The 28th Modern Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science Conference (MAICS 2017)

April 28-29, 2017

Indiana University/Purdue University – Fort Wayne (IPFW)
Fort Wayne, IN

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DESCRIPTION

The MAICS conference traditionally serves as a small but vital forum in the wide range of endeavors that relate to Machine Intelligence and Cognitive Science. Young and old, faculty, researchers, and students can test out ideas, report results, and learn what other people are doing in related fields. You can describe your own interesting research in progress. Graduate students and junior faculty are especially encouraged to submit papers. All submitted papers are peer reviewed for the proceedings publication and conference presentations, and reviewers are encouraged to provide helpful guidance to beginning authors. MAICS provides a friendly complement to more specialized conferences, while fostering quality scholarship.

This year’s theme is Hybrid Human/Machine Reasoning. A special track will be created for papers focusing on human reasoning, machine reasoning, and work allowing the two to complement and augment, rather than replace, each other. This is an active area in cognitive science, AI, and many recent funding areas. Keynote speakers specializing in this theme will be invited. Submissions are not, however, required to fit this theme.

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IMPORTANT DATES

Submissions: Jan. 15 – Mar. 1, 2017
Notifications: March 15, 2017
Revised submissions: March 30, 2017
Early registration: Feb. 15 – Apr. 5, 2017
Conference: April 28-29, 2017

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SUBMISSIONS

We are accepting either full papers (5-8 pages) or poster abstracts (up to 2 pages). Conference proceedings will be published and archived in CEUR-WS, and indexed by DBLP.
Submissions are accepted through EasyChair. Please see details at the MAICS 2017 website: http://ipfw.edu/maics

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TOPICS OF INTEREST

We invite submissions centered around, but not limited to:
• Hybrid Human/Machine Reasoning
• Robotics
• Semantic Web
• Data Mining & Visualization
• Evolutionary Computation
• Soft Computing
• Neural Networks
• Machine Learning
• Gaming
• Cybersecurity
• HCI and HRI
• Cognitive Psychology
• Developmental Psychology
• Psychology of Reasoning
• Neuroscience
• Logic-based AI
• Machine Reasoning
• Computational Linguistics
• Uncertainty in reasoning
• Any area of cognitive science or artificial intelligence

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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Selmer Bringsjord, RPI – “Inaugurating the Formal Science of Darwin’s Mistake”

John E. Hummel, UIUC – “What Happened to the Human Brain?”

See the full abstracts for their talks here: http://users.ipfw.edu/licatoj/maics/keynote.pdf

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FOR MORE INFORMATION:

http://www.ipfw.edu/maics
Conference organizers: John Licato (IPFW), Aleshia Hayes (IPFW)