From taatgen at cmu.edu Mon Jul 3 10:16:16 2006 From: taatgen at cmu.edu (Niels Taatgen) Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 10:16:16 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] ACT-R workshop: last day for the Holiday Inn Message-ID: If you want to reserve a room at the Holiday Inn at the discounted rate, today is the last day! If you haven't arranged for your housing yet, here is the link: http://www.ichotelsgroup.com/redirect? path=rates&checkInDate=20&checkInMonthYear=062006&checkOutDate=24&checkO utMonthYear=062006&brandCode=hi&hotelCode=pitsp&GPC=ACT&_IATAno=99801505 =================================================== Niels Taatgen - Carnegie Mellon University, Psychology, BH 345E Also (but not now): University of Groningen, Artificial Intelligence web: http://www.ai.rug.nl/~niels email: taatgen at cmu.edu Telephone: +1 412-268-2815 =================================================== -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From hiran.ekanayake at gmail.com Tue Jul 4 04:37:29 2006 From: hiran.ekanayake at gmail.com (Hiran Ekanayake) Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2006 14:07:29 +0530 Subject: [ACT-R-users] What is Consciousness? Message-ID: Dear All, I was trying to understand the human consciousness. In fact, I wanted to associate it with the mind body relationship. However, I got the following idea. The consciousness may be an emotional condition one could gain as a result of smooth and fine functioning of one's cognition. Smooth means you are not damaging, wasting or overusing your cognitive resources to do some task. E.g. smoothly moving car. However, this smooth state is dependent on factors like experience, proper/accurate functioning of components, efficient availability of knowledge at the short-term memory, emotional state, patience and cognitive capacity. Even if one of these parameters is not satisfactory (e.g. stressful situations), you could adjust other parameters to overcome the bad effects to achieve the smoothness. Sometimes external sources can provide some support in doing so (e.g. calm songs). In general we can say that any system that can function smoothly is conscious about that period. Humans are the most magnificent creation of the nature. The functioning of the humans is well tuned and the components involved are built using most appropriate materials. So it is natural to have consciousness on humans! I welcome your comments. Best Regards, -------------------------------------------------- Hiran Ekanayake Department of Computation and Intelligent Systems University of Colombo School of Computing Colombo, Sri Lanka. http://www.geocities.com/hekanayake/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mmatessa at alionscience.com Wed Jul 5 15:51:19 2006 From: mmatessa at alionscience.com (Matessa, Michael ) Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2006 15:51:19 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Position for ACT-R modeler Message-ID: <186E4495E9D0B34394C3BB60887E4814032747@EMAIL2A.alionscience.com> The Research Division of Alion Science and Technology MA&D Operation is expanding and has a position open for an ACT-R modeler. We are especially interested in people who would be able to contribute to research in the following areas: - Agent simulation in complex environments - Spatial information processing - Aircraft pilot simulation Alion Science MA&D Operation offers a very competitive salary structure and excellent benefits package. Applicants must be US citizens or possess a valid work visa. Please send questions and/or statements of interest (with CV) to mmatessa at alionscience.com. From taatgen at cmu.edu Thu Jul 6 09:40:28 2006 From: taatgen at cmu.edu (Niels Taatgen) Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 09:40:28 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Preliminary workshop schedule Message-ID: I hereby send you a preliminary schedule for the ACT-R workshop. Note that this means that we can still shift some things around if needed. If you have submitted a talk, make sure it is on the schedule and send me an email a.s.p. if you are not on there or if I have misspelled your title or name. We will make informal proceedings of the workshop. For every talk we have up to six pages in the proceedings, which you can fill with your abstract, your slides, a paper, or any combination of these. Send me a pdf-file (formatted for US-letter) of your proceedings contribution on or before Monday 17 July, and give it your name as file-name (e.g., anderson.pdf, anderson1.pdf and anderson2.pdf if you have multiple contributions). I look forward to meeting you all at the workshop! Niels Taatgen Friday 8:15 Welcome 8:30 Five talks (20 minutes each) John Anderson, A new utility learning mechanism Perception Glenn Gunzelmann, Representing Human Spatial Competence in ACT-R William Kennedy & Grag Trafton, Representing and Reasoning about Space Greg Trafton, Raj Ratwani & Len Breslow, A Color Perceptual Process Theory: Letting ACT-R see Colors. Mike Byrne, An ACT-R Timing Module based on the Attentional Gate Model 10:10 Break 10:30 Five talks Memory Richard Young, Random Walks in Learning to Distinguish between Confusingly Similar Stimuli Leendert van Maanen & Hedderik van Rijn, Memory Structures as User Models Jong Kim, Frank Ritter & Richard Koubek, Learning and Forgetting in ACT-R Communication and Learning from Instructions Mike Matessa, Four levels of Communication, Error, and Recovery in ACT-R Angela Brunstein, TBA 12:10 Lunch 1:30-5:30 Leabra tutorial and discussion (with 3-3:30 break) Evening: Party Saturday 8:30 Five talks Multi-tasking and Control Duncan Brumby & Dario Salvucci, Exploring Human Multitasking Strategies from a Cognitive Constraints Approach Dario Salvucci & Niels Taatgen, An Integrated Approach to Multitasking in ACT-R Andrea Stocco & John Anderson, The Neural Correlates of Control States in Algebra Problem Solving Erik Altmann & Greg Trafton, Modeling the Timecourse of Recovery from Task Interruption Jon Fincham, TBA 10:10 Break 10:30 Six talks Individual differences Niels Taatgen, Ion Juvina and others, A Hybrid Model of Attentional Blink Daniel Hasumi-Dickison and Niels Taatgen, Individual differences in the Abstract Decision Making Task. Ion Juvina, Niels A. Taatgen, & Daniel Hasumi-Dickison, The Role of Top-Down Control in Working Memory Performance: Implications for Multi-Tasking Model validation Glenn Gunzelmann & Kevin Gluck, Model Validation and High Performance Computing Hedderik van Rijn, Complex model validation by multi-level modeling Terrence Steward & Robert West, ACT-R versus not-ACT-R: Demonstrating Cross-domain Validity 12:30 Lunch 1:30 Five talks John Anderson, Dan Bothell, Christian Lebiere & Niels Taatgen, the BICA project Modeling/Architectural issues/Tools Jared Danker, The Roles of Prefrontal and Posterior Parietal Cortices in Algebra Problem Solving: A Case of Using Cognitive Modeling to Inform Neuroimaging Data Robert St. Amant, Sean McBride & Frank Ritter, An AI Planning Perspective on Abstraction in ACT-R Modeling Simon Li & Richard Young, ACT-R ALMOST provides a formula for predicting the rate of post-completion error Christian Lebiere, TBA 3:10 Break 3:40 Future of ACT-R Sunday 9:00-10:40 Five talks Reasoning/problem solving Adrian Banks, The Influence of Belief on Relational Reasoning: An ACT- R Model Complex tasks Michael Schoelles, Wayne D. Gray, Vladislav Veksler, Stephane Gamard, and Alex Grintsvayg, Cognitive Modeling of Web Search ?ric Raufaste, ATC in ACT-R, a model of Conflict Detection between Planes Shawn Nicholson, Michael Byrne & Michael Fotta, Modifying ACT-R for Visual Search of Complex Displays Shawn Nicholson, Michael Fotta, Rober St. Amant & Michael Byrne, SegMan and HEMA-SI 10:40-11:10 Break 11:10-12:30 Five talks Emotion Frank Ritter, Sue Kase, Michael Schoelles, Jeanette Bennett & Laura Cousino Klein, Cognitive Aspects of Serial Subtraction Robert West, Terrence Steward & Bruno Emond, Modeling Emotion in ACT-R Danilo Fum, Expected values and loss frequencies: A new view on the choice process in the Iowa Gambling Task Visual perception and Search Troy Kelley, Visual Search Mike Byrne, A Theory of Visual Salience Computation in ACT-R =================================================== Niels Taatgen - Carnegie Mellon University, Psychology, BH 345E Also (but not now): University of Groningen, Artificial Intelligence web: http://www.ai.rug.nl/~niels email: taatgen at cmu.edu Telephone: +1 412-268-2815 =================================================== -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cimca at canberra.edu.au Sun Jul 9 23:27:06 2006 From: cimca at canberra.edu.au (cimca) Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:27:06 +1000 Subject: [ACT-R-users] CFP: IEEE in cooperated International Conference on Intelligent Agents, Web Technologies and Internet Commerce In-Reply-To: <9617FDA06244F24F9D5F2D983679E7269D1120@hera.ucstaff.win.canberra.edu.au> Message-ID: <9617FDA06244F24F9D5F2D983679E7269D12C0@hera.ucstaff.win.canberra.edu.au> CALL FOR PAPERS International Conference on Intelligent Agents, Web Technologies and Internet Commerce http://www.ise.canberra.edu.au/conferences/iawtic06/ Jointly with International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control and Automation 28 November to 1 December 2006 Sydney , Australia http://www.ise.canberra.edu.au/conferences/cimca06/ Honorary Chair: Lotfi A. Zadeh, University of California, USA Stephen Grossberg, Boston University, USA Important Dates: 17 July 2006 Submission of papers 7 August 2006 Notification of acceptance 28 August 2006 Deadline for camera-ready copies of accepted papers 28-30 November 2006 Conference sessions In co-operation with: IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Conference Proceedings will be published as books by IEEE in USA Sponsored by: European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology - EUFLAT International Association for Fuzzy Set in Management and Economy - SIGEF Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory and Intelligent Informatics - SOFT Taiwan Fuzzy Systems Association - TFSA World Wide Web Business Intelligence - W3BI Hungarian Fuzzy Association - HFA University of Canberra International