From uwe.drewitz at tu-berlin.de Thu Dec 1 08:19:16 2011 From: uwe.drewitz at tu-berlin.de (Uwe Drewitz) Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2011 14:19:16 +0100 Subject: [ACT-R-users] ICCM 2012 Deadline Extension Message-ID: <8D627E18-6CF4-452F-8E6B-B5A3E91C6897@tu-berlin.de> ********************************************************** ICCM 2012 - International Conference on Cognitive Modeling ********************************************************** The deadline for full paper submission to ICCM 2012 has been EXTENDED until Thursday, December 22nd, 2011. We invite everyone to submit papers, posters, symposia and tutorials. All submissions are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be included in conference proceedings. ICCM 2012 will be held April 13th to April 15th in Berlin, Germany. For further details visit www.iccm2012.com. 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URL: From MANWAR at pitt.edu Fri Dec 2 14:10:11 2011 From: MANWAR at pitt.edu (Mohd Anwar) Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2011 14:10:11 -0500 Subject: [ACT-R-users] [Iri2012] CFP: IEEE IRI 2012 - Conference on Information Reuse and Integration Message-ID: <1de4f4c084f041b0534f7d6d20a0e78a.squirrel@webmail.pitt.edu> CALL FOR PAPERS -- IEEE IRI 2012 ============================================= The 13th IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration When: Aug 8, 2012 - Aug 10, 2012 Where: Las Vegas, USA Submission Deadline: Mar 12, 2012 Notification Due: Apr 27, 2012 Final Version Due: May 14, 2012 ================================================ Given the emerging global Information-centric IT landscape that has tremendous social and economic implications, effectively processing and integrating very large volumes of information from diverse sources to enable effective decision making and knowledge generation have become one of the most significant challenges of current times. 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 systems and applications. 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. 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 Applications ? Information Security & Privacy ? Survivable Systems & Infrastructures ? AI & Decision Support Systems; Heuristic Optimization and Search ? Knowledge Acquisition and Management ? Fuzzy and Neural Systems ? Soft/Evolutionary Computing ? Case-Based Reasoning ? Natural Language Understanding ? Knowledge Management and E-Government ? Command & Control Systems (C4ISR) ? Human-Machine Information Systems ? Biomedical & Healthcare Systems ? Homeland Security & Critical Infrastructure Protection ? Manufacturing Systems & Business Process Engineering ? Space and Robotic Systems ? Multimedia Systems ? Service-Oriented Architectures ? Autonomous Agents in Web-based Systems ? Information Integration in Grid, Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing Environment ? Systems of Systems ? Semantic Web and Emerging Applications ? Information Reuse, Integration and Sharing in Collaborative Environments Instructions for Authors: Papers reporting original and unpublished research results pertaining to the above and related topics are solicited. Full paper manuscripts must be in English of up to 8 pages (using the IEEE two-column template). The online submission site is: https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=iri2012. Papers will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. Paper submission implies the intent of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper, if accepted. Best Paper Award: The best paper will be selected by separate committee and will be the one that reports the most novel and promising research work that has a high potential impact in the real world. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Lotfi A. Zadeh, University of California, Berkeley, USA Honorary General Chair: Lotfi Zadeh, University of California, Berkeley, USA General Chairs Stuart Rubin SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific, USA Shu-Ching Chen Florida International University, USA Program Chairs Elisa Bertino Purdue University, USA Bhavani Thuraisingham University of Texas at Dallas, USA James B.D. Joshi University of Pittsburgh, USA Chengcui Zhang The University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA Contact: Please contact jjoshi "at" sis.pitt.edu for more information. *********************** Mohd Anwar, Ph.D. School of Information Sciences University of Pittsburgh _______________________________________________ Iri2012 mailing list Iri2012 at list.pitt.edu https://list.pitt.edu/mailman/listinfo/iri2012 From Christopher.Myers2 at wpafb.af.mil Fri Dec 2 15:34:25 2011 From: Christopher.Myers2 at wpafb.af.mil (Myers, Christopher W Civ USAF AFMC 711 HPW/RHAC) Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2011 15:34:25 -0500 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Post Doc Opportunity in Developing Cognitively Bounded Optimal Models Message-ID: <9AC197D8D0788140BC98A478FB3852A801030BFB@VFOHMLMC11.Enterprise.afmc.ds.af.mil> ********** Best Viewed in HTML - Apologies for cross-postings ********** Postdoctoral Research Opportunity in Developing Adaptive Models that Operate in Non-stationary Environments Christopher Myers, PhD - Performance & Learning Models team, Air Force Research Laboratory I am conducting research that uses machine learning and control theory techniques to model human performance and decision making within dynamic, non-stationary environments. The work involves both human experiments and computational modeling to help explain how humans adapt to changes in dynamic, non-stationary, individual and collaborative task environments. I am looking for a postdoctoral research associate interested in developing cognitively bounded optimal models of visual search, multitasking, and dyadic collaboration. The ideal candidate will have a background in machine learning, cognitive science/cognitive psychology/mathematical psychology, and/or control theory, and will have programming experience with R and/or Python. Candidates must be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident. The selected postdoctoral candidate will work with me in the Air Force Research Laboratory's Performance & Learning Models team located at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. AFRL's PALM team provides a world-class environment for pursuing the