From fomi at loa-cnr.it Tue Feb 1 12:10:34 2005 From: fomi at loa-cnr.it (fomi) Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 18:10:34 +0100 Subject: [ACT-R-users] CFP: Formal Ontologies Meet Industry Message-ID: <2F30582D-7474-11D9-9439-000393D26C34@loa-cnr.it> *********************************************** Apologies for multiple copies of this message *********************************************** Formal Ontologies Meet Industry http://fandango.cs.unitn.it/fomi/ June 9-10, 2005 Lake of Garda, Verona (Italy) ******************************************************** This event is jointly organized and supported by: - University of Verona - Creactive Consulting S.r.l., Affi - Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR, Trento ******************************************************** Description =========== Modeling corporate knowledge is one of the most attractive themes in applied research and it has been an important motivation for several areas of investigations like distributed systems and knowledge management. Clearly, the business world considers this issue of strategic relevance and keeps paying particular attention to it because many theoretical results have already been proved effectiveness in real applications like data warehouse construction, information infrastructure definition, and all processes and applications of knowledge management. These knowledge models in industry aim at providing a framework for information and knowledge sharing, reliable information exchange, meaning negotiation and coordination between distinct organizations or among members of the same one. With the application of new methodologies and techniques in the everyday practice and the accessibility of new theoretical results in this area, developing new tools based on more sophisticated frameworks has become a common need. This is an important reason for the increasing interest in the employment of formal ontologies in fields like medicine, engineering, financial and legal systems, and other business practices. Objectives ========== The workshop is a forum to meet and discuss problems, solutions, perspectives and research directions for researchers and practitioners. We welcome papers or project descriptions that aim at applying formal ontologies in industry. In particular, - theoretical studies on formal ontologies committed to provide sound bases for industrial applications and to allow formal representation of corporate knowledge; - business experiences on case studies that single out concrete problems and possible solutions; the experience analysis should provide useful insights on social and strategic aspects that might be relevant in the creation and deployment of formal ontologies as well as useful criteria or methods to evaluate ontologies and their effectiveness in applications. ******************************************************** Proceedings =========== A selection of the best papers accepted at the workshop will be considered for publication in a special track of the international journal 'Applied Ontology'. ******************************************************** Topics of Interest ================== Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - ontology methodologies in business practice; - ontologies and corporate knowledge; - ontologies adaptation within organizations; - formalization of the know-how; - representation of artifacts and design; - representation of functionalities; - representation of knowledge and business processes; - linguistic representation in organizational knowledge; - linguistic problems in organizational standard code and codification processes; - enterprise modeling; - ontology evaluation; - ontology changes and developments within organizations; - representation of business services; - ontologies and electronic catalogs; - ontologies and e-commerce; - ontologies and marketing; - ontologies in the practice of engineering; - ontologies in the practice of medical sciences; - ontologies in finance. We also encourage submissions which relate research results from close areas connected to the workshop topics. ******************************************************** Important dates =============== Workshop: June 9-10, 2005 Deadline for paper submissions: March 4th, 2005 Notification of acceptance: April 4th, 2005 Camera ready submission: May 2nd, 2005 ******************************************************** Submission ========================== We invite two types of submissions in any of the topics of interest to the workshop: 1. Technical papers Maximum 10 pages, excluding title page and bibliography. 2. Short position papers Maximum 4 pages, excluding title page and bibliography. Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed and selected on the basis of technical quality, relevance of the described experiences (depending on the type of submission), and clarity of the presentation for the workshop. In particular, we insist the paper to be written for a wide audience. Accepted papers will be presented at the workshop, and published as proceedings. All papers should be electronically submitted in PDF format to Roberta Cuel at: cuel at sci.univr.it If electronic submission is not possible, please contact Roberta Cuel at ph. +39-045-802-7908 (or at cuel at sci.univr.it) for further instructions. ******************************************************** Workshop Organising Committee ============================= Roberta Cuel (University of Verona -- cuel at sci.univr.it) Francesco Bellomi (University of Verona -- bellomi at sci.univr.it) Roberta Ferrario (LOA ISTC-CNR -- ferrario at loa-cnr.it) ******************************************************** Program Committee (to be completed) =================================== Chair Matteo Cristani (University of Verona -- cristani at univr.it) Nicola Guarino (LOA-CNR, Italy -- guarino at loa-cnr.it) Stefano Borgo (LOA-CNR, Italy -- borgo at loa-cnr.it) Miltiadis Lytras (Athens University of Economics & Business, Greece -- mdl at aueb.gr) York Sure (Institut AIFB Universitaet Karlsruhe, Germany -- sure at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de) Paulo Leit?o (Polytechnic Institute of Bragan?a, Portugal -- pleitao at ipb.pt) ******************************************************** Please do not hesitate to contact any of the Organizing Committee members for further details. ******************************************************** From mbq at cs.yale.edu Wed Feb 2 11:50:08 2005 From: mbq at cs.yale.edu (Mobiquitous Organizers) Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 11:50:08 -0500 Subject: [ACT-R-users] MOBIQUITOUS 2005 DEADLINE EXTENDED - Feb. 23 Message-ID: Dear Colleague, The deadline for Mobiquitous 2005 (ACM and IEEE Sponsorship Pending) abstract registration and full paper submission deadline has now been extended. Abstract registration is now due on Feb. 16 and full paper submission is due on Feb 23. The updated Call for Papers for the Second Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networking and Services, to be held in San Diego, California from July 17-21, 2005. We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this message. For complete information about the upcoming conference, please visit: http://www.mobiquitous.org/ A printer friendly version of this CFP is available at: http://www.mobiquitous.org/MQ2005-CFP.pdf (PDF) We apologize if you received multiple copies of this Call for Papers. Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested. Best regards, Mobiquitous 2005 Organizing Committee *********************************************************************** MobiQuitous 2005 CALL FOR PAPERS The Second Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networking and Services http://www.mobiquitous.org July 17-21, 2005, San Diego, California ABSTRACT REGISTRATION DEADLINE: February 16, 2005 FULL PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: February 23, 2005 Sponsored by: CreateNet (www.create-net.it) and ICST Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society (Pending) Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE Communications Society (Pending) In Cooperation with ACM SIGMOBILE (Pending) Technically Co-Sponsored by AAAI (Pending) Proceedings to be published by IEEE Computer Society Press and to be made available on IEEE Explore **************************************** 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, andmobile 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 16, 2005 Full paper submission deadline: February 23, 2005 Notification of acceptance: April 29, 2005 Camera-ready version due: May 15, 2005 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chair: Ramesh Rao (Univ. of California, San Diego) General Co-Vice-Chairs: Chiara Petrioli (Universit di Roma La Sapienza) Krishna Sivalingam (University of Maryland, Baltimore County) Technical Program Co-Chairs: Networking: Suresh Singh (Portland State University) Philippe Bonnet (University of Copenhagen) Services/Knowledge Management: Anupam Joshi (University of Maryland, Baltimore County) Ryusuke Masuoka (Fujitsu Labs of America) Publicity Co-Chairs: Andreas Savvides (Yale University) and Mohamed Younis (University of Maryland, Baltimore County) Panels Chairs: TBA Workshop Chairs: Stefano Basagni (Northeastern University) Prithwish Basu (BBN Technologies) Demos Chair: Ramiro Liscano (University of Ottawa) Publications Chair: Antonis Kalis (Athens Information Technology) Local Arrangements Chair: Kang Wang, Qualcomm Inc. Finance Chair: Karen Decker (ICST Texas,USA) Accommodations Chair: Kathy Kunz (ICST California,USA) Registration Chair: Vishal Anand, SUNY College at Brockport Steering Committee: Imrich Chlamtac (CreateNet, Inc.), Chair Michele Zorzi (Universita di Padova) From linux-lists at comcast.net Fri Feb 4 16:33:46 2005 From: linux-lists at comcast.net (rec) Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 16:33:46 -0500 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Embedded ACT-R implementations? In-Reply-To: <034501c4fe41$19c114b0$facdfea9@lebiere> References: <034501c4fe41$19c114b0$facdfea9@lebiere> Message-ID: <4203EA3A.6060008@comcast.net> Hello, I am interested in finding out about any real-time, non PC (embedded) implementations of the ACT-R architecture (i.e., ARM, DSP, etc.). If you know about any implementations, plans, or proposals, then please send me a link. BTW, I am a student at Drexel in Phila. Thanks, Bob C. From grayw at rpi.edu Fri Feb 4 15:51:05 2005 From: grayw at rpi.edu (Wayne Gray) Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 15:51:05 -0500 Subject: [ACT-R-users] CogSci2005 Submission Deadline Extended! Message-ID: > > >The deadline for submitting 6-page papers, symposia, and >publication-based papers to CogSci2005 has been extended to >Wednesday, February 9, 2005. > >For information on the conference and how submit, go to: >http://www.psych.unito.it/csc/cogsci05/default.html From Kevin.Gluck at mesa.afmc.af.mil Mon Feb 7 15:39:25 2005 From: Kevin.Gluck at mesa.afmc.af.mil (Kevin.Gluck at mesa.afmc.af.mil) Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 13:39:25 -0700 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Grad Student Summer Internship at AFRL's Mesa Research Site (Mesa , Arizona) Message-ID: <671474002216D14B8D440C71877F9A8D9F0B22@FSQBGE07.williams.afmc.ds.af.mil> The Performance and Learning Models Research Team at the Air Force Research Laboratory's Mesa Research Site is looking for a graduate student summer intern with experience in cognitive modeling. Our team has modeling research underway in the following areas: text comprehension and verbal communication, orientation and navigation in virtual environments, dynamic spatial reasoning for Predator UAV operations, degraded cognitive functioning (such as might result from restricted sleep or circadian desynchrony), and learning and forgetting of complex knowledge and skill. The internship will involve contributing directly to one or more of these ongoing research areas. Please see http://www.mesa.afmc.af.mil/html/palmlab.htm for more details regarding our current research. It is expected that the internship will last approximately 12 weeks. If interested, please contact Kevin Gluck (kevin.gluck at mesa.afmc.af.mil ) with a vita and a statement of interest. ------------------------------------------------------- KEVIN GLUCK, PhD Senior Research Psychologist Air Force Research Laboratory 6030 S. Kent St Mesa, AZ 85212-6061 P: 480-988-6561 x-677; DSN 474-6677 F: 480-988-6285; DSN 474-6668 C: 480-229-4569 PALM Webpage: http://www.mesa.afmc.af.mil/html/palmlab.htm -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mmatessa at arc.nasa.gov Thu Feb 10 13:18:16 2005 From: mmatessa at arc.nasa.gov (Mike Matessa) Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 10:18:16 -0800 Subject: [ACT-R-users] CFP: IEEE SMC Special Session Message-ID: <221D294C-7B90-11D9-8667-000A9599D04E@arc.nasa.gov> If you're planning on attending the IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics conference in Hawaii this year, the special session "Computational Models of Human Performance in Aerospace Systems" has been accepted. If you have a paper on any modeling work in the domains of aeronautics or space and would like to be in this session, please let me know (mmatessa at arc.nasa.gov). 