Conference on Intelligent Agents, Web Technology and Internet Commerce - IAWTIC'2006 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 computational intelligence techniques to modelling, control and automation. For contributory sessions, papers (4 pages or more) are being solicited. Several well-known keynote speakers will address the conference. Conference Proceedings will be published as books by IEEE (The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering) in USA and will be index world wide. All papers will be peer reviewed by at least two reviewers. Topics of the conference include, but are not limited to, the following areas: 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 and design of 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 Auction and negotiation for e-commerce agents Knowledge Discovery, Intelligent Information Systems Knowledge Clustering Classification Web Technologies: Web data mining and information retrieval Agent-based trade-and mediating services Teaching on Web Virtual trading institutions 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 and Service Delivery Legal, Auditing or Security Issues for Electronic Commerce Requirements Engineering Approaches 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 the following address: CIMCA'2006 Secretariat School of Information Sciences and Engineering University of Canberra, Canberra, 2616, ACT, Australia E-mail: cimca at canberra.edu.au Electronic submission of papers (either by E-mail or through conference website) is preferred. Draft papers should present original work, which has not been published or being reviewed for other conferences. Important Dates 17 July 2006 Submission of papers 7 August 2006 Notification of acceptance 28 August 2006 Deadline for camera-ready copies of accepted papers 28-30 November 2006 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 special session proposals should be sent to the conference chair (by email to: masoud.mohammadian at canberra.edu.au) on or before 4th of August 2006. CIMCA'06 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. Visits and social events Sightseeing visits will be arranged for the delegates and guests. A separate program will be arranged for companions during the conference. Further Information For further information either contact cimca at canberra.edu.au or see the conference homepage at: http://www.ise.canberra.edu.au/conferences/cimca06/default.htm Organising Committee Chair: Masoud Mohammadian, University of Canberra, Australia International Programme Committee J. Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong A. Namatame, National Defense Academy, Japan A. Agah, The University of Kansas, USA J. P. Bigus, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA E. Andr?, Universit?t Augsburg, Germany K. Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University, USA H. Adeli, The Ohio State University, USA B. Kosko, University of Southern California, USA A. Kandel, University of South Florida, USA T. Fukuda, Nagoya University, Japan T. Baeck, Informatic Centrum Dortmund, Germany J.Bezdek, University of West Florida, USA M. Mohammadian University of Canberra, Australia K. Hirota, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan E. Oja, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland W. Pedrycz, University of Manitoba, Canada X. Yao, The University of New South Wales, ADFA, Australia H. R. Berenji, NASA Ames Research Center, USA R. C. Eberhart, Purdue University,USA T. Shibata, MITI, Ministry of International Trade and Industry, Japan H. Liljenstrom, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden A. Y. Zomaya, University of Western Australia, Australia F. Herrera, University of Granada, Spain A Jafari, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, IUPUI, USA A. Bulsari, AB Nonlinear Solutions OY, Finland B. Ruhul Sarker, University of New South Wales (ADFA), Australia J. D. Pinter, Dalhousie University, Canada V. Piuri, Politecnico di Milano, Italy T. Furuhashi, Nagoya University, Japan A. Aamodt, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway J. Fernandez de Ca?ete, University of Malaga, Spain W. Duch, Nicholas Copernicus,University, Poland E. Tulunay, Middle East Technical University, Turkey L. Guan, University of Sydney, Australia C. Kuroda, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan T. Yamakawa, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan J. Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong A. Namatame, National Defense Academy, Japan A. Agah, The University of Kansas, USA International Liaison: Canada and USA Liaison: J. D. Pinter, Dalhousie University, Canada Asia Liaison: Christina Meier, Australia Europe Liaison: Robert John, De Montfort University, UK Publication: Masoud Mohammadian, University of Canberra, Australia From cimca at canberra.edu.au Sun Jul 9 23:36:35 2006 From: cimca at canberra.edu.au (cimca) Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:36:35 +1000 Subject: [ACT-R-users] CFP: IEEE in cooperated International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control and Automation In-Reply-To: <9617FDA06244F24F9D5F2D983679E7269D1090@hera.ucstaff.win.canberra.edu.au> Message-ID: <9617FDA06244F24F9D5F2D983679E7269D12D1@hera.ucstaff.win.canberra.edu.au> CALL FOR PAPERS International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control and Automation 28 November to 1 December 2006 Sydney , Australia http://www.ise.canberra.edu.au/conferences/cimca06/ Important Dates: 17 July 2006 Submission of papers 7 August 2006 Notification of acceptance 28 August 2006 Deadline for camera-ready copies of accepted papers 28-30 November 2006 Conference sessions In co-operation with: IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Conference Proceedings will be published as books by IEEE in USA Sponsored by: European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology - EUFLAT International Association for Fuzzy Set in Management and Economy - SIGEF Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory and Intelligent Informatics - SOFT Taiwan Fuzzy Systems Association - TFSA World Wide Web Business Intelligence - W3BI Hungarian Fuzzy Association - HFA University of Canberra Jointly with International Conference on Intelligent Agents, Web Technologies and Internet Commerce http://www.ise.canberra.edu.au/conferences/iawtic06/ Honorary Chair: Lotfi A. Zadeh, University of California, USA Stephen Grossberg, Boston University, USA The international conference on computational intelligence for modelling, control and automation will be held in Sydney, Australia on 28 November to 1 December 2006. The conference provides a medium for the exchange of ideas between theoreticians and practitioners to address the important issues in computational intelligence, modelling, control and automation. The conference will consist of both plenary sessions and contributory sessions, focusing on theory, implementation and applications of computational intelligence techniques to modelling, control and automation. For contributory sessions, papers (4 pages or more) are being solicited. Several well-known keynote speakers will address the conference. Conference Proceedings will be published as books by IEEE (The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering) in USA and will be index world wide. All papers will be peer reviewed by at least two reviewers. Topics of the conference include, but are not limited to, the following areas: Modern and Advanced Control Strategies: Neural Networks Control, Fuzzy Logic Control, Genetic Algorithms and Evolutionary Control, Model-Predictive Control, Adaptive and Optimal Control, Intelligent Control Systems, Robotics and Automation, Fault Diagnosis, Intelligent agents, Industrial Automations Hybrid Systems: Fuzzy Evolutionary Systems, Fuzzy Expert Systems, Fuzzy Neural Systems, Neural Genetic Systems, Neural-Fuzzy-Genetic Systems, Hybrid Systems for Optimisation Data Analysis, Prediction and Model Identification: Signal Processing, Prediction and Time Series Analysis, System Identification, Data Fusion and Mining, Knowledge Discovery, Intelligent Information Systems, Image Processing, and Image Understanding, Parallel Computing applications in Identification & Control, Pattern Recognition, Clustering and Classification Decision Making and Information Retrieval: Case-Based Reasoning, Decision Analysis, Intelligent Databases & Information Retrieval, Dynamic Systems Modelling, Decision Support Systems, Multi-criteria Decision Making, Qualitative and Approximate-Reasoning Paper Submission Papers will be selected based on their originality, significance, correctness, and clarity of presentation. Papers (4 pages or more) should be submitted to the following e-mail or the following address: CIMCA'2006 Secretariat School of Information Sciences and Engineering University of Canberra, Canberra, 2616, ACT, Australia E-mail: cimca at canberra.edu.au Electronic submission of papers (either by E-mail or through conference website) is preferred. Draft papers should present original work, which has not been published or being reviewed for other conferences. Important Dates 17 July 2006 Submission of papers 7 August 2006 Notification of acceptance 28 August 2006 Deadline for camera-ready copies of accepted papers 28-30 November 2006 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 special session proposals should be sent to the conference chair (by email to: masoud.mohammadian at canberra.edu.au) on or before 4th of August 2006. CIMCA'06 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. Visits and social events Sightseeing visits will be arranged for the delegates and guests. A separate program will be arranged for companions during the conference. Further Information For further information either contact cimca at canberra.edu.au or see the conference homepage at: http://www.ise.canberra.edu.au/conferences/cimca06/default.htm Organising Committee Chair: Masoud Mohammadian, University of Canberra, Australia International Program Committee: H. Adeli, The Ohio State University, USA W. Pedrycz, University of Manitoba, Canada A. Agah, The University of Kansas, USA T. Fukuda, Nagoya University, Japan J. Bezdek, University of West Florida, USA R. C. Eberhart, Purdue University, USA F. Herrera, University of Granada, Spain T. Furuhashi, Nagoya University, Japan A. Agah, The University of Kansas, US E. Andr?, Universit?t Augsburg, Germany A. Kandel, University of South Florida, USA J. P. Bigus, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA J. Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong A. Namatame, National Defense Academy, Japan K. Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University, USA B. Kosko, University of Southern California, USA T. Baeck, Informatic Centrum Dortmund, Germany K. Hirota, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan E. Oja, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland H. R. Berenji, NASA Ames Research Center, USA H. Liljenstrom, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden A. Bulsari, AB Nonlinear Solutions OY, Finland J. Fernandez de Ca?ete, University of Malaga, Spain W. Duch, Nicholas Copernicus University, Poland E. Tulunay, Middle East Technical University, Turkey C. Kuroda, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan T. Yamakawa, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan J. Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong A. Namatame, National Defense Academy, Japan A. Aamodt, Norwegian University of Science & Technology, Norway International Liaison: Canada and USA Liaison: Robert John, De Montfort University, UK Europe Liaison: Dr. Eng. Djamel Khadraoui, Centre de Recherche Public, Luxembourg Frank Zimmer, SES ASTRA, Luxembourg Asia Liaison: R. Amin Sarker, ADFA, Australia Local Arrangements and Public Relation: C. Meier, Australia Publication: Masoud Mohammadian, Australia From rsun at rpi.edu Sat Jul 8 21:21:22 2006 From: rsun at rpi.edu (Professor Ron Sun) Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2006 21:21:22 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] CogSci2006: Last Call for Participation Message-ID: <32A58B09-B8D0-4840-86B0-983980C73D44@rpi.edu> CogSci 2006 The Twenty-Eighth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society July 27-30, 2006 Tutorials/workshops day: July 26 [in cooperation with the 5th International Conference on Cognitive Science (Asia-Pacific)] Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre Vancouver, Canada See the following Website for details: http://www.cogsci.rpi.edu/~rsun/cogsci2006/ We invite participation to the Twenty-Eighth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, the premier series of conferences in cognitive science. Each year, in addition to submitted papers, we invite speakers who help to highlight some aspects of cognitive science. This year, we highlight " Learning: Tackling Both Implicit and Explicit Processes." Plenary speakers will include: 1. Robert Siegler (CMU) 2. Daniel Schacter (Harvard) 3. Rumelhart Prize Winner: Roger Shepard (Stanford) Invited symposia will provide more explorations of the topics: 1. The Synergy between Implicit and Explicit Learning Processes 2. The Emerging Learning Sciences See the program details at the CogSci2006 Web site. Conference General Chairs: Ron Sun (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) Naomi Miyake (Chukyo University) ======================================================== Professor Ron Sun Cognitive Science Department Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 110 Eighth Street, Carnegie 302A Troy, NY 12180, USA phone: 518-276-3409 fax: 518-276-3017 email: rsun at rpi.edu web: http://www.cogsci.rpi.edu/~rsun ======================================================= From schooler at mpib-berlin.mpg.de Tue Jul 11 11:37:28 2006 From: schooler at mpib-berlin.mpg.de (Schooler, Lael) Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 17:37:28 +0200 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Openings for a PhD Student and for a Postdoctoral fellow. Message-ID: Hi, Here is a job announcement that I hope will be of interest. Lael The Independent Junior Research Group "Neurocognition of Decision-Making" (Head: Dr. Hauke Heekeren) has openings for a PhD Student and for a Postdoctoral fellow. We are located at the Berlin Neuroimaging Center and the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, Germany. We are a young, interdisciplinary team investigating mechanisms of decision making in the human brain. Our goal is to relate formal models of information processing to neurophysiological data in the context of perceptual decision-making processes. We will therefore employ a combination of psychophysical methods, functional and structural neuroimaging (MRI, MEG, EEG, simultaneous EEG-fMRI), and computational modeling. The PhD candidate should have an interest in cognitive neuroscience. The postdoc applicant should have a background in cognitive neuroscience and experience with fMRI/MEG/EEG-research. The positions are open from 1 August 2006 onwards until they are filled. For further information please contact Hauke Heekeren, MD, PhD Berlin NeuroImaging Center & MPI for Human Development Independent junior Research Group "Neurocognition of Decision-Making" Lentzeallee 94 D-14195 Berlin Germany heekeren at mpib-berlin.mpg.de http://www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/en/forschung/snwg/index.htm -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From fomi at loa-cnr.it Mon Jul 10 10:51:06 2006 From: fomi at loa-cnr.it (Fomi) Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 16:51:06 +0200 Subject: [ACT-R-users] FOMI 2006: Last CFP, deadline approaching! Message-ID: <03801d09145dd8b7afbc478361f868d5@loa-cnr.it> *********************************************** 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 =================================== Matteo Cristani (Co-chair), University of Verona, Italy Nicola Guarino (Co-chair), Laboratory for Applied Ontology, CNR, Trento, Italy Bill Andersen, Ontology Works, USA Francesco Bellomi, University of Verona, Italy Stefano Borgo, Laboratory for Applied Ontology, CNR, Trento, Italy Emanuele Bottazzi, Laboratory for Applied Ontology, CNR, Trento, Italy Peter Clark, Knowledge Systems, Boeing Maths and Computing Technology, USA Roberta Cuel, University of Trento, Italy Roberta Ferrario, Laboratory for Applied Ontology, CNR, Trento, Italy Michael Gruninger, University of Toronto, Canada Gilles Kassel, Universite de Picardie Jules Verne, France Paulo Leitao, Escola Superior de Tecnologia e de Gestao, Polytechnic Institute of Braganca, Portugal Miltiadis Lytras, Athens Univesity of Economics and Business, Greece Wolfgang Maass, University St. Gallen, Switzerland Chris Partridge, 42 Objects Limited, BORO Centre Limited, Brunel University, UK Elena Paslaru Bontas, Freie Universitat, Germany Cecilia Rossignoli, University of Verona, Italy Tim Smithers, VICOMTech, Donostia / San Sebastian, Spain York Sure, Institut AIFB, Universitat Karlsruhe, Germany Valentina Tamma, University of Liverpool, UK Matthew West, Shell International Petroleum Company Limited, UK ******************************************************** Please do not hesitate to contact any of the Organizing Committee members for further details. ******************************************************** From pavel at dit.unitn.it Wed Jul 12 08:36:39 2006 From: pavel at dit.unitn.it (pavel) Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 14:36:39 +0200 Subject: [ACT-R-users] 2nd Call for Matching Systems Participation: The OAEI'06 campaign Message-ID: <00b501c6a5b0$2ad224c0$5aeaa8c0@alphaekts5r299> Apologies for cross-postings +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ THE OAEI'06 CAMPAIGN CALL FOR MATCHING SYSTEMS PARTICIPATION http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2006/ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative (OAEI) is a coordinated international initiative that has been set up for organising evaluation of ontology matching systems. The OAEI'06 campaign will consist of four tracks gathering six data sets and different evaluation modalities. The tracks include: (i) comparison track (systematic benchmark series); (ii) expressive ontologies (e.g., from the anatomy domain); (iii) directories and thesauri (e.g., Google, Yahoo); (iv) consensus workshop. IMPORTANT DATES early June, 2006: First publication of test cases; June 28, 2006: Comments on test cases (any time before that date); July 3, 2006: Final publication of test cases; September 4, 2006: Preliminary results due (for interoperability-checking); September 15, 2006: Participants send final results and supporting papers; October 9, 2006: Organizers publish results for comments; November 5 or 6, 2006: Venue - the ISWC'06 workshop on Ontology Matching, OM-2006, GA Center, Athens, Georgia, USA; OAEI'06 final results ready. 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URL: From db30 at andrew.cmu.edu Wed Jul 12 16:55:50 2006 From: db30 at andrew.cmu.edu (Dan Bothell) Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 16:55:50 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Perception and Motor Message-ID: <498B84DA42CC90E7C9DEA952@whatever.psy.cmu.edu> --On Wednesday, July 12, 2006 4:37 PM -0300 Fabio Gutiyama wrote: > Greetings, ACT-R users, > > I'm new in this group and I am starting to use ACT-R on a research about > human error in Brazil (Escola Polit?cnica, S?o Paulo University - USP). > Some aspect I'd like to know is about the perception and motor modules. > Is there any implementation that open possibility to ACT-R interact not > only with the listener or the experiment window but with the entire > enviroment of the operational system, seeing what is presented in other > programs and generatig keyboards' in/out(s) to windows or any program, > for example? > >From the model's perspective the world is represented by what's called a device. The device provides all of the ins and outs for the current perceptual and motor modules of ACT-R. You can find some general information on the device for ACT-R 6 in the framework-API.doc document in the ACT-R 6 docs directory and more detailed information at: Note however that the web site describes the ACT-R 5 code and may not always match with ACT-R 6 (work is currently ongoing to update the documentation for ACT-R 6). So, your question comes down to basically whether or not there is a device that supports the type of access you desire, and