From macklem at oakland.edu  Wed Mar  3 13:17:00 2004
From: macklem at oakland.edu (Andrea Macklem)
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 13:17:00 -0500
Subject: [ACT-R-users] Production selection
Message-ID: <16b381c6.1b64eee2.81a0600@mcfeely.acs.oakland.edu>

Hello everyone,

I am new to this mailing list and to working with ACT-R 
models.  I am a master?s student doing my research in 
validation and verification techniques for cognitive models.  
I have decided to write my own model to reference in my paper 
for illustration of my V&V methods.   This is where my 
question comes in.

I have a question regarding a model I am creating to solve 
the Tower of Hanoi problem.  At one point I have three 
productions (with the same utility) that can be fired.  I 
would like the selection of the production to be random 
(since all three have equal utilities at this point).  
However, when I step through my model it always selects the 
first production to fire each time.  How can I make the 
selection between the three completely random?

Any pointers to help achieve this randomness would be greatly 
appreciated!

Thanks,
Andrea Macklem
Oakland University

From macklem at oakland.edu  Wed Mar  3 13:25:30 2004
From: macklem at oakland.edu (Andrea Macklem)
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 13:25:30 -0500
Subject: [ACT-R-users] Trying again...Production Selection
Message-ID: <352184b4.1b65b64f.893ee00@mcfeely.acs.oakland.edu>

Hello everyone,

I am new to this mailing list and to working with ACT-R 
models.  I am a master?s student doing my research in 
validation and verification techniques for cognitive models.  
I have decided to write my own model to reference in my paper 
for illustration of my V&V methods.   This is where my 
question comes in.

I have a question regarding a model I am creating to solve 
the Tower of Hanoi problem.  At one point I have three 
productions (with the same utility) that can be fired.  I 
would like the selection of the production to be random 
(since all three have equal utilities at this point).  
However, when I step through my model it always selects the 
first production to fire each time.  How can I make the 
selection between the three completely random?

Any pointers to help achieve this randomness would be greatly 
appreciated!

Thanks,
Andrea Macklem
Oakland University

From db30 at andrew.cmu.edu  Wed Mar  3 14:30:05 2004
From: db30 at andrew.cmu.edu (Dan Bothell)
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 14:30:05 -0500
Subject: [ACT-R-users] Trying again...Production Selection
In-Reply-To: <352184b4.1b65b64f.893ee00@mcfeely.acs.oakland.edu>
References: <352184b4.1b65b64f.893ee00@mcfeely.acs.oakland.edu>
Message-ID: <794744171.1078324205@whatever.psy.cmu.edu>


--On Wednesday, March 03, 2004 1:25 PM -0500 Andrea Macklem 
<macklem at oakland.edu> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> I am new to this mailing list and to working with ACT-R
> models.  I am a master?s student doing my research in
> validation and verification techniques for cognitive models.
> I have decided to write my own model to reference in my paper
> for illustration of my V&V methods.   This is where my
> question comes in.
>
> I have a question regarding a model I am creating to solve
> the Tower of Hanoi problem.  At one point I have three
> productions (with the same utility) that can be fired.  I
> would like the selection of the production to be random
> (since all three have equal utilities at this point).
> However, when I step through my model it always selects the
> first production to fire each time.  How can I make the
> selection between the three completely random?
>
> Any pointers to help achieve this randomness would be greatly
> appreciated!
>

The quick and dirty answer is that you need to turn on the
enable randomness flag, the :er parameter.  The details of
all the global parameters can be found in the parameter
reference guide on the tutorials page of the ACT-R website:
http://act-r.psy.cmu.edu/tutorials.