2005 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Waikoloa, Hawaii, October 10-12, 2005 http://ieeesmc2005.unm.edu/ Important Dates: March 1, 2005???????? Deadline for submission of regular papers and special session papers (full papers only). June 1, 2005?????????? Acceptance/Rejection notification July 1, 2005??????????? Full camera ready papers due electronically From pward at lsi.fsu.edu Thu Feb 10 14:37:53 2005 From: pward at lsi.fsu.edu (Paul Ward) Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 14:37:53 -0500 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Post Doc in Expert Performance Message-ID: To whom it may concern, Please would you circulate this advert to your members. Its for a Post Doc position researching expert performance with Anders Ericsson, David Eccles and myself. Very best, Paul. -- Paul Ward, Ph.D. Associate in Research Human Performance Laboratory Learning Systems Institute Florida State University Suite 254, 2010 Levy Avenue Tallahassee, FL 32310 Tel: 850-644-5649 Fax: 850-645-2795 pward at lsi.fsu.edu -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: FSU Post Doc.doc Type: application/msword Size: 24576 bytes Desc: not available URL: From tkelley at arl.army.mil Mon Feb 14 10:56:16 2005 From: tkelley at arl.army.mil (Kelley, Troy (Civ,ARL/HRED)) Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 10:56:16 -0500 Subject: [ACT-R-users] BRIMS confernce deadline extended. Message-ID: The BRIMS conference deadline has been extended!! The conference is in LA this year! Thanks Troy 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 18, 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 18, 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 18, 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 18, 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: 18 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 * 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... URL: From jkroger at nmsu.edu Wed Feb 16 13:16:56 2005 From: jkroger at nmsu.edu (Jim Kroger) Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 11:16:56 -0700 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Ph.D. and Masters Studentships in EEG Brain-Computer Interfaces & Neural Attention Mechanisms Message-ID: <6.1.2.0.2.20050216104808.022b0d38@pop.nmsu.edu> (Apologies for multiple postings) The Mind and Brain Laboratory at NMSU is seeking graduate students at the Ph.D. and Masters level who are interested in research on Brain-Computer Interfaces, as well as on the neural mechanisms underlying attention and control of attention. Our Brain-Computer Interface work is currently funded by the U.S. Air Force, and is a joint project between Jim Kroger in the Mind and Brain Laboratory, and Dr. Joseph Lakey in Mathematical Sciences, and Dr. Kwong Ng in Electrical Engineering. We focus on developing algorithms for interpreting mental activity as control signals, with an emphasis on algorithms to increase speed, accuracy, and decrease training in the interest of making Brain-Computer Interfaces practical. The NMSU Psychology Department, in conjunction with the NMSU Physical Sciences Laboratory and the NMSU Computing Research Laboratory are participating in building a multi-million dollar Human Performance Research Center that will include an emphasis on future research on BCIs. Dr. Kroger is also a professor at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, and connected to the MIND Institute there. We are also looking at how neural mechanisms operate during reasoning and other higher cognition, with an emphasis on the functional organization and interaction of frontal and parietal cortices. It is possible for students to work in both the BCI and Attention areas. Research is also being conducted on developing superior head models for source localization. We have a state of the art, high-density 128-channel electrophysiology laboratory using a Biosemi Active-2 system, with IBM Intellistation A Pro dual 64-bit Opteron processor workstations running the EMSE EEG analysis suite, as well as Matlab and EEGLAB and other Matlab EEG analysis packages. We have access to MRI locally for anatomical brain scans, a 32-processor Opteron cluster for high-speed data analysis, and access to fMRI and MEG facilities at the Mind Institute in Albuquerque. We are also in collaboration with Los Alamos National Laboratories scientists on fMRI, EEG, MEG, source localization, and computational models of neural processing. Students traditionally receive full support. Additionally, there are opportunities to spend time at Los Alamos National Laboratories. Interested students with backgrounds in psychology, neuroscience, biology, mathematics, engineering, physical sciences, or related disciplines, are encouraged to apply. Students must submit 3 letters of recommendation, their GPA (official transcripts), and their GRE scores. However, though the deadline is in March, we will accept promising students soon, so please contact Dr. Kroger by email if you have an interest in these positions. Please visit our laboratory website below for further information. http://www.psych.nmsu.edu/~jkroger/lab/index.html This website has our application information: http://www-psych.nmsu.edu/grad_admission.html Sincerely, Jim Kroger -------------------------------------------- Jim Kroger Department of Psychology 220 Science Hall, MSC 3452 Williams Street New Mexico State University Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001 USA http://www.psych.nmsu.edu/~jkroger/lab/index.html Tel: (505) 646 2243 Fax: (505) 646 6212 -------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ja+ at cmu.edu Sun Feb 20 22:09:27 2005 From: ja+ at cmu.edu (John Anderson) Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 22:09:27 -0500 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Post-doc at CMU Message-ID: Greetings. I am looking for a post-doc to join me in our working on modeling the learning of algebra. We have been collecting both behavioral data and brain imaging data trying to track out the learning of what constitutes first year high-school algebra in America. The ultimate goal will be to have a simulated student that interacts with the same software that students do and that learns the curriculum in the same way. The candidate would be joining a large research and well-resourced group where we are pursuing many interesting