basically the answer is no. The devices included with ACT-R don't do that, but there are a couple of possibilities. First, it is possible to add new devices. So, it's not impossible to have that type of interaction, but one would have to do the work necessary to create the appropriate device for ACT-R. Also, the device that's provided for use with ACL (Allegro Common Lisp) under Windows does actually generate system-level mouse and keyboard actions. They will be sent to whatever application has the current focus. So, if you are using that Lisp and OS combo you can have the model send actions to any application, but it can't "see" them. As for seeing, there was a project called SegMan being developed by Robert St. Amant which was looking to provide a general image processing system that would allow for visual information to come from "any" window, but I don't know too many details or the current status of that project at this time. Hope that helps, Dan From bej at cs.cmu.edu Wed Jul 12 18:25:30 2006 From: bej at cs.cmu.edu (Bonnie John) Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 18:25:30 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Perception and Motor In-Reply-To: <498B84DA42CC90E7C9DEA952@whatever.psy.cmu.edu> References: <498B84DA42CC90E7C9DEA952@whatever.psy.cmu.edu> Message-ID: <44B576DA.9050404@cs.cmu.edu> Fabio, You can also use CogTool to mock-up a user interface as an interactive storyboard. You can then export to an ACT-R device model. This is currently working for ACT-R 5, and will hopefully be working soon for ACT-R 6. This is an unconventionial use of the mock-up part of CopTool and you would probably need to correspond with my group to get it to work for you, but we would be willing to help. Please see the CogTool website. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~bej/cogtool/ Bonnie John Dan Bothell wrote: > --On Wednesday, July 12, 2006 4:37 PM -0300 Fabio Gutiyama > wrote: > > >> Greetings, ACT-R users, >> >> I'm new in this group and I am starting to use ACT-R on a research about >> human error in Brazil (Escola Polit?cnica, S?o Paulo University - USP). >> Some aspect I'd like to know is about the perception and motor modules. >> Is there any implementation that open possibility to ACT-R interact not >> only with the listener or the experiment window but with the entire >> enviroment of the operational system, seeing what is presented in other >> programs and generatig keyboards' in/out(s) to windows or any program, >> for example? >> >> > > >From the model's perspective the world is represented by what's called > a device. The device provides all of the ins and outs for the current > perceptual and motor modules of ACT-R. You can find some general > information on the device for ACT-R 6 in the framework-API.doc document > in the ACT-R 6 docs directory and more detailed information at: > > > > Note however that the web site describes the ACT-R 5 code and may > not always match with ACT-R 6 (work is currently ongoing to update > the documentation for ACT-R 6). > > So, your question comes down to basically whether or not there is > a device that supports the type of access you desire, and basically > the answer is no. The devices included with ACT-R don't do that, but > there are a couple of possibilities. > > First, it is possible to add new devices. So, it's not impossible > to have that type of interaction, but one would have to do the > work necessary to create the appropriate device for ACT-R. > > Also, the device that's provided for use with ACL (Allegro Common > Lisp) under Windows does actually generate system-level mouse and > keyboard actions. They will be sent to whatever application has the > current focus. So, if you are using that Lisp and OS combo you can > have the model send actions to any application, but it can't "see" > them. > > As for seeing, there was a project called SegMan being developed > by Robert St. Amant which was looking to provide a general image > processing system that would allow for visual information to come > from "any" window, but I don't know too many details or the current > status of that project at this time. > > 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 fgutiyama at gmail.com Thu Jul 13 09:07:47 2006 From: fgutiyama at gmail.com (Fabio Gutiyama) Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 10:07:47 -0300 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Perception and Motor In-Reply-To: <498B84DA42CC90E7C9DEA952@whatever.psy.cmu.edu> References: <498B84DA42CC90E7C9DEA952@whatever.psy.cmu.edu> Message-ID: <834a17160607130607h3ec7cef4jb961151ea77b4314@mail.gmail.com> Thank you for your answer, it was extremely helpful. Also, the device that's provided for use with ACL (Allegro Common > Lisp) under Windows does actually generate system-level mouse and > keyboard actions. They will be sent to whatever application has the > current focus. So, if you are using that Lisp and OS combo you can > have the model send actions to any application, but it can't "see" > them. > That's interesting... But I noticed that ACT-R sends the mouse and keyboard actions to its experiment window, independently if an external application has the focus... (I'm using ACT-R 5)... Could you tell me how can I define the outs to reach external applications or where I can find information about this possibility? Thank you. F?bio. On 7/12/06, Dan Bothell wrote: > > > > --On Wednesday, July 12, 2006 4:37 PM -0300 Fabio Gutiyama > wrote: > > > Greetings, ACT-R users, > > > > I'm new in this group and I am starting to use ACT-R on a research about > > human error in Brazil (Escola Polit?cnica, S?o Paulo University - USP). > > Some aspect I'd like to know is about the perception and motor modules. > > Is there any implementation that open possibility to ACT-R interact not > > only with the listener or the experiment window but with the entire > > enviroment of the operational system, seeing what is presented in other > > programs and generatig keyboards' in/out(s) to windows or any program, > > for example? > > > > From the model's perspective the world is represented by what's called > a device. The device provides all of the ins and outs for the current > perceptual and motor modules of ACT-R. You can find some general > information on the device for ACT-R 6 in the framework-API.doc document > in the ACT-R 6 docs directory and more detailed information at: > > > > Note however that the web site describes the ACT-R 5 code and may > not always match with ACT-R 6 (work is currently ongoing to update > the documentation for ACT-R 6). > > So, your question comes down to basically whether or not there is > a device that supports the type of access you desire, and basically > the answer is no. The devices included with ACT-R don't do that, but > there are a couple of possibilities. > > First, it is possible to add new devices. So, it's not impossible > to have that type of interaction, but one would have to do the > work necessary to create the appropriate device for ACT-R. > > Also, the device that's provided for use with ACL (Allegro Common > Lisp) under Windows does actually generate system-level mouse and > keyboard actions. They will be sent to whatever application has the > current focus. So, if you are using that Lisp and OS combo you can > have the model send actions to any application, but it can't "see" > them. > > As for seeing, there was a project called SegMan being developed > by Robert St. Amant which was looking to provide a general image > processing system that would allow for visual information to come > from "any" window, but I don't know too many details or the current > status of that project at this time. > > Hope that helps, > Dan > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Susan F. Chipman, Ph.D. ONR Code 342 875 N. Randolph Street Arlington, VA 22217-5660 phone: 703-696-4318 fax: 703-696-1212 -----Original Message----- From: act-r-users-bounces at act-r.psy.cmu.edu [mailto:act-r-users-bounces at act-r.psy.cmu.edu] On Behalf Of Fabio Gutiyama Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 9:08 AM To: Dan Bothell; act-r-users at act-r.psy.cmu.edu Subject: Re: [ACT-R-users] Perception and Motor Thank you for your answer, it was extremely helpful. Also, the device that's provided for use with ACL (Allegro Common Lisp) under Windows does actually generate system-level mouse and keyboard actions. They will be sent to whatever application has the current focus. So, if you are using that Lisp and OS combo you can have the model send actions to any application, but it can't "see" them. That's interesting... But I noticed that ACT-R sends the mouse and keyboard actions to its experiment window, independently if an external application has the focus... (I'm using ACT-R 5)... Could you tell me how can I define the outs to reach external applications or where I can find information about this possibility? Thank you. F?bio. On 7/12/06, Dan Bothell wrote: --On Wednesday, July 12, 2006 4:37 PM -0300 Fabio Gutiyama wrote: > Greetings, ACT-R users, > > I'm new in this group and I am starting to use ACT-R on a research about > human error in Brazil (Escola Polit?cnica, S?o Paulo University - USP). > Some aspect I'd like to know is about the perception and motor modules. > Is there any implementation that open possibility to ACT-R interact not > only with the listener or the experiment window but with the entire > enviroment of the operational system, seeing what is presented in other > programs and generatig keyboards' in/out(s) to windows or any program, > for example? > >From the model's perspective the world is represented by what's called a device. The device provides all of the ins and outs for the current perceptual and motor modules of ACT-R. You can find some general information on the device for ACT-R 6 in the framework-API.doc document in the ACT-R 6 docs directory and more detailed information at: Note however that the web site describes the ACT-R 5 code and may not always match with ACT-R 6 (work is currently ongoing to update the documentation for ACT-R 6). So, your question comes down to basically whether or not there is a device that supports the type of access you desire, and basically the answer is no. The devices included with ACT-R don't do