From idoroll at cmu.edu Thu Mar 1 23:44:12 2007 From: idoroll at cmu.edu (Ido Roll) Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 23:44:12 -0500 Subject: [ACT-R-users] CFP: Workshop on Metacognition and Self-Regulated Learning in Ed. Tech. Message-ID: :~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~: CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop on Metacognition and Self-Regulated Learning in Educational Technologies in AIED 2007, July 9-13, Los Angeles http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/~iroll/aied07-metacognition Submission deadline: May 1 :~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~: Students with better metacognitive or self-regulation skills are shown to be better learners in school and more capable independent learners. While educational technology is shown to be effective at the domain, cognitive level, similar success was not achieved yet with regard to tutoring better metacognitive and self regulation skills. 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 suggest that this can be done. 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, including particularly innovative approaches in their early phases. 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. 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Haikou, the capital city of Hainan Province, is a pleasant modern city with a number of historical and cultural sights to see and to hold you for a few days before heading off to Hainan's beautiful beaches and inland villages. ICNC'07-FSKD'07 aims to provide an international forum for scientists and researchers to present the state of the art of intelligent methods inspired from nature, including biological, linguistic, ecological, and physical systems, with applications to data mining, manufacturing, design, reliability, and more. It is an exciting and emerging inter- disciplinary area in which a wide range of techniques and methods are being studied for dealing with large, complex, and dynamic problems. Previously, the joint conferences in 2005 and 2006 each attracted over 3100 submissions from more than 30 countries. All accepted papers will appear in conference proceedings published by the IEEE and will be indexed by both EI (Compendex) and ISTP. Further- more, extended versions of many good papers will be published in SCI/SCI-E indexed journals and Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) / Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI). In addition to regular sessions, participants are encouraged to organize special sessions on specialized topics. Each special session should have at least 4 papers. Special session organizers will solicit submissions, conduct reviews and recommend accept/reject decisions on the submitted papers (using the same online system as the regular papers). Consult the conference web page on how to submit special sessions proposals. For more information, visit the conference web page or email the secretariat at nc2007 at hainu.edu.cn Join us at this major event in scenic Hainan !!! From suley at osir.hihm.no Fri Mar 2 12:41:00 2007 From: suley at osir.hihm.no (Sule Yildirim) Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 18:41:00 +0100 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Extended Deadline ECM_MAI 2007 Message-ID: <057f01c75cf1$f0d8eb10$75d5249e@SULE> ECM_MAI 2007 EXTENDING COMPUTATIONAL COGNITIVE MODELLING TO ISSUES OF MULTI-AGENT INTERACTION in conjunction with ICAI'07, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA (June 25-28, 2007) http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp07/ws/ICAI07/workshops_sessions Call for Papers The fields of cognitive science, artificial intelligence, and the social sciences can together create a better understanding of cognition and social processes than they can independently of each other. Some efforts in social sciences, especially social simulations, have evolved an understanding of social processes in societies independently from the other two fields. However Sun (2006) among other has shown that there is relation between individual cognition and social processes. Can this connection be understood by exploring the relationship between computational cognitive modeling and social simulation? How is the cognition of a society different from individual cognition? In this session we will examine these questions and many more. We invite submissions of research that investigate any of the following topics: (1) the relation between individual and social cognition, (2) multi-agent models that are related to advances in individual cognition, (3) social simulations that utilize cognitive science or artificial intelligence techniques, (4) aspects of social cognition that require modeling, and (5) the integration of cognitive models of learning into multi-agent interaction. (Sun, R., 2006) Cognition and Multi-Agent Interaction, Edited by Ron Sun, 2006, Cambridge University Press. Submission of Papers Authors are invited to submit their draft paper (between 5 to 7 pages - single space, font size of 10 to 12) to Sule Yildirim (suley at osir.hihm.no) or Bill Rand (wrand at northwestern.edu) before the deadline. E-mail submissions in MS document or PDF formats are preferable. All reasonable typesetting formats are acceptable. These are general