From ja+ at cmu.edu Thu Oct 3 17:07:21 2002 From: ja+ at cmu.edu (John Anderson) Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 17:07:21 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] ACT-R people link Message-ID: We have been trying to make the ACT-R web site better represent the ACT-R community rather than just the CMU community: http://act-r.psy.cmu.edu/ We invite you to visit the people link from that ACT-R web page which contains pointers to people we have identified as active ACT-R researchers. You may find your name there. If you don't and would like your name there please tell us. If you find your name there and would not like it there also please tell us. We have included web pages for those we could find. If you would like a link to your personal web page please tell us. In general we are interested in comments, suggestions, and corrections from the ACT-R community on the community web site. -- ========================================================== John R. Anderson Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Phone: 412-268-2788 Fax: 412-268-2844 email: ja at cmu.edu URL: http://act.psy.cmu.edu/ From ferrix at cs.unitn.it Wed Oct 9 04:30:24 2002 From: ferrix at cs.unitn.it (Roberta Ferrario) Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 10:30:24 +0200 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Context03. Notice: dates have changed!!! Message-ID: <001501c26f6e$1d358e50$d9c7cdc1@Eolo> ============================================================== We apologize for multiple copies of this call for papers PLEASE NOTICE THAT BOTH THE DATES OF THE CONFERENCE AND THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS HAVE BEEN POSTP0NED! ============================================================== +--------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | CONTEXT'03 | | | | Fourth International and Interdisciplinary Conference on | | Modeling and Using Context | | | | Stanford, California (USA) | | June 23-25, 2003 | | | | (www.context.umcs.maine.edu/CONTEXT-03) | | | +--------------------------------------------------------------+ The Fourth International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context (CONTEXT'03) will provide a high-quality forum for discussions about context among researchers active in artificial intelligence and other areas of computer science, cognitive science, linguistics, the organizational sciences, philosophy, and psychology. Context affects a wide range of activities in humans and animals as well as in artificial agents and other computer programs. The importance of context is widely acknowledged, and "context" has become an area of study in its own right, as evidenced by the numerous workshops, symposia, seminars, and conferences held recently. CONTEXT, the oldest conference series focusing on context, is unique due to its strong emphasis on interdisciplinary research. Previous CONTEXT conferences have been held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (CONTEXT'97), Trento, Italy (CONTEXT'99), and Dundee, Scotland (CONTEXT'01). Each of these brought together researchers in many disparate fields to discuss and report on research on context-related topics. The proceedings of CONTEXT'03 will be published in a Lecture Notes series (http://www.springer.de/comp/lnai) of Springer?Verlag, as were those of the previous two CONTEXT conferences. TOPICS OF INTEREST To guide potential submissions, a representative sampling of topics of interest for CONTEXT'03 are as follows (in alphabetical order). This is not an exhaustive list, and other contributions are welcome, although all submissions must have a focus on context. Analogy and case-based reasoning Autonomous Agents and Agent-based Systems Cognitive Modeling Commonsense Reasoning Context Issues in Databases Context-aware Applications Contextual effects on language Contextual effects on problem-solving, understanding and production decision-making, and categorization Decision Support and Expert Systems Distributed Information Systems Formal Theories of Context Heterogeneous Information Integration Human-Computer Interaction Information Management Intelligent Tutoring Systems Intelligent/Semantic Web Systems Interagent Communication Knowledge Engineering and Management Knowledge Representation Machine Learning Multiagent Systems Natural Language Processing Neuroscience and context Organizational Theory and Design Philosophical Foundations SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Since CONTEXT'03 will be an interdisciplinary forum, all submissions, in addition to being evaluated for their technical merit, will be evaluated for their accessibility to an interdisciplinary audience. Works that transcend disciplinary boundaries are especially encouraged. Papers will be accepted either for oral presentation or for presentation at a poster session. Each submission will be evaluated by three referees. Complete formatting requirements and detailed instructions for authors can be found on the conference Web page. Note that papers cannot be longer than 14 pages. Papers must be submitted electronically--no hardcopy submissions will be accepted without prior approval from the Program Co-Chairs well in advance of the submission deadline. LaTeX and Word templates are available at the conference Web page. Papers must be in PDF format. See the conference Web page for instructions on converting to this format from Word, LaTeX, etc. Submitted papers should be received by the Program Co-Chairs no later than January 6, 2003. The conference Web page contains instructions for submitting papers electronically. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline....................................January 27, 2003 Notification of acceptance/rejection for all submissions.......March 13, 2003 Deadline for final versions of accepted papers.................April 13, 2003 Conference...................................................June 23-?25, 2003 CONFERENCE CHAIR Fausto Giunchiglia (fausto at cs.unitn.it) Universita degli Studi di Trento, Italy PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Patrick Blackburn (Patrick.Blackburn at loria.fr) LORIA, France Roy Turner (rmt at umcs.maine.edu) University of Maine, USA Chiara Ghidini (C.Ghidini at csc.liv.ac.uk) University of Liverpool, UK STEERING COMMITTEE Varol Akman (akman at cs.bilkent.edu.tr) Bilkent University, Turkey Massimo Benerecetti (bene at cs.unitn.it) University of Naples, Italy Paolo Bouquet (bouquet at cs.unitn.it) Universita degli Studi di Trento, Italy Patrick Brezillon (Patrick.Brezillon at lip6.fr) University of Paris VI, France Boicho Kokinov (bkokinov at nbu.bg) New Bulgarian University, Bulgaria John Perry (john at csli.stanford.edu) Stanford University, USA Francois Recanati (Francois.Recanati at ehess.fr) L'Ecole Polytechnique, France Luciano Serafini (serafini at irst.itc.it) Istituto Trentino di Cultura (ITC), Italy Rich Thomason (rich at thomason.org) University of Michigan, USA Roger A. Young (R.A.YOUNG at dundee.ac.uk) University of Dundee, UK PROGRAM COMMITTEE Horacio Arlo-Costa Carnegie Mellon University, USA John Barnden The University of Birmingham, UK Carla Bazzanella Universit? degli Studi di Torino, Italy John Bell University of London, UK Jose Luis Bermudez University of Stirling, UK Matteo Bonifacio University of Trento, Italy Anind K. Dey Intel Research, California, USA Christo Dichev Winston Salem State University, USA Bruce Edmonds Manchester Metropolitan University, UK Paul Feltovich University of West Florida, USA Tim Fernando Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland Anita Fetzer Universitaet Stuttgart Christopher Gauker University of Cincinnati, USA Alain Giboin INRIA, France Avelino Gonzalez University of Central Florida, USA Jerry Hobbs USC/ISI, USA Lucja Iwanska LxLinks, Inc., Michigan, USA Ruth Kempson King's College London, UK David Leake Indiana University, USA Mark Maybury MITRE Corporation, Massachusetts, USA Bernard Moulin Universit? Laval, Canada Rolf Nossum Agder University College, Norway Jean-Charles Pomerol DRITT/Universite P and M Curie, France Marina Sbis? University of Trieste, Italy Carles Sierra Spanish Scientific Research Council, Spain Munindar Singh North Carolina State University, USA Steffen Staab University of Karlsruhe, Germany Elise Turner University of Maine, USA Peter Turney National Research Council, Ontario, Canada Johan van Benthem University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Robert J. van den Bosch Univ. Hospital Groningen, The Netherlands Teun A. van Dijk Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain Terry Winograd Stanford University, USA PUBLICITY CHAIR Roberta Ferrario (ferrix at cs.unitn.it) Universita degli Studi di Trento, Italy LOCAL CHAIR Elisabetta Zibetti (ezibetti at psych.stanford.edu) Stanford University, USA ********************************************************* * For more information, see www.context.umcs.maine.edu. * ********************************************************* From Wolfgang.Schoppek at uni-bayreuth.de Fri Oct 11 08:15:38 2002 From: Wolfgang.Schoppek at uni-bayreuth.de (Wolfgang Schoppek) Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 14:15:38 +0200 Subject: [ACT-R-users] PM-Question Message-ID: <3DA6C0EA.83056ECE@uni-bayreuth.de> I'va a question concerning buffer stuffing: Does buffer stuffing autonomously command a movement of attention and subsequent encoding? I always thought it wouldn't do that, but now I encountered a phenomenon that looks like autonomous attention movement: The model does central cognition processing when the visual environment changes. The change makes the visual module "busy" which triggers the production "wait-for-free". When visual modle is free again, it returns a new encoding of a visual object, which was never commanded. The new visual object disturbs the normal proceeding of the model. The described effect occurs only sometimes and I haven't found any contingencies yet. Please, see attachment for a trace and the relevant production rules. -- WS ----------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Wolfgang Schoppek Universitaet Bayreuth Tel.: +49 921 554140 http://www.uni-bayreuth.de/departments/psychologie/wolfgang.