From bhanupvsr at gmail.com Tue Apr 3 11:56:18 2007 From: bhanupvsr at gmail.com (Bhanu Prasad) Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2007 11:56:18 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] IICAI-07: paper submission deadline is extended Message-ID: <621812f80704030856k21a8d5b5r570d89a5389261e9@mail.gmail.com> Paper submission deadline is extended to April 9 2007 www.iiconference.org The 3rd Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IICAI-07) (website: http://www.iiconference.org ) will be held in Pune, INDIA during December 17-19 2007. IICAI-07 is one of the major AI events in the world. This conference focuses on all areas of AI and related fields. We invite paper submissions. Please visit on the conference website for more details. Bhanu Prasad IICAI-07 Chair Department of Computer and Information Sciences Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, FL 32307, USA From Jerry.Ball at mesa.afmc.af.mil Wed Apr 4 18:35:07 2007 From: Jerry.Ball at mesa.afmc.af.mil (Ball, Jerry T Civ USAF AFRL/HEAT) Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 18:35:07 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Call For Participation, AAAI Fall Symposium 2007, Cognitive Approaches to NLP Message-ID: Call for Participation: AAAI Fall Symposium Series November 8-11, 2007 Westin Arlington Gateway, Arlington, VA Topic: Cognitive Approaches to NLP We propose this symposium to highlight NLP research at the intersection of AI/Computational Linguistics and Cognitive Science/Computational Psycholinguistics--especially research which integrates symbolic and statistical/connectionist representations with serial and parallel processing mechanisms into large-scale, functional, cognitively-motivated (or better yet, cognitively plausible) NLP systems. Major topics of discussion are expected to include: Cognitive/hybrid approaches to parsing and text meaning analysis Cognitive/hybrid approaches to generation Cognitive/hybrid approaches to knowledge representation (KR) and reasoning Cognitive/hybrid approaches to knowledge acquisition Cognitively-motivated implementations of NLP and information extraction (IE) systems Applying cognitive architectures to build functional NLP systems Evaluations, advantages and disadvantages of cognitively-motivated NLP systems This symposium will be of special interest to researchers interested in building cognitively-motivated, large-scale, real-world NLP systems, although researchers interested in building more specialized systems may also want to participate. Researchers engaged in this interdisciplinary area of research are consumers of experimental and theoretical research in psycholinguistics and human language processing without necessarily being psycholinguists or experimental psychologists. However, attempts to build large-scale, cognitively motivated NLP systems are likely to reveal weaknesses in cognitive theories of language representation and processing which will provide important feedback to more experimentally and theoretically oriented researchers. A key assumption underlying this symposium is the idea that adhering to well-established cognitive constraints on language processing may actually facilitate, rather than hinder, the development of functional NLP systems. The adoption of such cognitive constraints narrows the search space for possible solutions, focusing attention in research directions that are more likely to lead to feasible systems than the reliance on brute force computational mechanisms like exhaustive search and algorithmic backtracking which are both cognitively implausible and computationally intractable. A major goal of this symposium is to identify issues which need to be overcome in the development of large-scale, cognitively-motivated NLP systems, and to highlight emerging techniques and solutions for addressing these issues. Submissions Prospective participants are invited to submit research (up to 8 pages) or position (2 pages) papers, in PDF or Word format using AAAI guidelines, to Jerry Ball (jerry.ball at mesa.afmc.af.mil) on or before May 1, 2007. All submissions will be reviewed by the program review committee (TBD). Notifications of acceptance will be emailed on May 21, 2007. Accepted papers will be presented at the symposium and published in the AAAI technical report series. Camera-ready copies are due to AAAI on or before September 14, 2007. Organizing Committee Jerry Ball, Air Force Research Laboratory, Human Effectiveness Directorate Krishna Jha, Lockheed Martin Advanced Technologies Laboratories Sergei Nirenburg, University of Maryland Baltimore County Marjorie McShane, University of Maryland Baltimore County For more information about the symposium see the supplementary symposium web site (http://www.doublertheory.com/AAAIFallSymposium2007.htm) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From zhang at cis.uab.edu Thu Apr 5 00:51:55 2007 From: zhang at cis.uab.edu (IEEE-IRI07-Publicity) Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 23:51:55 -0500 (CDT) Subject: [ACT-R-users] Deadline Approaches: The 2007 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration Message-ID: Dear Author, This is just a friendly reminder that the due date for IEEE-IRI 2007 papers is April 7 (firm), 2007, and is fast approaching. We hope you are considering submitting a paper to us this year. ********** WHY IEEE-IRI? *********** Please click on the following links to view the newly uploaded slides for additional reasons you may want to attend our IRI conference. http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~iri07/docs/SoSE.ppt (Powerpoint) http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~iri07/docs/SoSE.pdf (PDF) or visit the website. (Our apologies if you have received more than one copy of this note.) Best regards, Chengcui Zhang Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Computer and Information Sciences University of Alabama at Birmingham ---------- Forwarded message ---------- *** Due to many requests, the following deadline has been extended *** Paper submission deadline: April 7, 2007 (FIRM) ----------------------------------------------------------------- The 2007 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IEEE IRI-2007) Sponsored by: The IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society August 13-15, 2007, Hilton Hotel, Las Vegas, USA http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~iri07/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- With the rapidly increasing volumes of information in digital form, we are constantly faced with newer challenges with regards to efficiently using it and extracting useful knowledge from it. Information reuse and integration (IRI) seeks to maximally exploit such available information to create new knowledge and to reuse it for addressing newer challenges. It plays a pivotal role in the capture, maintenance, integration, validation, extrapolation, and application of knowledge to augment decision capabilities in various application domains. The IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration conference serves as a forum for researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and government to present, discuss, and exchange ideas that address real-world problems with real-world solutions. The IEEE IRI will feature contributed as well as invited papers. Theoretical and applied papers are both included in this call. The conference program will include special sessions, open forum workshops and keynote speeches. Several funding agency program directors - including NSF, ONR, et al. - will present an open panel discussion entitled Funding Opportunities in Information Reuse and Systems Engineering. The conference includes, but is not limited to, the areas listed below: - Large Scale Data and System Integration - Component-Based Design and Reuse - Unifying Data Models (UML, XML, etc.) and Ontologies - Database Integration - Structured/Semi-structured Data - Middleware & Web Services - Reuse in Software Engineering - Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery - Sensory and Information Fusion - Reuse in Modeling & Simulation - Automation, Integration and Reuse across Various Applications - Information Security & Privacy - Survivable Systems & Infrastructures - AI & Decision Support Systems - Heuristic Optimization and Search - Knowledge Acquisition and Management - Fuzzy and Neural Systems - Soft Computing - Evolutionary Computing - Case-Based Reasoning - Natural Language Understanding - Knowledge Management and E-Government - Command & Control Systems (C4ISR) - Human-Machine Information Systems - Space and Robotic Systems - Biomedical & Healthcare Systems - Homeland Security & Critical Infrastructure Protection - Manufacturing Systems & Business Process Engineering - Multimedia Systems - Service-Oriented Architecture - Autonomous Agents in Web-based Systems - Information Integration in Grid Computing Environment - Information Integration in Mobile Computing Environment - Information Integration in Ubiquitous Computing Environment - Systems of Systems - Semantic Web and Emerging Applications - Information Reuse, Integration and Sharing in Collaborative Environments Instructions for Authors: ------------------------- Papers reporting original and unpublished research results pertaining to the above and related topics are solicited. Full paper manuscripts must be in English of length 4 to 6 pages (using the IEEE two-column template). Submissions should include the title, author(s), affiliation(s), e-mail address(es), tel/fax numbers, abstract, and postal address(es) on the first page. Papers should be submitted at the conference web site: http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~iri07. If web submission is not possible, manuscripts should be sent as an attachment via email to either of the Program Chairs (mailing address available on the conference website) on or before the deadline date of April 7, 2007. The attachment must be in .pdf (preferred) or word.doc format. The subject of the email must be IEEE IRI 2007 Submission. Papers will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. Authors should certify that their papers represent substantially new work and are previously unpublished. Paper submission implies the intent of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper, if accepted. Authors of selected papers that are also presented at the conference will be invited to submit expanded versions of their papers for review for publication in an approved special issue of the IEEE SMC Transactions, part C, on IRI to be published in 2008. Important Dates: ---------------- Feb. 11, 2007: Workshop/Special session proposal Apr. 7, 2007: Paper submission deadline (FIRM) Apr. 29, 2007: Notification of acceptance May 20, 2007: Camera-ready paper due May 20, 2007: Presenting author registration due Jul. 10, 2007: Advance (discount) registration for general public and other co-author Jul. 31, 2007: Hotel reservation (special discount rate) closing date Aug. 13-15,2007: Conference events Orgizing Committee: ------------------- Honorary General Chair -- Lotfi Zadeh University of California, USA zadeh at cs.berkeley.edu General Chairs -- Stuart Rubin SPAWAR Systems Center, USA stuart.rubin at navy.mil Shu-Ching Chen Florida International University, USA chens at cs.fiu.edu Program Chairs -- Weide Chang California State University, USA changw at ecs.csus.edu James B. D. Joshi University of Pittsburgh, USA jjoshi at mail.sis.pitt.edu Workshop Chairs -- Du Zhang California State University, USA zhangd at ecs.csus.edu Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar Florida Atlantic University, USA taghi at cse.fau.edu Eric Grgoire Universit?d'Artois, France