Dan



From cimca at ise.canberra.edu.au  Mon Mar  8 06:38:00 2004
From: cimca at ise.canberra.edu.au (cimca)
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2004 22:38:00 +1100
Subject: [ACT-R-users] CFP: International Conference on Intelligent Agents, Web
 Technologies and Internet Commerce
Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.1.20040308223754.024129e0@hera.ucstaff.win.canberra.edu.au>

                              CALL FOR PAPERS
      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

                                Jointly with
      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



International Conference on Intelligent Agents, Web Technology and Internet
Commerce - IAWTIC'2004 provides a medium for researchers and practitioners 
to exchange
and explore the issues and opportunities in the area of intelligent agent, 
web technologies
and Internet commerce. 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. Papers (4 pages or more) should be submitted
to the following e-mail or postal address:

E-mail submission of draft papers: iawtic at ise.canberra.edu.au
Postal Submission of draft papers: IAWTIC'2004 Secretariat
                                    School of Computing,
                                    University of Canberra,
                                    ACT, Canberra, 2614, Australia

Papers should present original work, which has not been published or
being reviewed for other conferences. Papers should be written in English. 
The name and
affiliation of authors should be omitted on the paper. A separate page must 
be included
  with each extended abstract paper, containing, the names, affiliations, 
postal address
and e-mail addresses of authors as well as the address of contact author. 
E-mail submission
of papers are encouraged.

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 cl at andrew.cmu.edu  Mon Mar  8 11:14:24 2004
From: cl at andrew.cmu.edu (Christian Lebiere)
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2004 11:14:24 -0500
Subject: [ACT-R-users] AAAI 2004 Workshop Announcement
Message-ID: <2147483647.1078744464@[192.168.1.101]>

AAAI 2004 Workshop Announcement
Submission deadline: March 12, 2004

Intelligent Agent Architectures: Combining the Strengths of Software
Engineering and Cognitive Systems

We invite research and position papers from people interested in the
development of intelligent agent architectures that build on existing
traditions and expertise in cognitive systems, intelligent systems,
and software engineering.

The Intelligent Agent Architectures: Combining the Strengths of Software
Engineering and Cognitive Systems workshop will focus on issues in the
development of intelligent agent architectures that combine the functional
structures and mechanisms of cognitive architectures with the software
engineering principles that have been applied in various types of agent
systems. Workshop presentations and discussions will focus on developing
a common vision for agent architecture frameworks that allow for the
categorization, evaluation, and comparison of advanced agent architectures
in a unified way. Such frameworks will aid the development of agent
systems with human-level capabilities that incorporate significant amounts
of knowledge.  These frameworks will also facilitate the rapid development
and efficient maintenance of knowledge-intensive agent models.


Topics

We invite position papers (2 to 6 pages in length) from all members
of the research and engineering community who have experience and ideas
relevant to developing such frameworks. In order to help translate current
experience into formal engineering advances, papers will ideally include
analytical descriptions of particular data structures and processes
supported by one or more agent/cognitive architectures, include comments
and descriptions of how to compare and evaluate architectures, and/or
comment on experiences or methods for applying software engineering
principles to knowledge-intensive intelligent agents.

We particularly encourage the participation of active researchers
and developers in cognitive science, intelligent agents, and software
engineering, and we most strongly encourage participants with experience
in two or more of these areas.


Submissions

Please send submissions in a common electronic format (PDF, PostScript,
Word, or plain text) to rjones at colby.edu.


Committee

Randolph M. Jones, Colby College and Soar Technology (rjones at colby.edu);
Robert E. Wray, Soar Technology (wray at soartech.com);
Matthias Scheutz, University of Notre Dame (mscheutz at cse.nd.edu)




From purdue at vreme.yubc.net  Tue Mar  9 03:35:13 2004
From: purdue at vreme.yubc.net (purdue at vreme.yubc.net)
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 09:35:13 +0100
Subject: [ACT-R-users] VIP Forum Invitation CAITA-2004, WestLafayette, IN, USA
Message-ID: <200403090835.i298ZD511595@vreme.yubc.net>

Dear potential VIP Speaker:

We are pleased to invite you, as a VIP Forum speaker, to the
CAITA-2004 conference, Purdue University, West Lafayette, 
Indiana, USA (arrival: Thursday July 8, 2004. and departure 
Sunday July 11, 2004.). 

