From icnc-fskd-cfp at cqupt.edu.cn Wed Oct 5 23:55:16 2011 From: icnc-fskd-cfp at cqupt.edu.cn (ICNC FSKD) Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2011 11:55:16 +0800 Subject: [ACT-R-users] ICNC'12-FSKD'12 Submission Deadline 15 November: IEEE Xplore/EI Compendex/ISI Message-ID: <517873802.24217@cqupt.edu.cn> Dear Colleague, We cordially invite you to submit a paper or invited session proposal to the upcoming 8th International Conference on Natural Computation (ICNC'12) and the 9th International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD'12), to be jointly held from 29-31 May 2012, in Chongqing, China. Renowned as the Mountain City, Chongqing is a magnet for visitors from home and abroad for its cultural heritage and numerous attractions. There are many karst caves, hot springs, and gorges in the area. Major tourist spots in and near Chongqing include Dazu Grottoes (rock carvings began in the Tang Dynasty 650 A.D.), Three Gorges, Jinyun Mountain Natural Reserve, Hongya Cave, Shibaozhai, Wulong Karst, etc.. All papers in the conference proceedings will be included in IEEE Xplore and indexed by both EI Compendex and ISTP as with the past ICNC-FSKD conferences. Extended versions of selected best papers will appear in an ICNC-FSKD special issue of an SCI-indexed journal (ICNC?12: Conference Record Number 19846; IEEE Catalog Number CFP12CNC-ART; ISBN 978-1-4577-2133-5; FSKD?12: Conference Record Number 19847; IEEE Catalog Number CFP12FSK-ART; ISBN 978-1-4673-0024-7). ICNC'12-FSKD'12 is technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. 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 computers, circuits, systems, control, communications, and more. This is an exciting and emerging interdisciplinary area in which a wide range of theory and methodologies are being investigated and developed to tackle complex and challenging problems. The registration fee of US-D400 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. An honorarium of US-D400 will be enjoyed by the organizer(s) for each completed (with at least 6 registered papers) invited session. The first author of each paper in an invited session must not be affiliated with an organization in China?s mainland. "(Invited Paper)" may be added below the title of each paper in the invited sessions. 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 set of recommended papers is determined by 21 March 2012. 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. 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URL: From cmc2012cfp at world-research-institutes.com Thu Oct 6 11:12:14 2011 From: cmc2012cfp at world-research-institutes.com (Min Jiang) Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2011 23:12:14 +0800 Subject: [ACT-R-users] [EI/IEEE Xplore] Communications and Computing conference, Guilin, China, May 2012 Message-ID: <0A46D43FB03437CC17526D26F1A34A72@auameh> Dear Author, 2012 4th International Conference on Communications, Mobility, and Computing (CMC 2012) Guilin, China, 21-23 May 2012 http://world-research-institute.org/conferences/CMC/2012 Call for Papers & Exhibits CMC 2012 intends to be a global forum for researchers and engineers to present and discuss recent advances and new techniques in communications and computing. CMC 2012 conference proceedings will be indexed in Ei Compendex and ISTP, as well as included in IEEE Xplore (CMC 2009, CMC 2010, and CMC 2011 proceedings were already indexed in Ei Compendex and included in IEEE Xplore). Selected high-quality papers (with extension) will be published in a Special Issue of a SCI-indexed journal: Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications (Springer). There will also be best paper awards for each symposium. CMC 2012 is technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society. CMC 2012 is organized by Guilin University of Electronic Technology, China. In addition to technical symposiums, there will be invited special sessions and keynote addresses. CMC 2012 also seeks exhibitions of modern products and equipment for communications, mobility, and computing. The registration fee of USD430 includes lunches, dinners, banquet, and proceedings. As a top tourist destination in China, Guilin boasts magnificent natural beauty and many precious cultural relics. The colorful ethnic background lends a touch of mystery that enhances its fame. Why delay - come and enjoy this huge natural theme park. The picturesque Li River meanders through lush mountains like a liquid jade belt. Other attractions include Fubo Hill, Ling Canal (built by the first emperor in China), Solitary Beauty Peak, Tombs of Prince Jingjiang (Ming Dynasty), Xishan Park (a shrine of Buddhism), and Yuzi Paradise (the largest sculpture park in China). Important Dates: Paper Submission Deadline: 15 October 2011 Review Notification: 20 December 2011 Final Papers and Author Registration Deadline: 15 January 2012 Contact Information If you have any questions, please email us at cmc2012 at guet.edu.cn Please feel free to forward to others. To unsubscribe, please