From grayw at rpi.edu Tue Mar 1 17:28:14 2011 From: grayw at rpi.edu (Wayne Gray) Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 17:28:14 -0500 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Fwd: Job Opportunity: ONR Program Officer position open through Noon Wed March 30 References: Message-ID: <2E23FE35-9EF8-4F63-8657-762251ABC2CC@rpi.edu> Would be a good position to have a modeler in. Wayne Begin forwarded message: > From: "Schmorrow, Dylan D CAPT OSD ATL" > Date: March 1, 2011 10:44:38 EST > To: "Schmorrow, Dylan D CAPT OSD ATL" > Cc: "'Terry.Allard at Navy.mil'" , "'John.F.Tangney at Navy.mil'" , "'Joseph.Cohn at Navy.mil'" , "'Sandra.Rendon.ctr at Navy.mil'" > Subject: Job Opportunity: ONR Program Officer position open through Noon Wed March 30 > > LinkedIn Friends and Colleagues-- > > The Office of Naval Research (ONR) has a full-time opening for a Science & Technology (S&T) Program Officer in the broad areas of Human-Systems Integration, Training, Human-System Design, Human-Autonomy Interaction, Human Factors, Cognitive Science, Psychology, Biorobotics and / or Computer Science. > > This position is open now through Noon on Wednesday, March 30; > > and can be accessed on the web through USAJobs at > http://jobview.usajobs.gov/GetJob.aspx?OPMControl=2194313 > > The position is a great leadership opportunity for an aggressive, innovative scientist or engineer to build communities of researchers and technologists that address critical and enduring S&T challenges affecting today's Navy and Marine Corps while helping define the Navy and Marine Corps of the future. > > ONR is a small organization of scientists and engineers with access to the highest level of DoD decision-makers. ONR program officers are charged with defining the art of the possible from the state of the art and are key S&T subject matter experts for Navy and Marine Corps civilian and military stakeholders. ONR is a great place to work with many opportunities for multidisciplinary collaboration, intellectual and programmatic teamwork and lasting impact. We were rated the #1 "Best Place to Work" in the Navy in a recent summary of the Best Places to Work in the Federal Government. We were also recognized as the "Most Admired Employer" by Black Engineer magazine, Hispanic Engineer magazine and Women of Color magazine. > > The ideal candidate will combine deep scientific expertise with broad technical experience. Program management background is a plus but not an absolute requirement. Successful ONR program officers interact seamlessly with university & industry researchers, Naval engineers & program managers as well as Navy and Marine Corps operators and decision-makers. > > Additional information about ONR and ONR program officers can be found at: > > www.ONR.Navy.mil > > or by reaching: > > ONR34 Department Head, Dr. Terry Allard, Terry.Allard at Navy.mil > ONR341 Division Director, Dr. John Tangney, John.F.Tangney at Navy.mil > ONR341 Deputy Division Director, LCDR Joseph Cohn PhD, Joseph.Cohn at Navy.mil > ONR34 Administrative Officer, Ms. Sandra Rendon, Sandra. Rendon.ctr at Navy.mil > > Please circulate this notice to any likely candidates. > > VR > Dylan----------------------------------------------------------------- > CAPT Dylan Schmorrow, MSC, USN, Ph.D > Deputy Director, Human Performance, Training and BioSystems Research Directorate > Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Research and Engineering) > 1777 N. Kent Street, Suite 9030 > Rosslyn, VA 22209 > Email: dylan.schmorrow at osd.mil > Website: http://www.dtic.mil/biosys/index.html > > www.linkedin.com/in/dylanschmorrow -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From grayw at rpi.edu Tue Mar 1 17:49:58 2011 From: grayw at rpi.edu (Wayne Gray) Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 17:49:58 -0500 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Fwd: ONR Program Officer position open through Noon Wed March 30, Web link correction References: <253DC9E623599F4DB6F76718DD65543A17A411D76C@ONRHQEXCHI09.onr.navy.mil> Message-ID: Here again with a new link. Begin forwarded message: > From: "Allard, Terry CIV ONR 34 SES" > Date: March 1, 2011 12:53:46 EST > To: "Allard, Terry CIV ONR 34 SES" > Cc: "Rendon, Sandra CTR ONR 343" > Subject: RE: ONR Program Officer position open through Noon Wed March 30, Web link correction > > New web link for the position: > http://jobview.usajobs.gov/GetJob.aspx?OPMControl=2194710 > > Also, job announcement is available at USAjobs if you search on: > > Office of Naval Research > AND > 22203 (ONR's zip code) > > -----Original Message----- > From: Allard, Terry CIV ONR 34 SES > Sent: Monday, February 28, 2011 4:15 PM > To: Allard, Terry CIV ONR 34 SES > Cc: Rendon, Sandra (SRA) (sandra.rendon.ctr at navy.mil) > Subject: ONR Program Officer position open through Noon Wed March 30 > > Friends and Colleagues-- > > The Office of Naval Research (ONR) has a full-time opening for a Science & Technology (S&T) Program Officer in the broad areas of Human-Systems Integration, Training, Human-System Design, Human-Autonomy Interaction, Human Factors, Cognitive Science, Psychology, Biorobotics and / or Computer Science. > > This position is open now through Noon on Wednesday, March 30; > > and can be accessed on the web through USAJobs at > > http://jobview.usajobs.gov/GetJob.aspx?OPMControl=2194710 > > The position is a great leadership opportunity for an aggressive, innovative scientist or engineer to build communities of researchers and technologists that address critical and enduring S&T challenges affecting today's Navy and Marine Corps while helping define the Navy and Marine Corps of the future. > > ONR is a small organization of scientists and engineers with access to the highest level of DoD decision-makers. ONR program officers are charged with defining the art of the possible from the state of the art and are key S&T subject matter experts for Navy and Marine Corps civilian and military stakeholders. ONR is a great place to work with many opportunities for multidisciplinary collaboration, intellectual and programmatic teamwork and lasting impact. We were rated the #1 "Best Place to Work" in the Navy in a recent summary of the Best Places to Work in the Federal Government. We were also recognized as the "Most Admired Employer" by Black Engineer magazine, Hispanic Engineer magazine and Women of Color magazine. > > The ideal candidate will combine deep scientific expertise with broad technical experience. Program management background is a plus but not an absolute requirement. Successful ONR program officers interact seamlessly with university & industry researchers, Naval engineers & program managers as well as Navy and Marine Corps operators and decision-makers. > > Additional information about ONR and ONR program officers can be found at: > > www.ONR.Navy.mil > > or by reaching: > > ONR34 Department Head, Dr. Terry Allard, Terry.Allard at Navy.mil > ONR341 Division Director, Dr. John Tangney, John.F.Tangney at Navy.mil > ONR341 Deputy Division Director, LCDR Joseph Cohn PhD, Joseph.Cohn at Navy.mil > ONR34 Administrative Officer, Ms. Sandra Rendon, Sandra.Rendon.ctr at Navy.mil > > Please circulate this notice to any likely candidates. > > Terry Allard, PhD, SES > Department Head for Warfighter Performance > Office of Naval Research (ONR34) > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cacs at cacs2010.org Wed Mar 2 02:43:56 2011 From: cacs at cacs2010.org (Jane Lew) Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2011 15:43:56 +0800 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Congress on Computer Applications and Computational Science, Bali, 15-17 Nov 2011 [EI Compendex, ISTP, IEEE Xplore] Message-ID: <7DB2A634E074BEFB9C2DE34BC3E46909@ckxsghz> Dear Author, Please forward to those who may be interested. Thank you. The 2011 2nd International Congress on Computer Applications and Computational Science (CACS 2011) http://irast.net/conferences/CACS/2011 15-17 November 2011, Bali, Indonesia CACS 2010 aims to bring together researchers and scientists from academia, industry, and government laboratories to present new results and identify future research directions in computer applications and computational science. All papers published in the CACS 2011 proceedings will be included in the IEEE Xplore and indexed in both Ei Compendex and ISTP. CACS 2011 has appeared in the IEEE Conferences (Conference Record # 18959, IEEE Catalog Number: CFP1175N-CDR, ISBN: 978-1-61284-995-9). Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: ? Computer Architecture and VLSI ? Computer Control and Robotics ? Computers in Education and Learning Technologies ? Computer Networks and Data Communications ? Data Mining and Data Engineering ? Energy and Power Systems ? Intelligent Systems and Autonomous Agents ? Internet and Web Systems ? Scientific Computing and Modeling ? Signal, Image and Multimedia Processing ? Software Engineering Bali is a favorite vacation destination for many nationalities. Bali's natural attractions include miles of sandy beaches, picturesque rice terraces, towering active volcanoes over 3,000 meters high, fast flowing rivers, deep ravines, pristine crater lakes, sacred caves, and lush tropical forests full of exotic wildlife. The island's rich cultural heritage is visible everywhere - in over 20,000 temples and palaces, in many colorful festivals and ceremonies, in drama, music, and dance. Bali is also well-known for its night life. Come to Bali enjoying the beautiful environment and fun here! Paper Submission Deadline: 15 May 2011 Review Decision Notifications: 15 August 2011 Final Papers and Author Registration Deadline: 9 September 2011 To unsubscribe, reply with ?unsubscribe act-r-users at andrew.cmu.edu ? in your email subject or the first line of the email body. With kind regards, Jane Lew -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ijuvina at andrew.cmu.edu Thu Mar 3 11:10:48 2011 From: ijuvina at andrew.cmu.edu (ion juvina) Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2011 11:10:48 -0500 Subject: [ACT-R-users] internship opportunity Message-ID: Internship in ACT-R programming: Job description: UtopiaCompression Corporation is seeking qualified interns with significant experience in ACT-R architecture (LISP programming) to help develop and enhance existing cognition models to better emulate emotion reactivity and social-cultural biases similar to that of human subjects. The end solution is to use these refined- cognitive models to behave as agents in an immersive environment to help warfighters make better decisions in tactical or socio-cultural settings. Required skills: - Degree requirements: Preferably Ph.D. (but Masters will also be considered) in Cognitive Neuroscience or Cognitive Psychology Desired Skills: - Preference will be given to applicants who have understanding of fMRI imaging and can use the neuroimaging data to better augment the ACT-R models - Applicant must be self-motivated, able to work independently and as part of team - Excellent communication skills (written and oral) are mandatory Motivation: The current project is a Phase I SBIR project from Office of Naval Research. If UtopiaCompression is awarded a subsequent Phase II, a full-time position will be extended to the intern based on his/ her performance during Phase I execution. Benefits: Salary commensurate with experience Work hours: Minimum 25 hours per week Contact: Priya Ganapathy priya at utopiacompression.com Ion Juvina, PhD Research Psychologist Department of Psychology Baker Hall 336A Carnegie Mellon University 5000 Forbes Ave. Pittsburgh, PA 15213 telephone: 412-268-2837 email: ijuvina at cmu.edu webpage: http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/ijuvina/index.htm Download my most recent article at: http://www.mdpi.com/2073-4336/2/1/21/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mchan at inf.ed.ac.uk Fri Mar 4 12:09:22 2011 From: mchan at inf.ed.ac.uk (Michael Chan) Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 17:09:22 +0000 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Final CFP: IJCAI-11 Workshop on Discovering Meaning On the Go in Large & Heterogeneous Data (LHD-11) Message-ID: <4D711CC2.8000002@inf.ed.ac.uk> Apologies for cross-posting ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for papers for LHD-11 workshop at IJCAI-11, July 2011, Barcelona: Discovering Meaning On the Go in Large & Heterogeneous Data http://dream.inf.ed.ac.uk/events/lhd-11/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ An interdisciplinary approach is necessary to discover and match meaning dynamically in a world of increasingly large data. This workshop aims to bring together practitioners from academia, industry and government for interaction and discussion. The workshop will feature: * A panel discussion representing industrial and governmental input, entitled "Big Society meets Big Data: Industry and Government Applications of Mapping Meaning". Panel members will include: * Peter Mika (Yahoo!) * Representative of Google * Tom McCutcheon (Dstl) * Representative of ONR Global * An invited talk from Fausto Giunchglia, discussing the relationship between social computing and ontology matching; * Paper and poster presentations; * Workshop sponsored by: Yahoo! Research, W3C and others Workshop Description The problem of semantic alignment - that of two systems failing to understand one another when their representations are not identical - occurs in a huge variety of areas: Linked Data, database integration, e-science, multi-agent systems, information retrieval over structured data; anywhere, in fact, where semantics or a shared structure are necessary but centralised control over the schema of the data sources is undesirable or impractical. Yet this is increasingly a critical problem in the world of large scale data, particularly as more and more of this kind of data is available over the Web. In order to interact successfully in an open and heterogeneous environment, being able to dynamically and adaptively integrate large and heterogeneous data from the Web "on the go" is necessary. This may not be a precise process but a matter of finding a good enough integration to allow interaction to proceed successfully, even if a complete solution is impossible. Considerable success has already been achieved in the field of ontology matching and merging, but the application of these techniques - often developed for static environments - to the dynamic integration of large-scale data has not been well studied. Presenting the results of such dynamic integration to both end-users and database administrators - while providing quality assurance and provenance - is not yet a feature of many deployed systems. To make matters more difficult, on the Web there are massive amounts of information available online that could be integrated, but this information is often chaotically organised, stored in a wide variety of data-formats, and difficult to interpret. This area has been of interest in academia for some time, and is becoming increasingly important in industry and - thanks to open data efforts and other initiatives - to government as well. The aim of this workshop is to bring together practitioners from academia, industry and government who are involved in all aspects of this field: from those developing, curating and using Linked Data, to those focusing on matching and merging techniques. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Integration of large and heterogeneous data * Machine-learning over structured data * Ontology evolution and dynamics * Ontology matching and alignment * Presentation of dynamically integrated data * Incentives and human computation over structured data and ontologies * Ranking and search over structured and semi-structured data * Quality assurance and data-cleansing * Vocabulary management in Linked Data * Schema and ontology versioning and provenance * Background knowledge in matching * Extensions to knowledge representation languages to better support change * Inconsistency and missing values in databases and ontologies * Dynamic knowledge construction and exploitation * Matching for dynamic applications (e.g., p2p, agents, streaming) * Case studies, software tools, use cases, applications * Open problems * Foundational issues Applications and evaluations on data-sources that are from the Web and Linked Data are particularly encouraged. Submission LHD-11 invites submissions of both full length papers of no more than 6 pages and position papers of 1-3 pages. Authors of full-papers which are considered to be both of a high quality and of broad interest to most attendees will be invited to give full presentations; authors of more position papers will be invited to participate in "group panels" and in a poster session. All accepted papers (both position and full length papers) will be published as part of the IJCAI workshop proceedings, and will be available online from the workshop website. After the workshop, we will be publishing a special issue of the Artificial Intelligence Review and authors of the best quality submissions will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers (subject to the overall standard of submissions being appropriately high). All contributions should be in pdf format and should be uploaded via http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lhd11. Authors should follow the IJCAI author instructions http://ijcai-11.iiia.csic.es/calls/formatting_instructions. Important Dates Paper submission: March 14, 2011 Notification: April 25, 2011 Camera ready: May 16, 2011 Early registration: TBA Late registration: TBA Workshop: 16th July, 2011 Organising Committee: Fiona McNeill (University of Edinburgh) Harry Halpin (Yahoo! Research) Michael Chan (University of Edinburgh) Program committee: Marcelo Arenas (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile) Krisztian Balog (University of Amsterdam) Paolo Besana (University of Edinburgh) Roi Blanco (Yahoo! Research) Paolo Bouquet (University of Trento) Ulf Brefeld (Yahoo! Research) Alan Bundy (University of Edinburgh) Ciro Cattuto (ISI Foundation) Vinay Chaudhri (SRI) James Cheney (University of Edinburgh) Oscar Corcho (Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid) Shady Elbassuoni (Max-Planck-Institut f?r Informatik) Jerome Euzenat (INRIA Grenoble Rhone-Alpes) Eraldo Fernandes (Pontif?cia Universidade Cat?lica do Rio de Janeiro) Aldo Gangemi (CNR) Pat Hayes (IHMC) Pascal Hitzler (Wright State University) Ivan Herman (W3C) Tom McCutcheon (Dstl) Shuai Ma (Beihang University) Ashok Malhotra (Oracle) Martin Merry (Epimorphics) Daniel Miranker (University of Texas-Austin) Adam Pease (Articulate Software) Valentina Presutti (CNR) David Roberston (University of Edinburgh) Juan Sequeda (University of Texas-Austin) Pavel Shvaiko (Informatica Trentina) Jamie Taylor (Google) Eveylne Viegas (Microsoft Research) -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. From zhang at cis.uab.edu Mon Mar 7 17:10:17 2011 From: zhang at cis.uab.edu (Chengcui Zhang) Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 16:10:17 -0600 (CST) Subject: [ACT-R-users] CFP: IEEE Intl. Conf. on Information Reuse and Integration In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <1188251773.51186.1299535817068.JavaMail.root@zimbra.cis.uab.edu> --- Apologies for cross-posting --- The 12th IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IEEE IRI-2011) Tuscany Suites & Casino, Las Vegas, USA August 3-5, 2011 http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~iri2011/ Given the emerging global Information-centric IT landscape that has tremendous social and economic implications, effectively processing and integrating humongous 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. This conference explores three major tracks: information reuse, information integration, and reusable systems. Information explores theory and practice of optimizing representation; information integration focuses on innovative strategies and algorithms for applying integration approaches in novel domains; and reusable systems focus on developing and deploying models and corresponding processes that enable Information Reuse and Integration to play a pivotal role in enhancing decision-making processes in various application domains. The IEEE IRI conference serves as a forum for researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and government to present, discuss, and exchange ideas that address real-world problems with real-world solutions. Theoretical and applied papers are both included. The conference program will include special sessions, open forum workshops, panels and keynote speeches. The conference includes, but is not limited to, the areas listed below: - Large Scale Data and System Integration - Component-Based Design and Reuse - Unifying Data Models (UML, XML, etc.) and Ontologies - Database Integration - Structured/Semi-structured Data - Middleware & Web Services - Reuse in Software Engineering - Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery - Sensory and Information Fusion - Reuse in Modeling & Simulation - Automation, Integration and Reuse across Various Applications - Information Security & Privacy - Survivable Systems & Infrastructures - AI & Decision Support Systems - Heuristic Optimization and Search - Knowledge Acquisition and Management - Fuzzy and Neural Systems - Soft Computing - Evolutionary Computing - Case-Based Reasoning - Natural Language Understanding - Knowledge Management and E-Government - Command & Control Systems (C4ISR) - Human-Machine Information Systems - Space and Robotic Systems - Biomedical & Healthcare Systems - Homeland Security & Critical Infrastructure Protection - Manufacturing Systems & Business Process Engineering - Multimedia Systems - Service-Oriented Architecture - Autonomous Agents in Web-based Systems - Information Integration in Grid Computing Environments - Information Integration in Mobile Computing Environments - Information Integration in Ubiquitous Computing Environments - Systems of Systems - Semantic Web and Emerging Applications - Information Reuse, Integration and Sharing in Collaborative Environments Best Paper Award: Starting this year, IEEE IRI will be presenting a 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. Instructions for Authors: Papers reporting original and unpublished research results pertaining to the above and related topics are solicited. Full paper manuscripts must be in English of length 4 to 6 pages (using the IEEE two-column template). Submissions should include the title, author(s), affiliation(s), e-mail address(es), tel/fax numbers, abstract, and postal address(es) on the first page. The online submission site is: https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=ieeeiri2011. If web submission is not possible, please contact the program co-chairs for alternate arrangements. 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: Starting this year, IEEE IRI will be presenting a 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. Important Dates: March 28, 2011 Submission of abstract (Recommended) April 5, 2011 Paper submission deadline May 14, 2011 Notification of acceptance May 28, 2011 Camera-ready paper due May 28, 2011 Presenting author registration due June 30, 2011 Advance (discount) registration for general public and other co-author July 15, 2011 Hotel reservation (special discount rate) closing date August 3-5, 2011 Conference events Keynote Speakers Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh, University of California Berkeley Prof. Elisa Bertino, Purdue Unviersity Organizing Committee * Honorary General Chair Lotfi Zadeh, University of California, Berkeley, USA * General Chairs Stuart Rubin, SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific (SSC-Pacific), USA Shu-Ching Chen, Florida International University, USA * Program Chairs Reda Alhajj, University of Calgary, Canada James Joshi, University of Pittsburgh, USA Mei-Ling Shyu, University of Miami, USA * Workshop Chairs Barbara Carminati, University of Insubria, Italy Surya Nepal, CSIRO, Australia * Industry/Government/Application Track Chairs Marion Ceruti, SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific (SSC-Pacific), USA James J. Marshall, INNOVIM / NASA, USA Tanvir Ahmed, Oracle, USA * Special Session Chairs Gordon K. Lee, San Diego State University, USA Tao Li, Florida International University, USA * Best Paper Award Chairs Du Zhang, California State University, USA Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar, Florida Atlantic University, USA Eric Gregoire, Universite d'Artois, France Hui Xiong, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. USA * Publicity Chairs Chengcui Zhang, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA Louellen McCoy, SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific (SSC-Pacific), USA Nan Niu, Mississippi State University, USA * Finance & Registration Chair Suresh Vadhva, California State University, USA * Publications Chairs Min-Yuh Day, NTU, Taiwan, R.O.C. Seung-Yun Kim, Shepherd University, USA * Local Arrangements Chairs Ju-Yeon Jo, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA * Asian Liaison Wen-Lian Hsu, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, R.O.C. * Asia-Pacific Liaison Xingquan (Hill) Zhu, Florida Atlantic University, USA * Africa Liaison Thouraya Bouabana-Tebibel, National School of Computer Science, Algeria * Canadian Liasion and Ethics Chair June R. Massoud Genesis Consulting Inc., Canada * Webmaster Nathalie Baracaldo. University of Pittsburgh, USA -- Chengcui Zhang Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Computer and Information Sciences University of Alabama at Birmingham _______________________________________________ ieeeauthors mailing list ieeeauthors at cis.uab.edu http://crier.cis.uab.edu/mailman/listinfo/ieeeauthors From n.a.taatgen at rug.nl Tue Mar 8 09:36:09 2011 From: n.a.taatgen at rug.nl (Niels Taatgen) Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 15:36:09 +0100 Subject: [ACT-R-users] ACT-R European workshop: Early registration deadline coming up! Message-ID: <4B78CBA3-1266-4060-9A38-BF30E8CF6BEB@rug.nl> The early registration cutoff is on 12 March, so send in your registration before then. Payment can be done at the workshop itself, and you can also send in a title later, so no reasons to delay! Niels European ACT-R Spring School and Workshop Organizers: Niels Taatgen and Hedderik van Rijn University of Groningen, Netherlands April 11-16, 2011 We are pleased to announce our two invited speakers for the workshop: - Kevin Gluck (Air Force Research Laboratory) - Andrew Howes (University of Manchester) http://www.ai.rug.nl/actr-springschool/workshop/ ACT-R is a cognitive theory and simulation system for developing cognitive models for tasks that vary from simple reaction time paradigms to driving a car and air traffic control. After a very successful first year, we will organize the second European ACT-R Spring School and Workshop. There will be no regular US summer school or workshop this year, but instead a post-graduate summer school (16-19 July) just before the Cognitive Science conference (see http://act-r.psy.cmu.edu/actrnews/index.php?id=37). Spring School The spring school will take place from Monday April 11 to Thursday April 14. After an earlier call for applications, we have selected a group of students for a "traditional summer school curriculum", and a group of more experiences modelers who will join us to work on their own projects during the week. European ACT-R Workshop The European ACT-R workshop will take place from Friday April 15 to Saturday April 16. Both days will be devoted to research presentations, each lasting about 20 minutes plus questions. Participants are invited to present their ACT-R research by submitting a title and abstract with their registration, which will be published online in informal proceedings. We are also open for proposals for other types of contributions, for example small symposia. We also want to set aside some time to discuss possibilities to attract European funding. Admission to the workshop is open to all. The early registration fee is Euro 100 and the late registration fee (after March 12) is Euro 150. Requests for presentations should be submitted before February 28 to receive full consideration for inclusion in the workshop program. A preliminary program of presentations will be made available sometime in March. If, because of travel plans, an earlier decision about a submission is required, please contact us. Housing We have reserved a block of rooms in the University Guest House. These will be primarily allotted to spring school students, but any rooms left over will be made available to workshop participants. Alternatively, other hotels can be found at, for example, http://www.hotels.nl/groningen/ - but be aware that some of the hotels advertised as being in Groningen are a car-ride from the city center/location of the spring school and workshop. Registration To register for the Workshop, please send the filled out registration form in an email to Niels Taatgen (n.a.taatgen at rug.nl) Registration Form Second European ACT-R Workshop April 15-16, 2011 at University of Groningen, The Netherlands Name: Address: Affiliation Tel/Fax: Email: Registration fee: On or before March 12: 100 Euro ... After March 12: 150 Euro ... Presentation topic / title (optional abstract: please attach a PDF): =============================================== Niels Taatgen - Professor University of Groningen, Artificial Intelligence web: http://www.ai.rug.nl/~niels email: niels at ai.rug.nl Telephone: +31 50 3636435 =============================================== -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From mchan at inf.ed.ac.uk Mon Mar 14 20:07:26 2011 From: mchan at inf.ed.ac.uk (Michael Chan) Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 00:07:26 +0000 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Deadline Extended: IJCAI-11 Workshop on Discovering Meaning On the Go in Large & Heterogeneous Data (LHD-11) Message-ID: <4D7EADBE.1000001@inf.ed.ac.uk> Apologies for cross-posting ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for papers for LHD-11 workshop at IJCAI-11, July 2011, Barcelona: Discovering Meaning On the Go in Large & Heterogeneous Data http://dream.inf.ed.ac.uk/events/lhd-11/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** Due to requests we have had to postpone the workshop deadline until after the main IJCAI notifications, we have decided to postpone the submission deadline until *April 4th*. Authors who have already submitted are welcome to submit updated versions during this period if they wish to do so. ** An interdisciplinary approach is necessary to discover and match meaning dynamically in a world of increasingly large data. This workshop aims to bring together practitioners from academia, industry and government for interaction and discussion. The workshop will feature: * A panel discussion representing industrial and governmental input, entitled "Big Society meets Big Data: Industry and Government Applications of Mapping Meaning". Panel members will include: * Peter Mika (Yahoo!) * Representative of Google * Tom McCutcheon (Dstl) * Representative of ONR Global * An invited talk from Fausto Giunchglia, discussing the relationship between social computing and ontology matching; * Paper and poster presentations; * Workshop sponsored by: Yahoo! Research, W3C and others Workshop Description The problem of semantic alignment - that of two systems failing to understand one another when their representations are not identical - occurs in a huge variety of areas: Linked Data, database integration, e-science, multi-agent systems, information retrieval over structured data; anywhere, in fact, where semantics or a shared structure are necessary but centralised control over the schema of the data sources is undesirable or impractical. Yet this is increasingly a critical problem in the world of large scale data, particularly as more and more of this kind of data is available over the Web. In order to interact successfully in an open and heterogeneous environment, being able to dynamically and adaptively integrate large and heterogeneous data from the Web "on the go" is necessary. This may not be a precise process but a matter of finding a good enough integration to allow interaction to proceed successfully, even if a complete solution is impossible. Considerable success has already been achieved in the field of ontology matching and merging, but the application of these techniques - often developed for static environments - to the dynamic integration of large-scale data has not been well studied. Presenting the results of such dynamic integration to both end-users and database administrators - while providing quality assurance and provenance - is not yet a feature of many deployed systems. To make matters more difficult, on the Web there are massive amounts of information available online that could be integrated, but this information is often chaotically organised, stored in a wide variety of data-formats, and difficult to interpret. This area has been of interest in academia for some time, and is becoming increasingly important in industry and - thanks to open data efforts and other initiatives - to government as well. The aim of this workshop is to bring together practitioners from academia, industry and government who are involved in all aspects of this field: from those developing, curating and using Linked Data, to those focusing on matching and merging techniques. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Integration of large and heterogeneous data * Machine-learning over structured data * Ontology evolution and dynamics * Ontology matching and alignment * Presentation of dynamically integrated data * Incentives and human computation over structured data and ontologies * Ranking and search over structured and semi-structured data * Quality assurance and data-cleansing * Vocabulary management in Linked Data * Schema and ontology versioning and provenance * Background knowledge in matching * Extensions to knowledge representation languages to better support change * Inconsistency and missing values in databases and ontologies * Dynamic knowledge construction and exploitation * Matching for dynamic applications (e.g., p2p, agents, streaming) * Case studies, software tools, use cases, applications * Open problems * Foundational issues Applications and evaluations on data-sources that are from the Web and Linked Data are particularly encouraged. Submission LHD-11 invites submissions of both full length papers of no more than 6 pages and position papers of 1-3 pages. Authors of full-papers which are considered to be both of a high quality and of broad interest to most attendees will be invited to give full presentations; authors of more position papers will be invited to participate in "group panels" and in a poster session. All accepted papers (both position and full length papers) will be published as part of the IJCAI workshop proceedings, and will be available online from the workshop website. After the workshop, we will be publishing a special issue of the Artificial Intelligence Review and authors of the best quality submissions will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers (subject to the overall standard of submissions being appropriately high). All contributions should be in pdf format and should be uploaded via http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lhd11. Authors should follow the IJCAI author instructions http://ijcai-11.iiia.csic.es/calls/formatting_instructions. Important Dates Paper submission: *April 4*, 2011 (Extended due to requests) Notification: April 25, 2011 Camera ready: May 16, 2011 Early registration: TBA Late registration: TBA Workshop: 16th July, 2011 Organising Committee: Fiona McNeill (University of Edinburgh) Harry Halpin (Yahoo! Research) Michael Chan (University of Edinburgh) Program committee: Marcelo Arenas (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile) Krisztian Balog (University of Amsterdam) Paolo Besana (University of Edinburgh) Roi Blanco (Yahoo! Research) Paolo Bouquet (University of Trento) Ulf Brefeld (Yahoo! Research) Alan Bundy (University of Edinburgh) Ciro Cattuto (ISI Foundation) Vinay Chaudhri (SRI) James Cheney (University of Edinburgh) Oscar Corcho (Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid) Shady Elbassuoni (Max-Planck-Institut f?r Informatik) Jerome Euzenat (INRIA Grenoble Rhone-Alpes) Eraldo Fernandes (Pontif?cia Universidade Cat?lica do Rio de Janeiro) Aldo Gangemi (CNR) Pat Hayes (IHMC) Pascal Hitzler (Wright State University) Ivan Herman (W3C) Tom McCutcheon (Dstl) Shuai Ma (Beihang University) Ashok Malhotra (Oracle) Martin Merry (Epimorphics) Daniel Miranker (University of Texas-Austin) Adam Pease (Articulate Software) Valentina Presutti (CNR) David Roberston (University of Edinburgh) Juan Sequeda (University of Texas-Austin) Pavel Shvaiko (Informatica Trentina) Jamie Taylor (Google) Eveylne Viegas (Microsoft Research) -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. From fu.qi.lai95 at gmail.com Mon Mar 14 20:12:44 2011 From: fu.qi.lai95 at gmail.com (Bing Li) Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 08:12:44 +0800 Subject: [ACT-R-users] (IEEE Xplore/Ei Compendex) ICNC'11-FSKD'11 2nd Round Submissions due 16 May: Shanghai, China Message-ID: <6B624AFFD5E8956922EDF4FC045BDA37@ytgiqxbnf> Dear Colleague, The 7th International Conference on Natural Computation (ICNC'11) and the 8th International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD'11) will be jointly held from 26-28 July 2011, in Shanghai, China.. The deadline for the 2nd (final) round of submissions is 16 May 2011 (papers already submitted in the previous round should not be re-submitted and will receive review notifications on 3 April).We cordially invite you to submit a paper or invited session proposal to the conferences. Shanghai is the largest city in China, with famous historical and cultural heritage. Attractions include Yuyuan Garden ("Happy Garden" built in Ming Dynasty), Shanghai Museum with 120,000 pieces of rare relics, Shanghai World Financial Center, Jade Buddha Temple (Song Dynasty), Oriental Pearl TV Tower, Zhujiajiao Water Town, and Expo 2010 site. All papers in conference proceedings will be indexed by both EI Compendex and ISTP, as well as included in the IEEE Xplore (IEEE Conference Record Number for ICNC?11: 18082; IEEE Conference Record Number for FSKD?11: 18083). Extended versions of selected best papers will appear in an ICNC-FSKD special issue of International Journal of Intelligent Systems, an SCI-indexed journal (Impact Factor: 1.194). 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 2010 each attracted over 3000 submissions from around the world. ICNC'11-FSKD'11 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?s mainland), researchers outside of China?s mainland 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 icnc-fskd at dhu.edu.cn For more information, visit the conference web page: http://icnc-fskd.dhu.edu.cn If you have any questions after visiting the conference web page, please email the secretariat at icnc-fskd at dhu.edu.cn Join us at this major event in exciting Shanghai !!! Organizing Committee icnc-fskd at dhu.edu.cn P.S.: Kindly forward to your colleagues and students in your school/department. 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. 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Susan Chipman New web link for the position: http://jobview.usajobs.gov/GetJob.aspx?OPMControl=2194710 Also, job announcement is available at USAjobs if you search on: Office of Naval Research AND 22203 (ONR's zip code) -----Original Message----- From: Allard, Terry CIV ONR 34 SES Sent: Monday, February 28, 2011 4:15 PM To: Allard, Terry CIV ONR 34 SES Cc: Rendon, Sandra (SRA) (sandra.rendon.ctr at navy.mil) Subject: ONR Program Officer position open through Noon Wed March 30 Friends and Colleagues-- The Office of Naval Research (ONR) has a full-time opening for a Science & Technology (S&T) Program Officer in the broad areas of Human-Systems Integration, Training, Human-System Design, Human-Autonomy Interaction, Human Factors, Cognitive Science, Psychology, Biorobotics and / or Computer Science. This position is open now through Noon on Wednesday, March 30; and can be accessed on the web through USAJobs at http://jobview.usajobs.gov/GetJob.aspx?OPMControl=2194710 The position is a great leadership opportunity for an aggressive, innovative scientist or engineer to build communities of researchers and technologists that address critical and enduring S&T challenges affecting today's Navy and Marine Corps while helping define the Navy and Marine Corps of the future. ONR is a small organization of scientists and engineers with access to the highest level of DoD decision-makers. ONR program officers are charged with defining the art of the possible from the state of the art and are key S&T subject matter experts for Navy and Marine Corps civilian and military stakeholders. ONR is a great place to work with many opportunities for multidisciplinary collaboration, intellectual and programmatic teamwork and lasting impact. We were rated the #1 "Best Place to Work" in the Navy in a recent summary of the Best Places to Work in the Federal Government. We were also recognized as the "Most Admired Employer" by Black Engineer magazine, Hispanic Engineer magazine and Women of Color magazine. The ideal candidate will combine deep scientific expertise with broad technical experience. Program management background is a plus but not an absolute requirement. Successful ONR program officers interact seamlessly with university & industry researchers, Naval engineers & program managers as well as Navy and Marine Corps operators and decision-makers. Additional information about ONR and ONR program officers can be found at: www.ONR.Navy.mil or by reaching: ONR34 Department Head, Dr. Terry Allard, Terry.Allard at Navy.mil ONR341 Division Director, Dr. John Tangney, John.F.Tangney at Navy.mil ONR341 Deputy Division Director, LCDR Joseph Cohn PhD, Joseph.Cohn at Navy.mil ONR34 Administrative Officer, Ms. Sandra Rendon, Sandra.Rendon.ctr at Navy.mil Please circulate this notice to any likely candidates. Terry Allard, PhD, SES Department Head for Warfighter Performance Office of Naval Research (ONR34) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Tiffany.Jastrzembski at wpafb.af.mil Thu Mar 17 12:31:21 2011 From: Tiffany.Jastrzembski at wpafb.af.mil (Jastrzembski, Tiffany S Civ USAF AFMC 711 HPW/RHAC) Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 12:31:21 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] BRIMS 2011 Tutorial Registration References: <9AC197D8D0788140BC98A478FB3852A861FFEC@VFOHMLMC11.Enterprise.afmc.ds.af.mil> Message-ID: <9AC197D8D0788140BC98A478FB3852A886E8F2@VFOHMLMC11.Enterprise.afmc.ds.af.mil> (Best viewed in HTML; Apologies for Cross-Postings) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ As a final reminder, space is limited, but still available for all BRIMS Tutorials - to reserve your seat, please visit www.brimsconference.org/registration/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ An exciting line-up of Tutorials is awaiting you at BRIMS 2011! Instruction will occur March 21, 2011 (for more information, visit www.brimsconference.org/tutorials/), and the following topics will be offered: Full-Day Tutorial Multi-Agent Activity Modeling with the Brahms Environment, Maarten Sierhuis (Knowledge, Language & Interaction Intelligent Systems Laboratory, Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)) Half-Day Tutorial (AM Session) Cognitive Robotics using the Symbolic and Sub-symbolic Robotic Intelligence Control System (SS-RICS), Troy Kelley & Eric Avery (US Army Research Laboratory) Half-Day Tutorial (PM Session) Instance-based Learning Tool : Making Instance-based Learning Theory Usable, Transparent, and Understandable, Coty Gonzalez & Varun Dutt (Carnegie Mellon University) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ You are invited to participate in the 20th Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (BRIMS), to be held at the Sundance Resort in Sundance, UT. 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 2011, including special topic areas, technical paper sessions, special symposia/panel discussions, and government laboratory sponsor sessions. Highlights of BRIMS 2011 include a fantastic and eclectic lineup of keynote speakers spanning cognitive modeling, sociocultural modeling, and network science: John Laird, PhD University of Michigan, http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/laird/ Lael Schooler, Phd Max Planck Institute, http://ntfm.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/mpib/FMPro Kathleen Carley, PhD Carnegie Mellon University, http://www.casos.cs.cmu.edu/bios/carley/carley.html Chris Barrett, PhD Virginia Tech, http://ndssl.vbi.vt.edu/people/cbarrett.html 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, 2010 Tutorial Acceptance: January 31, 2011 Authors Notification January 31, 2011 Final version due: February 18, 2011 Tutorials held: March 21, 2011 BRIMS 2010 Opens: March 22, 2011 Special Topic Areas of Interest are identified to elicit specific technical content: * M&S in network science * Statistical/Graphical approaches to M&S * M&S for asymmetric warfare and joint force applications * Cognitive or behavioral performance moderators in M&S * Integration and reuse of models * Large-scale, persistent, and generative modeling issues 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 Sundance Resort in Sundance, UT. Visit www.sundanceresort.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 PROGAM COMMITTEE: Bradley J. Best (Adaptive Cognitive Systems) William G. Kennedy (George Mason University) Frank E. Ritter (Pennsylvania 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 2011 Government Sponsors for their support of this event: Air Force Research Laboratory, Army Research Laboratory, DARPA, Office of Naval Research, Natick Soldier Center, NASA, and the UK Ministry of Defence. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the BRIMS 2011 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 Phone: (937) 255-2085 tiffany.jastrzembski at wpafb.af.mil -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cl at cmu.edu Tue Mar 22 12:11:45 2011 From: cl at cmu.edu (Christian Lebiere) Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 12:11:45 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] 2011 ACT-R Post-Graduate Summer School In-Reply-To: Message-ID: The ACT-R 2011 PGSS registration web site has been set up at: Thanks to the support of our sponsor, there is no registration fee. Interested participants should complete the registration form on the web site. Housing reservations will take place at a later date. Christian, Dario, Greg, Mike and Niels On 1/14/11 10:07 PM, "Christian Lebiere" wrote: > Instead of the traditional summer school and workshop, this year a > post-graduate summer school (PGSS) targeted at experienced users of ACT-R will > take place from Saturday July 16 to Tuesday July 19, 2011 at the White > Mountain Hotel in North Conway, NH (http://www.whitemountainhotel.com/). The > goal of the post-graduate summer school is to reflect on the ACT-R theory and > discuss in depth the issues that have arisen since the last major > architectural developments (and the last PGSS in 2001). > > After an opening reception on Saturday evening, the PGSS will be organized in > sessions consisting of extended presentations and open discussions around a > specific theme. Each day will feature three 90-minute sessions from 9am to > 3pm, plus a free-ranging evening discussion of the topics of the day led by a > discussant. The time between the end of the afternoon session at 3pm and > dinner is set aside for informal discussions and collaboration and for > recreation. Participants attending the Cognitive Science Conference Workshop > and Tutorials program on Wednesday July 20 can leave at 3pm on Tuesday after > the afternoon session. > > The White Mountain Hotel is situated on a 250-acre estate in the White > Mountains of New Hampshire near the town of North Conway, the White Mountain > National Forest, and a number of