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- From Wolfgang.Schoppek at uni-bayreuth.de Fri Oct 11 08:16:20 2002 From: Wolfgang.Schoppek at uni-bayreuth.de (Wolfgang Schoppek) Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 14:16:20 +0200 Subject: [ACT-R-users] PM-Question Message-ID: <3DA6C114.C1F2DC34@uni-bayreuth.de> I'va a question concerning buffer stuffing: Does buffer stuffing autonomously command a movement of attention and subsequent encoding? I always thought it wouldn't do that, but now I encountered a phenomenon that looks like autonomous attention movement: The model does central cognition processing when the visual environment changes. The change makes the visual module "busy" which triggers the production "wait-for-free". When visual modle is free again, it returns a new encoding of a visual object, which was never commanded. The new visual object disturbs the normal proceeding of the model. The described effect occurs only sometimes and I haven't found any contingencies yet. Please, see attachment for a trace and the relevant production rules. -- WS ----------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Wolfgang Schoppek Universitaet Bayreuth Tel.: +49 921 554140 http://www.uni-bayreuth.de/departments/psychologie/wolfgang.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: PM-Request.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 30763 bytes Desc: not available URL: From Wolfgang.Schoppek at uni-bayreuth.de Fri Oct 11 08:44:29 2002 From: Wolfgang.Schoppek at uni-bayreuth.de (Wolfgang Schoppek) Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 14:44:29 +0200 Subject: [ACT-R-users] PM-Question (2) Message-ID: <3DA6C7AD.B8A5074E@uni-bayreuth.de> The attachment hasn't been delivered. You can find it at: http://www.uni-bayreuth.de/departments/psychologie/schoppek/PM-Request.pdf -- WS ----------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Wolfgang Schoppek Universitaet Bayreuth Tel.: +49 921 554140 http://www.uni-bayreuth.de/departments/psychologie/wolfgang.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- From db30 at andrew.cmu.edu Fri Oct 11 09:21:12 2002 From: db30 at andrew.cmu.edu (Dan Bothell) Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 09:21:12 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] PM-Question In-Reply-To: <3DA6C0EA.83056ECE@uni-bayreuth.de> Message-ID: <3535921123.1034328072@Gristle> --On Friday, October 11, 2002 2:15 PM +0200 Wolfgang Schoppek wrote: > I'va a question concerning buffer stuffing: Does buffer stuffing > autonomously command a movement of attention and subsequent encoding? The issue here is not buffer stuffing, because that only affects the *-location buffers - it does not impact attention. What you are encountering is the "blink response" of the vision module. It's described in the ACT-R 5 tutorial in unit 2 (section 2.3). Basically, if the vision module is attending to a location when the screen changes there will be an automatic reencoding of whatever is at that location. If you clear the visual buffer (essentially attend to nothing) it won't happen, but if your screen can change rapidly that may not help and there are other measures that can be taken to avoid it if you can't work around it. Dan From Wolfgang.Schoppek at uni-bayreuth.de Fri Oct 11 09:21:49 2002 From: Wolfgang.Schoppek at uni-bayreuth.de (Wolfgang Schoppek) Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 15:21:49 +0200 Subject: [ACT-R-users] PM-Question References: <3DA6C114.C1F2DC34@uni-bayreuth.de> Message-ID: <3DA6D06D.9421DE7E@uni-bayreuth.de> > I'va a question concerning buffer stuffing: Does buffer stuffing > autonomously command a movement of attention and subsequent encoding? > I always thought it wouldn't do that, but now I encountered a > phenomenon that looks like autonomous attention movement: The model > does central cognition processing when the visual environment changes. > The change makes the visual module "busy" which triggers the > production "wait-for-free". When visual modle is free again, it > returns a new encoding of a visual object, which was never commanded. > The new visual object disturbs the normal proceeding of the model. The > described effect occurs only sometimes and I haven't found any > contingencies yet. Please, see attachment for a trace and the relevant > production rules. > -- WS In the meantime, I've found the reason for the described behavior: When the place where PM is currently looking happens to be the place where a change is occurring, a new visual-object is created without need to move attention (in this case the trace "<> MOVE-ATTENTION generated DMO VISUAL-OBJECT..." is a bit misleading). When this place is the *only* place with changes, after the encoding there's no new feature left and the production "found-new-feature" cannot fire. Therefore, the model doesn't realize that there's a new state in the world and halts. So my question has changed: What's the best way of making an ACT-R/PM model recognize that the state of the world has changed? -- WS ----------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Wolfgang Schoppek Universitaet Bayreuth Tel.: +49 921 554140 http://www.uni-bayreuth.de/departments/psychologie/wolfgang.