reply with ?unsubscribe zxy at mail.soc.soton.ac.uk ? as your email subject. With kind regards, Min Jiang CMC 2012 Committee -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From n.a.taatgen at rug.nl Mon Oct 24 09:17:19 2011 From: n.a.taatgen at rug.nl (Niels Taatgen) Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 15:17:19 +0200 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Fully funded PhD position in Groningen Message-ID: <1842FA61-4890-4243-B151-F5A2EBF1DDFE@rug.nl> PhD position Cognitive Modeling group (1,0 fte) (211167) Organisation The Cognitive Modeling group is part of the ALICE research institute of the Department of Artificial Intelligence. The group has a world-class reputation in cognitive modeling, largely based on the ACT-R architecture. The PhD student will carry out his or her research within this group, but will also participate in the Graduate School of Science of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Science, and the School of Behavioral and Cognitive Neurosciences. Job description This project will be part of a larger 5-year project "Towards safe and productive multitasking" that is funded by the European Research Council. The project as a whole will involve several research methodologies: human experimentation, fMRI research, computational cognitive modeling and the construction of applications that support multitasking. The team for this project will consist of two PhD students, a postdoc, and the primary investigator. The PhD student's role will consist of carrying out a subset of the tasks with a focus on sequential multitasking: how do people switch from one task to another, what motivates them to do so, and what are the costs and/or benefits of multitasking. On request, we can also send you the full workplan for the ERC project. In that case, and for other questions, please contact Prof. Niels Taatgen. Qualifications A successful candidate has a Master's degree in Cognitive Science, Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental Psychology, Artificial Intelligence or a related field, and has programming skills. Experience in running behavioral and/or fMRI experiments, or in modeling of cognition, is an advantage. Conditions of employment The University of Groningen offers a salary of ? 2,042 gross per month in the first year up to a maximum of 2,612 gross per month in the final year. The appointment is for a period of four years, which should be finished with a PhD examination. The full time appointment is temporary for 1.5 years with the perspective of prolongation for another 2.5 years. After the first year, there will be an evaluation of the feasibility of successful completion of the PhD thesis within the next three years. A training programme within the Graduate School of Science is part of the agreement. You and your supervisor will make up a plan for additional education and supervising that is specific to your needs. How to apply: Send a cover letter (with professional goals and a statement of interest), a curriculum vitae and two letters of recommendation (PDF format) to the job application portal before November 18th, 2011, although applications received after the deadline may be considered. Starting date: as soon as possible. Information For information you can contact: Prof. Niels Taatgen, n.a.taatgen at rug.nl Additional information Website Prof. Niels Taatgen Cognitive Modeling group Job portal: http://www.rug.nl/corporate/vacatures/jobOpportunitiesRUG =============================================== 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... URL: From ICSAI2012CFP at ytu.edu.cn Mon Oct 24 06:24:24 2011 From: ICSAI2012CFP at ytu.edu.cn (=?utf-8?B?5byg6ICB5biI?=) Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 18:24:24 +0800 Subject: [ACT-R-users] ICSAI 2012, Yantai, China: Submission Deadline 6 January [EI Compendex/ISTP/IEEE Xplore] Message-ID: <519452390.20635@eyou.net> Dear Colleague, The 2012 International Conference on Systems and Informatics (ICSAI 2012) will be held from 19-21 May 2012 in Yantai, China. Submission Deadline is 6 January 2012. ICSAI 2012 aims to be a premier international forum for scientists and researchers to present the state of the art of systems engineering and information science. Topics include (but are not limited to): Systems ? Control and Automation Systems ? Power and Energy Systems ? Intelligent Systems ? Software Engineering Informatics ? Computer Applications ? Communications and Networking ? Machine Vision & Image Processing ? Data Engineering & Information Systems The registration fee of US$400 includes proceedings, lunches, dinners, banquet, coffee breaks, and all technical sessions. ICSAI 2012 is technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society. All papers in conference proceedings will be indexed by both EI Compendex and ISTP, as well as the IEEE Xplore (IEEE Conference Record #19873; IEEE Catalog Number CFP1273R-CDR; ISBN: 978-1-4673-0197-8). Substantially extended versions of best papers will be considered for publication in a