From schulth at sfbtr8.uni-bremen.de  Thu Jan 10 09:46:32 2008
From: schulth at sfbtr8.uni-bremen.de (Holger Schultheis)
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 15:46:32 +0100
Subject: [ACT-R-users] Two open positions in spatial cognition: junior
	researcher /	teaching assistant
Message-ID: <1199976392.12907.12.camel@cepiphany.informatik.uni-bremen.de>

Apologies for multiple postings

         Please distribute to anyone who may be interested

###################### Position 1 ######################

Postgraduate Position: Junior Researcher & Teaching Assistant SFB/TR 8
Spatial Cognition, Universit?t Bremen Project R1-[ImageSpace] - Mental
Representations of Spatial Environments
- Under the condition of job release / reference number: A 172/07 -


Project Description:
Mental reasoning about spatial environments often involves specific and
task-sensitive spatio-analogical or quasi-pictorial mental
representations. Mental processes dynamically construct and explore
these representations to obtain desired spatial information and they do
so with restricted working memory capacities. One goal of the project
R1-[ImageSpace] is to build a cognitive architecture which comprises the
components and processes necessary to accurately model human spatial
cognition. A second focus is on how to best employ such architectures in
applications that assist humans in spatial cognition tasks (e.g., in
architectural design and spatial planning). Eye tracking and other
behavioral methods are used to clarify the theoretical basis of the
modeling (such as the role of visual attention in mental spatial
reasoning). In addition, eye tracking methods are employed in
the developed application systems. More information on the project can
be found at www.sfbtr8.spatial-cognition.de/project/r1/

Qualifications:
Successful applicants will have expertise in computer science /
artificial intelligence and cognitive science and will hold an excellent
master or diploma degree in computer science, cognitive science, or a
related field. They will be committed to interdisciplinary, team-based
research and be fluent in spoken and written English.

Ideally, an applicant will also have good knowledge of / expertise in
more than one of the following areas: mental representations and
processes in human spatial cognition and visual perception; visual
attention; eye movement tracking; qualitative spatial reasoning;
architectural design / design studies; human problem solving;
human-computer interaction; user interface design. Additional training
will be provided on the job.

Work profile:
* Applying cognitive models to spatial reasoning assistance scenarios.
* Contributing to conceptual and computational modeling of mental and
diagrammatic reasoning about space.
* Managing a visual perception & diagrammatic reasoning lab, including
eye tracking facilities.
* Teaching assistance for undergraduate and graduate courses.
* Preparing manuscripts for publication in international journals / at
conferences.

The successful applicant is expected to work on obtaining a doctoral
degree in the scope of this position.

Conditions of Employment:
Salary is according to the German Federal pay scale (TV-L 13, approx.
EUR 34,000 p.a.). The position is available from April 2008 until the
end of 2010. Extension is possible. Application deadline: 1. February
2008 (or until a suitable candidate is found).

As the University of Bremen intends to increase the proportion of female
employees in science women are particularly encouraged to apply.

In case of equal personal aptitudes and qualification disabled persons
will be given priority.

Please address questions about the position and send your application
under the reference number (preferably by email) to:

Sven Bertel <bertel at informatik.uni-bremen.de> SFB/TR 8 Spatial Cognition
Universit?t Bremen P.O. Box 330 440
28334 Bremen / Germany

For a paper-based application, please make sure to only send document
copies as all received application material will be destroyed after the
selection process.

Sven Bertel
email | bertel at informatik.uni-bremen.de
http | www.cosy.informatik.uni-bremen.de/staff/bertel
address | Universit?t Bremen,
FB3 / Cognitive Systems
PO Box 330 440, D-28334 Bremen,
Germany phone  +49 421 218-64235,
fax | +49 421 218-98-64235 office
CARTESIUM 3.47 @ 53?06'21" N 8?51'18" E



###################### Position 2 ######################
           Postgraduate Position / Junior Researcher
        SFB/TR 8 Spatial Cognition, Universit?t Bremen
Project R1-[ImageSpace] Mental Representations of Spatial Environments
           - under the condition of job release-


Project Description:
Mental reasoning about spatial environments often uses spatio-analogical
or quasipictorial representation structures. As human working memory for
spatio-analogical knowledge processing is severely restricted in
capacity, mental processes dynamically construct and explore
task-sensitive representations to obtain desired spatial information.
One goal of the project is to build a cognitive architecture comprising
all components and processes necessary to accurately model human spatial
cognition. A second research strand of the project concerns how to best
employ such an architecture in applications assisting humans in spatial
cognition tasks (e.g., architectural design and spatial planning). More
information on the project can be found at
www.sfbtr8.spatial-cognition.de/project/r1/


Duties:
* planning / designing and conducting experiments
* (statistical) analysis of experimental data
* help in devising cognitive models
* preparing manuscripts for publication in international journals and
conferences

The successful applicant is expected to work on obtaining a doctoral
degree in the scope of this position.

Required Qualification:
* an excellent master or diploma degree in psychology or a related field
* detailed knowledge of experimental methodology including, in
particular, statistical analysis
* fluency in spoken and written English

Ideally the candidate should have good data handling skills, computer
skills (e.g. MATLAB, SPSS, SAS, Stimulus Presentation Softwares), and
knowledge about mental representations and processes involved in human
spatial cognition.

As the University of Bremen intends to increase the proportion of female
employees in science women are particularly encouraged to apply.
In case of equal personal aptitudes and qualification disabled persons
will be given priority.

Conditions of Employment:
Salary is according to the German Federal pay scale (1/2 TV-L 13,
approx. ? 17,000). The position is available from April 2008 until the
end of 2010. Extension is possible. Application deadline: 1. February
2008 (or until a suitable candidate is found). 

