From csep at dit.unitn.it Thu Jun 1 13:36:09 2006 From: csep at dit.unitn.it (Erika Csep) Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 19:36:09 +0200 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Call for Internship & PhD positions Message-ID: <200606011739.k51Hdica014385@dit.unitn.it> Apologies for cross-postings ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------ CALL FOR POSITIONS INTERNSHIP + PhD PROGRAM ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------ We are looking for top students who have, or will soon have, a degree in computer science or strongly related areas. These students should be interested in pursuing their career by doing a PhD within a leading, internationally recognized, group. The candidates will be required to start with an internship period of 6-8 months during which they will have to complete the first assignment. Successful candidates will be invited to apply for the PhD program in information and telecommunication technology at the University of Trento (http://ict.unitn.it ) and to work on a leading edge research topic. The first assignment and the PhD topic will be both within the scope of the KnowDive project (http://dit.unitn.it/~knowdive). The project aims at creating new technologies and tools for managing (personal) knowledge and for its seamless integration into the global infrastructure of the emerging Web 2.0. Some key phrases which characterize the project are: (Semantic) Web, faceted metadata search and navigation, semantic matching, classifications and thesauri, lightweight ontologies, peer-to-peer systems, social networks. Candidates should have profound Java programming experience, good knowledge of database technology, web technologies and languages (e.g., HTTP, (D)HTML, JavaScript, AJAX, XUL). Knowledge in one (or several) of the following areas is a plus: - OWL, RDF, XML, SKOS; - Faceted metadata search and navigation; - Document indexing and keywords-based search technology (e.g., Lucene); - Web browser development (Firefox development is a plus); - Peer-to-peer technology (e.g., JXTA); - Content management systems; - Security in distributed content management systems; - Wordnet; - Usability studies and practical experience with solving usability-related problems; - Natural language processing techniques; - Named entity recognition techniques; - Text mining techniques. Salaries are competitive. Interested students can send their CV and statement of interest to: Prof. Fausto Giunchiglia University of Trento, Italy Department of Information and Communication Technology (http://dit.unitn.it/) Web: http://dit.unitn.it/~fausto/ E-mail: fausto at dit.unitn.it More details about internships: http://dit.unitn.it/~knowdive/inter.htm -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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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 cimca at canberra.edu.au Wed Jun 7 23:43:08 2006 From: cimca at canberra.edu.au (cimca) Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 13:43:08 +1000 Subject: [ACT-R-users] CFP: International Conference on Intelligent Agents, Web Technologies and Internet Commerce Message-ID: <9617FDA06244F24F9D5F2D983679E7269D118F@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: Conference Proceedings will be published as books by IEEE Computer Society 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 A.Banks at surrey.ac.uk Wed Jun 14 17:30:56 2006 From: A.Banks at surrey.ac.uk (A.Banks at surrey.ac.uk) Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 22:30:56 +0100 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Visual attention Message-ID: <737AF70835F6FB4BADFDBD4619B27DF5B7D766@EVS-EC1-NODE1.surrey.ac.uk> Hello, I was wondering if anybody knew of ACT-R models of inhibition of return or the flanker effect? Many thanks, Adrian -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Hongbin.Wang at uth.tmc.edu Wed Jun 14 17:42:21 2006 From: Hongbin.Wang at uth.tmc.edu (Hongbin Wang) Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 16:42:21 -0500 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Visual attention In-Reply-To: <737AF70835F6FB4BADFDBD4619B27DF5B7D766@EVS-EC1-NODE1.surrey.ac.uk> References: <737AF70835F6FB4BADFDBD4619B27DF5B7D766@EVS-EC1-NODE1.surrey.ac.uk> Message-ID: <3EC5CBC5-9175-4235-AC9D-37A659EAA92D@uth.tmc.edu> The following paper describes a model that deals with the flanker effect. I think it can be extended a bit to handle IOR too. Best wishes. Wang, H., Fan, J., & Johnson, T. R. (2004). A symbolic model of human attentional networks. Cognitive Systems Research, 5, 119-134. Hongbin Wang On Jun 14, 2006, at 4:30 PM, wrote: > Hello, > > > > I was wondering if anybody knew of ACT-R models of inhibition of > return or the flanker effect? > > > > Many thanks, > > Adrian > > _______________________________________________ > 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From reder at andrew.cmu.edu Wed Jun 14 20:37:08 2006 From: reder at andrew.cmu.edu (Lynne Reder) Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 20:37:08 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Visual attention In-Reply-To: <3EC5CBC5-9175-4235-AC9D-37A659EAA92D@uth.tmc.edu> References: <737AF70835F6FB4BADFDBD4619B27DF5B7D766@EVS-EC1-NODE1.surrey.ac.uk> <3EC5CBC5-9175-4235-AC9D-37A659EAA92D@uth.tmc.edu> Message-ID: <78658583-7BBF-4890-985D-6144F3624EFF@andrew.cmu.edu> The paper below can be downloaded from my website. It describes an ACT-R model that accounts for negative priming effects in an experiment in which we ruled out IOR; however, I believe the model implicitly explains IOR in its account. Reder, L.M., Weber, K., Shang, Y., & Vanyukov, P. (2003). The adaptive character of the attentional system: Statistical sensitivity in a target localization task. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 29(3), 631-649. On Jun 14, 2006, at 5:42 PM, Hongbin Wang wrote: > The following paper describes a model that deals with the flanker > effect. I think it can be extended a bit to handle IOR too. Best > wishes. > > Wang, H., Fan, J., & Johnson, T. R. (2004). A symbolic model of > human attentional networks. Cognitive Systems Research, 5, 119-134. > > > Hongbin Wang > > > On Jun 14, 2006, at 4:30 PM, wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> >> >> I was wondering if anybody knew of ACT-R models of inhibition of >> return or the flanker effect? >> >> >> >> Many thanks, >> >> Adrian >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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 ======================================================== Lynne M. Reder Professor Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-268-3792 (office) 412-268-2844 (fax) http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/~reder/reder.html (home page) reder at cmu.edu (email) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From fomi at loa-cnr.it Thu Jun 15 06:01:17 2006 From: fomi at loa-cnr.it (fomi) Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 12:01:17 +0200 Subject: [ACT-R-users] CFP: Formal Ontologies Meet Industry - Second International Workshop Message-ID: *********************************************** 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 rsun at rpi.edu Thu Jun 15 14:27:47 2006 From: rsun at rpi.edu (Professor Ron Sun) Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 14:27:47 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] CogSci2006: Call for Participation Message-ID: <892642E8-FB01-49C3-8719-4B46FE31E8A9@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 pavel at dit.unitn.it Mon Jun 19 03:59:38 2006 From: pavel at dit.unitn.it (pavel) Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 09:59:38 +0200 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Final CFP: IJSWIS Special Issue on Ontology Matching Message-ID: <006001c69376$a52a13a0$5aeaa8c0@alphaekts5r299> Apologies for cross-postings -------------------------------------------------------------------- FINAL CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS submission deadline is approaching: 12 days left -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. 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URL: From pavel at dit.unitn.it Tue Jun 20 05:42:09 2006 From: pavel at dit.unitn.it (pavel) Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 11:42:09 +0200 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Call for Matching Systems Participation: The OAEI'06 campaign Message-ID: <00aa01c6944e$09185f70$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. FURTHER DETAILS of the OAEI'06 campaign, e.g., an evaluation process, presentation of the results, are available at http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2006/. More information about OAEI as well as previous campaigns can be found at: http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/ More information about Ontology Matching can be found at: http://www.ontologymatching.org/ ------------------------------------------------------- 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 taatgen at cmu.edu Tue Jun 20 13:33:27 2006 From: taatgen at cmu.edu (Niels Taatgen) Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 13:33:27 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] ACT-R Workshop 2006 Reminder Message-ID: The early registration and abstract submission deadline of July 1st is coming up, so here is a reminder of the ACT-R Workshop 2006 The ACT-R workshop will take place from Friday July 21 to Sunday July 23. Mornings will be devoted to research presentations, each lasting about 20 minutes plus questions. Participants are invited to present their ACT-R research by submitting a one-page abstract with their registration. Afternoons will feature more research presentations as well as discussion sessions and instructional tutorials. Suggestions for the topics of the tutorials and discussion sessions are welcome. Friday afternoon will feature a tutorial by the invited speaker, David Noelle of Vanderbilt University, about the Leabra neural network architecture. Contrary to the earlier announcement we anticipate to wrap up the workshop around noon on Sunday. Admission to the workshop is open to all. The early registration fee (before July 1) is $100 and the late registration fee (after July 1) is $125. Informal proceedings of past workshops can be found on the ACT-R web site (http://act-r.psy.cmu.edu/workshops/). Requests for presentations should be submitted before July 1 to receive full consideration for inclusion in the workshop program. A preliminary program of presentations will be made available in early July. The workshop is scheduled to just precede the Cognitive Science conference which takes place in Vancouver from July 27 to 30. (http:// www.cognitivesciencesociety.org/cogsci.html). Housing and computing facilities will be provided at CMU from July 23 to 26 for workshop participants who wish to stay on to work on their ACT-R projects and collaborate with other researchers until the start of Cogsci. Housing: There are two housing options, one is to stay in the CMU dorms ($40.50/night), the other is the Holiday Inn in Oakland (100 LYTTON AVE) at a rate of $108/night. If you would like to use the Holiday Inn you have to make the reservation yourself clicking on the following 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 This will give you the reduced rate for the workshop. You can also contact them by phone: (+1) (412) 6826200 Ext: 6116. Make your reservation at the Holiday before 29 June 2006. ________________________________________________________ Thirteenth Annual ACT-R Summer School and Workshop July 15 to 26, 2006 at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh Name: Address: Tel/Fax: Email: Registration fee: Before July 1: $100 ... After July 1: $125 ... The fee is due upon registration. Please send checks or money orders only. Make checks payable to Carnegie Mellon University We cannot accept credit cards. Presentation topic (optional - send a 1 page abstract before July 1st): ........................................................................ ... HOUSING ======= Housing is available in CMU dormitories that offer suite-style accommodations. Rooms include air-conditioning, a semi-private bathroom and a common living room for suite-mates. The rate is $40.50/night/person, or $20.25 if you share the room with someone else. Do not send money. See http://www.housing.cmu.edu for further housing information. To reserve a room in Resnick House, fill in the dates and select one of the three room options: I will stay from ................ to ................ 1. ... I want a single room 2. ... I want a double room. I want to room with ...... 3. ... I want a double room. Please select a roommate of ....... gender 4. ... I will arrange stay at the Holiday Inn or arrange my own housing ROOM PAYMENT IS DUE UPON CHECK-IN. DO NOT SEND MONEY. Send this form to (email or regular mail): 2006 ACT-R Workshop Psychology Department Attn: Niels Taatgen Baker Hall 345E Fax: +1 (412) 268-2815 Carnegie Mellon University Tel: +1 (412) 268-2844 Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890 Email: taatgen at cmu.edu =================================================== 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... 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