Affective Computational Entities

Chairs: Rodrigo Ventura, Carlos Pinto-Ferreira, Paolo Petta

at the 17th European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research
(EMCSR 2004)

April 13th, 2004, Vienna, Austria (EU)

The 17th European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research will be hosting the ACE symposium for the third time, after ACE 2000, and ACE 2002. Since the emergence of emotions as a research area pursued within the Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) community, the validity and viability of inspiration based on views on emotions from biology, neuroscience, or psychology has been a controversial topic. But along with this dispute, valid work has been published on a variety of related topics, at levels ranging from experimental testbeds and applications, to theories and architectures.

Within the emotion-inspired research in A.I., two directions of research can be distinguished: one concerning emotional aspects in communicating with or modeling of humans (and other natural beings); and another one concerning the contributions of emotional aspects to agent architectures at the micro — i.e., individual agent — and macro — i.e., mult-agent — levels. The 2004 edition of the ACE symposium addresses the latter research direction of emotions in the context of A.I.: the construction of agents and agent societies, taking inspiration from natural emotion phenomena.

Therefore, contributions addressing, but not limited to, the following issues are welcome:

• implementations involving emotion-based agents
• robots using emotions to cope with their environment
• emotions as a source of motivation
• agent architectures based on emotions
• perceiving and emotions
• reasoning and emotions
• learning and emotions
• creation of representations biased by emotions
• the impact of emotions in agent societies
• theoretical aspects of emotions and A.I.

Of particular relevance to the symposium is work that evaluates and analyses successes and failures of emotion-inspired components of agents or multi-agent systems, presents novel emotion-inspired functionalities, or critically assesses theoretical requirements for emotion-inspired architectures.

As for all EMCSR symposia, accepted contributions will be included in the conference proceedings distributed at the conference.

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