All relevant information and the detailed invitation letter 
can be found on the web (http://www.internetconferences.net). 
This is a broadband conference, aimed at bringing together 
the scientific/technical elite. Keynote: Dr. Dag von Lubitz, 
Laureate of the Smithsonian Award. Important deadlines:

Abstract - March 20 (the deadline is short, but 100 words is easy).
Full paper - April 10.

We invite participants (mostly from USA, Canada, Mexico, EU, 
Israel, and Far East) from the following three groups: (1) Well 
known University professors with a high citation index, (2) VIPs 
from leading industry, and (3) Talented PhD students from leading 
universities of the world. So far, at our conferences, in seven 
cases, Nobel Laureates gave the opening keynote. All those who 
visited our conferences in the past loved them and like to
come back - see the web for the lists of participants of our past
conferences. The stress of the conferences is on an active social 
program to induce creativity thru synergistic interaction, in a 
special setting. Also, each submitted paper goes to minimum 12 
reviewers (mostly to those referenced in the submitted paper).

If you plan to submit an abstract/paper, please reply to this 
e-mail at your earliest convenience, because the conference has 
a size limitation.

Sincerely yours,
Prof. Dr. Mileta Tomovic, General Chairman of CAITA-2004
Prof. Dr. Veljko Milutinovic, Program Chair of CAITA-2004

P.S. IPSI Belgrade organizes scientific conferences all over the World,
aimed at bringing together the elite of the world research.
More details on the Web (www.internetconferences.net).
So far, 7 times Nobel Laureates were talking at the opening ceremonies.

Those who come once, without exception, like to return. They like the
atmosphere (we invest a lot into the social interaction) and
especially they like the fact that the review included lots of useful
comments (in addition to the professional internal review, we do three
types of external review: IPSI, peer, and Google - via Google we find
the major references of their research, and we ask them to help with an
excellent review). We accept about 50% of the submitted papers, unless
we do the conference in a small hotel, in which case the acceptance rate
is smaller. Typically we do our conferences in the best hotels of the
World (see the Web for "The Best Small Hotels of the World").

If you like that we inform you about our conferences (6 emails per year,
for 12 conferences), please let us know. We will be informing you ONLY
if you explicitly tell us that you like that to happen.

Please, reply to purdue at vreme.yubc.net if you have questions
or to confirm your desire to be a member of our VIP CLUB!



From cimca at ise.canberra.edu.au  Wed Mar 10 22:20:36 2004
From: cimca at ise.canberra.edu.au (cimca)
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 14:20:36 +1100
Subject: [ACT-R-users] Special session on:  Intelligent knowledge acquisition and
 information retrieval
Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.1.20040311142024.024e8970@hera.ucstaff.win.canberra.edu.au>

                                    Special session on:
                Intellignet knowledge aquisition and information retrieval
                                  Due date: 22 March 2004

                                           at
               2004 International Conference on Computational Intelligence for
                    Modelling, Control and Automation - CIMCA'2004
                                 12 - 14 July 2004
                               Gold Coast - Australia


      The objective of this special session is to provide a forum for 
theoreticians and
      practitioners involved with developing methods and systems to assist
      the knowledge acquisition process.

      Knowledge acquisition remains to be the bottleneck for building a
      knowledge based system.

      Acquisition and use of knowledge for knowledge-based systems are 
major issues
      and there has been many attempts to solve this problem. Currently the 
application
      of computational intelligence techniques seems to provide a better 
solution to
      knowledge acquisition, modeling and knowledge management.

      Paper submitted to this special session can be in all aspects of 
knowledge
      acquisition and management including (but not restricted to):

     Knowledge acquisition and distributed knowledge acquisition
     Tools and techniques for knowledge acquisition and knowledge maintenance
     Machine learning and knowledge discovery
     Knowledge and knowledge modeling
     Knowledge acquisition and filtering from Internet


Papers submission
      Papers submitted to this special session will be reviewed by at least two
      reviewers.
      Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings and distributed at
      the conference.

