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Swarm Cognition Workshop - July the 29th, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Swarm Cognition is the juxtaposition of two relatively unrelated concepts that evoke, on the one hand, the power of collective behaviours displayed by natural swarms, and on the other hand the complexity of cognitive processes in the vertebrate brain. With this premise, the Swarm Cognition Workshop aims at promoting synergies between diverse disciplines such as cognitive neurosciences, psychology, ethology and swarm intelligence. Research work in Swarm Cognition aims at identifying the operational principles of cognitive behaviour by calling upon the underlying mechanisms of self-organising systems, i.e., systems whose internal organisation changes without being guided by an outside source.

The workshop is organised within the 31st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2009).

News

• Workshop Material: now available all the contributions for the workshop, which includes all contributed papers and invited speakers contributions, when available. Check it out on the dedicated page.
• Workshop Program: The detailed program of the workshop is now available. Also, the keynote speakers page has been updated with up-to-date information about their talks.
• New dates: the submission deadline has been extended to the 8th of June. Accordingly, the acceptance notification has been moved to the 19th of June. See the call for papers for more details.
• Two Research Associate positions on issues related to Swarm Cognition, at the University of Bristol. For further details including how to apply, visit: http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/~marshall/optimal_insects.html.
• The workshop program is enriched with two keynote speakers, Prof. Gregor Schöner, from the Institut für Neuroinformatik, Ruhr-Universität-Bochum, Germany, and Dr. James Marshall, University of Bristol, UK
• Keynote Speakers - confirmed invited speakers are Prof. Kevin Passino, from the Ohio State Univesity, Prof. Gustavo Deco from Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Prof. Jean-Louis Deneubourg, from the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium