From abramson at ait.nrl.navy.mil Thu Dec 4 11:15:33 2003 From: abramson at ait.nrl.navy.mil (Myriam Abramson (contractor)) Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 11:15:33 -0500 Subject: [ACT-R-users] approximate floating point retrieval Message-ID: How to you retrieve a chunk with an approximate floating point value? Thanks. Here's an example code that gives me an error when not retrieving the exact value. (clear-all) (chunk-type goal state) (chunk-type mynum val) (add-dm (mygoal isa goal state first) (mynum0 isa mynum val 1.48) (mynum1 isa mynum val 1.54) (mynum2 isa mynum val 2.05) (mynum3 isa mynum val 3.5555) (mynum4 isa mynum val 3.68)) (p one =goal> isa goal state first ==> +retrieval> isa mynum val 3.55 =goal> state second (p two =goal> isa goal state second =retrieval> isa mynum val =val ==> !output! (=val) =goal> state stop) (goal-focus mygoal) (sgp :er t :v t) -- Myriam Abramson, Ph.D. ITT Industries, Inc. 202-404-7342 From apetrov at uci.edu Thu Dec 4 13:47:43 2003 From: apetrov at uci.edu (Alexander Petrov) Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 10:47:43 -0800 Subject: [ACT-R-users] approximate floating point retrieval In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20031204103631.00ad53f0@aris.ss.uci.edu> Myriam, These "floating-point values"are not included in standard ACT-R, as far as I know. I call them "magnitudes" and use them extensively in an ACT-R model of psychophysical scaling called ANCHOR. Please email me directly (apetrov at uci.edu) if you are interested in references or preprints. My code, however, is developed outside the ACT-R implementation and is not written in Lisp. Within the standard Lisp implementation, your best bet probably is to extend (or redefine?) ACT-R's similarity function and turn partial matching on. I've lost track of the details but I'm sure other people on this list can advise. I'm curious what your application is? I mean, in what circumstances do you think such floating-point values are necessary. Hope that helps, -- Alexander Petrov At 08:15 AM 12/4/2003, contractor wrote: >How to you retrieve a chunk with an approximate floating point value? >Thanks. > >Here's an example code that gives me an error when not retrieving the >exact value. > >(clear-all) > >(chunk-type goal state) >(chunk-type mynum val) > >(add-dm (mygoal isa goal state first) > (mynum0 isa mynum val 1.48) > (mynum1 isa mynum val 1.54) > (mynum2 isa mynum val 2.05) > (mynum3 isa mynum val 3.5555) > (mynum4 isa mynum val 3.68)) > >(p one > =goal> > isa goal > state first > ==> > +retrieval> > isa mynum > val 3.55 > =goal> > state second > > >(p two > =goal> > isa goal > state second > =retrieval> > isa mynum > val =val > ==> > !output! (=val) > =goal> > state stop) > >(goal-focus mygoal) > >(sgp :er t :v t) > > > > >-- > >Myriam Abramson, Ph.D. >ITT Industries, Inc. >202-404-7342 > > >_______________________________________________ >ACT-R-users mailing list >ACT-R-users at act-r.psy.cmu.edu >http://act-r.psy.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/act-r-users From grayw at rpi.edu Thu Dec 4 07:48:02 2003 From: grayw at rpi.edu (Wayne Gray) Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 07:48:02 -0500 Subject: [ACT-R-users] ICCM2004 CfP Message-ID: PLEASE POST Sixth International Conference of Cognitive Modeling ICCM-2004 http://simon.lrdc.pitt.edu/~iccm To be held July 29 - August 1, 2004, in Pittsburgh, USA (jointly between Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh). THEME ICCM brings researchers together who develop computational models that explain/predict cognitive data. 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Unit 6 of the tutorial discusses the mechanism but in this case you probably don't want to set all the similarities by hand. So, you'll need to use the similarity hook function. That is described in the description of the unit 5 model of the tutorial because it was used for the demonstration model. Basically, what you need to do is enable partial matching by setting the :pm parameter to t: (sgp :pm t) Then you need to define a function to compute the similarity between items that you are interested in. (defun number-similarity (value1 value2) (when (and (numberp value1) (numberp value2)) ;; some numerical similarity value )) Finally, you need to set that function to be used as the value of the *similarity-hook-fn*, which should occur after the clear-all because it gets cleared when the model is reset: (setf *similarity-hook-fn* #'number-similarity) Hope that helps, and if you have any questions let me know, Dan From abramson at ait.nrl.navy.mil Thu Dec 4 17:04:11 2003 From: abramson at ait.nrl.navy.mil (Myriam Abramson (contractor)) Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 17:04:11 -0500 Subject: [ACT-R-users] approximate floating point retrieval In-Reply-To: <4310167.1070554094@[192.168.123.198]> (Dan Bothell's message of "Thu, 04 Dec 2003 16:08:14 -0500") References: <4310167.1070554094@[192.168.123.198]> Message-ID: Okay, that works. Thanks to all who answered. Myriam Abramson, Ph.D. ITT Industries, Inc. 202-404-7342 From Kevin.Gluck at mesa.afmc.af.mil Sun Dec 7 20:54:31 2003 From: Kevin.Gluck at mesa.afmc.af.mil (Kevin.Gluck at mesa.afmc.af.mil) Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2003 18:54:31 -0700 Subject: [ACT-R-users] BRIMS 2004 CFP Message-ID: <245656B34A151046B0997D34FA909F0F012D229C@fsqbge06.mesa.afmc.af.mil> Colleagues, Please see the attached CFP for the 13th Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (BRIMS 2004). I hope many of you will submit and attend. Sincerely, Kevin <> ------------------------------------------------------- Kevin A. Gluck, PhD Research Psychologist Air Force Research Laboratory 6030 S. 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The conference provides a medium for the exchange of ideas between theoreticians and practitioners to address the important issues in computational intelligence, modelling, control and automation. The conference will consist of both plenary sessions and contributory sessions, focusing on theory, implementation and applications of computational intelligence techniques to modelling, control and automation. For contributory sessions, papers (4 pages or more) are being solicited. Several well-known keynote speakers will address the conference. 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Further Information For further information either contact iawtic at ise.canberra.edu.au or see the conference homepage at: http://www.ise.canberra.edu.au/conferences/iawtic04/index.htm From Masoud.Mohammadian at ise.canberra.edu.au Sun Dec 7 23:24:37 2003 From: Masoud.Mohammadian at ise.canberra.edu.au (Mohammadian, Masoud) Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 15:24:37 +1100 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Call for Tutorial Presentations Message-ID: -~-~--~-~--~-~--~-~--~-~--~-~--~-~--~-~--~-~--~-~--~-~- { CALL FOR TUTORIALS } { at } { International conference on Computational Intelligence } { for Modelling, Control and Automation - CIMCA'04 } { Gold Coast - Australia } { } -~-~--~-~--~-~--~-~--~-~--~-~--~-~--~-~--~-~--~-~--~-~- The orgainsing committe of the CIMCA'04 invitats researchers and practitioners to submit proposals for tutorialss in connection with CIMCA'04 to be held Gold Coast - Australia from 12 to 14 July 2004. 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The conference will consist of both plenary sessions and contributory sessions, focusing on theory, implementation and applications of intelligent agents, web technologies and Internet commerce. Conference Topics Include (but not limited to): Intelligent Agents Knowledge Management Intelligent Business Agents Agent Architectures Environments and Languages Adaptation and learning for agents Human and agent interaction Interface agents Mobile agents Virtual agent-based marketplaces Agents and uncertainty The privacy issues for agents Automated shopping and trading agents Agent-oriented services Social implications for agent Conceptual modelling & Ontologies for agents Agents and e-commerce Legal aspects of agents in e-commerce Performance measurement of e-commerce agents Rational information agents and electronic commerce Web Technologies Web data mining and information retrieval Agent-based trade-and mediating services Teaching on Web Virtual trading institutions Knowledge Discovery Intelligent Information Systems Knowledge Clustering & Classification Internet Commerce E-commerce applications of Knowledge Representation Reasoning Techniques Electronic Payment Systems Internet Marketing Intranets and Extranets Electronic Payment Systems Electronic Data Interchange Supply Chain Management Electronic Payment Systems Internet-based Electronic Commerce Virtual Communities/Community Networks Logistics Issues for Electronic Commerce Business Reengineering Issues for Electronic Commerce Government Electronic Procurement & Service Delivery Legal & Security Issues for Electronic Commerce Requirements Engineering for Electronic Commerce PAPER SUBMISSION Papers will be selected based on their originality, significance, correctness, and clarity of presentation. 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Important Dates ? 14 March 2004 Submission of papers ? 30 April 2004 Notification of acceptance ? 21 May 2004 Deadline for camera-ready copies of accepted papers ? 12-14 July 2004 Conference sessions Special Sessions and Tutorials Special sessions and tutorials will be organised at the conference. The conference is calling for special sessions and tutorial proposals. All proposals should be sent to the conference chair on or before 27th February 2004. CIMCA'04 will also include a special poster session devoted to recent work and work-in-progress. Abstracts are solicited for this session. Abstracts (3 pages limit) may be submitted up to 30 days before the conference date. Invited Sessions Keynote speakers from academia and industry will be addressing the main issues of the conference. Visits and social events Sightseeing visits will be arranged for the delegates and guests. A separate program will be arranged for companions during the conference. Further Information For further information either contact iawtic at ise.canberra.edu.au or see the conference homepage at: http://www.ise.canberra.edu.au/conferences/iawtic04/index.htm From cimca at ise.canberra.edu.au Tue Dec 9 17:51:04 2003 From: cimca at ise.canberra.edu.au (cimca) Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 09:51:04 +1100 Subject: [ACT-R-users] CFP: International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control and Automation Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.1.20031210094922.00a145d0@mercury.ise.canberra.edu.au> CALL FOR PAPERS International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control and Automation 12-14 July 2004 Gold Coast, Australia http://www.ise.canberra.edu.au/conferences/cimca04/index.htm Jointly with International Conference on Intelligent Agents, Web Technologies and Internet Commerce 12-14 July 2004 Gold Coast, Australia http://www.ise.canberra.edu.au/conferences/iawtic04/index.htm The international conference on computational intelligence for modelling, control and automation will be held in Gold Coast, Australia on 12-14 July 2004. The conference provides a medium for the exchange of ideas between theoreticians and practitioners to address the important issues in computational intelligence, modelling, control and automation. The conference will consist of both plenary sessions and contributory sessions, focusing on theory, implementation and applications of computational intelligence techniques to modelling, control and automation. For contributory sessions, papers (4 pages or more) are being solicited. Several well-known keynote speakers will address the conference. Topics of the conference include, but are not limited to, the following areas: Modern and Advanced Control Strategies: Neural Networks Control, Fuzzy Logic Control, Genetic Algorithms & Evolutionary Control, Model-Predictive Control, Adaptive and Optimal Control, Intelligent Control Systems, Robotics and Automation, Fault Diagnosis, Intelligent agents, Industrial Automations Hybrid Systems: Fuzzy Evolutionary Systems, Fuzzy Expert Systems, Fuzzy Neural Systems, Neural Genetic Systems, Neural-Fuzzy-Genetic Systems, Hybrid Systems for Optimisation Data Analysis, Prediction and Model Identification: Signal Processing, Prediction & Time Series Analysis, System Identification, Data Fusion and Mining, Knowledge Discovery, Intelligent Information Systems, Image Processing, Image Understanding, Parallel Computing applications in Identification & Control, Pattern Recognition, Clustering, Classification Decision Making and Information Retrieval: Case-Based Reasoning, Decision Analysis, Intelligent Databases & Information Retrieval, Dynamic Systems Modelling, Decision Support Systems, Multi-criteria Decision Making, Qualitative and Approximate-Reasoning Paper Submission Papers will be selected based on their originality, significance, correctness, and clarity of presentation. Papers (4 pages or more) should be submitted to the following e-mail or the following address: CIMCA'2004 Secretariat School of Computing University of Canberra Canberra, 2601, ACT, Australia E-mail: cimca at ise.canberra.edu.au E-mail submission is preferred. Papers should present original work, which has not been published or being reviewed for other conferences. Important Dates ? 