that, but there are a couple of possibilities. First, it is possible to add new devices. So, it's not impossible to have that type of interaction, but one would have to do the work necessary to create the appropriate device for ACT-R. Also, the device that's provided for use with ACL (Allegro Common Lisp) under Windows does actually generate system-level mouse and keyboard actions. They will be sent to whatever application has the current focus. So, if you are using that Lisp and OS combo you can have the model send actions to any application, but it can't "see" them. As for seeing, there was a project called SegMan being developed by Robert St. Amant which was looking to provide a general image processing system that would allow for visual information to come from "any" window, but I don't know too many details or the current status of that project at this time. Hope that helps, Dan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- An embedded message was scrubbed... From: "Chipman, Susan" Subject: David Kieras Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1998 12:08:08 -0400 Size: 2347 URL: -------------- next part -------------- An embedded message was scrubbed... From: "Chipman, Susan" Subject: Chris Schunn Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 13:01:23 -0400 Size: 2173 URL: -------------- next part -------------- An embedded message was scrubbed... From: "Chipman, Susan" Subject: Kevin Gluck Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 13:19:41 -0400 Size: 2864 URL: From db30 at andrew.cmu.edu Thu Jul 13 11:35:15 2006 From: db30 at andrew.cmu.edu (Dan Bothell) Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 11:35:15 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Perception and Motor In-Reply-To: <834a17160607130607h3ec7cef4jb961151ea77b4314@mail.gmail.com> References: <498B84DA42CC90E7C9DEA952@whatever.psy.cmu.edu> <834a17160607130607h3ec7cef4jb961151ea77b4314@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <965EFA0DF0D076586EC87CCE@whatever.psy.cmu.edu> --On Thursday, July 13, 2006 10:07 AM -0300 Fabio Gutiyama wrote: > > > That's interesting... > But I noticed that ACT-R sends the mouse and keyboard actions to its > experiment window, independently if an external application has the > focus... (I'm using ACT-R 5)... > Could you tell me how can I define the outs to reach external > applications or where I can find information about this possibility? > There isn't really anything extra that's needed - all that is necessary is that the device you install with pm-install-device be an ACL window. The one note would be that if you have started the ACT-R environment, then the ACT-R GUI tools (like open-exp-window) won't use the "raw" ACL windows, but if you aren't using the environment you shouldn't need to do anything different. Here's a function that implements about the simplest ACT-R interface and model I could come up with that will demonstrate this: (defun press-a () (pm-reset) (p test =manual-state> isa module-state modality free ==> +manual> isa press-key key "a") (pm-set-params :real-time t :needs-mouse nil) (let ((win (if (and (boundp *env-windows*) *env-windows*) (make-window (gensym "rpm-window") :device 'dialog) (open-exp-window "test")))) (pm-install-device win) (pm-run 30))) If you run that in ACL under Windows with ACT-R 5 (whether or not you are using the ACT-R environment because it checks) the model will press the key "a" repeatedly for 30 seconds and that will be sent to whatever application has the focus (you should be able to pick different apps with the mouse while it's running because the model isn't controlling the mouse). Dan From Kevin.Gluck at mesa.afmc.af.mil Thu Jul 13 12:40:25 2006 From: Kevin.Gluck at mesa.afmc.af.mil (Gluck Kevin A Civ AFRL/HEAT) Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 12:40:25 -0400 Subject: [Removed on request off list owner] Message-ID: A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: multipart/alternative Size: 41 bytes Desc: not available URL: From stamant at csc.ncsu.edu Thu Jul 13 11:16:44 2006 From: stamant at csc.ncsu.edu (Robert St. Amant) Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 11:16:44 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Perception and Motor In-Reply-To: <498B84DA42CC90E7C9DEA952@whatever.psy.cmu.edu> References: <498B84DA42CC90E7C9DEA952@whatever.psy.cmu.edu> Message-ID: <9879066B-0E52-4F6C-A377-94E72D3AFA39@csc.ncsu.edu> On Jul 12, 2006, at 4:55 PM, Dan Bothell wrote: > > As for seeing, there was a project called SegMan being developed > by Robert St. Amant which was looking to provide a general image > processing system that would allow for visual information to come > from "any" window, but I don't know too many details or the current > status of that project at this time. I wish I could say that SegMan can be downloaded and run without difficulties in ACT-R 6 and any version of Windows, but we haven't had the funding to make the system bullet-proof. In its current state, it's best viewed as a proof of concept. (We're still using it, internally, but I think it's ripe for re-engineering.) For Windows-specific interaction, Jan Misker's work might also be helpful; his system bypasses the kind of image processing that SegMan does in favor of direct access to Windows-internal objects. Rob St. Amant From frank.ritter at psu.edu Thu Jul 13 11:14:46 2006 From: frank.ritter at psu.edu (Frank Ritter) Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 11:14:46 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] [soar-group] Vision module proposal/ ACT-R mailing list on PM In-Reply-To: <44ADC628.30707@acm.org> References: <44ADC628.30707@acm.org> Message-ID: Dear Yan King Yin and Fabio, Check out papers at http://acs.ist.psu.edu/papers/ritter-papers.html : on supporting cognitive models as users with eyes and hands (baxter) on using eyes and hands (jones) on java eyes and hands (norling) on tcl/tk eyes and hands (lonsdale) and any paper with St. Amant using his SegMan system. and under /ijhcs-em-si/ there is a special issue on this topic. we've been working on this for a while. also, Mike Byrne at Rice and his act-r/pm module is an excellent thing to follow and build upon. source code for most systems are available, so you can build on them. cheers, Frank At 10:25 PM -0400 6/7/06, Robert Wray wrote: >On the general subject of incorporating Soar and a vision system and >using Soar for object recognition, Daniel Crevier attended a few Soar >workshops in the 90's with this goal in mind; I dont know if there's >anything published on this topic. > >http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.10/streetcred.html?pg=16 > >Bob > >Yan King Yin wrote: >> Dear Soar group >> >> I'm planning to develop a vision front-end for use by intelligent >> agents. The long term goal is to be able to recognize everyday > > objects, estimate depth / distance, recognize events, and basically be > > the "eyes" for intelligent agents. >> >> The outline of my vision scheme is here: >> http://www.geocities.com/genericai/VisionScheme.htm >> Basically the scheme is to decompose the input image / video into >> structural features and output them in a graphical representation for >> further processing. Object recognition is based on production rules. >> Recognition iterates hierarchically from low-level features to 2D and >> 3D features. At the highest level the output is a logical / symbolic >> description of the scene. >> >> The special point is that the vision module works closely within a >> cognitive architecture. I'm trying to see if Soar can be such a >> "host" for this project. (Sorry if I sound ignorant about Soar; I'm >> just starting to learn about it). >> >> Also, I have thought about the problem of general intelligence for >>some time: >> http://www.geocities.com/genericai/GI-Basics.htm >> My most important idea is that the intelligent agent must compress its >> sensory experience and store the results into its memory systems >> (episodic, semantic, etc). >> >> Question 1: Are there Soar implementations where I can plug in a >> vision front-end and start experimenting with sensory processing, like >> right now? >> >> Question 2: In Soar's episodic memory, can I store general events >> such as statements in the format of "event calculus"? For example, > > "John threw a red ball to Mary at 2:00pm". > > > > Question 3: It seems that Soar's knowledge representation is based on > > attribute-value pairs, whereas my choice of KR is predicate logic > > because of its universal expressiveness. Will there be a problem that >> some logical facts are not representable in Soar? >> >> I know these problems may be very hard, but I also believe that having >> a vision module for Soar will allow it to do a lot more interesting >> things, so it's probably worth the effort. >> >> Any comments or suggestions? >> >> Thanks in advance, >> Yan King Yin >> General Intelligence Research Group >> >> Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? >> Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your >>job easier >> Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo >> http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 >> _______________________________________________ >> soar-group mailing list >> soar-group at lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/soar-group >> > >Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? >Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier >Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo >http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 >_______________________________________________ >soar-group mailing list >soar-group at lists.sourceforge.net >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/soar-group From taatgen at cmu.edu Thu Jul 13 14:55:59 2006 From: taatgen at cmu.edu (Niels Taatgen) Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 14:55:59 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] ACT-R workshop information Message-ID: The workshop is coming up, so here is some additional information: Presentations: We scheduled 20 minutes per talk, which includes question time and changing speakers. Schedule: The updated schedule can be found on the website: http://act-r.psy.cmu.edu/workshops/workshop-2006/WSSchedule.html