BICA 2012: Palermo, Sicily, Italy
Antonio Chella, Roberto Pirrone, Rosario Sorbello, Kamilla R. Johannsdottir (Eds.): Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures 2012 - Proceedings of the Third Annual Meeting of the BICA Society, Palermo, Sicily, Italy, October 31 - November 3, 2012. Springer 2013 Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing 196 ISBN 978-3-642-34273-8
Raúl Arrabales Moreno, Agapito Ledezma, Araceli Sanchís: Characterizing and Assessing Human-Like Behavior in Cognitive Architectures. 7-15
Giorgio A. Ascoli: Architects or Botanists? The Relevance of (Neuronal) Trees to Model Cognition. 17
Pentti O. A. Haikonen: Consciousness and the Quest for Sentient Robots. 19-27
Hiroshi Ishiguro: Biological Fluctuation "Yuragi" as the Principle of Bio-inspired Robots. 29
Ho-Gyeong Kim, Cheong-An Lee, Soo-Young Lee: Active Learning by Selecting New Training Samples from Unlabelled Data. 31
Christian Lebiere: Biologically Inspired beyond Neural: Benefits of Multiple Modeling Levels. 33
Ignazio Licata: Turing and de Finetti Ganes: Machines Making Us Think. 35
Karlheinz Meier: How to Simulate the Brain without a Computer. 37
Michele Migliore: Odor Perception through Network Self-organization: Large Scale Realistic Simulations of the Olfactory Bulb. 39-40
Alexei V. Samsonovich: Extending Cognitive Architectures. 41-49
Giulio Sandini: Babies and Baby-Humanoids to Study Cognition. 51
Ricardo Sanz, Carlos Hernández: Towards Architectural Foundations for Cognitive Self-aware Systems. 53
Kristinn R. Thórisson: Achieving AGI within My Lifetime: Some Progress and Some Observations. 55
Geraint A. Wiggins: Learning and Creativity in the Global Workspace. 57
Salvatore Maria Anzalone, Serena Ivaldi, Olivier Sigaud, Mohamed Chetouani: Multimodal People Engagement with iCub. 59-64
Gioia Ballin, Matteo Munaro, Emanuele Menegatti: Human Action Recognition from RGB-D Frames Based on Real-Time 3D Optical Flow Estimation. 65-74
Barbara Caci, Antonella D'Amico, Giuseppe Chiazzese: Robotics and Virtual Worlds: An Experiential Learning Lab. 83-87
Vincenzo Cannella, Roberto Pirrone, Antonio Chella: Comprehensive Uncertainty Management in MDPs. 89-94
Antonio Chella, Rosario Sorbello, Giovanni Pilato, Giorgio Vassallo, Marcello Giardina: A New Humanoid Architecture for Social Interaction between Human and a Robot Expressing Human-Like Emotions Using an Android Mobile Device as Interface. 95-103
Dalia De Santis, Vishwanathan Mohan, Pietro Morasso, Jacopo Zenzeri: Do Humanoid Robots Need a Body Schema? 109-115
Haris Dindo, Giuseppe La Tona, Eric Nivel, Giovanni Pezzulo, Antonio Chella, Kristinn R. Thórisson: Simulation and Anticipation as Tools for Coordinating with the Future. 117-125
Walter Fritz: Solutions for a Robot Brain. 127-129
Olivier L. Georgeon, James B. Marshall: The Small Loop Problem: A Challenge for Artificial Emergent Cognition. 137-144
Stefano Ghidoni, Arrigo Guizzo, Emanuele Menegatti: Crowd Detection Based on Co-occurrence Matrix. 145-152
Wael Hafez: Development of a Framework for Measuring Cognitive Process Performance. 153-159
Ignazio Infantino, Giovanni Pilato, Riccardo Rizzo, Filippo Vella: I Feel Blue: Robots and Humans Sharing Color Representation for Emotional Cognitive Interaction. 161-166
Hiroshi Ishiguro, Shuichi Nishio, Antonio Chella, Rosario Sorbello, Giuseppe Balistreri, Marcello Giardina, Carmelo Calí: Investigating Perceptual Features for a Natural Human - Humanoid Robot Interaction Inside a Spontaneous Setting. 167-174
