From bruno.emond at nrc-cnrc.gc.ca Thu Nov 4 12:43:26 2004 From: bruno.emond at nrc-cnrc.gc.ca (Emond, Bruno) Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 12:43:26 -0500 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Act-r time question Message-ID: <07D06933-2E89-11D9-8695-00039357BF32@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca> I am a little bit puzzled by the following act-r trace. The productions are fairly simple. ?Recall-Text-Location calls +retrieval> ?Test-Recall-Not-Successful tests that =retrieval> isa error condition failure the it changes the goal to find the visual location of a text None of these productions do pm calls. The productions ?Find-Text-Location and ?Attend-To-Text call respectively +visual-location and +visual My question is what has appended to the time spent on ?Recall-Text-Location which shows when ?Test-Recall-Not-Successful fires? I am running act-r/pm 2.2 Time 0.000: Vision found LOC103 Time 0.000: ?Recall-Text-Location Selected Time 0.050: ?Recall-Text-Location Fired Time 2.050: ?Test-Recall-Not-Successful Selected Time 0.100: ?Test-Recall-Not-Successful Fired Time 0.100: ?Find-Text-Location Selected Time 0.150: ?Find-Text-Location Fired Time 0.150: Module :VISION running command FIND-LOCATION Time 0.150: Vision found LOC104 Time 0.150: ?Attend-To-Text Selected Time 0.200: ?Attend-To-Text Fired Time 0.200: Module :MOTOR running command MOVE-CURSOR Time 0.200: Module :VISION running command MOVE-ATTENTION Time 0.285: Module :VISION running command ENCODING-COMPLETE Time 0.285: Vision sees TEXT100 Time 0.285: ?Text-Found Selected Time 0.335: ?Text-Found Fired ... Thanks. bruno -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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If you send me the full model I can take a look at it and give you more details and fix the bug in ACT-R if that's what's wrong. Ignoring the problem with the backward time jump and just looking at this piece: > Time 0.000: Vision found LOC103 > Time 0.000: ?Recall-Text-Location Selected > Time 0.050: ?Recall-Text-Location Fired > Time 2.050: ?Test-Recall-Not-Successful Selected I want to comment on your concern about the "time spent on ?Recall-Text-Location". Conceptually, there was only 50 ms spent on ?Recall-Text-Location - from time 0 to time .05. The two seconds from .05 until 2.05 when ?Test-Recall-Not-Successful was selected were spent "idle" in the procedural system. Those two seconds were time that the declarative system spent trying to find a chunk as requested. If there had been any productions that matched the contents of the buffers after ?Recall-Text-Location fired but before the declarative system signaled the failure they could have fired in that intervening 2 seconds. Dan From bruno.emond at nrc-cnrc.gc.ca Thu Nov 4 14:03:55 2004 From: bruno.emond at nrc-cnrc.gc.ca (Emond, Bruno) Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 14:03:55 -0500 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Act-r time question In-Reply-To: <5B1E6C3F46F866102BA0AB26@whatever.psy.cmu.edu> References: <5B1E6C3F46F866102BA0AB26@whatever.psy.cmu.edu> Message-ID: <46716757-2E94-11D9-BA9C-00039357BF32@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca> There it is. Thanks for the clarification as to where the time is spent. Bruno On Nov 4, 2004, at 13:53, Dan Bothell wrote: > > > > --On Thursday, November 04, 2004 12:43 PM -0500 "Emond, Bruno" > wrote: > > > I am a little bit puzzled by the following act-r trace. > > > > The productions are fairly simple. > > ?Recall-Text-Location calls +retrieval> > > ?Test-Recall-Not-Successful tests that > >??? =retrieval> isa error condition failure > >??? the it changes the goal to find the visual location > >??? of a text > > None of these productions do pm calls. > > > > The productions ?Find-Text-Location and ?Attend-To-Text > > call respectively +visual-location and +visual > > > > My question is what has appended to the time spent on > > ?Recall-Text-Location > > which shows when ?Test-Recall-Not-Successful fires? > > > > I am running act-r/pm 2.2 > > > >? Time? 0.000: Vision found LOC103 > >? Time? 0.000: ?Recall-Text-Location Selected > >? Time? 0.050: ?Recall-Text-Location Fired > >? Time? 2.050: ?Test-Recall-Not-Successful Selected > >? Time? 0.100: ?Test-Recall-Not-Successful Fired > >? Time? 0.100: ?Find-Text-Location Selected > >? Time? 0.150: ?Find-Text-Location Fired > >? Time? 0.150: Module :VISION running command FIND-LOCATION > >? Time? 0.150: Vision found LOC104 > >? Time? 0.150: ?Attend-To-Text Selected > >? Time? 0.200: ?Attend-To-Text Fired > >? Time? 0.200: Module :MOTOR running command MOVE-CURSOR > >? Time? 0.200: Module :VISION running command MOVE-ATTENTION > >? Time? 0.285: Module :VISION running command ENCODING-COMPLETE > >? Time? 0.285: Vision sees TEXT100 > >? Time? 0.285: ?Text-Found Selected > >? Time? 0.335: ?Text-Found Fired > >? ... > > > > > > Without seeing the model I can't really say, but it definitely looks > like there's either a bug in ACT-R or in your model.? If you send me > the full model I can take a look at it and give you more details and > fix the bug in ACT-R if that's what's wrong. > > Ignoring the problem with the backward time jump and just looking > at this piece: > > >? Time? 0.000: Vision found LOC103 > >? Time? 0.000: ?Recall-Text-Location Selected > >? Time? 0.050: ?Recall-Text-Location Fired > >? Time? 2.050: ?Test-Recall-Not-Successful Selected > > I want to comment on your concern about the "time spent on > ?Recall-Text-Location".? Conceptually, there was only 50 ms > spent on ?Recall-Text-Location - from time 0 to time .05.? The > two seconds from .05 until 2.05 when ?Test-Recall-Not-Successful > was selected were spent "idle" in the procedural system.? Those > two seconds were time that the declarative system spent trying > to find a chunk as requested.? If there had been any productions > that matched the contents of the buffers after ?Recall-Text-Location > fired but before the declarative system signaled the failure > they could have fired in that intervening 2 seconds. > > Dan > > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Bruno On Nov 4, 2004, at 14:03, Emond, Bruno wrote: > There it is. > Thanks for the clarification as to where the time is spent. > Bruno > > On Nov 4, 2004, at 13:53, Dan Bothell wrote: > > > > > > > > > --On Thursday, November 04, 2004 12:43 PM -0500 "Emond, Bruno" > > wrote: > > > > > I am a little bit puzzled by the following act-r trace. > > > > > > The productions are fairly simple. > > > ?Recall-Text-Location calls +retrieval> > > > ?Test-Recall-Not-Successful tests that > > >??? =retrieval> isa error condition failure > > >??? the it changes the goal to find the visual location > > >??? of a text > > > None of these productions do pm calls. > > > > > > The productions ?Find-Text-Location and ?Attend-To-Text > > > call respectively +visual-location and +visual > > > > > > My question is what has appended to the time spent on > > > ?Recall-Text-Location > > > which shows when ?Test-Recall-Not-Successful fires? > > > > > > I am running act-r/pm 2.2 > > > > > >? Time? 0.000: Vision found LOC103 > > >? Time? 0.000: ?Recall-Text-Location Selected > > >? Time? 0.050: ?Recall-Text-Location Fired > > >? Time? 2.050: ?Test-Recall-Not-Successful Selected > > >? Time? 0.100: ?Test-Recall-Not-Successful Fired > > >? Time? 0.100: ?Find-Text-Location Selected > > >? Time? 0.150: ?Find-Text-Location Fired > > >? Time? 0.150: Module :VISION running command FIND-LOCATION > > >? Time? 0.150: Vision found LOC104 > > >? Time? 0.150: ?Attend-To-Text Selected > > >? Time? 0.200: ?Attend-To-Text Fired > > >? Time? 0.200: Module :MOTOR running command MOVE-CURSOR > > >? Time? 0.200: Module :VISION running command MOVE-ATTENTION > > >? Time? 0.285: Module :VISION running command ENCODING-COMPLETE > > >? Time? 0.285: Vision sees TEXT100 > > >? Time? 0.285: ?Text-Found Selected > > >? Time? 0.335: ?Text-Found Fired > > >? ... > > > > > > > > > > > Without seeing the model I can't really say, but it definitely looks > > like there's either a bug in ACT-R or in your model.? If you send me > > the full model I can take a look at it and give you more details and > > fix the bug in ACT-R if that's what's wrong. > > > > Ignoring the problem with the backward time jump and just looking > > at this piece: > > > > >? Time? 0.000: Vision found LOC103 > > >? Time? 0.000: ?Recall-Text-Location Selected > > >? Time? 0.050: ?Recall-Text-Location Fired > > >? Time? 2.050: ?Test-Recall-Not-Successful Selected > > > > I want to comment on your concern about the "time spent on > > ?Recall-Text-Location".? Conceptually, there was only 50 ms > > spent on ?Recall-Text-Location - from time 0 to time .05.? The > > two seconds from .05 until 2.05 when ?Test-Recall-Not-Successful > > was selected were spent "idle" in the procedural system.? Those > > two seconds were time that the declarative system spent trying > > to find a chunk as requested.? If there had been any productions > > that matched the contents of the buffers after ?Recall-Text-Location > > fired but before the declarative system signaled the failure > > they could have fired in that intervening 2 seconds. > > > > Dan > > > > > > ? > From gratch at ict.usc.edu Mon Nov 8 13:49:54 2004 From: gratch at ict.usc.edu (Jonathan Gratch) Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 10:49:54 -0800 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Call for papers - 5TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTELLIGENT VIRTUAL AGENTS