Important Dates
     Papers due by: 21 March 2004
     Notification of Acceptance: 20 April 2004
     Camera-ready version of Final paper due: 20 May 2004


Information and instructions for Paper Submission
      Papers describing original research related to the special session 
should be
      submitted in Word for Windows or PDF format to cimca at ise.canberra.edu.au
      The expected length of papers to be up to 12 pages.
      They should be printed in 12pt font for normal text.






From byrne at rice.edu  Fri Mar 12 15:36:39 2004
From: byrne at rice.edu (Mike Byrne)
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 14:36:39 -0600
Subject: [ACT-R-users] RPM 2.2 release
Message-ID: <r02010100-1032-F70ED490746411D8B731000A9571ABAA@[128.42.98.180]>

ACT-R folks,

I just released a new version of RPM.  A couple small new features
requested by various folks, and a couple small bug fixes.  As
usual, the code is available from:

http://chil.rice.edu/projects/RPM/download.html

Release notes:
___________________________________________________________________

VERSION 2.2

* Released 2004.03.12 

* When only one or two things on the display have changed and the
display is very complex, calling PM-PROC-DISPLAY could be slow. New
functions PM-ADD-SCREEN-OBJECT and PM-DELETE-SCREEN-OBJECT should
help.

* Numerous small changes to the documentation: some small errors
corrected, some stuff added.

* Noise in the cursor movement output position is now a switchable
feature.

* Time randomization is more flexible. The :RANOMIZE-TIME parameter
can now take a number as an argument to set the width of the
uniform random distribution; see the documentation.

* Added a VIEW-KEY-EVENT-HANDLER method for editable text dialog
items, which used to break. (MCL only.)

* Code updated with LGPL stuff.

* Changed name of BUILD-SEVT-DMO to AUDIO-ENCODING-COMPLETE to
improve trace readability.

* Added hash table for word articulation durations so they can be
looked up rather than computed on the fly. Set with
(PM-REGISTER-ARTICULATION-TIME string time). Time is in seconds.

* Added a new parameter, :REAL-TIME-SLACK-HOOK-FCT. This is a
function which will be called when ACT is running in "real time"
mode whenever ACT is waiting for real time to catch up to simulated
time. The function is called with one argument, which is the
disparity (in seconds) between ACT-R's clock and the wall clock.

* Fixed bug in +aural-location> handling of the "kind" and
"locations" slots.

* Homing the hand to the mouse is now faster because it uses a more
appropriate width.

* An under-the-hood change to some of the MCL interface stuff (new
RPM-OVERLAY view class).

* Changed the way the cursor location is represented internally,
which should solve some odd cursor movement problems.

* Made some minor changes in EMMA to better support the eye spot on
non-MCL Lisps. DEVICE-UPDATE-EYE-LOC will now be called on the
device whenever the eye position changes, and device writers can
feel free to define a method for that, or not. A default method for
MCL windows is supplied.

___________________________________________________________________


Any questions, please let me know.

-Mike

===========================================================
Mike Byrne, Ph.D.                             byrne at acm.org
Assistant Professor, Psychology Department
Rice University, MS-25          http://chil.rice.edu/byrne/
6100 Main Street                      +1 713-348-3770 voice
Houston, TX  77005-1892                 +1 713-348-5221 fax



From schunn+ at pitt.edu  Wed Mar 17 10:06:01 2004
From: schunn+ at pitt.edu (Christian Schunn)
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 10:06:01 -0500
Subject: [ACT-R-users] upcoming ICCM2004 submission deadline
Message-ID: <p06020430bc7e0da63527@[136.142.95.219]>

Upcoming April 1st, 2004 paper submission deadline for the Sixth 
International Conference of Cognitive Modeling---ICCM-2004 
http://simon.lrdc.pitt.edu/~iccm
The conference is to be held July 29 - August 1, 2004, in Pittsburgh, 
USA (jointly between Carnegie Mellon University and the University of 
Pittsburgh).


