From jjoshi at sis.pitt.edu Thu Apr 6 22:54:02 2006 From: jjoshi at sis.pitt.edu (James Joshi) Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 22:54:02 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [ACT-R-users] IEEE IRI 2006: Call for Papers Message-ID: <29791654.1501144378576578.JavaMail.adminstrator@GIS39> [Apologies for multiple postings] The 2006 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IEEE IRI-2006) Heuristic Systems Engineering (Sponsored by the IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society) September 16-18, 2006, Hilton Waikoloa Village, Waikoloa, Hawaii, USA http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~iri06 This year's conference theme addresses all aspects of Heuristics as they relate to the Engineering design and operation of scalable Systems. This theme was selected to reflect the ever-increasing role played by intelligent systems in the engineering design process as well as the ever-increasing need to integrate mathematical logics with heuristic search in complex industrial systems (e.g., heuristic solutions of the TSP). The common problem confronting such systems is the acquisition and evolution of heuristics. In particular, the evolution of heuristics can be formalized in the context of reuse and integration. The IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration will feature contributed as well as invited papers. Theoretical and applied papers are both included in this call. The conference program will include special sessions and open forum workshops. Several funding agency program directors - including NSF, ONR, et al. - will present an open panel discussion entitled, 'Funding Opportunities in Information Reuse and Systems Engineering'. The conference includes, but is not limited to, the areas listed below: * Homeland Security * Component-Based Design * Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery * AI & Decision Support Systems * Heuristic Optimization * Fuzzy and Neural Systems * Heuristic Search * Large Scale Data Integration * Human-Machine Information Systems * Reuse in Software Engineering * Information Assurance * Soft Computing * Manufacturing Systems * Knowledge Acquisition and Management * Evolutionary Computing * Case-Based Reasoning * Modeling & Simulation * Multimedia Reuse & Integration * Internet Computing * Knowledge Management and E-Government * Agent-Based Systems * Sensory and Information Fusion * Natural Language Understanding * Command & Control Systems (C4ISR) * Space and Robotic Systems * Biomedical Systems INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS: Papers reporting original and unpublished research results pertaining to the above and related topics are solicited. Full paper manuscripts must be in English of length 4 to 6 pages (using the IEEE two-column template). Submissions should include the title, author(s), affiliation(s), e-mail address(es), tel/fax numbers, abstract, and postal address(es) on the first page. Papers should be submitted at the conference web site: http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~iri06. If web submission is not possible manuscripts should be sent as an attachment via email to one of the Program Chairs listed below on or before the deadline date of May 1, 2006. The attachment must be in .pdf (preferred) or word.doc format. The subject of the email must be 'IEEE IRI 2006 Submission.' Papers will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. Authors should certify that their papers represent substantially new work and are previously unpublished. Organizers of prospective special sessions and panels are invited to submit proposals and should contact one of the Program Chairs directly as soon as possible, but no later than April 15, 2006. Paper submission implies the intent of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper, if accepted. Authors of selected papers that are also presented at the conference will be invited to submit expanded versions of their papers for review for publication in the appropriate IEEE Journal or Transactions. IMPORTANT DATES: April 15, 2006 - Proposals for special sessions, panels, tutorials, and workshops (Extended Deadline) May 1, 2006 - Paper submission deadline June 10, 2006 - Notification of acceptance June 30, 2006 - Camera-ready paper due July 5, 2006 - Presenting author (paper presenter) registration due July 30, 2006 - Advance (discount) registration for general public and other co-author closing date August 21, 2006 - Hotel reservation (special discount rate) closing date ORGANIZERS: Honorary General Chair Lotfi Zadeh University of California, Berkeley, USA zadeh at cs.berkeley.edu General Chairs Stuart Rubin SPAWAR Systems Center, USA stuart.rubin at navy.mil Shu-Ching Chen Florida International University, USA chens at cs.fiu.edu Program Chairs Du Zhang California State University, USA zhangd at ecs.csus.edu Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar Florida Atlantic University, USA taghi at cse.fau.edu James B. D. Joshi University of Pittsburgh, USA jjoshi at mail.sis.pitt.edu Workshop Chair Eric Gregoire Universiti d'Artois, France gregoire at cril.univ-artois.fr Technical Chair and Treasurer Willie Chang Sacramento State University, USA changw at ecs.csus.edu Publications Chair V. Scott Gordon Sacramento State University, USA gordonvs at ecs.csus.edu Publicity Chair Elena Ferrari University of Insubria, Italy Elena.Ferrari at uninsubria.it Registration Chair Ju-Yeon Jo California State University, USA joj at ecs.csus.edu Local Arrangements Chair Louellen McCoy SPAWAR Systems Center, USA louellen.mccoy at navy.mil Webmaster Saubhagya Ram Joshi University of Pittsburgh, USA srjoshi at mail.sis.pitt.edu From taatgen at cmu.edu Mon Apr 10 09:00:58 2006 From: taatgen at cmu.edu (Niels Taatgen) Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 15:00:58 +0200 Subject: [ACT-R-users] John Anderson to win the 2006 Heineken Prize for Cognitive Science Message-ID: <87971070-3208-4C22-9236-1D7B8900D1D4@cmu.edu> This morning the Dutch Academy of Sciences has announced that John Anderson will be awarded the 2006 Heineken prize for Cognitive Science. He will receive the award on 28 September in Amsterdam. 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URL: From pavel at dit.unitn.it Tue Apr 18 03:46:42 2006 From: pavel at dit.unitn.it (pavel) Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 09:46:42 +0200 Subject: [ACT-R-users] CFP: IJSWIS Special Issue on Ontology Matching Message-ID: <00a101c662bc$72a641f0$5aeaa8c0@alphaekts5r299> Apologies for cross-postings -------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS -------------------------------------------------------------------- International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS) www.ijswis.org Special Issue on Ontology Matching THEME DESCRIPTION An ontology typically provides a vocabulary that describes a domain of interest and a specification of the meaning of terms used in the vocabulary. Depending on the precision of this specification, the notion of ontology encompasses several data/conceptual models, for example, classifications, database schemas, or fully axiomatized theories. Ontologies tend to be put everywhere. They are viewed as the silver bullet for many applications, such as information integration, electronic commerce, semantic web services, social networks, and so on. They, indeed, are a practical means to conceptualize what is expressed in a computer format. However, in open or evolving systems, such as the semantic web, different parties would, in general, adopt different ontologies. Thus, just using ontologies, like just using XML, does not reduce heterogeneity: it raises heterogeneity problems at a higher level. Ontology matching is a plausible solution to the semantic heterogeneity problem faced by information management systems. Ontology matching finds correspondences between semantically related entities of the input ontologies. These correspondences can be used for various tasks, such as ontology merging, query answering, data translation, etc. Thus, matching ontologies enables the knowledge and data expressed in the matched ontologies to interoperate. The goal of this special issue is to present recent advances in all the themes related to ontology matching. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: THEORIES AND METHODS Formal foundations and frameworks; Background knowledge in ontology matching; Uncertainty in ontology matching; Performance of ontology matching techniques; Interactive ontology matching; Explanations and transparency of ontology matching; Social aspects of ontology matching; Multilingual ontology matching; Partial automated ontology matching; Libraries of basic (elementary) automatic matchers; Automation of the combination of basic matchers; Self-configuration of matching solutions; Ontology matching evaluation methodology; Large evaluation dataset construction; Evaluation quality measures; Large-scale case studies. APPLICATIONS Information integration; Query answering; Web query interfaces integration; Peer-to-peer systems; Multi-agent systems; Web services integration. TOOLS User interfaces; Scalability of visualization techniques; Customizing technology; Systems and Infrastructures. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Submissions to this special issue should follow the Style and Author Guidelines for regular IJSWIS papers available at http://www.idea-group.com/ijswis. Please submit manuscripts through the online system at http://www.ijswis.org with a copy to Pavel Shvaiko at pavel at dit.unitn.it. We recommend that manuscripts do not exceed 35 pages (including figures and references). Potential authors are asked to notify the guest editors of their interest by email (pavel at dit.unitn.it) as soon as they are certain to provide a contribution. Submissions will be reviewed by the program committee of the special issue. Accepted papers will have an opportunity for further revision and an additional round of reviewers' feedback. SHEDULE Email Interest to Submit: as soon as the authors are certain to contribute. 30th June, 2006: submission deadline for manuscripts. 30th September 2006: completion of the 1st round of reviews. 30th November 2006: major/minor revisions due. 15th January 2007: completion of the 2nd round of reviews. 15th February 2007: editorial decisions sent. Planned Publication: IJSWIS Volume 3, Issue 3 (2007). SPECIAL ISSUE GUEST EDITORS Pavel Shvaiko, University of Trento, e-mail: pavel at dit.unitn.it Jerome Euzenat, INRIA Rhone-Alpes, e-mail: Jerome.Euzenat at inrialpes.fr PROGRAM COMMITTEE Sonia Bergamaschi, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy Diego Calvanese, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Jerome Euzenat, INRIA Rhone-Alpes, France Avigdor Gal, Technion, Israel Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento, Italy Bin He, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Ryutaro Ichise, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Yannis Kalfoglou, University of Southampton, UK Vipul Kashyap, Clinical Informatics R&D, Partners HealthCare System, USA Kristina Lerman, USC Information Sciences Institute, USA Marina Mongiello, Politecnico di Bari, Italy Natasha Noy, Stanford University, USA Luigi Palopoli, University of Calabria, Italy Arnon Rosenthal, MITRE, USA Pavel Shvaiko, University of Trento, Italy Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz, Germany Heiner Stuckenschmidt, University of Mannheim, Germany Petko Valtchev, University of Montreal, Canada Mikalai Yatskevich, University of Trento, Italy ABOUT THE JOURNAL The International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems is an open forum aiming to cultivate the Semantic Web vision within the Information Systems research community. In the common practice of anticipating Semantic Web as a technology driven phenomenon, a scientific insight is provided, which reveals the practical implications and the research challenges of Semantic Web in the context of Information Systems. It goes beyond the traditional research agenda of Information Systems and critical themes are analyzed through a Semantic Web perspective in horizontal and vertical pillars. More information about the Journal can be found at: http://www.idea-group.com/journals/details.asp?id=4625 http://www.ijswis.org More information about Ontology Matching can be found at: http://www.ontologymatching.org/ Thanks for your time and cooperation! -------------------------------------------------------- Pavel Shvaiko University of Trento Dept. of Information and Communication Technology Sommarive 14, POVO, 38050, TRENTO, ITALY Web: http://www.dit.unitn.it/~pavel/ http://www.ontologymatching.org/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ELPWang at ntu.edu.sg Thu Apr 20 02:09:34 2006 From: ELPWang at ntu.edu.sg (Lipo WANG) Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 14:09:34 +0800 Subject: [ACT-R-users] ICNC'06-FSKD'06 Call For Papers - Extended Deadline 25 April 2006 Message-ID: Dear Author, Upon the requests from numerous authors, the Organizing Committee of ICNC'06-FSKD'06 has decided to extend the submission deadline to 25 April, 2006. Please submit your paper via online submission system: http://icnc-fskd2006.elite.sg/. For all information, please visit our websites: http://www.icnc-fskd2006.org or http://see.xidian.edu.cn/nc2006 If you have any questions about the conference, please do not hesitate to contact us by: info at icnc-fskd2006.org. Best regards. ICNC'06-FSKD'06 Secretariat ICNC'06-FSKD'06 Call For Papers ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- Our sincere apologies if you receive multiple copies. We would appreciate it if you could circulate this email within your organization and friends. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- The 2nd International Conference on Natural Computation (ICNC'06) The 3rd International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD'06) http://www.icnc-fskd2006.org http://see.xidian.edu.cn/nc2006 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- 24 - 28 September 2006, Xi'an, China *** Submission Deadline Extended: April 25, 2006 *** CALL FOR PAPERS ICNC'06-FSKD'06 aims to provide a high-level international forum for scientists and researchers to present the state of the art of computational algorithms inspired from nature, including biological, ecological, and physical systems. It is an exciting and emerging interdisciplinary area in which a wide range of techniques and methods are being studied for dealing with large, complex, and dynamic problems. The joint conferences will feature plenary speeches given by worldwide renowned scholars, regular sessions with broad coverage, and some special sessions focused on cross-fertilization over these exciting and yet closely-related areas. Specific areas include, but are not limited to neural computation, evolutionary computation, quantum computation, DNA computation, chemical computation, information processing in cells and tissues, molecular computation, computation with words, fuzzy computation, granular computation, artificial life, swarm intelligence, ants colony, artificial immune systems, etc., with applications to knowledge discovery, finance, operations research, and more. Important Dates Submission Deadline 25 April 2006 Decision Notification 25 May 2006 Final Versions / Author Registration 20 June 2006 Submission of Papers Prospective authors are invited to submit high-quality manuscripts written in English via the online submission system. The submission of a paper implies that the paper is original and has not been submitted to elsewhere for possible publication. There is no page limit for the submission. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by experts in the field based on originality, significance, quality and clarity. Authors should use the Latex style files or MS-Word templates provided by the Spring Lecture Notes to format their papers. The ICNC'06 and FSKD'06 conference proceedings will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) and Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI), respectively. All accepted papers at ICNC'05-FSKD'05 published in LNCS/LNAI are indexed by SCI-Expanded. Furthermore, a selected number of authors will be invited to expand and revise their papers for possible inclusions in peer-reviewed international journals or edited books. --- Lipo WANG School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Nanyang Technological University Block S1, 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798 http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/elpwang Phone: +65 6790 6372 Fax +65 6793 3318 From fomi at loa-cnr.it Thu Apr 20 13:51:25 2006 From: fomi at loa-cnr.it (fomi) Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 19:51:25 +0200 Subject: [ACT-R-users] CFP: Formal Ontologies Meet Industry - Second International Workshop Message-ID: *********************************************** FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS Apologies for multiple copies of this message *********************************************** Second International Workshop on Formal Ontologies Meet Industry http://www.loa-cnr.it/fomi December 14-15, 2006 University of Trento ******************************************************** This event is jointly organized by: - Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR, Trento - University of Trento - University of Verona - Creactive Consulting S.r.l., Affi ******************************************************** Following the great success of the previous edition, we are glad to invite you to attend the second Formal Ontologies Meet Industry Workshop (FOMI 2006). Description =========== FOMI aims to become an international forum where researchers in different disciplines and practitioners of various industry sectors meet to analyze and discuss issues related to methods, theories, tools and applications based on formal ontologies. It is nowadays widely understood that the semantic dimension and model driven approaches play an important role not only in research fields but also in networked economy. In particular, it has emerged that semantic based applications are relevant in distributed systems such as networked organizations, organizational networks, and in distributed knowledge management. Namely, these knowledge models in industry aim at providing a framework for information and knowledge sharing, reliable information exchange, meaning negotiation and coordination between distinct organizations or among members of the same worldwide organization. The business world also considers this issue of strategic relevance and keeps paying particular attention to it because many theoretical results have already been proved effectiveness in real applications like data warehouse construction, information infrastructure definition, and all processes and applications of knowledge management. With the application of new methodologies and techniques in the everyday practice and the accessibility of new theoretical results in this area, developing new tools based on more sophisticated frameworks has become a common need. This is an important reason for the increasing interest in the employment of formal ontologies in fields like medicine, engineering, financial and legal systems, and other business practices. In all these fields, a new emerging trend is to evaluate the interdependencies between theories and methods of formal ontology and the activities, processes, and needs of enterprise organizations. A typical example of this is the evaluation of the benefits that huge organizations can obtain by implementing ontology based systems. Objectives ========== The workshop is a forum to meet and discuss problems, solutions, perspectives and research directions for researchers and practitioners. We welcome papers or project descriptions that aim at applying formal ontologies in industry. In particular, - theoretical studies on formal ontologies committed to provide sound bases for industrial applications and to allow formal representation of corporate knowledge; - business experiences on case studies that single out concrete problems and possible solutions; the experience analysis should provide useful insights on social and strategic aspects that might be relevant in the creation and deployment of formal ontologies as well as useful criteria or methods to evaluate ontologies and their effectiveness in applications. ******************************************************** Topics of Interest ================== Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - ontology methodologies in business practice; - ontologies and corporate knowledge; - ontologies adaptation within organizations; - formalization of the know-how; - representation of artifacts and design; - representation of functionalities; - representation of knowledge and business processes; - linguistic representation in organizational knowledge; - linguistic problems in organizational standard code and codification processes; - enterprize modeling; - ontology evaluation; - ontology effectiveness; - ontology changes and developments within organizations; - representation of business services; - ontologies and electronic catalogs; - ontologies and e-commerce; - ontologies and marketing; - ontologies in the practice of engineering; - ontologies in the practice of medical sciences; - ontologies in finance; - ontologies and e-government. We also encourage submissions which relate research results from close areas connected to the workshop topics. ******************************************************** Important dates =============== Workshop: December 14-15, 2006 Deadline for paper submissions: July 15, 2006 Notification of acceptance: October 8, 2005 Camera ready submission: November 9, 2006 ******************************************************** Submission and Proceedings ========================== We invite submissions of papers in any of the topics of interest to the workshop. Manuscripts should be submitted electronically as PDF files via e-mail to the following address: fomi at loa-cnr.it Paper maximal length is 10 pages, excluding title page and bibliography. Instructions about format can be found at http://www.loa-cnr.it/fomi Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed and selected on the basis of technical quality, relevance of the described experiences (depending on the type of submission), and clarity of the presentation for the workshop. In particular, we insist that papers should be written for a wide audience. Accepted papers will be presented at the workshop, and published as proceedings. Accepted papers will be electronically published on CD and distributed to participants. Following FOMI 2005, a selection of the best papers accepted at the workshop will be considered for publication in the international journal ''Applied Ontology''. ******************************************************** Program Committee (to be completed) =================================== Chair: Nicola Guarino (LOA-CNR, Italy -- guarino at loa-cnr.it) Matteo Cristani (University of Verona -- cristani at univr.it) Stefano Borgo (LOA-CNR, Italy -- borgo at loa-cnr.it) Miltidias Lydras (Athens University of Economics & Business, Greece -- mdl at aueb.gr) York Sure (Institut AIFB Universit?t Karlsruhe, Germany -- sure at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de) Paulo Leitao (Polytechnic Institute of Bragan?a, Portugal -- pleitao at ipb.pt) Roberta Cuel, University of Trento, Italy -- roberta.cuel at unitn.it Francesco Bellomi, University of Verona, Italy -- bellomi at sci.univr.it Roberta Ferrario, LOA ISTC-CNR, Italy -- ferrario at loa-cnr.it ******************************************************** Please do not hesitate to contact any of the Organizing Committee members for further details. ******************************************************** From Jerry.Ball at mesa.afmc.af.mil Tue Apr 25 11:40:28 2006 From: Jerry.Ball at mesa.afmc.af.mil (Ball Jerry T Civ AFRL/HEAS) Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 08:40:28 -0700 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Cognitive Approaches to NLP Symposium Proposal Message-ID: <671474002216D14B8D440C71877F9A8D02392A24@fsqbge07.williams.afmc.ds.af.mil> A symposium topic entitled "Cognitive Approaches to NLP" has been submitted to the AAAI Spring Symposium 2007 selection committee. This symposium is a follow up to the very successful AAAI 2006 Spring Symposium "Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Cognitive Science Principles Meet AI Hard Problems" chaired by Christian Lebiere and Bob Wray. We are currently looking for people who might be interested in participating in this symposium (no commitment to attend is required at this point). If you would like to see the symposium proposal or would like to be listed as a potential participant, please contact Jerry Ball ( jerry.ball at mesa.afmc.af.mil ) or Krishna Jha ( kjha at atl.lmco.com ) before 28 April 2006. Jerry Ball, Air Force Research Laboratory Krishna Jha, Lockheed Martin Advanced Technologies Laboratories -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Jerome.Euzenat at inrialpes.fr Tue Apr 25 10:18:03 2006 From: Jerome.Euzenat at inrialpes.fr (Jerome Euzenat) Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 16:18:03 +0200 Subject: [ACT-R-users] CFP AIMSA 2006 - Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, Applications Message-ID: FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS The 12th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, Applications AIMSA 2006 - AI, people and the web - Varna, Bulgaria, 13-15th September, 2006 http://www.aimsaconference.org/ **** Extended deadline: April 29th **** **** Proceedings published by Springer/LNCS **** SCOPE The AIMSA conference series has provided a biennial forum for the presentation of Artificial intelligence research and development since 1984. The conference, which is held in Bulgaria, covers the full range of topics in Artificial Intelligence and related disciplines and provides an ideal forum for international scientific exchange between Central/Eastern Europe and the rest of the world. As its name indicates the conference is dedicated to Artificial intelligence in its entirety. However, for AIMSA 2006, we would like to put the emphasis on a specific phenomenon that affects all areas of AI: the application and leverage of artificial intelligence technology in the context of human collaboration which today is mediated by the web. Artificial intelligence is used for supporting human communication in a wide variety of ways. For example, reasoning over the semantic web, analysing relationships between people, enhancing the user experience by learning from their behavior, applying natural language to large multilingual corpora, planning a combination of web services, adapting and personalising educational material, etc. All Artificial intelligence techniques are amenable to facilitating communication on the web. Moreover, these techniques are not deployed in isolation but are typically combined with results from other disciplines such as the social sciences, discrete mathematics, network computing, or cryptography. AIMSA 2006 aims to reflect this plethora of avenues whereby Artificial intelligence supports human collaboration based activities. TOPICS The conference welcomes submissions of original, high quality papers in all areas of Artificial Intelligence, including but not limited to: * AI in education * Ambient intelligence * Automated reasoning * Computer vision * Data mining and data analysis * Data semantics * Dialogue management and argumentation * Distributed AI * Human-computer interaction and AI * Information integration * Information retrieval * Intelligent user interfaces * Knowledge engineering * Knowledge representation and reasoning * Large scale knowledge management * Logic and constraint programming * Machine learning * Multi-agent systems * Multimedia systems * Natural language processing * Neural networks * Ontologies (creating, linking, merging, reconciliation) * Planning * Robotics * Semantic peer-to-peer and grid systems * Semantic interoperability * Semantic web for e-business and e-learning * Semantic web inference schemes * Semantic web services (description, invocation, composition) * Social desktop and personalisation * Social network analysis * Tools and methodologies for multi-agent software systems * Trust, privacy, and security on the web * Visualization and modeling and AI * Web-based technology and AI All submissions will be subject to academic peer review by at least two members of the program committee. Selection criteria include accuracy and originality of ideas, clarity and significance of results, and quality of presentation. For each accepted paper, at least one author is required to attend the conference to present the paper. The best paper of the conference, as selected by the AIMSA 2006 programme committee, will receive the Best Paper Award during the conference. IMPORTANT DATES ASubmission deadline: April 29, 2006 Notification of acceptance: June 10, 2006 Deadline for final papers: June 30, 2006 Conference: September 13-15, 2006 SUBMISSION DETAILS Papers have to be submitted electronically on <>http://aimsa2006.inrialpes.fr. in PDF format. Author are requested to register by the site and submit an abstract first. They will be able to update their papers. Papers should be written in English and should be no more than 10 pages, font Times 11pt. Authors are requested to follow the LNCS Style. The first page should contain the title of the paper, names and addresses of all authors (including e-mail, if available), an abstract (100-150 words) and a list of keywords. Submissions should describe original research. Papers accepted for presentation at AIMSA 2006 cannot be presented or have been presented at another meeting with publicly available published proceedings. Papers that are being submitted to other conferences must indicate this on the title page, as must papers that contain significant overlap with previously published work. Over lengthy or late submissions will be rejected without review. Notification of receipt and acceptance of papers will be sent to the first author. PROCEEDINGS The proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture notes in artificial intelligence subline of the Lecture notes in computer science series. LANGUAGE The official language of the conference is English. LOCATION AIMSA will be held at he Sunny Day Tourist Complex, 10km from the north-east of Varna and 16km from Varna airport. More information is available in the brochure at the conference web site. CHAIRS Conference chairman John Domingue (Open university, UK) Programme chairman J?r?me Euzenat (INRIA Rh?ne-Alpes, FR) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Gennady Agre (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia) Lina Al-Jadir (EPFL, Lausanne) Le?la Amgoud (IRIT, Toulouse) Anupriya Ankolekar (AIFB-University of Karlsruhe) Grigoris Antoniou (ICS-FORTH, Heraklion) Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles (IRIT, Toulouse) Jean-Fran?ois Baget (INRIA Rh?ne-Alpes, Montbonnot) Sean Bechhofer (University of Manchester) Richard Benjamins (iSOCO, Barcelona) Bettina Berendt (Humboldt University Berlin) Petr Berka (University of Economics, Prague) Abraham Bernstein (University of Zurich) Kalina Bontcheva (University of Sheffield) Omar Boucelma (LSIS-Universit? Aix-Marseille 3) Paulo Bouquet (University of Trento) Joost Breuker (University of Amsterdam) Liliana Cabral (The Open University, Milton Keynes) Diego Calvanese (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano) Tiziana Catarci (University of Roma 1) Jean Charlet (Assistance publique-Hopitaux de Paris) Frithjof Dau (TU Dresden) Jos De Bruyn (DERI-University of Innsbruck) Yves Demazeau (Leibniz-IMAG, Grenoble) Christo Dichev (Winston-Salem State University) Ying Ding (DERI-University of Innsbruck) Pavlin Dobrev (ProSyst Labs, Sofia) Danail Dochev (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia) Martin Dzbor (The Open University, Milton Keynes) Peter Eklund (University of Wollongong, Australia) Dieter Fensel (DERI-University of Innsbruck, New University Ireland Galway) Frederico Freitas (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco) Aldo Gangemi (ISTC-CNR, Roma) Jennifer Goldberg (University of Maryland) Christine Goldbreich (Universit? de Rennes 1) Asunci?n G?mez-P?rez (Universidad Politenic? de Madrid) Marko Grobelnik (Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana) Siegfried Handschuh (DERI-National University of Ireland, Galway) Andreas Herzig (IRIT, Toulouse) Pascal Hitzler (AIFB-University of Karlsruhe) Philippe Jorrand (Leibniz-IMAG, Grenoble) Vipul Kashyap (Partners HealthCare System) Irena Koprinska (University of Sydney) Robert Kremer (University of Calgary) Atanas Kyriakov (Sirma - Ontotext Lab, Sofia) Alain L?ger (France Telecom R&D, Rennes) Raphael Malyankar (Arizona State University) Massimo Marchiori (W3C and University of Venice) Pierre Marquis (CRIL-Universit? d'Artois) John-Jules Meyer (Utrecht University) Michele Missikoff (IASI-CNR, Roma) Riichiro Mizoguchi (Osaka University) Boris Motik (University of Manchester) Enrico Motta (The Open University, Milton Keynes) Marie-Laure Mugnier (LIRMM, Montpellier) Amedeo Napoli (LORIA, Nancy) Wolfgang Neijdl (L3S-University of Hannover) Borys Omelayenko (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) Massimo Paolucci (DoCoMo European Laboratories, M?nchen) Radoslav Pavlov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) Christoph Quix (RWTH Aachen) Marie-Christine Rousset (LSR-Universit? Joseph-Fourier, Grenoble) Mich?le Sebag (LRI, Orsay) Luciano Serafini (ITC, Trento) Pavel Shvaiko (University of Trento) Carles Sierra (IIIA, Barcelona) Michael Sintek (DFKI , Kaiserslautern) Helena Sofia Pinto (IST-Technical University of Lisbon) Giorgos Stamou (NTUA, Athens) Umberto Straccia (CNR, Pisa) Heiner Stuckenschmidt (University of Mannheim) Gerd Stumme (Universit?t Kassel) York Sure (University of Karlsruhe) Valentina Tamma (University of Liverpool) Sergio Tessaris (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano) Rapha?l Troncy (CWI, Amsterdam) Petko Valtchev (University of Montr?al) Laure Vieu (IRIT, Toulouse) From jjoshi at mail.sis.pitt.edu Wed Apr 26 23:05:03 2006 From: jjoshi at mail.sis.pitt.edu (James Joshi) Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 23:05:03 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [ACT-R-users] IEEE IRI 2006: Call for Papers Message-ID: <18751079.1571146107261359.JavaMail.Administrator@gis20> [Apologies for multiple postings] The 2006 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IEEE IRI-2006) Heuristic Systems Engineering (Sponsored by the IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society & US Air Force Office of Scientific Research) September 16-18, 2006, Hilton Waikoloa Village, Waikoloa, Hawaii, USA http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~iri06 Keynote Speakers: Prof. Lotfi Zadeh, University of California, Berkeley, USA Lt. Col. Bill Nace, Technical Director, Asian Office of Aerospace Research and Development, US Air Force Office of Scientific Research This year's conference theme addresses all aspects of Heuristics as they relate to the Engineering design and operation of scalable Systems. This theme was selected to reflect the ever-increasing role played by intelligent systems in the engineering design process as well as the ever-increasing need to integrate mathematical logics with heuristic search in complex industrial systems (e.g., heuristic solutions of the TSP). The common problem confronting such systems is the acquisition and evolution of heuristics. In particular, the evolution of heuristics can be formalized in the context of reuse and integration. The IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration will feature contributed as well as invited papers. Theoretical and applied papers are both included in this call. The conference program will include special sessions and open forum workshops. Several funding agency program directors - including NSF, ONR, et al. - will present an open panel discussion entitled, 'Funding Opportunities in Information Reuse and Systems Engineering'. The conference includes, but is not limited to, the areas listed below: * Homeland Security * Component-Based Design * Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery * AI & Decision Support Systems * Heuristic Optimization * Fuzzy and Neural Systems * Heuristic Search * Large Scale Data Integration * Human-Machine Information Systems * Reuse in Software Engineering * Information Assurance * Soft Computing * Manufacturing Systems * Knowledge Acquisition and Management * Evolutionary Computing * Case-Based Reasoning * Modeling & Simulation * Multimedia Reuse & Integration * Internet Computing * Knowledge Management and E-Government * Agent-Based Systems * Sensory and Information Fusion * Natural Language Understanding * Command & Control Systems (C4ISR) * Space and Robotic Systems * Biomedical Systems INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS: Papers reporting original and unpublished research results pertaining to the above and related topics are solicited. Full paper manuscripts must be in English of length 4 to 6 pages (using the IEEE two-column template). Submissions should include the title, author(s), affiliation(s), e-mail address(es), tel/fax numbers, abstract, and postal address(es) on the first page. Papers should be submitted at the conference web site: http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~iri06. If web submission is not possible manuscripts should be sent as an attachment via email to one of the Program Chairs listed below on or before the deadline date of May 19, 2006. The attachment must be in .pdf (preferred) or word.doc format. The subject of the email must be 'IEEE IRI 2006 Submission.' Papers will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. Authors should certify that their papers represent substantially new work and are previously unpublished. Paper submission implies the intent of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper, if accepted. Authors of selected papers that are also presented at the conference will be invited to submit expanded versions of their papers for review for publication in the appropriate IEEE Journal or Transactions. IMPORTANT DATES: May 19, 2006 - Paper submission deadline (Extended Deadline) June 16, 2006 - Notification of acceptance June 30, 2006 - Camera-ready paper due July 5, 2006 - Presenting author (paper presenter) registration due July 30, 2006 - Advance (discount) registration for general public and other co-author closing date August 21, 2006 - Hotel reservation (special discount rate) closing date ORGANIZERS: Honorary General Chair Lotfi Zadeh University of California, Berkeley, USA zadeh at cs.berkeley.edu General Chairs Stuart Rubin SPAWAR Systems Center, USA stuart.rubin at navy.mil Shu-Ching Chen Florida International University, USA chens at cs.fiu.edu Program Chairs Du Zhang California State University, USA zhangd at ecs.csus.edu Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar Florida Atlantic University, USA taghi at cse.fau.edu James B. D. Joshi University of Pittsburgh, USA jjoshi at mail.sis.pitt.edu Workshop Chair Eric Gregoire Universiti d'Artois, France gregoire at cril.univ-artois.fr Technical Chair and Treasurer Willie Chang Sacramento State University, USA changw at ecs.csus.edu Publications Chair V. Scott Gordon Sacramento State University, USA gordonvs at ecs.csus.edu Publicity Chair Elena Ferrari University of Insubria, Italy Elena.Ferrari at uninsubria.it Registration Chair Ju-Yeon Jo California State University, USA joj at ecs.csus.edu Local Arrangements Chair Louellen McCoy SPAWAR Systems Center, USA louellen.mccoy at navy.mil Webmaster Saubhagya Ram Joshi University of Pittsburgh, USA srjoshi at mail.sis.pitt.edu