Message-ID: <395EDF817986AB47B7EB5C398ADC817FFF17E2@MAIL.ict.usc.edu> A Preliminary Call for Papers for: THE 5TH INTERNATIONAL WORKING CONFERENCE ON INTELLIGENT VIRTUAL AGENTS September 12-14, 2005 Kos, Greece http://iva05.unipi.gr/ *** Submission Deadline: May 2, 2005 SYMPOSIUM DESCRIPTION: ------------------------------------------ Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVAs) are autonomous, graphically embodied agents in an interactive, 2D or 3D virtual environment. They are able to interact intelligently with the environment, other IVAs, and especially with human users. Previous IVA workshops brought together people studying computer graphics, animation and virtual environments on the one hand, and on the other hand people working in AI, NLP, cognitive modelling and A-life. Since the first IVA back in 1999 firm lines of research have been established but there is much that the graphics and AI communities have to learn from each other. Moreover, the domain of Intelligent Virtual Agents has become much more diverse and now encompasses a wide range of disciplines including in particular psychology (emotion modelling, non-verbal communication), sociology (modelling human / IVA societies), HCI (intelligent user interfaces, gesture/body tracking interfaces), design and arts (e.g., interactive installations with IVAs), and all kinds of application fields. While initial research often focused on the use of IVAs in virtual environments, they are now increasingly used across many media such as the web, wireless devices and interactive television. IVAs can provide appealing characters for games and entertainment. They can be novel user interfaces for software or guides in factual and e-commerce web sites. They can be tools of psychological research. Some see them as the key to engaging educational software or as an exciting new way for us to communicate with each other on the web. The rapid advances in the field have enabled it to be applied in practice to these areas both in research and industrial contexts. The target audience for IVA'05 includes people from multiple disciplines, coming from academia or industry with an interest in the design, implementation, and evaluation of IVAs and IVA applications. We aim for a lively programme of timely, high-quality presentations and demonstrations to discuss the state of the art and future of Intelligent Virtual Agents. TOPICS OF INTEREST: ---------------------------------- * IVA design and modelling - design criteria and methodologies - nature inspired IVAs/A-life for IVAs - models of affect and personality for IVAs - models for IVAs with awareness of their social context - modelling conversational skills and multi-modal interaction - non-verbal expressiveness in IVAs - gesture, facial expression, posture - media-specific design considerations, e.g., IVAs for VR, AR, web, and mobile applications - deployment of novel interaction modalities (e.g., vision, touch, phycons etc.) - IVAs with physical embodiment: lessons from and for robotics - ethical considerations, e.g., what human-qualities can / should IVAs have / never have * Conceptual architectures, e.g. for - learning IVAs - improvisational IVAs - multi-user /multi-IVA interaction - crowd simulations with IVAs * IVA application fields, pilot systems, and experience reports - education and training with IVAs - psychological modelling and experimentation - games - interactive narrative with IVAs - telepresence - case studies and evaluation reports on IVA pilots etc. * Evaluation of IVAs and IVA applications - evaluation methodologies / evaluation frameworks - reports on user studies and their outcomes - evaluation and data collection tools for IVAs * Software engineering issues - standards and measures to support interoperability, portability, and reuse - tools and toolkits for building IVAs and IVA applications - advanced 3D modelling and animation technologies for IVAs SUBMISSION FORMAT: ----------------------------------- We distinguish between the following categories of submissions: - Long papers, 6-8 pages, are reserved for reports on mature research results. - Short papers, not exceeding four pages, are for smaller case studies or ongoing but interesting and original research efforts. - Demo submissions, not exceeding four pages, are for authors who wish to demonstrate their system. The submission should provide a description of their system, installation, or demo. - Poster submissions should consist of either a one-page description of the poster content, or a one-page sketch of the poster. Final versions of papers (long, short, demo/system, poster descriptions) will appear in the published IVA conference proceedings. TIMELINE: ----------------- May 2: Deadline for submissions of contributions May 30: Reviews