From cl at andrew.cmu.edu Fri Jun 6 16:34:33 2003 From: cl at andrew.cmu.edu (Christian Lebiere) Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2003 16:34:33 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] 2003 ACT-R Workshop Message-ID: <1276745.3263906073@[192.168.1.101]> TENTH ANNUAL ACT-R SUMMER SCHOOL AND WORKSHOP ============================================== Carnegie Mellon University - July 2003 ====================================== ACT-R is a cognitive theory and simulation system for developing cognitive models for tasks that vary from simple reaction time to air traffic control. The most recent advances of the ACT-R theory were detailed in the recent book "The Atomic Components of Thought" by John R. Anderson and Christian Lebiere, published in 1998 by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, and in a paper available online (http://act-r.psy.cmu.edu/papers/403/IntegratedTheory.pdf). Each year, a three-day workshop is held to enable new and current users to exchange research results and ideas. The Tenth Annual ACT-R Summer School and Workshop will be held at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh in July 2003. The workshop will take place from Friday July 25 at 9am to Sunday July 27 at noon. Mornings will be devoted to research presentations, each lasting about 20 minutes plus questions. Participants are invited to present their ACT-R research by submitting a one-page abstract with their registration. Afternoons will feature more research presentations as well as discussion sessions and instructional tutorials. Suggestions for the topics of the tutorials and discussion sessions are welcome. Friday afternoon will feature a presentation by the invited speaker, James McClelland of Carnegie Mellon University, titled "Symbolic and Sub-symbolic cognition: What is the relation?" Admission to the workshop is open to all. The early registration fee (before July 1) is $100 and the late registration fee (after July 1) is $125. Informal proceedings of past workshops can be found on the ACT-R web site (http://act-r.psy.cmu.edu/workshops/). Requests for presentations should be submitted before July 1 to receive full consideration for inclusion in the workshop program. A preliminary program of presentations will be made available in early July. The workshop is scheduled to just precede the Cognitive Science conference which takes place in Boston from July 30 to August 3 (http://www.cognitivesciencesociety.org/cogsci.html). Housing and computing facilities will be provided at CMU from July 27 to 30 for workshop participants who wish to stay on to work on their ACT-R projects and collaborate with other researchers until the start of Cogsci. A registration form is appended below. Additional information (detailed schedule, etc.) will appear on the ACT-R Web site when available or can be requested at: 2003 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 ________________________________________________________ Tenth Annual ACT-R Workshop July 25 to 27, 2003 at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh REGISTRATION ============ Name: .................................................................. Address: .................................................................. .................................................................. .................................................................. Tel/Fax: .................................................................. Email: .................................................................. Presentation topic (optional - include one-page abstract with registration): ........................................................................... Registration fee: Before July 1: $100 ... After July 1: $125 ... The fee is due upon registration. Please send checks or money orders only. We cannot accept credit cards. HOUSING ======= Housing is available in Resnick House, a CMU dormitory that offers suite-style accommodations. Rooms include air-conditioning, a semi-private bathroom and a common living room for suite-mates. Rates are approximately $267.75/week/person or $38.25/night/person for single rooms and $192.50/week/person or $27.50/night/person for double rooms. See http://confserv.housing.cmu.edu/ for further housing information. To reserve a room in Resnick House, fill in the dates and select one of the three room options: I will stay from ................ to ................ 1. ... I want a single room 2. ... I want a double room and I will room with ................ 3. ... I want a double room. Please select a roommate of ....... gender ROOM PAYMENT IS DUE UPON CHECK-IN. DO NOT SEND MONEY. The recommended hotel is the Wyndham Garden Hotel, located within easy walking distance of CMU. Contact the Wyndham directly at +1 (877) 662 6242. Send this form to: 2003 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 vladimir_polyakov at yahoo.com Mon Jun 9 13:34:29 2003 From: vladimir_polyakov at yahoo.com (Vladimir Polyakov) Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2003 10:34:29 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [ACT-R-users] Cognitive Modeling in linguistics-2003. Second announcement. Message-ID: <20030609173429.16131.qmail@web12103.mail.yahoo.com> Dear colleagues! Apologies for multiple and group mail. This is CFP of International conference "Cognitive Modeling in linguistics-2003" (Varna, 1-7 September, 2003) You are welcomed. Dr. Vladimir Polyakov. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: CML_Varna2.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 43674 bytes Desc: CML_Varna2.pdf URL: From byrne at rice.edu Fri Jun 20 16:39:44 2003 From: byrne at rice.edu (Mike Byrne) Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 15:39:44 -0500 Subject: [ACT-R-users] RPM 2.1.2 release Message-ID: Fixes a couple small issues, unless you're on MCL under OS X and are having performance problems when using MCL windows as your device, in which case it should also show much improved performance. At the usual place: http://chil.rice.edu/projects/RPM/download.html Here are the release notes: ------------------------------------------------- Version 2.1.2 * Released 2003.06.20. * There's a change for 2.1.1 that I forgot to document here. When doing a +visual-location>, you could include a "nearest" value of CURRENT to get the closest visual location. This uses Euclidean distance. If you care about nearness in only one dimension, you can now use CURRENT-X or CURRENT-Y. * A call to MOVE-ATTENTION will now set the PROCESSOR state to busy. * Fixed bug in prepare-only motor movements not leaving the PROCESSOR state free. * Under MCL, event-dispatch is now called much less often; at most, every 100 real ms. (You can change this in the code if you want it even less often, it's in the :after method for DEVICE-UPDATE in "mcl-device.lisp".) This should speed simulations. If you have trouble with things not updating on the screen as a result, please let me know. * Another MCL thing: static-text-dialog-items have different alignment options, which should now be handled properly in terms of the locations of the generated text. ------------------------------------------------- Enjoy! -Mike =========================================================== Mike Byrne, Ph.D. byrne at acm.org Assistant Professor, Psychology Department Rice University, MS-25 http://chil.rice.edu/byrne/ 6100 Main Street +1 713-348-3770 voice Houston, TX 77005-1892 +1 713-348-5221 fax From gimpytor at yahoo.com Sun Jun 29 11:49:19 2003 From: gimpytor at yahoo.com (Kevin Tor) Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 11:49:19 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] help with ACT-R 3 Message-ID: <00c701c33e56$01761010$6401a8c0@pennstate> Hello, I recently inherited an ACT-R 3 model and I am working on cleaning up the code around it but, at some point, I would like to upgrade it to ACT-R 5. I have two questions: 1. 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URL: From rsun at ari1.cecs.missouri.edu Sun Jun 29 19:09:00 2003 From: rsun at ari1.cecs.missouri.edu (Ron Sun) Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 18:09:00 -0500 Subject: [ACT-R-users] New issues of Cognitive Systems Research Message-ID: <200306292309.h5TN904X009924@ari1.cecs.missouri.edu> New issues of Cognitive Systems Research are now available on ScienceDirect: (If you have questions about this or other aspects of ScienceDirect, locate the Help Desk at http://www.info.sciencedirect.com/contacts.) =============================================================================== Cognitive Systems Research: Volume 4, Issue 1, Pages 1-88 (March 2003) TABLE OF CONTENTS Interrelations between the BDI primitives: Towards heterogeneous agents, Pages 1-22 Maria Fasli http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6W6C-47G3MBB-1/1/7a8c45107ff31d77945ab8350b308d27 The grounding of motivation