From Tiffany.Jastrzembski at wpafb.af.mil Thu Jan 5 11:05:16 2012 From: Tiffany.Jastrzembski at wpafb.af.mil (Jastrzembski, Tiffany S Civ USAF AFMC 711 HPW/RHAC) Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 11:05:16 -0500 Subject: [ACT-R-users] BRiMS 2012 Submission Reminder - Deadline midnight tomorrow! Message-ID: <9AC197D8D0788140BC98A478FB3852A8010F2067@VFOHMLMC11.Enterprise.afmc.ds.af.mil> (Best viewed in HTML; Apologies for Cross-Postings) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The BRiMS 2012 Submission Deadline is fast approaching All submissions must be in by January 6, 2012 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ For details on submission content, guidelines, and templates, please navigate to: http://brimsconference.org/submissions/ You are invited to participate in the 21st Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (BRiMS), to be held at the Omni Amelia Island Plantation Resort in Amelia Island, Florida. BRiMS enables modeling and simulation research scientists, engineers, and technical communities across disciplines to meet, share ideas, identify capability gaps, discuss cutting-edge research directions, highlight promising technologies, and showcase the state-of-the-art in Department of Defense related applications. The BRiMS Conference will consist of many exciting elements in 2012, including special topic areas, technical paper sessions, special symposia/panel discussions, and government laboratory sponsor sessions. The BRiMS Executive Committee invites papers, posters, demos, symposia, panel discussions, and tutorials on topics related to the representation of individuals, groups, teams and organizations in models and simulations. All submissions are peer-reviewed (see www.brimsconference.org for additional details on submission types). Key Dates: All submissions due: January 6, 2012 Tutorial Acceptance: January 20, 2012 Authors Notification January 30, 2012 Final version due: February 15, 2012 Tutorials held: March 12, 2012 BRIMS 2012 Opens: March 13, 2012 Special Topic Areas of Interest are identified to elicit specific technical content: * M&S in military domains * Tools for building distributed/large-scale M&S systems * Data-driven M&S * Modeling in multi-user gaming and simulation * Modeling of business processes and organizations * Models of online social interactions General Topic Areas of Interest include, but are not limited to: Modeling * Intelligent agents and avatars/adversarial modeling * Cognitive robots and human-robot interaction * Models of reasoning and decision making * Model validation & comparison * Socio-cultural M&S: team/group/crowd/ behavior * Physical models of human movement * Performance assessment and skill monitoring/tracking * Performance prediction/enhancement/optimization * Intelligent tutoring systems * Knowledge acquisition/engineering * Human behavior issues in model federations Simulation * Synthetic environments for human behavior representation * Terrain representation and reasoning * Spatial reasoning * Time representation * Human behavior usability and interoperability * Efficiency, usability, affordability issues * Operator interfaces * Multi-resolution/fidelity simulations * Science of simulation issues ACCOMMODATIONS and REGISTRATION The conference will be held at the Omni Amelia Island Plantation Resort in Amelia Island, FL. Visit http://www.omnihotels.com/FindAHotel/AmeliaIsland/MeetingFacilities/Reso rtMap.aspx for general information about the site and accommodations. Conference and hotel registration, general area, and travel information can be found at www.brimsconference.org. BRIMS PROGAM COMMITTEE: Bradley J. Best (Adaptive Cognitive Systems) William G. Kennedy (George Mason University) Robert St. Amant (North Carolina State University) BRIMS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: Joe Armstrong (CAE), Brad Cain (Defence Research and Development Canada), Bruno Emond (National Research Council Canada), Coty Gonzalez (Carnegie Mellon University), Brian Gore (NASA), Jeff Hansberger (Army Research Laboratory), Kenneth Kwok (DSO National Laboratories, Singapore), John Laird (University of Michigan), Christian Lebiere (Carnegie Mellon University), Christopher Myers (Air Force Research Laboratory), Bharat Patel (Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, UK), Sylvain Pronovost (Carleton University & CAE), Frank Ritter (Pennsylvania State University), Venkat Sastry (University of Cranfield), Barry Silverman (University of Pennsylvania),Neil Smith (QinetiQ), LtCol David Sonntag (AOARD), Webb Stacy (Aptima), Mike van Lent (SoarTech), Walter Warwick (Alion Science and Technology), Jason Wong (Naval Undersea Warfare Center), Patrick Xavier (Sandia National Laboratories) A special thanks to the BRIMS 2012 Government Sponsors for their support of this event: Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Air Force Research Laboratory, Army Research Laboratory, DARPA, Natick Soldier Center, NASA, and the UK Ministry of Defence. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the BRIMS 2012 Conference Chair, Dr. Tiffany Jastrzembski (tiffany.jastrzembski at wpafb.af.mil). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tiffany S. Jastrzembski, Ph.D. Cognitive Research Scientist Air Force Research Laboratory 2698 G Street, Building 190 Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433-7604 tiffany.jastrzembski at wpafb.af.mil From Glenn.Gunzelmann at wpafb.af.mil Fri Jan 6 16:17:57 2012 From: Glenn.Gunzelmann at wpafb.af.mil (Gunzelmann, Glenn F Civ USAF AFMC 711 HPW/RHAC) Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2012 16:17:57 -0500 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Research Opportunities at the US Air Force Research Laboratory Message-ID: Apologies if you receive multiple copies... Also with apologies and respect to our valued colleagues of other nationalities, only U.S. citizens and permanent legal residents of the United States are eligible for these positions. The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory's Cognitive Models and Agents Branch has a variety of research positions available for talented cognitive, computational, and computer scientists interested in working on basic and applied cognitive science research. Full-time, paid positions range from undergraduate and graduate-level internships and research assistantships, to post-doctoral research appointments, to visiting faculty appointments. Salaries are commensurate with experience. Our research portfolio combines empirical human-subjects studies and formal, rigorous modeling and simulation methods to understand, predict, and simulate human performance and learning, and to create new cognitive science-based technologies. There are research efforts underway in a variety of basic and applied research areas. Brief descriptions of current projects are available here: http://palm.mindmodeling.org/palmListings/ Anyone interested in working with us on one or more of our ongoing research efforts is encouraged to contact the PI for that particular research area as soon as possible. Email addresses are available on the website. Best regards, -Glenn ____________________________________ Glenn Gunzelmann, Ph.D. Senior Research Psychologist S&T Advisor, Cognitive Models & Agents Branch 711 HPW/RHAC 2620 Q Street Bldg 852, Rm 3-312 Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433-7905 Phone: (937) 938-3554 Email: glenn.gunzelmann at wpafb.af.mil ____________________________________ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Computer Systems and Applications Informatics ? Communications and Networking ? Image, Video, and Signal Processing ? Data Engineering and Data Mining ? Software Engineering 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. 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Current cognitive theories of mindreading are predominantly philosophical in nature, with empirical work seemingly unable to provide definitive answers as to which framework might be the most defensible. Now that researchers have started to build cognitive models of mental-state reasoning, it is hoped that computational considerations may weigh in on the matter of how best to understand mindreading. This special issue seeks to promote interdisciplinary dialogue between computational cognitive modelers, philosophers, and psychologists studying the nature and operation of the human capacity to mindread. The emphasis of the issue will be placed on computational models and how they both inform and are informed by work in other disciplines. Submissions should be sent to either paul.bello at navy.mil or mguarini at uwindsor.ca by June 1st 2012. 