guidelines, if you would like to submit in a different format please contact the coordinators. Papers must not have been previously published or current submitted for publication elsewhere. Upon acceptance authors will be asked to follow the IEEE style format in preparing their papers for publication (max. 7 pages). The first page of the submission should include: -Title of the paper -Name, affiliation, postal address, e-mail address, telephone number and fax number for each author -Name of the author who will present the paper should be indicated -A maximum of five keywords Session Format The session will begin with an overview of the topic by the coordinators, and the peer-reviewed papers will then be orally presented. If time permits a wrap-up discussion will take place at the end of the session. Important Dates Extended Submission deadline: 15 March, 2007. Notification of acceptance: 5 April, 2007. Camera-ready due: 20 April, 2007. Conference registration deadline: 20 April, 2007 See ICAI'07 website for complete details. Publication The conference proceedings will be published by CSREA Press (ISBN) in hardcopy. The proceedings will be available for distribution at the conference . Some accepted papers will also be considered for journal publication (soon after the conference). All conference proceedings published by CSREA Press are considered for inclusion in major database indexes that are designed to provide easy access to the current literature of the sciences (database examples: ISI Thomson Scientific, IEE INSPEC, DBLP, ...). Program Committee Session Chairs a.. Sule Yildirim, Hedmark University College b.. Bill Rand, Northwestern University Program Committee ? Ron Sun, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ? Tuncer ?ren, University of Ottawa ? Maarten Sierhuis, RIACS/NASA Ames Research Center ? Angelo Cangelosi, University of Plymouth ? Agnar Aamodt, Norwegian University of Science and Technology ? Peter De Souza, Hedmark University College ? Ashwin Ram, Georgia Tech ? Levent Yilmaz, Auburn University Rev Date: March 2, 2007 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From juergen.kiefer at zmms.tu-berlin.de Mon Mar 5 08:49:31 2007 From: juergen.kiefer at zmms.tu-berlin.de (juergen kiefer) Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 14:49:31 +0100 Subject: [ACT-R-users] ACT-R 5 - vrs of the FAN EFFECT Message-ID: <938b00730703050549q109b9463v336d8062cd15ae5b@mail.gmail.com> Hello, i am looking for an ACT-R 5 version or ACT-R 6 version doing the FAN EFFECT Is there any? Kind regards, Juergen From taatgen at cmu.edu Mon Mar 5 09:22:43 2007 From: taatgen at cmu.edu (Niels Taatgen) Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 09:22:43 -0500 Subject: [ACT-R-users] ACT-R 5 - vrs of the FAN EFFECT In-Reply-To: <938b00730703050549q109b9463v336d8062cd15ae5b@mail.gmail.com> References: <938b00730703050549q109b9463v336d8062cd15ae5b@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: On 5 Mar 2007, at 8:49, juergen kiefer wrote: > Hello, > > > i am looking for an ACT-R 5 version or ACT-R 6 version doing the > FAN EFFECT > The fan effect model is part of the ACT-R distribution. Look in the tutorial folder under unit 5: the model is called fan.lisp. =================================================== Niels Taatgen - Carnegie Mellon University, Psychology, BH 345B Also (but not now): University of Groningen, Artificial Intelligence web: http://www.ai.rug.nl/~niels email: taatgen at cmu.edu Telephone: +1 412-268-2815 =================================================== From pavel at dit.unitn.it Wed Mar 7 10:13:20 2007 From: pavel at dit.unitn.it (pavel) Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 16:13:20 +0100 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Fw: 1st CfP: CONTEXT'07 workshop on Contexts and Ontologies: Representation and Reasoning (C&O:RR-2007) Message-ID: <01be01c760cb$320674e0$76eaa8c0@alphaekts5r299> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 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 wiiat at kis-lab.com Thu Mar 8 18:42:48 2007 From: wiiat at kis-lab.com (Jia Hu) Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 07:42:48 +0800 Subject: [ACT-R-users] CFP: IEEE/WIC/ACM WI 2007 (Silicon Valley, USA) Message-ID: <200703090003.l2903SHE022952@act-r.psy.cmu.edu> [Apologies if you receive this more than once] ##################################################################### IEEE/WIC/ACM WEB INTELLIGENCE 2007 CALL FOR PAPERS ##################################################################### 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'07) Silicon Valley, USA, November 2-5, 2007 http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/wi07/wi/ 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, Professor, SJSU, BISC Fellow, UC-Berkeley # Laura Haas, Director, IBM Almaden Research Center # Janusz Kacprzyk, Professor, Polish Academy of Science # Rajeev Motwani, Professor, Stanford University # # Organizing Chair # Howard Ho, Manager, IBM Almaden Research Center # # WI-IAT 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 WI 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. ###################################################################### Web Intelligence (WI) has been recognized as a new direction for scientific research