Yasuo Kinouchi, Yoshihiro Kato: A Model of Primitive Consciousness Based on System-Level Learning Activity in Autonomous Adaptation. 177-185
Muneo Kitajima, Makoto Toyota: Cognitive Chrono-Ethnography: A Methodology for Understanding Users for Designing Interactions Based on User Simulation with Cognitive Architectures. 193-198
Othalia Larue, Pierre Poirier, Roger Nkambou: Emotional Emergence in a Symbolic Dynamical Architecture. 199-204
Jürgen Leitner, Simon Harding, Mikhail Frank, Alexander Förster, Jürgen Schmidhuber: An Integrated, Modular Framework for Computer Vision and Cognitive Robotics Research (icVision). 205-210
Alexander A. Letichevsky: Insertion Cognitive Architecture. 211-217
Adam Linson, Chris Dobbyn, Robin Laney: A Parsimonious Cognitive Architecture for Human-Computer Interactive Musical Free Improvisation. 219-224
Riccardo Manzotti, Flavio Mutti, Giuseppina Gini, Soo-Young Lee: Cognitive Integration through Goal-Generation in a Robotic Setup. 225-231
Flavio Mutti, Hugo Gravato Marques, Giuseppina Gini: A Model of the Visual Dorsal Pathway for Computing Coordinate Transformations: An Unsupervised Approach. 239-246
Zalimkhan V. Nagoev: Multiagent Recursive Cognitive Architecture. 247-248
Pietro Perconti: A Biologically-Inspired Perspective on Commonsense Knowledge. 249-250
Vladimir G. Red'ko: Principles of Functioning of Autonomous Agent-Physicist. 265-266
W. Scott Neal Reilly, Gerald Fry, Michael Reposa: Affect-Inspired Resource Management in Dynamic, Real-Time Environments. 267-272
Jonas Ruesch, Ricardo Ferreira, Alexandre Bernardino: An Approach toward Self-organization of Artificial Visual Sensorimotor Structures. 273-282
Giampiero Salvi: Biologically Inspired Methods for Automatic Speech Understanding. 283-286
Hecke Schrobsdorff, Matthias Ihrke, J. Michael Herrmann: Modeling Structure and Dynamics of Selective Attention. 287-295
Valeria Seidita, Massimo Cossentino, Antonio Chella: How to Engineer Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures. 297-298
Toshiyuki Takiguchi, Jun'ichi Takeno: A Robot Uses an Evaluation Based on Internal Time to Become Self-aware and Discriminate Itself from Others. 309-315
Claude F. Touzet: Why Neurons Are Not the Right Level of Abstraction for Implementing Cognition. 317-318
Jan Treur: Intertemporal Decision Making: A Mental Load Perspective. 319-331
Frank van der Velde: A Non-von-Neumann Computational Architecture Based on in Situ Representations: Integrating Cognitive Grounding, Productivity and Dynamics. 333-337
E. E. Vityaev: A Formal Model of Neuron That Provides Consistent Predictions. 339-344
Mark R. Waser: Safely Crowd-Sourcing Critical Mass for a Self-improving Human-Level Learner/"Seed AI". 345-350
Norifumi Watanabe, Takashi Omori: Unconscious Guidance of Pedestrians Using Vection and Body Sway. 351-359
Liliana Albertazzi, James Dadam, Luisa Canal, Rocco Micciolo: The Analysis of Amodal Completion for Modeling Visual Perception. 361
Liliana Albertazzi, Michela Malfatti: Naturally Biased Associations between Colour and Shape: A Brentanian Approach. 363-364

Agnese Augello, Salvatore Gaglio, Giovanni Pilato, Giorgio Vassallo: Clifford Rotors for Conceptual Representation in Chatbots. 369-370
Craig M. Vineyard, James B. Aimone, Glory R. Emmanuel: Neurogenesis in a High Resolution Dentate Gyrus Model. 371-372
Craig M. Vineyard, Glory R. Emmanuel, Stephen J. Verzi, Gregory L. Heileman: A Game Theoretic Model of Neurocomputation. 373-374