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Information Reuse and Integration (IRI) seeks to maximize the reuse of information by creating simple, rich, and reusable knowledge representations and consequently explores strategies for integrating this knowledge into systems and applications. IRI plays a pivotal role in the capture, representation, maintenance, integration, validation, and extrapolation of information; and, applies both information and knowledge for enhancing decision-making in various application domains. The conference includes, but is not limited to, the areas listed below: ? Large Scale Data and System Integration ? Component-Based Design and Reuse ? Unifying Data Models (UML, XML, etc.) and Ontologies ? Database Integration ? Structured/Semi-structured Data ? Middleware & Web Services ? Reuse in Software Engineering ? Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery ? Sensory and Information Fusion ? Reuse in Modeling & Simulation ? Automation, Integration and Reuse Across Applications ? Information Security & Privacy ? Survivable Systems & Infrastructures ? AI & Decision Support Systems ? Heuristic Optimization and Search ? Knowledge Acquisition and Management ? Fuzzy and Neural Systems ? Soft/Evolutionary Computing ? Case-Based Reasoning ? Natural Language Understanding ? Knowledge Management and E-Government ? Command & Control Systems (C4ISR) ? Human-Machine Information Systems ? Biomedical & Healthcare Systems ? Homeland Security & Critical Infrastructure Protection ? Manufacturing Systems & Business Process Engineering ? Space and Robotic Systems ? Multimedia Systems ? Service-Oriented Architectures ? Autonomous Agents in Web-based Systems ? Information Integration in Grid, Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing Environment ? Systems of Systems ? Semantic Web and Emerging Applications ? Information Reuse, Integration and Sharing in Collaborative Environments Instructions for Authors: Papers reporting original and unpublished research results pertaining to the above and related topics are solicited. Full paper manuscripts must be in English of up to 8 pages (using the IEEE two-column template). The online submission site is: https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=iri2012. Papers will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. Paper submission implies the intent of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper, if accepted. Best Paper Award: The best paper will be selected by separate committee and will be the one that reports the most novel and promising research work that has a high potential impact in the real world. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Lotfi A. Zadeh, University of California, Berkeley, USA Honorary General Chair: Lotfi Zadeh, University of California, Berkeley, USA General Chairs Stuart Rubin SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific, USA Shu-Ching Chen Florida International University, USA Program Chairs Elisa Bertino Purdue University, USA Bhavani Thuraisingham University of Texas at Dallas, USA James B.D. Joshi University of Pittsburgh, USA Chengcui Zhang The University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA Contact: Please contact jjoshi "at" sis.pitt.edu for more information. *********************** Mohd Anwar, Ph.D. School of Information Sciences University of Pittsburgh _______________________________________________ Iri2012 mailing list Iri2012 at list.pitt.edu https://list.pitt.edu/mailman/listinfo/iri2012 From icnc-fskd-cfp at cqupt.edu.cn Tue Jan 10 08:28:47 2012 From: icnc-fskd-cfp at cqupt.edu.cn (ICNC FSKD) Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:28:47 +0800 Subject: [ACT-R-users] ICNC'12-FSKD'12 2nd Round Submissions due 8 March: IEEE Xplore/EI Compendex/ISI Message-ID: <526202843.26661@localhost.com> Dear Colleague, The 2012 8th International Conference on Natural Computation (ICNC'12) and the 2012 9th International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD'12) will be jointly held from 29-31 May 2012, in Chongqing, China. The deadline for the 2nd (final) round of submissions is 8 March 2012 (papers already submitted in the previous round should not be re-submitted and will receive review notifications on 9 March). 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 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 Computers & Mathematics with Applications, an SCI-indexed journal. 