European Network for the Advancement of Artificial Cognitive Systems, Interaction and Robotics

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European Network for the Advancement of Artificial Cognitive Systems, Interaction and Robotics (EUCog) is a European network of around 900 researchers in the field of artificial intelligence . The network supported as part of the EU- funded project EUCogIII deals with the link between computer science , cognitive science and robotics . The researchers participating in the network want to connect with other researchers in order to reflect on the challenges of the field and to "bring their research results to the people". To this end, meetings, workshops, participation of members in academic events, visiting professorships and other activities that bring the network's goals closer are supported. The network is funded by the European Commission's Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) division , Cognitive Systems and Robotics unit, under the European Commission's Seventh Framework Program (FP7) . All researchers doing research in a relevant area are invited to participate in the network.

EUCogIII project

The EU project EUCogIII - "3rd European Network for the Advancement of Artificial Cognitive Systems, Interaction and Robotics" costs 2 million euros and runs from November 2011 to December 2014.

Network events

An essential part of the network activities is to organize meetings of the researchers.

Conferences and workshops

The fourth members' conference of the project members on "Social and Ethical Aspects of Cognitive Systems" took place on October 23 and 24, 2013 in England at the University of Sussex in Falmer / Brighton with around 170 participants.

The third members' conference of the project members dealt with the topic of "learning" and was held on April 10th and 11th 2013 in Palma at the Universitat de les Illes Balears with around 150 participants in cooperation with around 40 other PASCAL2 members of the network of excellence for pattern analysis , Statistical Modeling and Computational Learning.

The second members' conference on "Soft Robotics" took place on August 25 and 26, 2012 in Denmark at the University of Odense with around 120 participants.

The first members' conference of the project members on "Do Robots Need Cognition? - Does Cognition need Robots?" took place on February 23 and 24, 2012 in Austria at the Technical University of Vienna with around 190 participants.

The workshop "Challenges for Artificial Cognitive Systems II" was held on January 20 and 22, 2012 in Oxford with around 190 participants.

Subsidies and payments

Travel and subsistence expenses can be covered for network participants when participating in network events.

Members of the network

Members of the network are European researchers from the field of cognitive systems who want to actively participate. Of the approximately 900 members, around 190 come from institutions in Great Britain , 180 from Germany , 80 from Spain and 80 from Italy , 30 from Switzerland and 26 from Austria . 470 people are assigned to the computer sciences, 130 to other engineering sciences, 125 to psychology and cognitive science , 43 to biology , physiology or neurosciences and 15 to linguistics . Academic teachers and professors in permanent and non-permanent positions form the largest group with around 410 people, around 220 people are doctoral students and around 220 are researchers or post-docs.

education

The network pursues two goals in the field of training: Firstly, it aims to promote activities by young researchers in order to build up expertise so that they can easily move between the contributing subject areas and be creative researchers. This includes participation in the events, active participation in the network itself, courses at participating university institutions and an annual summer academy to support the transfer of know-how. Second, instead of doing the training itself, the network wants to support existing university structures by providing teaching and learning materials. This includes a tutorial on embodiment and the specification "EmbedIT - An Open Robotic Kit for Education."

EUCog Wiki

EUCog Wiki wants to provide a "Who is Who" and "What is What" of the network members and their research topics. The content is freely accessible, but no license is given as to whether or how the content may be used. Contributions can only be written by accredited network participants; these contributions are not checked by default. The discussion of the content on their discussion page is expressly requested. The underlying software of the wiki is Mediawiki. On November 2, 2013, the main page created and edited between January 2010 and April 2012 was visited around 37,000 times according to the counter displayed there. Approximately 270 pages in the "Main" namespace deal with research content, with no new page created or no changes made to these pages in the 30 days prior to November 2, 2013. 836 user pages were created, which were changed by 4 users in the last 30 days. The navigation button "active topics" lists 34 pages that were changed before the last update on February 24, 2012. The statistics page shows 112 pages of content (out of a total of 1425). 40 files were uploaded, including 25 images and 15 pdf documents. Around 5,200 edits have been documented since the wiki began.

17 research areas are defined as categories: Action Selection, Affect and Emotion, Consciousness, Embodiment, Ethics, Gesture, Interaction and Assistance, Knowledge, Language, Learning, Memory ), Motor Control, Multi-agent Systems, Navigation, Perception and Sensation, Reasoning, Representation.

7 schools or disciplines are defined as categories: Cognitive Science, Computational Modeling, Linguistics, Mathematical Modeling, Neuroscience, Philosophy and Robotics.

TalkNVote - discussion and voting software

TalkNVote is a software package under a free MIT license that can be used as a discussion and voting program for project-related topics.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ EUCogIII, 3rd European Network for the Advancement of Artificial Cognitive Systems, Interaction and Robotics, Project no .: 26998, accessed on November 10, 2013
  2. ^ Editors: Matej Hoffmann, Dorit Assaf, Rolf Pfeifer. Tutorial on Embodiment. Retrieved November 2, 2013 .
  3. ↑ Dorit Assaf and Rolf Pfeifer: EmbedIT - An Open Robotic Kit for Education. Communications in Computer and Information Science, 2011, Volume 161, 29-39 (= Research and Education in Robotics - EUROBOT 2011, eds. David Obdržálek, Achim Gottscheber) Online article accessed on November 2, 2013 .
  4. ^ Minimal guide to an effective use of EUCog Wiki. Discussion day. Retrieved November 2, 2013
  5. ↑ EUCog - main page. Retrieved November 2, 2013