From cl at cmu.edu Thu Dec 6 16:08:21 2012 From: cl at cmu.edu (Christian Lebiere) Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2012 16:08:21 -0500 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Research Positions in Cognitive Modeling at CMU Message-ID: Applications are open for research positions in the Psychology Department at Carnegie Mellon University under the direction of Dr. Christian Lebiere. Positions include several postdoctoral researchers and a research programmer. The research positions involve the application of cognitive architectures (specifically ACT-R) to cognitive robotics, cognitive neuroscience, visual intelligence, network science and game theory.? A brief description of the group?s research can be found at http://fms.psy.cmu.edu/about/.? Publications, software, tutorials and other information about the ACT-R architecture can be found at http://act-r.psy.cmu.edu/. Specific research projects include: - model networks of cognitive agents to understand the emerging dynamics that arise from the interaction of human decision-makers as well as large networks of artificial agents, cognitive models and human nodes.? This research is funded by a 5-year MURI (Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative) grant from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research and a 5-year grant from DTRA. - integrate cognitive architectures with traditional robotic techniques to improve autonomy, enhance human-robot interaction and provide metacognitive abilities to plan missions, monitor execution and remediate problems.? This research is funded by the Robotic Collaborative Technology Alliance (http://www.arl.army.mil/www/default.cfm?page=392), a large 5-10-year partnership between academic, government and industry laboratories to develop the next generation robotic architectures, and a grant from the Office of Naval Research. - develop integrated symbolic-neural architectures that combines the capabilities of symbolic approaches such as ACT-R with those of connectionist architectures such as Leabra to model complex, open-ended tasks such as sensemaking or instruction-driven interaction.? This research is funded by IARPA project ICArUS (http://www.iarpa.gov/Programs/ia/ICArUS/icarus.html) and by a grant from the Office of Naval Research. Postdoctoral candidates should have a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology, cognitive science, computer science, or robotics, with a background in computational modeling and a strong interest in both basic research in cognitive science and its practical applications.? Research programmer candidates should have a BS in computer science (MS preferred) or equivalent experience, with a background in modeling and simulation preferred.? Programming experience, especially in Lisp, and a background in artificial intelligence or cognitive modeling are preferred but not essential.? All candidates should submit their CV to the address below, and postdoctoral candidates should also include a letter describing their research interests and goals, and at least 2 letters of recommendation. These positions are open immediately and offer competitive salary and benefits.? Carnegie Mellon University offers a stimulating research environment in livable Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.? To apply or obtain additional information, contact (email preferred): ? Dr. Christian Lebiere Psychology Department Carnegie Mellon University 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Tel: 412-268-6028 Email: cl at cmu.edu From coty at cmu.edu Sun Dec 9 15:37:54 2012 From: coty at cmu.edu (Cleotilde Gonzalez) Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2012 20:37:54 +0000 Subject: [ACT-R-users] BRIMS 2013 In-Reply-To: <016701cdaca0$970fc3b0$c52f4b10$@edu> References: <7F8C841E-DFA9-4FC3-BA2D-8A68177D3A98@cmu.edu> <016701cdaca0$970fc3b0$c52f4b10$@edu> Message-ID: <64368A2D531CFE4AAE1B46464451F876069C95@PGH-MSGMB-03.andrew.ad.cmu.edu> Please pass this call for papers on to potentially interested colleagues. Apologies for cross-postings. ** 22nd Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (BRiMS)** March 12-14, 2013 Drury Plaza Hotel, San Antonio Riverwalk http://brimsconference.org/ The BRiMS conference brings together researchers interested in modeling and simulation, as well as engineers and technical communities, sharing interest in cognitive models, models of reasoning and decision making, models of human behavior and measurement, model comparison, simulation building, testing and modeling issues. All perspectives to human behavior modeling and simulation are welcome at this conference. The conference welcomes submissions (5-8 pages long) of original research papers, tutorials, discussion panels and posters, before December 17, 2012. All submissions are peer-reviewed and accepted submissions are published in the conference proceedings: http://brimsconference.org/submissions/ The BRiMS Keynote speakers for 2013 are: Dr. Jerome Busemeyer, Professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Science at Indiana University Dr. Ido Erev, Professor in Industrial Engineering and Management at Technion, the Israel Institute of Technology Dr. Jacquelyn Ford Morie, Senior Scientist and Project Director at the University of Southern California Institute for Creative Technologies Dr. Patrick Winston, Ford Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Note to government employees: BRiMS is entirely funded