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-D430 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 Chinas 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 xixidu at gmail.com Wed Jan 11 08:31:48 2012 From: xixidu at gmail.com (Alexander Kruel) Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 14:31:48 +0100 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Questions regarding possible risks from artificial intelligence In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Ladies and Gentlemen, I am currently trying to learn more about the academic perception of artificial general intelligence and possible risks associated with it. Consequently I am curious about the opinion of the ACT-R community. I would like to ask you a few questions and your permission to publish your possible answers in order to estimate the academic awareness and perception of risks from AI. I am not a journalist and do not represent any publication, nor do I maintain a formal academic relationship. I am conducting an informal interview for a community blog: lesswrong.com Please let me know if you have any questions or if you are interested in third-party material that does expand on various aspects of my questions. Q1: Assuming beneficial political and economic development and that no global catastrophe halts progress, by what year would you assign a 10%/50%/90% chance of the development of artificial intelligence that is roughly as good as humans at science, mathematics, engineering and programming? Q2: Once we build AI that is roughly as good as humans at science, mathematics, engineering and programming, how much more difficult will it be for humans and/or AIs to build an AI which is substantially better at those activities than humans? Q3: Do you ever expect artificial intelligence to overwhelmingly outperform humans at typical academic research, in the way that they may soon overwhelmingly outperform humans at trivia contests, or do you expect that humans will always play an important role in scientific progress? Q4: What probability do you assign to the possibility of an AI with initially (professional) human-level competence at general reasoning (including science, mathematics, engineering and programming) to self-modify its way up to vastly superhuman capabilities within a matter of hours/days/< 5 years? Q5: How important is it to figure out how to make AI provably friendly to us and our values (non-dangerous), before attempting to build AI that is good enough at general reasoning (including science, mathematics, engineering and programming) to undergo radical self-modification? Q6: What probability do you assign to the possibility of human extinction as a result of AI capable of self-modification (that is not provably non-dangerous, if that is even possible)? P(human extinction by AI | AI capable of self-modification and not provably non-dangerous is created) Sincerely yours, Alexander Kruel M?nstermannsweg 18 33332 G?tersloh Germany From mpavone at dmi.unict.it Sun Jan 22 04:11:44 2012 From: mpavone at dmi.unict.it (Mario Pavone) Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2012 10:11:44 +0100 Subject: [ACT-R-users] 2nd CfP PPSN 2012 - 12th Int. Conf. on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature, 1-5 September, 2012 Taormina, Italy Message-ID: <20120122101144.Horde.GAM9POph4B9PG9LQ7ovxU4A@dmi.unict.it> ** Apologies for cross-posting ** ************************************************************************************** IMPORTANT: *Submission deadline Thursday March 15, 2012* ************************************************************************************** 12th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature - PPSN 2012 http://www.dmi.unict.it/ppsn2012/index.php ppsn2012 at dmi.unict.it 1-5 September, 2012 Hotel Villa Diodoro Taormina, Italy CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *** The submission system is now open *** https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ppsn2012 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AIMS & SCOPE Natural Computing is the study of computational systems which use ideas and get inspiration from natural systems, including biological, ecological, physical, chemical, and social systems. It is a fast- growing interdisciplinary field in which a range of techniques and methods are studied for dealing with large, complex, and dynamic problems with various sources of potential uncertainties. PPSN XII will be a showcase of a wide range of topics in Natural Computing including, but not restricted to: Evolutionary Computation, Neural Computation, Molecular Computation, Quantum Computation, Artificial Life, Swarm Intelligence, Artificial Ant Systems, Artificial Immune Systems, Self-Organizing Systems, Emergent Behaviors, and Applications to Real-World Problems. PPSN XII will also feature workshops and tutorials covering advanced and fundamental topics in the field of natural computation. Submissions should present significant contributions. All accepted papers will be