Types of Submissions
We are accepting paper and poster submissions until the deadline of 
April 1, 2004
  * Papers. Refereed papers for publication in proceedings. These will 
be presented as talks or as posters. The best student paper and the 
best applied modeling paper will receive an award.
  * Symposia. Proposals for a complete 90-minute symposium on current 
research topics. Proposals should list participants and moderator, 
and include a one page summary of the topic.

Poster-abstracts may be submitted anytime before June 1, 2004.
  *  Poster abstracts. 2-page extended abstracts for presentation as 
posters and inclusion in the proceedings.

  All submissions must be made electronically, via Adobe Acrobat 
files.  The URL to use for submissions is
  https://precisionconference.com/~iccm/


Submission Formats
All submissions must be Adobe Acrobat files. These files must be 
readable by the standard Acrobat Reader and editable by people other 
than the author. The details of the required format are described in 
the sample documents available on our website 
(http://simon.lrdc.pitt.edu/~iccm). For your convenience, there are 
files for Microsoft Word and LaTeX that you can use as templates. 
With a few exceptions (especially length) the formatting details are 
the same for all types of submissions. Please do not edit the margins 
or font settings of these files.

Page length: Submitted papers can be up to six pages long. Papers 
accepted for publication will appear in the proceedings, and will 
either be presented as a talk or as a poster at the 
conference. Symposia are one page long and poster abstracts are two 
pages long. 

===========================================

About the conference:

THEME
ICCM brings researchers together who develop computational models 
that explain/predict cognitive data. The core theme of ICCM2004 is 
Integrating Computational Models: models that integrate diverse data; 
integration across modeling approaches; and integration of teaching 
and modeling.

ICCM2004 seeks to grow the discipline of computational cognitive modeling.
Towards this end, it will provide
- a sophisticated modeling audience for cutting-edge researchers
- critical information on the best computational modeling teaching 
resources for teachers of the next generation of modelers
- a forum for integrating insights across alternative modeling 
approaches (including connectionism, symbolic modeling, dynamical 
systems, Bayesian modeling, and cognitive architectures) in both 
basic research and applied settings, across a wide variety of 
domains, ranging from low-level perception and attention to 
higher-level problem-solving and learning.
- a venue for planning the future growth of the discipline


INVITED SPEAKERS

Kenneth Forbus (Northwestern University)
Michael Mozer (University of Colorado at Boulder)


SUBMISSION CATEGORIES --- DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: April 1st 2004

Papers and Posters
Papers and posters will follow the 6-page 10-point double-column 
single-spaced US-letter format used by the Annual Cognitive Science 
Society Meeting. Formatting templates and examples will be made 
available on the website. The research being presented at ICCM-2004 
will appear in the conference proceedings. The proceedings will 
contain 6-page extended descriptions for paper presentations and 
2-page extended abstracts for poster presentations. There will also 
be an opportunity to attach model code and simulation results in an 
electronic form.

Comparative Symposia
Three to five participants submit a symposium in which they all 
present models relating to the same domain or phenomenon. The 
participants must agree upon a set of fundamental issues in their 
domain that all participants must address or discuss. Parties 
interested in putting a comparative symposia proposal together are 
highly encouraged to do so well before the April 1st deadline and 
will be given feedback shortly after submission. Please see the 
website for additional information.

Newell Prize for Best Student Paper
Award given to the paper first-authored by a student that provides 
the most innovative or complete account of cognition in a particular 
domain. The winner of the award will receive full reimbursement for 
the conference fees, lodging costs, and a $1,000 stipend.

The Best Applied Research Paper Award
To be eligible, 1) the paper should capture behavioral data not 
gathered in the psychology lab OR the paper should capture behavioral 
data in a task that has high external validity; 2) the best paper is 
the one that one from this category that provides the most innovative 
or complete solution to a real-world, practical problem.

