From ja+ at cmu.edu Wed Mar 1 11:54:53 2006 From: ja+ at cmu.edu (John Anderson) Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 11:54:53 -0500 Subject: [ACT-R-users] ACT-R Workshop: CMU, July 21-23 Message-ID: It is March 1 and it occurred to me that it is time to announce to all all that the ACT-R Workshop will be held at CMU Fri-Sun (July 21-23) following the ACT-R Summer school and before the beginning of Cognitive Science (July 26-29). Details on the workshop (and there will probably be a couple of new twists) will be forthcoming shortly. I hope see everyone in Pittsburgh. Also while I am at it, I should remind the community that the deadline for students to apply for the summer school is April 14. Details on the summer school are available at our web site. -- ========================================================== John R. Anderson Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Phone: 412-268-2788 Fax: 412-268-2844 email: ja at cmu.edu URL: http://act.psy.cmu.edu/ From tkelley at arl.army.mil Wed Mar 1 12:41:32 2006 From: tkelley at arl.army.mil (Kelley, Troy (Civ,ARL/HRED)) Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 12:41:32 -0500 Subject: [ACT-R-users] SS-RICS tutorial at BRIMS Message-ID: Hello, I thought the ACT-R community would be interested in this information. At the BRIMS conference this year in Baltimore (May 15 to May 18) we will be offering a tutorial on the Symbolic and Sub-symbolic Robotic Intelligence Control System (SS-RICS). SS-RICS is a robot control system based largely on ACT-R but with a few twists. Most notably we are using a semantic network with our production system architecture (ConceptNet from MIT) to give the system declarative memories "right out of the box". Additionally, our productions are constrained by a syntax, this helps to make them more modular and available for reuse. Finally, since we are using a syntax with our productions, we are able to apply Machine Learning Techniques (i.e. Tom Mitchell's techniques) to productions so that we can generate new productions from existing productions. Information about the conference is available here. http://www.sisostds.org/ Then click the BRIMS button at the lower left. If you have a laptop with Windows 2000 or later you can run the SS-RICS software. The software runs a robot in a simulation mode for testing the productions. Hope to see you there! Thanks, Troy Kelley Army Research Laboratory Human Research and Engineering Directorate AMSRD-ARL-HR-SE APG, MD, 21005-5425 voice: 410-278-5859 fax: 410-278-9523 tkelley at arl.army.mil From Kevin.Gluck at mesa.afmc.af.mil Thu Mar 9 11:37:43 2006 From: Kevin.Gluck at mesa.afmc.af.mil (Gluck Kevin A Civ AFRL/HEAS) Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 09:37:43 -0700 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Opportunities to join the AFRL PALM team Message-ID: <671474002216D14B8D440C71877F9A8D030F00AE@fsqbge07.williams.afmc.ds.af.mil> The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory's Performance and Learning Models (PALM) Team, located in Mesa, Arizona, is expanding and anticipates upcoming opportunities for one or more people interested in contributing to our research. We are especially interested in people who have experience in and/or would be well-qualified to contribute to research in the following areas: - Computational models of the effects of fatigue on cognition - Modeling dynamic, time-pressured, 3D spatial reasoning in complex tasks - Communication modeling for interactive synthetic teammates - Cognitive model batch runs and parameter optimizations with the DoD's high performance computing resources Brief descriptions of these research efforts, along with descriptions of other on-going research being conducted by the PALM Team, can be found at: http://www.mesa.afmc.af.mil/html/palmlab.htm We are willing to be flexible regarding the specific mechanisms by which new personnel become involved, to include at least the following possibilities: - Graduate student internships (3-12 months) - Post-docs (1 year, with possibility of renewal) - Visiting faculty (length of visit is negotiable) - Contractor employment (part-time or full-time, on-site, multiple years) Applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent legal residents. Please send questions and/or statements of interest, along with your CV, to palminfo at mesa.afmc.af.mil . Those interested in graduate student internships or post-doctoral positions should ask their primary advisor to provide a brief statement of support. ------------------------------------------------------- KEVIN GLUCK, PhD Senior Research Psychologist Air Force Research Laboratory 6030 S. Kent St Mesa, AZ 85212-6061 P: 480-988-6561 x-677; DSN 474-6677 F: 480-988-2230; DSN 474-6688 C: 480-229-4569 PALM Webpage: http://www.mesa.afmc.af.mil/palmlab.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From taatgen at cmu.edu Fri Mar 10 04:06:37 2006 From: taatgen at cmu.edu (Niels Taatgen) Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 10:06:37 +0100 Subject: [ACT-R-users] ACT-R Workshop 2006 Message-ID: <59D18AE9-11A4-4339-AAA2-EBA36DC63A50@cmu.edu> ACT-R Workshop 2006 The ACT-R workshop will take place from Friday July 21 to Sunday July 23. Contrary to earlier workshops we anticipate a full Sunday program. 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. Saturday afternoon will feature a tutorial by the invited speaker, David Noelle of Vanderbilt University, about the Leabra neural network architecture. 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. Further details on how to register will follow. =================================================== 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 Fri Mar 10 10:48:38 2006 From: hiran.ekanayake at gmail.com (Hiran Ekanayake) Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 21:48:38 +0600 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Emotions, Attention and Consciousness Message-ID: Hi, I observed that we remember only the things that we had attention towards it. For instance, when you are listening to a song very much tuned to the sound, you may not retain any memory about other things happening around you, even if your eyes see the things. My readings suggest me that emotions provide a summary appraisal of one's problem-solving situation, and they can help someone to lead to his goals without being lost in thought. My question is, if a student's goal is to follow a lesson and if the instructor is smart enough to capture the current emotional state of the student and influence on them, controlling the emotional state of the student, can the instructor lead the student to achieve the goal? What is the difference between attention and consciousness? Does consciousness represents many attentions? for example some musicians and can play many instruments at the same time. Is it the summary appraisal the musician is experiencing? Can anyone help me to find explanations for the above? Thanks in advance, Hiran Ekanayake University of Colombo From conzalez at andrew.cmu.edu Tue Mar 14 14:27:36 2006 From: conzalez at andrew.cmu.edu (Cleotilde Gonzalez) Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 14:27:36 -0500 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Post-Doctoral Fellowship Message-ID: <00FBCFBF042036D026B954EC@Alcona.andrew.ad.cmu.edu> POSTDOCTORAL POSITION Dynamic Decision Making Laboratory Carnegie Mellon University The Dynamic Decision Making Laboratory (DDMLab) (www.cmu.edu/ddmlab) in the department of Social and Decision Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) invites applications for a Postdoctoral fellowship position in ACT-R cognitive modeling. The ideal candidate will have a Ph.D. in Computer Science or Cognitive Science with a strong LISP programming background and experience with ACT-R. We expect candidates to have strong research interests in all facets of cognitive modeling. The post-doctoral fellow is expected to conduct ACT-R cognitive modeling of training manipulations under a Multi-University Research Initiative grant from the Army Research Office (ARO) in collaboration with faculty at CMU and at other partner institutions. The main duties of the post-doctoral fellow are to design, implement and refine cognitive models of training in complex environments. Other responsibilities include creating performance measures and tools for validation of model performance and support of empirical data collection and to write quality research articles in collaboration with faculty in the project. This appointment will pay highly competitive rates based on background and experience. Anticipated start date is June 1, 2006. Please send curriculum vitae, a one-page research description and three letters of recommendation all in electronic form to Dr. Cleotilde Gonzalez, Director of the Dynamic Decision Making Laboratory (Word, Pdf): coty at cmu.edu. Carnegie Mellon is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. For more information on our Equal Employment/Affirmative Action Policy and our Statement of Assurance, go to: http://www.cmu.edu/policies/documents/SoA.html From Fernand.Gobet at brunel.ac.uk Wed Mar 15 09:48:13 2006 From: Fernand.Gobet at brunel.ac.uk (Fernand Gobet) Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 14:48:13 -0000 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Postdoctoral Research Fellow in modelling chess expertise Message-ID: <44A38A464835D243B871A5CC6116919B3BB122@UXEXMBU116.academic.windsor> Brunel University, London UK School of Social Sciences and Law, Centre