From karri.peterson at gmail.com Tue Jul 1 12:30:29 2008 From: karri.peterson at gmail.com (Karri Peterson) Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 11:30:29 -0500 Subject: [ACT-R-users] ACT-R-users Digest, Vol 36, Issue 1 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <2abd93320807010930s38e087f4ib2098695dd06e2bb@mail.gmail.com> Dan, Two questions related to this: In line with this question, are chunk-types extended during the production compilation process? I am still learning about the production compilation process but I am assuming it can't use dynamic pattern matching functionality (or can it?) because of the rules regarding buffers necessary for production compilation to take place. Is this correct? Karri Peterson On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 11:00 AM, wrote: > Send ACT-R-users mailing list submissions to > act-r-users at act-r.psy.cmu.edu > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://act-r.psy.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/act-r-users > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > act-r-users-request at act-r.psy.cmu.edu > > You can reach the person managing the list at > act-r-users-owner at act-r.psy.cmu.edu > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of ACT-R-users digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Extending chunk types (Chris Sims) > 2. Re: Extending chunk types (Dan Bothell) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:43:48 -0400 > From: Chris Sims > Subject: [ACT-R-users] Extending chunk types > To: act-r-users at act-r.psy.cmu.edu > Message-ID: <62EE4E0F-62E8-4FE7-877F-02EBAA55B9E9 at rpi.edu> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > > The dynamic pattern matching functionality in ACT-R 6 allows one to > dynamically extend the chunk-type of chunks currently stored in the > buffers, for example: > > (P* sample-production > =goal> > ISA goal-chunk > state =state-name > ==> > =goal> > =state-name 42) > > What I am wondering is: Is there a way to achieve the same thing > (dynamically extending a chunk type) when *creating* chunks on the > right hand side of a production? For example: > > (P* sample-production-2 > =goal> > ISA goal-chunk > state =state-name > ==> > +other-module> > ISA other-chunk-type > =state-name 42) > > If I try and run a model containing a production like the above, I > get the error: > #|Warning: Invalid slot-name [_____] in call to define-chunk-spec. |# > > Is there a way to allow this in ACT-R 6? > > Thanks, > -Chris Sims > > -- > Chris R. Sims > Doctoral Student, Department of Cognitive Science > Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute > Troy, NY 12180 > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > http://act-r.psy.cmu.edu/pipermail/act-r-users/attachments/20080630/518ea0ea/attachment-0001.html > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:13:00 -0400 > From: Dan Bothell > Subject: Re: [ACT-R-users] Extending chunk types > To: act-r-users at act-r.psy.cmu.edu > Cc: Chris Sims > Message-ID: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed > > > > --On Monday, June 30, 2008 2:43 PM -0400 Chris Sims wrote: > > > > > > > The dynamic pattern matching functionality in ACT-R 6 allows one to > > dynamically extend the chunk-type of chunks currently stored in the > > buffers, for example: > > > > > > (P* sample-production > > ?? =goal> > > ?? ? ?ISA goal-chunk > > ?? ? ?state =state-name > > ?? ==> > > ?? =goal> > > ?? ? ?=state-name 42) > > > > > > What I am wondering is: ?Is there a way to achieve the same thing > > (dynamically extending a chunk type) when *creating* chunks on the right > > hand side of a production? For example: > > > > > > > > (P* sample-production-2 > > ?? =goal> > > ?? ? ?ISA goal-chunk > > ?? ? ?state =state-name > > ?? ==> > > ?? +other-module> > > ?? ? ?ISA other-chunk-type > > ?? ? ?=state-name 42) > > > > > > If I try and run a model containing a production like the above, I get > > the error: > >#| Warning: Invalid slot-name [_____] in call to define-chunk-spec. |# > > > > > > Is there a way to allow this in ACT-R 6? > > > > > > Not using a request - at least not directly. However, you could engineer > a module that could do such a thing using the request parameters. If > you specify the buffer with some request parameters then you could do > something like this: > > (P* sample-production-2 > ?? =goal> > ?? ? ?ISA goal-chunk > ?? ? ?state =state-name > ?? ==> > ?? +other-module> > ?? ? ?ISA other-chunk-type > ?? ? ?:slot-name =state-name > :slot-value 42) > > Then in the module's request function you'd have to pull out the > values for the request parameters, check whether they were valid > slots, if not extend the chunk-type, then create the chunk as > needed. > > Dan > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > > End of ACT-R-users Digest, Vol 36, Issue 1 > ****************************************** > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From db30 at andrew.cmu.edu Tue Jul 1 14:28:36 2008 From: db30 at andrew.cmu.edu (Dan Bothell) Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:28:36 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] ACT-R-users Digest, Vol 36, Issue 1 In-Reply-To: <2abd93320807010930s38e087f4ib2098695dd06e2bb@mail.gmail.com> References: <2abd93320807010930s38e087f4ib2098695dd06e2bb@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: --On Tuesday, July 01, 2008 11:30 AM -0500 Karri Peterson wrote: > > Dan, > > Two questions related to this: > > In line with this question, are chunk-types extended during the > production compilation process? > No. The normal process for chunk-type extension occurs when a buffer modification action in a dynamic production references a slot which doesn't currently exist in the chunk. A simple example model and run which shows that happening is included below. You can also check out the p* command in the reference manual for more details on the dynamic production mechanisms. It's also possible to explicitly extend a chunk-type in code, for instance in the processing of a request by a module, but that doesn't happen in any of the provided modules or code other than in dynamic productions as described above. > I am still learning about the production compilation process but I am > assuming it can't use dynamic pattern matching functionality (or can it?) > because of the rules regarding buffers necessary for production > compilation to take place. Is this correct? > Dynamic productions can undergo production compilation. The resulting production from a composition which involves at least one dynamic production may or may not itself be dynamic. For the specific case at hand, a chunk-type extension will always be instantiated in the composed production i.e. a composed production will not extend a chunk-type. The primary reason for instantiating it is because that specific extension must have already occurred when the original productions fired and the composed production isn't supposed to do anything other than the originals did. Here's a very simple model with three productions, the first two of which are dynamic. When it is run they will fire in sequence p1, p2, and then p3 and generate two new productions through compilation. P1 extends the chunk representation, but p2 and p3 do not. The production that results from composing p1 and p2 is not dynamic, but the one that results from composing p2 and p3 is. (define-model simple-p*-compilation-demo (sgp :esc t :epl t :pct t :trace-detail high :lhst nil) (chunk-type simple state slot) (goal-focus-fct (car (define-chunks (isa simple slot new-slot) (new-slot isa chunk)))) (p* p1 =goal> isa simple state nil slot =name ==> =goal> =name 10 state busy) (p* p2 =goal> isa simple slot =name =name =value state busy ==> =goal> slot nil state free) (p p3 =goal> isa simple state free ==> =goal> state nil)) Here's the trace of running that model showing the new slot being created when p1 fires and the definitions of the two newly composed productions: CG-USER(66): (run 1) 0.000 GOAL SET-BUFFER-CHUNK GOAL SIMPLE0 REQUESTED NIL 0.000 PROCEDURAL CONFLICT-RESOLUTION 0.000 PROCEDURAL PRODUCTION-SELECTED P1 0.050 PROCEDURAL PRODUCTION-FIRED P1 Production Compilation process started for P1 No previous production to compose with. Setting previous production to P1. 