Please address questions about the position and send your application
(preferably by email) to:

Holger Schultheis <schulth at informatik.uni-bremen.de>
SFB/TR 8 Spatial Cognition
Universit?t Bremen
P.O. Box 330 440
28334 Bremen / Germany




From zhang at cis.uab.edu  Fri Jan 11 02:11:01 2008
From: zhang at cis.uab.edu (IEEE-IRI-Publicity)
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 01:11:01 -0600 (CST)
Subject: [ACT-R-users] Call for Papers: IEEE IRI-2008
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0801110110250.15792@vulcan1.cis.uab.edu>


[Apologies if you received multiple copies because of cross-posting]

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The 2008 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and
Integration (IEEE IRI-2008)

Sponsored by: The IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society

July 13-15, 2008
Hilton Hotel, Las Vegas, USA

http://iri2008.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/

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The increasing volumes and dimensions of information have dramatic
impact on effective decision-making. To remedy this situation,
Information Reuse and Integration (IRI) seeks to maximize the reuse
of information by creating simple, rich, and reusable knowledge
representations and consequently explores strategies for integrating
this knowledge into legacy systems. IRI plays a pivotal role in the
capture, representation, maintenance, integration, validation, and
extrapolation of information; and applies both information and
knowledge for enhancing decision-making in various application
domains. This conference explores three major tracks: information
reuse, information integration, and reusable systems. Information
reuse considers optimizing representation methodologies; information
integration studies strategies for creatively applying models in
novel domains; and reusable systems focus on ontological opportunities
for deploying models and corresponding processes.

The IEEE IRI 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 conference feature contributed and invited
papers. Theoretical and applied papers are both included. The
conference program will include special sessions, open forum workshops,
and keynote speeches. A forum will be conducted with the intent of
bridging IRI and Systems of Systems and why the future of intelligent
computing - including computing applications - will lie at the
juxtaposition of these two topical areas. The best papers from
IRI 2008 will be invited to submit extended versions to a special
issue of the Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering Journal. 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 Environments
- Information Integration in Mobile Computing Environments
- Information Integration in Ubiquitous Computing Environments
- 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://iri2008.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/.
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 February 18, 2008. The attachment must be in .pdf (preferred) or
word.doc format. The subject of the email must be IEEE IRI 2008 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.


Important Dates:
----------------

February 4, 2008    Workshop/Special session proposal
February 18, 2008   Paper submission deadline
March 28, 2008      Notification of acceptance
April 21, 2008      Camera-ready paper due
April 21, 2008      Presenting author  registration due
June 9, 2008        Advance (discount) registration for
                     general public and other co-author
June 30, 2008       Hotel reservation (special discount rate) closing date

July 13-15, 2008    Conference events


Orgizing Committee:
-------------------

Honorary General Chair

Lotfi Zadeh
Univ. of California, Berkeley, 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

Kang Zhang
University of Texas at Dallas, USA
kzhang at utd.edu

Reda Alhajj
University of Calgary, Canada
alhajj at ucalgary.ca

Program Vice-Chairs

Mei-Ling Shyu
University of Miami, USA
shyu at miami.edu

Gary D. Boetticher
University of Houston  Clear Lake
boetticher at uhcl.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 Chairs

Chengcui Zhang
UAB, USA
zhang at cis.uab.edu

James B. D. Joshi
University of Pittsburgh, USA
jjoshi at mail.sis.pitt.edu

Finance/Registration/Local Arrangement Chair

Suresh Vadhva
California State University, USA
vadhva at ecs.csus.edu

Publications Chair

Min-Yuh Day
NTU, Taiwan, R.O.C.
myday at iis.sinica.edu.tw

Asian Liaison

Wen-Lian Hsu
Academia Sinica, Taiwan, R.O.C.
hsu at iis.sinica.edu.tw

Althea Liang Qianhui
SMU, Singapore
althealiang at smu.edu.sg

Industry/Canadian Liaison, Editor

June R. Massoud
Genesis Consulting Inc., Canada
junermassoud at hotmail.com

Entertainment Chair

Louellen McCoy
SPAWAR Systems Center, USA
louellen.mccoy at navy.mil

Webmaster

Reda Alhajj
University of Calgary, Canada
alhajj at ucalgary.ca



---------------------------
Chengcui Zhang Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer and Information Sciences
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, USA 35294

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From taatgen at cmu.edu  Fri Jan 11 13:41:19 2008
From: taatgen at cmu.edu (Niels Taatgen)
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 13:41:19 -0500
Subject: [ACT-R-users] ACT-R summer school and workshop 2008
Message-ID: <9C47FFD9-F059-45B6-B279-2D9A1E72A077@cmu.edu>

Fifteenth annual ACT-R Summer School and Workshop
Carnegie Mellon University
July 9-20, 2008

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

and in the following book:

Anderson, J. R. (2007) How Can the Human Mind Occur in the Physical  
Universe? New York: Oxford University Press.

Each year, a summer school is held to train researchers in the use of  
the ACT-R system. The summer school is followed by a three-day ACT-R  
workshop.

Summer School
The summer school will take place from Wednesday July 9 to Thursday  
July 17. 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, as well as general programming experience. 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 $60/day (single) or $30/day  
(shared).

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/).


ACT-R Workshop
The ACT-R workshop will take place from Friday July 18 to Sunday July  
20.  Mornings will be devoted to research presentations, each lasting  
about 20 minutes plus questions. Participants are invited to present  
their ACT-R research by submitting a one-page abstract with their  
registration. Afternoons will feature discussion sessions and  
instructional tutorials.  Suggestions for the topics of the tutorials  
and discussion sessions are welcome.  Friday afternoon will feature a  
presentation by an invited speaker.

Admission to the workshop is open to all.  The early registration fee  
(before July 1) is $100 and the late registration fee (after July 1)  
is $125.  Informal proceedings of past workshops can be found on the  
ACT-R web site (http://act-r.psy.cmu.edu/workshops/). Requests for  
presentations should be submitted before July 1 to receive full  
consideration for inclusion in the workshop program.  A preliminary  
program of presentations will be made available in early July.  The  
workshop is scheduled to just precede the Cognitive Science conference  
which takes place in Washington, DC from July 23 to 26. (http://www.cognitivesciencesociety.org/cogsci.html 
). Housing and computing facilities will be provided at CMU during the  
workshop, and from July 20 to 23 for workshop participants who wish to  
stay on to work on their ACT-R projects and collaborate with other  
researchers until the start of Cogsci.