for the Study of Expertise Applications are invited for a postdoctoral position to work on an ESRC funded project on 'Modelling perception, memory, and problem solving in chess novices and experts'. This ambitious project aims to extend the CHREST computational model so that it will simulate most of the key empirical phenomena in chess research, from low-level perception to high-level decision making, and from novice to world-class grandmasters. The successful candidate will work under the direction of Prof F Gobet (fernand.gobet at brunel.ac.uk). The candidate, who will have a PhD in Cognitive Science, Computer Science, or Psychology should have a good knowledge of object-oriented AND functional programming techniques. Experience in at least one of Java, C++, Lisp and/or Scheme is required. Knowledge in computational modelling and chess would be a plus. The candidate will work within Brunel University's new Centre for the Study of Expertise, which is located in the School of Social Sciences and Law. Applications are welcome from all; however women and minority groups are particularly encouraged to apply as they are currently underrepresented within science. Salary up to point 10 of the REA scale ?22,401 to ?29,360 per annum, incl. London Allowance (depending on experience). Full-time, fixed-term for 3 years from the date of appointment. Closing date for applications is: 20 April 2006. For further details, please see: http://www.brunel.ac.uk/about/job/cdata/research/CLA0082-1 http://homepages.feis.herts.ac.uk/~comqpcl/research/CHREST/simulator.html http://people.brunel.ac.uk/~hsstffg/frg-research/chess_expertise/ -------------------------------------------------------- Fernand Gobet, PhD Professor of Psychology Centre for the Study of Expertise, Director School of Social Sciences & Law Brunel University Uxbridge, Middlesex, UB8 3PH United Kingdom Phone: +44 (1895) 265484 Fax: +44 (1895) 237573 fernand.gobet at brunel.ac.uk http://people.brunel.ac.uk/~hsstffg/ From pavel at dit.unitn.it Wed Mar 15 14:05:20 2006 From: pavel at dit.unitn.it (pavel) Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 20:05:20 +0100 Subject: [ACT-R-users] CFP: IJSWIS Special Issue on Ontology Matching Message-ID: <009701c64863$a3731bf0$5aeaa8c0@alphaekts5r299> Apologies for cross-postings ----------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS ----------------------------------------------------------------------- International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS) www.ijswis.org Special Issue on Ontology Matching THEME DESCRIPTION An ontology typically provides a vocabulary that describes a domain of interest and a specification of the meaning of terms used in the vocabulary. Depending on the precision of this specification, the notion of ontology encompasses several data/conceptual models, for example, classifications, database schemas, or fully axiomatized theories. Ontologies tend to be put everywhere. They are viewed as the silver bullet for many applications, such as information integration, electronic commerce, semantic web services, social networks, and so on. They, indeed, are a practical means to conceptualize what is expressed in a computer format. However, in open or evolving systems, such as the semantic web, different parties would, in general, adopt different ontologies. Thus, just using ontologies, like just using XML, does not reduce heterogeneity: it raises heterogeneity problems at a higher level. Ontology matching is a plausible solution to the semantic heterogeneity problem faced by information management systems. Ontology matching finds correspondences between semantically related entities of the input ontologies. These correspondences can be used for various tasks, such as ontology merging, query answering, data translation, etc. Thus, matching ontologies enables the knowledge and data expressed in the matched ontologies to interoperate. The goal of this special issue is to present recent advances in all the themes related to ontology matching. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: THEORIES AND METHODS Formal foundations and frameworks; Background knowledge in ontology matching; Uncertainty in ontology matching; Performance of ontology matching techniques; Interactive ontology matching; Explanations and transparency of ontology matching; Social aspects of ontology matching; Multilingual ontology matching; Partial automated ontology matching; Libraries of basic (elementary) automatic matchers; Automation of the combination of basic matchers; Self-configuration of matching solutions; Ontology matching evaluation methodology; Large evaluation dataset construction; Evaluation quality measures; Large-scale case studies. APPLICATIONS Information integration; Query answering; Web query interfaces integration; Peer-to-peer systems; Multi-agent systems; Web services integration. TOOLS User interfaces; Scalability of visualization techniques; Customizing technology; Systems and Infrastructures. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Submissions to this special issue should follow the Style and Author Guidelines for regular IJSWIS papers available at http://www.idea-group.com/ijswis. Please submit manuscripts through the online system at http://www.ijswis.org with a copy to Pavel Shvaiko at pavel at dit.unitn.it. We recommend that manuscripts do not exceed 35 pages (including figures and references). Potential authors are asked to notify the guest editors of their interest by email (pavel at dit.unitn.it) as soon as they are certain to provide a contribution. Submissions will be reviewed by the program committee of the special issue. Accepted papers will have an opportunity for further revision and an additional round of reviewers' feedback. SHEDULE Email Interest to Submit: as soon as the authors are certain to contribute. 30th June, 2006: submission deadline for manuscripts. 30th September 2006: completion of the 1st round of reviews. 30th November 2006: major/minor revisions due. 15th January 2007: completion of the 2nd round of reviews. 15th February 2007: editorial decisions sent. Planned Publication: IJSWIS Volume 3, Issue 3 (2007). SPECIAL ISSUE GUEST EDITORS Pavel Shvaiko, University of Trento, e-mail: pavel at dit.unitn.it J?r?me Euzenat, INRIA Rh?ne-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 J?r?me Euzenat, INRIA Rh?ne-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, 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 Thanks for your time and cooperation! -------------------------------------------------------- Pavel Shvaiko University of Trento Dept. of Information and Communication Technology Sommarive 14, POVO, 38050, TRENTO, ITALY Web: http://www.dit.unitn.it/~pavel/ http://www.ontologymatching.org/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Santos) Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 04:45:08 -0000 Subject: [ACT-R-users] NN2006 - Summer School on Neural Networks in Classification Regression and Data Mining Message-ID: <001e01c64ca2$bb81b290$e7897180@jmfs> > Apologies for multiple copies. > We appreciate if you can forward this Announcement to potential > candidates. > ============================================================= > SUMMER SCHOOL NN2006 > NEURAL NETWORKS in CLASSIFICATION, REGRESSION and DATA MINING > July 3-7, 2006, ISEP - Porto, Portugal > ============================================================= > http://www.nn.isep.ipp.pt email: > nn-2006 at isep.ipp.pt > > GENERAL INFORMATION > The Summer School will be held at Porto, Portugal, jointly organized by > the Polytechnic School of Engineering of Porto (ISEP) and the Faculty of > Engineering, Porto University (FEUP). > Following last year experience, this year's edition also includes a > WORKSHOP SESSION providing a discussion forum where the participants can > obtain peer guidance for their projects. > > PROGRAMME COMMITTEE (PROVISIONAL) > ? Carlos Soares (Assistant Professor, Faculty of Economy, University of > Porto, Portugal) > > ? Christopher Bishop (Professor, Assistant Director, Microsoft Research, > Cambridge, U.K.) > > ? Danilo Mandic (Senior Lecturer, Department of Electrical and Electronic > Engineering, Imperial College, U.K.) > > ? Fernando Sereno (Adjunct Professor, School of Education, Porto > Polythecnic Institute, Portugal) > > ? Joaquim Marques de S? (Associate Professor, Dept. Electr. and Comp. > Engineering, Fac. of Engineering, University of Porto, Portugal) > > ? Lu?s Alexandre (Assistant Professor, Beira Interior University, > Portugal) > > ? Mark Embrecht (Associate Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, > RPI Troy, New York, U.S.A.) > > ? Noelia S?nchez Maro?o (Assistant Professor, Coruna University, Spain) > > ? Paulo Cortez (Assistant Professor, University of Minho, Portugal) > > ? Robert Legenstein (Assistant Professor, Institute for Theoretical > Computer Science, Graz University of Technology, Austria) > > ? Steve Gunn (Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Electronics and Computer Science, > University of Southampton, U.K.) > > > COURSE CONTENTS > Neural networks (NN) have become a very important tool in classification > and regression tasks. The applications are nowadays abundant, e.g. in the > engineering, economy and biology areas. The Summer School on NN is > dedicated to explain relevant NN paradigms, namely multilayer perceptrons > (MLP), radial basis function networks (RBF) and support vector machines > (SVM) used for classification and regression tasks, illustrated with > applications to real data. Specific