.20-12.00 Marco Dorigo, Université Libre de Bruxelles, "Swarm Robotics"
* 12.00-12.40 Peter Dayan, University College London, "Reinforcement Learning and the Brain"
Lunch
*2.00-2.40 Suzanne Held, University of Bristol, Animal Behaviour and Welfare "Studying cognition in a domesticated animal"
*2.40-3.20 Matthew B. Avison, University of Bristol, Environmental sensing in bacteria: from reflex to conditional response
coffee
* 3.50-4.30 Dennis Bray, University of Cambridge, "Wetware: A computer in every cell"
* 4.30-5.15 discussion
NOTE: Detlev Arendt, Developmental Biology Unit, EMBL - Heidelberg - "The Evolution of the Central Nervous System" [cancelled]
The first two meetings of this series were held in November 2007 and October 2008 at the same venue:
http://patterns.enm.bris.ac.uk/cognitive-systems-workshop
http://patterns.enm.bris.ac.uk/modelling-cognitive-behaviour
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For any information, pls contact Nello Cristianini at above address.