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- From db30 at andrew.cmu.edu Fri Oct 11 09:38:12 2002 From: db30 at andrew.cmu.edu (Dan Bothell) Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 09:38:12 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] PM-Question In-Reply-To: <3DA6D06D.9421DE7E@uni-bayreuth.de> Message-ID: <3536941200.1034329092@Gristle> --On Friday, October 11, 2002 3:21 PM +0200 Wolfgang Schoppek wrote: > So my question has changed: What's the best way of making an ACT-R/PM model > recognize that the state of the world has changed? That's what buffer stuffing is for. The mechanism is described in the tutorial in unit 3 (section 3.4 introduces it with respect to the aural-location buffer) and unit 4 (section 4.2.1 describes its use with the visual-location buffer) and the demo model for unit 4 uses it to detect screen changes. The basic mechanism is if a *-location buffer is empty when a change occurs and there is an object after the change that matches the specification to be stuffed then that objects location is placed into the corresponding location buffer. To use it, when you are "waiting" for a change you clear the *-location buffer. Then the production that you want to fire after the change includes a test on there being something in that buffer, thus it can't fire until after the stuff occurs. Dan From mschoell at gmu.edu Fri Oct 11 09:12:31 2002 From: mschoell at gmu.edu (Mike Schoelles) Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 09:12:31 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] PM-Question In-Reply-To: <3DA6C0EA.83056ECE@uni-bayreuth.de> References: <3DA6C0EA.83056ECE@uni-bayreuth.de> Message-ID: >I'va a question concerning buffer stuffing: Does buffer stuffing >autonomously command a movement of attention and subsequent encoding? >I always thought it wouldn't do that, but now I encountered a >phenomenon that looks like autonomous attention movement: The model >does central cognition processing when the visual environment changes. >The change makes the visual module "busy" which triggers the >production "wait-for-free". When visual modle is free again, it >returns a new encoding of a visual object, which was never commanded. >The new visual object disturbs the normal proceeding of the model. The >described effect occurs only sometimes and I haven't found any >contingencies yet. Please, see attachment for a trace and the relevant >production rules. >-- WS >----------------------------------------------------------------- >Dr. Wolfgang Schoppek Universitaet Bayreuth > Tel.: +49 921 554140 > http://www.uni-bayreuth.de/departments/psychologie/wolfgang.html >----------------------------------------------------------------- Wolfgang, If pm-proc-display is called when the environment changes and a location is currently being attended, then the vision module will encode the object at the currently attended location. Mike Schoelles From ritter at ist.psu.edu Sat Oct 12 13:42:58 2002 From: ritter at ist.psu.edu (Frank Ritter. ritter@ist.psu.edu) Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 13:42:58 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Cog Modeling Announcements: ICCM'03; CogSci tutorials; AISBQ Message-ID: <200210121742.g9CHgww24236@ritter.ist.psu.edu> Cog Modeling Announcements: ICCM'03; CogSci tutorials; jobs [Please feel free to forward this as well.] This is based on the International Cognitive Modeling Conference mailing list, which I maintain. I've added you to it by hand. I send the messages out by hand using Emacs. 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. cheers, Frank [1] Call for papers for International Conference on Cognitive Modelling Due 1 November 2002, conference April 10 - 12, 2003 http://iccm2003.ppp.uni-bamberg.de/ [2] Interesting book on Cognitive Systems Engineering online for free: http://iac.dtic.mil/hsiac/soar.htm, paper copy $45: http://iac.dtic.mil/hsiac [3] AISB'03 AISB'03 Call for Symposium Proposals Due 1 November http://www.aisb.org.uk/aisb03/CFSP.html [4] Announcement: EuroCogSci Conference, Sept. 2003 http://www.eurocogsci03.uos.de/dates.shtml [5] Call for Cognitive Science conference 2003 tutorials, Summer 2003 Boston http://acs.ist.psu.edu/cogsci2003/tutorial-program.html [6] Opening in Applied Cog. Psyc (Fall 2003) at George Mason U. http://www.hfac.gmu.edu/~dbdavis/HFACad_files/HFAC%20restricted%20ad.htm [7] Opening cogsci/cogengineering at RPI [8] Chair in School of Information Sciences and Technology, Penn State ***************************************************************** ***************************************************************** [1] Fifth International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (ICCM 2003) ================================================================ Call for Participation Bamberg, Germany, April 10 - 12, 2003 Computational modeling in the last years became 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 together researchers from diverse backgrounds (Information Science, Neurophysiology, Psychology, Psycholinguistics, Robotics), * 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, Petrinets, dynamic systems, and various hybrid approaches. We also expect to have work presented from a wide variety of domains, ranging from low-level perception and attention to higher-level mental processes like thinking, reasoning and learning and the integration of cognition, emotion and motivation in complex action regulation. We shall continue with the traditions of the previous conferences from ECCM to ICCM 4; especially the Newell Award for best Student paper, the Best Applied Research Award, a Doctoral Consortium, and Competitive Symposia. The ICCM Doctoral Consortium provides an opportunity for doctoral students to explore their dissertation work in a multi-approach workshop (the day before the Conference) under the guidance of a panel of distinguished research faculty. Competitive symposia are submitted symposia consisting of 3 to 6 participants and presenting multiple competitive models related to a given domain or phenomena. The research being presented at ICCM-2003 will appear in a Conference proceedings volume. The proceedings will contain 6-page extended descriptions for paper presentations and 2-page extended abstracts for poster presentations. General contact adress is iccm2003 at gmx.net More information and pre-registration on http://iccm2003.ppp.uni-bamberg.de/ The Conference chairs are Dietrich Dvrner (dietrich.doerner at ppp.uni-bamberg.de) and Harald Schaub (harald.schaub at ppp.uni-bamberg.de) and the local host is Frank Detje (frank.detje at ppp.uni-bamberg.de). ***************************************************************** [2] Cognitive Systems Engineering in Military Aviation Environments: Avoiding Cogminutia Fragmentosa! Editors: Michael D. McNeese and Michael A. Vidulich Authors: Robert G. Eggleston; Keith C. Hendy, David Beevis, Frederick Lichacz, and Jack L. Edwards; Eva Hudlicka and Michael McNeese; Michael McNeese; Neelam Naikar, Gavan Lintern, and Penelope Sanderson; Scott S. Potter, Emilie M. Roth, James Gualtieri, James Easter, and William C. Elm; John M. Reising; Robert M. Taylor, Michael C. Bonner, Blair Dickson, Howard Howells, Christopher A. Miller, Nicholas Milton, Kit Pleydell-Pearce, Nigel Shadbolt, Jeni Tennison, and Sharon Whitecross; and David Woods and Klaus Christoffersen Abstract: This report details the perspectives and foundations of an international community of practitioners who have both developed and applied Cognitive Systems Engineering (CSE). One can see the field emerges from several corridors that in turn produce alternative methodologies/approaches to address military aviation domains. Differing philosophies and techniques spawn incisive pathways of integration in the development of design artifacts. Because the aviation domain is fraught with multifarious levels of complexity and is demonstrative of "cogminutia fragmentosa," we believe it supplies an excellent foundation for reviewing, assessing, communicating, and evaluating some of the principles (and nuances) inherent within various programs of CSE. To order, contact:le for inclusion in a call for papers. * Case for support - Not more than 750 words arguing the case for supporting your symposium at the AISB'03 event. * Programme committee - Names and affiliations of four colleagues who have agreed in principle to serve on your symposium's programme committee. Proposals will be selected by the AISB committee. Timetable Symposium Proposals 1st November 2002 Notification re: Symposia 11th November 2002 Calls for Extended Abstracts by 18th November 2002 Submission Deadline 20th December 2002 Notification re: Extended Abstracts 20th January 2003 Submission of full papers 7th March 2003 Convention 7th - 11th April 2003 ***************************************************************** [3] AISB'03 Call for Symposium Proposals 7 - 11 April 2003, University of Wales, Aberystwyth The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB) is pleased to announce its forthcoming convention and to invite proposals for the symposia which will constitute the event. * Dates: from 7th April 2003 until 11th April 2003 inclusive. * Location: Department of Computer Science, University of Wales, * Aberystwyth. * Format: at least six serial/parallel symposia on