From cl+ at andrew.cmu.edu Wed Jul 23 16:52:52 1997 From: cl+ at andrew.cmu.edu (Christian J Lebiere) Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 16:52:52 -0400 (EDT) Subject: 1997 ACT-R Workshop Message-ID: This is the last announcement for the 1997 ACT-R Workshop. The full workshop announcement, with registration form and detailed schedule, is available on the web at: http://act.psy.cmu.edu/ACT/ftp/workshop/announcement.html ---- FOURTH ANNUAL ACT-R WORKSHOP ============================ Carnegie Mellon University - August 2 to 5 1997 =============================================== ACT-R is a simulation system for developing cognitive models for tasks that vary from simple reaction time to air traffic control. Each year a workshop is held to present new developments and applications and will be held at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh from August 2 to August 5, 1997 (just before the Cognitive Science conference). The mornings will be devoted to research presentations. Early afternoons will be devoted to special interest sessions. The session topics include ACT-R education, parameter optimization in ACT-R models, explicit vs. implicit learning and the new perceptual/motor interface. During late afternoons and evenings, participants are encouraged to work on their research, exchange ideas and engage in unstructured discussions. Finally, this year's invited speaker is Walter Schneider from the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, who will speak on the functional imaging of cognitive architectures. Admission to the workshop is open to all. The registration fee is $75. The registration form and a detailed schedule are available on the ACT-R web site (http://act.psy.cmu.edu/) or can be requested at: 1997 ACT-R Workshop Psychology Department Attn: Helen Borek Baker Hall 345C Fax: +1 (412) 268-2844 Carnegie Mellon University Tel: +1 (412) 268-3438 Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890 Email: helen+ at cmu.edu From ritter at psychology.nottingham.ac.uk Thu Jul 24 13:24:21 1997 From: ritter at psychology.nottingham.ac.uk (ritter at psychology.nottingham.ac.uk) Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 18:24:21 +0100 Subject: European Conference on Cognitive Modelling '98 Message-ID: <199707241724.SAA23993@vpsyc.psychology.nottingham.ac.uk> I got your name from last year's organizers. If you don't want to be told about future updates (about 3 emails in the next year), please let me know and I'll remove you from the list. Cheers, Frank ------------------------------------------------------------------------- First announcement SECOND EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON COGNITIVE MODELLING (ECCM-98) Nottingham, England, April 1-4 1998 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- GENERAL INFORMATION: The 2nd European Conference on Cognitive Modelling (ECCM-98) will be held in Nottingham, England, from April 1st to 4th 1998 (starting with a day of optional tutorials). The conference will cover all areas of cognitive modelling, including symbolic and connectionist models, evolutionary computation, artificial neural networks, grammatical inference, reinforcement learning, and data sets designed to test models. Papers that present a running model and its comparison with data are particularly encouraged. This meeting is open for work on cognitive modelling using general architectures (such as Soar and ACT) as well as other kinds of simulation models. These meetings were introduced to establish interdisciplinary co-operation in the domain of cognitive modeling. The first meeting held in Berlin in November 1996 attracted about 60 researchers from Europe and USA working in the fields of artificial intelligence, cognitive psychology, computer linguistics and philosophy of mind. Program: The program will include presentations of papers, demo sessions, invited talks, discussion groups and tutorials on cognitive modeling in the fields of AI programming, classification, problem solving, reasoning, inference, learning, language processing and human-computer-interaction. As Nottingham is an area of 'high touristic value', it will also include a social evening out. Further details are available from: http://www.psychology.nottingham.ac.uk/staff/ritter/eccm98/ PROGRAM CHAIRS Richard Young (U. of Hertfordshire) and Frank Ritter (U. of Nottingham) LOCAL CHAIR: Frank Ritter (U. of Nottingham) IMPORTANT DATES: Submission deadline: 7 January 1998 Decision by: 6 February 1998 Early registration: 9 March 1998 Conference: 1-4 April 1998 A call for papers will be issued soon. -------------------------------------------------------------------