From conzalez at andrew.cmu.edu Wed Jun 2 13:22:15 2004 From: conzalez at andrew.cmu.edu (Cleotilde Gonzalez) Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2004 13:22:15 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Post-doctoral position Message-ID: <9189312.1086182535@Alcona.andrew.ad.cmu.edu> POSTDOCTORAL POSITION Dynamic Decision Making Laboratory Carnegie Mellon University The Dynamic Decision Making Laboratory (DDMLab) (www.cmu.edu/ddmlab) in the department of Social and Decision Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) invites applications for a Postdoctoral fellowship position in the area of decision making. Research projects require experience planning and conducting laboratory studies as well as observing and collecting data in large organizations. The DDMLab offers training and research opportunities involving several aspects of dynamic decision making: learning and transfer, cognitive support and cognitive modeling among others. The ideal candidate will have a Ph.D. in Psychology, Cognitive Science, Decision Science or equivalent, and experience conducting laboratory experiments using complex simulations. We expect candidates to have strong research interests in all facets of dynamic decision making research: conducting cognitive task analysis of real world situations, helping in the design of computer simulations that mimic the real world, conducting laboratory studies using these simulations, analyzing data and writing reports. Appointment will pay highly competitive rates based on background and experience. This position is scheduled to start on August 1, 2004 and extend for one or up to two years. Applicants should send curriculum vitae, statement of research skills and interests, and relevant journal articles. Also, three letters of reference should be forwarded. Electronic applications are encouraged. Please send electronic documents (Word, Pdf) to: coty at cmu.edu or forward paper documents to: Dr. Cleotilde Gonzalez Dynamic Decision Making Laboratory Social and Decision Sciences Department Carnegie Mellon University 5000 Forbes Ave ? Porter Hall Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Carnegie Mellon is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. For more information on our Equal Employment/Affirmative Action Policy and our Statement of Assurance, go to: http://www.cmu.edu/policies/documents/SoA.html From schunn+ at pitt.edu Tue Jun 8 13:03:49 2004 From: schunn+ at pitt.edu (Christian Schunn) Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 13:03:49 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] upcoming ICCM2004 poster deadline Message-ID: International Conference on Cognitive Modeling Pittsburgh, PA Carnegie Mellon University + University of Pittsburgh July 29 - Aug 1, 2004 The submission deadline for 2-page poster-abstracts for ICCM2004 is June 15, 23:59 EDST To submit a poster abstract, go to: http://simon.lrdc.pitt.edu/~iccm/abstract-submit.html Formatting instructions can be found at: http://simon.lrdc.pitt.edu/~iccm/ICCM2004-Submissions.html The schedule of talks will be posted later this week. For further information about ICCM2004, see http://simon.lrdc.pitt.edu/~iccm/ CONFERENCE CHAIRS Marsha Lovett (lovett at cmu.edu) Christian Schunn (schunn at pitt.edu) Christian Lebiere (clebiere at maad.com) Paul Munro (pmunro at mail.sis.pitt.edu) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 1275 bytes Desc: not available URL: From schunn+ at pitt.edu Tue Jun 8 13:45:05 2004 From: schunn+ at pitt.edu (Christian Schunn) Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 13:45:05 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] ICCM2004 registration is now open Message-ID: <93AEBAF2-B973-11D8-B937-000393BCD4AC@pitt.edu> International Conference on Cognitive Modeling Pittsburgh, USA Carnegie Mellon University + University of Pittsburgh July 29 - Aug 1, 2004 Online registration for ICCM2004 is now open. Early registration rates are valid until June 28, 2004. Follow the registration link at: http://simon.lrdc.pitt.edu/~iccm/ Early registration: Students $50, Nonstudents $100 Full registration (after June 28th): Students $75, Nonstudents $150. These fees include the cost of the program, the proceedings, the poster reception, the banquet, the break food, and a few other surprises (i.e., the conference fee is surprisingly low). Full and half-day tutorials (on CHREST, Cogent, EPIC, and SOAR) are taking place on the 29th of July, at an extra cost. ($40/half day for nonstudents, $30/half day for students). Registration for tutorials, parking, and staying on campus at the dorms are all done on the same registration page. Those choose to stay at local hotels will make their hotel reservations directly with the hotels. Links are available at: http://simon.lrdc.pitt.edu/~iccm/hotels.html Plenary speakers are Ken Forbus and Michael Mozer. Special symposia include modeling of eye-movements and the pokerbot competition results. 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URL: From jpeters at rhsmith.umd.edu Thu Jun 17 07:41:25 2004 From: jpeters at rhsmith.umd.edu (James Peters) Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 07:41:25 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Information Overload in Command and Control Message-ID: I have a vague memory of information passing the way of this list about research into how to help field commanders sort through the ton of information that the military currently can generate about any combat situation. If any of you know of research relevant to this broad topic, particularly involving ACT-R models, I would appreciate pointers to the references. Thanks. Jim James M. Peters, Ph.D., CPA Department of Accounting and Information Assurance R. H. Smith School of Business University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742-7215 TEL - (301) 405-0570 FAX - (301) 314-9414 jmpeters at umd.edu http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu:8001/jpeters/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From db30 at andrew.cmu.edu Thu Jun 17 12:44:07 2004 From: db30 at andrew.cmu.edu (Dan Bothell) Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 12:44:07 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Information Overload in Command and Control In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <3796489.1087476247@[192.168.123.198]> --On Thursday, June 17, 2004 7:41 AM -0400 James Peters wrote: > > I have a vague memory of information passing the way of this list about > research into how to help field commanders sort through the ton of > information that the military currently can generate about any combat > situation. If any of you know of research relevant to this broad topic, > particularly involving ACT-R models, I would appreciate pointers to the > references. > > Thanks. > > Jim I'm not sure if this is what you're remembering or not, but at the last workshop there was a talk titled "Cognitive Architecture for Situation Awareness (CASA)" on work by Octavio Juarez and Cleotilde Gonzalez that seems related to what you want. You can get the slides from the ACT-R site at: Hope that helps, Dan From conzalez at andrew.cmu.edu Thu Jun 17 12:51:40 2004 From: conzalez at andrew.cmu.edu (Cleotilde Gonzalez) Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 12:51:40 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Information Overload in Command and Control In-Reply-To: <3796489.1087476247@[192.168.123.198]> References: <3796489.1087476247@[192.168.123.198]> Message-ID: <83526609.1087476700@Alcona.andrew.ad.cmu.edu> Jim, One of the current projects in my lab () aims to develop computational models of Situation Awareness during combat. We are using ACT-R and an Army simulation OneSaf TestBed. see the papers in BRIMS 2003 and 2004 and contact me if you would like more information. Coty -- Prof. Cleotilde Gonzalez Carnegie Mellon University Social and Decision Sciences 5000 Forbes Ave. Porter Hall 223C Pittsburgh PA 15213 tel: (412) 268-6242 fax: (412) 268-6938 --On Thursday, June 17, 2004 12:44 PM -0400 Dan Bothell wrote: > --On Thursday, June 17, 2004 7:41 AM -0400 James Peters > wrote: > >> >> I have a vague memory of information passing the way of this list >> about research into how to help field commanders sort through the >> ton of information that the military currently can generate about >> any combat situation. If any of you know of research relevant to >> this broad topic, particularly involving ACT-R models, I would >> appreciate pointers to the references. >> >> Thanks. >> >> Jim > > I'm not sure if this is what you're remembering or not, but at the > last workshop there was a talk titled "Cognitive Architecture for > Situation Awareness (CASA)" on work by Octavio Juarez and Cleotilde > Gonzalez that seems related to what you want. You can get the > slides from the ACT-R site at: > > > > Hope that helps, > Dan > > _______________________________________________ > 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 ilya at dit.unitn.it Thu Jun 17 10:24:27 2004 From: ilya at dit.unitn.it (Ilya Zaihrayeu) Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 16:24:27 +0200 Subject: [ACT-R-users] 2nd CFP: International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Knowledge Management (P2PKM) Message-ID: <200406171429.i5HET2lS013742@dit.unitn.it> [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement] **** SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS ***** **NEWS: added invited talks** International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Knowledge Management (P2PKM) -- www.p2pkm.org -- August 22, 2004 - Boston, Massachusetts, USA Collocated with MobiQuitous 2004 (www.mobiquitous.org) Scope of workshop ----------------- Peer-to-Peer (P2P) computing has received significant attention from the side of research labs and academia, largely due to the popularity of commercialized P2P file sharing applications such as Napster, Morpheus and KaZaa. In the P2P model, peers exchange data and/or services in completely decentralized distributed manner. Peers are autonomous, and are free to choose what other peers to interact with, and, in this point-to-point interaction, peers possess equal functional capabilities. On the other hand, Knowledge Management (KM) is increasingly viewed as a core capacity in order to compete in the modern social and economic environment. Researchers and practitioners agree that those intellectual assets that are embedded in working practices, social relationships, and technological artefacts constitute the only source of value that can sustain long term differentiation, quality of services, innovation, and adaptability. Nonetheless, even due to a debatable success of current KM implementations, still unclear is how such matter should be managed in highly complex, distributed, and heterogeneous settings. In the last couple of years, P2P and KM have followed different but converging paths. In fact, P2P technologies have left their initial "computational", "anarchoyd", and spontaneous fashion to embrace more service level domains and business settings. On the other hand, KM is questioning its centralized assumption based on the implicit belief that knowledge is managed successfully when it can be standardized and controlled. In this sense, it seems that while P2P is looking for value added domains to better exploit its technological potential, KM is looking for a technological paradigm more able to fit an emerging distributed organization of knowledge. The convergence of P2P and KM creates new challenges for researchers to address: new methodologies to model, design, and deploy distributed KM solutions; theories and algorithms to represent the social and semantic dimensions of a knowledge network; mechanisms to cope with the dynamic autonomous nature of P2P and to provide means to support emergent network self-organization. New technologies should be provided in order to support full operational functioning of P2P KM systems, ensuring high extensibility of the solutions along several dimensions, such as scalability in the number of peers, size and kind of supported knowledge bases, level of heterogeneity in knowledge representation, robustness, etc. Various technologies can contribute to P2P KM solutions: Semantic Web, with new instruments for knowledge representation, in particular ontologies, as well as with (totally) mechanized means for locating, retrieving and processing of data; database technology, with formal semantics for P2P data sharing; multi agent technology, with innovation solutions of agent-mediated knowledge management; and so on. The P2PKM workshop is intended to serve as an active forum for researchers and practitioners, where they will have the possibility to exchange and discuss research results, novel ideas and experiences, laying in the intersection of the P2P, KM and Semantic Web, database, multi agent, as well as other related technologies. It aims at provoking a discussion around the hypothesis of convergence of P2P and KM areas, and, in particular, at exploring synergies among those that need to provide a distributed technological answer to the distributed management of knowledge, and those that are interested in exploring the substantial implications of the P2P paradigm on important aspects of organizational life such as KM. Topics of interest include but are not restricted to: ----------------------------------------------------- * Distributed Knowledge Management business cases and experiences; * P2P to support (virtual) communities of practice and interest networks; * Organizational impacts of P2P technologies, and social adoption of distributed technologies; * Methodologies to analyse, design and deploy distributed KM solutions; * Social models to design and support knowledge intensive collaborative processes in a P2P environment; * Data models and distributed query languages; * Meta-data representation and management (e.g., semantic-based coordination mechanisms, use of ontologies in P2P KM systems, etc.); * Algorithms to discover distributed knowledge among interacting peers; * Protocols, algorithms and techniques to support semantic interoperability; * Trust and reputation as means to support knowledge acquisition; * Semantic Web and P2P KM systems; * Agent-mediated knowledge management; * P2P KM system architectures, infrastructure and middleware; * Experience with deployed systems, performance evaluation and benchmarking; Important dates --------------- Submission deadline: June 30th, 2004 Acceptance notification: July 16th, 2004 Camera ready due: August 2nd, 2004 Workshop date: August 22nd, 2004 Submission instructions ----------------------- We invite the submission of high quality technical papers. The submitted papers should be formatted as close as possible to the Springer LNCS style and must not exceed 12 pages including figures and references. Interested authors should submit their papers at the EDAS site (http://edas.info/) within the submission deadline. PDF format is preferred, but other formats (PS, DOC) are also acceptable. Accepted papers will be published in the CEUR workshop electronic proceedings, and hardcopies of the proceedings will be handed out at the workshop. At least one author of each accepted paper must attend the workshop to present their work. Workshop Co-Chairs ------------------ Ilya Zaihrayeu University of Trento, Italy email: ilya at dit.unitn.it Matteo Bonifacio ITC-Irst, Italy email: bonifacio at itc.it Program Committee ----------------- * Matteo Bonifacio, ITC-Irst, Italy * David De Roure, University of Southampton, UK * Stefan Decker, Information Sciences Institute at the University of Southern California * Dieter Fensel, University of Innsbruck, Austria * Enrico Franconi, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy * Chiara Ghidini, ITC-Irst, Italy * Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento, Italy * Manfred Hauswirth, EPFL, Switzerland * Matthias Klusch, DFKI, Germany * Manolis Koubarakis, Technical University of