application of computational modeling methods to explaining human behavior. The PALM team's research is focused on both basic and applied cognitive science research questions. The goal is to develop psychologically valid "replicates" of human cognition that can be used to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of human training (e.g., as synthetic teammates, tutors, or training analysis tools). To achieve these objectives, substantial research is required to understand the components of cognition and how they combine to enable interaction in complex, dynamic environments. Current projects are aimed at understanding topics such as (1) human spatial information processing, (2) changes in cognitive performance resulting from fluctuations in alertness, (3) strategic adaptation to dynamic, non-stationary, complex and persistent environments, & (4) developing technologies that can allow for the creation of computational cognitive models of increased scale (that explain more behaviors within a single system). We utilize a variety of research methodologies, including traditional empirical psychological research, eye tracking, and computational modeling. If you are interested in pursuing this line of work as a postdoctoral research associate, please contact me as soon as possible at: Christopher.Myers.29 at us.af.mil Cheers, Chris ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ CHRISTOPHER MYERS, PhD Research Psychologist Performance & Learning Models Team Cognitive Models & Agents Branch (RHAC) 711 Human Performance Wing 2620 Q Street, Bldg 852 Wright Patterson AFB OH 45433 E: christopher.myers.29 [at] us.af.mil O: 937-938-4059 C: 518-961-6868 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 5722 bytes Desc: not available URL: From Tiffany.Jastrzembski at wpafb.af.mil Tue Dec 6 12:34:22 2011 From: Tiffany.Jastrzembski at wpafb.af.mil (Jastrzembski, Tiffany S Civ USAF AFMC 711 HPW/RHAC) Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 12:34:22 -0500 Subject: [ACT-R-users] BRiMS 2012 Submission Extension Message-ID: <9AC197D8D0788140BC98A478FB3852A8010310A3@VFOHMLMC11.Enterprise.afmc.ds.af.mil> (Best viewed in HTML; Apologies for Cross-Postings) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The BRiMS 2012 Submission Deadline has been extended to January 6, 2012 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ For details on submission content, guidelines, and templates, please navigate to: http://brimsconference.org/submissions/ You are invited to participate in the 21st Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (BRiMS), to be held at the Omni Amelia Island Plantation Resort in Amelia Island, Florida. 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 Department of Defense related applications. The BRiMS Conference will consist of many exciting elements in 2012, including special topic areas, technical paper sessions, special symposia/panel discussions, and government laboratory sponsor sessions. 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, 2012 Tutorial Acceptance: January 20, 2012 Authors Notification January 30, 2012 Final version due: February 15, 2012 Tutorials held: March 12, 2012 BRIMS 2012 Opens: March 13, 2012 Special Topic Areas of Interest are identified to elicit specific technical content: * M&S in military domains * Tools for building distributed/large-scale M&S systems * Data-driven M&S * Modeling in multi-user gaming and simulation * Modeling of business processes and organizations * Models of online social interactions General Topic Areas of Interest include, but are not limited to: Modeling * Intelligent agents and avatars/adversarial modeling * Cognitive robots and human-robot interaction * Models of reasoning and decision making * Model validation & comparison * Socio-cultural M&S: team/group/crowd/ behavior * Physical models of human movement * Performance assessment and skill monitoring/tracking * Performance prediction/enhancement/optimization * Intelligent tutoring systems * Knowledge acquisition/engineering * Human behavior issues in model federations 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 * Science of simulation issues ACCOMMODATIONS and REGISTRATION The conference will be held at the Omni Amelia Island Plantation Resort in Amelia Island, FL. Visit http://www.omnihotels.com/FindAHotel/AmeliaIsland/MeetingFacilities/Reso rtMap.aspx 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 PROGAM COMMITTEE: Bradley J. Best (Adaptive Cognitive Systems) William G. Kennedy (George Mason University) Robert St. Amant (North Carolina State University) BRIMS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: Joe Armstrong (CAE), Brad Cain (Defence Research and Development Canada), Bruno Emond (National Research Council Canada), Coty Gonzalez (Carnegie Mellon University), Brian Gore (NASA), Jeff Hansberger (Army Research Laboratory), Kenneth Kwok (DSO National Laboratories, Singapore), John Laird (University of Michigan), Christian Lebiere (Carnegie Mellon University), Christopher Myers (Air Force Research Laboratory), Bharat Patel (Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, UK), Sylvain Pronovost (Carleton University & CAE), Venkat Sastry (University of Cranfield), Barry Silverman (University of Pennsylvania), Neil Smith (QinetiQ), LtCol David Sonntag (AOARD), Webb Stacy (Aptima), Mike van Lent (SoarTech), Walter Warwick (Alion Science and Technology), Jason Wong (Naval Undersea Warfare Center), Patrick Xavier (Sandia National Laboratories) A special thanks to the BRIMS 2012 Government Sponsors for their support of this event: Air Force Research Laboratory, Army Research Laboratory, DARPA, Office of Naval Research, NASA, and the UK Ministry of Defence. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the BRIMS 2012 Conference Chair, Dr. Tiffany Jastrzembski (tiffany.jastrzembski at wpafb.af.mil). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tiffany S. Jastrzembski, Ph.D. Cognitive Research Scientist Air Force Research Laboratory 2698 G Street, Building 190 Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433-7604 tiffany.jastrzembski at wpafb.af.mil From colin.schmidt at univ-lemans.fr Fri Dec 9 16:49:54 2011 From: colin.schmidt at univ-lemans.fr (schmidt colin) Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2011 22:49:54 +0100 Subject: [ACT-R-users] [Iri2012] || Int'l Symposium on "Enhancing Human Experience via Emerging Technologies", a CNRS proj. named "EpistHOMME+" || 27-28 March 2012, Laval FRANCE In-Reply-To: <1215775564.2653.1323462810883.JavaMail.root@zimbra.cis.uab.edu> References: <1215775564.2653.1323462810883.JavaMail.root@zimbra.cis.uab.edu> Message-ID: <4EE28282.9000704@univ-lemans.fr> Can you please post this to your colleagues? Thank you, Colin Schmidt || Int'l Symposium on "Enhancing Human Experience via Emerging Technologies", a CNRS proj. named "EpistHOMME+" || 27-28 March 2012, Laval FRANCE Within the framework of the CNRS proj. named "EpistHOMME+", we are pleased to host: Enhancing Human Experience via Emerging Technologies -March 27-28, 2012, 10h-18h http://www.laval-virtual.org/?p=87&l=en Ingenieurium & Laval Theatre, France Young and old alike believe that the human experience could gain something if better informed about up-coming technologies. Learning about them at an early stage helps in making key decisions about one's personal future. Although the approach is somewhat individual and devoted to those concerned, collectively oriented health and entertainment will gain from observing individual practices in the matter. Government policy incorporating emergent technology progress through monitoring will renew itself in a relevant way. However, in the name of progress people are increasingly willing to accept risk; the possible downfall of this movement is its ability to promote taking risks. But then again, could we or would we want to stop it? If we are to enhance the human experience, the pros and cons of each situation must be considered. Modifying or augmenting humans surely raises a certain number of issues. What are they? What aspect of life should one proceed to enhance? Which sectors or issues should become priority elements? Which academic disciplines are involved and why? What limits technological change? Does one have an acceptance threshold? If so, how would one express it? What are the long term implications of enhancement? Establishing a typology of possible applications and their contexts would be desirable for this symposium on enhancing members of our society. The following non-exhaustive list may be used to provoke thought on this topic: Keywords & Topics: Definitions of enhancement ? Robot companions for citizens ? Jungling multiple identities ? Advanced interfaces for increasing social presence ? Augmented health ? Epistemology of tech. innovation ? Care-giving robots ? Psychological analysis of acceptance ? Augmented Well-being ? Ubiquitous internet or computing ? Social roles in emerging tech. contexts ? Holistic, pragmatic and systemic approaches to resolving well-being difficulties ? Augmented Context-Awareness ? Communication enabling and enhancing tech. ? Incommunicability ? Human factors psychology and needs assessment ? Mind/body problem ? New worlds and belief revision ? Moral and ethical dimensions of enhancement ? Hybrid engineering ? Progress and technological obsolescence ? Co-constructed experiences ? Interventionism or Science policy issues ? The notions of Self or Identity in human experience ? Public information points and communication devices ? Technological Singularity success or failure ? Roles of otherhood in one's experiences ? Cognitive enhancement ? Theoretical controversies ? Emergent intentional states ? The intersection of the Arts, design and technology ? Transhumanistic stances ? Augmented emotion ? etc. Chair: Colin T. SCHMIDT, Le Mans University & Arts et Metiers ParisTech Lab, Laval France Assistant to the Chair: Jayesh S. PILLAI : jayesh.spillai at gmail.com Keynote Speakers: AUBREY DE GREY. (Confirmed.) Biomedical Gerontologist SENS Foundation (UK) JAMES MOOR. (Confirmed.) Professor of Ethics and Philosophy, Dartmouth College (USA) KEVIN WARWICK. (Confirmed.) Professor of Cybernetics, Reading University (UK) Laval Virtual Gala Dinner, March 28, 20h (Exhibition Hall ? Salle Polyvalente) Program Committee Jean-Claude ANDRE. Scientific Advisor to the CNRS (Risk Assessment and Nanotechnologies) & Institute of Engineering and Systems Sciences for forecasting, Socially Responsible Research (FR) Jean-Michel BESNIER. CNRS Research Director in Philosophy, Centre for Applied Epistemology (CREA) Ecole Polytechnique & University of Paris 4 (FR) Paul BOURGINE. CNRS Research Director in Complex Systems, Centre for Applied Epistemology (CREA) Ecole Polytechnique Paris (FR) Nicole D?ALMEIDA. Professor of Communication, CELSA University of Paris 4 (FR) J?r?me GOFFETTE, Philosophy of Science, University Lyon 1?Claude Bernard & ENS, currently authoring "Human Enhancement - An Interdisciplinary Inquiry" (Palgrave) (FR) Aubrey DE GREY. Biomedical Gerontologist and Chief Science Officer, SENS Foundation & Editor-in-Chief of Rejuvenation Research, advisor to Humanity+, Maximum Life, Alcor and the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence (USA, UK) Edouard KLEINPETER. iscc-CNRS Scientific Officer, Specialist of Utopias, Human Enhancement and Communication, Paris (FR) Lorenzo MAGNANI. Professor and Director, Computational Philosophy Lab, Pavia University & Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou (P.R.China, IT) James MOOR. Professor of Ethics, Dartmouth College NH USA, Barwise Prize 2006, Former Editor-in-chief of Minds and Machines, (USA) Vincent MULLER. Professor of Philosophy, American College of Thessaloniki & Future of Humanity Institute (FHI), University of Oxford (GR, UK) Jacques PERRIAULT. Emeritus Professor of Social Informatics, University Paris 10 (Nanterre-La D?fense), Senior advisor to the issc-CNRS, Honorary President of the French Society for Information and Communication Sciences -SFSIC- (FR) Serge PROULX. Professor of Social Informatics, UQAM Montr?al & T?l?com ParisTech (CA, FR) Marc ROUX. President of the French Society for Transhumanism (?L'Association Fran?aise Transhumaniste : Technoprog) Natasha VITA-MORE. University of Plymouth & Chair Humanity+ (UK) Shunji YAMANAKA. Industrial Designer, President of Leading Edge Design corp., Professor at the Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University, Japan (JP) DEADLINE to submit a paper: January 23rd, 2012 <<<< Submission website: www.laval-virtual.org - Submission deadline: 23 January 2012 - Notification to Authors: 7 February 2012 - Final Camera-Ready Submission: Until 29 February 2012 - The authors of the best publications will be invited to submit a paper in the international journal IJODIR Ingenieurium 4 rue de l?Ermitage 53000 Laval France 06 26 26 66 48 & Le Th??tre de Laval, 34, rue de la Paix 53013 LAVAL FRANCE T?l. : 02 43 49 19 55 A WORKSHOP SPONSORED BY ARTS ET METIERS PARISTECH and ORGANISED UNDER THE AEGIS OF VIRTUAL REALITY INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2012 SUPPORTED BY THE FRENCH NATIONAL SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH CENTRE's COMMUNICATION SCIENCES INSTITUTE, FRANCE HTTP://WWW.ISCC.CNRS.FR - - please circulate - - - -- C.T.A. SCHMIDT . D.Phil. 