special issue of a SCI-indexed journal. Yantai was listed as one of the world's most inhabitable places by the United Nations and was recognized as the "most charming city of China" by China Central Television. Undulating hills rise above the area's many rivers and are framed by beaches and neighboring islands. Famous tourist attractions include the Tashan Mountain, Kongdong Island, and Penglai Pavilion Scenic Area. Seafood and fruits are plentiful in Yantai. For more information, visit the conference web page: http://ICSAI2012.ytu.edu.cn If you have any questions after visiting the conference web page, please email the secretariat at ICSAI2012 at ytu.edu.cn Join us at this major event in beautiful Yantai !!! Organizing Committee ICSAI2012 at ytu.edu.cn P.S.: Kindly forward to your colleagues or students who may be interested. If you wish to unsubscribe, in which case we apologize, please reply with "unsubscribe act-r-users at andrew.cmu.edu " in your email subject. Thanks. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From aoltrama at andrew.cmu.edu Tue Oct 25 10:51:25 2011 From: aoltrama at andrew.cmu.edu (Alessandro Oltramari) Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 10:51:25 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] 1st CfP - "New Trends of Research in Ontologies and Lexical Resources" Message-ID: APOLOGIES FOR MULTIPLE POSTINGS _______________________________________________ Edited Volume - Call for Papers ?New Research Trends of Research in Ontologies and Lexical Resources? Publisher: Springer Scheduled publication: Summer 2012 Editors: Alessandro Oltramari (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Lu Qin (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong) Piek Vossen (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) Eduard Hovy (University of Southern California, USA) Description At the human level, knowledge is transferred via (multi-modal) linguistic communication; similarly, machines exchange data through messages encoded in some suitable computational language. Notwithstanding the syntax of the language, semantics is required to turn raw information into valuable knowledge. In this context, lexical resources and ontologies are the most reliable resources to convey meanings: the former describe the main lexical features of information contents to favor human-accessibility; the latter aim at identifying the formal characteristics of those contents, enabling machine-interoperability. Ontologies and lexical resources represent two sides of the same coin: knowledge technology. Since the early 90?s, the integration between ontologies and lexical resources has become a strong requirement for Knowledge Engineering and Natural Language Processing: from traditional data warehouse to the visionary notion of Web 3.0, scholars and developers have acknowledged that making explicit the semantics of data is a key issue to successful knowledge transfer and retrieval as well as to boost human usability of information systems. An important new development is the accelerating effect of the growing availability of explicit knowledge in a distributed environment, which leads to deepening and complementation of knowledge. This places an extra burden on the interoperability of these resources. This book aims at providing a comprehensive survey of the state of the art in the interdisciplinary framework where ontologies and lexical resources integrate, as well as investigating the new directions of research in the field. This publication aspires not only to map out a path of the most valuable ideas and projects that have emerged so far within the OntoLex community but also to discuss the impact of knowledge technology beyond the common framework of application, exploring further domains of interest, such as bioinformatics, computer vision, neuroscience, etc. Topics of the book include but are not limited to: ? Theoretical perspectives of ?OntoLex science" ? Construction of OntoLex resources: models and implementations ? Integration between ontologies and lexical resources o For NLP applications: goals, architectures, evaluation o In the Semantic Web: goal, architectures, evaluation o In AI systems: goal, architectures, evaluation o In pervasive computing: vision, challenges, methods ? Ontology-based reasoning and lexica ? Ontology-driven annotation of corpora for ontology learning ? Open-source platforms for OntoLex resources ? Ontology, Lexica and multimedia ? Linguistic interfaces for OntoLex resources ? The role of OntoLex resources in social networking ? Web-Corpus linguistics for OntoLex Resource building ? Ontology-driven meta-models for multilingual lexica ? Ontology-driven meta-models for multi-modal resources Ideally, the book will be structured along these macro-sections: Part I: Foundations: Background, Theory, Links to Other Fields Part II: Methods: Different Aspects of Ontology Construction Part III: Practical Issues of Use Appendix: The Future: Envisioning the Next 10 Years of OntoLex Research Important dates: November 30th: Abstracts