and development to explore the fundamental roles as well as practical impacts of Artificial Intelligence (AI) (e.g., knowledge representation, planning, knowledge discovery and data mining, intelligent agents, and social network intelligence) and advanced Information Technology (IT) (e.g., wireless networks, ubiquitous devices, social networks, and data/knowledge grids) on the next generation of Web-empowered products, systems, services, and activities. It is one of the most important as well as promising IT research fields in the era of Web and agent intelligence. The 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'07) will be jointly held with the 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'07), the 2007 IEEE International Conference on BioInformation 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. +++++++++++ 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 industry/ demo track 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: * WI Foundations - Brain Informatics for WI - Human level WI - New cognitive models and computational models for WI - Granular Computing (GrC) for WI - Autonomy-Oriented Computing (AOC) for WI * World Wide Wisdom Web (W4) - Meta-Knowledge Discovery and Representation - Problem Solver Markup Language (PSML) - Search of Best Means and Ends - Goal-Directed Services Support - Distributed Resources Optimization - Service Self-Aggregation - Web Inference Engine - Information and Knowledge Markets - New Social Interaction Paradigms - Social and Psychological Contexts - Regularities and Laws of W4 * Social Networks and Social Intelligence - Social Network Mining - Web Site Clustering - Link Topology and Site Hierarchy - Theories of Small-World Web - Virtual and Web Communities - Web-Based Cooperative Work - Knowledge Community Formation and Support - Ubiquitous Computing - Intelligent Wireless Web - Ubiquitous Learning Systems - Entertainment * Knowledge Grids and Grid Intelligence - Semantic Grids - Knowledge Resources and Services Discovery - On-Demand Planning and Routing - Brokering and Scheduling - Middleware Architectures and Tools * Web Mining and Farming - Text Mining - Data Stream Mining - Multimedia Data Mining - Web Content Mining - Web Log and Usage Mining - Learning User Profiles - Context Sensitive Web Mining - Web Information Clustering - Web Page Clustering and Mining - E-Mail Classification - Web Site Classification - Web Information Indexing - Data Warehousing - Web Farming and Warehousing * Semantics and Ontology Engineering - Ontology-Based Information Extraction and Retrieval - Ontology-Based Web Mining - Web-Based Ontology Learning - Semantic Web * Web Agents - Global Information Foraging - Distributed Problem Solving - Coordination - Resource Intermediary and Coordination Mechanisms - Self-Organization and Reproduction - Agent Networks and Topologies - Mobile Agents - Macroscopic Behavior Modeling - Trust Models for Web Agents * Web Services - Service-Oriented Computing - Matchmaking - Web Service Reconfiguration - Web Service Workflow Composition - Middleware-Based Ubiquitous Services - Grid Services * Web Information Filtering and Retrieval - Automatic Cataloging and Indexing - Clustering-Based Recommender Systems - Collaborative Filtering and Recommendation - Hybrid Recommendation - Information Retrieval Criteria and Evaluations - Web Information Categorization and Ranking - Proxy and Cache Techniques - Web Prediction and Prefetching - Distributed Web Search - Specifications for Web Information Extraction Process - Web Crawling Systems - Search Engines and Meta-search Engines * Intelligent Human-Web Interaction - Adaptive Web Interfaces - Context-Aware Computing - Learning User Profiles - Personalized Interfaces - Personalized Web Sites - Remembrance Agents - Multimedia Representation - Visualization of Information and Knowledge - Social and Psychological Issues * Web Support Systems - Information Retrieval Support Systems - Web Site Navigation Support Systems - Recommender Support Systems - Web-Based Decision Support Systems - Soft Computing (including neural networks, fuzzy logic, evolutionary computation, rough sets, and granular computing) and Uncertainty Management for WI * Intelligent e-Technology - Business Intelligence - Digital Library - Decentralized Community Communication Techniques - e-Community - e-Business and e-Commerce - e-Finance - e-Government - e-Learning - e-Publishing - e-Science - Intelligent Enterprise Portals - Web-Based Direct Marketing and CRM - Web-Based EDI - Web Security, Integrity, Privacy and Trust ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ On-Line Submissions and Publication ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ High-quality papers in all WI 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/wi06.xml). All submitted papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity. Note that WI'07 will accept ONLY on-line submissions, containing PDF versions. Please use the Submission Form on the WI'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 WI'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 WI'07 homepage: http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/wi07/wi/. ++++++++++++++++++++++++ WI'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., conference registration covers