Crete, Greece * Gabriel Kuper, University of Trento, Italy * Stefanie Lindstaedt, Austria's Competence Center for Knowledge Management * Deborah L. McGuinness, Stanford University, USA * Alberto Montresor, University of Bologna, Italy * Wolfgang Nejdl, University of Hannover and Learning lab Lower Saxony, Germany * Munindar P. Singh, North Carolina State University, USA * Mike Papazoglou, Tilburg University, Netherlands * Riccardo Rosati, Universit? di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy * Wee Sion NG, National University of Singapore * Steffen Staab, University of Karlsruhe, Germany * Igor Tatarinov, University of Washington, USA * Bernard Traversat, SUN Microsystems, USA Invited Talks ----------------- Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento, Italy. "A Peer-to-Peer Approach to Distributed Knowledge Management" Mark Maybury, the MITRE Corporation, USA. "Exploitation of Digital Artifacts and Interactions to Enable Peer-to-Peer Knowledge Management" Futher Information ------------------ For further information, please send an e-mail to: ilya at dit.unitn.it or visit: http://www.p2pkm.org/ From jimmyd at cc.gatech.edu Mon Jun 21 15:01:03 2004 From: jimmyd at cc.gatech.edu (Jim Davies) Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 15:01:03 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [ACT-R-users] notification of success to outside lisp program Message-ID: I am trying to get my LISP program to run act-r for one of its functions. Basically the LISP program does some processing, then adds things to the declarative memory. I want to run act-r to evaluate the processing, and if the evaluation comes out negative, run it in a different way. The act-r "run" function does not return anything usefull, so far as I can tell. Has anyone hacked act-r so that if, say, a given production fires, the top-level function returns something another lisp function can read? I have been running the act-r evaluator in 4.0, but could be persuaded to upgrade. JimDavies jimmyd at cc.gatech.edu cell phone: 404-388-4123 http://www.jimdavies.org/ work: 404.385-4305 From db30 at andrew.cmu.edu Mon Jun 21 15:16:47 2004 From: db30 at andrew.cmu.edu (Dan Bothell) Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 15:16:47 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] notification of success to outside lisp program In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <281988998.1087831007@whatever.psy.cmu.edu> --On Monday, June 21, 2004 3:01 PM -0400 Jim Davies wrote: > > I am trying to get my LISP program to run act-r for one of its functions. > Basically the LISP program does some processing, then adds things to the > declarative memory. I want to run act-r to evaluate the processing, and if > the evaluation comes out negative, run it in a different way. > > The act-r "run" function does not return anything usefull, so far as I can > tell. Has anyone hacked act-r so that if, say, a given production fires, > the top-level function returns something another lisp function can read? > > I have been running the act-r evaluator in 4.0, but could be persuaded to > upgrade. > I don't know exactly what you want, but I don't see any reason why you'd need to "hack" the code. There are lots of ways to get at information about which productions are firing with the system as is. Since you're using ACT-R 4.0 I recommend looking at the manual which you can find on the ACT-R site at: http://act.psy.cmu.edu/ftp/release/ACT-R_4.0/ A few options you could investigate are: - use !eval! in the productions to record information you need - set one of the hook functions (*firing-hook-fn* or *cycle-hook-fn*) so your code gets called with the productions as they fire - set the trace parameters to a stream which you can monitor Hope that helps, and if you have any questions feel free to ask, Dan From Frank.Ritter at psu.edu Thu Jun 24 21:04:26 2004 From: Frank.Ritter at psu.edu (Frank.Ritter at psu.edu) Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 21:04:26 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [ACT-R-users] CogModeling notes: ICCM04 & CogSci04 tutorials/2 Confs/positions/ECCM proceedings Message-ID: <200406250104.i5P14Qc28353@unknown> [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 some Emacs functions. The first announcement is the one that is driving this email, the announcement of tutorials at ICCM 2004. I don't anticipate much more traffic though, until the next ICCM in Trieste in 2006 has a schedule to go out. I will continue to send this to you about twice a year unless you tell me to stop. I think these announcements are each of some quality. cheers, Frank 1. Tutorial program at the 2004 International Conf. on Cognitive Modeling Thursday, 29 July 2004: CHREST / EPIC/ Soar/ iGen-Cognet http://acs.ist.psu.edu/iccm2004/tutorials.html 2. Tutorial program at 2004 Cognitive Science Conference, Wednesday 4 August 2004: Agents / Chrest / ACT-R / Baysian / iGen-COGNET http://acs.ist.psu.edu/cogsci2004/tutorials.html 3. The 12th European Conf. on Cognitive Ergonomics (ECCE-12): Living and Working with Technology 12-15th September 2004, University of York, UK http://www.ecce12.org.uk 4. Third International Conference on Development and Learning October 20-22, 2004 http://www.icdl.cc 5. The School of Informatics at City University is advertising 11 PhD Studentships