14 March 2004 Submission of papers ? 30 April 2004 Notification of acceptance ? 21 May 2004 Deadline for camera-ready copies of accepted papers ? 12-14 July 2004 Conference sessions Special Sessions and Tutorials Special sessions and tutorials will be organised at the conference. The conference is calling for special sessions and tutorial proposals. All proposals should be sent to the conference chair on or before 27th February 2004. CIMCA'04 will also include a special poster session devoted to recent work and work-in-progress. Abstracts are solicited for this session. Abstracts (3 pages limit) may be submitted up to 30 days before the conference date. Invited Sessions Keynote speakers from academia and industry will be addressing the main issues of the conference. Visits and social events Sightseeing visits will be arranged for the delegates and guests. A separate program will be arranged for companions during the conference. Further Information For further information either contact cimca at ise.canberra.edu.au or see the conference homepage at: http://www.ise.canberra.edu.au/conferences/cimca04/index.htm From cimca at ise.canberra.edu.au Tue Dec 9 17:51:36 2003 From: cimca at ise.canberra.edu.au (cimca) Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 09:51:36 +1100 Subject: [ACT-R-users] CALL FOR TUTORIALS Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.1.20031210095111.0246f3b0@mercury.ise.canberra.edu.au> -~-~--~-~--~-~--~-~--~-~--~-~--~-~--~-~--~-~--~-~--~-~- { CALL FOR TUTORIALS } { at } { International conference on Computational Intelligence } { for Modelling, Control and Automation - CIMCA'04 } { Gold Coast - Australia } { } -~-~--~-~--~-~--~-~--~-~--~-~--~-~--~-~--~-~--~-~--~-~- The orgainsing committe of the CIMCA'04 invitats researchers and practitioners to submit proposals for tutorialss in connection with CIMCA'04 to be held Gold Coast - Australia from 12 to 14 July 2004. Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit their tutorial-proposals to the conference tutorial chair at: cimca at ise.canberra.edu.au Tutorial proposals are limited to up to 4 pages for the outline as well as the Biography of the presenter/s. The proposal should contain: An abstract (briefly describing the aims and technical contents of the tutorial) An introduction An outline of the topic Intended audience (interested audience and required background knowledge) Biography of presenter/s Contact information of presenter/s Each tutorial proposal will be assessed based on significance, originality as well as scientific and technical interest. 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In this context, the communication devices, the objects with which they interact, or both may be mobile. The implementation of such a paradigm requires advances in wireless network technologies and devices, development of infrastructures supporting cognitive environments, and discovery and identification of ubiquitous computing applications and services. The first ACM Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: networking and services (Mobiquitous 04) will cover all these aspects, representing a forum where practitioners and researchers coming from the many areas involved in ubiquitous solutions design and deployment will be able to interact exchanging the cross-layer experiences needed to build the overall ubiquitous systems. Areas addressed by the conference include: applications, service-oriented computing, middleware, networking, agents, knowledge management and databases. PAPERS: Technical papers describing original, previously unpublished research, not currently under review by another conference or journal, are solicited. The conference is interested in contributions addressing all the areas associated with mobile and ubiquitous architectures, infrastructure and services. Technical works clearly identifying how the specific contributions fit to an overall working solution are particularly of interest. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following feature topics: * Ubiquitous architectures and systems * Wearable computing and personal area network * Wireless technologies for mobile and ubiquitous communications (Bluetooth, ZigBee, 802.15.x, WiFi) * Wireless Internet access in ubiquitous systems * Reconfigurability and personalization of wireless network * Service discovery mechanisms, knowledge discovery, matching and composition mechanisms * Wireless/mobile service management and delivery * Security, privacy and social issues of mobile and ubiquitous systems * Peer-to-peer knowledge management * Emerging industrial/business scenarios * Multimodal interfaces (speech, video kinetic, tactile) * Smart spaces * Ad hoc and sensor networking * Localization and tracking * Context and location aware application * Multimedia encoding and transcoding * Middleware services * Agent technologies in ubiquitous, wearable, and mobile systems * Hardware and software platforms for ubiquitous systems, and testbeds * User interfaces * Toolkits, development environments, and languages for ubiquitous computing * Ontologies for mobile and ubiquitous computing SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: All paper submissions will be handled electronically (see the conference web page for details). Authors should prepare a Portable Document Format (PDF) or postscript version of their full paper. Papers must not exceed 8 pages double column (US Letter size, 8.5 x 11 inches) including text, figures and references. The font size must be at least 10 points. PUBLICATION: All submitted papers will be rigorously reviewed by technical program committee members. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Papers of particular merit will be proposed for publication in the ACM/Kluwer Wireless Networks journal. TUTORIALS: Proposals for tutorials are solicited. Evaluation of tutorial proposals will be based on the expertise and experience of the instructors, and on the relevance of the subject matter. Potential instructors are requested to submit a tutorial proposal of at most 5 pages, including a biographical sketch, to the Tutorial Chair by March 1, 2004. DEMOS: Proposals for research and industrial demos are solicited. A maximum of 3 pages should be submitted which include a description of the demo and needed equipment. Proposals should be submitted to the Demo Chair, which will be announced shortly. *********************************************************************** IMPORTANT DATES *********************************************************************** Paper submission due: FEBRUARY 1 2004 Notification of acceptance: APRIL 30 2004 Camera-ready version due: MAY 15 2004 ********************************************************************** *** ORGANIZING COMMITTEE * General Co-Chairs Imrich Chlamtac University of Texas at Dallas, U.S.A. chlamtac at utdallas.edu Fausto Giunchiglia Universita` di Trento, Italy fausto at dit.unitn.it * General Vice Co-Chairs Michele Zorzi Universita` di Padova, Italy zorzi at dei.unipd.it Valentina Tamma University of Liverpool, U.K. valli at csc.liv.ac.uk * Program Co-Chairs * Networking Tom La Porta Penn State University, U.S.A. tlp at cse.psu.edu Chiara Petrioli Universita` di Roma "La Sapienza," Italy petrioli at dsi.uniroma1.it * Knowledge management Tim Finin Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County, U.S.A. finin at cs.umbc.edu Chiara Ghidini ITC-IRST, Trento, Italy ghidini at itc.it * Tutorial Chair Mani Srivastava Univ. of California Los Angeles, U.S.A. * Publicity Co-Chairs Stefano Basagni Northeastern University, U.S.A. Ilya Zaihrayeu Universita` di Trento, Italy * Registration Chair Robin Kravets Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, U.S.A. * Demo Chair Yannis Labrou Fujitsu Labs of America, U.S.A. * Local Arrangements Chair Prithwish Basu BBN Technologies, U.S.A. * Publication Chair Roger Whitaker Cardiff University, U.K. From ja+ at cmu.edu Wed Dec 24 12:20:14 2003 From: ja+ at cmu.edu (John Anderson) Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 12:20:14 -0500 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Season Greetings Message-ID: Again I hope you all have had a profitable year modeling. It would seem that my major personal event of the year would be the winning of the Rumelhart Award, which made me very happy and which I see as really an award for ACT-R and the community. However, personally I seem more dominated by the transitions in my life. I had one son, Abe, go off to college (although CMU) and the other son, Jay, come home from college and start working for me. For one reason or another, we have lost our regular contact with a lot a people over the last 12 months - Helen Borek, Raluca Budiu, Cam Carter, Monchu Chen, Jon Fincham, Adam Goode, Glenn Gunzlemann, Craig Haimson, and Eli Silk. In addition, Scott Douglass has switched to graduate student status. We have had Mark Albert, Wai-Tat Fu, and Niels Taatgen come join us. However, as one can calculate, the net effect has been a reduction in contacts, but still I feel more than occupied. Still here meeting with me on whatever basis they were last year are Dan Bothell, Dana Byrne, Christian Lebiere, Yulin Qin, Phil Pavlik, Myeong-Ho Sohn, and Hedderik van Rijn. Our two major research fronts continue to be brain imaging and skill acquisition, brought together both by their connection to ACT-R and issues of instruction. Some of these threads are brought together in our forthcoming Psych Review article (An Integrated Theory of Mind - Anderson, Bothell, Byrne, Douglass, Lebiere, & Qin). Unfortunately, the final draft of this has not been updated on the web reflecting the fact that our web site is more than 12 months out of date. This is one of the things I need to be attending to in the New Year and will be bugging some of you about. The big upcoming event is ICCM in Pittsburgh (July 30 - Aug 1; organized by Marsha Lovett , Christian Schunn , Christian Lebiere, and Paul Munro -- http://simon.lrdc.pitt.edu/~iccm/). It is supplanting the ACT-R workshop for this year. So, although I expect to be seeing you all this summer it will be in a somewhat different context. There has been some discussion about whether we should have something of an ACT-R special interest retreat, as we did with the PGSS before ICCM in 2001. However, reflecting the general state of things not yet pursued, we have done nothing about that. Among the things to be discussed would be ACT-R 6.0. Dan Bothell is soon to release a draft of the specifications to the community for comment. I have read an earlier version and it looks good to me. Next summer in Pittsburgh, John Anderson -- ========================================================== 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/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rsun at rpi.edu Wed Dec 24 15:06:27 2003 From: rsun at rpi.edu (Professor Ron Sun) Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 15:06:27 -0500 (EST) Subject: [ACT-R-users] Graduate assistantships available Message-ID: I am looking for a few Ph.D students. The Ph.D program of the Cognitive Science department at RPI is accepting applications. Graduate assistantships and other forms of financial support for graduate students are available. Prospective graduate students with interests in Cognitive Science, especially in learning and skill acquisition and in the relation between cognition and sociality, are encouraged to apply. Prospective applicants should have background in computer science (the equivalent of a BS in computer science), and have some prior exposure to artificial intelligence, connectionist models (neural networks), multi-agent systems, and other related areas. Students with a Master's degree already completed are preferred. RPI is a top-tier research university. This new department has identified the Ph.D program and research as its primary missions. The department is conducting research in a number of areas: computational cognitive modeling, human and machine learning, multi-agent interactions, neural networks and connectionist models, human and machine reasoning, artificial intelligence, cognitive engineering, and so on. See the Web page below regarding my research: http://wwww.cogsci.rpi.edu/~rsun For the application procedure, see http://www.cogsci.rpi.edu/ The application deadline is Jan.15, 2004. If you decide to apply, follow the official procedure as outlined on the Web page. Send me a short email (in plain text, ASCII) after you have completed the application. =================================================================== Professor Ron Sun Cognitive Science Department Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 110 Eighth Street, Carnegie 302A Troy, NY 12180, USA phone: 518-276-3409 fax: 518-276-8268 email: rsun at rpi.edu web: http://www.cogsci.rpi.edu/~rsun ===================================================================