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>
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CALL FOR POSITIONS
INTERNSHIP + PhD PROGRAM
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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
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From pavel at dit.unitn.it Wed Jun 7 14:01:22 2006
From: pavel at dit.unitn.it (pavel)
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 20:01:22 +0200
Subject: [ACT-R-users] 1st CFP: The ISWC'06 workshop on Ontology Matching
(OM-2006)
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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
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Download OM-2006 flyer:
http://www.om2006.ontologymatching.org/Pictures/CfP_OM2006_flyer.pdf
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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/
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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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:
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Apologies for multiple copies of this message
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Second International Workshop on
Formal Ontologies Meet Industry
http://www.loa-cnr.it/fomi
December 14-15, 2006
University of Trento
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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Topics of Interest
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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.
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Important dates
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Workshop: December 14-15, 2006
Deadline for paper submissions: July 15, 2006
Notification of acceptance: October 8, 2005
Camera ready submission: November 9, 2006
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Submission and Proceedings
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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''.
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Program Committee (to be completed)
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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
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Please do not hesitate to contact any of the Organizing Committee
members for further details.
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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)
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Professor Ron Sun
Cognitive Science Department
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110 Eighth Street, Carnegie 302A
Troy, NY 12180, USA
phone: 518-276-3409
fax: 518-276-3017
email: rsun at rpi.edu
web: http://www.cogsci.rpi.edu/~rsun
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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
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FINAL CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
submission deadline is approaching: 12 days left
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International Journal on
Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS)
www.ijswis.org
Special Issue on Ontology Matching
THEME DESCRIPTION
An ontology typically provides a vocabulary that describes
a domain of interest and a specification of the meaning of
terms used in the vocabulary. Depending on the precision
of this specification, the notion of ontology encompasses
several data/conceptual models, for example, classifications,
database schemas, or fully axiomatized theories. Ontologies
tend to be put everywhere. They are viewed as the silver bullet
for many applications, such as information integration,
electronic commerce, semantic web services, social networks,
and so on. They, indeed, are a practical means to conceptualize
what is expressed in a computer format. However, in open or
evolving systems, such as the semantic web, different parties
would, in general, adopt different ontologies. Thus, just using
ontologies, like just using XML, does not reduce heterogeneity:
it raises heterogeneity problems at a higher level.
Ontology matching is a plausible solution to the semantic
heterogeneity problem faced by information management systems.
Ontology matching finds correspondences between semantically
related entities of the input ontologies. These correspondences
can be used for various tasks, such as ontology merging, query
answering, data translation, etc. Thus, matching ontologies
enables the knowledge and data expressed in the matched
ontologies to interoperate.
The goal of this special issue is to present recent advances in
all the themes related to ontology matching. Topics of interest
include, but are not limited to:
THEORIES AND METHODS
Formal foundations and frameworks;
Background knowledge in ontology matching;
Uncertainty in ontology matching;
Performance of ontology matching techniques;
Interactive ontology matching;
Explanations and transparency of ontology matching;
Social aspects of ontology matching;
Multilingual ontology matching;
Partial automated ontology matching;
Libraries of basic (elementary) automatic matchers;
Automation of the combination of basic matchers;
Self-configuration of matching solutions;
Ontology matching evaluation methodology;
Large evaluation dataset construction;
Evaluation quality measures;
Large-scale case studies.
APPLICATIONS
Information integration;
Query answering;
Web query interfaces integration;
Peer-to-peer systems;
Multi-agent systems;
Web services integration.
TOOLS
User interfaces;
Scalability of visualization techniques;
Customizing technology;
Systems and Infrastructures.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Submissions to this special issue should follow the Style and
Author Guidelines for regular IJSWIS papers available at
http://www.idea-group.com/ijswis. Please submit manuscripts
through the online system at http://www.ijswis.org with a copy to
Pavel Shvaiko at pavel at dit.unitn.it. We recommend that manuscripts
do not exceed 35 pages (including figures and references). Potential
authors are asked to notify the guest editors of their interest by email
(pavel at dit.unitn.it) as soon as they are certain to provide a contribution.