questions relevant to learning and the ACT-R architecture and would play a significant role in guiding the direction of the algebra project and in the direction of the group more generally. The ideal candidate would have a Ph. D in a related area and a working knowledge of ACT-R. The appointment would be one year and may be renewed annually. Past post docs have tended to stay 2 or 3 years. Start date is flexible and may begin at any time between now and September. Feel free to contact me for more information. --John -- ========================================================== John R. Anderson Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Phone: 412-268-2788 Fax: 412-268-2844 email: ja at cmu.edu URL: http://act.psy.cmu.edu/ From taatgen at cmu.edu Mon Feb 21 11:15:55 2005 From: taatgen at cmu.edu (Niels Taatgen) Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 11:15:55 -0500 Subject: [ACT-R-users] ACT-R summer school 2005 Message-ID: <5f7777adc7669f67aea3435e5d95aed0@cmu.edu> Note: the housing options have been changed since the last announcement TWELFTH ANNUAL ACT-R SUMMER SCHOOL Carnegie Mellon University June 13-18 2005 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 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 summer school is held to train researchers in the use of the ACT-R system. The summer school is followed by a workshop, but this year there will be a 1 month separation between the two events. Summer school will be June 13-18 in Pittsburgh and the workshop will be July 15-17 in Trieste, Italy. The Twelfth Annual ACT-R Summer School will be held at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh from Monday June 13 to Saturday June 18, 2005. This intensive 6-day course is designed to train researchers in the use of ACT-R for cognitive modeling. It is structured as a set of six units, with each unit lasting a day and involving a morning theory lecture, a web-based tutorial, an afternoon discussion session and a homework assignment which participants are expected to complete during the day and evening. Computing facilities will be provided. To provide an optimal learning environment, admission is limited to a dozen participants, who must submit by April 1 an application consisting of a curriculum vitae and a statement of purpose. Demonstrated experience with a modeling formalism similar to ACT-R will strengthen the application. Applicants will be notified of admission by April 15, with early notification upon request. Admission to the summer school is free. More information, including papers published by the ACT-R community, can be found on the ACT-R web site (http://act-r.psy.cmu.edu/). 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: 2005 ACT-R Summer School Psychology Department Attn: Niels Taatgen Baker Hall 345E Fax: +1 (412) 268-2844 Carnegie Mellon University Tel: +1 (412) 268-2815 Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890 Email: taatgen at cmu.edu ________________________________________________________________________ ____ Twelfth Annual ACT-R Summer School and Workshop June 13 to 18, 2005 at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh REGISTRATION ============ Name: .................................................................. Address: .................................................................. .................................................................. .................................................................. Tel/Fax: .................................................................. Email: .................................................................. Applications are due APRIL 1. Acceptance will be notified by APRIL 15. Applicants MUST include a curriculum vitae and a short statement of purpose. Demonstration of experience with a modeling formalism similar to ACT-R, such as a completed model, should also be included in the application. HOUSING ======= Housing is available in Fairfax apartments (http://www.housing.cmu.edu/buildings/fairfax/). The rates are $61.65/night/person for single rooms and $30.85 /night/person for double rooms. Housing reservations will be taken after acceptance to the summer school. Do not send money. See http://www.housing.cmu.edu for further housing information. To reserve a room in Fairfax apartments, 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: 2005 ACT-R Summer School Psychology Department Niels Taatgen Baker Hall 345E Fax: +1 (412) 268-2844 Carnegie Mellon University Tel: +1 (412) 268-2815 Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890 Email: taatgen at cmu.edu =================================================== Niels Taatgen - Carnegie Mellon University, Psychology, BH 345E Also (but not now): University of Groningen, Artificial Intelligence web: http://www.ai.rug.nl/~niels email: taatgen at cmu.edu Telephone: +1 412-268-2815 =================================================== From fomi at loa-cnr.it Tue Feb 22 12:02:59 2005 From: fomi at loa-cnr.it (fomi) Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 18:02:59 +0100 Subject: [ACT-R-users] CFP: Formal Ontologies Meet Industry Message-ID: *********************************************** REMINDER DEADLINE APPROACHING Apologies for multiple copies of this message *********************************************** Formal Ontologies Meet Industry http://www.loa-cnr.it/Files/fomi http://fandango.cs.unitn.it/fomi/ June 9-10, 2005 Lazise, Lake of Garda, Verona (Italy) ******************************************************** This event is jointly organized by: - University of Verona - Creactive Consulting S.r.l., Affi - Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR, Trento and supported by - Knowledgeboard - Knowledgeweb ******************************************************** Description =========== Modeling corporate knowledge is one of the most attractive themes in applied research and it has been an important motivation for several areas of investigations like distribute systems and knowledge management. Clearly, the business world considers this issue of strategic relevance and keeps paying particular attention to it because many theoretical results have already been proved effectiveness in real applications like data warehouse construction, information infrastructure definition, and all processes and applications of knowledge management. These knowledge models in industry aim at providing a framework for information and knowledge sharing, reliable information exchange, meaning negotiation and coordination between distinct organizations or among members of the same one. With