0.050 PROCEDURAL MOD-BUFFER-CHUNK GOAL 0.050 PROCEDURAL EXTENDING-CHUNK-TYPE SIMPLE NEW-SLOT 0.050 PROCEDURAL CONFLICT-RESOLUTION 0.050 PROCEDURAL PRODUCTION-SELECTED P2 0.100 PROCEDURAL PRODUCTION-FIRED P2 Production Compilation process started for P2 Production P1 and P2 are being composed. New production: (P PRODUCTION0 "P1 & P2" =GOAL> ISA SIMPLE STATE NIL SLOT NEW-SLOT ==> =GOAL> NEW-SLOT 10 SLOT NIL STATE FREE ) Parameters for production PRODUCTION0: :utility NIL :u 0.000 :at 0.050 Setting previous production to P2. 0.100 PROCEDURAL MOD-BUFFER-CHUNK GOAL 0.100 PROCEDURAL CONFLICT-RESOLUTION 0.100 PROCEDURAL PRODUCTION-SELECTED P3 0.150 PROCEDURAL PRODUCTION-FIRED P3 Production Compilation process started for P3 Production P2 and P3 are being composed. New production: (P* PRODUCTION1 "P2 & P3" =GOAL> ISA SIMPLE =NAME =VALUE SLOT =NAME STATE BUSY ==> =GOAL> SLOT NIL STATE NIL ) Parameters for production PRODUCTION1: :utility NIL :u 0.000 :at 0.050 Setting previous production to P3. 0.150 PROCEDURAL MOD-BUFFER-CHUNK GOAL 0.150 PROCEDURAL CONFLICT-RESOLUTION 0.150 ------ Stopped because no events left to process 0.15 19 NIL Dan From rsun at rpi.edu Tue Jul 1 16:43:05 2008 From: rsun at rpi.edu (Professor Ron Sun) Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 16:43:05 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] A New book from Cambridge U. Press: The Cambridge Handbook of Computational Psychology Message-ID: <8D430E96-1915-4730-87D3-397385923B3C@rpi.edu> The Cambridge Handbook of Computational Psychology edited by Ron Sun published by Cambridge U. Press see: http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp? isbn=9780521857413 This book is a definitive reference source for the growing, increasingly more important, and interdisciplinary field of computational cognitive modeling, that is, computational psychology. It combines breadth of coverage with definitive statements by leading scientists in this field. Research in computational cognitive modeling (or, simply, computational psychology) explores the essence of cognition and various cognitive functionalities through developing detailed, process-based understanding by specifying computational mechanisms, structures, and processes. Given the complexity of the human mind and its manifestation in behavioral flexibility, process- based computational models may be necessary to explicate and elucidate the intricate details of the mind. The key to understanding cognitive processes is often in fine details. Computational models provide algorithmic specificity: detailed, exactly specified, and carefully thought-out steps, arranged in precise yet flexible sequences. These models provide both conceptual clarity and precision at the same time. This book substantiates this approach through overviews and many examples. Table of Contents ------------------------------------------ Part 1: Introduction Chapter 1. Introduction to Computational Cognitive Modeling. Ron Sun Part 2: Cognitive Modeling Paradigms Chapter 2. Connectionist Models of Cognition. Michael Thomas and James McClelland Chapter 3. Bayesian Models of Cognition. Thomas Griffiths, Charles Kemp, and Joshua Tenenbaum Chapter 4. Dynamical Systems Approaches to Cognition. Gregor Schoener Chapter 5. Declarative/Logic-Based Computational Cognitive Modeling. Selmer Bringsjord Chapter 6. Constraints in Cognitive Architectures. 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Computational Models of Psycholinguistics. Nick Chater and Morten Christiansen Chapter 18. Computational Models in Personality and Social Psychology. Stephen Read and Brian Monroe Chapter 19. Cognitive Social Simulation. Ron Sun Chapter 20. Models of Scientific Explanation. Paul Thagard and Abninder Litt Chapter 21. Cognitive Modeling for Cognitive Engineering. Wayne Gray Chapter 22. Models of Animal Learning and Their Relations to Human Learning. Francisco Lopez and David Shanks Chapter 23. Computational Modeling of Visual Information Processing. Pawan Sinha and Benjamin Balas Chapter 24. Models of Motor Control. Ferdinando Mussa-Ivaldi and Sara Solla Part 4: Concluding Remarks Chapter 25. An Evaluation of Computational Modeling in Cognitive Science. Margaret Boden Chapter 26. Putting the Pieces Together Again. 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All special session proposals should be sent to the conference chair (by email to: masoud.mohammadian at canberra.edu.au) on or before 4th of August 2006. CIMCA'06 will also include a special poster session devoted to recent work and work-in-progress. Abstracts are solicited for this session. Abstracts (3 pages limit) may be submitted up to 30 days before the conference date. Visits and social events Sightseeing visits will be arranged for the delegates and guests. A separate program will be arranged for companions during the conference. Further Information For further information either contact cimca at canberra.edu.au or see the conference homepage at: http://community.ise.canberra.edu.au/conference/cimca08/ Organising Committee: Canada and USA Liaison: J. D. Pinter, J. D. Pinter, PCS Inc. & Dalhousie University, Canada Asia Liaison: Christina Meier, W3BI, Australia R. 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Yamakawa, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan From taatgen at cmu.edu Mon Jul 7 15:49:36 2008 From: taatgen at cmu.edu (Niels Taatgen) Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 15:49:36 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] ACT-R workshop details Message-ID: <8FB3EF29-F7D4-47E6-ACBE-FEDDE858FEA1@cmu.edu> Dear workshop participants, Here is some additional information for the workshop, including a preliminary schedule. I look forward to see you all next week! Niels Taatgen Workshop location The workshop will be in Adamson Wing (Baker Hall 136A) on the ground floor of Baker Hall (Building 2 on the map below). How to get to CMU Assuming you come by airplane, the easiest way to get to CMU is with the 28X "Airport Flyer" bus ($2.60, exact change required). It runs every 20 or 30 minutes from the airport (just outside the baggage claim on the same side as the taxis and the parking shuttles) via downtown to CMU. Although there are more expensive shuttle services, none of them except a taxi (which will cost you at least $40) will bring you all the way to campus. The last stop of the bus will drop you off on Forbes avenue, at the place where the map indicates "Airport shuttle pickup (across building 5)". The bus runs until around midnight (download schedule from http://www.portauthority.org/PAAC/apps/pdfs/28X.pdf) Parking If you drive into Pittsburgh you should arrange for parking in advance: call 412 268 1125. They will probably put you in the East campus parking garage (P1). Checking into your rooms (when you stay in the dorms) The summer housing office is in Donner hall, which is building number 32 on the map. 