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Sincerely, Julian Marewski Doctoral Student Position in Adaptive Decision Making and Cognition The Modeling Adaptive Cognition Research Group at the Faculty for Business and Economics at the University of Lausanne seeks applicants for a doctoral student position. The position (60%) is to begin February 1st, 2012, or on another starting date to be mutually agreed upon. The position has a maximum funding duration of 5 years. The work location is the University of Lausanne, Lausanne Dorigny, Switzerland. Successful candidates will receive a Ph.D. from the University of Lausanne. The gross salary ranges from about 35,000 Swiss Francs to about 43,800 Swiss Francs per year. Job description We seek applicants to work on an interdisciplinary research program on modeling adaptive decision making processes and cognition in real-world domains. Current and past researchers working on this program have had backgrounds in psychology, cognitive science, economics, mathematics, biology, physics, and computer science to name but a few. We provide excellent resources, including a fully-equipped laboratory for conducting experiments and computer simulations, generous travel support for conferences, an excellent international research network, and most importantly, the time to think. The position is heavily-research oriented, preparing for a career in academia. We expect Ph.D. candidates to publish their research in top-tier journals. There are no teaching obligations. We are an international research group. Our working language is English. Research on Adaptive Decision Making Processes and Cognition Research on adaptive decision making processes and cognition addresses a key question: How do humans and other animals make decisions under uncertainty, that is, when time and information are limited and the future is unknown? In experiments, computer simulations, and mathematical analyses, we study both (i) how people (e.g., managers, politicians, consumers, doctors) make such decisions, and (ii) how they ought to make these decisions in order to behave adaptively. In doing so, we build detailed computational models of how decision processes are adapted to the structure of the environment, as well as how the decision processes interplay with other cognitive processes, such as memory or time perception. Building such models helps us to address basic research questions as well as to tackle a wide range of problems in the applied world. For instance, past areas of research include modeling how people select from a repertoire of decision strategies, how people make inductive inferences, how memory is nestled into to the structure of the environment, how to predict memory retrieval using internet search engines such as Google, how to forecast the outcomes of political elections, how to predict consumer choice, how to help doctors make better diagnoses, or how to foster moral decision making in organizations, to name but a few. Requirements Applicants should be interested in modeling decision and/or other cognitive processes. A university degree in psychology, business, economics, mathematics, computer sciences, physics, biology, or in a related discipline as well as good English skills are required. Already existing modeling or programming skills (e.g., MATLAB, R, LISP, ACT-R) are helpful but not required. Application materials and deadline The application deadline is January 9th, 2012, but applications will be accepted until the position is filled. Application materials include a cover letter describing research interests, a curriculum vitae, university transcripts, and up to two letters of recommendation. Please submit your materials via email to julian.marewski at unil.ch. Working at the University of Lausanne The Modeling Adaptive Cognition Research Group is located at the Department of Organizational Behavior of the Faculty for Business and Economics at the University of Lausanne. The department provides a stimulating interdisciplinary research environment. We publish in top-tier journals in different disciplines, including Science, Psychological Review, and the American Economic Review. Located at Lake Geneva and surrounded by the Jura Mountains and the French Alps, Lausanne is a beautiful and cosmopolitan spot to live and work. The Lake Geneva region enjoys a Mediterranean microclimate. More information about the position can be inquired from the responsible professor, Julian Marewski (julian.marewski at unil.ch). Information about the Modeling Adaptive Cognition Research Group is available at http://www.modeling-adaptive-cognition.org/ . Information about the Department of Organizational Behavior can be found at http://www.hec.unil.ch/hec/recherche/unite?set_language=en&unite_id=239&cl=en. Information about Julian Marewski can be found at http://www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/en/staff/julian-marewski and at http://www.hec.unil.ch/people/jmarewski&vue=contact&set_language=en&cl=en . 