the application of new methodologies and techniques in the everyday practice and the accessibility of new theoretical results in this area, developing new tools based on more sophisticated frameworks has become a common need. This is an important reason for the increasing interest in the employment of formal ontologies in fields like medicine, engineering, financial and legal systems, and other business practices. Objectives ========== The workshop is a forum to meet and discuss problems, solutions, perspectives and research directions for researchers and practitioners. We welcome papers or project descriptions that aim at applying formal ontologies in industry. In particular, - theoretical studies on formal ontologies committed to provide sound bases for industrial applications and to allow formal representation of corporate knowledge; - business experiences on case studies that single out concrete problems and possible solutions; the experience analysis should provide useful insights on social and strategic aspects that might be relevant in the creation and deployment of formal ontologies as well as useful criteria or methods to evaluate ontologies and their effectiveness in applications. ******************************************************** Proceedings =========== A selection of the best papers accepted at the workshop will be reconsidered for publication in a special track of the international journal 'Applied Ontology' ******************************************************** Topics of Interest ================== Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - ontology methodologies in business practice; - ontologies and corporate knowledge; - ontologies adaptation within organizations; - formalization of the know-how; - representation of artifacts and design; - representation of functionalities; - representation of knowledge and business processes; - linguistic representation in organizational knowledge; - linguistic problems in organizational standard code and codification processes; - enterprise modeling; - ontology evaluation; - ontology changes and developments within organizations; - representation of business services; - ontologies and electronic catalogs; - ontologies and e-commerce; - ontologies and marketing; - ontologies in the practice of engineering; - ontologies in the practice of medical sciences; - ontologies in finance. We also encourage submissions which relate research results from close areas connected to the workshop topics. ******************************************************** Important dates =============== Workshop: June 9-10, 2005 Deadline for paper submissions: March 4th, 2005 Notification of acceptance: April 4th, 2005 Camera ready submission: May 2nd, 2005 ******************************************************** Submission and Proceedings ========================== We invite two types of submissions in any of the topics of interest to the workshop: 1. Technical papers Maximum 10 pages, excluding title page and bibliography. 2. Short position papers Maximum 4 pages, excluding title page and bibliography. Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed and selected on the basis of technical quality, relevance of the described experiences (depending on the type of submission), and clarity of the presentation for for the workshop. In particular, we insist the paper to be written for a wide audience. Accepted papers will be presented at the workshop, and published as proceedings. All papers should be electronically submitted in PDF format to Roberta Cuel at: cuel at sci.univr.it If electronic submission is not possible, please contact Roberta Cuel at ph +39-045-802-7908 (or at cuel at sci.univr.it) for further instructions. ******************************************************** Program Committee (to be completed) =================================== Chair Matteo Cristani (University of Verona -- cristani at univr.it) Nicola Guarino (LOA-CNR, Italy -- guarino at loa-cnr.it) Stefano Borgo (LOA-CNR, Italy -- borgo at loa-cnr.it) Miltidias Lydras (Athens University of Economics & Business, Greece -- mdl at aueb.gr) York Sure (Institut AIFB Universitaet Karlsruhe, Germany -- sure at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de) Paulo Leitao (Polytechnic Institute of Bragana, Portugal -- pleitao at ipb.pt) Wolfgang Maass (University St. Gallen, Switzerland - Wolfgang.Maass at unisg.ch) Roberta Cuel (University of Verona, Italy -- cuel at sci.univr.it) Francesco Bellomi (University of Verona, Italy -- bellomi at sci.univr.it) Roberta Ferrario (LOA ISTC-CNR, Italy -- ferrario at loa-cnr.it) ******************************************************** Please do not hesitate to contact any of the Organizing Committee members for further details. ******************************************************** From IAWTIC.Conference at ise.canberra.edu.au Thu Feb 24 02:36:58 2005 From: IAWTIC.Conference at ise.canberra.edu.au (Conference, IAWTIC) Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 18:36:58 +1100 Subject: [ACT-R-users] CALL FOR PAPERS CIMCA2004 & IAWTIC2004 Message-ID: > CALL FOR PAPERS > > International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling, > Control and Automation > 28 - 30 November 2005 Vienna, Austria > http://www.ise.canberra.edu.au/conferences/cimca05 > > Sponsored by: > IEEE Computational Intelligence Society > European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology - EUFLAT > International Association for Fuzzy Set in Management and Economy - SIGEF > Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory and Intelligent Informatics - SOFT > Taiwan Fuzzy Systems Association - TFSA > World Wide Web Business Intelligence - W3BI > Hungarian Fuzzy Association - HFA > University of Canberra > > Jointly with > International Conference on Intelligent Agents, Web Technologies > and Internet Commerce > http://www.ise.canberra.edu.au/conferences/iawtic05/ > > Honorary Chair: > Lotfi A. Zadeh, University of California, USA > Stephen Grossberg, Boston University, USA > > The international conference on computational intelligence for modelling, control and automation will be held in Vienna, Austria on 28 to 30 November 2005. The conference provides a medium for the exchange of ideas between theoreticians and practitioners to address the important issues in computational intelligence, modelling, control and automation. The conference will consist of both plenary sessions and contributory sessions, focusing on theory, implementation and applications of computational intelligence techniques to modelling, control and