Original papers - both tecnical and conceptual - on any aspect of embodied social learning would be welcome. Topics include, but are not restricted to:
- Social learning and the evolution of communication
- Imitation in embodied agents
- Cultural evolutionary dynamics
- Interactions between genetic evolution, individual and social learning
- Relationship between individual behavior and populational dynamics
- Models of simple mechanisms of social learning
- Action, perception, and cognition in social interactions
- Cultural factors that affect social and individual behavior
- Niche construction in social environment
- Collective behavior in learning robot
- Teaching and scaffolding of behavior
- Dynamic role allocation
- Self organization in social learning
All submissions will undergo a peer-review process. The format of the papers should follow the ECAL 2007 style guide and should not exceed 10 pages in camera ready PDF format. Details of the authors (names, affiliations and email addresses) should be included in the paper. Please refer to the ECAL style guide for details (http://www.ecal2007.org/submissions.htm).
Submissions should be send in PDF format to slea.workshop@istc.cnr.it by the end of 18. 5. 07.
There will be a special issue - associated to the workshop - in the journal "Connection Science" for which a separate call for papers will be distributed soon. Authors of accepted papers will be particularly encouraged to submit an extended version of their workshop contribution to this special issue. More details will come at a later stage.
:: timeline
- full paper submission :: 18. 5. 07
- notification of acceptance :: 8. 6. 07
- camera ready submission :: 18. 6. 07