gregoire at cril.univ-artois.fr Publicity Chair -- Chengcui Zhang, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA zhang at cis.uab.edu Asian Liaison -- Wen-Lian Hsu Academia Sinica, Taiwan, R.O.C. hsu at iis.sinica.edu.tw Althea Liang Qianhui Singapore Management University, Singapore althealiang at smu.edu.sg Finance & Registration Chair -- Ju-Yeon Jo California State University, USA jo at egr.unlv.edu Publications Chair -- Min-Yuh Day National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C. myday at iis.sinica.edu.tw Local Arrangements Chair -- Louellen McCoy SPAWAR Systems Center, USA louellen.mccoy at navy.mil Webmaster -- Saubhagya Ram Joshi University of Pittsburgh, USA srjoshi at mail.sis.pitt.edu _______________________________________________ ieeeauthors mailing list ieeeauthors at cis.uab.edu http://crier.cis.uab.edu/mailman/listinfo/ieeeauthors From mike.fotta at imts.us Thu Apr 5 13:06:03 2007 From: mike.fotta at imts.us (Mike Fotta) Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 13:06:03 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Position studying Human Error Modeling with ACT-R Message-ID: Software Engineer/Research Associate for Human Error Modeling for Error Tolerant Systems (HEMETS) Small Business Innovative Research project. Innovative Management & Technology Services (IMTS). IMTS has an opening for a software engineer who can apply ACT-R and LISP experience to modeling human error. The specific project and job description follows. IMTS will consider full time, part time or intern level employment for this position. HEMETS The interaction of humans with computers in environments which are increasingly information rich and demand fast decision time yields errors when human capabilities and limitations are not designed into a system. These "human errors" can lead to serious and even deadly consequences, such as friendly-fire incidents during combat. If knowledge of the cause of human errors resulting from a particular design were available to the system designers before implementing a system, then the design could be modified or an alternative design chosen to reduce or remove these errors, or at least enable recovery from the errors. One method to provide such knowledge is the development of software which can both simulate human performance given a system design and predict the errors likely to occur from this design. In order to develop such a tool, IMTS is undertaking the development of a computational Human Error Modeling tool for Error Tolerant Systems (HEMETS). This is an extension of previous work in which we successfully designed the Human Error Modeling Architecture (HEMA) which provides the core component of HEMETS. HEMA is built upon ACT-R and, utilizing an analysis of research in human errors, proposed a cognitive architecture for human error modeling. There are a number of challenges to develop a functional HEMETS. Some of these are: 1. Extending ACT-R to incorporate the error modeling aspects needed to implement HEMA. 2. Developing an easily-used, reusable method to interface HEMETS to a system's user interfaces. 3. Tracking the activities of HEMA to determine the causes of error resulting from a user interface design. 4. Developing an automated output which communicates the likely operator errors resulting from a system design and offers recommendations to improving the design. This work is funded under an Office of Naval Research (ONR) Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) grant. Candidate Capabilities 1. Experience with LISP programming: either a minimum of 1 year on the job experience or graduate school experience which used LISP programming, preferably in modeling some aspect of human cognition or behavior. 2. B.S. Computer Science with experience, or M.S. /PhD. Computer or Cognitive Science. 3. Experience with ACT-R cognitive architecture; experience with other cognitive architectures will be considered. 4. Self-starter, independent worker capable of creative approaches. 5. Good communication skills, especially technical writing. Job Duties: 1. Develop detailed design of Human Error Modeling Architecture (HEMA) and HEMETS components. 2. Implement HEMA as extensions and additions to ACT-R. 3. Work with consultants and PI to insure HEMA integrates with interface to system simulations. 4. Design an automated subsystem which both explains error cause due to a proposed system design and offers recommendations to eliminate or reduce those errors. 5. Develop technical papers and presentations for customer (ONR) and cognitive modeling community. This position gives an individual the opportunity to do post-doctoral type work with the pay and benefits of a thriving small company. Application Applicants should email a resume to mike.fotta at imts.us and mike.painter at imts.us We will consider full time, part time or intern level employment. IMTS is a small but growing business with working relationships to major corporations, government agencies, academic and research institutions. For further information visit http://www.imts-wv.com/Welcome.asp Michael E. Fotta, Ph.D. Principal Investigator mike.fotta at imts.us (304)-363-6757 Office (304)-363-6767 Fax www.imts.us -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ritter at acs.ist.psu.edu Sat Apr 7 11:49:19 2007 From: ritter at acs.ist.psu.edu (ritter) Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2007 11:49:19 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [ACT-R-users] CogModeling Notes: ICCM07/Cogsci07/SoarW07/ICM book/Survey/Jobs Message-ID: <20070407154919.6F7D5DE106@acs.ist.psu.edu> [Please forward as/what is appropriate, such as to students' mailing lists, and for calanders of events.] This is based on the International Cognitive Modeling Conference mailing list, which I maintain. I forward messages about twice a year, more around the ICCM conference. The first announcement is the one that is driving this email, the announcement of the tutorials program at ICCM 2007. cheers, Frank Ritter (frank.ritter at psu.edu, http://acs.ist.psu.edu) 1. Tutorials program announced, 2007 Int. Conference on Cognitive Modeling 26 July 2007, in Ann Arbor, MI, early registration deadline 16 June 2007 http://acs.ist.psu.edu/iccm2007/tutorials.html 2. ICCM 2007 Conference Announcement 27-29 July 2007, in Ann Arbor, MI. Paper submission deadline 20 April 2007. http://sitemaker.umich.edu/iccm2007.org/home 3. CogSci 2007 Tutorials program, 1 Aug 07 http://csep.psyc.memphis.edu/cogsci07/tutorials.htm 4. ICCM 2007 Doctoral Consortium Call http://sitemaker.umich.edu/iccm2007.org/doctorial_consortium 5. Soar May 2007 Workshop Announcement http://winter.eecs.umich.edu/workshop27/ 6. Integrated Models of Cognitive Systems book, Gray (ed.), published http://www.rpi.edu/~grayw/pubs/papers/2007/Gray-IMoCS/Gray-IMoCS.htm 7. Online survey for MSc on cognitive modeling http://survey.bican.net/announcement/ 8. Job in cognitive modeling in WV mike.fotta at imts.us 9. Job in cognitive modeling in RI kirschenbaumss at npt.nuwc.navy.mil *************************************************** 1. Tutorials program announced, 2007 Int'l Conference on Cognitive Modeling 26 July 2007, Ann Arbor, Michigan, early registration deadline 16 Jun 07 http://acs.ist.psu.edu/iccm2007/tutorials.html The Tutorials program at ICCM 2007 will be held on Wednesday 26 July 2007 at the Rackham building at the University of Michigan. The format of this year's program is modelled on previously successful ICCM tutorials, and is similar to the series held at the annual Cognitive Science Society Conferences. Registration: Tutorials cost $50 for each half-day tutorial and $30 for students (the web site pdf form is more correct than the table). You are encouraged to register through the conference site, or, if space is available, paid for on the day. Attendance at the tutorials does not require conference registration; tutorial registration does not provide conference entrance. Advanced Tutorial on ACT-R 6.0 Anderson et al., Full-day (0915-1700) An introduction to the COGENT Cognitive Modelling Environment Cooper, Half-day (1345-1700) Soar Laird et al., Full-day (0915-1700) Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Modeling Using Leabra In PDP++ Noelle , Full-day (0915-1700) *************************************************** 2. ICCM 2007 Conference Announcement 27-29 July 2007, in Ann Arbor, Michigan. http://sitemaker.umich.edu/iccm2007.org/home Paper submission deadline 20 April 2007. http://sitemaker.umich.edu/iccm2007.org/submissions ICCM is the premier international conference for research on computational models and computation-based theories of human behavior. ICCM is a forum for presenting, discussing, and evaluating the complete spectrum of cognitive models, including connectionism, symbolic modeling, dynamical systems, Bayesian modeling, and cognitive architectures. ICCM includes basic and applied research, across a wide variety of domains, ranging from low-level perception and attention to higher-level problem-solving and learning. *************************************************** 3. CogSci 2007 Tutorials program http://csep.psyc.memphis.edu/cogsci07/tutorials.htm Tutorial presenters and attendees are required to register for their tutorial through the on-line conference registration system (available beginning in April, 2007), but there is no additional fee for the tutorial. Tutorial attendance is FREE of charge! Space is limited, so admittance into the tutorials will be on a first come, first served basis. The tutorial program will be held on Wednesday, August 1, 2007. The full-day tutorial sessions will run from 8:30AM to 5:00PM, with a break for lunch at noon. The half-day tutorial will run from 1:30 to 5:00. Tutorial 1 (Full-day): Comp. Cog. Neuroscience Modeling Using Leabra In PDP++ David C. Noelle Tutorial 2 (Full-day): Quantum Information Processing Theory Jerome R. Busemeyer and Zheng Wang Tutorial 3 (Full-day): Soar John Laird Tutorial 4 (Half-day): ACT-R Niels Taatgen and Hedderik van Rijn *************************************************** 4. ICCM 2007 Doctoral Consortium Call Doctoral Consortium July 26, 2007 Submission Deadline: April 20, 2007 http://sitemaker.umich.edu/iccm2007.org/doctorial_consortium The ICCM 2007 Doctoral Consortium provides an opportunity for doctoral students to explore their research interests in a multi-approach workshop, under the guidance of a panel of research faculty, consisting of Anthony Hornof (University of Oregon) and two other distinguished faculty to be determined. The Consortium has the following objectives: * Provide a setting for mutual feedback on participants' current research and guidance on future research directions. * Develop a supportive community of scholars and a spirit of collaborative research. * Contribute to the conference goals through interaction with other researchers and conference events. Review Criteria The Doctoral Consortium review committee will select participants based on their anticipated contribution to the Consortium objectives. Participants typically have settled on thesis directions but have not necessarily had their research proposals accepted by their thesis committees. The Doctoral Consortium encourages participation of students from a wide variety of modeling approaches. Students from under-represented groups or institutions, including students from institutions where modeling is not a strength, are especially encouraged to apply. *************************************************** 5. Soar May 2007 Workshop Announcement The 27th Soar Workshop will be held Monday, May 21 through Friday, May 25, 2007, in Ann Arbor, MI, hosted by the Center for Cognitive Architecture at the University of Michigan, and Soar