The differences with the previous version are small, but check it nevertheless. How to get to CMU: Assuming you come by airplane, the easiest way to get to CMU is with the 28X "Airport Flyer" bus ($2.25, exact change required). It runs every 20 or 30 minutes from the airport (just outside the baggage claim on the same side as the taxis and the parking shuttles) via downtown to CMU. Although there are more expensive shuttle services, none of them except a taxi (which will cost you at least $40) will bring you all the way to campus. The last stop of the bus will drop you off on Forbes avenue, just across building 13 on the map I include as a pdf-file. The bus runs until around midnight. If you stay at the Holiday Inn you have to get off slightly earlier: probably the best stop is at Forbes avenue across Schenley Drive (across the street from the Pitt's Cathedral of Learning). Parking: If you drive into Pittsburgh you should arrange for parking in advance: call 412 268 1125. They will probably put you in the East campus parking garage (P5). Checking into your rooms: The summer housing office is in Donner hall, which is building number 62 (D8) on the map. Go there to pick up the key for your room (they will give you directions to the building) and pay for it. They will want you to pay for the first two days on arrival, but you can also settle the full amount right away. I look forward to you all next week, Niels Taatgen? =================================================== Niels Taatgen - Carnegie Mellon University, Psychology, BH 345E Also (but not now): University of Groningen, Artificial Intelligence web: http://www.ai.rug.nl/~niels email: taatgen at cmu.edu Telephone: +1 412-268-2815 =================================================== -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From alinasing at gmail.com Mon Jul 17 00:53:58 2006 From: alinasing at gmail.com (alina singeorzan) Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 06:53:58 +0200 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Production Selection in ACT-R Message-ID: <2385fbd10607162153m16d0bb99k9ef02ece36f947da@mail.gmail.com> Hello everyone, I've heard that there is a new production selection formula in ACT-R, but didn't find any papers on this. Can anyone tell me how it looks like or give me any information about it? Best wishes, a. -- There is a time for everything under the sun.... -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From db30 at andrew.cmu.edu Mon Jul 17 08:12:24 2006 From: db30 at andrew.cmu.edu (Dan Bothell) Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 08:12:24 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Production Selection in ACT-R In-Reply-To: <2385fbd10607162153m16d0bb99k9ef02ece36f947da@mail.gmail.com> References: <2385fbd10607162153m16d0bb99k9ef02ece36f947da@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <730EADF941C5B319D9A9DDAC@[192.168.123.101]> --On Monday, July 17, 2006 6:53 AM +0200 alina singeorzan wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I've heard that there is a new production selection formula in ACT-R, but > didn't find any papers on this. > Can anyone tell me how it looks like or give me any information about it? > The new utility mechanism is included as an extra with the current version of ACT-R 6 (it is not enabled by default). In the extras directory there is a directory called new-utility and in there are the directions for enabling it, documentation on the mechanism and replacement units for the ACT-R tutorial that use the new mechanism. There will also be a talk on the new mechanism during the ACT-R workshop this week. Dan From byrne at rice.edu Mon Jul 17 05:30:41 2006 From: byrne at rice.edu (Mike Byrne) Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 04:30:41 -0500 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Perception and Motor In-Reply-To: Message-ID: On 2006.07.13, Chipman, Susan said: > Since no one else has yet said so, I will tell you that the > perceptual and motor components of ACT-R are pretty much > borrowed from the work of David Kieras and David Meyer of the > University of Michigan whose EPIC architecture emphasized these > and demonstrated their importance to the cognitive community. > Apparently, however, it is still the case that the ACT-R > implementation is not nearly a complete copy of what is in EPIC. It is absolutely true that ACT-R borrowed numerous significant pieces from EPIC, which itself was informed by the Card, Moran, and Newell Model Human Processor. Indeed, ACT-R's Motor and Speech modules are almost directly reverse-engineered from EPIC's based on the detailed description found in: However, the EPIC and ACT-R modules share no actual code. On the issue of vision, I think some clarification is in order here. Due to fundamentally different assumptions about how memory works, the visual system in ACT-R is substantially different from the EPIC visual system. The ACT-R system is not an incomplete copy of the EPIC system; they are different by necessity. (A brief discussion of this issue will appear in Wayne Gray's forthcoming book.) The ACT-R auditory system is something of a hybrid of the EPIC system and some of the structure of the ACT-R visual system. -Mike =========================================================== Mike Byrne, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Psychology Department Rice University, MS-25 6100 Main Street +1 713-348-3770 voice Houston, TX 77005-1892 +1 713-348-5221 fax From jleitao at ci.uc.pt Tue Jul 18 21:34:32 2006 From: jleitao at ci.uc.pt (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jos=E9_Leit=E3o?=) Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 02:34:32 +0100 Subject: [ACT-R-users] 2nd Cfp : The 6th Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution Colloquium (DAARC'2007) Message-ID: <0643f71346434a6c6de18838cced010b@ci.uc.pt> SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS The 6th Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution Colloquium (DAARC'2007) Lagos (Algarve), Portugal hosted by University of Lisbon, Faculty of Sciences March 29 - 30, 2007 http://daarc2007.di.fc.ul.pt/ Anaphora is a central topic in the study of natural language and has long been the object of research in a wide range of disciplines such as theoretical, corpus and computational linguistics, philosophy of language, cognitive science, psycholinguistics and cognitive psychology. On the other hand, the correct interpretation of anaphora has played an increasingly vital role in real-world natural language processing applications, including machine translation, automatic abstracting, information extraction and question answering. As a result, the processing of anaphora has become one of the most productive topics of multi- and inter-disciplinary research, and has enjoyed increased interest and attention in recent years. In this context, the Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution Colloquia (DAARC) have emerged as the major regular forum for presentation and discussion of the best research results in this area. Initiated in 1996 at Lancaster University and taken over in 2002 by the University of Lisbon, the DAARC series established itself as a specialised and competitive forum for the presentation of the latest results on anaphora processing, ranging from theoretical linguistic approaches through psycholinguistic and cognitive work to corpus studies and computational modelling. The sixth Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution Colloquium (DAARC?2007) will take place in Lagos (Algarve), Portugal, in March 29-30, 2007. We would like to invite anyone currently researching in the areas of discourse anaphora and anaphor resolution, from any methodological perspective or framework, to submit a paper to DAARC'2007. The closing date for submission is October 16, 2006. Notification of acceptance will be sent by December 15, 2006. Final versions of selected papers to be included in the proceedings are expected by January 19, 2007. Submissions (extended abstracts) must be anonymous and at most 3 pages in length. For further details on the submission procedure, and other relevant info on the colloquium visit its website at: http://daarc2007.di.fc.ul.pt/ Program Committee: Mijail Alexandrov-Kabadjov, Univ Essex Mira Ariel, Tel Aviv Univ Sergey Avrutin, OTS Amit Bagga, Ask.com Patricio Martinez Barco, Univ Alicante Peter Bosch, Univ Osnabrueck Ant?nio Branco, Univ Lisbon Donna Byron, Ohio State Univ Francis Cornish, Univ Toulouse-Le Mirail Dan Cristea, Univ Iasi Robert Dale, Macquarie Univ Richard Evans, Univ Wolverhampton Martin Everaert, OTS Lyn Frazier, MIT Claire Gardent, CNRS/Loria Rafael Mu?oz Guillena, Univ Alicante Jeanette Gundel, Univ Minnesota Sanda Harabagiu, Univ Texas at Dallas Lars Hellan, Norwegian Univ of Science and Technology Erhard Hinrichs, Univ Tuebingen Graeme Hirst, Univ Toronto Yan Huang, Univ Reading Andrew Kehler, Univ California San Diego Andrej Kibrik, Russian Academy of Sciences Emiel Krahmer, Tilburg Univ Shalom Lappin, King's College Tony McEnery, Lancaster Univ Ruslan Mitkov, Univ Wolverhampton Jill Nickerson, Ab Initio Software Corp Constantin Orasan, Univ. Wolverhampton Maria Mercedes Pi?ango, Yale Univ Georgiana Puscasu, Univ Wolverhampton Costanza Navarretta, CST Massimo Poesio, Univ Essex Eric Reuland, OTS Jeffrey Runner, Univ of Rochester Antonio Fernandez Rodriguez, Univ Alacant Tony Sanford, Glasgow Univ Fr?d?rique Segond, Xerox Research Centre Europe Roland Stuckardt, Univ Frankfurt am Main Joel Tetreault, Univ. Rochester Renata Vieira, Unisinos Organisers: Antonio Branco, Univ Lisbon Tony McEnery, Lancaster Univ Ruslan Mitkov, Univ Wolverhampton F?tima Silva, Univ Oporto From actr at optimizelife.com Wed Jul 19 15:00:42 2006 From: actr at optimizelife.com (Gustavo Lacerda) Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 15:00:42 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] abstract models & designing from specifications Message-ID: <668fcde60607191200o76e06d8dyed3a7a7ff63b91a4@mail.gmail.com> Hello all, I imagine that it might be nice to be able to formally represent incomplete or abstract models, in order to reason about them (or possibly to perform abstract simulations, in which e.g. some parameters