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URL: From marc.halbruegge at gmx.de Wed Jul 9 16:39:58 2008 From: marc.halbruegge at gmx.de (=?iso-8859-1?Q?=22Marc_Halbr=FCgge=22?=) Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2008 22:39:58 +0200 Subject: [ACT-R-users] EMMA question (bug?) Message-ID: <20080709203958.293200@gmx.net> Hi, while modeling some visual search behavior, I ran across the following problem: Salvucci (2001) states that "EMMA can produce skipped gazes by canceling saccades when encoding occurs quickly (i.e., before eye-movement preparation is complete)" but the ACT-R module skips gazes much too often when the encoding time is short. I tracked that down to line 391 in method initiate-eye-move: (when (<= recog-time (total-time sacc-mvmt)) (schedule-event-relative (max 0 recog-time) 'ENCODING-COMPLETE ;;mjs I my opinion, this should be (changes in bold) (when (<= recog-time (FPREP-TIME sacc-mvmt)) (schedule-event-relative (max 0 recog-time) 'ENCODING-COMPLETE ;;mjs What do you think? Greetings Marc -- Der GMX SmartSurfer hilft bis zu 70% Ihrer Onlinekosten zu sparen! Ideal f?r Modem und ISDN: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/smartsurfer From salvucci at cs.drexel.edu Wed Jul 9 22:25:15 2008 From: salvucci at cs.drexel.edu (Dario Salvucci) Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 22:25:15 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] EMMA question (bug?) In-Reply-To: <20080709203958.293200@gmx.net> References: <20080709203958.293200@gmx.net> Message-ID: Dear Marc, I'm not sure what constitutes "short" encoding times for you, but certainly the shorter they are, the more skipping you should observe. At first glance, the code change below may have adverse effects -- if recog-time is between fprep-time and total-time, it's not clear to me whether this would do the right thing (specifically whether the encoding would complete at the correct time). But the code as is doesn't look quite right either, since as you suggest, the encoding- complete might blast the pending movement after preparation. Part of the difficulty here is that the current eye module serves a dual role as both a vision module and an eye-movement-motor module; this problem you're having seems to reflect the tension between the two roles. I'll run some further tests with this and we'll be in touch. (I'll also communicate with Mike Schoelles and Mike Byrne, who have spent much precious time keeping EMMA up-to-date -- and a sincere thank-you to them for their work by the way. :) ) Best, Dario On Jul 9, 2008, at 4:39 PM, Marc Halbr?gge wrote: > Hi, > > while modeling some visual search behavior, I ran across the > following problem: > > Salvucci (2001) states that "EMMA can produce skipped gazes by > canceling > saccades when encoding occurs quickly (i.e., before eye-movement > preparation is complete)" > > but the ACT-R module skips gazes much too often when the encoding > time is short. I tracked that down to line 391 in method initiate- > eye-move: > > (when (<= recog-time (total-time sacc-mvmt)) > (schedule-event-relative (max 0 recog-time) 'ENCODING- > COMPLETE ;;mjs > > > I my opinion, this should be (changes in bold) > > (when (<= recog-time (FPREP-TIME sacc-mvmt)) > (schedule-event-relative (max 0 recog-time) 'ENCODING- > COMPLETE ;;mjs > > > What do you think? > > Greetings > Marc _____________________________________ Dario Salvucci, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Computer Science Drexel University http://www.cs.drexel.edu/~salvucci/ From marc.halbruegge at gmx.de Fri Jul 11 09:27:59 2008 From: marc.halbruegge at gmx.de (=?iso-8859-1?Q?=22Marc_Halbr=FCgge=22?=) Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:27:59 +0200 Subject: [ACT-R-users] EMMA question (bug?) In-Reply-To: References: <20080709203958.293200@gmx.net> Message-ID: <20080711132759.227320@gmx.net> Dear Dario and list, > I'm not sure what constitutes "short" encoding times for you, but > certainly the shorter they are, the more skipping you should observe. well, I could have been more specific here, you're right ;) When encoding times are short (compared to eye movement times), then the overall reaction time is mostly determined by the number of saccades needed. In this case, EMMA does not work well. The time needed for the (last) saccade to the target is disregarded when recog-timefprep-time > I'll run some further tests with this and we'll be in touch. Thanks Greetings Marc > > Best, > Dario > > > On Jul 9, 2008, at 4:39 PM, Marc Halbr?gge wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > while modeling some visual search behavior, I ran across the > > following problem: > > > > Salvucci (2001) states that "EMMA can produce skipped gazes by > > canceling > > saccades when encoding occurs quickly (i.e., before eye-movement > > preparation is complete)" > > > > but the ACT-R module skips gazes much too often when the encoding > > time is short. I tracked that down to line 391 in method initiate- > > eye-move: > > > > (when (<= recog-time (total-time sacc-mvmt)) > > (schedule-event-relative (max 0 recog-time) 'ENCODING- > > COMPLETE ;;mjs > > > > > > I my opinion, this should be (changes in bold) > > > > (when (<= recog-time (FPREP-TIME sacc-mvmt)) > > (schedule-event-relative (max 0 recog-time) 'ENCODING- > > COMPLETE ;;mjs > > > > > > What do you think? > > > > Greetings > > Marc > > _____________________________________ > Dario Salvucci, Ph.D. > Associate Professor > Department of Computer Science > Drexel University > http://www.cs.drexel.edu/~salvucci/ -- Ist Ihr Browser Vista-kompatibel? Jetzt die neuesten Browser-Versionen downloaden: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/browser From reder at cmu.edu Sat Jul 12 08:14:37 2008 From: reder at cmu.edu (Lynne Reder) Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 08:14:37 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] coming with Euros? In-Reply-To: <8FB3EF29-F7D4-47E6-ACBE-FEDDE858FEA1@cmu.edu> References: <8FB3EF29-F7D4-47E6-ACBE-FEDDE858FEA1@cmu.edu> Message-ID: <91FEB4FA-84AF-42AB-861B-6EAB261D3925@cmu.edu> If you are arriving from a Euro country and would not mind trading 100 Euros for $160 when you get here, that would be great for me. I'm leaving for Germany on July 19th and I would like to not have to rely immediately on my ATM card working. Sometimes Dollar Bank fails me and "for my protection" denies access in foreign countries! Hopefully that won't happen, but I'd feel better having some Euros in my wallet. Please