specialist AI * topics The AISB'03 Symposia Each AISB'03 symposium will feature between 15 and 20 papers on a well-focussed AI topic. Each symposium will have a programme chair, who will be responsible for administration of the programme, recruiting a programme committee, and refereeing extended abstracts for presentation of papers at the event. It is hoped that post-convention publication of proceedings will be arranged via one of the usual publishers. Funding will be available for reasonable administrative expenses. Convention Themes Symposia are encouraged to relate to the general theme of: "Cognition in Machines and Animals". This reflects current interest in such topics as: cognitive development, biologically-inspired modelling, and learning in robotics. The coverage is intended to be wide and inclusive, with general keywords such as: * Perception and Sensory Systems * Learning * Adaptation and Development * Motility and Action * Robotics/Agents/Autonomous Systems * Interaction and Communication * Analysis/Synthesis of Behaviour. However, it is to be emphasised that proposals in ALL areas of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science are encouraged. Making a Proposal Proposals should be made by writing to: Mark Lee Department of Computer Science University of Wales, Aberystwyth Ceredigion SY23 3BD Wales United Kingdom enclosing the following information: * Title of Symposium - Not more than 8 words. * Name & affiliation of Symposium Chair - Include both postal and * email addresses and both fax and telephone numbers. * Abstract for Symposium - Not more than 200 words explaining the * remit of the symposium. This should be suitable for inclusion in * a call for papers. * Case for support - Not more than 750 words arguing the case for * supporting your symposium at the AISB'03 event. * Programme committee - Names and affiliations of four colleagues * who have agreed in principle to serve on your symposium's * programme committee. Proposals will be selected by the AISB * committee. Timetable Symposium Proposals 1st November 2002 Notification re: Symposia 11th November 2002 Calls for Extended Abstracts by 18th November 2002 Submission Deadline 20th December 2002 Notification re: Extended Abstracts 20th January 2003 Submission of full papers 7th March 2003 Convention 7th - 11th April 2003 ***************************************************************** [4] EuroCogSci03 is jointly organized by the Cognitive Science Society and by the German Cognitive Science Society (Gesellschaft f|r Kognitionswissenschaft, GK). Conference host is the Institute of Cognitive Science of the University of Osnabr|ck / Germany. 10-13 September 2003 The aim of the conference is the presentation of empirical, theoretical, and analytical work from all areas of interest in cognitive science, such as artificial intelligence, education, linguistics, neuroscience, philosophy, psychology and anthropology. The focus is on interdisciplinary work that is either of interest for more than one of the mentioned research areas or integrates research methods from different fields. Furthermore, applications of cognitive science research in such domains as human-computer interaction, education, knowledge management, or engineering are equally welcome. ***************************************************************** [5] Call for Cognitive Science conference 2003 tutorials, Summer 2003 Boston http://acs.ist.psu.edu/cogsci2003/tutorial-program.html ***************************************************************** [6] From: Deborah Boehm-Davis Subject: Job Announcement - GMU The Department of Psychology at George Mason University anticipates an opening to begin in Fall 2003, at the assistant or associate level. The ideal candidate will have a Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology or related area and experience developing cognitive theory. The successful candidate will be expected to teach in the undergraduate and graduate programs in the Human Factors and Applied Cognitive Program. We will consider applicants from a variety of research specializations, such as complex problem solving, higher level cognition, visual attention, training (especially computer-based), memory, human performance, decision making, computational cognitive modeling, human computer interaction, and human factors. Candidates at the associate level should have a history of external funding. Candidates at both levels should have a commitment to high quality teaching. George Mason University is located approximately 15 miles SW of Washington, DC and is the newest university in the Virginia Commonwealth system. The psychology department has Ph.D. programs in applied cognitive psychology, industrial/organizational psychology, developmental, and clinical psychology. The successful candidate will be a member of the ARCH Lab, which houses HFAC faculty, their research facilities, and both undergraduate and graduate students in a collaborative and highly productive environment. Applications will be evaluated starting on November 1, 2002 and will continue until a suitable candidate is found. A vita, three letters of recommendation, and a brief statement of research and teaching interests should be sent to: Cognitive Search Committee, George Mason University, MSN 3F5, Fairfax, VA 22030-4444. We encourage applications from women and minority candidates. George Mason University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. If you have any questions about this position, please contact Deborah Boehm-Davis (dbdavis at gmu.edu), Christopher Kello (ckello at gmu.edu), or Matthew Peterson (mpeters2 at gmu.edu). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Deborah A. Boehm-Davis, Professor HUMAN FACTORS & APPLIED COGNITIVE PROGRAM Phone: +1 703-993-8735 Fax: +1 703-993-1330 George Mason University ARCH Lab/HFAC Program MSN 3F5 Fairfax, VA 22030-4444 ***************************************************************** [7] The Cognitive Science Department of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute anticipates one or more openings beginning in Fall 2003, rank open. http://www.rpi.edu/~grayw/RPI_CogSci/CogSci_ad_2002.html ***************************************************************** [8] The School of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) at The Pennsylvania State University is likely to announce an open chair position. Related details at: http://www.psu.edu/ur/2000/frymoyer.html For more about IST go to ist.psu.edu. For more about Penn State University, please go to www.psu.edu. Screening of candidates would begin soon. At this point, I think you can send an application, including cover letter, full curriculum vitae, a one page statement of professional interests, and a separate listing of five references that includes their names, addresses, phone/e-mail addresses and be submitted either through e-mail to recruit at ist.psu.edu or through postal mail to: Chairperson, IST Chair Search Committee School of Information Sciences and Technology 001 Thomas Building - Box C The Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA 16802 Further details from me or from John Yen . ***************************************************************** From xyli at asu.edu Wed Oct 16 17:43:23 2002 From: xyli at asu.edu (Sean Li) Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 14:43:23 -0700 Subject: [ACT-R-users] help with installation of ACT-R 5 Message-ID: Hi, I am new to ACT-R. I am trying to install an ACT-R environment on my machine running Windows XP. I downloaded ACL6.2 free trial version and ACT-R5. However when I tried to load ACT-R5 as directed on the software page, ACL during compilation showed there was an error because some function call violates the heap limit. Did anyone meet this before? Could I use this ACL version and ACT-R? Thanks. Sean From db30 at andrew.cmu.edu Wed Oct 16 15:21:35 2002 From: db30 at andrew.cmu.edu (Dan Bothell) Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 15:21:35 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] help with installation of ACT-R 5 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <3989544755.1034781695@Gristle> --On Wednesday, October 16, 2002 2:43 PM -0700 Sean Li wrote: > I am new to ACT-R. I am trying to install an ACT-R environment on my machine > running Windows XP. I downloaded ACL6.2 free trial version and ACT-R5. > However when I tried to load ACT-R5 as directed on the software page, ACL > during compilation showed there was an error because some function call > violates the heap limit. Did anyone meet this before? Could I use this ACL > version and ACT-R? Thanks. That's a problem that has been encountered before with the trial version of ACL 6.2. I have a newer version of the environment that will run in the ACL 6.2 trial version, but it runs extremely slowly because it doesn't compile anything. I can send the new version to you if you want, and it's going to be on our software page soon if you want to wait. However, my recommendation would be to get the trial version of LispWorks (available at http://www.lispworks.com) because the environment that you have will work with that. [Note to other users that read this - the general announcement about the environment working with LispWorks is going to be made shortly as well so take this as an advance notice.] The first time you load it into the trial version of LispWorks it will hit the heap limit and terminate, but that's ok because it saves the .fsl files that it generated in the process. Then, the next and subsequent times that you load the loader file it will successfully load the environment. The one thing that you will encounter is that there'll be a warning about redefining the macro help which you can safely continue past by clicking ok. If you have any other problems installing the software please send mail directly to me, db30 at andrew.cmu.edu, instead of the mailing list. Dan