1IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems
Special Issue on Emerging Topics on Development and Learning
I. AIM AND SCOPE
This special issue aims to track the state-of-the-art progress
on development and learning in natural and artificial systems.
It concentrates on development and learning from a multidisciplinary perspective – Researchers from computer science,robotics, psychology, and developmental studies are solicited
to share their knowledge and research on how humans andanimals develop sensing, reasoning and actions, and how toexploit robots as research tools to test models of development
and learning. We expect the submitted contributions emphasize
the interaction with social and physical environments and how
cognitive and developmental capabilities can be transferred tocomputing systems and robotics. This approach goes hand inhand with the goals of both understanding human and animal
development and applying this knowledge to improve future
intelligent technology, including for robots that will be in closeinteraction with humans.
Besides the open submissions, the special issue will also
play the role of a accompanying archive for highly appraised
papers published at IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL). Selected papers presented atICDL 2021 will be invited to submit extended versions tothe special issue. All submissions, including those that arebased on ICDL 2021 papers, will be reviewed as regular TCDS
papers before final acceptance.
II. THEMESThe primary list of topics of interest include, but not limitedto:- Principles and theories of development and learning;- Development of skills in biological systems and robots;- Models on the contributions of interaction to learning;- Non-verbal and multi-modal interaction;- Nature vs. nurture, developmental stages;- Models on active learning;- Architectures for lifelong learning;- Emergence of body and affordance perception;- Analysis and modelling of human motion and state;- Models for prediction, planning and problem solving;- Models of human-human and human-robot interaction;- Emergence of verbal and non-verbal communication;- Epistemological foundations and philosophical issues;- Robot prototyping of human and animal skills;- Ethics and trust in computational intelligence and robotics;- Social learning in humans, animals, and robots.

III. SUBMISSION
Manuscripts should be prepared according to the “Information
for Authors” of the journal found athttps://cis.ieee.org/publications/t-cognitive-anddevelopmental-systems/tcds-information-for-authors,and submissions should be done through the IEEE TCDS
Manuscript center:
https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tcds-ieee.
Please select the category “SI: ETDL”.
IV. IMPORTANT DATESActions

Deadline

Initial Submission Deadline

15 Dec. 2021

Notification of the First Revision Results

15 Mar. 2022

Revision Submission Deadline

10 Apr. 2022

Notification of Final Acceptance

30 Jun 2022

V. GUEST EDITOR
For further information, please contact one of the following
Guest Editors.
+ Prof. DingSheng Luo (Leading Guest Editor)• Department of Machine Intelligence, School of EECS,Peking University, China.
• dsluo@pku.edu.cn+ Prof. Angelo Cangelosi• Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester, UK.
• angelo.cangelosi@manchester.ac.uk+ Prof. Alessandra Sciutti• Center for Human Technologies, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy.
• alessandra.sciutti@iit.it+ Prof. Weiwei Wan• Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Japan.
• wan@sys.es.osaka-u.ac.jp+ Dr. Ana Tanevska• Center for Human Technologies, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy.
• ana.tanevska@iit.it