email me if you are fine with that. I think $160 is better than you can do at a money machine but I'm certainly trying to make it financially better for my trading partner, if not more convenient. Thanks, Lynne p.s. If it is easier, you can do the transaction with my spouse, John Anderson; just tell me you have done it so he'll give them to me (he won't need them in Prague). ================================== Lynne Reder Professor Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-268-3792 (office) 412-268-2844 (fax) reder at cmu.edu (email) http://memory.psy.cmu.edu/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From reder at cmu.edu Sat Jul 12 11:43:48 2008 From: reder at cmu.edu (Lynne Reder) Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 11:43:48 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Euro need satisfied In-Reply-To: <91FEB4FA-84AF-42AB-861B-6EAB261D3925@cmu.edu> References: <8FB3EF29-F7D4-47E6-ACBE-FEDDE858FEA1@cmu.edu> <91FEB4FA-84AF-42AB-861B-6EAB261D3925@cmu.edu> Message-ID: <39764C9D-0008-4615-97B9-05AEA044B5A4@cmu.edu> Several locals had Euros to trade so I do not need anymore. Thanks. --Lynne On Jul 12, 2008, at 8:14 AM, Lynne Reder wrote: > If you are arriving from a Euro country and would not mind trading > 100 Euros for $160 when you get here, that would be great for me. > > I'm leaving for Germany on July 19th and I would like to not have to > rely immediately on my ATM card working. Sometimes Dollar Bank > fails me and "for my protection" denies access in foreign > countries! Hopefully that won't happen, but I'd feel better having > some Euros in my wallet. > > Please email me if you are fine with that. I think $160 is better > than you can do at a money machine but I'm certainly trying to make > it financially better for my trading partner, if not more convenient. > > Thanks, > Lynne > > p.s. If it is easier, you can do the transaction with my spouse, > John Anderson; just tell me you have done it so he'll give them to > me (he won't need them in Prague). > > > ================================== > Lynne Reder > Professor > Carnegie Mellon University > Pittsburgh, PA 15213 > 412-268-3792 (office) > 412-268-2844 (fax) > reder at cmu.edu (email) > http://memory.psy.cmu.edu/ > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pavel at dit.unitn.it Fri Jul 11 14:46:03 2008 From: pavel at dit.unitn.it (pavel) Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 20:46:03 +0200 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Final CFP: The ISWC'08 workshop on Ontology Matching (OM-2008) Message-ID: <008d01c8e386$ff8d9210$c8bca8c0@serverigtpdszq> Apologies for cross-postings --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS: submission deadline is approaching: 14 days left --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Third International Workshop on ONTOLOGY MATCHING (OM-2008) http://om2008.ontologymatching.org/ October 26, 2008, ISWC'08 Workshop Program, Karlsruhe, Germany BRIEF DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES Ontology matching is a key interoperability enabler for the Semantic Web, since it takes the ontologies as input and determines as output an alignment, that is, a set of correspondences between the semantically related entities of those ontologies. These correspondences can be used for various tasks, such as ontology merging, query answering, data translation, or for navigation on the Semantic Web. Thus, matching ontologies enables the knowledge and data expressed in the matched ontologies to interoperate. The workshop has two goals: 1. To bring together academic and industry leaders dealing with ontology matching in order to assess how academic advances are addressing real-world requirements. The workshop will strive to improve academic awareness of industrial needs, and therefore, direct research towards those needs. Simultaneously, the workshop will serve to inform industry representatives about existing research efforts that may meet their business needs. 2. To conduct an extensive evaluation of ontology matching approaches through the OAEI (Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative) 2008 campaign. The particular focus of this year's OAEI campaign is on real-world matching tasks from specific domains, e.g., medicine. Therefore, the ontology matching evaluation initiative itself will provide a solid ground for discussion of how well the current approaches are meeting business needs. TOPICS of interest include, but are not limited to: Requirements to ontology matching from specific domains; Application of ontology matching techniques in real-world scenarios; Social and collaborative ontology matching; Interactive ontology matching; Alignment management; Background knowledge in ontology matching; Reasoning for ontology matching; Uncertainty in ontology matching; Formal foundations and frameworks for ontology matching; Performance of ontology-matching techniques; Ontology matching evaluation methodology; Ontology matching for information integration; Ontology matching for query answering; Ontology matching for dynamic environments; Systems and infrastructures. FORMAT AND SUBMISSIONS The schedule assumes one day workshop. The workshop will consist of the following components: technical presentations, OAEI'08 results presentations, posters, workshop on consensus building (of reference alignments) and wrap-up discussion. Contributions to the workshop can be made in terms of (i) technical papers addressing different issues of ontology matching as well as (ii) participating in the OAEI 2008 campaign. Technical papers should be not longer than 12 pages using the LNCS Style. For complete style details, see Springer's Author Instructions http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-164-2-72376-0,00.html These should be prepared in PDF format and should be submitted (no later than July 25, 2008) through the workshop submission site at: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=om2008 Technical papers will be refereed by the Program Committee. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. Contributors to OAEI 2008 have to follow the campaign's conditions at: http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2008/ IMPORTANT DATES FOR TECHNICAL PAPERS July 25, 2008: Deadline for the submission of papers. September 8, 2008: Deadline for the notification of acceptance/rejection. September 25, 2008: Workshop camera ready copy submission. October 26, 2008: OM-2008, Congress Center, Karlsruhe, Germany. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE 1. Pavel Shvaiko TasLab, Informatica Trentina, Italy e-mail: pavel [dot] shvaiko [at] infotn [dot] it 2. Jerome Euzenat INRIA Rhone-Alpes, France 3. Fausto Giunchiglia University of Trento, Italy 4. Heiner Stuckenschmidt, University of Mannheim, Germany PROGRAM COMMITTEE Olivier Bodenreider, National Library of Medicine, USA Paolo Bouquet, University of Trento, Italy Paolo Besana, University of Edinburgh, UK Isabel Cruz, University Illinois at Chicago, USA Jerome David, INRIA, France Wei Hu, Southeast University, China Ryutaro Ichise, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Antoine Isaak, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands Anthony Jameson, DFKI, Germany Yannis Kalfoglou, University of Southampton, UK Vipul Kashyap, Clinical Informatics R&D, Partners HealthCare System, USA Monika Lanzenberger, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Patrick Lambrix, Linkopings Universitet, Sweden Christian Meilicke, University of Mannheim, Germany Peter Mork, The MITRE Corporation, USA Natasha Noy, Stanford University, USA Luigi Palopoli, University of Calabria, Italy Ivan Pilati, TasLab, Informatica Trentina, Italy Marco Schorlemmer, IIIA-CSIC, Spain Luciano Serafini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (ITC-IRST), Italy Umberto Straccia, ISTI-C.N.R., Italy Eleni Stroulia, University of Alberta, Canada York Sure, SAP, Germany Ludger van Elst, DFKI, Germany Yannis Velegrakis, University of Trento, Italy Baoshi Yan, Bosch Research, USA Songmao Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China ------------------------------------------------------- Download the OM-2008 flyer: http://om2008.ontologymatching.org/CfP_OM2008_flyer.pdf ------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- Pavel Shvaiko TasLab, Informatica Trentina, Italy Web: http://www.ontologymatching.org/ http://www.dit.unitn.it/~pavel/ http://www.taslab.eu/ http://www.infotn.it/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pavel at dit.unitn.it Fri Jul 11 15:29:45 2008 From: pavel at dit.unitn.it (pavel) Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 21:29:45 +0200 Subject: [ACT-R-users] OAEI-2008: 2nd Call for ontology matching system participation Message-ID: <002e01c8e38c$993d7f10$c8bca8c0@serverigtpdszq> Apologies for cross-postings +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Call for ontology matching system participation +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ OAEI-2008 Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative in cooperation with the ISWC Ontology Matching workshop October 26, 2008 - Karlsruhe, Germany http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2008/ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ontology matching is an important task for semantic system interoperability. Yet it is not easy to assess the respective qualities of available matching systems. The Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative (OAEI) is a coordinated international initiative set up for evaluating ontology matching systems. OAEI campaigns consist of applying matching systems to ontology pairs and evaluating their results. OAEI-2008 is the fifth OAEI campaign. It will consist of four tracks gathering eight data sets and different evaluation modalities. The tracks cover: (i) comparison track (systematic benchmark series); (ii) expressive ontologies (e.g., from the anatomy and environment domains); (iii) directories and thesauri (e.g., Google, Yahoo and crosslingual resources); (iv) consensus workshop. Anyone developing ontology matchers can participate by evaluating their systems and sending the results to the organizers. Tools for evaluating results and preliminary test bench tuning are available. Final results of the campaign will be presented at the Ontology Matching workshop and published in the proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES May 19th, 2008: First publication of test cases June 15th, 2008: Comments on test cases (any time before that date) July 1st, 2008: Final publication of test cases Sept. 1st, 2008: Preliminary results due (for interoperability-checking) Sept. 26th, 2008: Participants send final results and supporting papers Oct. 10th, 2008: Organizers publish results for comments Oct. 26th-27th, 2008: OM-2008 workshop, Karlsruhe, DE + OAEI-2008 final results ready. More about OAEI-2008: http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2008/ More about OAEI: http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/ More about OM-2008: http://om2008.ontologymatching.org/ More about ontology matching: http://www.ontologymatching.org/ ------------------------------------------------------- Download the OM-2008 flyer: http://om2008.ontologymatching.org/CfP_OM2008_flyer.pdf ------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- Pavel Shvaiko TasLab, Informatica Trentina, Italy Web: http://www.ontologymatching.org/ http://www.dit.unitn.it/~pavel/ http://www.taslab.eu/ http://www.infotn.it/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lnl at psu.edu Mon Jul 14 19:30:30 2008 From: lnl at psu.edu (Lyle N. Long) Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:30:30 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] IEEE Computational Intelligence conference (Nashville, Mar. 2009) Message-ID: <487BE196.30600@psu.edu> Some of you might be interested in this conference: http://www.ieee-ssci.org/ It is the IEEE Computational Intelligence Symposium series and will be in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, March 30 - April 2, 2009. I think it would be very good to have some papers on cognitive architectures there. Paper submissions are due Oct. 31, 2008. Thanks, Lyle _______________________________________________________ Prof. Lyle N. Long The Pennsylvania State University lnl at psu.edu and http://www.personal.psu.edu/lnl From zhangyt at cs.pitt.edu Fri Jul 18 16:48:36 2008 From: zhangyt at cs.pitt.edu (Youtao Zhang) Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:48:36 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Call for Papers: IPCCC'2008, paper submission due: September 9th Message-ID: Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS The 27th IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC 2008) (http://www.ipccc.org/) December 8-10, 2008 Austin, Texas, USA The International Performance, Computing, and Communications Conference (IPCCC) is the premier IEEE conference presenting research in the performance of computer and communication systems. For more than two decades, IPCCC has been a research forum for academic, industrial, and government researchers. PURPOSE AND SCOPE The theme of IPCCC 2008 is ??Computing for Emerging Networked Systems??. To capture the recent exciting innovations in the system research, IPCCC 2008 will explore and articulate (i) the challenges and opportunities as parallel and distributed systems are scaling large and networked over the internet; (ii) the challenges and opportunities as multicore processors are becoming the mainstream desktop processors and networked onchip; (iii) the challenges and opportunities as embedded systems are becoming ubiquitous and networked through wireless communication. We encourage submission of high-quality papers that address the thematic topics as well as other topics in theoretical and experimental areas of system research. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: Grid and cloud computing Internet Services and Network Management Network protocols Network Information Assurance, and Security Multi- and single- core processor architecture Cache, Memory, and Disk Storage Systems Workload Characterization and its Impact on Architecture Design Embedded Systems Ubiquitous computing Mobile ad hoc, Sensor and Mesh Networks Parallel and Distributed Systems Performance Evaluation and Modeling Performance Tools and Techniques In addition, proposals for panel sessions and workshops on relevant topics are welcome. Workshops may be for a full day or half a day. Workshop papers will be published in the conference proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES Workshop and Panel Proposal Due: August 31, 2008 Conference Paper Submission Due: September 9, 2008 Paper Acceptance Notification: October 30, 2008 Camera-ready Manuscript Due: November 15, 2008 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chair Taieb Znati (Univ. of Pittsburgh) General Vice Chair Maggie Cheng (Missouri Univ. of Science and Technology) Program Chair Youtao Zhang (Univ. of Pittsburgh) Finance Chair Ullah Nasr (Freescale Semiconductor Inc.) Web Chair Neil Nelson (Freescale Semiconductor Inc.) Workshop co-Chairs Dharma Agrawal (Univ. of Cincinnati) Bing Wang (Univ. of Connecticut) Publicity Chair Sheng Zhong (SUNY Buffalo) SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Submitted manuscripts must have at least 11-point font size, and should not exceed 12 pages formatted in IEEE conference style, including the abstract, figures, and references. Authors should obtain company and government clearances prior to submission of papers. All papers will be reviewed by the program committee. 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URL: From ritter at ist.psu.edu Wed Jul 23 13:23:12 2008 From: ritter at ist.psu.edu (Frank Ritter) Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:23:12 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Two new PhDs based on work with ACT-R: Kase and Kim In-Reply-To: <8FB3EF29-F7D4-47E6-ACBE-FEDDE858FEA1@cmu.edu> References: <8FB3EF29-F7D4-47E6-ACBE-FEDDE858FEA1@cmu.edu> Message-ID: I would like to announce that there are two new PhDs this summer based on working with ACT-R. Jong Kim will be hooded on 16 August for a thesis on experimental and modeling work examining forgetting in different interface modalities. He will be a post-doc at PSU this year. Sue Kase successfully defended her thesis between the ACT-R workshop and the Cognitive Science conference. She used a genetic algorithm to explore how stress influences individual differences in cognition. If you see them, you may wish to congratulate them. Cheers, Frank From karri.peterson at gmail.com Thu Jul 24 18:20:06 2008 From: karri.peterson at gmail.com (Karri Peterson) Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:20:06 -0500 Subject: [ACT-R-users] ACT-R-users Digest, Vol 36, Issue 12 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <2abd93320807241520q4363d73bt79edbdf7cf3a2d4c@mail.gmail.com> I read some time ago about a group developing an emotion module for ACT-R 6.0. Does anyone know the status of that or any other similar efforts and if there are results and a module available? Karri Peterson On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 11:00 AM, wrote: > Send ACT-R-users mailing list submissions to > act-r-users at act-r.psy.cmu.edu > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://act-r.psy.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/act-r-users > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > act-r-users-request at act-r.psy.cmu.edu > > You can reach the person managing the list at > act-r-users-owner at act-r.psy.cmu.edu > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of ACT-R-users digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Two new PhDs based on work with ACT-R: Kase and Kim (Frank Ritter) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:23:12 -0400 > From: Frank Ritter > Subject: [ACT-R-users] Two new PhDs based on work with ACT-R: Kase and > Kim > To: > Message-ID: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" > > I would like to announce that there are two new PhDs this summer > based on working with ACT-R. > > Jong Kim will be hooded on 16 August for a thesis on experimental and > modeling work examining forgetting in different interface modalities. > He will be a post-doc at PSU this year. > > Sue Kase successfully defended her thesis between the ACT-R workshop > and the Cognitive Science conference. She used a genetic algorithm > to explore how stress influences individual differences in cognition. > > If you see them, you may wish to congratulate them. > > Cheers, > > Frank > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > > End of ACT-R-users Digest, Vol 36, Issue 12 > ******************************************* > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From karri.peterson at gmail.com Fri Jul 25 12:24:12 2008 From: karri.peterson at gmail.com (Karri Peterson) Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:24:12 -0500 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Emotion Module for ACT-R 6.0? Message-ID: <2abd93320807250924v13740380p79c549eeac883f76@mail.gmail.com> I submitted yesterday on a reply to the two new PhDs and wanted to correct my subject line to make sure I don't become the bad example on how NOT to submit to the act-r-users mailing list. My question is: I read some time ago about a group developing an emotion module for ACT-R 6.0. Does anyone know the status of that or any other similar efforts and if there are results and a module available? Sorry for the double submit on the same question, but I thought it would probably be worth it to the list keeper-- Karri Peterson, MS Aviation Sciences and soon (MS, Computer Science) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Date: Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 11:00 AM Subject: ACT-R-users Digest, Vol 36, Issue 13 To: act-r-users at act-r.psy.cmu.edu Send ACT-R-users mailing list submissions to act-r-users at act-r.psy.cmu.edu To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://act-r.psy.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/act-r-users or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to act-r-users-request at act-r.psy.cmu.edu You can reach the person managing the list at act-r-users-owner at act-r.psy.cmu.edu When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of ACT-R-users digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: ACT-R-users Digest, Vol 36, Issue 12 (Karri Peterson) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:20:06 -0500 From: "Karri Peterson" Subject: Re: [ACT-R-users] ACT-R-users Digest, Vol 36, Issue 12 To: act-r-users at act-r.psy.cmu.edu Message-ID: <2abd93320807241520q4363d73bt79edbdf7cf3a2d4c at mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" I read some time ago about a group developing an emotion module for ACT-R 6.0. Does anyone know the status of that or any other similar efforts and if there are results and a module available? Karri Peterson On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 11:00 AM, wrote: > Send ACT-R-users mailing list submissions to > act-r-users at act-r.psy.cmu.edu > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://act-r.psy.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/act-r-users > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > act-r-users-request at act-r.psy.cmu.edu > > You can reach the person managing the list at > act-r-users-owner at act-r.psy.cmu.edu > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of ACT-R-users digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Two new PhDs based on work with ACT-R: Kase and Kim (Frank Ritter) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:23:12 -0400 > From: Frank Ritter > Subject: [ACT-R-users] Two new PhDs based on work with ACT-R: Kase and > Kim > To: > Message-ID: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" > > I would like to announce that there are two new PhDs this summer > based on working with ACT-R. > > Jong Kim will be hooded on 16 August for a thesis on experimental and > modeling work examining forgetting in different interface modalities. > He will be a post-doc at PSU this year. > > Sue Kase successfully defended her thesis between the ACT-R workshop > and the Cognitive Science conference. She used a genetic algorithm > to explore how stress influences individual differences in cognition. > > If you see them, you may wish to congratulate them. > > Cheers, > > Frank > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > > End of ACT-R-users Digest, Vol 36, Issue 12 > ******************************************* > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Does anyone know the status of that or any other similar >efforts and if there are results and a module available? > >Karri Peterson > >On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 11:00 AM, ><act-r-users-request at act-r.psy.cmu.edu> >wrote: > >Send ACT-R-users mailing list submissions to > act-r-users at act-r.psy.cmu.edu > >To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > > http://act-r.psy.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/act-r-users >or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > > act-r-users-request at act-r.psy.cmu.edu > >You can reach the person managing the list at > > act-r-users-owner at act-r.psy.cmu.edu > >When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific >than "Re: Contents of ACT-R-users digest..." > > >Today's Topics: > > 1. Two new PhDs based on work with ACT-R: Kase and Kim (Frank Ritter) > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Message: 1 >Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:23:12 -0400 >From: Frank Ritter <ritter at ist.psu.edu> >Subject: [ACT-R-users] Two new PhDs based on work with ACT-R: Kase and > Kim >To: <act-r-users at andrew.cmu.edu> >Message-ID: 192.168.1.133]> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" > >I would like to announce that there are two new PhDs this summer >based on working with ACT-R. > >Jong Kim will be hooded on 16 August for a thesis on experimental and >modeling work examining forgetting in different interface modalities. >He will be a post-doc at PSU this year. > >Sue Kase successfully defended her thesis between the ACT-R workshop >and the Cognitive Science conference. She used a genetic algorithm >to explore how stress influences individual differences in cognition. > >If you see them, you may wish to congratulate them. > >Cheers, > >Frank > > >------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >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 > > >End of ACT-R-users Digest, Vol 36, Issue 12 >******************************************* > > > >_______________________________________________ >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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tkelley at arl.army.mil Fri Jul 25 13:50:52 2008 From: tkelley at arl.army.mil (Kelley, Troy (Civ,ARL/HRED)) Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:50:52 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] [Disarmed] Re: ACT-R-users Digest, Vol 36, Issue 12 (UNCLASSIFIED) In-Reply-To: References: <2abd93320807241520q4363d73bt79edbdf7cf3a2d4c@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <2D30123DFDFF1046B3A9CF64B6D9AC9061567C@ARLABML03.DS.ARL.ARMY.MIL> Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE There is a chapter in Wayne Gray's book on emotion http://www.rpi.edu/~grayw/pubs/papers/2007/Gray-IMoCS/Gray-IMoCS.htm The chapter is: Integrating Emotional Processes into Decision Making Models Busemeyer, Dimperio, & Jessup Eric Dimperio is a summer student with us this year and we have been integrating Decision Field Theory (DFT) into our production system architecture (SS-RICS). I view this as a way of incorporating some "irrationality" into a production system architecture by adding constantly varying weights and biases into the decision at each time step. Troy D. Kelley AMSRD-HR-SE U.S. Army Research Laboratory Human Research and Engineering Directorate (HRED) Aberdeen Proving Ground, Aberdeen MD 21005-5425 voice: 410-278-5869 fax: 410-278-9523 -----Original Message----- From: act-r-users-bounces at act-r.psy.cmu.edu [mailto:act-r-users-bounces at act-r.psy.cmu.edu] On Behalf Of Frank Ritter Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 12:30 PM To: Karri Peterson; act-r-users at act-r.psy.cmu.edu Cc: Laura C. Klein Subject: [Disarmed] Re: [ACT-R-users] ACT-R-users Digest, Vol 36, Issue 12 One thing we have been doing is creating overlays to act-r to simulate how cognition changes under various moderators. our most complete report is at http://acs.ist.psu.edu/misc/reports/ritterRS05.pdf and the published version of that (shorter) is at http://acs.ist.psu.edu/papers/ritterRKS07.pdf We could also probably make the code available, and it might be the better for cleaning it up. cheers, Frank At 17:20 -0500 24/7/08, Karri Peterson wrote: I read some time ago about a group developing an emotion module for ACT-R 6.0. Does anyone know the status of that or any other similar efforts and if there are results and a module available? 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Two new PhDs based on work with ACT-R: Kase and Kim (Frank Ritter) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:23:12 -0400 From: Frank Ritter Subject: [ACT-R-users] Two new PhDs based on work with ACT-R: Kase and Kim To: Message-ID: ]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" I would like to announce that there are two new PhDs this summer based on working with ACT-R. Jong Kim will be hooded on 16 August for a thesis on experimental and modeling work examining forgetting in different interface modalities. He will be a post-doc at PSU this year. Sue Kase successfully defended her thesis between the ACT-R workshop and the Cognitive Science conference. She used a genetic algorithm to explore how stress influences individual differences in cognition. If you see them, you may wish to congratulate them. 