Technology, Inc. Soar Tutorials will be offered on May 21 & 22. The main workshop with presented talks will be May 23-25. The official web page for the 27th Soar Workshop is: http://winter.eecs.umich.edu/workshop27/ All workshop, hotel, tutorial and additional information are available on the web page. A registration form is available as well. This year we are having a TankSoar competition!!! Similar in spirit to the DARPA grand challenge, just not so grand. It will be a round robin competition and the overall winner gets $100. The top three tanks will then compete against John Laird's tank (which won't be part of the competition), and any of those tanks that beat his tank will split an additional $100. Bring 'em on! Periodic updates may be announced to soar-group, but please check the web page for the most up-to-date information. Each year members of the Soar community -- faculty, scientists, graduate students, technical staff and developers -- gather together for a weekend of intensive interaction and exchange on Soar. The Soar community is widely distributed geographically. These workshops provide the opportunity for having face-to-face conversations, for hearing about the current status of everyone's research, and for looking forward to what will be happening in the future. We will try to give as many members of the community as possible the opportunity to describe their research or to discuss whatever Soar issues are of concern to them. This means the time available per talk is quite short (typically either 5 or 15 minutes). Since workshop attendees are already well-entrenched in the Soar world, however, brief talks that concentrate on only the essentials work very well. The Soar Workshop is announced on the soar-group mailing list, but we do want to ensure that everyone actively working with Soar does get invited, so if you know of anyone who really should have been invited, but did not receive an announcement, please let us know. Proceedings from the previous Soar workshops are available online: http://sitemaker.umich.edu/soar/soar_workshops *************************************************** 6. Integrated Models of Cognitive Systems book, Gray (ed.) The first book in the Oxford Series on Cognitive Models and Architectures is now published: Gray, W. D.(Ed.) (2007). Integrated models of cognitive systems. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN13: 9780195189193 http://www.rpi.edu/~grayw/pubs/papers/2007/Gray-IMoCS/Gray-IMoCS.htm http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Psychology/Cognitive/?view=usa&ci=9780195189193 Integrated Models of Cognitive Systems [FROM THE EDITOR'S PREFACE] It is with pleasure that I introduce researchers, teachers, and students to this volume on Integrated Models of Cognitive Systems. All such volumes present a snapshot of the time in which they are created; it is the intent of the contributors that this snapshot will grace a postcard to the future. The history of cognitive studies is a history of trying to understand the mind by slicing and dicing it into functional components and trying to thoroughly understand each component. Throughout time the size of the components has gotten smaller and their shape has varied considerably with the result that what was a whole, the human mind, has now become a jigsaw puzzle of oddly shaped parts. The emphasis on cognitive systems is an emphasis on how these pieces fit together to achieve "complete processing models" (Newell, 1973) or "activity producing subsystems" (Brooks, 1991). An emphasis on integrated models is an emphasis that recognizes that the cognitive system is too large and complex for a single researcher or laboratory to model and that progress can only be made by developing our various parts so that they can fit together with the parts developed by other researchers in other laboratories. As Editor it is my duty and pleasure to write a preface to this volume. I view my task as providing a succinct summary of how this volume came to be, an equally succinct overview of the volume, and thanks to the many people whose efforts contributed to its production and to the success of the workshop on which the volume is based. I will, however, avoid in this Preface a more detailed discussion of integrated models of cognitive systems. That discussion is provided by Chapter 1 of this volume and continues throughout the collective work. *************************************************** 7. Online survey for MSc on cognitive modeling A questionnaire is being conducted as a part of an MSc Thesis work supervised by Dr. Bilge Say from the Cognitive Science Program at Middle East Technical University. The questionnaire addresses the attitudes of users of cognitive modeling tools, with a particular emphasis on the suitability of the tools for the cognitive modeling task from the perspectives of general usability and cognitive modeling specifics. Please read the announcement and instructions for participation here: http://survey.bican.net/announcement/ . *************************************************** 8. Job in cognitive modeling in WV Software Engineer/Research Associate for Human Error Modeling for Error Tolerant Systems (HEMETS) Small Business Innovative Research project. Innovative Management & Technology Services (IMTS). IMTS has an opening for a software engineer who can apply ACT-R and LISP experience to modeling human error. The specific project and job description follows. IMTS will consider full time, part time or intern level employment for this position. HEMETS The interaction of humans with computers in environments which are increasingly information rich and demand fast decision time yields errors when human capabilities and limitations are not designed into a system. These ge is the development of software which can both simulate human performance given a system design and predict the errors likely to occur from this design. In order to develop such a tool, IMTS is undertaking the development of a computational Human Error Modeling tool for Error Tolerant Systems (HEMETS). This is an extension of previous work in which we successfully designed the Human Error Modeling Architecture (HEMA) which provides the core component of HEMETS. HEMA is built upon ACT-R and, utilizing an analysis of research in human errors, proposed a cognitive architecture for human error modeling. There are a number of challenges to develop a functional HEMETS. Some of these are: 1. Extending ACT-R to incorporate the error modeling aspects needed to implement HEMA. 2. Developing an easily-used, reusable method to interface HEMETS to a systeming the activities of HEMA to determine the causes of error resulting from a user interface design. 3. Tracking the activities of HEMA to determine the causes of error resulting from a user interface design. 4. Developing an automated output which communicates the likely operator errors resulting from a system design and offers recommendations to improving the design. This work is funded under an Office of Naval Research (ONR) Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) grant. Candidate Capabilities 1. Experience with LISP programming: either a minimum of 1 year on the job experience or graduate school experience which used LISP programming, preferably in modeling some aspect of human cognition or behavior. 2. B.S. Computer Science with experience, or M.S./PhD. Computer or Cognitive Science. 3. Experience with ACT-R cognitive architecture; experience with other cognitive architectures will be considered. 4. Self-starter, independent worker capable of creative approaches. 5. Good communication skills, especially technical writing. Job Duties: 1. Develop detailed design of Human Error Modeling Architecture (HEMA) and HEMETS components. 2. Implement HEMA as extensions and additions to ACT-R. 3. Work with consultants and PI to insure HEMA integrates with interface to system simulations. 4. Design an automated subsystem which both explains error cause due to a proposed system design and offers recommendations to eliminate or reduce those errors. 5. Develop technical papers and presentations for customer (ONR) and cognitive modeling community. This position gives an individual the opportunity to do post-doctoral type work with the pay and benefits of a thriving small company. Application Applicants should email a resume to mike.fotta at imts.us and mike.painter at imts.us We will consider full time, part time or intern level employment. IMTS is a small but growing business with working relationships to major corporations, government agencies, academic and research institutions. For further information visit http://www.imts-wv.com/Welcome.asp Michael E. Fotta, Ph.D. Principal Investigator mike.fotta at imts.us (304)-363-6757 Office (304)-363-6767 Fax http://www.imts.us *************************************************** 9. Job in cognitive modeling in RI kirschenbaumss at npt.nuwc.navy.mil Position Available Immediately: Applied Experimental Psychologist/Human Factors Engineer Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division (NUWC) Newport, RI Website: http://www.npt.nuwc.navy.mil Job Description: The Combat Systems Department is seeking a researcher to collaborate in studies of expertise, decision making, and design of decision support systems for submariners. Research methods include traditional and non-traditional techniques such as process tracing, eye tracking, exploratory sequential data analysis, and cognitive modeling. Initial responsibilities include designing, running and analyzing experiments under currently funded projects. Results may be published in journals and presented at professional conferences. Additional duties include developing own research program and fundable proposals for future work. There are numerous opportunities for professional growth. Details: Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division is located on Narragansett Bay in Newport, R.I. NUWC is the principal Navy Laboratory for undersea research in the US. Recent attention to Human Systems Integration has increased the opportunities and visibility of researchers in human performance, cognition, and human-computer interactions. Pay: Commiserate with experience Qualifications: Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology or Cognitive Science desired, but degree in related field or equivalent research experience is acceptable. Familiar with traditional research methods and willingness to learn new ones. Experience in protocol analysis, cognitive modeling (ACT-R or EPIC), and/or eye tracking desired. Interest in learning these techniques required. Good communication skills and ability to work with computers and people required. Must be US citizen and able to qualify for a security clearance Send resume by email to: Dr. Susan S. Kirschenbaum kirschenbaumss at npt.nuwc.navy.mil or by post to: Code 25011, Building 1171/3 Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport, R.I. 02841 The U.S. Navy is an equal opportunity employer -30- From galk at cs.biu.ac.il Sun Apr 8 04:33:58 2007 From: galk at cs.biu.ac.il (Gal Kaminka) Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 11:33:58 +0300 Subject: [ACT-R-users] CFP: Evaluating Architectures for Intelligence Message-ID: <200704081133.59548.galk@cs.biu.ac.il> (Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message.) Dear Colleague. We are happy to announce a call for submissions to the AAAI 2007 Workshop on Evaluating Architectures for Intelligence http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/~galk/architectures/ Submission date: April 15, 2007. Details are below. Please distribute to all interested parties, as appropriate. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Purpose and Scope ================= Cognitive architectures form an integral part of robots and agents. Architectures structure and organize the knowledge and algorithms used by the agents to select actions in dynamic environments, plan and solve problems, learn, and coordinate with others. Architectures enable intelligent behavior by agents, and serve to integrate general capabilities expected of an intelligent agent (e.g. planning and learning), to implement and test theories about natural or synthetic agent cognition, and to explore domain-independent mechanisms for intelligence. As AI research has improved in formal and empirical rigor, traditional evaluation methodologies for architectures have sometimes proved insufficient. On the formal side, rigorous analysis has often proved elusive; we seem to be missing the notation required for formally proving properties of architectures. On the empirical side, experiments which demonstrate generality are notoriously expensive to perform, and are not sufficiently informative. And at a high-level, evaluation is difficult because the criteria are not well defined: Is it generality? Ease of programmability? Compatibility with data from biology and psychology? Applicability in real systems? Recognizing that scientific progress depends on the ability to conduct informative evaluation (by experiment or formal analysis), this workshop will address the methodologies needed for evaluating architectures. The focus is on evaluation methodology, rather than specific architectures; there are many researchers investigating architectures, but surprisingly little published work on evaluation methodology. Thus the workshop's immediate goal is to generate discussion of a wide spectrum of evaluation challenges and methods for addressing them. The next step is to harness such discussions to propose guidelines for evaluation of architectures, that would be acceptable to the AI community, and allow researchers to both evaluate their own work, and the progress of others. We believe such guidelines will facilitate the collection of objective and reproducible evidence of the depth and breadth of an architecture's support for cognition, and its relationship to human or other natural cognition. We intend to publish the results in a special issue of an international journal and to archive presentation slides and explanatory material on an active web site. Key Issues for Discussion ------------------------- The following key questions will be raised to motivate the workshop discussion, with the goal of providing answers (or at least steps towards answers) within the workshop: o What are the underlying research hypotheses one explores with architectures? o Which functions/characteristics turn an architecture into an architecture supporting intelligence? o How are architectures to be compared in an informative manner? o What evaluation methods are needed for different types of cognitive architectures? o What are the criteria and scales of evaluation? o How should we validate the design of a cognitive architecture? o Are there any relevant formal methods? Can we prove properties of architectures? o Can we develop a common ontology for describing architectures and/or the various sets of requirements against which they can be evaluated? o How can data-sets and benchmarks (standardized tasks) be used to evaluate architectures? Are there useful case-studies? o How can we determine what architectures to use for different tasks or environments? Are there any trade-offs involved? Format and Submissions ---------------------- The workshop will be composed of invited and contributed talks on evaluation methodologies, interleaved with panels, and moderated discussions. We seek submission of extended abstracts (2 pages) and short position papers (4 pages) that discuss evaluation methodologies for architectures. Submissions should clearly address architecture evaluation issues and methods and explicitly relate to one or more of the questions posed above. Submissions that discuss specific architectures are only acceptable if they discuss evaluation case-studies. A selected group of contributors will be invited to present their position, to participate in panels, and/or to moderate group discussions. Submissions, in AAAI format, should be emailed by April 15, 2007, to Gal Kaminka (galk at cs.biu.ac.il) and Catherina Burghart (burghart at ira.uka.de), with a subject line containing "ARCH-EVAL SUBMISSION". Important Dates --------------- o Submission of extended abstracts: April 15, 2007 o Notification, selection of speakers: May 7, 2007 o Camera-ready copy of workshop material: May 15, 2007 o Workshop at AAAI 2007: July 22-23, 2007 Organizers ---------- The workshop is co-chaired by Gal A. Kaminka (Bar Ilan University, Israel) and Catherina R. Burghart (University of Karlsruhe, Germany). The organizing committee additionally includes: o Kevin Gluck, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA o Pat Langley, Stanford University, USA o Brian Logan, University of Nottingham, UK o Ralf Mikut, Karlsruhe Institute for Technology, Germany o Praveen Paritosh, Northwestern University, USA o Bilge Say, Middle East Technical University, Turkey o Robert Wray, Soar Technology, Inc., USA -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Gal A. Kaminka, Ph.D. http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/~galk Assistant Professor Computer Science Dept. Bar Ilan University Only those who see the invisible can do the impossible "Death is an engineering problem." -- Bart Kosko, "Fuzzy Thinking" "But life is not an engineering task." -- Gal A. Kaminka ------------------------------------------------------- -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Gal A. Kaminka, Ph.D. http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/~galk Assistant Professor Computer Science Dept. Bar Ilan University Only those who see the invisible can do the impossible "Death is an engineering problem." -- Bart Kosko, "Fuzzy Thinking" "But life is not an engineering task." -- Gal A. Kaminka From zhang at cis.uab.edu Sun Apr 8 11:34:16 2007 From: zhang at cis.uab.edu (IEEE-IRI07-Publicity) Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 10:34:16 -0500 (CDT) Subject: [ACT-R-users] Deadline Extended: The 2007 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration Message-ID: Dear Prospective Author: To accommodate the many requests for more extension of paper submission to the IEEE IRI-07 Conference (Las Vegas, USA, August 13-15) that we have received (probably due to the Easter holiday and income-tax filing time in US), we are cordially extending the deadline for the paper submission to Friday, April 13, 2007 (US Pacific Daylight Savings Time). Afterward, the paper reviewing starts immediately without delay, in order to meet the publishing deadline. Again, all information regarding paper submission requirements and channels (for the main conference or individual workshops) are elaborated in the conference web page at this URL: http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~iri07/ ********** WHY IEEE-IRI? *********** Please click on the following links to view the newly uploaded slides for additional reasons you may want to attend our IRI conference. http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~iri07/docs/SoSE.ppt (Powerpoint) http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~iri07/docs/SoSE.pdf (PDF) or visit the website. ************************************ [Apologies if you received multiple copies because of cross-posting] Chengcui Zhang Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Computer and Information Sciences University of Alabama at Birmingham =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= *** Due to many requests, the following deadline has been extended *** Paper submission deadline: April 13, 2007 (FIRM) ----------------------------------------------------------------- The 2007 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IEEE IRI-2007) Sponsored by: The IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society August 13-15, 2007, Hilton Hotel, Las Vegas, USA http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~iri07/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- With the rapidly increasing volumes of information in digital form, we are constantly faced with newer challenges with regards to efficiently using it and extracting useful knowledge from it. Information reuse and integration (IRI) seeks to maximally exploit such available information to create new knowledge and to reuse it for addressing newer challenges. It plays a pivotal role in the capture, maintenance, integration, validation, extrapolation, and application of knowledge to augment decision capabilities in various application domains. The IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration conference serves as a forum for researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and government to present, discuss, and exchange ideas that address real-world problems with real-world solutions. The IEEE IRI will feature contributed as well as invited papers. Theoretical and applied papers are both included in this call. The conference program will include special sessions, open forum workshops and keynote speeches. Several funding agency program directors - including NSF, ONR, et al. - will present an open panel discussion entitled Funding Opportunities in Information Reuse and Systems Engineering. The conference includes, but is not limited to, the areas listed below: - Large Scale Data and System Integration - Component-Based Design and Reuse - Unifying Data Models (UML, XML, etc.) and Ontologies - Database Integration - Structured/Semi-structured Data - Middleware & Web Services - Reuse in Software Engineering - Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery - Sensory and Information Fusion - Reuse in Modeling & Simulation - Automation, Integration and Reuse across Various Applications - Information Security & Privacy - Survivable Systems & Infrastructures - AI & Decision Support Systems - Heuristic Optimization and Search - Knowledge Acquisition and Management - Fuzzy and Neural Systems - Soft Computing - Evolutionary Computing - Case-Based Reasoning - Natural Language Understanding - Knowledge Management and E-Government - Command & Control Systems (C4ISR) - Human-Machine Information Systems - Space and Robotic Systems - Biomedical & Healthcare Systems - Homeland Security & Critical Infrastructure Protection - Manufacturing Systems & Business Process Engineering - Multimedia Systems - Service-Oriented Architecture - Autonomous Agents in Web-based Systems - Information Integration in Grid Computing Environment - Information Integration in Mobile Computing Environment - Information Integration in Ubiquitous Computing Environment - Systems of Systems - Semantic Web and Emerging Applications - Information Reuse, Integration and Sharing in Collaborative Environments Instructions for Authors: ------------------------- Papers reporting original and unpublished research results pertaining to the above and related topics are solicited. Full paper manuscripts must be in English of length 4 to 6 pages (using the IEEE two-column template). Submissions should include the title, author(s), affiliation(s), e-mail address(es), tel/fax numbers, abstract, and postal address(es) on the first page. Papers should be submitted at the conference web site: http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~iri07. If web submission is not possible, manuscripts should be sent as an attachment via email to either of the Program Chairs (mailing address available on the conference website) on or before the deadline date of April 13, 2007. The attachment must be in .pdf (preferred) or word.doc format. The subject of the email must be IEEE IRI 2007 Submission. Papers will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. Authors should certify that their papers represent substantially new work and are previously unpublished. Paper submission implies the intent of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper, if accepted. Authors of selected papers that are also presented at the conference will be invited to submit expanded versions of their papers for review for publication in an approved special issue of the IEEE SMC Transactions, part C, on IRI to be published in 2008. Important Dates: ---------------- Feb. 11, 2007: Workshop/Special session proposal Apr. 13, 2007: Paper submission deadline (FIRM) Apr. 29, 2007: Notification of acceptance May 20, 2007: Camera-ready paper due May 20, 2007: Presenting author registration due Jul. 10, 2007: Advance (discount) registration for general public and other co-author Jul. 31, 2007: Hotel reservation (special discount rate) closing date Aug. 13-15,2007: Conference events Orgizing Committee: ------------------- Honorary General Chair -- Lotfi Zadeh University of California, USA zadeh at cs.berkeley.edu General Chairs -- Stuart Rubin SPAWAR Systems Center, USA stuart.rubin at navy.mil Shu-Ching Chen Florida International University, USA chens at cs.fiu.edu Program Chairs -- Weide Chang California State University, USA changw at ecs.csus.edu James B. D. Joshi University of Pittsburgh, USA jjoshi at mail.sis.pitt.edu Workshop Chairs -- Du Zhang California State University, USA zhangd at ecs.csus.edu Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar Florida Atlantic University, USA taghi at cse.fau.edu Eric Grgoire Universit?d'Artois, France gregoire at cril.univ-artois.fr Publicity Chair -- Chengcui Zhang, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA zhang at cis.uab.edu Asian Liaison -- Wen-Lian Hsu Academia Sinica, Taiwan, R.O.C. hsu at iis.sinica.edu.tw Althea Liang Qianhui Singapore Management University, Singapore althealiang at smu.edu.sg Finance & Registration Chair -- Ju-Yeon Jo University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA jo at egr.unlv.edu Publications Chair -- Min-Yuh Day National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C. myday at iis.sinica.edu.tw Local Arrangements Chair -- Louellen McCoy SPAWAR Systems Center, USA louellen.mccoy at navy.mil Webmaster -- Saubhagya Ram Joshi University of Pittsburgh, USA srjoshi at mail.sis.pitt.edu Chengcui Zhang Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Computer and Information Sciences University of Alabama at Birmingham _______________________________________________ ieeeauthors mailing list ieeeauthors at cis.uab.edu http://crier.cis.uab.edu/mailman/listinfo/ieeeauthors From pavel at dit.unitn.it Tue Apr 10 13:15:18 2007 From: pavel at dit.unitn.it (pavel) Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 19:15:18 +0200 Subject: [ACT-R-users] 2nd CfP: CONTEXT'07 workshop on Contexts and Ontologies: Representation and Reasoning (C&O:RR-2007) Message-ID: <012101c77b93$d6966d20$f0bca8c0@alphaekts5r299> Apologies for cross-postings -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS The Third International Workshop on Contexts and Ontologies: Representation and Reasoning (C&O:RR-2007) http://www.c-and-o.net/ August 21, 2007, CONTEXT Workshop Program, Roskilde University, Denmark. OBJECTIVES The goal of this workshop is to bring people from the context and ontology communities together to discuss the approaches they use for information integration from the knowledge representation and reasoning perspective. Therefore, the workshop will push the cross-fertilization and exchange of ideas (e.g., which of the methods from the context community can be successfully adopted in the ontology community, and vice versa), and, hence, make their meeting mutually beneficial. TOPICS of interest include, but are not limited to: Information interoperability and reuse via multiple contexts and ontologies. Coordination of multiple contexts and ontologies. Modular ontologies. Logical formalisms for contexts and ontologies. Distributed reasoning algorithms for contexts and ontologies. Complexity of distributed reasoning for contexts and ontologies. Comparison of uses of contexts and ontologies. Applications of reasoning with contexts and ontologies in the areas of semantic web, information retrieval, e-commerce, telecommunications, multimedia, content indexing, grid and peer-to-peer, pervasive computing and ambient intelligence. INVITED TALKS: 1. Frank Wolter University of Liverpool, UK http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~frank/ 2. David Robertson University of Edinburgh, UK http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/groups/ssp/members/dave.htm FORMAT, ATTENDANCE AND SUBMISSIONS The schedule assumes a one day workshop. The workshop will consist of the following components: keynote presentations, technical presentations, posters, and general discussion. Contributions to the workshop can be made in terms of technical papers or statements of interest. Formatting and submission instructions will be published shortly on the workshop web-site, http://www.c-and-o.net/. Contributions will be refereed by the Program Committee. Accepted papers and statements of interest will be published in the workshop proceedings as a volume of CEUR WS http://ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Publications/CEUR-WS/ IMPORTANT DATES May 28, 2007: Deadline for the submissions. June 25, 2007: Notification of acceptance/rejection. July 9, 2007: Deadline for the receipt of camera-ready papers. August 21, 2007: C&O:RR-2007, Roskilde University, Denmark. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE 1.Paolo Bouquet University of Trento, Italy 2.Jerome Euzenat INRIA Rhone-Alpes, France 3.Chiara Ghidini Fondazione Bruno Kessler (ITC-IRST), Italy 4.Deborah L. McGuinness Stanford University, USA 5.Valeria de Paiva Palo Alto Research Center, USA 6.Luciano Serafini Fondazione Bruno Kessler (ITC-IRST), Italy 7.Pavel Shvaiko University of Trento, Italy 8.Holger Wache University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland, Switzerland PROGRAM COMMITTEE Horacio Arlo-Costa, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Alex Borgida, Rutgers University, USA Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento, Italy Vasant Honavar, Iowa State University, USA Yannis Kalfoglou, University of Southampton, UK David Leake, Indiana University, USA Maurizio Marchese, University of Trento, Italy Leo Obrst, MITRE, USA Fano Ramparany, France Telecom R&D, France Chantal Reynaud, Universit? Paris-Sud, France David Robertson, University of Edinburgh, UK Riccardo Rosati, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy Thomas Roth-Berghofer, DFKI, Germany Aviv Segev, Technion, Israel Heiner Stuckenschmidt, University of Mannheim, Germany York Sure, AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Andrei Tamilin, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (ITC-IRST), Italy Sergio Tessaris, Free University of Bolzano/Bozen, Italy Rich Thomason, University of Michigan, USA Roy Turner, University of Maine, USA Ludger van Elst, DFKI, Germany Frank Wolter, University of Liverpool, UK Thanks for your time and cooperation! -------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------- Pavel Shvaiko PostDoc, University of Trento Dept. of Information and Communication Technology Sommarive 14, POVO, 38050, TRENTO, ITALY Tel: +39 0461 883386; Fax: +39 0461 882093 Web: http://www.dit.unitn.it/~pavel/ http://www.c-and-o.net/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gugerty at CLEMSON.EDU Tue Apr 10 17:44:27 2007 From: gugerty at CLEMSON.EDU (Lee Gugerty) Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 16:44:27 -0500 Subject: [ACT-R-users] New Publications In-Reply-To: <5F1CB297-7C10-4CF4-8B68-737A46DDD3F5@rpi.edu> References: <5F1CB297-7C10-4CF4-8B68-737A46DDD3F5@rpi.edu> Message-ID: <6.1.0.6.2.20070410163328.04ee0430@mail.clemson.edu> Here are two in-press publications involving ACT-R and production-system modeling. Both are available at http://www.clemson.edu/psych/gugerty/publications.htm 1. Gugerty, L. & Rodes, W. (in press, publication expected fall 2007). A cognitive model of strategies for cardinal direction judgments. Spatial Cognition and Computation. Abstract: Previous research has identified a variety of strategies used by novice and experienced navigators in making cardinal direction judgments (Gugerty, Brooks & Treadaway, 2004). We developed an ACT-R cognitive model of some of these strategies that instantiated a number of concepts from research in spatial cognition, including a visual-short-term-memory buffer overlaid on a perceptual buffer, an egocentric reference frame in visual-short-term-memory, storage of categorical spatial information in visual-short-term-memory, and rotation of a mental compass in visual-short-term-memory. Response times predicted by the model fit well with the data of two groups, college students (N = 20) trained and practiced in the modeled strategies, and jet pilots (N = 4) with no strategy training. Thus, the cognitive model seems to provide an accurate description of important strategies for cardinal direction judgments. Additionally, it demonstrates how theoretical constructs in spatial cognition can be applied to a complex, realistic navigation task. 2. Gugerty, L. (in press, publication expected May 2007). Cognitive components of troubleshooting strategies. Thinking and Reasoning. Abstract: This study investigated the kinds of knowledge necessary to learn an important troubleshooting strategy, elimination. Fifty college-level students searched for the source of failures in simple digital networks. Production system modeling suggested that students using a common but simpler backtracking strategy would learn the more advanced elimination strategy if they applied certain domain-specific knowledge and the general-purpose problem-solving strategy of reductio ad absurdum. In an experiment, students solved network troubleshooting problems after being trained with either the domain-specific knowledge, the reductio ad absurdum strategy, both types of knowledge, or neither. Students needed both the domain-specific and general knowledge identified by the models in order to significantly increase their elimination use. Lee Gugerty Psychology Department 418 Brackett Hall Clemson University Clemson, SC 29634-1355; USA Phone: 864-656-4467 Web Page: http://www.clemson.edu/psych/gugerty/ Usability Consulting: http://www.gugerty.