due (max 1000 words) December 10th: Notification of selected abstracts February 24th: Full-papers due March 23rd: Reviews due April 27th: Final papers due Please send abstracts to aoltramaATandrew.cmu.edu _______________________________________________ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jmahar at ist.psu.edu Thu Oct 27 00:23:43 2011 From: jmahar at ist.psu.edu (Jan Mahar Sturdevant) Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 04:23:43 +0000 Subject: [ACT-R-users] ANNOUNCING: 1-year Post PhD position with DoD's DTRA for graduates in Cognitive and Information Sciences (Thrust Area 2) Message-ID: <55DCEA17C4AFB24EA73DF6540B36AC0E36D8DEF9@ISTEXMB1.ist.local> Frank et all, Currently we have two US-citizen Post PhD openings with an application deadline of 11/15/11. Attached of the postings along with an application. Please have anyone interested, email me their completed application. Jan -----Original Message----- From: Frank Ritter [mailto:frank.ritter at psu.edu] Sent: Friday, September 09, 2011 6:48 AM To: soar-group at lists.sourceforge.net; act-r-users at act-r.psy.cmu.edu Cc: Jan Mahar Sturdevant Subject: Fwd: ANNOUNCING: 1-year Post PhD position with DoD's DTRA for graduates in Cognitive and Information Sciences (Thrust Area 2) please share this as appropriate. the application deadline is a start date something like 23oct11 (!). details from Jan Mahar in the first case, or from me. cheers, Frank >From: Jan Mahar Sturdevant >CC: "'Caramanica, Janet L. CIV'" , > "Meghan Hayes > (mkf11 at arl.psu.edu)" >Subject: ANNOUNCING: 1-year Post PhD position with DoD's DTRA for >graduates > in Cognitive and Information Sciences (Thrust Area 2) >Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 04:38:27 +0000 > >Fellow Researchers, > >We are looking for Post PhD whose expertise in in the following area: > Cognitive and Information Science: The basic science of cognitive and >information science results from the convergence of computer, >information, mathematical, network, cognitive, and social science. This >research thrust expands our understanding of physical and social >networks and advances knowledge of adversarial intent with respect to >the acquisition, proliferation, and potential use of WMD. The methods >may include analytical, computational or numerical, or experimental >means to integrate knowledge across disciplines and improve rapid >processing of intelligence and dissemination of information. > >Attached are the Recruitment Letter and the Application that I ask you >forward onto whomever you feel would be interested. > >Further Detail >For qualified candidate, this opportunity would provide the following >to a US citizen, capable of obtaining a security clearance at the >Secret level, to spend one year working at DTRA (Fort >Belvior): > >* $71,663 annual salary >* $1,000 monthly living allowance >* Domestic Travel allowance >* Potential funding for additional academic degrees > >Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship Program > >The objective of this fellowship program is to establish and sustain a >long-term process through which the University Strategic Partners >(USP) will develop and execute a Post- Doctoral Research Fellowship >Program to address critical scientific, technology and engineering >needs for reducing the threat from Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD). >This project will enable DTRA to utilize mission-critical expertise >possessed by highly qualified faculty and graduate students (nearing >completion of their >degree) who hold doctoral or terminal >professional degrees in relevant scientific, technical and engineering >disciplines. >Post-Doctoral / Masters Fellows will be selected based upon their >responsive ability to enhance the joint DTRA-Strategic Partnership >mission requirements. Key science and technology skills >include: nuclear and radiation physics; weapons engineering; >structural, electrical and mechanical engineering; broad-based >nano-technological engineering and applications; weapons effects and >system response technologies; physics, chemistry and biological >sciences related to detection, characterization and destruction of WMD >materials; medical and pharmaceutical sciences; information technology, >modeling, data visualization and advanced computational sciences; >social, adversarial and behavioral modeling, science and analysis. >Post-Doctoral / Masters Research Fellows will be assigned to DTRA's >Research and Development and subsequently detailed to perform such >duties as may be required among the various agency Enterprises, >Directorates and Offices which are typically reviewing research >proposals and white papers. > >======================================================================= >==================== > >Looking forward to your sharing this opportunity, Jan Mahar Sturdevant > >Professor of Practice >College of Information Science and Technology Penn State University -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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