http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/news/researchstudentship.html. [nothing further below] 6. Cognitive modeling position (Ph.D level) at BBN Technologies, Cambridge, MA. We are especially interested in candidates with an interest in games, AI, military training, cultural modeling, and intelligent tutoring systems. Contact Gabriella La Monica (glamonic at bbn.com) or Bruce Roberts (broberts at bbn.com). [nothing further below] 7. Special issue of online journal that may be of interest: Modellierung und Simulation in Mensch-Maschine-Systemen (Modeling and Simulation in Human-Machine-Systems). Edited by Sandro Leuchter, Martin C. Kindsmueller, Dirk Schulze-Kissing & Leon Urbas from MoDyS-Research Group at ZMMS, Technische Universitdt Berlin; ISSN 1439-7854 http://useworld.net/mmiij/musimms [nothing further below] 8. Proceedings of the 1998 European Cognitive Modeling Conference now available online *************************************************** 1. Tutorial Program at the 6th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling, 29 July 2004 There are four tutorials this year on Thursday 29 July). They cost $40 (about 25 pounds or 35 Euros) for each half-day of tutorial and $30 for students. Payment can be made using the registration site on the conference page, or can be paid for on the day (if space is available, which we anticipate). The program includes handouts, and a tea and a coffee break (including biscuits). Lunch is available nearby in downtown Pittsburgh (Oakland). There will be a meeting of the tutorial committee and tutors after the tutorials, location to be announced at the tutorials. There is a student rate, and such students must bring their ID to show at registration. Attendance at the tutorials does not require conference registration, but tutorial registration does not provide conference entrance. If you do not register for the conference, you must register for tutorials at the door. Registration for tutorial attendees will be from 8.30 am on 29 July in the first floor lobby of LRDC. It should take less than 5 minutes to get from the tutorial desk to the tutorial rooms, but please allow yourself this time to get to the room. If you have a lap top, please bring it to the sessions, as some tutorials will have you work in pairs on computers. If you don't have a laptop, there will be some to share. TOPICS CHREST, a Tool for Teaching Cognitive Modeling Gobet and Lane, Half-day (1400-1715) Building Cognitive Models with the EPIC Architecture for Human Cognition and Performance Kieras and Hornof, Whole-day (0915-1230 and 1400-1715) Building Agents in Soar Laird, Whole-day (0915-1230 and 1400-1715 Development of Cognitive Agents Using the COGNET Architecture and iGEN Toolset Zachary and Szczepkowski, Half-day (0915-1230) http://acs.ist.psu.edu/iccm2004/tutorials.html *************************************************** 2. Tutorial Program at Cognitive Science 2004, 4 August 2004 http://acs.ist.psu.edu/cogsci2004/tutorials.html Tutorials will present tutorial material, that is, provide results that are established and will do so in an interactive format. They tend to involve an introduction to technical skills or methods. This year the set of tutorials is focused on a range of cognitive architectures for modeling and teaching higher-level cognition. They will include substantial review of material. The level of presentation assumes that the attendees have at least a first degree in a cognate area. All of the tutorials are related to this year's theme, Higher-order Cognition. There is a student rate, and such students must bring their ID to show at registration. Attendance at the tutorials does not require conference registration, but tutorial registration does not provide conference entrance. There are five tutorials this year (one with two parts) on Wednesday 4 August (rooms to be announced on the day). They cost $65 (about 35 pounds or 55 Euros) for each half-day tutorial and $40 for students. Payment can be made using the registration site on the conference page, or can be paid for on the day (if space is available, which is likely). The program includes handouts, and a tea and a coffee break (including biscuits). Lunch is available nearby in downtown Chicago. There will be a meeting of the tutorial committee and tutors after the tutorials, location to be announced at the tutorials. Registration for tutorial attendees will be from 8.30 am on 4 August in the lobby of the River North Hotel. It should take less than 5 minutes to get from the tutorial desk to the tutorial rooms, but please allow yourself this time to get to the room. TOPICS Towards integrated cognitive architectures: Basic agent models Bonzon, Half-day (0915-1230) CHREST, a Tool for Teaching Cognitive Science Gobet and Lane, Half-day (1400-1715) ACT-R Tutorial Taatgen, Half-day (1400-1715) Bayesian models of inductive learning Tenenbaum and Griffiths, Part 1: Half-day (0915-1230) Part 2: Half-day (2-515 pm) Development of Cognitive Agents Using the COGNET Architecture and iGEN Toolset Zachary and Szczepkowski, Half-day (0915-1230) in the Westin River North, room to be announced http://acs.ist.psu.edu/cogsci2004/tutorials.html *************************************************** 3. The 12th European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics (ECCE-12) Living and