Cog Modeling Announcements: CogSci tutorials; ICCM'03; AISBQ

[Frank Ritter. ritter@ist.psu.edu]

[Please feel free to forward this as well]

  I should note up front that there is an ACT-R tutorial (on ACT-R 5)
  at the cognitive science conference this summer! 


This is based on the International Cognitive Modeling Conference
mailing list, which I maintain.  I've added you to it, I email to it
about 1-2 times/year.

A bunch of cognitive modeling and HCI related announcements, jobs, and
links.  I will continue to send this to you about twice a year unless
you tell me to stop.  I think they are each of some quality.  In this
case the tutorials program for Cognitive Science led me to bundle up
the rest and send them on.

cheers,

Frank



 * Cognitive Science conference tutorial program, 7 Aug. at George Mason
   http://acs.ist.psu.edu/cogsci2002/tutorial-program.html
    (main page at  http://hfac.gmu.edu/~cogsci/)

 * International Conf. on Cognitive Modeling, April 2003 in Bamburg
   http://iccm2003.ppp.uni-bamberg.de/

 * AI and Simulation of Behaviour Journal call for papers
   http://aisb.org.uk/aisbj.html

 * Visiting Assistant Prof. open in Applied Cog. Psyc (Fall 2002)
   http://www.hfac.gmu.edu/~dbdavis/HFACad_files/HFAC%20restricted%20ad.htm


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The Cognitive Science Conference's tutorial program, on 7 August at
George Mason is now available at
http://acs.ist.psu.edu/cogsci2002/tutorial-program.html

Tutorials include:

  Multiple Perspectives on Consciousness for Cognitive Science (half-day)

  APEX: An Architecture for Modeling Human Performance in Applied HCI Domains
  (half-day)

  How to Build Intelligent Interactive Agents Using Soar (full-day)

  ACT-R Tutorial (half-day)

  Functional Imaging of the Brain - Developing a Synergy of 
    Cognitive Neuroscience Behavior and Modeling (half-day)

  A Cognitive Approach to Designing Human Error Tolerant Interfaces (half-day)

The fees are $45 for a half-day and $90 for a full-day tutorial.

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Fifth International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (ICCM 2003)
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Call for Participation


Computational modeling became in the last years an important tool for
building and testing theories in Cognitive Science. ICCM provides a
worldwide forum for cognitive scientists who build computational theories
and test them against empirical data.

The goal of ICCM-2003 is to bring researchers from diverse backgrounds
(Information Science, Neurophysiology, Psychology, Psycholinguistics,
Robotics) together

- to discuss theoretical models,
- to learn more about the developments of different modeling approaches,
- to compare different approaches,
- to discuss evaluations of theoretical models using empirical data
- and generally to bring forward the accumulation and integration of
cognitive models and theory in Cognitive Science.

We expect to have researchers from the whole scope of modeling approaches,
including symbolic modeling, production system, connectionist and neuronal
modeling, Bayesian models, Petri-nets, dynamic Systems, and various hybrid
approaches.

We also expect to have work being presented from a wide variety of domains,
ranging from low- level perception and attention to higher-level mental
processes as thinking reasoning and learning and the integration of
cognition, emotion and motivation in complex action regulation.

Important dates:
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- Conference: Bamberg, Germany, April 10 - 12, 2003
- Deadline for submissions: November 1, 2002
- Pre-Registration starts now

Registration and call for papers will start soon.

More information and pre-registration on http://iccm2003.ppp.uni-bamberg.de/

Dietrich Doerner and Harald Schaub (chairs)


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The Society for the Study of AI and the Simulation of Behaviour
announces a new journal, AISB Journal.

  Call for papers and details at  http://aisb.org.uk/aisbj.html