automation. For contributory sessions, draft papers (4 pages or more) are being solicited. Several well-known keynote speakers will address the conference. Topics of the conference include, but are not limited to, the following areas: > > Modern and Advanced Control Strategies: > Neural Networks Control, > Fuzzy Logic Control, > Genetic Algorithms and Evolutionary Control, > Model-Predictive Control, > Adaptive and Optimal Control, > Intelligent Control Systems, > Robotics and Automation, > Fault Diagnosis, > Intelligent agents, > Industrial Automations > > Hybrid Systems: > Fuzzy Evolutionary Systems, > Fuzzy Expert Systems, > Fuzzy Neural Systems, > Neural Genetic Systems, > Neural-Fuzzy-Genetic Systems, > Hybrid Systems for Optimisation > > Data Analysis, Prediction and Model Identification: > Signal Processing, > Prediction and Time Series Analysis, > System Identification, > Data Fusion and Mining, > Knowledge Discovery, > Intelligent Information Systems, > Image Processing, and Image Understanding, > Parallel Computing applications in Identification & Control, > Pattern Recognition, > Clustering and Classification > > Decision Making and Information Retrieval: > Case-Based Reasoning, > Decision Analysis, > Intelligent Databases & Information Retrieval, > Dynamic Systems Modelling, > Decision Support Systems, > Multi-criteria Decision Making, > Qualitative and Approximate-Reasoning > > Paper Submission > Papers will be selected based on their originality, significance, correctness, and clarity of presentation. Extended draft papers (4 pages or more) should be submitted to the following e-mail or the following address: > CIMCA'2005 Secretariat > School of Information Sciences and Engineering > University of Canberra, Canberra, 2616, ACT, Australia > E-mail: cimca at canberra.edu.au > > Electronic submission of papers (either by E-mail or through conference website) is preferred. Draft papers should present original work, which has not been published or being reviewed for other conferences. > > Important Dates > 31 August 2005 Submission of draft papers > 30 September 2005 Notification of acceptance > 21 October 2005 Deadline for camera-ready copies of accepted papers > 28-30 November 2005 Conference sessions > > Special Sessions and Tutorials> > Special sessions and tutorials will be organised at the conference. The conference is calling for special sessions and tutorial proposals. All special session proposals should be sent to the conference chair on or before 5th of August 2005. CIMCA'05 will also include a special poster session devoted to recent work and work-in-progress. Abstracts are solicited for this session. Abstracts (3 pages limit) may be submitted up to 30 days before the conference date. > > Visits and social events > Sightseeing visits will be arranged for the delegates and guests. A separate program will be arranged for companions during the conference. > > Further Information > For further information either contact cimca at ise.canberra.edu.au or see the conference homepage at: http://www.ise.canberra.edu.au/conferences/cimca05/default.htm > > Organising Committee Chair: > Masoud Mohammadian, University of > Canberra, Australia > > International Program Committee: > H. Adeli, The Ohio State University, USA > W. Pedrycz, University of Manitoba, Canada > A. Agah, The University of Kansas, USA > T. Fukuda, Nagoya University, Japan > J. Bezdek, University of West Florida, USA > R. C. Eberhart, Purdue University, USA > F. Herrera, University of Granada, Spain > T. Furuhashi, Nagoya University, Japan > A. Agah, The University of Kansas, US > E. Andr?, Universit?t Augsburg, Germany > A. Kandel, University of South Florida, USA > J. P. Bigus, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA > J. Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong > A. Namatame, National Defense Academy, Japan > K. Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University, USA > B. Kosko, University of Southern California, USA > T. Baeck, Informatic Centrum Dortmund, Germany > K. Hirota, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan > E. Oja, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland > H. R. Berenji, NASA Ames Research Center, USA > H. Liljenstrom, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden > A. Bulsari, AB Nonlinear Solutions OY, Finland > J. Fernandez de Ca?ete, University of Malaga, Spain > W. Duch, Nicholas Copernicus University, Poland > E. Tulunay, Middle East Technical University, Turkey > C. Kuroda, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan > T. Yamakawa, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan > J. Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong > A. Namatame, National Defense Academy, Japan > A. Aamodt, Norwegian University of Science & Technology, Norway > > International Liaison: > Canada and USA Liaison: > Robert John, De Montfort University, UK > Christina Meier, Australia > Zohreh Pahlavani, AVIP, Austria > Nasser Jazdi, Institut f?r Automatisierungs- und > Softwaretechnik, Germany > > Europe Liaison: > Frank Zimmer, SES ASTRA, Luxembourg > > Asia Liaison: > Renzo Gobbin, University of Canberra, Australia > R. Amin Sarker, ADFA, Australia > > Local Arrangements and > Public Relation: > Zohreh Pahlavani, AVIP, Austria > Christina Meier, Australia > > Publicity: > Christina Meier, Australia > Zohreh Pahlavani, AVIP, Austria > > Publication: > Masoud Mohammadian, Australia > > In cooperation with: > University of Canberra, (Masoud Mohammadian) > International Association for Fuzzy Set in Management and Economy SIGEF - > Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory and Intelligent Informatics - SOFT (Toshio Fukuda) > World Wide Web Business Intelligence (W3BI) > Hungarian Fuzzy Association - HFA (J?nos Fodor and Imre J. Rudas) > Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, (Jos?