Description
The international quantum interaction (QI) symposium series provides a unique cross-disciplinary forum for researchers. Quantum Interaction (QI) is an emerging field which is applying quantum theory (QT) to domains such as economics, organisations and social interaction, psychology, artificial intelligence, human language, cognition, information retrieval, biology, political science. The application areas addressed typically operate at a macroscopic scale and could not be considered quantum in a quantum mechanical sense, they may share many key properties with quantum systems including: 

Aims and Scope:
This symposium will bring together researchers interested in how QI interfaces with or can be applied directly to solve problems in non-quantum domains more efficiently or to address previously unsolved problems. Papers addressing one or more of the following broad content areas are welcome:

• Complex systems 
• Semantic representation and processing 
• Logic and epistemology 
• Information processing and retrieval
• Cognition and Brain (memory, cognitive processes, neural networks, consciousness) 
• Decision theory (political, psychological, cultural, organizational, social, etc.) 
• Game theory
• Finance, economics, and social structures (e.g., organizations, institutions, cultures) 
• Artificial Intelligence (Logic, planning, agents and multi-agent systems)
• Biological systems 

Papers that address the application of the following QI topics to modeling cognitive, social, and semantic processes for AI will be considered favorably:

• Vector methods (beyond just proximity)
• Entanglement (i.e., non-separability arising from product structures)
• Projection and non-commutativity
• Operators as predicates
• Quantization
• How do we get from (apparently) continuous stimuli to clearly discrete expressions?
• How does collapse happen?
• How does the future (a range of potentialities) become the past (one outcome has been selected and cannot change)?
• Non-classical probabilistic models
• Normalization and expectation
• Prediction

There will be two keynote presentations by Prof. Michel Bitbol (Ecole Polytechnique) and Prof. Philippe Grangier (Ecole Polytechnique) respectivelly. 

Tutorials by Peter Bruza on Semantic Space (Queensland University of Technology, Australia), Ariane Lambert-Mogiliansky on Modelling Indeterminacy in Decision-making (Paris School of Economics), Dominic Widdows, Information Processing and Retrieval (Microsoft, USA ) are planned.

The post-conference proceedings of QI'2012 will be published by Springer in its Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. Authors will be required to submit a final version 14 days after the conference to reflect the comments made at the conference. We will also consider organizing a special issue for a suitable journal to publish selected best papers.

Important Dates

Submission

Authors are invited to submit research papers up to 12 pages. All submissions should be prepared in English using the LNCS template, which can be downloaded from http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0

Please submit online at:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=qi2012

Organization

Steering Committee:

• Peter Bruza (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
• William Lawless (Paine College, USA)
• Keith van Rijsbergen (University of Glasgow, UK)
• Donald Sofge (Naval Research Laboratory, USA)
• Dominic Widdows (Microsoft, USA)

General Chairs:

• Ariane Lambert-Mogiliansky (Paris School of Economics)
• Francois Dubois  (Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers)

Programme Committee Chair:

• Jerome R. Busemeyer (Indiana University, USA)
• Massimo Melucci (University of Padua, Italy)