complete June 6: Authors notification July 1: Submission of camera ready contribution for the workshop notes ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: ---------------------------------------- Ruth Aylett, Heriot-Watt University e-mail: ruth at macs.hw.ac.uk Daniel Ballin, Chief Technology Office, BT Group e-mail: daniel.ballin at bt.com Jonathan Gratch, University of Southern California e-mail: gratch at ict.usc.edu Patrick Olivier, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne e-mail: P.L.Olivier at ncl.ac.uk Themis Panayiotopoulos, University of Piraeus (Local Chair) email: themisp at unipi.gr Thomas Rist, University of Applied Sciences Augsburg and DFKI e-mail: tr at rz.fh-augsburg.de PROGRAM COMMITTEE: ----------------------------------------------------- Jan Allbeck Elisabeth Andr? 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ARTICLE Pages 241-256 Ning Zhong, Jing-Long Wu, Akio Nakamaru, Muneaki Ohshima and Hiroaki Mizuhara Volume 5, No.4: A domain-independent framework for modeling emotion ? ARTICLE Pages 269-306 Jonathan Gratch and Stacy Marsella Understanding script-based stories using commonsense reasoning ? ARTICLE Pages 307-340 Erik T. Mueller See http://www.elsevier.com/locate/cogsys for further information about accessing these articles ------------------------------------------------------------------- Cognitive Systems Research --- the journal devoted to the interdisciplinary study of cognitive science Elsevier Science Cognitive Systems Research covers all topics of cognition, including ' Perception ' Memory ' Learning ' Action and Behavior ' Problem-Solving and Cognitive Skills ' Knowledge Representation and Reasoning ' Language and Communication ' Agents ' Integrative and Interdisciplinary Studies For a full description of topics and submission requirements, access http://www.cogsci.rpi.edu/~rsun/journal.html ------------------------------------------------------------------- -- =================================================================== Professor Ron Sun Cognitive Science Department Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 110 Eighth Street, Carnegie 302A Troy, NY 12180, USA phone: 518-276-3409 fax: 518-276-3017 email: rsun at rpi.edu web: http://www.cogsci.rpi.edu/~rsun =================================================================== From grayw at rpi.edu Mon Nov 22 11:36:13 2004 From: grayw at rpi.edu (Wayne Gray) Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 11:36:13 -0500 Subject: [ACT-R-users] New ACTR publication Message-ID: Greetings. We are pleased to announce a new journal paper focusing on ACTR's expected value equation specifically but issues of credit assignment in modeling more generally. Our Cognitive Systems Research journal paper is a substantial extension of the work presented at ICCM2004 and published in the proceedings. In addition to a greater discussion of the issues concerning binary vs scalar credit assignment, it included a discussion of three new variants on our actr model. Two of these variants are simulations that enable us to isolate the PG-C issues from any other problems that our inadequacies as modelers may have introduced to our models that might have contributed to the outcomes. (Note that you will find other ACTR papers in this issue of CSRj.) Wayne > >New Volume/Issue is now available on ScienceDirect! > >* Cognitive Systems Research > Volume 6, Issue 1, Pages 1-97 (March 2005) > Special Issue of Cognitive Systems Research - The Best Papers from ICCM2004 > Pittsburgh, USA > 200407 > Edited by Christian D. Schunn, Marsha C. Lovett, Christian >Lebiere and Paul Munro > http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/issue/6595-2005-999939998-529760 > > > >4) Adapting to the task environment: Explorations in expected value >Pages 27-40 >Wayne D. Gray, Michael J. Schoelles and Chris R. Sims >http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=GatewayURL&_method=citationSearch&_urlVersion=4&_origin=SDVIALERTASCII&_version=1&_uoikey=B6W6C-4DTKBBF-3&md5=823b9ea77fef3a828fed4a51fe8ea431 > -- **Rensselaer**Rensselaer**Rensselaer**Rensselaer**Rensselaer** Wayne D. 