C I F M A - 2 0 2 6
8th International Workshop on
Cognition: Interdisciplinary Foundations, Models and Applications
24 November 2026
Malta
Co-located with SEFM 2026

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Programme

8:00 - 9:00Registration
9:00 - 9:05Opening remarks
9:05 - 10:00 Martin Butz (keynote). Contextualizing Predictive Minds and Machines
Talk abstract and speaker information
10:00 - 10:30Coffee Break
Session 1: Logic, Argumentation, and Judgement
10:30 - 11:00Mirko Tagliaferri. From Everyday Narratives to Moral Factors: A Curated Dataset for Modelling Moral Judgement
Paper (PDF) – forthcoming | Slides (PDF) – forthcoming
11:00 - 11:30Stefano M. Nicoletti and Edoardo Putti. DI∀L∃CTIC: A Practice Environment for Machine-Checked Argument Reconstruction
Paper (PDF) – forthcoming | Slides (PDF) – forthcoming
11:30 - 12:00Alessandro Aldini, Gandolfo Vergottini, Pierluigi Graziani and Claudio Antares Mezzina. Quantitative 4-Valued Information Aggregation in Multi-Agent Systems
Paper (PDF) – forthcoming | Slides (PDF) – forthcoming
12:00 - 12:30Augusto Antonio Basilico and Daniele Bragagnolo. Judgment and Motivation in Conflict: A Decision Field Theory Model of Real-Time Self-Control and Akrasia
Paper (PDF) – forthcoming | Slides (PDF) – forthcoming
12:30 - 13:30Lunch
Session 2: Mind, Cognition, and Interaction
13:30 - 14:00Luisa Damiano, Frank Förster and Hagen Lehmann. Hybrid Participatory Sense-Making in Human–Robot Social Interaction. An Enactive Account of Hybrid Relational Organization
Paper (PDF) – forthcoming | Slides (PDF) – forthcoming
14:00 - 14:30Graham Pluck, Alina Gutoreva and Marco Antonio Lopez Aguila. The Executive Ghost in the Machine, on the Twin Follies of Frontal Lobology and Central Executivism
Paper (PDF) – forthcoming | Slides (PDF) – forthcoming
14:30 - 15:00Christian J. Feldbacher-Escamilla. Non-Classical Reductionism in the Philosophy of Mind and Cognition
Paper (PDF) – forthcoming | Slides (PDF) – forthcoming
15:00 - 15:30Coffee Break
Session 3: Neural Networks and Agent Modelling
15:30 - 16:00Philipp Stecher, Sandro Radovanović and Reinhard Kahle. Commitment Before Competence in Neural Network Development
Paper (PDF) – forthcoming | Slides (PDF) – forthcoming
16:00 - 16:30Roberto Lazzarini, Angelo Ferrando, Andrea Gatti and Viviana Mascardi. EXTRAcT: EXtracting Temper and Relations among Agents from Text – Design and Initial Experiments
Paper (PDF) – forthcoming | Slides (PDF) – forthcoming
16:30 - 17:30Open discussion
19:30 - 22:00Dinner at own costs

Contact

All inquiries concerning CIFMA 2026 submissions and scientific programme should be sent to cifma2026@easychair.org.

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