State Parks and State Forests. The hotel is > located within a 3-hour drive of Boston, where the Cognitive Science > Conference will take place from Wednesday July 20 to Saturday July 23. We > have reserved a block of 35 rooms. The cost of the package for 4 nights > (Saturday 7/16 to Wednesday 7/20), including free breakfast every morning, 1 > dinner and all taxes is $819.00/person single occupancy and $465.00/person > double occupancy. A modest PGSS registration fee will cover lunches and > coffee breaks. > > At this point, we would like to solicit expressions of interest for planning > purposes. If you are interested in attending the PGSS, please email Christian > Lebiere at cl at cmu.edu to register your interest. Actual registration will > take place at a future date. > > Mike Byrne, Christian Lebiere, Dario Salvucci, Niels Taatgen & Greg Trafton From chenjf865 at gmail.com Thu Mar 24 07:53:58 2011 From: chenjf865 at gmail.com (Bing Li) Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 19:53:58 +0800 Subject: [ACT-R-users] (IEEE Xplore/Ei Compendex) ICNC'11-FSKD'11 2nd Round Submissions due 16 May: Shanghai, China Message-ID: <564AB5179A5C40B9FDD00C394C853780@rbporams> Dear Colleague, The 7th International Conference on Natural Computation (ICNC'11) and the 8th International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD'11) will be jointly held from 26-28 July 2011, in Shanghai, China.. The deadline for the 2nd (final) round of submissions is 16 May 2011 (papers already submitted in the previous round should not be re-submitted and will receive review notifications on 3 April; however, authors who have submitted papers in the 1st round are welcome to submit new papers).We cordially invite you to submit a paper or invited session proposal to the conferences. Shanghai is the largest city in China, with famous historical and cultural heritage. Attractions include Yuyuan Garden ("Happy Garden" built in Ming Dynasty), Shanghai Museum with 120,000 pieces of rare relics, Shanghai World Financial Center, Jade Buddha Temple (Song Dynasty), Oriental Pearl TV Tower, Zhujiajiao Water Town, and Expo 2010 site. All papers in conference proceedings will be indexed by both EI Compendex and ISTP, as well as included in the IEEE Xplore (IEEE Conference Record Number for ICNC?11: 18082; IEEE Conference Record Number for FSKD?11: 18083). Extended versions of selected best papers will appear in an ICNC-FSKD special issue of International Journal of Intelligent Systems, an SCI-indexed journal (Impact Factor: 1.194). 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 2010 each attracted over 3000 submissions from around the world. ICNC'11-FSKD'11 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?s mainland), researchers outside of China?s mainland 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 icnc-fskd at dhu.edu.cn For more information, visit the conference web page: http://icnc-fskd.dhu.edu.cn If you have any questions after visiting the conference web page, please email the secretariat at icnc-fskd at dhu.edu.cn Join us at this major event in exciting Shanghai !!! Organizing Committee icnc-fskd at dhu.edu.cn P.S.: Kindly forward to your colleagues and students in your school/department. 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 reitter at cmu.edu Tue Mar 29 14:47:50 2011 From: reitter at cmu.edu (David Reitter) Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 14:47:50 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] 2nd CfP: Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (deadline extended) Message-ID: Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL) and TopiCS special issue Models of Language Comprehension A workshop to be held June 23, 2011 at the Association for Computational Linguistics meeting in Portland, Oregon 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 (1) the computational psycholinguistics meeting at CogSci in Berkeley in 1997 (2) the Incremental Parsing workshop at ACL 2004 (3) the first CMCL workshop at ACL 2010 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; models of comprehension difficulty derived from such parsers * models of factors favoring particular productions or interpretations over their competitors * models of semantic interpretation, including psychologically realistic notions of word and phrase meaning * models of human language acquisition, including the prediction of generalizations and time course in acquisition * applications of cognitive models of language, e.g., in tutoring systems, human evaluation, clinical and cognitive neuroscience settings Submissions This call solicits 8-page, 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. To facilitate double-blind reviewing, submitted paper should not include any identifying information about the authors. Submissions must be formatted using ACL 2011 style files available at http://www.acl2011.org/latex/ http://www.acl2011.org/word/ Contributions should be submitted in PDF via the submission site: https://www.softconf.com/acl2011/CogModCL The EXTENDED submission deadline is 11:59PM Eastern Time on April 08, 2011. Best Student Paper The best paper whose first author is a student will receive the Best Student Paper award, sponsored by the Cognitive Science Society. The award consists of USD 250 and a one-year membership to the Cognitive Science Society. Pathway to Journal Publication All accepted CMCL papers will be published in the workshop proceedings as is customary at ACL. However, CMCL presenters whose work holds broad interest for the wider cognitive science community will be encouraged to prepare extended versions of their papers (16 pages in APA format). If approved by a second round of reviewing, these extended papers will appear in a forthcoming issue of TopiCS, a Journal of the Cognitive Science Society, entitled entitled "Models of Language Comprehension". These expanded papers will need to be substantially adapted to address the broader TopiCS readership. The Program Committee will be assisted by additional experts, as needed, to apply this and other review criteria. Important Dates Submission deadline: April 08, 2011 (deadline extended) Notification of acceptance: April 25, 2011 Camera-ready versions due: May 06, 2011 Workshop: June 23, 2011, at ACL 2011 Workshop Chairs Frank Keller, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh David Reitter, Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University Program Committee Steven Abney Michigan Harald R. Baayen Alberta Matthew Crocker Saarland Vera Demberg Saarland Tim O'Donnell Harvard Amit Dubey Edinburgh Mike Frank Stanford Ted Gibson MIT John Hale Cornell Keith Hall Google Florian Jaeger Rochester Lars Konieczny Freiburg Roger Levy San Diego Richard Lewis Michigan Stephan Oepen Oslo Ulrike Pado VICO Research Douglas Roland Buffalo William Schuler Ohio State Mark Steedman Edinburgh Patrick Sturt Edinburgh Shravan Vasishth Potsdam