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Name: Doctoral Student Position.pdf Type: application/octet-stream Size: 116666 bytes Desc: Doctoral Student Position.pdf URL: From reitter at cmu.edu Fri Dec 16 11:57:17 2011 From: reitter at cmu.edu (David Reitter) Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 17:57:17 +0100 Subject: [ACT-R-users] CFP: Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics CMCL 2012 Message-ID: <09A33C40-52EE-464F-884A-67C8179ED8C2@cmu.edu> Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL-2012) A workshop to be held June 7, 2012 at the North American Association for Computational Linguistics meeting (NAACL-HLT) in Montreal, Quebec http://www.psy.cmu.edu/~cmcl/ CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop Description This workshop provides a venue for work in computational psycholinguistics. ACL Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Martin Kay described this topic as "build[ing] models of language that reflect in some interesting way on the ways in which people use language." The 2010 workshop follows in the tradition of several previous meetings: - the computational psycholinguistics meeting at CogSci in Berkeley in 1997 - the Incremental Parsing workshop at ACL 2004 - the first two CMCL workshops at ACL 2010 and ACL 2011 in inviting contributions that apply methods from computational linguistics to problems in the cognitive modeling of any and all natural language abilities. Scope and Topics The workshop invites a broad spectrum of work in the cognitive science of language, at all levels of analysis from sounds to discourse. Topics include, but are not limited to - incremental parsers for diverse grammar formalisms - derivations of comprehension difficulty predictions, or predictions regarding generalization in language learning - stochastic models of factors encouraging one production or interpretation over its competitors - models of semantic interpretation, including psychologically realistic notions of word meaning, phrase meaning, and composition - models and empirical analysis of the relationship between mechanistic psycholinguistic principles and pragmatic or semantic adaptation, usually in dialogue - models of human language acquisition - models of linguistic information propagation and language evolution in communication networks Submissions This call solicits full papers reporting original and unpublished research that combines cognitive modeling and computational linguistics. Accepted papers are expected to be presented at the workshop and will be published in the workshop proceedings. They should emphasize obtained results rather than intended work, and should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported results. A paper accepted for presentation at the workshop must not be presented or have been presented at any other meeting with publicly available proceedings. If essentially identical papers are submitted to other conferences or workshops as well, this fact must be indicated at submission time. No submission should be longer than necessary, up to a maximum 8 pages plus two additional pages containing references. To facilitate double-blind reviewing, submitted manuscripts should not include any identifying information about the authors. Submissions must be formatted using NAACL 2012 style files available at http://www.naaclhlt2012.org/conference/conference.php Contributions should be submitted in PDF via the submission site: http://www.psy.cmu.edu/~cmcl/submit The submission deadline is 11:59PM Eastern Time on March 20, 2012. Best Student Paper The best paper whose first author is a student will receive the Best Student Paper award. Publication All accepted CMCL papers will be published in the workshop proceedings as is customary at ACL conferences. Important Dates Submission deadline: 20 March 2012 Notification of acceptance: 17 April 2012 Camera-ready versions due: 30 April 2012 Workshop: 7 June 2012 Workshop Chairs Roger Levy, Department of Linguistics, University of California at San Diego David Reitter, Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University Program Committee Matthew Crocker, Saarbr?cken University Robert Daland, UC Los Angeles Vera Demberg, Saarbr?cken University Amit Dubey, University of Edinburgh Michael C. Frank, Stanford University Ted Gibson, MIT Guodong Zhou, Soochow University John T. Hale, Cornell University Keith Hall, Google Jeffrey Heinz, University of Delaware T. Florian Jaeger, University of Rochester Gaja Jarosz, Yale University Frank Keller, University of Edinburgh Lars Konieczny, University of Freiburg Richard L. Lewis, University of Michigan Brian Edmond Murphy, University of Trento Ulrike Pad?, VICO Research & Consulting Sebastian Pad?, University of Heidelberg Amy Perfors, Adelaide University Brian Roark, Oregon Health & Science University William Schuler, The Ohio State University Mark Steedman, University of Edinburgh Patrick Sturt, University of Edinburgh Shravan Vasishth, University of Potsdam Nathaniel Smith, UC San Diego Lisa Pearl, UC Irvine Noah Goodman, Stanford University Klinton Bicknell, UC San Diego Brian Dillon, University of Massachussetts Naomi Feldman, University of Maryland From db30 at andrew.cmu.edu Fri Dec 16 13:23:20 2011 From: db30 at andrew.cmu.edu (db30 at andrew.cmu.edu) Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 13:23:20 -0500 Subject: [ACT-R-users] New ACT-R 6.0 release Message-ID: There's a new version of ACT-R 6 available from the ACT-R web site. Below I will highlight the most significant changes since the last release (June of 2011). The changes fall into three categories: what is (and isn't) available on the web site, what is included with the downloads, and changes and additions to the software itself. What is different about what's available on the ACT-R software page: - The source code is now only available in a .zip which includes both the Mac and Windows versions of the Environment application. - There is no longer a version of the Mac standalone available for PPC based machines. - A set of notes on teaching ACT-R modeling provided by Bill Kennedy is now available. What has changed in the distributed materials: - Both the Windows and Mac standalones now have both 64 bit and 32 bit versions of the Lisp application included and the startup programs will run the appropriate one for the machine. - The Windows standalone now uses CCL instead of ACL, and like the Mac version, it makes the Lisp prompt available directly instead of through a custom dialog as it had done in the past. - The Mac standalone now requires Mac OS 10.5 or newer to run because the current version of CCL (1.7) has that requirement. - The tutorial unit texts and the primary documentation files (reference manual, Environment manual, and AGI manual) in the distributions are now PDFs instead of Microsoft Word files, but the separate PDF downloads are also still available as they were before. - There is a new tutorial unit. Unit 8, titled "Advanced Production Techniques", covers dynamic pattern matching and the procedural partial matching mechanism. - Unit 1 of the tutorial has an additional text and model (unit1_modeling and broken-addition respectively). The text is an introduction to writing and debugging models in ACT-R and