Submissions will be reviewed by the program committee
of the special issue. Accepted papers will have an opportunity
for further revision and an additional round of reviewers' feedback.
SHEDULE
Email Interest to Submit: as soon as the authors are certain to contribute.
30th June, 2006: submission deadline for manuscripts.
30th September 2006: completion of the 1st round of reviews.
30th November 2006: major/minor revisions due.
15th January 2007: completion of the 2nd round of reviews.
15th February 2007: editorial decisions sent.
Planned Publication: IJSWIS Volume 3, Issue 3 (2007).
SPECIAL ISSUE GUEST EDITORS
Pavel Shvaiko, University of Trento, e-mail: pavel at dit.unitn.it
Jerome Euzenat, INRIA Rhone-Alpes, e-mail: Jerome.Euzenat at inrialpes.fr
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Sonia Bergamaschi, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Diego Calvanese, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Jerome Euzenat, INRIA Rhone-Alpes, France
Avigdor Gal, Technion, Israel
Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento, Italy
Bin He, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Ryutaro Ichise, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Yannis Kalfoglou, University of Southampton, UK
Vipul Kashyap, Clinical Informatics R&D, Partners HealthCare System, USA
Kristina Lerman, USC Information Sciences Institute, USA
Marina Mongiello, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
Natasha Noy, Stanford University, USA
Luigi Palopoli, University of Calabria, Italy
Arnon Rosenthal, MITRE, USA
Pavel Shvaiko, University of Trento, Italy
Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz, Germany
Heiner Stuckenschmidt, University of Mannheim, Germany
Petko Valtchev, University of Montreal, Canada
Mikalai Yatskevich, University of Trento, Italy
ABOUT THE JOURNAL
The International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems
is an open forum aiming to cultivate the Semantic Web vision within
the Information Systems research community. In the common practice
of anticipating Semantic Web as a technology driven phenomenon,
a scientific insight is provided, which reveals the practical
implications and the research challenges of Semantic Web in the
context of Information Systems. It goes beyond the traditional research
agenda of Information Systems and critical themes are analyzed through
a Semantic Web perspective in horizontal and vertical pillars.
More information about the Journal can be found at:
http://www.idea-group.com/journals/details.asp?id=4625
http://www.ijswis.org
More information about Ontology Matching can be found at:
http://www.ontologymatching.org/
Thanks for your time and cooperation!
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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/
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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
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THE OAEI'06 CAMPAIGN
CALL FOR MATCHING SYSTEMS PARTICIPATION
http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2006/
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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/
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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/
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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
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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
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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
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From chancbl at yahoo.com.au Fri Jun 23 14:27:30 2006
From: chancbl at yahoo.com.au (Christine)
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 04:27:30 +1000 (EST)
Subject: [ACT-R-users] PostDoc-Position Inquiry
Message-ID: <20060623182730.16004.qmail@web50511.mail.yahoo.com>
Dear All
About a month ago I had posted a message inquiring position vacancies and a few of you responded. Thank you very much for your response. To stay in the DC-VA-MD area for personal reasons, I am also seeking any PostDoc positions available in the vicinity. I am unique in that I bring together expertise from HCI, Educational Measurement, Cogntiive and Educational Psychology.
I am specifically looking for any Faculty (Visiting and FT), PostDoc or Research positons (upcoming as well). Emial me and I can forward you my CV and even call you. Thanks to all who have responded, I wish it was within location, and thanks to all for your time and patience, it is very much appreciated.
Regards
Christine
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Michigan State University
2005
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From taatgen at cmu.edu Tue Jun 27 13:13:49 2006
From: taatgen at cmu.edu (Niels Taatgen)
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 13:13:49 -0400
Subject: [ACT-R-users] ACT-R workshop Holiday Inn reservation deadline
Message-ID:
One of the housing options for the upcoming ACT-R workshop is the
Holiday Inn. You can get a room at a discounted rate if you make a
reservation before or on July 3rd. See http://act-r.psy.cmu.edu/
actrnews/index.php?id=18 for details. (that page might still mention
the old deadline of June 29th)
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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
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