by U.S. military institutions and thus should not face the travel restrictions for government employees when they inform travel authorizing officials of the funding situation at BRiMS. This may be one of the few conferences that includes behavioral modeling research from government researchers, so please consider that when planning your conference papers! From cfp at icnc-fskd.lntu.edu.cn Tue Dec 11 09:01:58 2012 From: cfp at icnc-fskd.lntu.edu.cn (X.F. Meng) Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 22:01:58 +0800 Subject: [ACT-R-users] ICNC-FSKD 2013 Submission Deadline 10 January: IEEE Xplore/EI Compendex/ISI Message-ID: <0E643A9AC2FB56F60269B13A460FE899@vczp> Dear Colleague, We cordially invite you to submit a paper to the upcoming 9th International Conference on Natural Computation (ICNC 2013) and the 10th International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD 2013), to be jointly held from 23-25 July 2013 in Shenyang, China. Shenyang, the largest city in Northeast China, has a celebrated history dating back to the Warring States of 476 BC. It is the birthplace of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) and has many cultural relics which symbolize the prosperity and subsequent decline of the last feudal dynasty in China. Shenyang has one of China's the two best preserved imperial palace complexes, along with the famous Zhaoling Tomb and Fuling Tomb. Shenyang is also renowned for its mild summer and mouth-watering local food. As with the past ICNC-FSKD conferences, all papers in conference proceedings will be submitted to both EI Compendex and ISTP (ISI Proceedings), as well as IEEE Xplore. Extended versions of selected best papers will appear in an ICNC-FSKD special issue of an SCI-indexed journal. ICNC-FSKD 2013 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, robotics, 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-D390 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 3 June 2013. 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_2013 at 126.com For more information, visit the conference web page: http://icnc-fskd.lntu.edu.cn/ If you have any questions after visiting the conference web page, please email the secretariat at icnc_fskd_2013 at 126.com Join us at this major event in historical Shenyang !!! Organizing Committee icnc_fskd_2013 at 126.com 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 " %{RECEIVER_ADDRESS} " in your email subject. Thanks. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From db30 at andrew.cmu.edu Thu Dec 20 16:31:44 2012 From: db30 at andrew.cmu.edu (db30 at andrew.cmu.edu) Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 16:31:44 -0500 Subject: [ACT-R-users] New ACT-R 6.0 release Message-ID: <1E85F0F55893663A240C1B3C@actr6b.cmu.edu> ACT-R 6.0 v1.4 [r1307] is now the current version on the ACT-R web site. The most significant update with this release is the addition of the device code written by Clayton Stanley and Mike Byrne that allows a model to interact with the native (Cocoa) windows in Clozure Common Lisp 1.8 on Macs. It is built upon a library that supports running MCL GUI code in CCL. For details on what else has changed you can view the commit log on the ACT-R web site: or subscribe to the feed to be notified when there is a change: If you have any comments, questions, or problems with this update please let me know. Dan From mpavone at dmi.unict.it Fri Dec 21 12:45:47 2012 From: mpavone at dmi.unict.it (Mario Pavone) Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 18:45:47 +0100 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Call for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals - ECAL 2013, September 2-6, Taormina, Italy. Message-ID: <20121221184547.Horde.zGVWSeph4B9Q1KBLgpJmlqA@mbox.dmi.unict.it> CALL FOR WORKSHOP AND TUTORIAL PROPOSALS ECAL 2013 - 12th EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL LIFE http://www.dmi.unict.it/ecal2013/ The ECAL 2013 Organising Committee invites proposals for Tutorials and Workshops to be held in conjunction with ECAL 2013 in Taormina, Italy, September 2-6, 2013. The internal organization of the satellite workshops and tutorials (website, paper submission, invited talks, proceedings, all deadlines except registration) is entirely left up to their respective organizers. ECAL provides the onsite logistics (seminar rooms, projectors, coffee breaks, and lunches) and links from the main conference website. All other organizational issues - including separate review process and proceedings publication, if any - are taken care of by the workshop chairs. Therefore, any workshop-specific requests from participants should be exclusively addressed to them, not to the ECAL committee. * IMPORTANT DATES Submission Workshop/Tutorial proposal: January 31, 2013 Notification of Acceptance Workshop/Tutorial: February 15, 2013 Workshops Information and/or submission proposal: workshops.ecal2013 at dmi.unict.it Tutorials Information and/or submission proposal: tutorials.ecal2013 at dmi.unict.it * WORKSHOP PROPOSALS The ECAL 2013 workshops are intended to be forums to present and discuss new approaches, visions, or critical reflections within a research area. They provide an excellent opportunity to meet people with similar interests, to be exposed to cutting-edge research and to exchange ideas in an informal setting. The organizers of an accepted workshop are responsible for its coordination and its publicity (e.g., for sending out call for