From wiiat at kis-lab.com Sat Jun 2 11:42:54 2007 From: wiiat at kis-lab.com (Jia Hu) Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2007 00:42:54 +0900 Subject: [ACT-R-users] [IAT 2007] Deadline Extended: June 16, 2007! Message-ID: <200706021606.l52G66DD005681@act-r.psy.cmu.edu> [Apologies if you receive this more than once] Dear Colleague, In response to many requests for an extension, we are pleased to extend the paper submission deadline for IAT 2007 to ** June 16, 2007 **. Submission can be done online at: http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/wi07/iat/ We look forward to receiving your submissions soon. With best regards, Tsau Young (T.Y.) Lin PC chair of WI-IAT'07 ##################################################################### IEEE/WIC/ACM Intelligent Agent Technology 2007 CALL FOR PAPERS ##################################################################### 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'07) Silicon Valley, USA, November 2-5, 2007 Official: http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/wi07/iat/ Mirror: http://www.maebashi-it.org/wi07/iat/ (to be collocated with WI'07, BIBM'07 and GrC'07) Sponsored By IEEE Computer Society Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC) Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) ##################################################################### # Conference Chair # Andrei Broder, VP, Yahoo Fellow, Yahoo! Research # # Program Chair and Co-Chairs # T.Y. Lin, San Jose State University/UC Berkeley, USA # Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, UWF/Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, USA # Matthias Klusch, German Research Center for AI, Germany # Chengqi Zhang, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia # # Organizing Chair # Howard Ho, Manager, IBM Almaden Research Center # # IAT-WI Joint Keynote Speakers (Tentative) # # Vinton G. Cerf, Turing Award Winner, # VP and Chief Internet Evangelist, Google # Richard M. Karp, Turing Award Winner, # University of California Berkeley # Anant Jhingran, VP and CTO, IBM Silicon Valley Laboratory # # (More IAT Invited Speakers will be announced) # # (Papers Due: ** June 1 **, 2007) # Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings # by the IEEE Computer Society Press, which are indexed by EI. ###################################################################### The 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'07) will be jointly held with the 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'07), the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM'07), and the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing (GrC'07) for providing synergism among the four research areas. It will provide opportunities for technical collaboration beyond that of previous conferences. The four conferences will have a joint opening, keynote, reception, and banquet. Attendees only need to register for one conference and can attend workshops, sessions and tutorials across the four conferences. We are also planning a joint panel and joint paper sessions that discuss common problems in the four areas. IAT 2007 provides a leading international forum to bring together researchers and practitioners from diverse fields, such as computer science, information technology, business, education, human factors, systems engineering, and robotics, to (1) examine the design principles and performance characteristics of various approaches in intelligent agent technology, and (2) increase the cross-fertilization of ideas on the development of autonomous agents and multi-agent systems among different domains. By encouraging idea-sharing and discussions on the underlying logical, cognitive, physical, and sociological foundations as well as the enabling technologies of intelligent agents, IAT 2007 will foster the development of novel paradigms and advanced solutions in agent-based computing. +++++++++++ Highlights +++++++++++ The conference will be held in Silicon Valley, California. Many high-tech companies and three distinguished universities (Stanford, UC Berkely and UCSC) are just around the corner. The highlight of the conference is that a unique forum consisting of a half-day demo session and free discussion will be organized to link industries and academics. Leading IT companies like IBM, Google, and Yahoo etc will present at the conference. The area now known as Silicon Valley has been a center of technological development since the 1950's. The name Silicon Valley stems from the early 1970's, when the area had become the center for many semiconductor companies. While still hosting semiconductor and microprocessor companies, the region now hosts the headquarters of high tech companies of every kind, including many of the best known and most prestigious names in