are not precisely instantiated, or some production-sequences don't have a specified amount of time to last). For instance, instead of speculatively implementing a particular sequence of productions, one could stick to writing a specification like "this part of our model takes input X and produces output Y", since we don't know how exactly it gets from X to Y. And just as design patterns in software engineering are used for creating software from specifications, one could create a library of commonly-occurring cognitive patterns for the purposes of later reuse in creating plausible models. Have these ideas been discussed before? Any references? Gustavo -- Gustavo Lacerda http://www.optimizelife.com Netiquette: if sending a message to multiple recipients (>3), please make sure to hide my email in the BCC. This prevents spam. From delmisfa at units.it Thu Jul 20 06:08:15 2006 From: delmisfa at units.it (Fabio Del Missier) Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 12:08:15 +0200 Subject: [ACT-R-users] ranges for B and Sji Message-ID: <20060720120815.pn6adwj6f4pwso4w@webmail.units.it> -- APOLOGIES FOR MULTIPLE POSTING -- Dear all, I'm wondering if someone could help us answering a ?simple? question. We are trying to set base-rate activations and Sjis in an act-r model of associative word production. We have estimates of word occurrences and co-occurrences drawn from different sources (linguistic corpora and databases, google searches) and we want to use them as proxies for Bs and Sjis. The problem is how to scale them. We went through a series of act-r models and papers and noticed very different ranges for Bs and Sjis in different domains (from cognitive arithmetic, to the fan experiments, to stroop --wact). Could you be so kind to suggest us reasonable Bs/Sjis ranges for a model of associative word production? An independent constraint on the ranges --possibly theoretically derived-- would help reducing free parameters. Many thanks and have a great workshop! Fabio Del Missier & Cristiano Crescentini. ====================================================== Decision Research Lab Department of Cognitive Sciences and Education University of Trento Via Matteo del Ben 5/B, I-38068, Rovereto (TN), Italy e-mail: delmissier at form.unitn.it, delmisfa at units.it skype: fabio.del.missier fax: +39 0464 483554 voice: +39 0464 483572 ====================================================== ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. From hiran.ekanayake at gmail.com Fri Jul 21 06:22:21 2006 From: hiran.ekanayake at gmail.com (Hiran Ekanayake) Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 15:52:21 +0530 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Symbolic and Sub-Symbolic Nature Message-ID: Hi all, My apologies for disturbing you by posting general questions all the way. Anyway I guess someone would help me to clarify following facts within the scope of ACT-R. Can symbolic and sub-symbolic knowledge in ACT-R influence each other? What I mean is that is it possible to modify sub-symbolic level knowledge by execution of productions (I haven't yet studied how emotions are modeled in ACT-R and I am little more wondering of how enzymes doing their job). Further, can sub-symbolic knowledge transformed to symbolic knowledge with the time? (profile based, context sensitivity) In general, if you are considering both symbolic and sub-symbolic levels, can we say that thought atoms are not just passive objects, but they describe some form of force-fields around them like real atoms have in addition to its content, so that we have to consider a frame of reference. Thank You, -------------------------------------------------- Hiran Ekanayake Department of Computation and Intelligent Systems University of Colombo School of Computing Colombo, Sri Lanka. http://www.geocities.com/hekanayake/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ben.willems at faa.gov Fri Jul 21 16:00:22 2006 From: ben.willems at faa.gov (ben.willems at faa.gov) Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 16:00:22 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Ben Willems/ACT/FAA is on vacation. Message-ID: I will be out of the office starting Fri 07/21/2006 and will not return until Sat 07/29/2006. I will respond to your message when I return. If you need immediate assistance, please contact Dr. Mike McAnulty (Mike.McAnulty at faa.gov or 609-485-5380). From bhanupvsr at gmail.com Mon Jul 24 09:50:08 2006 From: bhanupvsr at gmail.com (Bhanu Prasad) Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 09:50:08 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTER CONTRIBUTIONS Message-ID: <621812f80607240650i3f4e0b23of51634ded867d766@mail.gmail.com> *CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTER CONTRIBUTIONS* * * *Book Title: Speech, Audio, Image and Biomedical Signal Processing using Neural Networks* ** *Editors: Dr. Bhanu Prasad1 and Dr. S. R. Mahadeva Prasanna2* * * *Publisher: Springer-Verlag, Germany* ** *Year of Publication: 2007* *BACKGROUND AND MOTIVATION* * * Neural networks are being used for processing speech, audio, image and biomedical signals for many years. Some of the applications in speech processing where neural networks are extensively used include speech recognition, speaker recognition, speech enhancement, speech coding and speech synthesis. In audio processing, neural networks are used for speech/music classification, audio classification and audio indexing and retrieval. Edge extraction, texture classification, face recognition, character recognition, finger print identification, image enhancement and image coding are some of the applications of neural networks in image processing. Neural networks are also used for the identification of biomedical signals, different diseases, medical image processing and ECG signal processing. The articles related to the applications of neural networks in speech, audio, image and biomedical signal processing are spread in the literature across different journals, conference proceedings and books. The objective of this book is to provide a common platform for all the researchers working in the above mentioned areas to consolidate their research findings in the form of book chapters. Review articles on the usefulness of neural networks in the above mentioned signal processing areas are also planned to be included in this book. The proposed book is aimed to serve the research community mainly in the following ways: - The reader is equipped with the basics of signal processing like a course on digital signal processing and is interested in pursuing a research career in the application areas of signal processing. Articles on the fundamentals of speech, audio, image and biomedical signal processing and also neural networks will provide the necessary background for the beginner to start research work in these areas. - The reader has completed first courses in one of the above mentioned signal processing areas say speech processing and neural networks and is curious to know how to use neural network models in some of the tasks like speech recognition, speaker recognition and so on. For such a reader this book will be a good starting point since information about the applications of neural networks for these tasks and also rich literature related to them will be present. - The reader has used neural network models in one of the signal processing areas say speech processing and would like to know how they are and can be used in other signal processing areas like audio, image and biomedical signals. For such a reader this book will be a good source where applications of neural networks for processing different types of signals can be found. *CALL FOR ABSTRACTS* ** The prospective authors who are working in one or more of the above mentioned areas can email an extended abstract of 1500-2000 words describing the scope of the work that will be included in their proposed chapters. Since it is proposed to conduct a blind review of the submitted abstracts, it is strongly suggested not to reveal their identity in any form. 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URL: From pavel at dit.unitn.it Wed Jul 26 07:03:19 2006 From: pavel at dit.unitn.it (pavel) Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 13:03:19 +0200 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Final CFP: The ISWC'06 workshop on Ontology Matching (OM-2006) Message-ID: <011101c6b0a3$1adeba80$5aeaa8c0@alphaekts5r299> Apologies for cross-postings ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS: submission deadline is approaching: 17 days left ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The First International Workshop on ONTOLOGY MATCHING (OM-2006) http://www.om2006.ontologymatching.org/ November 5 or 6, 2006, ISWC'06 Workshop Program, Athens, Georgia, USA BRIEF DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES Ontology matching is a key interoperability enabler for the Semantic Web, since it takes the ontologies as input and determines as output correspondences between the semantically related entities of those ontologies. These correspondences can be used for various tasks, such as ontology merging, query answering, data translation, or for navigation on the Semantic Web. Thus, matching ontologies enables the knowledge and data expressed in the matched ontologies to interoperate. The workshop has two goals: 1. To bring together academic and industry leaders dealing with ontology matching in order to assess how academic advances are addressing real-world requirements. The workshop will strive to improve academic awareness of industrial needs, and therefore, direct research towards those needs. Simultaneously, the workshop will serve to inform industry representatives about existing research efforts that may meet their business needs. 