-Luis Fern?ndez-Villaca?as Mart?n) > University of Guelph, (Simon X. Yang) > > From IAWTIC.Conference at ise.canberra.edu.au Fri Feb 25 18:36:37 2005 From: IAWTIC.Conference at ise.canberra.edu.au (Conference, IAWTIC) Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 10:36:37 +1100 Subject: [ACT-R-users] CALL FOR PAPERS CIMCA2004 & IAWTIC2004 Message-ID: > CALL FOR PAPERS > > International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling, > Control and Automation > 28 - 30 November 2005 Vienna, Austria > http://www.ise.canberra.edu.au/conferences/cimca05 > > Sponsored by: > IEEE Computational Intelligence Society > European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology - EUFLAT > International Association for Fuzzy Set in Management and Economy - SIGEF > Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory and Intelligent Informatics - SOFT > Taiwan Fuzzy Systems Association - TFSA > World Wide Web Business Intelligence - W3BI > Hungarian Fuzzy Association - HFA > University of Canberra > > Jointly with > International Conference on Intelligent Agents, Web Technologies > and Internet Commerce > http://www.ise.canberra.edu.au/conferences/iawtic05/ > > Honorary Chair: > Lotfi A. Zadeh, University of California, USA > Stephen Grossberg, Boston University, USA > > The international conference on computational intelligence for modelling, control and automation will be held in Vienna, Austria on 28 to 30 November 2005. The conference provides a medium for the exchange of ideas between theoreticians and practitioners to address the important issues in computational intelligence, modelling, control and automation. The conference will consist of both plenary sessions and contributory sessions, focusing on theory, implementation and applications of computational intelligence techniques to modelling, control and automation. For contributory sessions, draft papers (4 pages or more) are being solicited. Several well-known keynote speakers will address the conference. Topics of the conference include, but are not limited to, the following areas: > > Modern and Advanced Control Strategies: > Neural Networks Control, > Fuzzy Logic Control, > Genetic Algorithms and Evolutionary Control, > Model-Predictive Control, > Adaptive and Optimal Control, > Intelligent Control Systems, > Robotics and Automation, > Fault Diagnosis, > Intelligent agents, > Industrial Automations > > Hybrid Systems: > Fuzzy Evolutionary Systems, > Fuzzy Expert Systems, > Fuzzy Neural Systems, > Neural Genetic Systems, > Neural-Fuzzy-Genetic Systems, > Hybrid Systems for Optimisation > > Data Analysis, Prediction and Model Identification: > Signal Processing, > Prediction and Time Series Analysis, > System Identification, > Data Fusion and Mining, > Knowledge Discovery, > Intelligent Information Systems, > Image Processing, and Image Understanding, > Parallel Computing applications in Identification & Control, > Pattern Recognition, > Clustering and Classification > > Decision Making and Information Retrieval: > Case-Based Reasoning, > Decision Analysis, > Intelligent Databases & Information Retrieval, > Dynamic Systems Modelling, > Decision Support Systems, > Multi-criteria Decision Making, > Qualitative and Approximate-Reasoning > > Paper Submission > Papers will be selected based on their originality, significance, correctness, and clarity of presentation. Extended draft papers (4 pages or more) should be submitted to the following e-mail or the following address: > CIMCA'2005 Secretariat > School of Information Sciences and Engineering > University of Canberra, Canberra, 2616, ACT, Australia > E-mail: cimca at canberra.edu.au > > Electronic submission of papers (either by E-mail or through conference website) is preferred. Draft papers should present original work, which has not been published or being reviewed for other conferences. > > Important Dates > 31 August 2005 Submission of draft papers> > 30 September 2005 Notification of acceptance > 21 October 2005 Deadline for camera-ready copies of accepted papers > 28-30 November 2005 Conference sessions > > Special Sessions and Tutorials > Special sessions and tutorials will be organised at the conference. The conference is calling for special sessions and tutorial proposals. All special session proposals should be sent to the conference chair on or before 5th of August 2005. CIMCA'05 will also include a special poster session devoted to recent work and work-in-progress. Abstracts are solicited for this session. Abstracts (3 pages limit) may be submitted up to 30 days before the conference date. > > Visits and social events > Sightseeing visits will be arranged for the delegates and guests. A separate program will be arranged for companions during the conference. > > Further Information > For further information either contact cimca at ise.canberra.edu.au or see the conference homepage at: http://www.ise.canberra.edu.au/conferences/cimca05/default.htm > > Organising Committee Chair: > Masoud Mohammadian, University of > Canberra, Australia > > International Program Committee: > H. Adeli, The Ohio State University, USA > W. Pedrycz, University of Manitoba, Canada > A. Agah, The University of Kansas, USA > T. Fukuda, Nagoya University, Japan > J. Bezdek, University of West Florida, USA > R. C. Eberhart, Purdue University, USA > F. Herrera, University of Granada, Spain > T. Furuhashi, Nagoya University, Japan > A. Agah, The University of Kansas, US > E. Andr?, Universit?t Augsburg, Germany > A. Kandel, University of South Florida, USA > J. P. Bigus, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA > J. Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong > A. Namatame, National Defense Academy, Japan > K. Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University, USA > B. Kosko, University of Southern California, USA > T. Baeck, Informatic Centrum Dortmund, Germany > K. Hirota, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan > E. Oja, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland > H. R. Berenji, NASA Ames Research Center, USA > H. Liljenstrom, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden > A. Bulsari, AB Nonlinear Solutions OY, Finland > J. Fernandez de Ca?ete, University of Malaga, Spain > W. Duch, Nicholas Copernicus University, Poland > E. Tulunay, Middle East Technical University, Turkey > C. Kuroda, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan > T. Yamakawa, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan > J. Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong > A. Namatame, National Defense Academy, Japan > A. Aamodt, Norwegian University of Science & Technology, Norway > > International Liaison: > Canada and USA Liaison: > Robert John, De Montfort University, UK > Christina Meier, Australia > Zohreh Pahlavani, AVIP, Austria > Nasser Jazdi, Institut f?r Automatisierungs- und > Softwaretechnik, Germany > > Europe Liaison: > Frank Zimmer, SES ASTRA, Luxembourg > > Asia Liaison: > Renzo Gobbin, University of Canberra, Australia > R. Amin Sarker, ADFA, Australia > > Local Arrangements and > Public Relation: > Zohreh Pahlavani, AVIP, Austria > Christina Meier, Australia > > Publicity: > Christina Meier, Australia > Zohreh Pahlavani, AVIP, Austria > > Publication: > Masoud Mohammadian, Australia > > > From chufeng at pmail.ntu.edu.sg Mon Feb 28 05:59:53 2005 From: chufeng at pmail.ntu.edu.sg (#CHU FENG#) Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 18:59:53 +0800 Subject: [ACT-R-users] ICNC'05-FSKD'05 Final Call for Papers/Special Sessions/Sponsorship: Changsha China Message-ID: <052033A55521254893A4E2041957E1D028425F@mail03.student.main.ntu.edu.sg> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2005 International Conference on Natural Computation (ICNC'05) International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD'05) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 27 - 29 August 2005, Changsha, China ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Home Page: http://www.xtu.edu.cn/nc2005 http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/elpwang/nc2005 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ *** Submission Deadline: 15 March 2005 *** FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS, SPECIAL SESSIONS, AND SPONSORSHIP The ICNC'05-FSKD'05 will feature the most up-to-date research results in computational algorithms inspired from nature, including biological, ecological, and physical systems. It is an exciting and emerging inter-disciplinary area in which a wide range of techniques and methods are being studied for dealing with large, complex, and dynamic problems. The joint conferences will also promote cross- fertilization over these exciting and yet closely-related areas. Registration to either conference will entitle a participant to the proceedings and technical sessions of both conferences, as well as the conference banquet, buffet lunches, and tours to some attractions in Changsha. Specific areas include, but are not limited to neural computation, evolutionary computation, quantum computation, DNA computation, chemical computation, information processing in cells and tissues, molecular computation, computation with words, fuzzy computation, granular computation, artificial life, swarm intelligence, ants colony, artificial immune systems, etc., with applications to knowledge discovery, finance, operations research, and more. Publications ------------ The ICNC'05 and FSKD'05 conference proceedings will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) and Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI), respectively. Both the LNCS and LNAI are indexed in SCI-Expanded. A selected number of authors will be invited to expand and revise their papers for possible inclusions in peer-reviewed international journals / edited books. Special Sessions ---------------- In addition to regular sessions, participants are encouraged to organize special sessions on specialized topics. Each special session should have at least 4 papers. Special session organizers will solicit submissions and conduct reviews on the submitted papers. Proposals for special sessions should be sent to the respective Program Chairs, i.e., Ke Chen (neural computation, Ke.Chen at manchester.ac.uk) Yew Soon Ong (other topics in ICNC'05, asysong at ntu.edu.sg) Yaochu Jin (FSKD'05, yaochu.jin at honda-ri.de) Keynote Speakers ---------------- Shun-ichi Amari, Japan Aike Guo, China Nikhil R. Pal, India Xin Yao, UK About Changsha, Hunan, China ---------------------------- Changsha, the capital of Hunan Province, is a historic and cultural city in southern China and a busy port on the Xiangjiang River, with a population over 6 million. Founded 3000 years ago, the city became the capital of the Zhou state (951-960 AD) and a leading commercial center during the Song dynasty (960-1279 AD). Changsha International Airport is easily accessible with direct flights to all major domestic and some international destinations. Other famous tourist destinations in Hunan include the Zhangjiajie National Park (natural heritage listed by UN) and Fenghuang (Phoenix) Ancient City. Important Dates --------------- Paper Submission : 15 March 2005 Decision Notification : 15 April 2005 Final Versions / Author Registration: 15 May 2005 Contact ------- Email: nc2005 at xtu.edu.cn Phone/Fax: +86 732 829 2201 / 829 3249 Submission of Papers -------------------- Authors are invited to submit a full paper as an electronic file (postscript, pdf or Word format) at the conference website. Templates are available at both the conference website and the Springer website. Sponsorship / Exhibition ------------------------ The conferences will offer product vendors a sponsorship package and/or an opportunity to interact with conference participants. Product demonstration and exhibition can also be arranged. For more information, please visit the conference web page. Sponsor / Organizer ------------------- Xiangtan University, China Technical Co-Sponsor -------------------- IEEE Circuits and Systems Society IEEE Computational Intelligence Society IEEE Control Systems Society In Co-operation with -------------------- International Neural Network Society International Fuzzy Systems Association Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence European Neural Network Society Fuzzy Mathematics and Systems Association of China Japanese Neural Network Society Asia-Pacific Neural Network Assembly Honorary Conference Chairs -------------------------- Shun-ichi Amari, Japan Lotfi A. Zadeh, USA International Advisory Board ---------------------------- Toshio Fukuda, Japan Kunihiko Fukushima, Japan Tom Gedeon, Australia Aike Guo, China Zhenya He, China Janusz Kacprzyk, Poland Nik Kasabov, New Zealand John A. Keane, UK Soo-Young Lee, Korea Erkki Oja, Finland Nikhil R. Pal, India Witold Pedrycz, Canada Jose Principe, USA Harold Szu, USA Shiro Usui, Japan Xindong Wu, USA Lei Xu, Hong Kong, China Xin Yao, UK Syozo Yasui, Japan Bo Zhang, China Yixin Zhong, China Jacek M. Zurada, USA General Chair ------------- He-An Luo, China General Co-Chairs ----------------- Lipo Wang, Singapore Yunqing Huang, China Program Chairs -------------- ICNC'05: Ke Chen, UK Yew Soon Ong, Singapore FSKD'05: Yaochu Jin, Germany Local Arrangement Chairs ------------------------ Renren Liu, China Xieping Gao, China Proceedings Chair ----------------- Fen Xiao, China Publicity Chair --------------- Hepu Deng, Australia Sponsorship/Exhibits Chairs --------------------------- Shaoping Ling, China Geok See Ng, Singapore Webmaster --------- Linai Kuang, China Yanyu Liu, China --- Lipo WANG School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Nanyang Technological University Block S1, 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798 http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/elpwang Phone: +65 6790 6372 Fax +65 6793 3318