Doctoral Consortium
Full-day session 1 day prior to main conference for doctoral students 
to present dissertation proposal ideas to one another and receive 
feedback from experts from a variety of modeling approaches (this 
year, David Touretzky and Wayne Gray). Student participants receive 
complimentary conference registration as well as lodging and travel 
reimbursement---maximum amounts will be determined at a later date.


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)


Further information about the conference can be found at 
http://simon.lrdc.pitt.edu/~iccm or through email inquiries to 
iccm at pitt.edu.

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From schunn+ at pitt.edu  Wed Mar 17 10:07:31 2004
From: schunn+ at pitt.edu (Christian Schunn)
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 10:07:31 -0500
Subject: [ACT-R-users] upcoming ICCM2004 submission deadline
Message-ID: <p0602043abc7e19e71481@[136.142.95.219]>

Upcoming April 1st, 2004 paper submission deadline for the Sixth 
International Conference of Cognitive Modeling---ICCM-2004 
http://simon.lrdc.pitt.edu/~iccm
The conference is to be held July 29 - August 1, 2004, in Pittsburgh, 
USA (jointly between Carnegie Mellon University and the University of 
Pittsburgh).


Types of Submissions
We are accepting paper and poster submissions until the deadline of 
April 1, 2004
  * Papers. Refereed papers for publication in proceedings. These will 
be presented as talks or as posters. The best student paper and the 
best applied modeling paper will receive an award.
  * Symposia. Proposals for a complete 90-minute symposium on current 
research topics. Proposals should list participants and moderator, 
and include a one page summary of the topic.

Poster-abstracts may be submitted anytime before June 1, 2004.
  *  Poster abstracts. 2-page extended abstracts for presentation as 
posters and inclusion in the proceedings.

  All submissions must be made electronically, via Adobe Acrobat 
files.  The URL to use for submissions is
  https://precisionconference.com/~iccm/


Submission Formats
All submissions must be Adobe Acrobat files. These files must be 
readable by the standard Acrobat Reader and editable by people other 
than the author. The details of the required format are described in 
the sample documents available on our website 
(http://simon.lrdc.pitt.edu/~iccm). For your convenience, there are 
files for Microsoft Word and LaTeX that you can use as templates. 
With a few exceptions (especially length) the formatting details are 
the same for all types of submissions. Please do not edit the margins 
or font settings of these files.

Page length: Submitted papers can be up to six pages long. Papers 
accepted for publication will appear in the proceedings, and will 
either be presented as a talk or as a poster at the 
conference. Symposia are one page long and poster abstracts are two 
pages long. 

===========================================

About the conference:

THEME
ICCM brings researchers together who develop computational models 
that explain/predict cognitive data. The core theme of ICCM2004 is 
Integrating Computational Models: models that integrate diverse data; 
integration across modeling approaches; and integration of teaching 
and modeling.

ICCM2004 seeks to grow the discipline of computational cognitive modeling.
Towards this end, it will provide
- a sophisticated modeling audience for cutting-edge researchers
- critical information on the best computational modeling teaching 
resources for teachers of the next generation of modelers
- a forum for integrating insights across alternative modeling 
approaches (including connectionism, symbolic modeling, dynamical 
systems, Bayesian modeling, and cognitive architectures) in both 
basic research and applied settings, across a wide variety of 
domains, ranging from low-level perception and attention to 
higher-level problem-solving and learning.
- a venue for planning the future growth of the discipline


INVITED SPEAKERS

Kenneth Forbus (Northwestern University)
Michael Mozer (University of Colorado at Boulder)


SUBMISSION CATEGORIES --- DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: April 1st 2004

Papers and Posters
Papers and posters will follow the 6-page 10-point double-column 
single-spaced US-letter format used by the Annual Cognitive Science 
Society Meeting. Formatting templates and examples will be made 
available on the website. The research being presented at ICCM-2004 
will appear in the conference proceedings. The proceedings will 
contain 6-page extended descriptions for paper presentations and 
2-page extended abstracts for poster presentations. There will also 
be an opportunity to attach model code and simulation results in an 
electronic form.

