6th Annual Conference
of the Italian Association for Cognitive Sciences
AISC09

DEADLINE EXTENDED - September 13th

Naples, November 25th - 26th 2009
www.aisc09.unina.it

Organized by:

Department of Relational Sciences - "Laboratory for the Study of Natural and Artificial Cognitive Systems", University of Naples "Federico II"
www.nac.unina.it

Department of Psychology, Second University of Naples
www.dp.unina2.it

Italian Association for Cognitive Sciences
www.aisc-net.it

The 6th Annual Conference of the Italian Association for Cognitive Sciences is the meeting place for Italian cognitive scientists, coming from various disciplines, who present original studies and researches on natural (human beings and animals) and artificial (computers, robots, computer networks, etc.) cognitive systems.
This year’s conference is organized within the scientific event "FuturoRemoto" (http://www.futuroremoto.it/) and shares an afternoon of joint work with WIVACE09 (Italian Workshop of Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation - www.wivace09.unina.it) which will be held in Naples from the 23rd to the 25th of November 2009.

In honour of the bicentenary of Charles Darwin’s birth, the organizing committees of the two events share the intention of inviting key speakers to thoroughly analyse the impact of Darwinism in scientific "non-biological" branches. Each day there will be a plenary talk on such topics as "Darwinism and technology", "Darwinism and cultural evolution", and so forth. The complete program will be published online by September 10th.

The AISC09 Organization Committee invites submissions of papers on a variety of Cognitive Science topics intended for an interdisciplinary audience (i.e. excluding excessively technical works or studies limited to particular disciplines or methodologies). Among the topics of interest for the Conference are:

Cognitive and Neurocognitive Models; Motivational and Emotive Aspects of Behaviour; Psychopathology; Agent-based Simulations; Biologically Plausible Computational Models; Social Cognitive Theory; Economy and Cognitive Science; Natural/Artificial Systems; Computation and Cognitive Science; Cognitive Science Epistemology; Philosophy of Mind; Applications of Cognitive Science; Cognitive Technologies; Reasoning; Cognitive Linguistics and Psycholinguistics; Linguistic, Social and Cultural Anthropology; Distributed Cognition.

Papers must be written in Italian and submitted using the Easychair system (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aisc09). The length of each paper must be between 7000 and 12000 characters (including spaces). The template and detailed instructions are available on the Conference website (www.aisc09.unina.it). The Programme Committee will select the accepted papers and will choose the form of presentation (oral or poster).

In order to make blind reviewing possible, authors must omit their names and affiliations from the paper. When referring to one's own work, use the third person rather than the first person. For example, say "Previously, X and Y (2007) have shown that...", rather than "In our previous work (2007) we have shown that...”

For accepted papers, such identifying information can be added to the final camera-ready version for publication.

All the accepted papers will be gathered in the Conference Proceedings, published by the University of Naples "Federico II" (www.fridericiana.it). The print version of the proceedings will be distributed during the Conference to registered participants. The e-book version will be freely downloadable from the websites of the Conference (www.aisc09.unina.it), of the Publisher (www.fridericiana.it) and of the Italian Association for Cognitive Sciences (www.aisc-net.it).

Important Dates - REVISED
• Deadline for paper submission: September 13th
• Author notification of acceptance / rejection: September 23rd
• Camera-ready copy due: October 9th


Registration
At least one of the paper’s authors must be registered for AISC09 by September 30th for the accepted paper to be published.

Registration fees are:
• Professors and Researchers: 100 euros
• Students and Postdocs: 40 euro

Registration procedures are published on www.aisc-net.it and www.aisc09.unina.it

Registration fees include:
• Membership to the Italian Association of Cognitive Sciences
• Subscription to the journal "Sistemi Intelligenti"
• Attendance to the Conference
• One print copy of the proceedings
• CD containing the electronic version of the proceedings
• Coffee and treats during the breaks


PROMOTERS
• Rosaria Conte - Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche e Presidente AISC
• Olimpia Matarazzo – Dipartimento di Psicologia, Seconda Università di Napoli
• Orazio Miglino – Dipartimento di Scienze relazionali, Università di Napoli “Federico II”

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
• Anna Borghi - Dipartimento di Psicologia, Università di Bologna
• Maurizio Cardaci - Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione, Università di Palermo
• Rosaria Conte - Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione CNR (Roma)
• Roberto Cordeschi - Facoltà di Filosofia, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”
• Roberto Cubelli - Universita' degli Studi di Trento
• Marcello Frixione - Dipartimento di Scienze della Comunicazione, Università di Salerno
• Francesca Giardini - Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione CNR (Roma)
• Alberto Greco - Laboratorio di Psicologia e Scienze Cognitive, Università degli Studi di Genova
• Olimpia Matarazzo – Dipartimento di Psicologia, Seconda Università di Napoli
• Orazio Miglino – Dipartimento di Scienze relazionali, Università di Napoli “Federico II”
• Domenico Parisi - Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione CNR (Roma)
• Giovanni Pezzulo - Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale "Antonio Zampolli" - CNR (Pisa)
• Pietro Terna - Facoltà di Economia, Università di Torino
• Giuseppe Trautteur - Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche, Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”
• Riccardo Viale - Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Facoltà di Sociologia

LOCAL MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE
• Franco Rubinacci - Università di Napoli “Fedrico II”
• Angelo Rega - Università di Napoli “Fedrico II”
• Fabrizio Ferrara - Università di Napoli “Federico II”
• Michela Ponticorvo – Università di Napoli “Federico II”
• Francesca Giardini – ISTC-CNR