papers/abstracts), for collecting and reviewing the papers/abstracts, and for maintaining a webpage providing a list of accepted talks. The workshops can be half day or a full day long. The format can be decided by the organizers who are encouraged to plan interactive sessions. * TUTORIAL PROPOSALS ECAL 2013 tutorials will be presented by domain experts to cover current topics relevant to artificial life researchers and practitioners. Each tutorial will be 3 hours long, then we encourage to include into the tutorial also demos and interactive activities. Accepted tutorial's slide sets will be published on ECAL 2013 website. * SUBMISSION PROCESS Each tutorial/workshop proposal should include: 1) title of the workshop/tutorial 2) name(s) and affiliation(s) of the organizer(s)/inspector(s), with relative contact details 3) a short CV of the organizer(s)/instructor(s) 4) a brief description (half-page) of the workshop/tutorial topics Only for workshops: 5) potential target participants and audience 6) roughly approximated number of participants 7) rough estimate of the number of talks All workshop proposals must be sent to: workshops.ecal2013 at dmi.unict.it All tutorial proposals must be sent to: tutorials.ecal2013 at dmi.unict.it Looking forward to your submissions. Best wishes, Pietro Lio', Orazio Miglino, Giuseppe Nicosia, Stefano Nolfi, and Mario Pavone. -- Dr. Mario Pavone (PhD) Assistant Professor Department of Mathematics and Computer Science University of Catania V.le A. Doria 6 - 95125 Catania, Italy tel: 0039 095 7383038 fax: 0039 095 330094 Email: mpavone at dmi.unict.it http://www.dmi.unict.it/mpavone/ ------------------------------------------------ From hedderik at van-rijn.org Sat Dec 22 08:25:44 2012 From: hedderik at van-rijn.org (Hedderik van Rijn) Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2012 14:25:44 +0100 Subject: [ACT-R-users] European ACT-R Spring School & Workshop 2013 Message-ID: <416EA6BF-11E7-4855-836D-A4A1B4BCC353@van-rijn.org> This is a first announcement for the: European ACT-R Spring School and Workshop 2013 Please forward this message to anyone who might be interested! Organizers: Niels Taatgen, Hedderik van Rijn & Jelmer Borst University of Groningen, Netherlands April 8-12, 2013 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, see: http://act-r.psy.cmu.edu for more information. In spring 2013, we will organize a third European ACT-R Spring School and Workshop. This is a first announcement, a call for registrations will follow in January. Spring School The spring school will take place from Monday April 8 to Thursday April 12. The spring school is set up around the tutorial units that can be found on http://act-r.psy.cmu.edu/actr6/ with a lecture introducing the topic in the morning, and a presentation on a more advanced topic associated to the day's topic in the afternoon. During the day, students can work on the unit assignments under the supervision of expert ACT-R modelers. Master Class Like previous years, we will also accept a number of more advanced students who can work on their own projects and get input from other modelers and spring school teachers. European ACT-R Workshop The European ACT-R workshop will take place immediately following the spring school. 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. Housing A block of rooms will be reserved in the University Guest House. 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 A call for registrations will follow in January. -- Hedderik van Rijn Associate Professor / Dept. of Experimental Psychology / University of Groningen http://www-van-rijn.org From matthew.alexander.kelly at gmail.com Sun Dec 23 15:30:23 2012 From: matthew.alexander.kelly at gmail.com (Matthew Kelly) Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2012 15:30:23 -0500 Subject: [ACT-R-users] International Conference on Cognitive Modeling 2013 Call for Papers Message-ID: <73A2313A-092A-4AFF-9354-B1138B508D31@gmail.com> ICCM 2013 Call for Cognitive Modeling Papers Please forward this to anyone that seems appropriate Dates: July 11 - 14 Location: Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada ICCM Website . ICCM 2013, the 12th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling, invites you to submit original papers presenting research that utilizes computational techniques for modeling human cognition. ICCM is the main international conference for computational models of human cognition. It is at the forefront of research on modeling all aspects of human cognition and behavior, as well as methodologies for validating the models. The conference has run since 1996, and attracts the leading researchers in this field. All modeling methods are welcome. Types of submissions Refereed papers of up to 6 pages: If a submission is accepted to be published as a paper, the paper will be presented at the conference either as a talk or as a poster. Papers are to be submitted in Cognitive Science Society Conference format, as detailed here: (Due March 25) Refereed poster abstracts of 1 or 2 pages: If accepted, the corresponding poster will be presented at the conference as a poster. (Due March 25) Tutorials: The first day of the conference is devoted to tutorials on various cognitive modeling techniques. If you are interested in submitting a proposal for a tutorial, see the submission instructions here: (Due March 20) We look forward to seeing you there Program Co-Chairs: Robert L. 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