From tiffany.Jastrzembski at mesa.afmc.af.mil Wed Dec 9 13:47:33 2009 From: tiffany.Jastrzembski at mesa.afmc.af.mil (Jastrzembski, Tiffany S Civ USAF AFMC 711 HPW/RHAC) Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2009 13:47:33 -0500 Subject: [ACT-R-users] BRIMS 2010 Submission Deadline is December 21! Message-ID: <2B00361EE3107A4F88383EC1B041DC9A06527F47@VFOHMLAO01.Enterprise.afmc.ds.af.mil> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The BRIMS (Behavioral Representation in Modeling & Simulation) submission deadline is 13 days away! Please ensure your submissions are completed and uploaded to the submission website by December 21st! (see www.brimsconference.org for details) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ You are invited to participate in the 19th Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (BRIMS). BRIMS enables modeling and simulation research scientists, engineers, and technical communities across disciplines to meet, share ideas, identify capability gaps, discuss cutting-edge research directions, highlight promising technologies, and showcase the state-of-the-art in applications. The BRIMS Conference will consist of many exciting elements in 2010, including special topic areas, technical paper sessions, special symposia/panel discussions, and government laboratory sponsor sessions. BRIMS 2010 includes a dynamic and eclectic lineup of keynote speakers: Wayne Gray, PhD Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, www.rpi.edu/~grayw/ LCDR Joseph Cohn, Phd DARPA, www.darpa.mil/dso/personnel/cohn.htm Jerrold Post, MD George Washington University, www.gwu.edu/~elliott/faculty/post.cfm Robert Axtell, PhD George Mason University, www.santafe.edu/profiles/?pid=79 The BRIMS Executive Committee invites papers, posters, demos, symposia, panel discussions, and tutorials on topics related to the representation of individuals, groups, teams and organizations in models and simulations. All submissions are peer-reviewed (see www.brimsconference.org for additional details on submission types). Key Dates: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ All submissions due: December 21, 2009 Tutorial Acceptance: February 1, 2010 Authors Notification February 1, 2010 Final version due: February 19, 2010 Tutorials held: March 22, 2010 BRIMS 2010 Opens: March 23, 2010 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Special Topic Areas of Interest are identified to elicit specific technical content: * Socio-cultural modeling and simulation * Neurobiological & biologically-inspired cognitive modeling * Models of terrorist decision-making for IED placement * Models of civilian-insurgent interaction * Situation awareness/decision making models for ISTAR ops * Model validation & comparison * Necessity & sufficiency of mechanisms and parameters General Topic Areas of Interest include, but are not limited to: Modeling * Cognitive or behavioral moderators on performance * Intelligent agents and avatars * Models of reasoning and decision making * Team, group, crowd, and organizational behavior * Physical models of human movement * Performance assessment and skill monitoring/tracking * Performance prediction * Performance enhancement/optimization * Modeling architectures/knowledge representation systems * Knowledge acquisition/engineering * Human behavior issues in model federations * Human behavior representation for system design and evaluation Simulation * Synthetic environments for human behavior representation * Terrain representation and reasoning * Spatial reasoning * Time representation * Human behavior usability and interoperability * Efficiency, usability, affordability issues * Operator interfaces * Multi-resolution/fidelity simulations ACCOMMODATIONS and REGISTRATION The conference will be held at the Charleston Harbor Resort & Marina. Visit www.charlestonharborresort.com for general information about the site and accommodations. Conference and hotel registration, general area, and travel information can be found at www.brimsconference.org. BRIMS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: Joe Armstrong (CAE), Sheila Banks (Calculated Insight), Brad Best (Adaptive Cognitive Systems), Brad Cain (Defence Research and Development Canada), Andrew Cowell (Pacific Northwest), Nathan Denny (21st Century Systems), Uwe Dompke (NATO C3), Avelino Gonzalez (University of Central Florida), Coty Gonzalez (Carnegie Mellon), Jeff Hansberger (Army Research Lab), Tiffany Jastrzembski (Air Force Research Laboratory), Troy Kelley (Army Research Lab), Bill Kennedy (George Mason), Christian Lebiere (Carnegie Mellon), Bharat Patel (Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, UK), Frank Ritter (Penn State), Barry Silverman (University of Pennsylvania), Lt Col David Sonntag (Asian Office of Aerospace Research and Development), Webb Stacy (Aptima), Michael Van Lent (SoarTech), Walter Warwick (Alion). If you have any questions, please contact the BRIMS 2010 Conference Chair, Dr. Tiffany Jastrzembski (tiffany.jastrzembski at mesa.afmc.af.mil). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tiffany S. Jastrzembski, Ph.D. Cognitive Research Psychologist 711th Human Performance Wing Air Force Research Laboratory 6030 South Kent Street, Mesa, AZ 85212 Phone: (480) 988-6561 x688 tiffany.jastrzembski at mesa.afmc.af.mil From icnc_fskd_cfp at ytu.edu.cn Sat Dec 12 21:01:43 2009 From: icnc_fskd_cfp at ytu.edu.cn (ICNC'10-FSKD'10) Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2009 10:01:43 +0800 Subject: [ACT-R-users] ICNC'10-FSKD'10 Papers Due 15 January: EI Compendex & IEEE Xplore Message-ID: <460672927.23208@eyou.net> Dear Colleague, We cordially invite you to submit a paper or invited session proposal to the upcoming 6th International Conference on Natural Computation (ICNC'10) and the 7th International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD'10), to be jointly held from 10-12 August 2010, in Yantai, China. Yantai was listed as one of the world's most inhabitable places by the United Nations and was recognized as the "most charming city of China" by China Central Television. Undulating hills rise above the area's many rivers and are framed by beaches and neighboring islands. During summer, the breeze wafts from the sea, and the hills become ornamented with a sea of wildflowers. Famous tourist attractions include the Tashan Mountain, Kongdong Island, and Penglai Pavilion Scenic Area. Seafood and fruits are plentiful in Yantai. Selected best papers will appear in SCI-indexed journal(s). All papers in conference proceedings will be indexed by both EI Compendex and ISTP, as well as the IEEE Xplore. ICNC-FSKD is a premier international forum for scientists and researchers to present the state of the art of data mining and intelligent methods inspired from nature, particularly biological, linguistic, and physical systems, with applications to signal processing, design, and more. Previously, the joint conferences in 2005 through 2009 each attracted over 3000 submissions from around the world. ICNC'10-FSKD'10 is technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. The registration fee of US*D 390 includes proceedings, lunches, dinners, banquet, coffee breaks, and all technical sessions. To promote international participation of researchers from outside the country/region where the conference is held (i.e., China), foreign experts are encouraged to propose invited sessions. The first author of each paper in an invited session must not be affiliated with an organization in China's mainland. All papers in the invited sessions can be marked as "Invited Paper". One organizer for each invited session with at least 6 registered papers will enjoy an honorarium of US*D 400. Invited session organizers will solicit submissions, conduct reviews and recommend accept/reject decisions on the submitted papers. Invited session organizers will be able to set their own submission and review schedules, as long as a list of recommended papers is determined by 30 March 2010. Each invited session proposal should include: (1) the name, bio, and contact information of each organizer of the invited session; (2) the title and a short synopsis of the invited session. Please send your proposal to icnc2010 at ytu.edu.cn For more information, visit the conference web page: http://icnc-fskd2010.ytu.edu.cn/ If you have any questions after visiting the conference web page, please email the secretariat at icnc2010 at ytu.edu.cn Join us at this major event in beautiful Yantai !!! Organizing Committee P.S.: Kindly forward to your colleagues or students who may be interested. If you wish to unsubscribe, in which case we apologize, please reply with "unsubscribe act-r-users at andrew.cmu.edu " in your email subject. Thanks. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From wfu at illinois.edu Tue Dec 15 13:52:39 2009 From: wfu at illinois.edu (Wai-Tat Fu) Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:52:39 -0600 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Call for Participation: Cognitive Models of Social Information Systems Workshop Message-ID: <022601ca7db7$c6a2b6c0$53e82440$@edu> Call for Participation: Cognitive Models of Social Information Systems CHI 2010 workshop April 11th, 2010 Atlanta,Georgia,USA Note: Deadline is extended to Jan 6th, 2010. Website:http://www.humanfactors.uiuc.edu/cognitivemodelworkshop/ The main goal of this workshop is to connect researchers from different areas whose work focuses on the development of models of user behavior in social information systems. Our hope is to integrate ideas from diverse domains such as (but not limited to) HCI, cognitive science, AI, psychology, computer science, information science, and computational linguistics to generate novel perspectives on understanding, characterizing, and predicting system characteristics and user behavior at both the individual and aggregate/ social levels. We also hope that his workshop will provide a venue for researchers in both academia and industry to discuss the use of cognitive models to inform designs of future social information systems in diverse application areas. We broadly define social information systems as systems that support social functions. Difference forms of social information systems have gained significant popularity over the last decade. For example, social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace and social tagging systems such as del.icio.us and CiteUlike.org attract several thousand users a day. While serving different social functions, these systems provide its users increased social presence and opportunities for easy collaboration and social interaction. User behavior on these systems has been generally conducted based on analysis of snapshots of long-term user interaction patterns such as logs of user activities, connections between users, etc. But, very little is known about the cognitive mechanisms underlying these interactions. A good understanding of the individual cognitive mechanisms is important for engineering better interface representations and interaction methods that support user behavior in social systems. Additionally, models that aim at characterizing these mechanisms can complement existing research and provide a basis for a more complete explanation of emergent social and collaborative behavior in social information systems. Submission We welcome submission from researchers and practitioners who are interested in developing computational models of social information systems. We particularly welcome submissions from diverse disciplines, and we welcome and value suggestions about themes or directions of research related to this area. Please submit an 3-5 page research or position paper about your work. Papers will be reviewed and selected based on their relevance to the workshop and ability to contribute to the discussion. Email your paper, in PDF, to socialcog2010 at gmail.com or wfu at illinois.edu with the subject line "CHI 2010 Cognitive Models Workshop" by Jan 6th, 2010. Authors will be notified by January 20th, 2010. Papers should be in the ACM SIGCHI submissions format. If you have any questions please feel free to contact us by email directly. Organizers Wai-Tat Fu & Thomas Kannampallil, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign --------------------------- Wai-Tat Fu Assistant Professor Human Factors Division and Beckman Institute University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL 61807 Tel: 217-244-8617 Fax: 217-244-8647 http://appliedcogsci.vp.uiuc.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tiffany.Jastrzembski at mesa.afmc.af.mil Thu Dec 17 13:59:32 2009 From: tiffany.Jastrzembski at mesa.afmc.af.mil (Jastrzembski, Tiffany S Civ USAF AFMC 711 HPW/RHAC) Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:59:32 -0500 Subject: [ACT-R-users] BRIMS 2010 Submission Deadline Extension! Message-ID: <2B00361EE3107A4F88383EC1B041DC9A0659787B@VFOHMLAO01.Enterprise.afmc.ds.af.mil> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ BRIMS Submission Deadline Extended to January 6, 2010! (see www.brimsconference.org for details) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ You are invited to participate in the 19th Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (BRIMS). BRIMS enables modeling and simulation research scientists, engineers, and technical communities across disciplines to meet, share ideas, identify capability gaps, discuss cutting-edge research directions, highlight promising technologies, and showcase the state-of-the-art in applications. The BRIMS Conference will consist of many exciting elements in 2010, including special topic areas, technical paper sessions, special symposia/panel discussions, and government laboratory sponsor sessions. BRIMS 2010 includes a dynamic and eclectic lineup of keynote speakers: Wayne Gray, PhD Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, www.rpi.edu/~grayw/ LCDR Joseph Cohn, Phd DARPA, www.darpa.mil/dso/personnel/cohn.htm Jerrold Post, MD George Washington University, www.gwu.edu/~elliott/faculty/post.cfm Robert Axtell, PhD George Mason University, www.santafe.edu/profiles/?pid=79 The BRIMS Executive Committee invites papers, posters, demos, symposia, panel discussions, and tutorials on topics related to the representation of individuals, groups, teams and organizations in models and simulations. All submissions are peer-reviewed (see www.brimsconference.org for additional details on submission types). Key Dates: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ All submissions due: January 6, 2010 Tutorial Acceptance: February 1, 2010 Authors Notification February 1, 2010 Final version due: February 19, 2010 Tutorials held: March 22, 2010 BRIMS 2010 Opens: March 23, 2010 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Special Topic Areas of Interest are identified to elicit specific technical content: * Socio-cultural modeling and simulation * Neurobiological & biologically-inspired cognitive modeling * Models of terrorist decision-making for IED placement * Models of civilian-insurgent interaction * Situation awareness/decision making models for ISTAR ops * Model validation & comparison * Necessity & sufficiency of mechanisms and parameters General Topic Areas of Interest include, but are not limited to: Modeling * Cognitive or behavioral moderators on performance * Intelligent agents and avatars * Models of reasoning and decision making * Team, group, crowd, and organizational behavior * Physical models of human movement * Performance assessment and skill monitoring/tracking * Performance prediction * Performance enhancement/optimization * Modeling architectures/knowledge representation systems * Knowledge acquisition/engineering * Human behavior issues in model federations * Human behavior representation for system design and evaluation Simulation * Synthetic environments for human behavior representation * Terrain representation and reasoning * Spatial reasoning * Time representation * Human behavior usability and interoperability * Efficiency, usability, affordability issues * Operator interfaces * Multi-resolution/fidelity simulations ACCOMMODATIONS and REGISTRATION The conference will be held at the Charleston Harbor Resort & Marina. Visit www.charlestonharborresort.com for general information about the site and accommodations. Conference and hotel registration, general area, and travel information can be found at www.brimsconference.org. BRIMS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: Joe Armstrong (CAE), Sheila Banks (Calculated Insight), Brad Best (Adaptive Cognitive Systems), Brad Cain (Defence Research and Development Canada), Andrew Cowell (Pacific Northwest), Nathan Denny (21st Century Systems), Uwe Dompke (NATO C3), Avelino Gonzalez (University of Central Florida), Coty Gonzalez (Carnegie Mellon), Jeff Hansberger (Army Research Lab), Tiffany Jastrzembski (Air Force Research Laboratory), Troy Kelley (Army Research Lab), Bill Kennedy (George Mason), Christian Lebiere (Carnegie Mellon), Bharat Patel (Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, UK), Frank Ritter (Penn State), Barry Silverman (University of Pennsylvania), Lt Col David Sonntag (Asian Office of Aerospace Research and Development), Webb Stacy (Aptima), Michael Van Lent (SoarTech), Walter Warwick (Alion). If you have any questions, please contact the BRIMS 2010 Conference Chair, Dr. Tiffany Jastrzembski (tiffany.jastrzembski at mesa.afmc.af.mil). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tiffany S. Jastrzembski, Ph.D. Cognitive Research Psychologist 711th Human Performance Wing Air Force Research Laboratory 6030 South Kent Street, Mesa, AZ 85212 Phone: (480) 988-6561 x688 tiffany.jastrzembski at mesa.afmc.af.mil From db30 at andrew.cmu.edu Mon Dec 21 14:29:02 2009 From: db30 at andrew.cmu.edu (db30 at andrew.cmu.edu) Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:29:02 -0500 Subject: [ACT-R-users] 2010 ACT-R Summer School Message-ID: <90CDAEFD630F17625139E6FB@act-r6.cmu.edu> SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL ACT-R SUMMER SCHOOL Carnegie Mellon University July 26-31, 2010 ACT-R is a cognitive theory and simulation system for developing cognitive models. It has been used for tasks that vary from experimental tasks, like simple reaction time or list learning, to real world tasks like driving a car or air traffic control. Recent advances of the ACT-R theory are 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. This year the summer school is followed by the International Conference on Cognitive Modeling, which will be held at Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA, from August 5 until August 8. More details about ICCM are available from: http://iccm2010.cs.drexel.edu/ The ACT-R summer school will take place from Monday July 26 to Saturday July 31. This intensive 6-day course is designed to train researchers in the use of ACT-R for cognitive modeling. It is structured as a set of six units, with each unit lasting a day and involving a morning theory lecture, an afternoon discussion session and an assignment which participants are expected to complete during the day and evening. Computing facilities will be provided, but attendees are also welcome to bring their own laptops for working with the ACT-R software during the summer school. To provide an optimal learning environment, admission is limited to a dozen participants, who must submit by April 1 an application consisting of a curriculum vitae and a statement of purpose. Demonstrated experience with a modeling formalism similar to ACT-R will strengthen the application. Applicants will be notified of admission by April 30. Admission to the summer school is free. Housing will be provided in the CMU dormitories for approximately $65/day (single) or $37/day (shared). For participants who want to stay in Pittsburgh until ICCM, it is possible to extend dorm housing until August 4. More information about ACT-R, including papers published by the ACT-R community, can be found on the ACT-R web site: http://act-r.psy.cmu.edu/ Additional information about the summer school will be provided after acceptance and when it becomes available. Please send your application by email or regular mail to: 2010 ACT-R Summer School Psychology Department Dan Bothell Baker Hall 345B? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?? Fax: +1 (412) 268-2844 Carnegie Mellon University? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Tel: +1 (412) 268-3323 Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?? Email: db30 at andrew.cmu.edu From atilla.elci at emu.edu.tr Tue Dec 22 01:28:46 2009 From: atilla.elci at emu.edu.tr (=?UTF-8?Q?Atilla_El=C3=A7i?=) Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 08:28:46 +0200 Subject: [ACT-R-users] ESAS theme book @Springer: CFP. Message-ID: <097801ca82d0$2d514630$87f3d290$@elci@emu.edu.tr> Dear Colleagues, We are soliciting contributions for an edited volume in the series ?Studies in Computational Intelligence? (http://www.springer.com/series/7092) by Springer-Verlag. Please find below the call for chapter proposals for "Semantic Agent Systems: Foundations and Applications". PDF version of the CFP is available at http://tinyurl.com/CFP-ESAS-BySpringer. As the subject of the book is quite wide, it may be of interest also to your colleagues, so we would be much obliged should you kindly forward it as you deem it fit. We wish you Season's Greetings and Happy New Year! for the Editors Atilla, Mamadou, & Mehmet Atilla Elci, PhD. http://cmpe.emu.edu.tr/aelci/ http://tinyurl.com/CFP-ESAS-BySpringer http://tinyurl.com/ESAS2010 http://www.sinconf.org/ http://www.compsac.org/ http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-3-540-88074-5 http://tinyurl.com/SIN2009-Proceedings http://tinyurl.com/SIN2007-Proceedings http://www.ijrcs.org/ http://itrc.emu.edu.tr/ -------------------..... Call for Chapter Contributions ====================== Semantic Agent Systems: Foundations and Applications (Edited Book by Springer-Verlag) (http://tinyurl.com/CFP-ESAS-BySpringer) Integrating agent and semantic Web technologies in order to extend the ability of programs have long been hailed as the most efficient way to serve users. The idea is to significantly affect performance of application software employing cooperating multi-agent systems through the use of semantic Web services and domain ontologies. The Semantic Web has matured to a great extent with ontology-based applications being built by several major enterprises. However, research and development concerned with the integration of the semantic Web and software agent technologies are moving at snail?s pace. To bring our contribution, we initiated around November 2005, the series of IEEE International Workshop on Engineering Semantic Agent Systems in conjunction with the 30th International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2006) in Chicago, Illinois, USA. After four annual workshops, preparing to announce the fifth, and two journal special issues on this theme, we are soliciting contributions from research experts and practitioners for an edited volume in the series ?Studies in Computational Intelligence? (http://www.springer.com/series/7092) by Springer-Verlag. Topics of Interest: ----------------- Possible topics for the special issue include: ? Principles and methodologies for semantic agent systems; ? Foundations, theories and models of semantic agent systems; ? Semantic-based autonomous and multi-agent architectures; ? Agent communication languages and protocols with semantics; ? Frameworks and environments for semantic agents systems; ? Ontology development (modeling, versioning, repository) for agent systems ? Ontology management (mapping, merging, alignment) for agents systems; ? Semantic technologies, decision making, communications for agent systems ? Languages, logics, tools and methodologies for semantic agent systems; ? Semantics related agent-oriented software engineering; ? Semantic agents systems for collaboration and cooperation; ? Semantic agent systems for (including but not limited to): ? - Mission-critical systems, enterprise information systems, social networks, ? - E-government, e-commerce, e-business, e-health, life sciences, ? - Multimedia, man-machine interfaces of software application systems; ? - Semantic robotics: design, implementation, and application case studies. ? Information visualization for agent systems with semantic Web techniques; ? Applications of semantic agents systems with pertinent lessons learned. Proposal submission: ------------------- We welcome original high quality contributions on the theme of Semantic Agent Systems along the aspects of foundation, theory, models, engineering, and applications. Substantially revised and extended versions of papers presented at conferences and workshops are also encouraged provided that the new content exceeds 50% of the paper. A 2-page chapter proposal may be uploaded to the submission site (https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/SASFA2010/) as soon as possible. Authors will be notified of the outcome within two weeks. Draft and final chapter proposals of about twenty pages must conform to Springer's Instructions for Authors (http://www.springer.com/series/7092?detailsPage=contentItemPage&CIPageCounter=149813). Important Dates: ---------------- 2-Page Proposal: Immediate Guest Editors' Feedback: Within two weeks Chapter Submission Deadline: March 1, 2010 Completion of First-Round Reviews: April 10, 2010 Revised Chapters Due: April 30, 2010 Final Publication Materials Due: May 20, 2010 Contact Details: --------------- Please address all correspondence regarding this book to the Guest Editors: Atilla Elci Internet Technologies Research Center Eastern Mediterranean University Gazimagusa, North Cyprus E-mail: atilla.elci @ emu.edu.tr Mamadou Tadiou Kone Independent Computing Research Montreal, Canada E-mail: Kone.Mamadou @ gmail.com Mehmet A. Orgun Department of Computing Macquarie University Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia Email: Mehmet.Orgun @ mq.edu.au E.M.U Eastern Mediterranean University E.M.U Eastern Mediterranean University