COGSAT 2019

Symposium Aims

Anticipatory thinking, the deliberate and divergent exploration of relevant possible futures, is a key concept in several contexts. From formal definitions of intelligence analysis to the exploration of relevant possible futures in the presence of exogenous events of our everyday lives, we rely on anticipatory thinking (AT) to evaluate the current and possible future states of the world to prepare ourselves, avoid erroneous expectations, and mitigate risk.

This symposium focuses on understanding, quantifying, and improving anticipatory thinking capabilities across humans and machines. For more details on the Scope and Recommended Readings of our community, please visit the Home page.

We expect this symposium to draw on prior work from existing AI fields including but not limited to: mixed-initiative planning, goal reasoning, case based reasoning, analogical reasoning, computational narrative, intentionality, theory-of-mind, cognitive architectures, games, intelligent tutoring systems. In particular, we are excited to provide a convergence point between the cognitive systems and prospective cognition communities. This focus on collaboration and strong application contexts, offers several ways to engage. Our symposium will include:

• Shorter talks (15-30 minutes) for papers accepted for presentation
• Invited talks (45-60 minutes) for guest speakers
• Breakout sessions (60 minutes) that result in panel discussions
• Poster sessions (90 minutes) for preliminary work, case studies, and collaboration opportunities

Participate

A full call for participation is available here, below are the important parts:

We invited contributions in a variety of forms on topics within the scope of this call:

• Full papers (6-8 pages) describing interesting, novel results, or completed work.
• Short position papers (3-5 pages) presenting exciting preliminary work or novel thought-provoking ideas in their early stages.
• Platforms, Case Study, and Poster papers (1-2 pages) describing working, presentable software, hardware, or brief explanations of studies, datasets, or research projsects of interest.

Paper submissions should follow AAAI style guidelines.

Papers will be uploaded through EasyChair and will be guaranteed at least two reviews. Further, papers should be format for blind review with all identifying author information removed. You are welcome to upload your paper on your own personal website or ArXiv with identifying information.

Attendee information can be found at the main AAAI site here.

Important Dates (updated October 4)

All deadlines were specified as Anywhere on Earth time unless otherwise noted.

• Submissions were due: August 23s September 2nd (Extended!)
• Notifications to authors were sent: September 23
• Final papers were due to organizers: September 30
• Registration deadline was: October 11

Collaboration Sessions (updated July 15)

We invited the community to participate in collaboration sessions organized by the Symposium Organizing Committee. These collaboration sessions were intended to provide potential attendees with more information regarding the scope of the symposium, as well as to help educate the scientific community on basic concepts in and around anticipatory thinking. We also hoped to provide a platform to discuss ideas for potential submissions to the symposium and foster collaboration among would-be attendees.

We organized 3 sessions (2 weeks apart), held online via Cisco Webex, at 1:00 PM Eastern Time (UTC-4). We invited interested parties directly via email.

The three sessions were celebrated on the following dates:

1. July 19, 2019
2. August 2, 2019
3. August 16, 2019

Organizing Committee