The 17th International FLAIRS Conference (FLAIRS-04)

Special track on

COMPUTING with EMOTIONS

In cooperation with The American Association for Artificial Intelligence

Call for Papers

Emotions play an important role in distinguishing humans from machines. It is only natural to wonder if machines can have emotions just as humans do. Attributes such as beliefs, desires, and intentions have been well studied in the past decade and have been implemented successfully by incorporating them in agent frameworks. Work on emotions and affective computing in general are only beginning to appear now.

In this special track called COMPUTING with EMOTIONS we provide opportunities for researchers to investigate into the nature of emotions and provide models of emotions that can be implemented on machines. In particular, we would like to solicit papers focussing on the role of emotions in multiagent systems. Topics of interest may include, but not restricted to:

• Formal models of emotions
• Meaning of emotions.
• Specifing emotional behaviour.
• Primitive and composite emotions.
• Computational models of emotions; models for anger, fear, distress, happiness, disgust, surprise, etc.
• Emotions in multiagent systems
• Emotions in intelligent agents.
• Recognizing emotions, synthesizing emotions, and learning emotions.
• Role of emotions in individual and cooperative problem solving.
• Applications
• Mental architecuture for emotion driven agents.
• Implementing emotions in agents; emotions in BDI and non-BDI agents.
• Emotion driven graphical characters.
• Emotion driven robots; emotion driven interface agents.
• Programming issues: language constructs for programming with emotions.

For details about paper submission and reviewing process, please see: http://www.flairs.com/flairs2004

Journal Publication

Important Dates

Program Committee

• N Paramesh (Chair)
  School of Computer Science and Engineering
  University of New South Wales, Sydney 2052
  Australia
  
• Christina Frederic (Co-Chair)
  Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
  600 South Clyde Morris Boulevard
  Daytona Beach, FL
  
• Colette Faucher(Co-Chair)
  Faculté des Sciences de saint-Jérôme
  Université d'Aix-Marseille III
  
• Sherlock Au
  School of Managment Sciences
  Hongkong Polytechnic University
  Hongkong
  
• Pushpak Bhattacharyya
  Department of Computer Science and Engineering
  Indian Institute of Technology
  Mumbai
  India
• Henry Hexmoore
  Department of Computer Science and Computer Engineering
  University of Arkansas
  Fayetteville, AR 72701
  

Further Information

• Questions regarding the track should be addressed to:
  
N Paramesh
Schoolof Computer Science and Engineering
University of New South Wales
Sydney 2052, Australia
Phone: +61-2-9385 6941
Fax:  +61-2-9385 5770
E-mail: paramesh@cse.unsw.edu.au

• Questions regarding paper submission should be addressed to the program co-chairs: :

Valerie Barr at vbarr@hofstra.edu
Zdravko Markov at markovz@ccsu.edu

• General questions concerning the conference should be addressed to:

Ingrid Russell
E-mail: irussell@hartford.edu

Conference Web Sites

• Computing with Emotions special track web page: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~paramesh/FLAIRS2004/announce.html
• FLAIRS-04 conference web page: http://www.flairs.com/flairs2004
• Florida AI Research Society: http://www.flairs.com