[ACT-R-users] BRIMS conference CFP

[Kelley, Troy (Civ,ARL/HRED)]

                       CALL FOR PAPERS – BRIMS 2007
  16th CONFERENCE ON BEHAVIOR REPRESENTATION IN MODELING AND SIMULATION
                                 (BRIMS) 

http://www.sisostds.org
Select BRIMS from the Conference List

Co-located with Simulation Interoperability Workshop
And in affiliation with the
Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization and the Institute for Simulation and Training

Marriott Waterside Hotel
Norfolk, VA
26-29 March 2007

Deadline for Submissions is Friday, January 5th, 2007

You are invited to participate in the 16th Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (BRIMS).  This year it is being co-located with the Spring Simulation Interoperability Workshop (SIW), which will provide an outstanding opportunity for scientific and technical exchange on research and application in human behavior representation with the larger modeling and simulation community.  

BRIMS enables modeling and simulation research scientists, engineers, application users, and technical communities to meet, share ideas and experiences, identify gaps in current capabilities, discuss new research directions, highlight promising technologies, and showcase applications.  

The BRIMS Executive Committee invites papers, posters, demos, symposia, panel discussions, and tutorials on topics related to the representation of individuals, groups, teams and organizations in models and simulations.  All submissions are peer-reviewed and considered for selection by the Committee.

TYPES OF SUBMISSIONS
Traditional Sessions: Paper Presentations
Traditional Sessions are composed of 3 or 4 presentations on related topics.  The presentations are done lecture-style, with 20-25 minutes for the presentation and approximately 5 minutes for questions.  Presentations are displayed through electronic slides (e.g., PowerPoint).  Paper submissions are full papers but are limited to 8 pages and should describe original research that has not been published elsewhere.  Accepted papers are published in the Proceedings.  Papers not accepted as full papers will be considered for poster presentations.  

Interactive Session: Posters and Demos
The Interactive Session involves a longer (approximately 2 hour) period of multiple simultaneous presentations and provides an opportunity for continuous interaction with conference attendees.  The Interactive Session features supporting material in static wallboard/posterboard displays and/or live demonstrations of state-of-the-art applications in modeling, simulation, and training.  Poster and demo submissions are limited to a 2-page extended abstract describing the research to be presented or the technology or application to be demonstrated.  Accepted abstracts are published in the Proceedings.  The Interactive Session will be held the opening evening, March 27, 2007.  

Symposia/Panel Discussions
These are 60-90 minutes long, with several speakers presenting research and/or engaging in discussion on different aspects of a common topic that is of interest to the BRIMS community.  These are not merely collections of presentations.  There should be a set of common questions/issues addressed by all participants.  Abstracts for symposia or panel discussions may be submitted through the on-line submission system.  The 2-page abstract should provide a title for the session, identify the chair, list the participants’ names and affiliations, provide a justification for why the session topic is timely and of interest, include a brief statement (approximately 250 words) from each participant summarizing the main points they will make during the session, and identify the common questions/issues each participant will address.  Abstracts for selected symposia/panel discussions will be published in the Proceedings.  

Tutorials
Tutorials provide conference participants the opportunity to gain new insights, knowledge, and skills in an area related to the interests of the BRIMS community.  Tutorials are presented in a lecture-and-discussion or learning-by-doing format.  Tutorials may be a half-day (3 hours, plus breaks) or a full-day (6 hours, plus breaks) in duration, and will take place on Monday, March 26, 2007.  Tutorial proposals may be submitted through the on-line submission system.  Tutorial descriptions should include a detailed outline of the material that will be covered with time allocations and scheduled breaks.  Descriptions for accepted tutorials will be included in conference announcements and in the Proceedings.  

Submission Process and Format
Submissions are handled on-line at the BRIMS website, http://www.sisostds.org/ and select BRIMS from the Conference List.  Please see the guidelines on the BRIMS website for format requirements and content suggestions.  If you have any questions about the submission process or are unable to submit to the web site, please contact Pat Burgess by email (pburgess at ist.ucf.edu) or phone (407) 882-1372.

KEY DATES
	All Submissions Due:				January  5, 2007
		Note:  Paper submissions are full papers
	Tutorial Acceptance:				January 15, 2007
	Authors Notification:				February 5, 2007
	Final Electronic Draft Due:			February 22, 2007
	Presentations Due:				March 20, 2007
	Tutorials Held					March 26, 2007
	BRIMS 2007 Opens:				March 27, 2007

AREAS OF INTEREST
Areas of interest for the 16th conference include, but are not limited to, the following (in no particular order):
 
	Intelligent agents and avatars
	Modeling reasoning and decision making
	Behavior moderators
	Modeling architectures and knowledge representation systems
	Performance assessment and skill monitoring
	Performance enhancement
	Perceptual/cognitive state detection and adaptive displays
	Increasing affordability, efficiency, and/or usability
	Knowledge acquisition/engineering
	Application of COTS software for HBR development
	Verification and validation
	Terrain representation and reasoning
	Spatial representation
	Interoperability
	Time representation
	Physical models of human movement
	Operator interfaces
	Multi-resolution simulation
	Synthetic environments for human behavior representation (HBR) research
	Team, group, crowd, and organizational behavior representation
	HBR for system design and evaluation
	HBR issues in model federations
 

ACCOMMODATIONS and REGISTRATION
The Conference will be held at the Marriott Waterside Hotel in Norfolk, VA.  Visit http://marriott.com/property/propertypage/orfws for information about the hotel.  

Conference and hotel registration information coming soon!  
Note there will be special cross-SIW-BRIMS events!

CONFERENCE CHAIRS
Laurel Allender & Troy Kelley	Army Research Laboratory Human Research & Engineering Directorate