presented during poster sessions and will be included in the proceedings. Following the tradition of PPSN, we plan to publish the proceedings in the Series Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) by Springer. The preceding symposia were held in Dortmund, Brussels, Jerusalem, Berlin, Amsterdam, Paris, Granada, Birmingham, Reykjavik, Dortmund, and Krakow. IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: March 15, 2012 Author notification: June 1, 2012 Camera-ready submission: June 20, 2012 PROCEEDINGS Accepted papers will appear in the PPSN 2012 proceedings published by Springer Verlag in the LNCS series. SUBMISSION Authors are invited to submit high-quality manuscripts reporting original unpublished research and recent developments in the topics related to the symposium. Simultaneous submission to other conferences or workshops with published proceedings is not allowed. Submissions must not exceed 10 pages formatted according to LNCS style. All papers will be peer reviewed and comments will be provided to the authors. The submission system can be accessed via https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ppsn2012 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Angelo Cangelosi, University of Plymouth, UK Natalio Krasnogor, University of Nottingham, UK Panos M. Pardalos, University of Florida, USA More Keynote Speakers to be Announced TUTORIAL SPEAKERS Jaume Bacardit, University of Nottingham, UK Juergen Branke, University of Warwick, UK Pier Luca Lanzi, Polytechnic of Milan, Italy Martin Pelikan, University of Missouri in St. Louis, USA More Tutorial Speakers to be Announced ORGANIZING COMMITTEE *General Chairs Vincenzo Cutello, University of Catania, Italy Mario Pavone, University of Catania, Italy *Honorary Chair Hans-Paul Schwefel, Dortmund University of Technology, Germany *Programme Chairs Carlos A. Coello Coello, CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico Kalyanmoy Deb, Indian Institute of Technology, India Stephanie Forrest, University of New Mexico & Santa Fe Institute, USA Giuseppe Nicosia, University of Catania, Italy *Tutorial Chairs Giuseppe Narzisi, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA Germ?n Terrazas Angulo, University of Nottingham, UK *Workshop Chair Alberto Moraglio, University of Birmingham, UK CONTACT For further information, please send an email to ppsn2012 at dmi.unict.it Hope to see you in Taormina! Mario Pavone - PPSN 2012 General Chair -- 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 jmahar at ist.psu.edu Sun Jan 22 17:42:24 2012 From: jmahar at ist.psu.edu (Jan Mahar Sturdevant) Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2012 22:42:24 +0000 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Deadline 2/15/12 -- TA2 1-year Post PhD position with DoD's DTRA for graduates in Cognitive and Information Sciences (Thrust Area 2) Message-ID: <55DCEA17C4AFB24EA73DF6540B36AC0E36EEB414@ISTEXMB1.ist.local> Fellow Researchers, We are looking for two Post PhDs 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. Application deadline is 2/15/12... be sure to email jbm18 at psu.edu this completed application. 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. 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Name: TA2__Candidate Recruitment Request (ILSP_Autonomous Systems).docx Type: application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document Size: 20720 bytes Desc: TA2__Candidate Recruitment Request (ILSP_Autonomous Systems).docx URL: From Tiffany.Jastrzembski at wpafb.af.mil Mon Jan 23 12:14:22 2012 From: Tiffany.Jastrzembski at wpafb.af.mil (Jastrzembski, Tiffany S Civ USAF AFMC 711 HPW/RHAC) Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:14:22 -0500 Subject: [ACT-R-users] BRiMS 2012 Poster Solicitation and Registration Reminder Message-ID: <9AC197D8D0788140BC98A478FB3852A8011651A2@VFOHMLMC11.Enterprise.afmc.ds.af.mil> (Best viewed in HTML; Apologies for Cross-Postings) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ We are soliciting additional poster submissions for BRiMS 2012 Poster submissions must be in by February 10, 2012 For details on submission content, guidelines, and templates, please navigate to: http://brimsconference.org/submissions/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The BRiMS Conference will feature a distinguished and eclectic lineup of plenary speakers, including: CAPT Dylan Schmorrow (Deputy Director of Human Performance, Training and Biosystems, Office of the Secretary of Defense) Dr. Frank Ritter (Applied Cognitive Science