topics are also presented, namely > Spiking Neural Networks, Recurrent Neural Networks, Modular Neural > Networks and Data Mining using NN. > Classes include practical sessions with appropriate software tools. The > trainee has, therefore, the opportunity to apply the taught concepts and > become conversant with a broad range of NN topics and applications. A > special workshop session will provide a discussion forum where the > participants can obtain peer guidance for their projects. Official > language is English. > > PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME > A preliminary programme and further information about the classes are > available at the school webpage (http://www.nn.isep.ipp.pt) > > IMPORTANT DEADLINES > Early Registration: 15 May 2006 > Hotel booking: 15 June 2006 > Summer School: 3-7 July 2006 > All participants are required to register prior to the start of the School > - until the June 15 - even if you choose to pay the late registration fee > at the registration desk. > Please note that only a LIMITED number of participants can be accepted. > > REGISTRATION > In order to attend the School you must fill in the registration form, > available at the School web page. Please note that if you have any guests > who would like to take part in the social programme, you must register > them as well, by filling in the corresponding field in the registration > form. > > SCHOOL FEES > The registration fee for participants amounts to: > - Early registration fee (paid before the 15th of May) > * 330 Euro (students, ISEP and FEUP staff) > * 380 Euro (all other participants) > - Late registration fee (paid after the 15th of May) > * 380 Euro (students, ISEP and FEUP staff) > * 430 Euro (all other participants) > The registration fee includes: > * school package (manuscripts, CD) > * coffee breaks > * daily lunch > * welcome reception > * school banquet > NOTE: The registration fee for those who attended previous editions > amounts to 25/30 euro per lecture and includes the school package and > coffee-breaks. Please, contact the LOC for further details. > > LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE (LOC) > - Ana Cristina Meira - Assistant, Dept. 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It is an exciting and emerging interdisciplinary area in which a wide range of techniques and methods are being studied for dealing with large, complex, and dynamic problems. The joint conferences will feature plenary speeches given by worldwide renowned scholars, regular sessions with broad coverage, and some special sessions focused on cross-fertilization over these exciting and yet closely-related areas. Specific areas include, but are not limited to neural computation, evolutionary computation, quantum computation, DNA computation, chemical computation, information processing in cells and tissues, molecular computation, computation with words, fuzzy computation, granular computation, artificial life, swarm intelligence, ants colony, artificial immune systems, etc., with applications to knowledge discovery, finance, operations research, and more. Submission of Papers Prospective authors are invited to submit high-quality manuscripts written in English via the online submission system. The submission of a paper implies that the paper is original and has not been submitted to elsewhere for possible publication. There is no page limit for the submission. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by experts in the field based on originality, significance, quality and clarity. Authors should use the Latex style files or MS-Word templates provided by the Spring Lecture Notes to format their papers. The ICNC'06 and FSKD'06 conference proceedings will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) and Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI), respectively. Furthermore, a selected number of authors will be invited to expand and revise their papers for possible inclusions in peer-reviewed international journals or edited books. 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URL: From rsun at rpi.edu Tue Mar 21 19:17:05 2006 From: rsun at rpi.edu (Professor Ron Sun) Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 19:17:05 -0500 Subject: [ACT-R-users] CogSci 2006----Call for Member Poster Abstracts Message-ID: <0711B386-F64A-4DEE-BACD-942AFDB9898E@rpi.edu> CogSci 2006 The Twenty-Eighth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society July 27-30, 2006 Tutorials/workshops day: July 26 Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre Vancouver, Canada http://www.cogsci.rpi.edu/~rsun/cogsci2006/ We invite submissions of *** member poster abstracts *** to the Twenty-Eighth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, the premier series of