The Fourth Annual Conference on Advances in Cognitive Systems will take place June 23-26, 2016, at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, USA. A related student workshop will be held on June 23.

The goal of the Advances in Cognitive Systems conference is to bring together researchers interested in building cognitive systems that focus on high-level cognition and decision making, reliance on rich, structured representations, and incorporation of insights about human thinking. This venue is for dissemination of research results pertaining to the original, yet unanswered, questions of Artificial Intelligence: to produce computational artifacts that reproduce a broad range of human cognitive abilities.

The conference welcomes work on any topic related to the representation or organization of complex knowledge structures, their use in multi-step cognition, or their acquisition from experience or instruction. Some functional capabilities that arise in this context include, but are not limited to:

• Conceptual Inference and Reasoning
• Memory Storage and Retrieval
• Language Processing
• Social Cognition and Interaction
• High-level Execution and Control
• Problem Solving and Heuristic Search
• Cognitive Aspects of Emotion and Personality
• Metacognition and Meta-level Reasoning
• Structural Learning and Knowledge Capture
• Cognitive Vision and High-level Perception

The conference fee will cover conference materials, daily breakfasts, lunches, and refreshments, and dinners on Friday and Saturday. It also includes registration (and breakfast, lunch, and refreshments) for the student workshop.