Working with Technology 12-15th September 2004, University of York, UK ***Registration for ECCE-12 is now open*** Technology is now as much about leisure and socialising as it is about work and productivity. Cognitive ergonomics has accordingly become increasingly concerned with how people live with, work with, and enjoy technology in their daily lives. ECCE-12 is aimed at encouraging dialogue and debate between those studying how people live and work with technology. These will include practitioners and researchers from cognitive ergonomics, psychology, computer science, HCI, graphic design, interaction design, product design, human factors engineering, social science and technology studies. Full details of the conference including the advance programme and how to register can be found at http://www.ecce12.org.uk Informal enquiries should be directed to Sue Helliwell (sue at cs.york.ac.uk) *** ECCE-12 takes place directly after the BCS HCI 2004 conference in nearby Leeds. *************************************************** 4. ICDL-2004 announcement [paper call is closed, but conference is still noteworthy] ICDL 2004 CALL FOR PAPERS DEADLINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO FRIDAY, MAY 21 2004 There will be absolutely no further extensions. THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DEVELOPMENT AND LEARNING: DEVELOPING SOCIAL BRAINS The Salk Institute October 20-22, 2004 San Diego, California A Satellite Conference preceding The Annual Society for Neuroscience Conference http://www.icdl.cc The goal of the conference is to bring together leading researchers in neuroscience, machine learning, robotics, and developmental psychology, in order to gain new insights about learning and development in natural organisms and robots. The scope of developmental processes to be considered is broad, including cognitive, social, emotional, and many other skills exhibited by humans, and animals. The theme of the conference this year will be "Developing Social Brains", but other topics related to development and learning are welcome. PAPER SUBMISSION The extended submission deadline is May 21, 2004. Papers for the meeting can be submitted ONLY through the conference's web site at: http://www.icdl.cc. Papers can be submitted either as a 200 word summary or as a full paper (max 8 typeset pages). IMPORTANT: There will be NO further submission deadline extensions. SPECIAL ISSUE ON NEUROCOMPUTING Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their paper for publication in a special issue of the Neurocomputing Journal, on Development, Learning, and the Social Brain, published by Elsevier Science B.V. (http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/neucom) INVITED TALKS (Not yet confirmed) John Allman Dana Ballard Rodney Brooks Eric Courchesne Peter Dayan Jeff Elman William Greenough James L. McClelland Pietro Perona Terrence Sejnowski Joan Stiles John Watson ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: General Chair: Javier R. Movellan: Co-Chairs: Andrea Chiba, Gedeon Deak, Jochen Triesch. Program Chair: Jochen Triesch and Tony Jebara. Program Co-Chairs: Marian Stewart-Bartlett, Gwen Ford Littlewort. Publications Chair: Gedeon Deak. Hiroyuki Yano CONFERENCE REGISTRATION: Register online at http://www.icdl.cc Student Registration is: $150 Non-student Registration is: $290 *************************************************** 8. Proceedings of the 1998 European Cognitive Modeling Conference now available online The proceedings of the 1998 European Cognitive Modeling Conference are now online at http://acs.ist.psu.edu/papers/eccm98/ as pdf files of the major sections. ********************** -30- (END) From basagni at ECE.NEU.EDU Wed Jun 23 20:48:23 2004 From: basagni at ECE.NEU.EDU (Stefano Basagni) Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 20:48:23 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [ACT-R-users] MobiQuitous 2004, Call for PARTICIPATION Message-ID: We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this e-mail. ************************ CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ************************** MobiQuitous 2004 The First Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networking and Service http://mobiquitous.org/ August 22-26, 200, Royal Sonesta Hotel, Cambridge, Massachusetts USA Held in cooperation with AAAI, IEEE Computer Society, ACM SIGMOBILE and the European Union's IST program ************************************************************************** MobiQuitous 2004 is the first of a series of annual conferences focusing on the latest research in the rapidly growing area of mobile and ubiquitous computing. The combination of mobile and ubiquitous computing is emerging as a promising new paradigm with the goal to provide computing and communication services all the time, everywhere, transparently and invisibly to the user, using devices embedded in the surrounding physical environment. 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 networking technologies and devices, development of infrastructures supporting cognitive environments, and discovery and identification of ubiquitous computing applications and services. The First Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networking and Services 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. KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Prof. Mahadev Satyanarayanan, Carnagie Mellon University. TECHNICAL PROGRAM: 47 papers have been accepted for presentation and for publication in the conference proceedings. The advance program can be found online at the conference web page. TUTORIALS AND PANELS: Four half-day tutorials (security in public wireless networks, localization and tracking in ubiquitous systems, data management aspects of mobile and ubiquitous computing, semantic web services) and three panels (featuring topics such as the state-of-the-art and the potential for future developments in mobile and ubiquitous computing, and the mobile/ubiquitous computing security) will complement the technical program. WORKSHOPS: A-SWAN Workshop (AlgorithmS for Wireless And mobile Networks), P2PKM 2004 Workshop (The First International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Knowledge Management), PSPT 2004 Workshop (First Workshop on Pervasive Security, Privacy and Trust), SANPA 2004 Workshop (Second International Workshop on Sensor and Actor Network Protocols and Applications) will be held in conjunction with the main conference. DEMOS: The demo sessions will include more than a dozen demonstrations featuring technologies that enable the wired and wireless networking infrastructure for ubiquitous computing along with applications that showcase novel user experiences in environments of complex but invisible computing infrastructure. VENUE: A block of rooms has been reserved at the Royal Sonesta Hotel Boston (Cambridge) at 5 Cambridge Parkway, Cambridge, MA 02142-1299 for Conference participants. Please make your hotel arrangements early in order to insure getting a room at the special conference rate. If making your reservations by phone, you will need to mention that you are a participant of the ?MobiQuitous Conference? to receive the special, discounted conference price ($139 for a single or double room). Individuals can make their reservations by calling the Sonesta reservations department at +1-617-806-4200. IMPORTANT DATES: Discounted Hotel Reservation Deadline July 24th, 2004 Early Registration Deadline July 31st, 2004 Conference Dates August 22-26, 2004 -- Stefano Basagni, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Computer Engineering Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering 312 Dana Research Center Northeastern University 360 Huntington Ave. Boston, MA 02115 Tel. 617 373 3061, Fax 617 373 8970 E-mail: basagni at ece.neu.edu *** http://www.ece.neu.edu/faculty/basagni/ *** From ilya at dit.unitn.it Wed Jun 30 10:45:43 2004 From: ilya at dit.unitn.it (Ilya Zaihrayeu) Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 16:45:43 +0200 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Deadline Extension - CFP: P2PKM'04 Message-ID: <200406301450.i5UEoLlS018233@dit.unitn.it> **** Deadline Extension ***** The deadline of paper submission to the P2PKM'04 workshop is extended to July 5th. [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement] **** CALL FOR PAPERS ***** International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Knowledge Management (P2PKM) -- www.p2pkm.org -- August 22, 2004 - Boston, Massachusetts, USA Collocated with MobiQuitous 2004 (www.mobiquitous.org) Scope of workshop ----------------- Peer-to-Peer (P2P) computing has received significant attention from the side of research labs and academia, largely due to the popularity of commercialized P2P file sharing applications such as Napster, Morpheus and KaZaa. In the P2P model, peers exchange data and/or services in completely decentralized distributed manner. Peers are autonomous, and are free to choose what other peers to interact with, and, in this point-to-point interaction, peers possess equal functional capabilities. On the other hand, Knowledge Management (KM) is increasingly viewed as a core capacity in order to compete in the modern social and economic environment. Researchers and practitioners agree that those intellectual assets that are embedded in working practices, social relationships, and technological artefacts constitute the only source of value that can sustain long term differentiation, quality of services, innovation, and adaptability. Nonetheless, even due to a debatable success of current KM implementations, still unclear is how such matter should be managed in highly complex, distributed, and heterogeneous settings. In the last couple of years, P2P and KM have followed different but converging paths. In fact, P2P technologies have left their initial "computational", "anarchoyd", and spontaneous fashion to embrace more service level domains and business settings. On the other hand, KM is questioning its centralized assumption based on the implicit belief that knowledge is managed successfully when it can be standardized and controlled. In this sense, it seems that while P2P is looking for value added domains to better exploit its technological potential, KM is looking for a technological paradigm more able to fit an emerging distributed organization of knowledge. The convergence of P2P and KM creates new challenges for researchers to address: new methodologies to model, design, and deploy distributed KM solutions; theories and algorithms to represent the social and semantic dimensions of a knowledge network; mechanisms to cope with the dynamic autonomous nature of P2P and to provide means to support emergent network self-organization. New technologies should be provided in order to support full operational functioning of P2P KM systems, ensuring high extensibility of the solutions along several dimensions, such as scalability in the number of peers, size and kind of supported knowledge bases, level of heterogeneity in knowledge representation, robustness, etc. Various technologies can contribute to P2P KM solutions: Semantic Web, with new instruments for knowledge representation, in particular ontologies, as well as with (totally) mechanized means for locating, retrieving and processing of data; database technology, with formal semantics for P2P data sharing; multi agent technology, with innovation solutions of agent-mediated knowledge management; and so on. The P2PKM workshop is intended to serve as an active forum for researchers and practitioners, where they will have the possibility to exchange and discuss research results, novel ideas and experiences, laying in the intersection of the P2P, KM and Semantic Web, database, multi agent, as well as other related technologies. It aims at provoking a discussion around the hypothesis of convergence of P2P and KM areas, and, in particular, at exploring synergies among those that need to provide a distributed technological answer to the distributed management of knowledge, and those that are interested in exploring the substantial implications of the P2P paradigm on important aspects of organizational life such as KM. Topics of interest include but are not restricted to: ----------------------------------------------------- * Distributed Knowledge Management business cases and experiences; * P2P to support (virtual) communities of practice and interest networks; * Organizational impacts of P2P technologies, and social adoption of distributed technologies; * Methodologies to analyse, design and deploy distributed KM solutions; * Social models to design and support knowledge intensive collaborative processes in a P2P environment; * Data models and distributed query languages; * Meta-data representation and management (e.g., semantic-based coordination mechanisms, use of ontologies in P2P KM systems, etc.); * Algorithms to discover distributed knowledge among interacting peers; * Protocols, algorithms and techniques to support semantic interoperability; * Trust and reputation as means to support knowledge acquisition; * Semantic Web and P2P KM systems; * Agent-mediated knowledge management; * P2P KM system architectures, infrastructure and middleware; * Experience with deployed systems, performance evaluation and benchmarking; Important dates --------------- Submission deadline: July 5th, 2004 Acceptance notification: July 19th, 2004 Camera ready due: August 2nd, 2004 Workshop date: August 22nd, 2004 Submission instructions ----------------------- We invite the submission of high quality technical papers. The submitted papers should be formatted as close as possible to the Springer LNCS style and must not exceed 12 pages including figures and references. Interested authors should submit their papers at the EDAS site (http://edas.info/) within the submission deadline. PDF format is preferred, but other formats (PS, DOC) are also acceptable. Accepted papers will be published in the CEUR workshop electronic proceedings, and hardcopies of the proceedings will be handed out at the workshop. At least one author of each accepted paper must attend the workshop to present their work. Workshop Co-Chairs ------------------ Ilya Zaihrayeu University of Trento, Italy email: ilya at dit.unitn.it Matteo Bonifacio ITC-Irst, Italy email: bonifacio at itc.it Program Committee ----------------- * Matteo Bonifacio, ITC-Irst, Italy * David De Roure, University of Southampton, UK * Stefan Decker, Information Sciences Institute at the University of Southern California * Dieter Fensel, University of Innsbruck, Austria * Enrico Franconi, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy * Chiara Ghidini, ITC-Irst, Italy * Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento, Italy * Manfred Hauswirth, EPFL, Switzerland * Matthias Klusch, DFKI, Germany * Manolis Koubarakis, Technical University of Crete, Greece * Gabriel Kuper, University of Trento, Italy * Stefanie Lindstaedt, Austria's Competence Center for Knowledge Management * Deborah L. McGuinness, Stanford University, USA * Alberto Montresor, University of Bologna, Italy * Wolfgang Nejdl, University of Hannover and Learning lab Lower Saxony, Germany * Munindar P. Singh, North Carolina State University, USA * Mike Papazoglou, Tilburg University, Netherlands * Riccardo Rosati, Universit? di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy * Wee Sion NG, National University of Singapore * Steffen Staab, University of Karlsruhe, Germany * Igor Tatarinov, University of Washington, USA * Bernard Traversat, SUN Microsystems, USA Invited Talks ----------------- Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento, Italy. "A Peer-to-Peer Approach to Distributed Knowledge Management" Mark Maybury, the MITRE Corporation, USA. "Exploitation of Digital Artifacts and Interactions to Enable Peer-to-Peer Knowledge Management" Futher Information ------------------ For further information, please send an e-mail to: ilya at dit.unitn.it or visit: http://www.p2pkm.org/