the new model is a non-functioning version of the addition model from unit 1 which the text walks through debugging and fixing. Changes to the ACT-R software: - A parameter has been added which allows the activation trace details to be saved instead of being printed in the trace. If the :sact parameter is set to t then the declarative module will record all of the retrieval request details during the run and they can be accessed afterwards using the print-activation-trace and print-chunk-activation-trace commands. The retrieval history tool in the Environment has also been updated to show the detailed activation calculations now. - The warnings printed for problems encountered while parsing productions have been reordered so that they make more sense when read from top to bottom. - A new tool has been added for displaying the production history information that is recorded when the :save-production-history parameter is set to true. The new viewer in the Environment is called "Production Graph" and it will draw a graph showing the transitions which occurred between productions when the model was run. There is also a command called production-transition-graph which can be used to output a representation of the graph in the DOT language for those that would like to work with the graph in something like Graphviz instead of using the ACT-R Environment. - Two new options have been added for the :nearest request parameter in a visual-location request. Those options are clockwise and counterclockwise, and there is also an additional request parameter called :center which can be used to provide the reference point for calculating those. - The *actr-enabled-p* variable has been removed from the system. The reason for that is because it didn't really do much of anything, but it was used in most of the tutorial units as a flag to switch between a person and model doing the task. That usage, combined with its name, made it seem like it was an important thing to set. However, the only thing it really did in ACT-R was determine where the get-time command got its time information from (either ACT-R's clock or from get-internal-real-time). Get-time now takes an optional parameter which can be used to indicate which time source to use, and if the parameter is omitted then it uses the ACT-R time. Thus, that change shouldn't affect any existing models which use get-time to collect data, but it does mean that if one is using get-time to collect data for a person doing a task it will likely require changing the experiment code. All of the tutorial models have been updated to not use *actr-enabled-p* and instead to pass an appropriate value to get-time when needed. If you have any comments, questions, or problems with this update please let me know. Dan From db30 at andrew.cmu.edu Tue Dec 20 13:24:17 2011 From: db30 at andrew.cmu.edu (db30 at andrew.cmu.edu) Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 13:24:17 -0500 Subject: [ACT-R-users] 2012 ACT-R Summer School Message-ID: <56FA8A21CF1045078CAAAA4A@act-r6.cmu.edu> 2012 ACT-R Summer School Carnegie Mellon University July 21-26, 2012 ACT-R is a cognitive theory and simulation system for developing cognitive models. It has been used for tasks that range 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. The 2012 ACT-R summer school will take place from Saturday July 21 to Thursday July 26 at Carnegie Mellon University. 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 one 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 computers for working with the ACT-R software during the summer school. Following the ACT-R summer school, there will be an ACT-R workshop from Friday July 27 through Sunday July 29, and it is recommended that summer school attendees also stay for the workshop. Details on the workshop will be announced through the ACT-R mailing list and on the ACT-R web site as they become available. 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 available in the CMU dormitories for approximately $70/day (single) or $40/day (shared), and that will be available through the end of the workshop. More information about ACT-R, including papers published by the ACT-R community, can be found on the ACT-R web site: . Please send your application by email or regular mail to: 2012 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 Kevin.Gluck at wpafb.af.mil Wed Dec 21 17:07:29 2011 From: Kevin.Gluck at wpafb.af.mil (Gluck, Kevin A Civ USAF AFMC 711 HPW/RHAC) Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 17:07:29 -0500 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Pre-Announcement of Upcoming Tenure-Track Positions at Wright State University Message-ID: <18FBE179D741F4449F34CE82D244E5390159D73D@VFOHMLMC11.Enterprise.afmc.ds.af.mil> Please see the attached draft announcement for tenure-track positions at Wright State University. Two areas of emphasis in the search are (a) cognitive modeling and (b) human interaction with autonomous systems. We expect formal announcement of these positions from WSU soon and are working with them to get the word out. 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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 Department of Defense related applications. The BRiMS Conference will consist of many exciting elements in 2012, including special topic areas, technical paper sessions, special symposia/panel discussions, and government laboratory sponsor sessions. 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, 2012 Tutorial Acceptance: January 20, 2012 Authors Notification January 30, 2012 Final version due: February 15, 2012 Tutorials held: March 12, 2012 BRIMS 2012 Opens: March 13, 2012 Special Topic Areas of Interest are identified to elicit specific technical content: * M&S in military domains * Tools for building distributed/large-scale M&S systems * Data-driven M&S * Modeling in multi-user gaming and simulation * Modeling of business processes and organizations * Models of online social interactions General Topic Areas of Interest include, but are not limited to: Modeling * Intelligent agents and avatars/adversarial modeling * Cognitive robots and human-robot interaction * Models of reasoning and decision making * Model validation & comparison * Socio-cultural M&S: team/group/crowd/ behavior * Physical models of human movement * Performance assessment and skill monitoring/tracking * Performance prediction/enhancement/optimization * Intelligent tutoring systems * Knowledge acquisition/engineering * Human behavior issues in model federations 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 * Science of simulation issues ACCOMMODATIONS and REGISTRATION The conference will be held at the Omni Amelia Island Plantation Resort in Amelia Island, FL. 