Provisional
Tuesday 8th April 2003
07.30 - 09.00 Breakfast
09.00 - 09.15 Official opening of AISB Convention
09.15 - 10.15 AISB Keynote Talk: A. N. Meltzoff and R. Rao: Imitation learning in infants and robots: Towards probabilistic computational models
10.30 - 11.00 Coffee
11.00 - 11.30 Dave Billinge and Tom Addis: The Functioning of Tropic Communication: A Mechanism for Consistent Figurative Descriptions for Artistic Effect
11.30 - 12.00 Francisco Pereira and Amílcar Cardoso: Optimality Principles for Conceptual Blending: A First Computational Approach
12.00 - 12.30 Lorenzo Magnani: Creative Abduction as Active Shaping of Knowledge: Epistemic and Ethical Mediators
12.30 - 13.00 Discussion
13.00 - 14.00 Lunch
14.00 - 14.30 Darrell Conklin: Music Generation from Statistical Models
14:30 - 15.30 Discussion
15.30 - 16.00 Coffee
16.00 - 17.00 AISB Keynote Talk: Giulio Sandini: Human Babies and Robot Cubs
17.00 - 18.00 AISB AGM meeting
18.00 - 19.00 Dinner
Wednesday 9th April 2003
07.30 - 09.00 Breakfast
09.00 - 10.00 AISB Keynote Talk: Peter Hobson: The interpersonal origins of thinking: How humans achieve what computers (so far) haven't
10.30 - 11.00 Coffee
11.00 - 11.30 Norbert Krüger and Florentin Wörgötter: Symbolic Pointillism: Computer Art motivated by Human Perception
11.30 - 12.00 Tim Blackwell: Swarm Music: Improvised Music with Multi-Swarms
12.00 - 12.30 Francisco Pereira and Pablo Gervás: Natural Language Generation from Concept Blends
12.30 - 13.00 Discussion
13.00 - 14.00 Lunch
14.00 - 15.00 AISB Keynote Talk: Gregor Schöner Dynamic field theory and embodied cognition
15.00 - 15.30 Andrés Melo and Geraint Wiggins: A connectionist approach to driving chord progressions using tension
15.30 - 16.00 Coffee
16.00 - 16.30 Alastair Craft and Ian Cross: A n-gram approach to fugal exposition composition
16.30 - 17.00 Discussion
17.00 - 22.30 Steam train trip including waterfall, buffet and bar, coach return
Thursday 10th April 2003
07.30 - 09.00 Breakfast
09.30 - 10.00 Marcus Pearce and Geraint Wiggins: An empirical comparison of the performance of PPM variants on a prediction task with with monophonic music
10.00 - 10.30 Michael Casey: Computational creativity by structural analogy between acoustic bayesian models
10.30 - 11.00 Coffee
11.00 - 11.30 Discussion
11.30 - 12.00 General discussion
12.00 - 13.00 AISB Keynote talk: Yiannis Aloimonos: Visual space-time geometry: a geometry of thought
13.00 - 14.00 Lunch