Lab, Pennsylvania State University) Dr. Peter Pirolli (Research Fellow, Augmented Social Cognition Area, Palo Alto Research Center) Dr. Jeff Brantingham (Anthropology, UC MaSC Project: Mathematical and Simulation Modeling of Crime, UCLA). BRIMS 2012 will additionally consist of many exciting elements, including special topic areas, technical paper sessions, special symposia/panel discussions, government laboratory sponsor sessions, and "Birds of a Feather" breakout and networking sessions lead by agency program managers and leaders. We invite you to participate in the 21st Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (BRiMS), to be held at the Omni Amelia Island Plantation Resort in Amelia Island, Florida. BRiMS enables modeling and simulation research scientists, engineers, and technical communities across disciplines to meet, share ideas, identify capability gaps, discuss cutting-edge research directions, highlight promising technologies, and showcase the state-of-the-art in Department of Defense related applications. Special Topic Areas of Interest are identified to elicit specific technical content: * M&S in military domains * Tools for building distributed/large-scale M&S systems * Data-driven M&S * Modeling in multi-user gaming and simulation * Modeling of business processes and organizations * Models of online social interactions General Topic Areas of Interest include, but are not limited to: Modeling * Intelligent agents and avatars/adversarial modeling * Cognitive robots and human-robot interaction * Models of reasoning and decision making * Model validation & comparison * Socio-cultural M&S: team/group/crowd/ behavior * Physical models of human movement * Performance assessment and skill monitoring/tracking * Performance prediction/enhancement/optimization * Intelligent tutoring systems * Knowledge acquisition/engineering * Human behavior issues in model federations Simulation * Synthetic environments for human behavior representation * Terrain representation and reasoning * Spatial reasoning * Time representation * Human behavior usability and interoperability * Efficiency, usability, affordability issues * Operator interfaces * Multi-resolution/fidelity simulations * Science of simulation issues Key Dates: Poster Submissions: February 10, 2012 Tutorials held: March 12, 2012 BRIMS 2012 Opens: March 13, 2012 ACCOMMODATIONS and REGISTRATION The conference will be held at the Omni Amelia Island Plantation Resort in Amelia Island, FL. Visit http://www.omnihotels.com/FindAHotel/AmeliaIsland/MeetingFacilities/Reso rtMap.aspx for general information about the site and accommodations. Conference and hotel registration, general area, and travel information can be found at www.brimsconference.org. BRIMS PROGAM COMMITTEE: Bradley J. Best (Adaptive Cognitive Systems) William G. Kennedy (George Mason University) Robert St. Amant (North Carolina State University) BRIMS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: Joe Armstrong (CAE), Brad Cain (Defence Research and Development Canada), Bruno Emond (National Research Council Canada), Coty Gonzalez (Carnegie Mellon University), Brian Gore (NASA), Jeff Hansberger (Army Research Laboratory), Kenneth Kwok (DSO National Laboratories, Singapore), John Laird (University of Michigan), Christian Lebiere (Carnegie Mellon University), Christopher Myers (Air Force Research Laboratory), Bharat Patel (Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, UK), Sylvain Pronovost (Carleton University & CAE), Frank Ritter (Pennsylvania State University), Venkat Sastry (University of Cranfield), Barry Silverman (University of Pennsylvania),Neil Smith (QinetiQ), LtCol David Sonntag (AOARD), Webb Stacy (Aptima), Mike van Lent (SoarTech), Walter Warwick (Alion Science and Technology), Jason Wong (Naval Undersea Warfare Center), Patrick Xavier (Sandia National Laboratories) A special thanks to the BRIMS 2012 Government Sponsors for their support of this event: Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Air Force Research Laboratory, Army Research Laboratory, DARPA, Natick Soldier Center, NASA, and the UK Ministry of Defence. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the BRIMS 2012 Conference Chair, Dr. Tiffany Jastrzembski (tiffany.jastrzembski at wpafb.af.mil). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tiffany S. Jastrzembski, Ph.D. Cognitive Research Scientist Air Force Research Laboratory 2698 G Street, Building 190 Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433-7604 tiffany.jastrzembski at wpafb.af.mil