conferences in cognitive science. Accepted one-page submissions will be presented at the conference as posters. See http://www.cogsci.rpi.edu/~rsun/cogsci2006/ for member poster abstract submission details and for details of how to become a member of the society Plenary speakers at the conference will include: 1. Robert Siegler (CMU) 2. Daniel Schacter (Harvard) 3. Rumelhart Prize Winner: Roger Shepard (Stanford) Invited symposia will include: 1. The Synergy between Implicit and Explicit Learning Processes 2. The Emerging Learning Sciences Conference General Chairs: Ron Sun (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) Naomi Miyake (Chukyo University) Important Dates: Member Poster Abstracts Submissions due: May 1, 2006 Acceptance notifications: May 15, 2006 Camera-ready copies due: May 30, 2006 ======================================================== 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 grayw at rpi.edu Sun Mar 26 11:50:08 2006 From: grayw at rpi.edu (Wayne Gray) Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 11:50:08 -0500 Subject: [ACT-R-users] New publications Message-ID: I am pleased to bring Wai-Tat's newest publication to the attention of the ACT-R community. This is now available, on-line, from Science Direct, Elsevier, and all of the other usual sources. Wayne Fu, W.-T., & Gray, W. D. (2006). Suboptimal tradeoffs in information seeking. Cognitive Psychology, 52(3), 195-242. Explicit information-seeking actions are needed to evaluate alternative actions in problem-solving tasks. Information-seeking costs are often traded off against the utility of information. We present three experiments that show how subjects adapt to the cost and information structures of environments in a map-navigation task. We found that subjects often stabilize at suboptimal levels of performance. A Bayesian satisficing model (BSM) is proposed and implemented in the ACT-R architecture to predict information-seeking behavior. The BSM uses a local decision rule and a global Bayesian learning mechanism to decide when to stop seeking information. The model matched the human data well, suggesting that adaptation to cost and information structures can be achieved by a simple local decision rule. The local decision rule, however, often limits exploration of the environment and leads to suboptimal performance. We propose that suboptimal performance is an emergent property of the dynamic interactions between cognition and the environment. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bej at cs.cmu.edu Mon Mar 27 11:14:49 2006 From: bej at cs.cmu.edu (Bonnie John) Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 11:14:49 -0500 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Please help make great trace-tool for ACT-R Message-ID: <44280F79.7030600@cs.cmu.edu> Folks, I have a research grant to make cognitive modeling easier to do and part of doing that is having trace tools that really help people understand what models are doing. To that end, I have a design/MHCI student who will design useful trace visualizations (Samantha, cc'd above) but she needs to really understand ACT-RPM traces. Samantha needs to sit down with someone who is skilled at interpreting ACT-RPM traces and work through a trace in great detail. We think this would take about 2 hours, and we'd be happy to pay $20/hour. Here's what we think we need: Face-to-face communication, therefore, this is restricted to people in Pittsburgh. Someone who has a running ACT-R 5.0 model using the visual and motor aspects of ACT-RPM (not just cognition). (Sorry, we're not up to ACT-R 6 yet, but expect to get there eventually.) Samantha will ask you to walk her through your model and the most verbose trace of your model as it runs, explaining what the trace means. If interested, please contact Samantha Konwinski directly, skonwins at andrew.cmu.edu Thanks, Bonnie John From pavel at dit.unitn.it Mon Mar 27 14:44:50 2006 From: pavel at dit.unitn.it (pavel) Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 21:44:50 +0200 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Final CfP: ECAI'06 workshop on Contexts and Ontologies: Theory, Practice and Applications (C&O-2006) Message-ID: <006e01c651d7$1a0f8100$5aeaa8c0@alphaekts5r299> Apologies for cross-postings ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- C&O-2006 submission deadline is approaching: 20 days left ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Second International Workshop on Contexts and Ontologies: Theory, Practice and Applications (C&O-2006) http://www.c-and-o.net/ August 28, 2006, ECAI Workshop Program, Riva del Grada, Italy. OBJECTIVES The goal of the workshop is to bring together people from the context and ontology communities and to discuss the approaches they use for information