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My research is in cognitive architectures that explain how the mind integrates multiple cognitive processes and structures to behave intelligently. Typical projects have included a model of physical reasoning, putting this model on a robot to resolves the tensions between reasoning and flexible robot behavior, and a model of sentence parsing based on the mechanisms of the physical reasoning model. Students who work with me will have at least some background in cognitive modeling or computer programming and an interest in understanding human intelligence and/or creating intelligent systems. RPI is a top-tier research university. The Cognitive Science department has identified the PhD program and research as its primary missions. The department is conducting research in a number of areas: cognitive modeling, human and machine learning, multi-agent interactions and social simulation, neural networks and connectionist models, human and machine reasoning, cognitive engineering, etc. RPI is located in historic Troy NY, in the Hudson River Valley, approximately 5 miles N of Albany, NY. It is 3-hrs south of Montreal, 2.5-hrs west of Boston, and 2-hrs north of New York City, to which Amtrak runs on high-speed track that should soon shorten the trip even further. The Albany area is notable for many things, including its affordable housing, cultural events (e.g., the famed Saratoga Performing Arts Center), and proximity to outdoor recreation (e.g., hiking/skiing in the Adirondack, White, Green, and Berkshire Mountains). For the application procedure, see http://www.cogsci.rpi.edu/ The application deadline is Jan.15, 2005. If you decide to apply, let me know by sending a short email to cassin at rpi.edu. -Nick Cassimatis From andreas.savvides at yale.edu Mon Nov 29 15:28:48 2004 From: andreas.savvides at yale.edu (Andreas Savvides) Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 15:28:48 -0500 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Mobiquitous 2005 Call for Papers Message-ID: We apologize if you receive this email message several times. Regards, Andreas Savvides ************************************** MobiQuitous 2005 CALL FOR PAPERS The Second Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networking and Services http://www.mobiquitous.org July 15-17 2005, San Diego, California (ACM and IEEE Sponsorship Pending) The combination of mobile and ubiquitous computing is emerging as a promising new paradigm with the goal to provide computing and communication services all the time, everywhere, transparently and invisibly to the user, using devices embedded in the surrounding physical environment. In this context, the communication devices, the objects with which they interact, or both may be mobile. The implementation of such a paradigm requires advances in wireless network technologies and devices, development of infrastructures supporting cognitive environments, and discovery and identification of ubiquitous computing applications and services. The second Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: networking and services (Mobiquitous-05) will cover all these aspects, representing a forum where practitioners and researchers coming from the many areas involved in ubiquitous solutions design and deployment will be able to interact exchanging the cross-layer experiences needed to build the overall ubiquitous systems. Areas addressed by the conference include: applications, service-oriented computing, middleware, networking, agents, knowledge management and databases. PAPERS: Technical papers describing original, previously unpublished research, not currently under review by another conference or journal, are solicited. The conference is interested in contributions addressing all the areas associated with mobile and ubiquitous architectures, infrastructure and services. Technical works clearly identifying how the specific contributions fit to an overall working solution are particularly of interest. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following: * Ubiquitous architectures and systems * Wearable computing and personal area network * Wireless technologies for mobile and ubiquitous (Bluetooth, ZigBee, 802.15.x, WiFi) * Incentive-based deployment of ad hoc networks * Reconfigurability and personalization of wireless network * Service discovery mechanisms, knowledge discovery, matching and composition mechanisms * Wireless/mobile service management and delivery * Security, privacy and social issues of mobile and ubiquitous systems * Peer-to-peer knowledge management * Emerging industrial/business scenarios * Multimodal interfaces (speech, video kinetic, tactile) * Smart spaces * Ad hoc and sensor networking * Localization and tracking * Context and location aware application * Multimedia encoding and transcoding * Middleware services * Agent technologies in ubiquitous, wearable, and mobile systems * Hardware and software platforms for ubiquitous systems, and testbeds * User interfaces * Toolkits, development environments, and languages for ubiquitous computing * Ontologies for mobile and ubiquitous computing SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: All paper submissions will be handled electronically (see the conference web page for details). Authors should prepare a Portable Document Format (PDF) or postscript version of their full paper. Papers must not exceed 8 pages double column (US Letter size, 8.5 x 11 inches) including text, figures and references. The font size must be at least 10 points. The deadline for registering the title and the abstract of the paper with our electronic submission system is February 2, 2005. The deadline for submitting the actual paper is February 9, 2005. All deadlines are 11:59PM PST. PUBLICATION: All submitted papers will be rigorously reviewed by technical program committee members. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Papers of particular merit will be proposed for publication in a ACM/Kluwer MONET special issue. WORKSHOPS: Proposals for one-day workshops to be held in conjunction with the conference are solicited. A maximum of 2 pages should be submitted which include the workshop name, its scope and a list of topic of interests. Proposals should be submitted to both the Workshop co-Chairs by December 17 2004. DEMOS: Proposals for research and industrial demos are solicited. A maximum of 2 pages should be submitted which include a description of the demo and needed resources from the conference organizers. Proposals should be submitted to Dr. Ramiro Liscano (Demo Chair) rliscano at ieee.org by May 29th, 2005. IMPORTANT DATES: Paper registration deadline: February 2, 2005 Full paper submission deadline: February 9, 2005 Notification of acceptance: April 29, 2005 Camera-ready version due: May 15, 2005 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chair: Ramesh Rao (UCSD) General Vice Co-Chairs: Krishna Sivalingham (University of Maryland Baltimore County), Chiara Petrioli (Universit di Roma La Sapienza) Program Co-Chairs:Suresh Singh (Portland State University), Philippe Bonnet (University of Copenhagen) Steering Committee Chair: Imrich Chlamtac (Create Net) Publicity Chair: Andreas Savvides (Yale University) Workshop Chairs: Stefano Basagni (Northeastern University),Prithwish Basu (BBN Technologies) Demo Chair: Ramiro Liscano (University of Ottawa) Publication Chair: Antonis Kalis (Athens Information Technology) From tkelley at arl.army.mil Tue Nov 30 10:05:39 2004 From: tkelley at arl.army.mil (Kelley, Troy (Civ,ARL/HRED)) Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 10:05:39 -0500 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Call for Paper - BRIMS 2005 Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS - BRIMS 2005 14th CONFERENCE ON BEHAVIOR REPRESENTATION IN MODELING AND SIMULATION (BRIMS) http://www.sisostds.org/cgf-br/05BRIMS/index.htm In affiliation with the Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization and the Institute for Simulation and Training Sheraton Universal Hotel Universal City, CA 16-19 May 2005 You are invited to participate in the 14th Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (BRIMS). This annual event provides a forum for scientific and technical exchange on research in the science of human behavior representation and on the application of leading-edge cognitive science to the behavior representation challenges faced by the modeling and simulation community. Application areas of interest include acquisition, analysis, design, training, rehearsal, planning, experimentation, and gaming. The conference enables modeling and simulation research scientists, engineers, application users, and technical communities to meet, share ideas and experiences, identify gaps in current capabilities, discuss new research directions, and highlight promising technologies. The BRIMS Conference Program Committee invites papers, posters, demos, symposia, panel discussions, and tutorials on topics related to the representation of individuals, groups, teams and organizations in models and simulations. Submissions are peer-reviewed and considered for selection by the Program Committee. TYPES OF SUBMISSIONS Traditional Sessions: Paper Presentations Traditional Sessions are composed of 3 or 4 presentations on related topics. The presentations are done lecture-style, with 20-25 minutes for the presentation and approximately 5 minutes for questions. Presentations are displayed through electronic slides (e.g., PowerPoint). Paper submissions are limited to 8 pages and should describe original research that has not been published elsewhere. Papers may be submitted through the on-line submission system. If accepted, papers appear in the conference Proceedings. Please see the BRIMS Paper Guidelines for format requirements and content suggestions. The deadline for paper submissions is February 14, 2005. Interactive Session: Posters and Demos The Interactive Session involves a longer (approximately 2 hour) period of multiple simultaneous presentations and provides an opportunity for continuous interaction with conference attendees. The Interactive Session features supporting material in static wallboard/posterboard displays and/or live demonstrations of state-of-the-art applications in modeling, simulation, and training. Poster and demo submissions are limited to a 2-page extended abstract describing the research to be presented or the technology (e.g., architecture, model, task environment) to be demonstrated. If accepted, abstracts appear in the conference Proceedings. Please see the BRIMS Poster/Demo Guidelines for format requirements and content suggestions. The deadline for submissions is February 14, 2005. Symposia/Panel Discussions These are 60-90 minutes long, with several speakers presenting research and/or engaging in discussion on different aspects of a common topic that is of interest to the BRIMS community. These are not merely collections of presentations. There should be a set of common questions/issues addressed by all participants. Abstracts for symposia or panel discussions may be submitted through the on-line submission system. The 2-page abstract should provide a title for the session, identify the chair, list the participants' names and affiliations, provide a justification for why the session topic is timely and of interest, include a brief statement (approximately 250 words) from each participant summarizing the main points they will make during the session, and identify the common questions/issues each participant will address. Submissions will be reviewed by the Program Committee. If selected, these abstracts will be published in the Proceedings. Please see the BRIMS Symposia/Panel Guidelines for format requirements. The deadline for submissions is February 14, 2005. Tutorials Tutorials provide conference participants the opportunity to gain new insights, knowledge, and skills in an area related to the interests of the BRIMS community. Tutorials are presented in a lecture-and-discussion or learning-by-doing format. Tutorials may be a half-day (3 hours, plus breaks) or a full-day (6 hours, plus breaks) in duration, and will take place on Monday, May 16, 2005. Tutorial proposals may be submitted through the on-line submission system. Tutorial descriptions should include a detailed outline of the material that will be covered with time allocations and scheduled breaks. Proposals for tutorials will be reviewed by the Program Committee. If accepted, a description of the tutorial will be included in conference announcements and in the Proceedings. The deadline for tutorial submissions is February 14, 2005. If you have any questions about the submission process or are unable to submit to the web site, please contact Pat Burgess by email (pburgess at ist.ucf.edu) or phone (407) 882-1372. KEY DATES All Submissions Due: 14 February 2005 Authors Notification: 18 March 2005 Final Electronic Draft Due: 08 April 2005 Presentations Due: 11 May 2005 BRIMS 2005 Begins: 16 May 2005 AREAS OF INTEREST Areas of interest for the 14th conference include, but are not limited to, the following (in no particular order): * Intelligent agents and avatars * Modeling reasoning and decision making * Behavior moderators * Modeling architectures and knowledge representation systems * Performance assessment and skill monitoring * Performance enhancement * Perceptual/cognitive state detection and adaptive displays * Increasing affordability, efficiency, and/or usability * Knowledge acquisition/engineering * Application of COTS software for HBR development * Verification and Validation * Terrain representation and reasoning * Spatial representation * Interoperability * Time representation * Physical models of human movement * Operator interfaces * Verbal and non-verbal communication with HBRs * Multi-resolution simulation * Synthetic environments for human behavior representation (HBR) research * Team, group, crowd, and organizational behavior representation * HBR for system design and evaluation * HBR issues in model federations ACCOMMODATIONS and REGISTRATION The Conference will be held at the Sheraton Universal Hotel in Universal City, CA. Visit http://www.starwood.com/sheraton/search/hotel_detail.html?propertyID=83 for information about the hotel. Call 818-980-1212 or 1-888-627-7186 to make reservations. You should reference BRIMS 2005 to get the group rate, which is $159.00, or the prevailing government rate with credentials. The cut-off date for the group rate is April 23, 2005. Registration information coming soon! CONFERENCE CHAIRS Laurel Allender & Troy Kelley Army Research Laboratory Human Research & Engineering Directorate Troy Kelley U.S. Army Research Laboratory Human Research and Engineering Directorate AMSRD-ARL-HR-SE, APG, MD 21005 Tel: 410-278-5859 Fax: 410-278-9694 email: tkelley at arl.army.mil -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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