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From zhang at cis.uab.edu Thu Apr 12 23:37:24 2007 From: zhang at cis.uab.edu (IEEE-IRI07-Publicity) Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 22:37:24 -0500 (CDT) Subject: [ACT-R-users] Deadline Approaches: The 2007 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IRI07) Message-ID: Dear Prospective Author: This is just a friendly reminder that the deadline for the IRI 2007 paper submission is Friday, April 13, 2007 (US Pacific Daylight Savings Time). Afterward, the paper reviewing starts immediately without delay, in order to meet the publishing deadline. Again, all information regarding paper submission requirements and channels (for the main conference or individual workshops) are elaborated in the conference web page at this URL: http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~iri07/ ********** WHY IEEE-IRI? *********** Please click on the following links to view the newly uploaded slides for additional reasons you may want to attend our IRI conference. http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~iri07/docs/SoSE.ppt (Powerpoint) http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~iri07/docs/SoSE.pdf (PDF) or visit the website. ************************************ [Apologies if you received multiple copies because of cross-posting] Chengcui Zhang Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Computer and Information Sciences University of Alabama at Birmingham =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= *** Paper submission deadline: April 13, 2007 (FIRM) ----------------------------------------------------------------- The 2007 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IEEE IRI-2007) Sponsored by: The IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society August 13-15, 2007, Hilton Hotel, Las Vegas, USA http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~iri07/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- With the rapidly increasing volumes of information in digital form, we are constantly faced with newer challenges with regards to efficiently using it and extracting useful knowledge from it. Information reuse and integration (IRI) seeks to maximally exploit such available information to create new knowledge and to reuse it for addressing newer challenges. It plays a pivotal role in the capture, maintenance, integration, validation, extrapolation, and application of knowledge to augment decision capabilities in various application domains. The IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration conference serves as a forum for researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and government to present, discuss, and exchange ideas that address real-world problems with real-world solutions. The IEEE IRI will feature contributed as well as invited papers. Theoretical and applied papers are both included in this call. The conference program will include special sessions, open forum workshops and keynote speeches. Several funding agency program directors - including NSF, ONR, et al. - will present an open panel discussion entitled Funding Opportunities in Information Reuse and Systems Engineering. The conference includes, but is not limited to, the areas listed below: - Large Scale Data and System Integration - Component-Based Design and Reuse - Unifying Data Models (UML, XML, etc.) and Ontologies - Database Integration - Structured/Semi-structured Data - Middleware & Web Services - Reuse in Software Engineering - Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery - Sensory and Information Fusion - Reuse in Modeling & Simulation - Automation, Integration and Reuse across Various Applications - Information Security & Privacy - Survivable Systems & Infrastructures - AI & Decision Support Systems - Heuristic Optimization and Search - Knowledge Acquisition and Management - Fuzzy and Neural Systems - Soft Computing - Evolutionary Computing - Case-Based Reasoning - Natural Language Understanding - Knowledge Management and E-Government - Command & Control Systems (C4ISR) - Human-Machine Information Systems - Space and Robotic Systems - Biomedical & Healthcare Systems - Homeland Security & Critical Infrastructure Protection - Manufacturing Systems & Business Process Engineering - Multimedia Systems - Service-Oriented Architecture - Autonomous Agents in Web-based Systems - Information Integration in Grid Computing Environment - Information Integration in Mobile Computing Environment - Information Integration in Ubiquitous Computing Environment - Systems of Systems - Semantic Web and Emerging Applications - Information Reuse, Integration and Sharing in Collaborative Environments Instructions for Authors: ------------------------- Papers reporting original and unpublished research results pertaining to the above and related topics are solicited. Full paper manuscripts must be in English of length 4 to 6 pages (using the IEEE two-column template). Submissions should include the title, author(s), affiliation(s), e-mail address(es), tel/fax numbers, abstract, and postal address(es) on the first page. Papers should be submitted at the conference web site: http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~iri07. If web submission is not possible, manuscripts should be sent as an attachment via email to either of the Program Chairs (mailing address available on the conference website) on or before the deadline date of April 13, 2007. The attachment must be in .pdf (preferred) or word.doc format. The subject of the email must be IEEE IRI 2007 Submission. Papers will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. Authors should certify that their papers represent substantially new work and are previously unpublished. Paper submission implies the intent of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper, if accepted. Authors of selected papers that are also presented at the conference will be invited to submit expanded versions of their papers for review for publication in an approved special issue of the IEEE SMC Transactions, part C, on IRI to be published in 2008. Important Dates: ---------------- Feb. 11, 2007: Workshop/Special session proposal Apr. 13, 2007: Paper submission deadline (FIRM) Apr. 29, 2007: Notification of acceptance May 20, 2007: Camera-ready paper due May 20, 2007: Presenting author registration due Jul. 10, 2007: Advance (discount) registration for general public and other co-author Jul. 31, 2007: Hotel reservation (special discount rate) closing date Aug. 13-15,2007: Conference events Orgizing Committee: ------------------- Honorary General Chair -- Lotfi Zadeh University of California, USA zadeh at cs.berkeley.edu General Chairs -- Stuart Rubin SPAWAR Systems Center, USA stuart.rubin at navy.mil Shu-Ching Chen Florida International University, USA chens at cs.fiu.edu Program Chairs -- Weide Chang California State University, USA changw at ecs.csus.edu James B. D. Joshi University of Pittsburgh, USA jjoshi at mail.sis.pitt.edu Workshop Chairs -- Du Zhang California State University, USA zhangd at ecs.csus.edu Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar Florida Atlantic University, USA taghi at cse.fau.edu Eric Grgoire Universit?d'Artois, France gregoire at cril.univ-artois.fr Publicity Chair -- Chengcui Zhang, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA zhang at cis.uab.edu Asian Liaison -- Wen-Lian Hsu Academia Sinica, Taiwan, R.O.C. hsu at iis.sinica.edu.tw Althea Liang Qianhui Singapore Management University, Singapore althealiang at smu.edu.sg Finance & Registration Chair -- Ju-Yeon Jo University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA jo at egr.unlv.edu Publications Chair -- Min-Yuh Day National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C. myday at iis.sinica.edu.tw Local Arrangements Chair -- Louellen McCoy SPAWAR Systems Center, USA louellen.mccoy at navy.mil Webmaster -- Saubhagya Ram Joshi University of Pittsburgh, USA srjoshi at mail.sis.pitt.edu Chengcui Zhang Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Computer and Information Sciences University of Alabama at Birmingham _______________________________________________ ieeeauthors mailing list ieeeauthors at cis.uab.edu http://crier.cis.uab.edu/mailman/listinfo/ieeeauthors From ja+ at cmu.edu Sun Apr 15 20:38:52 2007 From: ja+ at cmu.edu (John Anderson) Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 20:38:52 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] ICCM and the advanced ACT-R 6.0 tutorial Message-ID: Colleagues: We are continuing our tradition of skipping the ACT-R workshop the summers when ICCM is in North America. We encourage ACT-R modelers to come to ICCM and submit papers. As further encouragement to do so, we are offering an advanced tutorial on ACT-R 6.0 as part of the ICCM tutorial series. There are a set of topics that we will present during the full day tutorial, but we also intend that there be plenty of opportunity for community discussion of issues about the direction of ACT-R. So we also encourage interested members of the ACT-R community to attend that tutorial. The web link for the tutorial description is: http://acs.ist.psu.edu/iccm2007/tutorials.html Perhaps, if there is not conflict with other ICCM events, we can also have a group dinner afterwards to continue the discussions. If this option makes sense, we will send information about the dinner as the event comes closer. John Anderson Dan Bothell Christian Lebiere Niels Taatgen -- ========================================================== 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 idoroll at cmu.edu Mon Apr 16 22:51:25 2007 From: idoroll at cmu.edu (Ido Roll) Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 22:51:25 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Deadline approaching: Workshop on Metacognition and SRL in Intelligent Tutoring Systems 2007 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: [Apologies for multiple postings] This is just a friendly reminder that the deadline for the Workshop on Metacognition and Self-Regulated Learning and Intelligent Tutoring Systems 2007 is Tuesday, May 1st, 2007 :~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~: CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop on Metacognition and Self-Regulated Learning in Intelligent Tutoring Systems http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/~iroll/aied07-metacognition in collaboration with AIED 2007 July 10, 2007 Marina Del Rey, California Submission deadline: May 1 :~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~: A number of studies have shown that students who apply better metacognitive skills and self-regulation strategies during their learning process have better learning outcomes. A key question is whether instructional technology can be as effective in fostering metacognitive skills as it is in teaching domain-specific skills and knowledge. On the face of it, the answer is positive. Novel means for interaction, better understanding of learning, mechanisms for tracing students' knowledge, and established domain-level tutoring principles could be applied at the metacognitive level. However, it remains largely unknown exactly how educational technology can help students acquire better metacognitive skills and use them more effectively. The aim of the workshop is to improve our understanding of the design of goals, instruction, and assessment of tutoring metacognition and self-regulated learning using educational technology. :~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~: Topics of interest include, but are not limited, to: ? Goals for metacognitive tutoring ? Design guidelines for metacognitive tutors ? Supporting vs. teaching metacognition ? Ways of assessing of metacognitive knowledge and learning ? Integrating metacognitive and cognitive instruction ? Modeling metacognition and representing metacognitive knowledge ? Pedagogies to teach metacognition ? Empirical studies evaluating metacognitive tutoring ? Descriptive studies evaluating metacognitive tutoring ? Transfer and metacognition ? Metacognition and motivation ? Metacognitive awareness of Intelligent Tutoring Systems ? The importance of metacognition to learning in different tutoring environments (such as inquiry systems, problem solving environments, etc.) :~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~: IMPORTANT DATES: * 5/1 - Submission deadline * 6/1 - Reviews back to authors * 6/15 - Camera ready copy SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: We invite work at all stages of development. Papers can describe applied systems, empirical results or theoretically grounded positions, and can tackle any aspect of metacognitive goals, instruction, and assessment. Papers should be less than 10 pages long. All papers are expected to follow the general AIED 2007 submission guidelines (http://www.isi.edu/AIED2007/submission.html ) Papers will be peer reviewed by the workshop organizing committee. Accepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings. This year all proceedings are published online only, on the AIED society web page. Publications will have page numbers for citing purposes. Please send your paper via email (only .odt, .doc or .pdf format, please) to Ido Roll :~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~: PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Barbara White ? University of California, Berkeley * Roger Azevedo ? University of Memphis * Gautam Biswas ? Vanderbilt University * Tom Murray ? University of Massachusetts Amherst * Phil Winne? Simon Fraser University * Rose Luckin ? London Knowledge Lab * Amanda Harris ? University of Sussex * Tanja Mitrovic ? University of Canterbury * Ryan S.J.d. Baker ? University of Nottingham * Cristina Conati ? University of British Columbia WORKSHOP CHAIRS * Vincent Aleven - Carnegie Mellon University * Ido roll - Carnegie Mellon University Thank you, Vincent Aleven Ido Roll :~:~:~:~: Ido Roll http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/~iroll/ Phone: (412) 268-6162 Fax: (412) 268-1266 Human Computer Interaction Institute NSH 3526 Carnegie Mellon University 5000 Forbes Ave. Pittsburgh, PA 15213 From can at bican.net Wed Apr 18 07:15:54 2007 From: can at bican.net (Can Bican) Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 14:15:54 +0300 Subject: [ACT-R-users] About the questionnaire for the evaluation of cognitive modeling tools Message-ID: <19cac6bc0704180415h77b2635ubea0fd829241936e@mail.gmail.com> [Apologies for duplicate postings] Dear Colleagues, We got your name and email adress from your recent participation to ICCM conference series. We are conducting a study addressing the attitudes of users of cognitive modeling tools. Our particular emphasis in the study is on the suitability of the tools for the cognitive modeling task from the perspectives of general usability and cognitive modeling specifics. As a part of this work, we have prepared a questionnaire. We kindly ask if you can help our study by participating in the questionnaire, which should take no more than 15 minutes to complete. Our only requirement is experience with a cognitive modeling tool. Access to the questionnaire is by e-mail invitation. If you agree to fill in our questionnaire, please send an e-mail to can at bican.net with subject 'questionnaire'. You will receive an reply consisting of instructions on how to access the questionnaire. All the answers and personal details will be kept strictly confidential and the aggregate results will only be published in a master's thesis or possibly, in a relevant academic conference proceedings. We appreciate your contribution to this questionnaire by devoting your valuable time. As an acknowledgment to your contribution, we will present one of the participants of this questionnaire with a gift certificate from amazon.com. This questionnaire is part of the MSc Thesis work of Can Bican, a student of Cognitive Science Program at Middle East Technical University, supervised by Dr. Bilge Say. You can contact them with any further questions at can at bican.net and bsay at ii.metu.edu.tr respectively. Best Regards, -- Can Bican From can at bican.net Wed Apr 18 08:27:17 2007 From: can at bican.net (Can Bican) Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 15:27:17 +0300 Subject: [ACT-R-users] (Corrected) About the questionnaire for the evaluation of cognitive modeling tools Message-ID: <19cac6bc0704180527w2bec5157q9d944730f615c9e6@mail.gmail.com> Apologies for the typo in my original mail in the first sentence. Corrected mail text follows: Dear Colleagues, We are conducting a study addressing the attitudes of users of cognitive modeling tools. Our particular emphasis in the study is on the suitability of the tools for the cognitive modeling task from the perspectives of general usability and cognitive modeling specifics. As a part of this work, we have prepared a questionnaire. We kindly ask if you can help our study by participating in the questionnaire, which should take no more than 15 minutes to complete. Our only requirement is experience with a cognitive modeling tool. Access to the questionnaire is by e-mail invitation. If you agree to fill in our questionnaire, please send an e-mail to can at bican.net with subject 'questionnaire'. You will receive an reply consisting of instructions on how to access the questionnaire. All the answers and personal details will be kept strictly confidential and the aggregate results will only be published in a master's thesis or possibly, in a relevant academic conference proceedings. We appreciate your contribution to this questionnaire by devoting your valuable time. As an acknowledgment to your contribution, we will present one of the participants of this questionnaire with a gift certificate from amazon.com. This questionnaire is part of the MSc Thesis work of Can Bican, a student of Cognitive Science Program at Middle East Technical University, supervised by Dr. Bilge Say. You can contact them with any further questions at can at bican.net and bsay at ii.metu.edu.tr respectively. Best Regards, -- Can Bican -- Can Bican From wiiat at kis-lab.com Sat Apr 21 12:01:34 2007 From: wiiat at kis-lab.com (Jia Hu) Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 01:01:34 +0900 Subject: [ACT-R-users] CFP: IAT 2007 (Silicon Valley, USA) Deadline: June 1 Message-ID: <200704211623.l3LGNcS8005082@act-r.psy.cmu.edu> [Apologies if you receive this more than once] ##################################################################### IEEE/WIC/ACM Intelligent Agent Technology 2007 CALL FOR PAPERS ##################################################################### 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'07) Silicon Valley, USA, November 2-5, 2007 Official: http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/wi07/iat/ Mirror: http://www.maebashi-it.org/wi07/iat/ (to be collocated with WI'07, BIBM'07 and GrC'07) Sponsored By IEEE Computer Society Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC) Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) ##################################################################### # Conference Chair # Andrei Broder, VP, Yahoo Fellow, Yahoo! Research # # Program Chair and Co-Chairs # T.Y. Lin, San Jose State University/UC Berkeley, USA # Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, UWF/Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, USA # Matthias Klusch, German Research Center for AI, Germany # Chengqi Zhang, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia # # Organizing Chair # Howard Ho, Manager, IBM Almaden Research Center # # IAT-WI Joint Keynote Speakers (Tentative) # # Vinton G. Cerf, Turing Award Winner, # VP and Chief Internet Evangelist, Google # Anant Jhingran, VP and CTO, IBM Silicon Valley Laboratory # # (More IAT Invited Speakers will be announced) # # (Papers Due: ** June 1 **, 2007) # Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings # by the IEEE Computer Society Press, which are indexed by EI. ###################################################################### The 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'07) will be jointly held with the 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'07), the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM'07), and the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing (GrC'07) for providing synergism among the four research areas. It will provide opportunities for technical collaboration beyond that of previous conferences. The four conferences will have a joint opening, keynote, reception, and banquet. Attendees only need to register for one conference and can attend workshops, sessions and tutorials across the four conferences. We are also planning a joint panel and joint paper sessions that discuss common problems in the four areas. IAT 2007 provides a leading international forum to bring together researchers and practitioners from diverse fields, such as computer science, information technology, business, education, human factors, systems engineering, and robotics, to (1) examine the design principles and performance characteristics of various approaches in intelligent agent technology, and (2) increase the cross-fertilization of ideas on the development of autonomous agents and multi-agent systems among different domains. By encouraging idea-sharing and discussions on the underlying logical, cognitive, physical, and sociological foundations as well as the enabling technologies of intelligent agents, IAT 2007 will foster the development of novel paradigms and advanced solutions in agent-based computing. +++++++++++ Highlights +++++++++++ The conference will be held in Silicon Valley, California. Many high-tech companies and three distinguished universities (Stanford, UC Berkely and UCSC) are just around the corner. The highlight of the conference is that a unique forum consisting of a half-day demo session and free discussion will be organized to link industries and academics. Leading IT companies like IBM, Google, and Yahoo etc will present at the conference. The area now known as Silicon Valley has been a center of technological development since the 1950's. The name Silicon Valley stems from the early 1970's, when the area had become the center for many semiconductor companies. While still hosting semiconductor and microprocessor companies, the region now hosts the headquarters of high tech companies of every kind, including many of the best known and most prestigious names in personal computers, Web search, Internet auctions, networking, storage, databases, etc. +++++++++++++++++++ Topics of Interest +++++++++++++++++++ The topics and areas include, but not limited to: * Autonomy-Oriented Computing (AOC) - Agent-Based Complex Systems Modeling and Development - Agent-Based Simulation - Autonomy-Oriented Modeling and Computation Methods - Behavioral Self-Organization - Complex Behavior Characterization and Engineering - Emergent Behavior - Hard Computational Problem Solving - Nature-Inspired Paradigms - Self-Organized Criticality - Self-Organized Intelligence - Swarm Intelligence * Autonomous Knowledge and Information Agents - Agent-Based Distributed Data Mining - Agent-Based Knowledge Discovery And Sharing - Autonomous Information Services - Distributed Knowledge Systems - Emergent Natural Law Discovery in Multi-Agent Systems - Evolution of Knowledge Networks - Human-Agent Interaction - Information Filtering Agents - Knowledge Aggregation - Knowledge Discovery - Ontology-Based Information Services * Agent Systems Modeling and Methodology - Agent Interaction Protocols - Cognitive Architectures - Cognitive Modeling of Agents - Emotional Modeling - Fault-Tolerance in Multi-Agent Systems - Formal Framework for Multi-Agent Systems - Information Exchanges in Multi-Agent Systems - Learning and Self-Adaptation in Multi-Agent Systems - Mobile Agent Languages and Protocols - Multi-Agent Autonomic Architectures - Multi-Agent Coordination Techniques - Multi-Agent Planning and Re-Planning - Peer-to-Peer Models for Multi-Agent Systems - Reinforcement Learning - Social Interactions in Multi-Agent Systems - Task-Based Agent Context - Task-Oriented Agents * Distributed Problem Solving - Agent-Based Grid Computing - Agent Networks in Distributed Problem Solving - Collective Group Behavior - Coordination and Cooperation - Distributed Intelligence - Distributed Search - Dynamics of Agent Groups and Populations - Efficiency and Complexity Issues - Market-Based Computing - Problem-Solving in Dynamic Environments * Autonomous Auctions and Negotiation - Agent-Based Marketplaces - Auction Markets - Combinatorial Auctions - Hybrid Negotiation - Integrative Negotiation - Mediating Agents - Pricing Agents - Thin Double Auctions * Applications - Agent-Based Assistants - Agent-Based Virtual Enterprise - Embodied Agents and Agent-Based Systems Applications - Interface Agents - Knowledge and Data Intensive Systems - Perceptive Animated Interfaces - Scalability - Social Simulation - Socially Situated Planning - Software and Pervasive Agents - Tools and Standards - Ubiquitous Systems and E-Technology Agents - Ubiquitous Software Services - Virtual Humans - XML-Based Agent Systems ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ On-Line Submissions and Publication ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ High-quality papers in all IAT related areas are solicited. Paper submissions should be limited to a maximum of 7 pages in the IEEE 2-column format, the same as the camera-ready format (see the Author Guidelines of last year at http://www.computer.org/portal/pages/cscps/cps/final/iat06.xml). All submitted papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity. Note that IAT'07 will accept ONLY on-line submissions, containing PDF versions. Please use the Submission Form on the IAT'07 website to submit your paper. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press that are indexed by EI. Submissions accepted as regular papers will be allocated 7 pages in the proceedings and accorded oral presentation times in the main conference. Submissions accepted as short papers will be allocated 4 pages in the proceedings and will have a shorter presentation time at the conference than regular papers. All co-authors will be notified at all time, for the submission, notification, and confirmation on the attendance. Submitting a paper to the conference and workshops means that, if the paper is accepted, at least one author should attend the conference to present the paper. The acceptance list and no-show list will be openly published on-line. For no-show authors, their affiliations will receive a notification. A selected number of IAT'07 accepted papers will be expanded and revised for inclusion in Web Intelligence and Agent Systems: An International Journal (http://wi-consortium.org/journal.html) and in Annual Review of Intelligent Informatics (http://www.wi-consortium.org/annual.html) More detailed instructions and the On-Line Submission Form can be found from the IAT'07 homepage: http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/wi07/iat/. +++++++++++++++++++++++++ IAT'07 Best Paper Awards +++++++++++++++++++++++++ The best paper awards will be conferred at the conference on the authors of (1) the best research paper and (2) the best application paper. Application-oriented submissions will be considered for the best application paper award. The full author list and paper title will be announced on the Web Intelligence Consortium homepage: http://wi-consortium.org/html/wicawards.html ++++++++++++++++++++ Industry/Demo-Track ++++++++++++++++++++ We solicit Industry/Demo-Track papers by the following methods. (1) Industry papers of 4 pages can be submitted on the same schedule as the research track. (2) Separate 2 page demo proposals can submitted at a later schedule. (3) Full regular paper submissions can include a demo option. That is, a full paper submissions will be asked to specify if they would like to give a demonstration; choice of demonstrations (while utilizing information from the regular reviewing process) will be selected based on value as a demonstration. For options (1) and (2), please find more detailed instructions at the homepage: http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/wi07/wi/ We are planning to arrange the Industry/Demo track in the afternoon of November 3 (before and during the conference reception), jointly with the IAT'07 Demo sessions. Leading IT companies in Silicon Valley will be invited to attend this track. ++++++++++ Workshops ++++++++++ As an important part of the conference, the workshop program will focus on new research challenges and initiatives. All papers accepted for workshops will be included in the Workshop Proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press that are indexed by EI, and will be available at the workshops. Detailed information is available at the conference homepage. Note: we will not have a separate workshop registration fee (i.e., only one conference registration covers everything). ------------------- IAT 2007 Workshops: ------------------- Title: Second International Workshop on Communication between Human and Artificial Agents (CHAA-07) Organisers: Christel Kemke Email: ckemke at cs.umanitoba.ca Web page: http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~ckemke/CHAA-07/ Title: Rational, Robust, and Secure Negotiations in Multi-Agent Systems (RRS2007) Organisers: Takayuki Ito Email: ito.takayuki at nitech.ac.jp Web page: http://www-itolab.mta.nitech.ac.jp/RRS2007/ Title: P2P Computing and Autonomous Agents Organisers: Tarek Helmy, Khaled Ragab Email: helmy at ccse.kfupm.edu.sa; helmy at kfupm.edu.sa Web Page: http://www.ccse.kfupm.edu.sa/~helmy/P2PAA2007_WI.html Title: Multiagent systems in E-business: concepts, technologies and applications Organisers: Costin Badica; Maria Ganzha; Marcin Paprzycki Email: badica_costin at software.ucv.ro; ganzha at euh-e.edu.pl; marcin.parzycki at swps.edu.pl Web page: http://software.ucv.ro/~badica_costin/maseb2007/ Title: Agent & Data Mining Interaction Organisers: Pericles A. Mitkas, Longbing Cao, Vladimir Gorodetsky, Justin Zhan Email: mitkas at eng.auth.gr; lbcao at it.uts.edu.au Web page: http://issel.ee.auth.gr/ADMI ------------------ WI 2007 Workshops: ------------------ Title: Educating the Web-Generation Organisers: Elisabeth Heinemann Email: elisabeth.heinemann at googlemail.com Web page: http://www.effactory.com/Edu4WebGen/ Title: Collective Intelligence on Semantic Web Organisers: Geun Sik Jo; Jason J. Jung; Ngoc Thanh Nguyen Email: gsjo at inha.ac.kr; j2jung at intelligent.pe.kr; thanh at pwr.wroc.pl Web page: http://intelligent.pe.kr/CISW07/ Title: New Computing Paradigms for Web Intelligence and Brain Informatics Organisers: Dr. Yuefeng Li; Dr. Yulin Qin, Prof. Dieter Fensel Email: y2.li at qut.edu.au; dieter.fensel at deri.org Web page: Title: Web Personalization and Recommender Systems Organisers: Yue Xu Email: yue.xu at qut.edu.au Web page: http://www.wprs07.fit.qut.edu.au/ Title: Service Composition Organisers: M. Brian Blake; Dumitru Roman; Charles Petrie Email: blakeb at cs.georgetown.edu; dumitru.roman at deri.org Web site: http://events.deri.at/sercomp2007/ Title: Biomedicine applications of Web technologies Organisers: Chun-Nan Hsu; Vincent Shin-Mu Tseng; Wen-Hsiang Lu Email: chunnan at iis.sinica.edu.tw; tsengsm at mail.ncku.edu.tw; whlu at mail.ncku.edu.tw Web page: http://chunnan.iis.sinica.edu.tw/BMWT2007.html Title: Intelligent Web Interaction Workshop 2007 1st Organiser: Prof. Seiji YAMADA Email: seiji at nii.ac.jp Web site: http://ymd.ex.nii.ac.jp/ws/iwi/07/ Title: Cyberinfrastucture for e-Science Organisers: Prof. Vasant Honavar; A/prof. Kei Cheung Email: honavar at cs.iastate.edu; kei.cheung at yale.edu Web page: http://www.cild.iastate.edu/events/CyIneS2007/ Title: 2007 International Workshop on Social Media Analysis Organisers: Chun-hung Li, William K. Cheung, Quoping Qiu Email: sma at comp.hkbu.edu.hk Web page: http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/~sma/ Title: Web Security, Integrity, Privacy and Trust Organisers: Dr. Yiuming Cheung, Prof. Michael Chau, and Prof. Yong Zhang Email: ymc at Comp.HKBU.Edu.HK; mchau at business.hku.hk; zhangyong076 at gmail.com Web page: For more information, please visit the conference website at http://www.maebashi-it.org/wi07/iat/?index=workshop. ++++++++++ Tutorials ++++++++++ IAT'07 also welcomes Tutorial proposals. IAT'07 will include tutorials providing in-depth background on subjects that are of broad interest to the intelligent agent community. Both short (2 hours) and long (half day) tutorials will be considered. The tutorials will be part of the main conference technical program. Detailed information is available at the conference homepage. Note: we will not have a separate tutorials registration fee (i.e., only one conference registration covers everything). ++++++++++++++++ Important Dates ++++++++++++++++ Workshop proposal submission: March 20, 2007 Electronic submission of full papers: ** June 1, 2007 ** Tutorial proposal submission: June 15, 2007 Notification of paper acceptance: July 22, 2007 Camera-ready copies of accepted papers: August 17, 2007 Conference: November 2-5, 2007 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Conference Organization ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Conference Chair: * Andrei Broder, Yahoo! Research, USA Program Chair: * Tsau Young (T.Y.) Lin, San Jose State University/UC Berkeley, USA IAT Program Co-Chairs: * Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, UWF/Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, USA * Matthias Klusch, German Research Center for AI, Germany * Chengqi Zhang, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia WI Program Co-Chairs: * Laura Haas, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA * Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Science, Poland * Rajeev Motwani, Stanford University, USA Organizing Chair: * Howard Ho, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA Workshop Co-Chairs: * Vijay Raghavan, University of Louisiana, USA * Yuefeng Li, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Tutorial Chair: * Pawan Lingras, Saint Mary's University, Canada Industry/Demo-Track Chair: * Jianchang Mao, Yahoo! Inc., USA Local Accommodations Co-Chairs: * David Scot Taylor, San Jose State University, USA * Tom Qi Zhang, Google, USA Publicity Chair: * James Wang, Clemson University, USA (chair) Publicity Co-Chairs: * Martine De Cock, Ghent University, Belgium * Jia Hu, International WIC Institute, China * Debajyoti Mukhopadhyay, West Bengal University of Technology, India IEEE-CS-TCII Chair: * Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan ACM-SIGART Chair * Maria Gini, University of Minnesota, USA WIC Co-Chairs/Directors: * Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan * Jiming Liu, University of Windsor, Canada WIC Advisory Board: * Edward A. Feigenbaum, Stanford University, USA * Setsuo Ohsuga, Waseda University, Japan * Benjamin Wah, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA * Philip Yu, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA * L.A. Zadeh, University of California Berkeley, USA WIC Tech. Committee & WI/IAT Steering Committee: * Jeffrey Bradshaw, UWF/Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, USA * Nick Cercone, Dalhousie University, Canada * Dieter Fensel, National University of Ireland, Ireland * Georg Gottlob, Oxford University, UK * Lakhmi Jain, University of South Australia, Australia * Jianchang Mao, Yahoo! Inc., USA * Pierre Morizet-Mahoudeaux, Compiegne University of Technology, France * Hiroshi Motoda, Osaka University, Japan * Toyoaki Nishida, Kyoto University, Japan * Andrzej Skowron, Warsaw University, Poland * Jinglong Wu, Kagawa University, Japan * Xindong Wu, University of Vermont, USA * Yiyu Yao, University of Regina, Canada Webmaster: * Albert Sutojo, San Jose State University, USA Abbreviation: IAT 2007, IAT2007, IAT'2007, IAT'07, IAT07, IAT 07, IAT-07, IAT-2007, IAT-WI 2007, IAT-WI2007, IAT-WI'2007, IAT-WI'07, IAT-WI07, IAT-WI 07, IAT-WI-2007, IAT-WI-07, IAT/WI 2007, IAT/WI2007, IAT/WI'2007, IAT/WI'07, IAT/WI07, IAT/WI 07, IAT/WI-2007, IAT/WI-07 *** Contact Information *** Jia Hu International WIC Institute, China E-mail: hujia at kis-lab.com