Further details on how to register for the workshop will follow.

An application form for the summer school is appended below.


________________________________________________________

Fifteenth Annual ACT-R Summer School
July 9 to 17, 2008 at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh

                                 REGISTRATION
                                 ============

Name 
:     ..................................................................

Address 
:  ..................................................................

Tel/ 
Fax:  ..................................................................

Email 
:    ..................................................................



Send this form, curriculum vitae, statement of purpose and a  
description of the project by email (preferred) or regular mail to:

2008 ACT-R Summer School
Psychology Department
Niels Taatgen
Baker Hall 345B                                       Fax: +1 (412)  
268-2844
Carnegie Mellon University                      Tel: +1 (412) 268-2815
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890                      Email: taatgen at cmu.edu
===================================================
Niels Taatgen - Carnegie Mellon University, Psychology, BH 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
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From jeedward at gmail.com  Fri Jan 11 22:58:16 2008
From: jeedward at gmail.com (John E. Edward)
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 22:58:16 -0500
Subject: [ACT-R-users] MULTICONF-08 Final call for papers
Message-ID: <fd1497070801111958h3e2fb73do71866a416f42b53b@mail.gmail.com>

Final call for papers

The 2008 MULTICONF (website:
www.PromoteResearch.org<http://www.promoteresearch.org/>) will be held
during July 7-10 2008 in Orlando, FL, USA. We invite draft
paper submissions and the deadline for paper submission is very close. The
event consists of the following conferences.

?         International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Pattern
Recognition (AIPR-08)

?         International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Control
Systems (ARCS-08)

?         International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology,
Genomics and Chemoinformatics (BCBGC-08)

?         International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems and Web
Technologies (EISWT-08)

?         International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking
and Communication Systems (HPCNCS-08)

?         International Conference on Software Engineering Theory and
Practice (SETP-08)

?         International Conference on Theoretical and Mathematical
Foundations of Computer Science (TMFCS-08)



The website contains more details.



Sincerely

John Edward
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From zhang at cis.uab.edu  Sat Jan 12 10:06:52 2008
From: zhang at cis.uab.edu (Chengcui Zhang)
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 09:06:52 -0600 (CST)
Subject: [ACT-R-users] [CFP] IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man,
	and Cybernetics (SMC) Part	C: Applications & Reviews --Special
	Issue on Information Reuse and	Integration
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0801120906200.28247@vulcan1.cis.uab.edu>


=====================Call for Papers====================
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC) Part C: Applications & 
Reviews

Special Issue on Information Reuse and Integration
========================================================

The last several decades have witnessed the creation of a tremendous amount of 
information and artifacts from large and complex software system development. 
To meet the challenge of the increasing criticality of software within systems 
and developing complex systems of systems, it is of pivotal importance to have 
disciplined ways to reuse and integrate existing information and artifacts. 
Toward such a goal, researchers in the field have studied issues in the 
capture, maintenance, integration, validation, extrapolation, and application 
of knowledge. Various methodologies and techniques have been developed for 
information reuse and integration in areas such as AI, multimedia, networking, 
software and systems engineering, and telecommunications.

This special issue aims at industrial applications or review type papers. It is 
intended to (i) provide a summary of research that advances information reuse 
and integration, and (ii) serve as a comprehensive collection of some of the 
current state-of-the-art technologies within the context of information reuse 
and integration. The solicited original papers include, but are not limited to, 
the topical areas listed below:

- AI & Decision Support Systems
- Natural Language Understanding
- Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
- Soft Computing
- Systems of Systems
- Human-Machine Information Systems
- Space and Robotic Systems
- Semantic Web and Emerging Applications
- Manufacturing Systems & Business Process Engineering

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Guest Editors:

Dr. Stuart Rubin (SPAWAR Systems Center, San Diego) Email: 
stuart.rubin at navy.mil

Dr. Shu-Ching Chen (Florida International University, USA) Email: 
chens at cs.fiu.edu

-----------------------------------
Schedule of Publication (tentative):

Submission deadline: February 22, 2008
Notification: May 23, 2008
Submission of revision: July 25, 2008
Notification of final acceptance: September 26, 2008
Planned publication: Beginning of 2009

------------------
Submission Details:

All manuscripts should be submitted electronically to the IEEE SMCC Electronic 
Submission System/Manuscript Central at 
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/smcc-ieee

The authors should put in the Cover Letter to Editor-in-Chief section the 
following sentence: This manuscript is submitted for the Special Issue on 
Information Reuse and Integration (editors: S.H. Rubin and S.-C. Chen).
For detailed submission information, please refer to Information for Authors at

http://www.ieee-smc.org/publications/index.html



Chengcui Zhang Ph.D. Assistant Professor
Associate Director of the Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Lab
Department of Computer and Information Sciences
University of Alabama at Birmingham
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From carlos.zerpa at ucv.ve  Mon Jan 14 11:42:37 2008
From: carlos.zerpa at ucv.ve (Carlos E. Zerpa)
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 12:42:37 -0400
Subject: [ACT-R-users] A brief question: Events in other languages?
Message-ID: <000d01c856cc$78e79860$0a3a11ac@equipo1>

Hello ACT-R community.

A brief question: ACT-R research had some congress, seminary, event or workshop in spanish language? I think is very important the difussion of the model and the works of Dr. Anderson and other brilliance people-researchers in ACT-R in a different form, beyond textbooks of learning and cognitive Psychology, in latinoamerican countries. 

Where this information is available? or no exist? Some idea for that?

Thank you.