everything). For more information, please visit the conference website at http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/wi07/wi/. ++++++++++ Tutorials ++++++++++ WI'07 also welcomes Tutorial proposals. WI'07 will include tutorials providing in-depth background on subjects that are of broad interest to the Web intelligence 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: August 3, 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 WI Program Co-Chairs: * Laura Haas, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA * Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Science, Poland * Rajeev Motwani, Stanford University, 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 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 *** Contact Information *** Jia Hu International WIC Institute, China E-mail: hujia at kis-lab.com From bhanupvsr at gmail.com Thu Mar 8 14:25:45 2007 From: bhanupvsr at gmail.com (Bhanu Prasad) Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 14:25:45 -0500 Subject: [ACT-R-users] IICAI-07: call for papers Message-ID: <621812f80703081125v52c623cene777c3962b775bbe@mail.gmail.com> Call for papers: draft paper submission deadline is just 3 weeks away! 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 Email: bhanupvsr at gmail.com Phone: 850-412-7350 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From laird at umich.edu Tue Mar 13 21:29:47 2007 From: laird at umich.edu (John Laird) Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 21:29:47 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] ICCM Doctorial Consortium Message-ID: <001201c765d8$4749d1f0$d5dd75d0$@edu> Please distribute... ICCM Doctoral Consortium July 26, 2007 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. 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. Submission Deadline: April 20, 2007 More details (including funding!): http://sitemaker.umich.edu/iccm2007.org/doctorial_consortium From taatgen at cmu.edu Thu Mar 15 12:26:07 2007 From: taatgen at cmu.edu (Niels Taatgen) Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 12:26:07 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] ACT-R 2007 Summer School: Deadline 1 April! Message-ID: FOURTEENTH ANNUAL ACT-R SUMMER SCHOOL Carnegie Mellon University July 11-19, 2007 ACT-R is a cognitive theory and simulation system for developing cognitive models for tasks that vary from simple reaction time to air traffic control. The most recent advances of the ACT-R theory were detailed in the following paper: Anderson, J. R., Bothell, D., Byrne, M. D., Douglass, S., Lebiere, C., and Qin, Y . (2004). An integrated theory of the mind. Psychological Review 111, (4). 1036-1060, available online: http://act-r.psy.cmu.edu/publications/pubinfo.php? id=526 Each year, a summer school is held to train researchers in the use of the ACT-R system. This year the summer school is followed by the International Conference on Cognitive Modeling, which will be in Ann Arbor from July 26 until July 29. See http://sitemaker.umich.edu/ iccm2007.org/home for details. The summer school will take place from Wednesday July 11 to Thursday July 19. This intensive 9-day course is designed to train researchers in the use of ACT-R for cognitive modeling. It is structured as a set of six units, with each unit lasting a day and involving a morning theory lecture, an afternoon discussion session and an assignment which participants are expected to complete during the day and evening. In addition, participants are expected to bring a project of their own to the summer school on which they can work during the remaining three days. Computing facilities will be provided or attendees can bring their own laptop on which the ACT-R software will be installed. To provide an optimal learning environment, admission is limited to a dozen participants, who must submit by April 1 an application consisting of a curriculum vitae, a statement of purpose, and a description of the project they would like to do during the summer school. This project can be based on data from the applicant's own research, or an experimental study from the literature. We encourage applicants to browse through the tutorial texts to get a sense of the kind of experiments that are appropriate for a successful project (the tutorial text is part of the ACT-R distribution, which can be downloaded from http://act-r.psy.cmu.edu/actr6/). Demonstrated experience with a modeling formalism similar to ACT-R will strengthen the application. Applicants will be notified of admission by May 4. Admission to the summer school is free. Housing will be provided in the CMU dormitories for approximately $50/day (single) or $25/day (shared). For participants who want to stay in Pittsburgh until ICCM it is possible to extend dorm housing until July 26. More information, including papers published by the ACT-R community, can be found on the ACT-R web site (http://act-r.psy.cmu.edu/). A registration form is appended below. Additional information (detailed schedule, etc.) will be provided after acceptance and when it becomes available. ________________________________________________________ Fourteenth Annual ACT-R Summer School July 11 to 19, 2007 at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh REGISTRATION ============ Name: .............................................................. .... Address: .............................................................. .... Tel/ Fax: .................................................................. Email: .............................................................. .... 