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Jung [j2jung at intelligent.pe.kr] Tudor Groza [tudor.groza at deri.org] Hak Lae Kim [haklae.kim@ deri.org] --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- International Workshop on Web Information Retrieval Support Systems (WIRSS 2008) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://uxlab.cs.mun.ca/wirss2008/ Orland Hoeber [hoeber at cs.mun.ca] Yiyu Yao [yyao at cs.uregina.ca] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- International Workshop on Web Personalization, Reputation and Recommender Systems (WPRRS 2008) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.wprrs08.fit.qut.edu.au/ Yue Xu [yue.xu at qut.edu.au] ---------------------------------------------------------------- International Workshop on Intelligent Web Interaction (IWI 2008) ---------------------------------------------------------------- http://ymd.ex.nii.ac.jp/ws/iwi/08/ Tsuyoshi MURATA [murata at cs.titech.ac.jp] Seiji YAMADA [seiji at nii.ac.jp] ----------------------------------------------- Workshop on Intelligent E-government (IEG 2008) ----------------------------------------------- http://management.dlut.edu.cn/WI-IAT'08_IEG/index.htm Dr Ning Wang [wn at dlut.edu.cn] Dr Xin Ye [yejstar at 163.com] Dr Liming Zhu [Liming.Zhu at nicta.com.au] Dr Shaobo Ji [sji at business.carleton.ca] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- International Workshop on New Computing Paradigms for Web Intelligence meet Brain Informatics (WImBI 2008) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.wi-consortium.org/wimbi08/ Peng (Paul) Wen [Wen at usq.edu.au] ------------------------------------------------------------ International Workshop on Fuzzy Logic On the Web (FLOW 2008) ------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.cwi.ugent.be/flow2008/ Stijn Heymans [email:heymans at kr.tuwien.ac.at] Ghent University [Stijn.Heymans at UGent.be] Martine De Cock [Martine.Decock at UGent.be] Dirk Vermeir [dvermeir at vub.ac.be] Elie Sanchez [elie.sanchez at medecine.univ-mrs.fr] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Ontology Engineering (NLPOE 2008) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://icl.pku.edu.cn/proceedings/NLPOEworkshop/ Sui Zhifang [suizhifang at gmail.com] Liu Yao [liuy at istic.ac.cn] --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Workshop on Web Intelligence & Intelligent Agent Technology in eLearning (TUMAS-A 2008) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://adenu.ia.uned.es/workshops/wi-iat08/tumasa08 Jesus G. 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More detailed instructions and the On-Line Submission Form can be found at http://datamining.it.uts.edu.au/conferences/wi08/?page_id=5 OR http://datamining.it.uts.edu.au/conferences/iat08/?page_id=6 ++++++++++++++++ Important Dates ++++++++++++++++ * Workshop paper submission: 7 August, 2008 ***NEW DEADLINE*** * Author notification: September 3, 2008 * Conference dates: December 9-12, 2008 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Workshop Co-Chairs ++++++++++++++++++++++++ * Yuefeng Li, Queensland University of Technology, Australia (Email: y2.li at qut.edu.au) * Gabriella Pasi, University of Milano, Italy (Email: pasi at disco.unimib.it) From cimca at canberra.edu.au Wed Jul 30 04:20:44 2008 From: cimca at canberra.edu.au (cimca) Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:20:44 +1000 Subject: [ACT-R-users] CFP: 2008 International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control and Automation - CIMCA'08 Message-ID: CFP: 2008 International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control and Automation - CIMCA'08 CALL FOR PAPERS International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control and Automation 10-12 December 2008 - Vienna, Austria http://community.ise.canberra.edu.au/conference/cimca08/ Jointly with International Conference on Intelligent Agents, Web Technologies and Internet Commerce - IAWTIC08 http://community.ise.canberra.edu.au/conference/iawtic08/ International Conference on Innovation in Software Engineering - ISE08 http://community.ise.canberra.edu.au/conference/ise08/ Honorary Chair: Lotfi A. Zadeh, University of California, USA Stephen Grossberg, Boston University, USA Important Dates: 29 August 2008 Submission of papers to the conference 26 September 2008 Notification of acceptance 17 October 2008 Deadline for camera-ready copies of accepted papers 10 - 12 December 2008 Conference sessions Collaborators and sponsors: European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology - EUFLAT International Association for Fuzzy Set in Management and Economy - SIGEF Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory and Intelligent Informatics - SOFT Taiwan Fuzzy Systems Association - TFSA World Wide Web Business Intelligence - W3BI Hungarian Fuzzy Association - HFA University of Canberra IEEE - Conference Proceedings will be published by IEEE in USA The international conference on computational intelligence for modelling, control and automation will be held in Vienna, Austria on 10-12 December 2008. The conference provides a medium for the exchange of ideas between theoreticians and practitioners to address the important issues in computational intelligence, modelling, control and automation. The conference will consist of both plenary sessions and contributory sessions, focusing on theory, implementation and applications of computational intelligence techniques to modelling, control and automation. For contributory sessions, papers (4 pages or more) are being solicited. Several well-known keynote speakers will address the conference. Conference Proceedings will be published as books by IEEE (The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering) in USA and will be index world wide. All papers will be peer reviewed by at least two reviewers. Topics of the conference include, but are not limited to, the following areas: Modern and Advanced Control Strategies: Neural Networks Control, Fuzzy Logic Control, Genetic Algorithms and Evolutionary Control, Model-Predictive Control, Adaptive and Optimal Control, Intelligent Control Systems, Robotics and Automation, Fault Diagnosis, Intelligent agents, Industrial Automations, Modelling, Simulation Hybrid Systems: Fuzzy Evolutionary Systems, Fuzzy Expert Systems, Fuzzy Neural Systems, Neural Genetic Systems, Neural-Fuzzy-Genetic Systems, Hybrid Systems for Optimisation Data Analysis, Prediction and Model Identification: Signal Processing, Prediction and Time Series Analysis, System Identification, Data Fusion and Mining, Knowledge Discovery, Intelligent Information Systems, Image Processing, and Image Understanding, Parallel Computing applications in Identification & Control, Pattern Recognition, Clustering and Classification Decision Making and Information Retrieval: Case-Based Reasoning, Decision Analysis, Intelligent Databases & Information Retrieval, Dynamic Systems Modelling, Decision Support Systems, Multi-criteria Decision Making, Qualitative and Approximate-Reasoning Paper Submission Papers will be selected based on their originality, significance, correctness, and clarity of presentation. Papers (4 pages or more) should be submitted to the following e-mail or through conference website: E-mail: cimca at canberra.edu.au CIMCA'2008 Secretariat School of Information Sciences and Engineering University of Canberra, Canberra, 2616, ACT, Australia Electronic submission of papers (either by E-mail or through conference website) is preferred. Papers should present original work, which has not been published or being reviewed for other conferences. Important Dates 29 August 2008 Submission of papers to the conference 26 September 2008 Notification of acceptance 17 October 2008 Deadline for camera-ready copies of accepted papers 10 - 12 December 2008 Conference sessions Special Sessions and Tutorials Special sessions and tutorials will be organised at the conference. The conference is calling for special sessions and tutorial proposals. 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