2. To conduct an extensive evaluation of ontology matching approaches through the OAEI (Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative) 2006 campaign. The particular focus of this year's OAEI campaign is on real-world matching tasks from specific domains, e.g., medicine, jobs. Therefore, the ontology matching evaluation initiative itself will provide a solid ground for discussion of how well the current approaches are meeting business needs. TOPICS of interest include, but are not limited to: Application of ontology matching techniques in real-world scenarios; Requirements to ontology matching from specific domains; Formal foundations and frameworks for ontology matching; Performance of ontology-matching techniques; Background knowledge in ontology matching; Uncertainty in ontology matching; Interactive ontology matching; Ontology matching evaluation methodology; Ontology matching for information integration; Ontology matching for query answering; Ontology matching for dynamic environments (e.g., P2P systems); Systems and infrastructures. INVITED TALKS 1. Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento, Italy. Tentative title: Background Knowledge in Ontology Matching. 2. Amit Sheth, University of Georgia and Semagix, USA. Tentative title: Matching, Mapping and Alignment in the context of Real World Ontologies and Semantic Services. FORMAT AND SUBMISSIONS The schedule assumes one day workshop. The workshop will consist of the following components: keynote presentations, technical presentations, OAEI'06 results presentations, posters and consensus building workshop, wrap-up discussion. Contributions to the workshop can be made in terms of (i) technical papers addressing different issues of ontology matching as well as (ii) participating in the OAEI 2006 campaign. Technical papers should be not longer than 12 pages using the LNCS Style. For complete style details, see Springer's Author Instructions http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-164-2-72376-0,00.html These should be prepared in PDF format and should be sent (no later than August 11, 2006) by email to Pavel Shvaiko: pavel at dit dot unitn dot it Technical papers will be refereed by the Program Committee. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. Contributors to the OAEI 2006 campaign have to follow the contest conditions at http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2006/. IMPORTANT DATES FOR TECHNICAL PAPERS August 11, 2006: Deadline for the submission of papers. September 14, 2006: Deadline for the notification of acceptance/rejection. September 21, 2006: Workshop camera ready copy submission. November 5 or 6, 2006: OM-2006, GA Center, Athens, Georgia, USA. IMPORTANT DATES FOR THE OAEI'06 CAMPAIGN early June, 2006: First publication of test cases. June 28, 2006: Comments on test cases (any time before that date). July 3, 2006: Final publication of test cases. September 4, 2006: Preliminary results due (for interoperability-checking). September 15, 2006: Participants send final results and supporting papers. October 9, 2006: Organizers publish results for comments. November 5 or 6, 2006: OM-2006, GA Center, Athens, Georgia, USA; OAEI'06 final results ready. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE 1. Pavel Shvaiko University of Trento, Italy e-mail: pavel at dit dot unitn dot it 2. Jerome Euzenat INRIA Rhone-Alpes, France 3. Natasha Noy Stanford University, USA 4. Heiner Stuckenschmidt University of Mannheim, Germany 5. Richard Benjamins Intelligent Software Components, Spain 6. Michael Uschold The Boeing Company, USA PROGRAM COMMITTEE Benjamin Ashpole, Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Labs, USA Richard Benjamins, Intelligent Software Components, Spain Paolo Bouquet, University of Trento, Italy Jerome Euzenat, INRIA Rhone-Alpes, France Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento, Italy Andreas Hess, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands Wei Hu, Southeast University, China Jingshan Huang, University of South Carolina, USA Todd Hughes, Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Labs, USA Michael Huhns, University of South Carolina, USA Ryutaro Ichise, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Yannis Kalfoglou, University of Southampton, UK Deborah McGuinness, Stanford University, USA Meenakshi Nagarajan, University of Georgia, USA Natasha Noy, Stanford University, USA Satya Sahoo, University of Georgia, USA Marco Schorlemmer, Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, Spain Pavel Shvaiko, University of Trento, Italy Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz, Germany Umberto Straccia, ISTI-C.N.R., Italy Heiner Stuckenschmidt, University of Mannheim, Germany York Sure, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Michael Uschold, The Boeing Company, USA Petko Valtchev, University of Montreal, Canada Mikalai Yatskevich, University of Trento, Italy ------------------------------------------------------- Download OM-2006 flyer: http://www.om2006.ontologymatching.org/Pictures/CfP_OM2006_flyer.pdf ------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- 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 holger at cs.vu.nl Fri Jul 28 18:22:21 2006 From: holger at cs.vu.nl (Holger Wache) Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 00:22:21 +0200 Subject: [ACT-R-users] [CFP] DEADLINE EXTENSION Scalable Semantic Web Knowledge Base Systems (SSWS 2006) Message-ID: <44CA8E1D.2050209@cs.vu.nl> Due to many last minute requests the deadline will be postponed to *August 4th, 2006* ------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS Second International Workshop on *Scalable Semantic Web Knowledge Base Systems (SSWS 2006)* http://www.cs.vu.nl/~holger/ssws2006/ November 5 or 6, 2006 during 5th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2006) This workshop aims at creating a forum for discussing a critical issue for the Semantic Web, that is, scalability. As the Semantic Web evolves, scalability becomes increasingly important. This workshop will focus on addressing of the scalability issue with respect to the development and deployment of knowledge base systems on the Semantic Web. Typically, such systems deal with information described in Semantic Web languages like OWL and RDF(S), and provide services such as storing, reasoning, querying and debugging. There are two basic requirements for these systems. First, they have to satisfy the application?s semantic requirements by providing sufficient reasoning support. Second, they must scale well in order to be of practical use. Given the sheer size and distributed nature of the Semantic Web, these requirements impose additional challenges beyond those addressed by earlier knowledge base systems. This has been well recognized by the community. We expect that the above issue is going to challenge the Semantic Web for a long time of period and significant effort is needed in order to tackle the problem. This workshop seeks to bring together researchers and practitioners to share their recent ideas and progresses towards building scalable knowledge base systems for the Semantic Web. The workshop will be centered on the discussion of three major aspects: * foundations, methods and technologies for pushing forward the state-of-the-art; * performance evaluation and related principles, methodologies and tools; * identification of important issues and future research directions. This workshop is a follow-on event of the SSWS2005 workshop. Workshop Topics ---------------- Topics of interests for the workshop include, but are not limited to: * Reasoning mechanisms, techniques and systems * Query evaluation and optimization * Performance evaluation and benchmarks * Large Semantic Web repositories * Distributed and concurrent knowledge base systems and P2P systems * Large scale knowledge base management * Semantic Web-based information integration In addition, the workshop will include a working session on benchmarking. In order to be able to evaluate scalability, the existence of agreed benchmarking datasets is of crucial importance. In many related domains such as databases and theorem proving, standard benchmarks exist and are ready to guide research on optimization techniques. In the Semantic Web area, such benchmarking shave only just started to emerge and there is no commonly agreed benchmark dataset for RDF and OWL reasoning and querying. The workshop will address this issue in a special working session on benchmarking. In this session, existing benchmarking initiatives will be presented and discussed by organizers and participants of the workshop. The aim is to come up with a set of requirements and a list of candidate datasets. Paper Submissions ------------------ We invite papers that report on completed or work in progress on relevant topic areas including use-cases and descriptions of demonstrations. All papers will be peer-reviewed by members of the program committee. The contributions should be prepared in PDF format according to the formatting guidelines for Springer-Verlag (LNCS). Submissions should be limited to a maximum of 14 pages for full papers Submissions in PDF form should be emailed to ssws06-list at few.vu.nl, no later than August 4th, 2006. Important Dates ---------------- Submissions Due: August 4, 2006 Notification of Acceptance: August 25, 2006 Camera-ready versions due: September 15, 2006 Workshop: November 5 or 6, 2006 Organizers ----------- Holger Wache, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands Heiner Stuckenschmidt, University of Mannheim, Germany Bijan Parsia, University of Manchester, UK Yuanbo Guo, Lehigh University, USA Tim Finin, University of Maryland, USA Dave Beckett, Yahoo, USA Program committee ------------------ Karl Aberer (EPFL, Switzerland) Grigoris Antoniou (University of Crete &ICS FORTH, Greece) Pierre-Antoine Champin (Lyon 1 University, France) Jeen Broekstra (Aduna, The Netherlands) Raul Garcia Castro (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain) Oscar Corcho (University of Manchester, UK) Ying Ding (University of Innsbruck, Austria) Volker Haarslev (Concordia University, Canada) Steve Harris (Garlik, UK) Andreas Harth (Deri, Ireland) Jeff Heflin (Lehigh University, USA) Pascal Hitzler (University of Karlsruhe, Germany) Atanas Kiryakov (Ontotext Lab, Sirma Group, Bulgaria) Boris Motik (University of Manchester, UK) Paulo Pinheiro da Silva (The University of Texas at El Paso, USA) Dennis Quan (IBM Watson Research Center, USA) Andy Seaborne (HP, UK) York Sure (University of Karlsruhe, Germany) Danille Turi (University of Manchester, UK) Jan Wielemaker (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Takahira Yamaguchi (Keio University, Japan)