integration. Therefore, the workshop will push the cross-fertilization and exchange of ideas (e.g., which of the methods from the ontology community can be successfully adopted in the context community, and vice versa), and, hence, make their meeting mutually beneficial. TOPICS of interest include, but are not limited to: Foundations: Information interoperability and reuse via multiple contexts and ontologies; Coordination of multiple contexts and ontologies; Languages for combination of multiple contexts and ontologies; Logics for combination of multiple contexts and ontologies. Theory & Practice: Techniques and tools for matching contexts and ontologies; Techniques and tools for merging contexts and ontologies; Techniques and tools for transforming contexts and ontologies; Techniques and tools for translating contexts and ontologies; Techniques and tools for reconciling contexts and ontologies; Techniques for query answering based on multiple contexts and ontologies; Evaluation of tools for combination of contexts and ontologies; Scalability of techniques for combination of contexts and ontologies; Comparison of uses of contexts and ontologies. Applications: Semantic Web; Information Retrieval; E-commerce; Knowledge management solutions for large organizations; Computer graphics and multimedia; Grid and P2P; Pervasive computing and ambient intelligence. INVITED TALKS: 1. Frank van Harmelen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 2. Selene Makarios, Stanford University, USA. FORMAT, ATTENDANCE AND SUBMISSIONS The schedule assumes a one day workshop. The workshop will consist of the following components: keynote presentations, technical presentations, posters, and general discussion. The audience is assumed to consist of both academia and industry. Thus, the workshop can 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. Contributions to the workshop can be made in terms of technical papers or statements of interest. Technical papers should be not longer than 5 pages using the ECAI'06 Style(http://ecai2006.itc.it/cda/aree/index.php?section=33&area=10). Statements of interest should not exceed 2 pages and should be handled according to the guidelines for technical papers. Please make clear if your paper is meant to be a statement of interest. All contributions should be prepared in PDF format and should be sent (no later than April 15, 2006) by email to Pavel Shvaiko at: pavel at dit.unitn.it Contributions will be refereed by the Program Committee. Accepted papers and statements of interest will be published in the workshop proceedings. Also authors of the best technical papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for possible publication in a special issue on "Contexts and Ontologies: Theory, Practice and Applications" in the Knowledge Engineering Review Journal", http://www.cambridge.org/uk/journals/journal_catalogue.asp?historylinks=ALPHA&mnemonic=KER IMPORTANT DATES April 15, 2006: Deadline for the submissions. May 10, 2006: Notification of acceptance/rejection. May 24, 2006: Deadline for the receipt of camera-ready papers. Aug 28, 2006: C&O-2006, Riva del Grada, Italy. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE 1.Jerome Euzenat INRIA Rhone-Alpes 2.Alain Leger France Telecom R&D Rennes 3.Deborah L. McGuinness Stanford University 4.Pavel Shvaiko (Chair) University of Trento e-mail: pavel at dit.unitn.it 5.Holger Wache Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam PROGRAM COMMITTEE Raffaele de Amicis, GraphiTech, Italy Alex Borgida, Rutgers University, USA Patrick Brezillon, University Paris, France Doina Caragea, Iowa State University, USA Anind Dey, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Avigdor Gal, Technion, Israel Jerome Euzenat, INRIA Rhone-Alpes, France Richard Fikes, Stanford University, USA Aykut Firat, Notheastern University, USA Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento, Italy Frank van Harmelen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands Michael Huhns, University of South Carolina, USA Yannis Kalfoglou, University of Southampton, UK Vipul Kashyap, Clinical Informatics R&D, Partners HealthCare System, USA Ruediger Klein, DaimlerChrysler, Germany David Leake, Indiana University, USA Alain Leger, France Telecom R&D, France Selene Makarios, Stanford University, USA Maurizio Marchese, University of Trento, Italy Deborah L. McGuinness, Stanford University, USA Natalya Noy, Stanford University, USA Leo Obrst, MITRE, USA Dimitris Plexousakis, University of Crete, Greece Michel Plu, France Telecom R&D, France Fano Ramparany, France Telecom R&D, France Chantal Reynaud, Universite Paris-Sud, France David Robertson, University of Edinburgh, UK Aviv Segev, Technion, Israel Pavel Shvaiko, University of Trento, Italy Heiner