Carlos E. Zerpa


Prof. Carlos E. Zerpa, MPs.
Jefe (e) Departamento de Educaci?n para Ingenier?a
Facultad de Ingenier?a
Edificio del Decanato, piso 3, Ofc. 331
Universidad Central de Venezuela
Telf. 58-212-605-3084
e-mail: carlos.zerpa at ucv.ve
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From db30 at andrew.cmu.edu  Mon Jan 14 15:19:39 2008
From: db30 at andrew.cmu.edu (Dan Bothell)
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 15:19:39 -0500
Subject: [ACT-R-users] ACT-R 6.0 update
Message-ID: <CA0E5B1DAEB5553277A07AF5@DHL8KLC1.psy.cmu.edu>


Later today I will be updating the sources to make the
new version of the vision module the default.  Both the
Subversion archive and the released version (the one on
the web site) will be updated.  The current version of
the module (and other associated files) will still be
included under extras for those that need it.

This change should not affect existing models unless
they are interacting with a custom device or extensions
to the default devices.

However, if you do have any issues or problems with it
please let me know.

If you have implemented custom devices and would like to
move them to the new system you can find some documentation
on the new system in the PowerPoint slides called
"extending-actr.ppt" in the docs directory.  There will
also be an example model in the examples directory called
"simple-new-device.lisp" (it can be found under the
extras/new-vision/examples directory of the current
distribution).


Dan


From Jerry.Ball at mesa.afmc.af.mil  Wed Jan 16 12:52:58 2008
From: Jerry.Ball at mesa.afmc.af.mil (Ball, Jerry T Civ USAF AFRL/RHAT)
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 12:52:58 -0500
Subject: [ACT-R-users] NSF/IIS Panelists and Reviewers
Message-ID: <E2C53FE31589534B9B15CD4B996DFA9C02660EE4@VFOHMLAO01.Enterprise.afmc.ds.af.mil>

Interested reviewers should reply to Maria Zemankova at mzemanko at nsf.gov
with the subject "NSF/IIS Panelists and Reviewers"

Jerry

-----Original Message-----
From: Zemankova, Maria [mailto:mzemanko at nsf.gov] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 8:03 AM
To: Bisc-Group
Subject: [bisc-group] NSF/IIS Panelists and Reviewers

Dear Colleague: 

The Information & Intelligent Systems (IIS)
(http://www.nsf.gov/div/index.jsp?div=IIS
<http://www.nsf.gov/div/index.jsp?div=IIS> ) research community is very
fortunate this year, as the US National Science Foundation
(http://www.nsf.gov <http://www.nsf.gov> ) and the Computer &
Information Science & Engineering (CISE) Directorate
(http://www.nsf.gov/dir/index.jsp?org=CISE
<http://www.nsf.gov/dir/index.jsp?org=CISE> ) have several IIS-relevant
funding opportunities (calls for proposals). This also means that we
need to find many panelists and reviewers that would be able and willing
to review these proposals.

I would like to ask you to volunteer to assist NSF in the review
process. 

Panelists usually review a set of proposals in a 1-2 day panel meeting
that meets at NSF. Panelists write a review for 8-10 proposals prior to
coming to the meeting, try to get familiar with all proposals in the
group, and then proposals are evaluated at the panel meeting.

NOTE: Non-US panelists may only be researchers from organizations that
do NOT receive support from their governments, e.g., only private
universities or non-government labs, industry, etc.

Reviewers are specially selected experts whose review will complement
the panel evaluation, as it is not always possible to have several
experts for every proposal among the panel members. Preferably, the
expert reviews are submitted prior to the panel meeting, so that these
reviews are a part of the panel evaluation.

NOTE: There are no affiliation restrictions for non-US reviewers. 

Please review the Program Solicitations and then specify how you could
help in the lower part of this message. I would appreciate your deleting
the top part of this message. 

I also would like to ask you for forward this request for help to your
colleagues and friends. NSF is interested in engaging a diverse pool of
researchers as panelists or reviewers, including academic, non-academic,
non-US researchers, and underrepresented groups.

Thank you for your assistance, 

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P.S. Sorry if you are receiving this message several times. This means
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Information Integration & Informatics area, NSF 07-577 (III) 
Foundations of Data and Visual Analytics, NSF 07-583 (FODAVA) 
Information & Intelligent Systems Division (IIS) 
Computer & Information Science & Engineering Directorate (CISE) 
National Science Foundation (NSF) 
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III:   http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf07577
<http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf07577>  
(CAREER, RUI, GOALI, regular, SGER, and workshop proposals need to be
submitted to the organizational units specified in NSF 07-577)

FODAVA:  http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf07583
<http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf07583>  
IIS:  http://www.nsf.gov/div/index.jsp?div=IIS
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Name: 
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Mailing address: 
Phone number: 
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NOTE: If you submitted a proposal to a Program Solicitation in a
particular category (e.g., IIS: RI-Small), you cannot review proposals
submitted to that Program Solicitation in that category, but can review
proposals submitted to that Program Solicitation in other categories
(e.g., RI-Large, RI-Medium, III-Small, III-Medium, III-Large, etc.).

Please place Y in front of panels you can participate in (provided there
are no conflicts of interest, there are proposals in your areas of
expertise, etc.)

Please place #, the maximum number of proposals (e.g., 3) you could
provide an expert review for, to be used in the given panel (provided
there are no conflicts of interest, the proposals are in your areas of
expertise, etc.)

Program Solicitations: 

Information & Intelligent Systems (IIS), NSF 07-577
(http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf07577
<http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf07577> ) 
_ Medium proposals panel: February 21-22 
_ Expert reviews for Medium proposals 
_ Large proposals panel: March 6-7 
_ Expert reviews for Large proposals 
_ Small: March 25 - April, dates TBD 
_ Expert reviews for Small proposals 

Expeditions in Computing, NSF 07-592
(http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf07592/nsf07592.htm
<http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf07592/nsf07592.htm> ) 
_ Preliminary proposal panel: mid - late February, dates TBD 
_ Expert reviews for Preliminary proposals 
_ Full proposals panel: April - May, dates TBD 
_ Expert reviews for Full proposals 

Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI), NSF07-603
(http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf07603
<http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf07603> ) 
_ Preliminary proposal panel: mid - late February, dates TBD 
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!! Please also provide your CDI information via:
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program directors involved in recruiting CDI panelists and expert
reviewers.

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From J.Borst at ai.rug.nl  Fri Jan 18 08:19:55 2008
From: J.Borst at ai.rug.nl (Jelmer Borst)
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:19:55 +0100
Subject: [ACT-R-users] running act-r models of tasks with continuously
	updating displays
Message-ID: <CDE36137-C314-4A10-A86A-09FD03CCAFBD@ai.rug.nl>

While implementing a model of a driving task in ACT-R, I ran into  
trouble with how long it took the model to run: more than a day for a  
single run whereas the participants were finished in about a hour.   
After profiling the lisp code and searching Dan's reference manual for  
a solution, the model now runs in about 5 minutes.

For the ones among you that also want to model tasks with continuously  
updating displays, also run into time problems, and haven't read the  
reference manual, my solution to this problem is provided below.   
(and, maybe someone knows an even better way to do this - Dan?)

Jelmer Borst

---------------------------------------------------
Ph.D. Student
University of Groningen
Department of Artificial Intelligence
Tel: +31 (0) 50 363 6915
Email: jpborst at ai.rug.nl
http://www.ai.rug.nl/~jpborst



When you make an ACT-R model of a ?standard? psychological experiment,  
in which the participants perceive some stimulus and have to make a  
response to that stimulus, you probably set it up in the following way:

   1. initiate experiment
   2. display one trial
   3. run model till response is made
   4. goto 2

This works fine for such experiments, however, when you try to model  
an experiment like a driving task in which the display is continuously  
updated, you run into trouble.


The easiest (but VERY slow) way to model such an experiment is to  
change the list above to:

   1. initiate experiment
   2. set-up display
   3. run model for 50 milliseconds
   4. update display if necessary
   5. goto 3

The problem with this is that you call the ACT-R function (run-until- 
time (+ (mp-time) .050)) about every 50 ms. This function not only  
runs the model, but also checks declarative memory (& normalizes chunk  
names etc), actions that only have to be run at the start of a model  
run. These actions significantly slow down your model, to the point  
where it can take a few days to run a model of an experiment that took  
an hour for the human participants to complete.


The solution for this problem is the following:

   1. initiate experiment
   2. set-up display
   3. call (schedule-periodic-event .050 experiment-step :priority :max)
   4. run the model until completion

In step 3 you schedule the function experiment-step to run in ACT-R  
every 50 ms (experiment-step is the function of the experiment that  
updates the display). Basically, what happens now is that the model  
runs continuously, but calls the function experiment-step every 50 ms.  
This way the ACT-R run function is only called once, which eliminates  
a lot of unnecessary calls to DM. The result is that the model now  
runs in ~5 minutes.


Dan says it this way in the reference manual:

The event system that drives ACT-R models is also available to the  
modeler for use in writing
experiments or ?driver code? for the models.  In fact, because ACT-R  
relies on the events to trigger
actions such as conflict-resolution, this is the preferred mechanism  
for creating experiments or
making other run-time changes.  It is also essential when adding new  
modules to schedule events to
affect any changes which the module has on buffers as well as when  
changing its internal state or
affecting outside actions.

When writing experiments for a model, one useful approach is to have  
the model?s actions trigger the
events that make changes in such a way that one only needs to call one  
of the ACT-R ?run? functions
to execute both the model and the task.  That has the benefit of not  
introducing any discrepancies into
the model timing relative to the task and also allows for the task to  
be run using the provided stepping
tools or continued after a break in the model.  That is not always  
practical for a simple model/task
and often one may want to use a run, stop, change, run again style.   
When using the run-stop style, it
is still important to schedule any direct effects that one makes to  
buffers or chunks so that the model
properly notes the changes.



From db30 at andrew.cmu.edu  Fri Jan 18 09:40:41 2008
From: db30 at andrew.cmu.edu (Dan Bothell)
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:40:41 -0500
Subject: [ACT-R-users] running act-r models of tasks with
 continuously	updating displays
In-Reply-To: <CDE36137-C314-4A10-A86A-09FD03CCAFBD@ai.rug.nl>
References: <CDE36137-C314-4A10-A86A-09FD03CCAFBD@ai.rug.nl>
Message-ID: <45F83254B248C0B13787400D@DHL8KLC1.psy.cmu.edu>


That's a nice description of the issue and solution and there's
not much I have to add to it.

One thing to note is that those different methods for setting up the
experiment code are also described in the auxiliary text for unit
4 of the ACT-R tutorial.  The zbrodoff model for that unit uses a
similar "one call to run" style for those that want to see a full
example.  However, it does differ slightly from Jelmer's in that it
doesn't have the periodic updating.  It only transitions on the
model's key-press events.

Also, the most likely cause of the long run times in the first
version of the task was the setting of the :ncnar parameter.  The
default value of t is a real killer when there are lots of calls
to run or of the model runs for a "long" time.  Setting that
parameter to nil usually helps quite a bit in those situations.
That is described in the main text for unit 4 of the tutorial.
For the paired associate model from that unit, leaving :ncnar
at t causes the model to take about 10x as long to run.  The
addition and default value of that parameter were also noted
in the change log.

Everybody checks the log when they get a new version, right? ;)

Dan


--On Friday, January 18, 2008 2:19 PM +0100 Jelmer Borst 
<J.Borst at ai.rug.nl> wrote:

> While implementing a model of a driving task in ACT-R, I ran into
> trouble with how long it took the model to run: more than a day for a
> single run whereas the participants were finished in about a hour.
> After profiling the lisp code and searching Dan's reference manual for
> a solution, the model now runs in about 5 minutes.
>
> For the ones among you that also want to model tasks with continuously
> updating displays, also run into time problems, and haven't read the
> reference manual, my solution to this problem is provided below.
> (and, maybe someone knows an even better way to do this - Dan?)
>
> Jelmer Borst
>
> ---------------------------------------------------
> Ph.D. Student
> University of Groningen
> Department of Artificial Intelligence
> Tel: +31 (0) 50 363 6915
> Email: jpborst at ai.rug.nl
> http://www.ai.rug.nl/~jpborst
>
>
>
> When you make an ACT-R model of a ?standard? psychological experiment,
> in which the participants perceive some stimulus and have to make a
> response to that stimulus, you probably set it up in the following way:
>
>    1. initiate experiment
>    2. display one trial
>    3. run model till response is made
>    4. goto 2
>
> This works fine for such experiments, however, when you try to model
> an experiment like a driving task in which the display is continuously
> updated, you run into trouble.
>
>
> The easiest (but VERY slow) way to model such an experiment is to
> change the list above to:
>
>    1. initiate experiment
>    2. set-up display
>    3. run model for 50 milliseconds
>    4. update display if necessary
>    5. goto 3
>
> The problem with this is that you call the ACT-R function (run-until-
> time (+ (mp-time) .050)) about every 50 ms. This function not only
> runs the model, but also checks declarative memory (& normalizes chunk
> names etc), actions that only have to be run at the start of a model
> run. These actions significantly slow down your model, to the point
> where it can take a few days to run a model of an experiment that took
> an hour for the human participants to complete.
>
>
> The solution for this problem is the following:
>
>    1. initiate experiment
>    2. set-up display
>    3. call (schedule-periodic-event .050 experiment-step :priority :max)
>    4. run the model until completion
>
> In step 3 you schedule the function experiment-step to run in ACT-R
> every 50 ms (experiment-step is the function of the experiment that
> updates the display). Basically, what happens now is that the model
> runs continuously, but calls the function experiment-step every 50 ms.
> This way the ACT-R run function is only called once, which eliminates
> a lot of unnecessary calls to DM. The result is that the model now
> runs in ~5 minutes.
>
>
> Dan says it this way in the reference manual:
>
> The event system that drives ACT-R models is also available to the
> modeler for use in writing
> experiments or ?driver code? for the models.  In fact, because ACT-R
> relies on the events to trigger
> actions such as conflict-resolution, this is the preferred mechanism
> for creating experiments or
> making other run-time changes.  It is also essential when adding new
> modules to schedule events to
> affect any changes which the module has on buffers as well as when
> changing its internal state or
> affecting outside actions.
>
> When writing experiments for a model, one useful approach is to have
> the model?s actions trigger the
> events that make changes in such a way that one only needs to call one
> of the ACT-R ?run? functions
> to execute both the model and the task.  That has the benefit of not
> introducing any discrepancies into
> the model timing relative to the task and also allows for the task to
> be run using the provided stepping
> tools or continued after a break in the model.  That is not always
> practical for a simple model/task
> and often one may want to use a run, stop, change, run again style.
> When using the run-stop style, it
> is still important to schedule any direct effects that one makes to
> buffers or chunks so that the model
> properly notes the changes.
>
> _______________________________________________
> ACT-R-users mailing list
> ACT-R-users at act-r.psy.cmu.edu
> http://act-r.psy.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/act-r-users
>







From conffe006 at gmail.com  Sat Jan 19 02:59:02 2008
From: conffe006 at gmail.com (you jia)
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 15:59:02 +0800
Subject: [ACT-R-users] ICNC'08-FSKD'08: Jinan, China; Papers due 25 March
Message-ID: <828222a40801182359s1d52735ek711d7931b1644aca@mail.gmail.com>

** Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement *

----------------------------------------------------------------------
  The 4th International Conference on Natural Computation (ICNC'08)
      The 5th International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and
                     Knowledge Discovery (FSKD'08)
----------------------------------------------------------------------

                25-27 August 2008, Jinan, China

            *** Submission Deadline: 25 March 2008 ***

            ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
              http://www.icnc-fskd2008.sdu.edu.cn
            ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

          Call for Papers, Invited Sessions & Sponsorship

The joint ICNC'08-FSKD'08 will be held in Jinan, China. Jinan is the
capital of Shandong Province, which is known for the home of Confucius,
the Taishan Mountain, and the Baotu Spring.

ICNC'08-FSKD'08 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, ecological, and physical
systems, with applications to data mining, manufacturing, design, and
more. It is an exciting and emerging interdisciplinary 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, 2006 and 2007 each attracted
over 3000 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 and ISTP. Furthermore, extended
versions of selected papers will be published in a special issue of
Soft Computing: An International Journal (SCI indexed).

For more information, visit the conference web page. If you have any
questions after visiting the conference web page, please email the
secretariat at nc2008 at sdu.edu.cn

Join us at this major event in historic Jinan !!!
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From jeedward at gmail.com  Tue Jan 22 17:18:19 2008
From: jeedward at gmail.com (John E. Edward)
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:18:19 -0500
Subject: [ACT-R-users] MULTICONF-08 Final call for papers
Message-ID: <fd1497070801221418h90fb654s8d750a6fdde5a77a@mail.gmail.com>

MULTICONF-08 Final call for papers



The 2008 MULTICONF (website:
www.PromoteResearch.org<http://www.promoteresearch.org/>) will be held
during July 7-10 2008 in Orlando, FL, USA. We invite draft
paper submissions and the deadline for paper submission is very close. The
event consists of the following conferences.

?         International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Pattern
Recognition (AIPR-08)

?         International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Control
Systems (ARCS-08)

?         International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology,
Genomics and Chemoinformatics (BCBGC-08)

?         International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems and Web
Technologies (EISWT-08)

?         International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking
and Communication Systems (HPCNCS-08)

?         International Conference on Software Engineering Theory and
Practice (SETP-08)

?         International Conference on Theoretical and Mathematical
Foundations of Computer Science (TMFCS-08)



The website contains more details.



Sincerely

John Edward
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From jakebeal at MIT.EDU  Thu Jan 24 14:27:12 2008
From: jakebeal at MIT.EDU (Jake Beal)
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:27:12 -0500
Subject: [ACT-R-users] Quick Interest Poll: Biologically-Inspired Artificial
	Intelligence Symposium
Message-ID: <200801241927.m0OJRCFH025439@all-night-tool.mit.edu>

Patrick Winston, Michael Coen, Nick Cassimatis, and I are proposing
a AAAI Fall Symposium on Biologically-Inspired Artificial Intelligence.
I'm appending our draft CFP to the end of this email.