in artificial animals: Indices of motivational behavior, Pages 23-55 Tony Savage http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6W6C-47BX2VC-6/1/2fc5e4f96b8d644e08791c712c7dcc33 Problem solving: Increased planning with practice, Pages 57-76 Glenn Gunzelmann and John R. Anderson http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6W6C-47GGC2Y-3/1/b7c0df3dccb853de78629846dce75457 Review of Visual Attention and Cortical Circuits J. Braun, K. Christof & J. Davis; MIT Press, 2001; ISBN 0-262-02493-4, Pages 77-80 R. Farivar http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6W6C-47BX2VC-3/1/358c7eee523713e4dac645a7a164f9ab =============================================================================== Cognitive Systems Research Volume 4, Issue 2, Pages 89-165 (June 2003) TABLE OF CONTENTS Autonomous recovery from hostile code insertion using distributed reflection, Pages 89-117 Catriona M. Kennedy and Aaron Sloman http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6W6C-47X1P9V-1/1/324458a57446ebac7f0eb7323920ce4e Modelling the dynamics of reasoning processes: Reasoning by assumption, Pages 119-136 Catholijn M. Jonker and Jan Treur http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6W6C-486YV8X-2/1/bcb1616cc4e29526f39ca15cbf57a91a A temporal-interactivist perspective on the dynamics of mental states, Pages 137-155 Catholijn M. Jonker and Jan Treur http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6W6C-486YV8X-1/1/e593e54a7615b5656d9bea17ff0be57a Review of the Psychology of Graphic Images M. Massironi; Erlbaum, 2002, Pages 157-159 G. Kurian http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6W6C-47BX2VC-4/1/b0d44e63331f891b626b5393eebde9d3 =============================================================================== See the following Web page for the submission, subscription, and other information concerning the journal Cognitive Systems Research: http://www.cecs.missouri.edu/~rsun/journal.html =================================================================== Professor Ron Sun, Ph.D James C. Dowell Professor CS Department, 201 EBW phone: (573) 884-7662 University of Missouri-Columbia fax: (573) 882-8318 Columbia, MO 65211-2060 email: rsun at cecs.missouri.edu http://www.cecs.missouri.edu/~rsun =================================================================== From db30 at andrew.cmu.edu Mon Jun 30 09:33:52 2003 From: db30 at andrew.cmu.edu (Dan Bothell) Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 09:33:52 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] help with ACT-R 3 In-Reply-To: <00c701c33e56$01761010$6401a8c0@pennstate> References: <00c701c33e56$01761010$6401a8c0@pennstate> Message-ID: <2463121.1056965632@whatever.psy.cmu.edu> --On Sunday, June 29, 2003 11:49 AM -0400 Kevin Tor wrote: > > Hello, > > I recently inherited an ACT-R 3 model and I am working on cleaning up the > code around it but, at some point, I would like to upgrade it to ACT-R 5. I > have two questions: > > 1. Is there any way that I can still get info on ACT-R 3? > I don't know of anywhere that you can get ACT-R 3 materials, sorry. It's been a while, but as I recall ACT-R 3 was very close to ACT-R 4 (anyone who remembers otherwise please correct me if I'm wrong there). That would mean that the book "The Atomic Components of Thought" would be the best reference for the theory. > 2. Is there an easy way without rewriting the model from scratch to move it > to ACT-R 5 without losing anything? > It would depend on the model, but generally speaking you will have to rewrite it if you want an actual ACT-R 5 model. Because ACT-R 5 is mostly backward compatible with ACT-R 4 I suspect that it would also run an ACT-R 3 model as well, but just because the model runs using ACT-R 5 doesn't make it an "ACT-R 5 model" . One of the biggest differences between an ACT-R 4 (or 3) model and an ACT-R 5 model is how chunks are retrieved from declarative memory and depending on how much of that the model does will mostly determine the extent of the rewrite necessary. The difference is that prior to ACT-R 5 the retrievals occurred on the left hand side (LHS) of a production and there could be any number of them, but in ACT-R 5 a single retrieval is requested on the right hand side of one production and then harvested on the LHS of a later production. Converting an older model to that style of operation is going to require rewriting probably most of the productions. Hope that helps, Dan