Comparative Symposia
Three to five participants submit a symposium in which they all 
present models relating to the same domain or phenomenon. The 
participants must agree upon a set of fundamental issues in their 
domain that all participants must address or discuss. Parties 
interested in putting a comparative symposia proposal together are 
highly encouraged to do so well before the April 1st deadline and 
will be given feedback shortly after submission. Please see the 
website for additional information.

Newell Prize for Best Student Paper
Award given to the paper first-authored by a student that provides 
the most innovative or complete account of cognition in a particular 
domain. The winner of the award will receive full reimbursement for 
the conference fees, lodging costs, and a $1,000 stipend.

The Best Applied Research Paper Award
To be eligible, 1) the paper should capture behavioral data not 
gathered in the psychology lab OR the paper should capture behavioral 
data in a task that has high external validity; 2) the best paper is 
the one that one from this category that provides the most innovative 
or complete solution to a real-world, practical problem.

Doctoral Consortium
Full-day session 1 day prior to main conference for doctoral students 
to present dissertation proposal ideas to one another and receive 
feedback from experts from a variety of modeling approaches (this 
year, David Touretzky and Wayne Gray). Student participants receive 
complimentary conference registration as well as lodging and travel 
reimbursement---maximum amounts will be determined at a later date.


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)


Further information about the conference can be found at 
http://simon.lrdc.pitt.edu/~iccm or through email inquiries to 
iccm at pitt.edu.

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From pirolli at parc.xerox.com  Mon Mar 22 14:01:30 2004
From: pirolli at parc.xerox.com (Peter Pirolli)
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 11:01:30 PST
Subject: [ACT-R-users] ACT-R Summer Internship at PARC
Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20040322105558.04812110@louise.parc.xerox.com>

Summer Graduate Student Internship @ PARC

The User Interface Research area at PARC is looking for a summer intern who 
has significant experience with ACT-R. We are developing cognitive models 
(and cognitive engineering models) for human-information interaction. In 
the past, our interns have worked on ACT-R models of users surfing the Web 
and users interacting with a highly dynamic information visualization.

If interested, please contact Peter Pirolli (pirolli at parc.com) directly 
with a vita and statement of interests.  There is no need to apply through 
the regular PARC Summer Internship Program.








From ritter at ist.psu.edu  Mon Mar 22 15:53:04 2004
From: ritter at ist.psu.edu (Frank Ritter)
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 15:53:04 -0500
Subject: [ACT-R-users] two papers of interest: predicting phone usage, and Categorical
 displays
Message-ID: <p05200f02bc824c97535f@[10.0.1.8]>

I've not seen a lot of papers being sent out to these lists lately, 
but I think doing so is still important and can be relevant.

There are two papers about to be published that I would like to 
share.  Both are online.  The first is a success story of a  model to 
predict human behaviour.

    St. Amant, R., Horton, T. E., & Ritter, F. E.  (in press). 
Model-based evaluation of cell
    phone menu interaction.  Proceedings of CHI'04. 
http://acs.ist.psu.edu/papers/stamantHR04.pdf

The other paper introduces a display tool (CaDaDis) for categorical 
data that we have hooked up to Soar and to ACT-R.  If you would like 
to use it, you can download it (details of what it is in the paper). 
If you have problems using it, or want it extended,  our project 
includes the ability to support this type of development.

   Tor, K., Ritter, F. E., Haynes, S. R., & Cohen, M. A.  (in press). 
CaDaDis: A tool for
   displaying the behavior of cognitive models and agents.  In 
Proceedings of the 13th
   Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation.
   http://acs.ist.psu.edu/papers/torRHC04.pdf

Cheers,

Frank




From BrumbyDP at Cardiff.ac.uk  Tue Mar 23 08:07:37 2004
From: BrumbyDP at Cardiff.ac.uk (Duncan Brumby)
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 13:07:37 +0000
Subject: [ACT-R-users] School Fellowship
Message-ID: <s06036a7.031@MAINCF1P.cf.ac.uk>

See attached. 



Duncan Brumby
School of Psychology
Cardiff University
PO Box 901
Cardiff, Wales
CF10 3YG

email: BrumbyDP at cardiff.ac.uk 
web: http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/psych
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From rsun at rpi.edu  Wed Mar 24 17:51:19 2004
From: rsun at rpi.edu (Professor Ron Sun)
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 17:51:19 -0500
Subject: [ACT-R-users] New issues of cognitive systems research
Message-ID: <406210E7.1080907@rpi.edu>

 

New issues of COGSYS are now available:
 

===============================================================================* 
Cognitive Systems Research
   Volume 5, Issue 1, Pages 1-92 (March 2004)
   http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/issue/6595-2004-999949998-477744
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Cognitive Systems Research Volume 5, Issue 1, Pages 1-92 (March 2004)
TABLE OF CONTENTS
 

Measurement and the explanation of adaptive and novel behaviors in real 
and artificial creatures, Pages 3-39
Tony Savage
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6W6C-49Y98GB-1/1/377a64b17e66f20cb54bdfa975817109
 

Collaborative discovery in a simple reasoning task, Pages 41-62
Kazuhisa Miwa
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6W6C-4B4PS1K-1/1/91f1ee47d880d80b96a20d3d30a74a68
 

Top-down versus bottom-up learning in cognitive skill acquisition, Pages 
63-89
Ron Sun and Xi Zhang
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6W6C-4B4XNFS-1/1/7355a40f04b5fec0d36494e2d947db08
 

 
 
===============================================================================* 
Cognitive Systems Research
   Volume 5, Issue 2, Pages 93-168 (June 2004)
   http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/issue/6595-2004-999949997-489549
===============================================================================
Cognitive Systems Research Volume 5, Issue 2, Pages 93-168 (June 2004)
TABLE OF CONTENTS
 

Neural coding strategies and mechanisms of competition, Pages 93-117
M. W. Spratling  and M. H. Johnson
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6W6C-4B8K8K1-1/1/ed991cedac96d6afcf0fbd5177af09bf
 

A symbolic model of human attentional networks, Pages 119-134
Hongbin Wang , Jin Fan  and Todd R. Johnson
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6W6C-4BMC5RR-1/1/586352b2e5ee4da2711b2655f3114b87
 

Cognitive paradigms: which one is the best?, Pages 135-156
Carlos Gershenson
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6W6C-4B4PS1K-2/1/6f37de20de6e2aa94ee0c30a6b19867c
 

Review of Pointing: Where Language, Culture and Cognition Meet, S. Kita 
(Ed.);
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2003; ISBN 0-8058-4014-1, Pages 157-165
David A. Leavens
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6W6C-4BMC5RR-2/1/3e6f9639425654d46a7da63c262faf6d
 


 

===============================================================================If 
you have questions, please locate Help Desk
at http://www.info.sciencedirect.com/contacts.
 

See the following Web page for submission, subscription, and other
information  regarding Cognitive Systems Research:
http://www.cogsci.rpi.edu/~rsun/journal.html
 

 


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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
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From schunn+ at pitt.edu  Wed Mar 31 13:24:07 2004
From: schunn+ at pitt.edu (Christian Schunn)
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 13:24:07 -0500
Subject: [ACT-R-users] ICCM2004 submission deadline extension
Message-ID: <p06020445bc90baf79ac2@[136.142.95.219]>

Because of some confusion on the deadline and many who appear to need 
a few extra days, we have decided to extend the paper and symposia 
submission deadlines for ICCM2004 to April 7th, 2004.

So, to list all the deadlines as they stand now:

Papers + Symposia: April 7, 23:59 EDST
Poster-abstracts: June 15, 23:59 EDST
Doctoral Consortium submissions: April 1, 23:59 EDST

For further information about ICCM2004 and submission instructions, 
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)
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