If you might be interested in participating, please send me an email
before close of business tomorrow (Friday, Jan. 25).  This is not a
commitment: we just need active indication of interest for the list of
potential participants in our proposal.  Apologies for the short
notice.

Thanks,
-Jake Beal
(Postdoctoral Associate, MIT CSAIL)

----- Begin Draft CFP -----
Biologically-Inspired Artificial Intelligence

The divide between how biological and computational systems solve
problems and adjust to novel situations is readily apparent.  Animals
display marked flexibility in adjusting to new situations, whereas
computational approaches excel in well-defined, formally structured
domains.

We are interested in new approaches to bridging this gap.  Our
perspective is that studies of natural and artificial intelligences
can and should be mutually informative.  Even juvenile animals solve
apparently difficult computational problems and we believe
understanding how they do this will enable the creation of more
sophisticated artificial systems.  Conversely, computational models
provide structure and insight into understanding animal learning and
cognition.  By combining biological and computational perspectives, we
expect to obtain new insights into furthering the historic goals of
artificial intelligence.

This symposium is intended to bring together researchers interested in
pursuing this agenda.  Participants are invited to submit either a
position paper or a brief report on relevant work.  Topics of
particular interest include, but are not limited to:

* Approaches to attaining breadth and flexibility
* Systems or models incorporating multiple cognitive capabilities
* Applying models of natural intelligence to engineered systems,
  or vice versa
* Case histories of recent success or interesting failure in crossing
  between these fields
* Near-term tractable problems deserving of greater attention
* Experimental techniques and measurement strategies

The symposium will mix short talks from participants with extensive
discussion on the challenges of doing research relevant to both
natural and artificial systems.
----- End Draft CFP -----


From jeedward at yahoo.com  Mon Jan 28 05:27:57 2008
From: jeedward at yahoo.com (John Edward)
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 02:27:57 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [ACT-R-users] MULTICONF-08 Final call for papers
Message-ID: <86091.51146.qm@web45916.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>

MULTICONF-08 Final call for papers
   
  The 2008 MULTICONF (website: www.PromoteResearch.org ) will be held during July 7-10 2008 in Orlando, FL, USA. We invite draft paper submissions and the deadline for paper submission is very close. The event consists of the following conferences. 
  ?         International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition (AIPR-08)
  ?         International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Control Systems (ARCS-08)
  ?         International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Genomics and Chemoinformatics (BCBGC-08)
  ?         International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems and Web Technologies (EISWT-08)
  ?         International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking and Communication Systems (HPCNCS-08) 
  ?         International Conference on Software Engineering Theory and Practice (SETP-08)
  ?         International Conference on Theoretical and Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (TMFCS-08)
   
  The website contains more details.
   
  Sincerely
  John Edward
   

       
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From jd2k at mtsu.edu  Mon Jan 28 11:12:36 2008
From: jd2k at mtsu.edu (Jiatang Dong)
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:12:36 -0600
Subject: [ACT-R-users] I want to quit the ACT-R maillist
Message-ID: <7406283b0801280812j37e29cacgcdde0d7b7752c76b@mail.gmail.com>

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From jiatang.dong at gmail.com  Mon Jan 28 11:13:14 2008
From: jiatang.dong at gmail.com (Jiatang Dong)
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:13:14 -0600
Subject: [ACT-R-users] I want to quit the ACT-R maillist
Message-ID: <7406283b0801280813s71231be0qf2aaa9f132dee5c6@mail.gmail.com>

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From db30 at andrew.cmu.edu  Tue Jan 29 13:26:37 2008
From: db30 at andrew.cmu.edu (Dan Bothell)
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 13:26:37 -0500
Subject: [ACT-R-users] act-r.psy.cmu.edu server down time
Message-ID: <8C1D274AD7016D683147EBE2@DHL8KLC1.psy.cmu.edu>


The machine which hosts the ACT-R web site and the
act-r-users mailing list will be offline for
approximately 2 hours this afternoon starting around
2pm EST.

The web site will be unavailable during that time and
all messages sent to the mailing list will bounce.

I'll send another message to the list once it's
back online.

Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause,
Dan


From andreas.luedtke at offis.de  Tue Jan 29 13:25:54 2008
From: andreas.luedtke at offis.de (Andreas Luedtke)
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:25:54 +0100
Subject: [ACT-R-users] Job opening at OFFIS - Cognitive modelling to assess
 usability aspects of driver assistance systems
Message-ID: <OF6F158EBE.A7DB8565-ONC12573DF.00646DDC-C12573DF.00653D94@offis.uni-oldenburg.de>

---- Apologies for multiple postings ----

Job opening at OFFIS - Cognitive modelling to assess usability aspects of 
driver assistance systems 


The OFFIS Research Division Safety Critical Systems (
http://www.offis.de/sc/index_e.php) has an 

open position for a research assistant on a full-time basis available 
immediately.

You will work in a European Project in the 7th Research Framework 
Programme of the EU with leading scientists in the field of Human-Machine 
Interaction and with experts from the automotive industry. 

Central aim of the project is the design and implementation of a 
methodology for the development of cognitive driver models enabling the 
assessment of usability aspects of driver assistance systems.

Your task is to work with a team to research and model human behaviour. 
You will define requirements for a human driver model in cooperation with 
experts from the automotive industry; you will specify conceptual 
enhancements of an existing model architecture and will implement this 
concept into executable code. Furthermore, you will participate to the 
definition of simulator experiments to validate the predictive quality of 
the driver model and you will perform the validation.

You should be highly motivated and posses the competence to work 
independently in a team. You should enjoy facing interdisciplinary 
challenges. As an application-oriented researcher you are interested in 
communicating and cooperating with industrial partners. 

Furthermore, we expect an outstanding M.Sc. or Diploma in Computer Science 
or a related discipline with a strong programming background.

An interest in, and preferably experience with, either Cognitive Science 
or Artificial Intelligence are essential for this position.

German language skills are useful, but not mandatory. OFFIS is located in 
Oldenburg (north western Germany). A dynamic university city with a 
distinct sense of personality and an unique quality of life offering many 
cultural and free time possibilities. Oldenburg is located near Bremen and 
Hamburg with the North Sea only few kilometres away. 

We offer a salary according to your qualifications and experience. 

As a research institute and in cooperation with the University of 
Oldenburg OFFIS offers excellent opportunities for scientific careers and, 
if formal preconditions are fulfilled, for working towards a doctoral 
thesis. 

For more information, please contact the Head of the Department: 
Prof. Dr. Bernhard Josko (josko (at) offis.de, Tel. +49-441-9722-520)

Please submit your application including the usual documents to: personal 
(at) offis.de

Thank you and best regards,
Andreas Luedtke 

-- 
Dr. Andreas Luedtke
OFFIS
Safety Critical Systems
Escherweg 2 - 26121 Oldenburg - Germany
Fon: +49 441 9722-530 - Fax: +49 441 9722-102
E-Mail: luedtke at offis.de - URL: http://www.offis.de


From db30 at andrew.cmu.edu  Wed Jan 30 00:02:43 2008
From: db30 at andrew.cmu.edu (Dan Bothell)
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:02:43 -0500
Subject: [ACT-R-users] Web site is back up
Message-ID: <91020C7AA65ADBF29B740C84@[192.168.1.2]>


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Dan


From marc.halbruegge at unibw.de  Thu Jan 31 11:39:15 2008
From: marc.halbruegge at unibw.de (=?ISO-8859-15?Q?Marc_Halbr=FCgge?=)
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 17:39:15 +0100
Subject: [ACT-R-users] New tool: ACT-CV
Message-ID: <47A1F9B3.1090805@unibw.de>

Dear ACT-R users,

we proudly present ACT-CV, a new tool that combines cognitive modeling
with ACT-R and state of the art computer vision (therefore act-CV) using
OpenCV.

ACT-CV gets its visual input from the computer screen or a video camera.
Analyzing is done using OpenCV (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCV).
Example: If you want to find an object on the screen, you simply have to
provide an image file of this object. ACT-CV will search for the object
and put an adequate chunk into the visual icon of ACT-R's vision module
if the search succeeds.

Running the demo (Windows):
 * download and install ACT-CV
 * start Lisp and load ACT-R
 * load "act-cv-demo.lisp" from ACT-CV's installation directory
You should see two windows coming up, one showing a part of your
computer screen with red lines in it, and another titled "attended
location" that shows where ACT-R looks while a simple cognitive model of
visual search is running.

Prerequisites:
You must have Java installed on your computer. This should already be
the case for everybody.
ACT-CV has been tested on Windows and Linux, using Allegro CL and SBCL.
It should work with any Lisp variant that can run ACT-R.
Both the new and the old vision modules of ACT-R are supported.

Download it here:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=214599&package_id=258681&release_id=572627

ACT-CV is an open source project, we encourage everybody to take part in
the development. You can take a look at the code here:
http://act-cv.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/act-cv/

ACT-CV homepage (with documentation):
http://act-cv.sourceforge.net/

Greetings
Marc Halbruegge


-- 
Dipl.-Psych. Marc Halbruegge
Human Factors Institute
Faculty of Aerospace Engineering
Bundeswehr University Munich
Werner-Heisenberg-Weg 39
D-85579 Neubiberg

Phone: +49 89 6004 3497
Fax: +49 89 6004 2564
E-Mail: marc.halbruegge at unibw.de
http://www.unibw.de/lrt11/halbruegge

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From bruno.emond at nrc-cnrc.gc.ca  Thu Jan 31 13:52:56 2008
From: bruno.emond at nrc-cnrc.gc.ca (Bruno Emond)
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:52:56 -0500
Subject: [ACT-R-users] New tool: ACT-CV
In-Reply-To: <47A1F9B3.1090805@unibw.de>
Message-ID: <C3C78338.1DC5%bruno.emond@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca>

Marc, 
This is fantastic. 
I thought that OpenCV was a must for the ACT-R community.
You beat me to it. 
Great contribution.
Thanks
Bruno


On 1/31/08 11:39 AM, "Marc Halbr?gge" <marc.halbruegge at unibw.de> wrote:

> Dear ACT-R users,
> 
> we proudly present ACT-CV, a new tool that combines cognitive modeling
> with ACT-R and state of the art computer vision (therefore act-CV) using
> OpenCV.
> 
> ACT-CV gets its visual input from the computer screen or a video camera.
> Analyzing is done using OpenCV (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCV).
> Example: If you want to find an object on the screen, you simply have to
> provide an image file of this object. ACT-CV will search for the object
> and put an adequate chunk into the visual icon of ACT-R's vision module
> if the search succeeds.
> 
> Running the demo (Windows):
>  * download and install ACT-CV
>  * start Lisp and load ACT-R
>  * load "act-cv-demo.lisp" from ACT-CV's installation directory
> You should see two windows coming up, one showing a part of your
> computer screen with red lines in it, and another titled "attended
> location" that shows where ACT-R looks while a simple cognitive model of
> visual search is running.
> 
> Prerequisites:
> You must have Java installed on your computer. This should already be
> the case for everybody.
> ACT-CV has been tested on Windows and Linux, using Allegro CL and SBCL.
> It should work with any Lisp variant that can run ACT-R.
> Both the new and the old vision modules of ACT-R are supported.
> 
> Download it here:
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=214599&package_id=258681
> &release_id=572627
> 
> ACT-CV is an open source project, we encourage everybody to take part in
> the development. You can take a look at the code here:
> http://act-cv.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/act-cv/
> 
> ACT-CV homepage (with documentation):
> http://act-cv.sourceforge.net/
> 
> Greetings
> Marc Halbruegge
>