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Haikou, the capital city of Hainan Province, is a pleasant modern city with a number of historical and cultural sights to see and to hold you for a few days before heading off to Hainan's beautiful beaches and inland villages. ICNC'07-FSKD'07 aims to provide an international forum for scientists and researchers to present the state of the art of intelligent methods inspired from nature, including biological, linguistic, ecological, and physical systems, with applications to data mining, manufacturing, design, reliability, and more. It is an exciting and emerging inter- disciplinary area in which a wide range of techniques and methods are being studied for dealing with large, complex, and dynamic problems. Previously, the joint conferences in 2005 and 2006 each attracted over 3100 submissions from more than 30 countries. All accepted papers will appear in conference proceedings published by the IEEE and will be indexed by both EI (Compendex) and ISTP. Further- more, extended versions of many good papers will be published in SCI/SCI-E indexed journals. We also plan to publish post-conference books in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) / Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) with a number of extended papers. Because the Springer Lecture Notes Series will not be indexed in SCI-Expanded and will incur extra costs to authors, please indicate in your submission whether or not your wish to have your paper considered for inclusion in the post-conference LNCS/LNAI books. In addition to regular sessions, participants are encouraged to organize special sessions on specialized topics. Each special session should have at least 4 papers. Special session organizers will solicit submissions, conduct reviews and recommend accept/reject decisions on the submitted papers (using the same online system as the regular papers). Consult the conference web page on how to submit special sessions proposals. 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Sincerely Bhanu Prasad Contact address Bhanu Prasad Department of Computer and Information Sciences Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, FL 32307, USA Email: bhanupvsr [at] gmail.com Phone: 1-850-412-7350 Fax: 1-850-599-3221 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From zhang at cis.uab.edu Tue Mar 20 14:05:17 2007 From: zhang at cis.uab.edu (IEEE-IRI07-Publicity) Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 13:05:17 -0500 (CDT) Subject: [ACT-R-users] IEEE-IRI 2007 paper deadline approaches Message-ID: Dear Author, This is just a friendly reminder that the due date for IEEE-IRI 2007 papers is March 25, 2007, and is approaching rapidly. We hope you are considering submitting a paper to us this year. (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 [Apologies if you received multiple copies because of cross-posting] ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 March 25, 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 Mar. 25, 2007: Paper submission deadline 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 Chengcui Zhang Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Computer and Information Sciences University of Alabama at Birmingham From Kevin.Gluck at mesa.afmc.af.mil Fri Mar 23 07:49:16 2007 From: Kevin.Gluck at mesa.afmc.af.mil (Gluck, Kevin A Civ USAF AFRL/HEAT) Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 07:49:16 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] FW: Workshop on Evaluating Architectures for Intelligence Message-ID: -----Original Message----- From: Gal Kaminka [mailto:galk at macs.biu.ac.il] Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 1:40 AM To: burghart at ira.uka.de Subject: CFP: Workshop on Evaluating Architectures for Intelligence (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/ 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 From galk at macs.biu.ac.il Fri Mar 23 04:39:31 2007 From: galk at macs.biu.ac.il (Gal Kaminka) Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 10:39:31 +0200 Subject: [ACT-R-users] CFP: Workshop on Evaluating Architectures for Intelligence Message-ID: <200703231039.31936.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/ 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 From zhang at cis.uab.edu Sat Mar 24 10:33:59 2007 From: zhang at cis.uab.edu (IEEE-IRI07-Publicity) Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 09:33:59 -0500 (CDT) Subject: [ACT-R-users] Deadline Extended: The 2007 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration Message-ID: *** Due to many requests, the following deadline has been extended *** Paper submission deadline: April 7, 2007 (FIRM) [Apologies if you received multiple copies because of cross-posting] ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 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 marcus.heinath at zmms.tu-berlin.de Tue Mar 27 14:16:50 2007 From: marcus.heinath at zmms.tu-berlin.de (Marcus Heinath) Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 20:16:50 +0200 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Production Compilation Module in ACT-R 6 Message-ID: Hello, I?m looking for some more detailed information about the production compilation module in ACT-R 6, particularly with regard to the following questions: (I) What are the dependencies between those parameters? - initial experience - initial-efforts - initial-success - initial-failures - production learning rate - threshold time (II) What are characteristic value ranges for each parameter (I only know the default values) and what are their meaning/influence on the simulation? For example, the initial experience has a default value of 10, so does this mean that an novice user could be represented by a value of 1 and an expert user by a value of 20? (III) Is it possible to define a starting point for the production compilation, e.g. after a 3x successfully fired sequences of Production 01 and Production 02, they are composed to Production 03? P01 --> P02 ... P01 --> P02 ... P01 --> P02 Production Compilation starts P03 (P01, P02) Thanks for your support. Kind regards Marcus ------------------------------------- Dipl.-Ing. Marcus Heinath Prospective Interaction Design Group Center of Human-Machine-Systems Berlin University of Technology Franklinstra?e 28-29 - Sekr. FR 2-7/2 10587 Berlin - Germany Fon: +49 30 314 29633 Fax: +49 30 314 72581 Mail: marcus.heinath at zmms.tu-berlin.de Web: www.prometei.de From taatgen at cmu.edu Tue Mar 27 14:44:28 2007 From: taatgen at cmu.edu (Niels Taatgen) Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 14:44:28 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Production Compilation Module in ACT-R 6 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On 27 Mar 2007, at 14:16, Marcus Heinath wrote: > Hello, > > I?m looking for some more detailed information about the production > compilation module in ACT-R 6, particularly with regard to the > following > questions: > > (I) What are the dependencies between those parameters? > > - initial experience Is set to 10 by default. Larger values slow down how quickly real experiences can overcome the prior values of utility set by the parent rules. In my experience you never have to change this value, because it has very little impact on the model outcome. > - initial-efforts > - initial-success > - initial-failures By default, new productions start with a probability of success of 0, and a cost of G. If you want something else, you can change these parameters to accomplish this. I never saw any reason to do this though. > - production learning rate This is the main important parameter of production compilation. It controls the speed with which the utility of new rules approach the utility of the parent rules. Values must be between 0 and 1, but only values in the 0.02-0.2 range make sense (although you can use a value of 1 for debugging purposes). I almost always end up with a rate between 0.05 and 0.1 > - threshold time Also not a very crucial parameter. It makes sure that if there is a lot of time between two production rule firings, no rule will be compiled. There must have been some model for which this was relevant, and that prompted its inclusion. You might want to set it to a high value, because at times I have been stumped at times by a model that wouldn't compile because the two rules were above threshold. Note that there is a new utility learning mechanism in ACT-R, and which means that there are slightly different parameters in play right now. > > (II) What are characteristic value ranges for each parameter (I > only know > the default values) and what are their meaning/influence on the > simulation? > > For example, the initial experience has a default value of 10, so > does this > mean that an novice user could be represented by a value of 1 and > an expert > user by a value of 20? > > (III) Is it possible to define a starting point for the production > compilation, e.g. after a 3x successfully fired sequences of > Production 01 > and Production 02, they are composed to Production 03? > > P01 --> P02 > ... > P01 --> P02 > ... > P01 --> P02 > > Production Compilation starts > P03 (P01, P02) > Utility learning is supposed to accomplish this. Although the rule is created at the first opportunity, it will only be used after it has been compiled a number of times. > =================================================== Niels Taatgen - Carnegie Mellon University, Psychology, BH 345B Also (but not now): University of Groningen, Artificial Intelligence web: http://www.ai.rug.nl/~niels email: taatgen at cmu.edu Telephone: +1 412-268-2815 =================================================== From db30 at andrew.cmu.edu Tue Mar 27 15:01:21 2007 From: db30 at andrew.cmu.edu (Dan Bothell) Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 15:01:21 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Production Compilation Module in ACT-R 6 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: --On Tuesday, March 27, 2007 8:16 PM +0200 Marcus Heinath wrote: > Hello, > > I?m looking for some more detailed information about the production > compilation module in ACT-R 6, particularly with regard to the following > questions: > The details of how the parameters control the learning of utilities are