[ACT-R-users] CogModeling notes: ICCM04 & CogSci04 tutorials/2 Confs/positions/ECCM proceedings

Frank.Ritter at psu.edu Frank.Ritter at psu.edu
Thu Jun 24 21:04:26 EDT 2004


[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

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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 

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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 

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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.

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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

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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. 


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