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Jastrzembski, Ph.D. Cognitive Research Scientist Air Force Research Laboratory 2698 G Street, Building 190 Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433-7604 tiffany.jastrzembski at wpafb.af.mil From Tiffany.Jastrzembski at wpafb.af.mil Thu Dec 22 07:56:55 2011 From: Tiffany.Jastrzembski at wpafb.af.mil (Jastrzembski, Tiffany S Civ USAF AFMC 711 HPW/RHAC) Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 07:56:55 -0500 Subject: [ACT-R-users] BRIMS Submission Deadline Reminder In-Reply-To: <9AC197D8D0788140BC98A478FB3852A801030BFB@VFOHMLMC11.Enterprise.afmc.ds.af.mil> References: <9AC197D8D0788140BC98A478FB3852A801030BFB@VFOHMLMC11.Enterprise.afmc.ds.af.mil> Message-ID: <9AC197D8D0788140BC98A478FB3852A8010B3FEC@VFOHMLMC11.Enterprise.afmc.ds.af.mil> (Best viewed in HTML; Apologies for Cross-Postings) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The BRiMS 2012 Submission Deadline is fast approaching All submissions must be in by January 6, 2012 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ For details on submission content, guidelines, and templates, please navigate to: http://brimsconference.org/submissions/ You are invited to participate in the 21st Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (BRiMS), to be held at the Omni Amelia Island Plantation Resort in Amelia Island, Florida. 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 Department of Defense related applications. The BRiMS Conference will consist of many exciting elements in 2012, including special topic areas, technical paper sessions, special symposia/panel discussions, and government laboratory sponsor sessions. 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, 2012 Tutorial Acceptance: January 20, 2012 Authors Notification January 30, 2012 Final version due: February 15, 2012 Tutorials held: March 12, 2012 BRIMS 2012 Opens: March 13, 2012 Special Topic Areas of Interest are identified to elicit specific technical content: * M&S in military domains * Tools for building distributed/large-scale M&S systems * Data-driven M&S * Modeling in multi-user gaming and simulation * Modeling of business processes and organizations * Models of online social interactions General Topic Areas of Interest include, but are not limited to: Modeling * Intelligent agents and avatars/adversarial modeling * Cognitive robots and human-robot interaction * Models of reasoning and decision making * Model validation & comparison * Socio-cultural M&S: team/group/crowd/ behavior * Physical models of human movement * Performance assessment and skill monitoring/tracking * Performance prediction/enhancement/optimization * Intelligent tutoring systems * Knowledge acquisition/engineering * Human behavior issues in model federations 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 * Science of simulation issues ACCOMMODATIONS and REGISTRATION The conference will be held at the Omni Amelia Island Plantation Resort in Amelia Island, FL. 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If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the BRIMS 2012 Conference Chair, Dr. Tiffany Jastrzembski (tiffany.jastrzembski at wpafb.af.mil). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tiffany S. Jastrzembski, Ph.D. Cognitive Research Scientist Air Force Research Laboratory 2698 G Street, Building 190 Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433-7604 tiffany.jastrzembski at wpafb.af.mil From Tiffany.Jastrzembski at wpafb.af.mil Fri Dec 30 08:35:09 2011 From: Tiffany.Jastrzembski at wpafb.af.mil (Jastrzembski, Tiffany S Civ USAF AFMC 711 HPW/RHAC) Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 08:35:09 -0500 Subject: [ACT-R-users] BRiMS 2012 Submission Reminder - One week to go! Message-ID: <9AC197D8D0788140BC98A478FB3852A8010F179D@VFOHMLMC11.Enterprise.afmc.ds.af.mil> (Best viewed in HTML; Apologies for Cross-Postings) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The BRiMS 2012 Submission Deadline is fast approaching All submissions must be in by January 6, 2012 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ For details on submission content, guidelines, and templates, please navigate to: http://brimsconference.org/submissions/ You are invited to participate in the 21st Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (BRiMS), to be held at the Omni Amelia Island Plantation Resort in Amelia Island, Florida. 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 Department of Defense related applications. The BRiMS Conference will consist of many exciting elements in 2012, including special topic areas, technical paper sessions, special symposia/panel discussions, and government laboratory sponsor sessions. 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, 2012 Tutorial Acceptance: January 20, 2012 Authors Notification January 30, 2012 Final version due: February 15, 2012 Tutorials held: March 12, 2012 BRIMS 2012 Opens: March 13, 2012 Special Topic Areas of Interest are identified to elicit specific technical content: * M&S in military domains * Tools for building distributed/large-scale M&S systems * Data-driven M&S * Modeling in multi-user gaming and simulation * Modeling of business processes and organizations * Models of online social interactions General Topic Areas of Interest include, but are not limited to: Modeling * Intelligent agents and avatars/adversarial modeling * Cognitive robots and human-robot interaction * Models of reasoning and decision making * Model validation & comparison * Socio-cultural M&S: team/group/crowd/ behavior * Physical models of human movement * Performance assessment and skill monitoring/tracking * Performance prediction/enhancement/optimization * Intelligent tutoring systems * Knowledge acquisition/engineering * Human behavior issues in model federations 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 * Science of simulation issues ACCOMMODATIONS and REGISTRATION The conference will be held at the Omni Amelia Island Plantation Resort in Amelia Island, FL. Visit http://www.omnihotels.com/FindAHotel/AmeliaIsland/MeetingFacilities/Reso rtMap.aspx 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 PROGAM COMMITTEE: Bradley J. Best (Adaptive Cognitive Systems) William G. Kennedy (George Mason University) Robert St. Amant (North Carolina State University) BRIMS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: Joe Armstrong (CAE), Brad Cain (Defence Research and Development Canada), Bruno Emond (National Research Council Canada), Coty Gonzalez (Carnegie Mellon University), Brian Gore (NASA), Jeff Hansberger (Army Research Laboratory), Kenneth Kwok (DSO National Laboratories, Singapore), John Laird (University of Michigan), Christian Lebiere (Carnegie Mellon University), Christopher Myers (Air Force Research Laboratory), Bharat Patel (Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, UK), Sylvain Pronovost (Carleton University & CAE), Frank Ritter (Pennsylvania State University), Venkat Sastry (University of Cranfield), Barry Silverman (University of Pennsylvania),Neil Smith (QinetiQ), LtCol David Sonntag (AOARD), Webb Stacy (Aptima), Mike van Lent (SoarTech), Walter Warwick (Alion Science and Technology), Jason Wong (Naval Undersea Warfare Center), Patrick Xavier (Sandia National Laboratories) A special thanks to the BRIMS 2012 Government Sponsors for their support of this event: Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Air Force Research Laboratory, Army Research Laboratory, DARPA, Natick Soldier Center, NASA, and the UK Ministry of Defence. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the BRIMS 2012 Conference Chair, Dr. Tiffany Jastrzembski (tiffany.jastrzembski at wpafb.af.mil). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tiffany S. Jastrzembski, Ph.D. Cognitive Research Scientist Air Force Research Laboratory 2698 G Street, Building 190 Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433-7604 tiffany.jastrzembski at wpafb.af.mil From Tiffany.Jastrzembski at wpafb.af.mil Fri Dec 30 08:35:09 2011 From: Tiffany.Jastrzembski at wpafb.af.mil (Jastrzembski, Tiffany S Civ USAF AFMC 711 HPW/RHAC) Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 08:35:09 -0500 Subject: [ACT-R-users] BRiMS 2012 Submission Reminder - One week to go! Message-ID: <9AC197D8D0788140BC98A478FB3852A8010F179D@VFOHMLMC11.Enterprise.afmc.ds.af.mil> (Best viewed in HTML; Apologies for Cross-Postings) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The BRiMS 2012 Submission Deadline is fast approaching All submissions must be in by January 6, 2012 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ For details on submission content, guidelines, and templates, please navigate to: http://brimsconference.org/submissions/ You are invited to participate in the 21st Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (BRiMS), to be held at the Omni Amelia Island Plantation Resort in Amelia Island, Florida. 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 Department of Defense related applications. The BRiMS Conference will consist of many exciting elements in 2012, including special topic areas, technical paper sessions, special symposia/panel discussions, and government laboratory sponsor sessions. 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, 2012 Tutorial Acceptance: January 20, 2012 Authors Notification January 30, 2012 Final version due: February 15, 2012 Tutorials held: March 12, 2012 BRIMS 2012 Opens: March 13, 2012 Special Topic Areas of Interest are identified to elicit specific technical content: * M&S in military domains * Tools for building distributed/large-scale M&S systems * Data-driven M&S * Modeling in multi-user gaming and simulation * Modeling of business processes and organizations * Models of online social interactions General Topic Areas of Interest include, but are not limited to: Modeling * Intelligent agents and avatars/adversarial modeling * Cognitive robots and human-robot interaction * Models of reasoning and decision making * Model validation & comparison * Socio-cultural M&S: team/group/crowd/ behavior * Physical models of human movement * Performance assessment and skill monitoring/tracking * Performance prediction/enhancement/optimization * Intelligent tutoring systems * Knowledge acquisition/engineering * Human behavior issues in model federations 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 * Science of simulation issues ACCOMMODATIONS and REGISTRATION The conference will be held at the Omni Amelia Island Plantation Resort in Amelia Island, FL. Visit http://www.omnihotels.com/FindAHotel/AmeliaIsland/MeetingFacilities/Reso rtMap.aspx 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 PROGAM COMMITTEE: Bradley J. Best (Adaptive Cognitive Systems) William G. Kennedy (George Mason University) Robert St. Amant (North Carolina State University) BRIMS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: Joe Armstrong (CAE), Brad Cain (Defence Research and Development Canada), Bruno Emond (National Research Council Canada), Coty Gonzalez (Carnegie Mellon University), Brian Gore (NASA), Jeff Hansberger (Army Research Laboratory), Kenneth Kwok (DSO National Laboratories, Singapore), John Laird (University of Michigan), Christian Lebiere (Carnegie Mellon University), Christopher Myers (Air Force Research Laboratory), Bharat Patel (Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, UK), Sylvain Pronovost (Carleton University & CAE), Frank Ritter (Pennsylvania State University), Venkat Sastry (University of Cranfield), Barry Silverman (University of Pennsylvania),Neil Smith (QinetiQ), LtCol David Sonntag (AOARD), Webb Stacy (Aptima), Mike van Lent (SoarTech), Walter Warwick (Alion Science and Technology), Jason Wong (Naval Undersea Warfare Center), Patrick Xavier (Sandia National Laboratories) A special thanks to the BRIMS 2012 Government Sponsors for their support of this event: Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Air Force Research Laboratory, Army Research Laboratory, DARPA, Natick Soldier Center, NASA, and the UK Ministry of Defence. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the BRIMS 2012 Conference Chair, Dr. Tiffany Jastrzembski (tiffany.jastrzembski at wpafb.af.mil). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tiffany S. Jastrzembski, Ph.D. Cognitive Research Scientist Air Force Research Laboratory 2698 G Street, Building 190 Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433-7604 tiffany.jastrzembski at wpafb.af.mil