described in unit 7 of the tutorial included with ACT-R 6, and the general details of utility learning are covered in unit 6. Also, with the current version of ACT-R 6 there is a reference manual which provides a detailed description of each module's parameters. One thing to note however is that the manual describes the newer utility learning mechanism which doesn't have the same parameters as the ones that you listed. Hope that helps, Dan From magerko at msu.edu Wed Mar 28 15:27:31 2007 From: magerko at msu.edu (Brian Magerko) Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 15:27:31 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] CFP: AAAI 2007 Fall Symposium on Intelligent Narrative Technologies Message-ID: <460AC1A3.7060407@msu.edu> ************************************************************************ CFP for the AAAI Fall Symposium on Intelligent Narrative Technologies http://gel.msu.edu/aaai-fs07-int/ Westin Arlington Gateway, Arlington, Virginia, November 8-11, 2007 Submissions due: May 1, 2007 ************************************************************************ Narrative is a pervasive aspect of human culture in both entertainment and education. As the reliance on digital technology for both entertainment and education technology increases, the need for more innovative approaches to represent, perform, and adapt narrative experiences increases as well. The term "narrative intelligence" was coined to refer to the ability in both humans and computers to organize experience into narrative form. Previous and current work that in this field has produced results in narrative understanding, narrative generation, storytelling user interface modalities, narrative performance by autonomous embodied agents, cognitive models of narrative, and common-sense reasoning. Our goal is to bring together a multidisciplinary group of researchers interested in discussing the fundamental issues in representing, presenting, adapting, and reasoning about narrative in digital media. To this end we invite AI researchers interested in interactive and non-interactive narrative, psychologists, narrative theorists, media theorists, and members of the interactive entertainment industry to contribute to the symposium. We intend to interleave paper presentations with creative, collaborative working sessions and innovative programming, such as an improvisational acting workshop. Contributors are encouraged to send in papers describing completed or ongoing research, and proposals for discussion topics that will be of interest to the community at large. Topics of interest: - Narrative/story understanding/generation - Agents, in the context of narrative performance - Believability - Emotion - Personality - Autonomy - Interactive narrative/storytelling systems - Authoring tools and narrative co-construction support tools - Computational models of narrative - Narrative psychology, theory, and narratology - Narrative in commonsense reasoning - Narrative in intelligent learning environments, serious games, and edutainment - Narrative in commercial and experimental interactive entertainment - Narrative structure in interface design - Complimentary technologies - Virtual cinematography - Computational models of creativity and aesthetics - Natural language generation/understanding for narrative - Music generation for dramatic effect - Production/comprehension Due to the broad and multidisciplinary nature of narrative studies, we will also seriously consider other complimentary topics that are not included on the list. Submission: We welcome submissions describing (1) finished or ongoing relevant research and systems, including theories and models that can inform the development of systems; and (2) proposals for discussion topics that will be of interest to the symposium. Long papers should be at most 8 pages; short papers should be at most 4 pages; proposals for discussion topics should be at most 2 pages. Please submit electronically in PDF format following AAAI style guidelines to magerko at msu.edu. We encourage you to demo your systems. If would like to demo a system, please indicate so at the time of submission. If there are enough demos, we will arrange for a special demo session. Limited travel scholarship opportunities exist for students. Contact Brian Magerko (magerko at msu.edu) or Mark Riedl (riedl at ict.usc.edu) for more details. We intend to actively seek out and partner with an appropriate journal with which to publish a special issue devoted to outstanding papers submitted to the symposium. Symposium Format: The symposium will consist research presentations organized into tracks (to be decided based on submissions), interleaved with creative, collaborative working sessions and innovative programming, such as an improvisational acting workshop. Discussions and panels will be organized in response to submitted topic proposals. Important Dates: Submission deadline: May 1, 2007 Notification of acceptance: May 21, 2007 Camera-ready due: TBD Symposium: November 8-11, 2007 Organizing Committee: Brian Magerko (co-chair), Michigan State University Mark Riedl (co-chair), University of Southern California Bryan Loyall, BAE Systems Michael Young, North Carolina State University Michael Mateas, University of California, Santa Cruz Program Committee: TBD