Stuckenschmidt, University of Mannheim, Germany York Sure, AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Holger Wache, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands Christopher Welty, IBM Research, USA ------------------------------------------------------- Download C&O-2006 flyer: http://www.c-and-o.net/Pictures/C&O2006-flyer.pdf ------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- Pavel Shvaiko University of Trento Dept. of Information and Communication Technology Sommarive 14, POVO, 38050, TRENTO, ITALY Tel: +39 (0461) 883386; Fax: +39 (0461) 882093 Web: http://www.dit.unitn.it/~pavel/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The summer school will be followed by a three day workshop (July 21-23) during which ACT-R researchers will meet and present their work. Details of this workshop will be announced later. The summer school will take place from Saturday July 15 to Thursday July 20. This intensive 6-day course is designed to train researchers in the use of ACT-R for cognitive modeling. It is structured as a set of six units, with each unit lasting a day and involving a morning theory lecture, an afternoon discussion session and a homework assignment which participants are expected to complete during the day and evening. Computing facilities will be provided. To provide an optimal learning environment, admission is limited to a dozen participants, who must submit by April 14 an application consisting of a curriculum vitae and a statement of purpose. Demonstrated experience with a modeling formalism similar to ACT-R will strengthen the application. Applicants will be notified of admission by May 4. Admission to the summer school is free. Housing will be provided in the CMU dormitories for approximately $50/day (single) or $25/day (shared). More information, including papers published by the ACT-R community, can be found on the ACT-R web site (http://act-r.psy.cmu.edu/). A registration form is appended below. Additional information (detailed schedule, etc.) will appear on the ACT-R Web site: http:// act-r.psy.cmu.edu ________________________________________________________ Thirteenth Annual ACT-R Summer School July 15 to 20, 2006 at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh REGISTRATION ============ Name: .............................................................. .... Address: .............................................................. .... .............................................................. .... .............................................................. .... Tel/ Fax: .................................................................. Email: .............................................................. .... Summer School (July 15 to 20) ============================= Applications are due April 14. Acceptance will be notified by May 4. Applicants MUST include a curriculum vitae and a short statement of purpose. Demonstration of experience with a modeling formalism similar to ACT-R, such as a completed model, should also be included in the application. Send this form to (email or regular mail): 2006 ACT-R Summer School and Workshop Psychology Department Niels Taatgen Baker Hall 345E Fax: +1 (412) 268-2844 Carnegie Mellon University Tel: +1 (412) 268-2815 Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890 Email: taatgen at cmu.edu =============================================== Niels Taatgen - University of Groningen, Artificial Intelligence Also (but not now) at: Carnegie Mellon University, Psychology, BH 345E web: http://www.ai.rug.nl/~niels email: taatgen at cmu.edu Telephone: +1 412-268-2815 (CMU) +31 50 3636435 (RUG) =============================================== -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From prasad at cis.famu.edu Thu Mar 30 11:56:36 2006 From: prasad at cis.famu.edu (Dr. Bhanu Prasad) Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 11:56:36 -0500 Subject: [ACT-R-users] IICAI-07 Conference announcement Message-ID: <000001c6541b$56f08010$dd15dfa8@SECURITYLAB1> *Apologies for cross posting. Please help forward to interested people* The 3rd Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IICAI-07) (website: http://www.iiconference.org) will be held in Pune, INDIA during December 17-19 2007. IICAI-07 is one of the major AI events in the world. This conference focuses on all areas of AI and related fields. We invite paper submissions. Please visit on the conference website for more details. Bhanu Prasad IICAI-07 Chair Department of Computer and Information Sciences Florida A&M University Tallahassee, FL 32307 USA Email: bhanu.prasad at famu.edu Phone: 850-412-7350 PS: please send an email to the above address in case you do not wish to receive emails on this event. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: