AAAI Symposium CFP

[Mike Byrne]

At Cognitive Science 99, I organized a symposium on integrated models of
cognition, perception, and action that was fairly well-received.  That
symposium has grown into a formal AAAI symposium, and I think it'd be
terrific if we had some good ACT-R and ACT-R/PM representation.  Here's
the CFP:

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                 ------ CALL FOR PAPERS ------

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               SIMULATING HUMAN AGENTS 
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      American Association for Artificial Intelligence 
                         Fall Symposium Series

                          November 3-5, 2000 
 

Simulated human agents are a key software component in many kinds of
applications including, e.g., simulation-based training,
simulation-based tools for analyzing human-machine system designs ,
games and other forms of interactive entertainment.  Creating
sufficiently powerful and realistic human agents presents several
challenges.  To get the agent to behave capably in dynamic,
time-pressured and otherwise demanding application environments
requires adapting state-of-the-art AI techniques.  Making the human
model accurate or believable requires identifying and incorporating
relevant human performance data.  Finally, reusable, well-documented
software architectures are needed to reduce the time and expertise
needed to construct new human agent simulations.

The symposium will address practical questions about the
incorporation of AI and human performance modeling technologies into
applications such as those listed above.  Questions to be addressed
during the symposium include:

- What AI technologies are most relevant for simulating human behavior?
How should these be improved or adapted? 

- What aspects of existing human modeling architectures are
most/least helpful for building new applications?  How can they be
improved to become more useful to applications developers? 

- Which aspects of human behavior are most worth capturing in a human
modeling architecture, generally or for a given application area? 

- What relevant scientific findings are lreadyn to be incorporated
into general-purpose human simulation tools?  How should one best go
about filling in the gaps where appropriate scientific findings do
not yet exist?

The symposium will consist of invited talks, individual
presentations, and group discussion.  Those interested in attending
should submit a research paper of no more than 10 pages, a 3-page
position paper, or 1-page statement of interest to
mfreed at mail.arc.nasa.gov.  Only electronic submissions will be
accepted.  We also invite demonstrations of existing systems; email
a brief description of the proposed demo to the above address.

---- Organizing Committee

Michael Byrne, Rice University
Ron Chong, Soar Technology
Michael Freed (chair), NASA Ames Research Center
Randy Hill, USC/ISI
Lewis Johnson, USC/ISI
John Laird, University of Michigan
Frank Ritter, Pennsylvania State University  

 ---- Important Dates

March 29        Submissions for Symposia Due
May 5           Accept/Reject Notices Sent
August 25       Camera-ready papers due
November 3-5    Symposium


---- Additional information on the symposium 

http://www.aaai.org/Symposia/Fall/fall-symposia.html 
http://www.cedcc.psu.edu/ritter/aaai-simHA-symp.html

Email Contact: mfreed at mail.arc.nasa.gov

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Mike Byrne, Ph.D.                             byrne at acm.org
Assistant Professor, Psychology Department
Rice University, MS-25          http://chil.rice.edu/byrne/
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