personal computers, Web search, Internet auctions, networking, storage, databases, etc. +++++++++++++++++++ Topics of Interest +++++++++++++++++++ The topics and areas include, but not limited to: * Autonomy-Oriented Computing (AOC) - Agent-Based Complex Systems Modeling and Development - Agent-Based Simulation - Autonomy-Oriented Modeling and Computation Methods - Behavioral Self-Organization - Complex Behavior Characterization and Engineering - Emergent Behavior - Hard Computational Problem Solving - Nature-Inspired Paradigms - Self-Organized Criticality - Self-Organized Intelligence - Swarm Intelligence * Autonomous Knowledge and Information Agents - Agent-Based Distributed Data Mining - Agent-Based Knowledge Discovery And Sharing - Autonomous Information Services - Distributed Knowledge Systems - Emergent Natural Law Discovery in Multi-Agent Systems - Evolution of Knowledge Networks - Human-Agent Interaction - Information Filtering Agents - Knowledge Aggregation - Knowledge Discovery - Ontology-Based Information Services * Agent Systems Modeling and Methodology - Agent Interaction Protocols - Cognitive Architectures - Cognitive Modeling of Agents - Emotional Modeling - Fault-Tolerance in Multi-Agent Systems - Formal Framework for Multi-Agent Systems - Information Exchanges in Multi-Agent Systems - Learning and Self-Adaptation in Multi-Agent Systems - Mobile Agent Languages and Protocols - Multi-Agent Autonomic Architectures - Multi-Agent Coordination Techniques - Multi-Agent Planning and Re-Planning - Peer-to-Peer Models for Multi-Agent Systems - Reinforcement Learning - Social Interactions in Multi-Agent Systems - Task-Based Agent Context - Task-Oriented Agents * Distributed Problem Solving - Agent-Based Grid Computing - Agent Networks in Distributed Problem Solving - Collective Group Behavior - Coordination and Cooperation - Distributed Intelligence - Distributed Search - Dynamics of Agent Groups and Populations - Efficiency and Complexity Issues - Market-Based Computing - Problem-Solving in Dynamic Environments * Autonomous Auctions and Negotiation - Agent-Based Marketplaces - Auction Markets - Combinatorial Auctions - Hybrid Negotiation - Integrative Negotiation - Mediating Agents - Pricing Agents - Thin Double Auctions * Applications - Agent-Based Assistants - Agent-Based Virtual Enterprise - Embodied Agents and Agent-Based Systems Applications - Interface Agents - Knowledge and Data Intensive Systems - Perceptive Animated Interfaces - Scalability - Social Simulation - Socially Situated Planning - Software and Pervasive Agents - Tools and Standards - Ubiquitous Systems and E-Technology Agents - Ubiquitous Software Services - Virtual Humans - XML-Based Agent Systems ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ On-Line Submissions and Publication ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ High-quality papers in all IAT related areas are solicited. Paper submissions should be limited to a maximum of 7 pages in the IEEE 2-column format, the same as the camera-ready format (see the Author Guidelines of last year at http://www.computer.org/portal/pages/cscps/cps/final/iat06.xml). All submitted papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity. Note that IAT'07 will accept ONLY on-line submissions, containing PDF versions. Please use the Submission Form on the IAT'07 website to submit your paper. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press that are indexed by EI. Submissions accepted as regular papers will be allocated 7 pages in the proceedings and accorded oral presentation times in the main conference. Submissions accepted as short papers will be allocated 4 pages in the proceedings and will have a shorter presentation time at the conference than regular papers. All co-authors will be notified at all time, for the submission, notification, and confirmation on the attendance. Submitting a paper to the conference and workshops means that, if the paper is accepted, at least one author should attend the conference to present the paper. The acceptance list and no-show list will be openly published on-line. For no-show authors, their affiliations will receive a notification. A selected number of IAT'07 accepted papers will be expanded and revised for inclusion in Web Intelligence and Agent Systems: An International Journal (http://wi-consortium.org/journal.html) and in Annual Review of Intelligent Informatics (http://www.wi-consortium.org/annual.html) More detailed instructions and the On-Line Submission Form can be found from the IAT'07 homepage: http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/wi07/iat/. +++++++++++++++++++++++++ IAT'07 Best Paper Awards +++++++++++++++++++++++++ The best paper awards will be conferred at the conference on the authors of (1) the best research paper and (2) the best application paper. Application-oriented submissions will be considered for the best application paper award. The full author list and paper title will be announced on the Web Intelligence Consortium homepage: http://wi-consortium.org/html/wicawards.html ++++++++++++++++++++ Industry/Demo-Track ++++++++++++++++++++ We solicit Industry/Demo-Track papers by the following methods. (1) Industry papers of 4 pages can be submitted on the same schedule as the research track. (2) Separate 2 page demo proposals can submitted at a later schedule. (3) Full regular paper submissions can include a demo option. That is, a full paper submissions will be asked to specify if they would like to give a demonstration; choice of demonstrations (while utilizing information from the regular reviewing process) will be selected based on value as a demonstration. For options (1) and (2), please find more detailed instructions at the homepage: http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/wi07/wi/ We are planning to arrange the Industry/Demo track in the afternoon of November 3 (before and during the conference reception), jointly with the IAT'07 Demo sessions. Leading IT companies in Silicon Valley will be invited to attend this track. ++++++++++ Workshops ++++++++++ As an important part of the conference, the workshop program will focus on new research challenges and initiatives. All papers accepted for workshops will be included in the Workshop Proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press that are indexed by EI, and will be available at the workshops. Detailed information is available at the conference homepage. Note: we will not have a separate workshop registration fee (i.e., only one conference registration covers everything). ---------------------- WI-IAT 2007 Workshops: ---------------------- Title: Educating the Web-Generation (Edu4WebGen 2007) Organisers: Elisabeth Heinemann Email: elisabeth.heinemann at googlemail.com Web page: http://www.effactory.com/Edu4WebGen/ Title: Collective Intelligence on Semantic Web (CISW 2007) Organisers: Geun Sik Jo; Jason J. Jung; Ngoc Thanh Nguyen Email: gsjo at inha.ac.kr; j2jung at intelligent.pe.kr; thanh at pwr.wroc.pl Web page: http://intelligent.pe.kr/CISW07/ Title: New Computing Paradigms for Web Intelligence and Brain Informatics (WImBI 2007) Organisers: Dr. Yuefeng Li; Dr. Yulin Qin, Prof. Dieter Fensel Email: y2.li at qut.edu.au; dieter.fensel at deri.org Web page: http://www.maebashi-it.org/wimbi07/WImBI2007.htm Title: Web Personalization and Recommender Systems (WPRS 2007) Organisers: Yue Xu Email: yue.xu at qut.edu.au Web page: http://www.wprs07.fit.qut.edu.au/ Title: Service Composition & SWS Challenge (SerComp & SWS Challenge 2007) Organisers: M. Brian Blake; Dumitru Roman; Charles Petrie Email: blakeb at cs.georgetown.edu; dumitru.roman at deri.org Web page: http://events.deri.at/sercomp2007/ Title: Biomedicine Applications of Web technologies (BMWT 2007) Organisers: Chun-Nan Hsu; Vincent Shin-Mu Tseng; Wen-Hsiang Lu Email: chunnan at iis.sinica.edu.tw; tsengsm at mail.ncku.edu.tw; whlu at mail.ncku.edu.tw Web page: http://chunnan.iis.sinica.edu.tw/BMWT2007.html Title: Intelligent Web Interaction (IWI 2007) 1st Organiser: Prof. Seiji YAMADA Email: seiji at nii.ac.jp Web site: http://ymd.ex.nii.ac.jp/ws/iwi/07/ Title: Cyberinfrastucture for e-Science (CyIneS 2007) Organisers: Prof. Vasant Honavar; A/prof. Kei Cheung Email: honavar at cs.iastate.edu; kei.cheung at yale.edu Web page: http://www.cild.iastate.edu/events/CyIneS2007/ Title: Social Media Analysis (SMA 2007) Organisers: Chun-hung Li, William K. Cheung, Quoping Qiu Email: sma at comp.hkbu.edu.hk Web page: http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/~sma/ Title: Web Security, Integrity, Privacy and Trust (WSIPT 2007) Organisers: Dr. Yiuming Cheung, Prof. Michael Chau, and Prof. Yong Zhang Email: ymc at Comp.HKBU.Edu.HK; mchau at business.hku.hk; zhangyong076 at gmail.com Web page: http://isec.hitsz.edu.cn/wsipt07/ Title: Communication between Human and Artificial Agents (CHAA 2007) Organisers: Christel Kemke Email: ckemke at cs.umanitoba.ca Web page: http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~ckemke/CHAA-07/ Title: Rational, Robust, and Secure Negotiations in Multi-Agent Systems (RRS 2007) Organisers: Takayuki Ito Email: ito.takayuki at nitech.ac.jp Web page: http://www-itolab.mta.nitech.ac.jp/RRS2007/ Title: P2P Computing and Autonomous Agents (P2PAA 2007) Organisers: Tarek Helmy, Khaled Ragab Email: helmy at ccse.kfupm.edu.sa; helmy at kfupm.edu.sa Web Page: http://www.ccse.kfupm.edu.sa/~helmy/P2PAA2007_WI.html Title: (Multi-)Agent Systems in E-Business: Concepts, Technologies and Applications (MASeB 2007) Organisers: Costin Badica; Maria Ganzha; Marcin Paprzycki Email: badica_costin at software.ucv.ro; ganzha at euh-e.edu.pl; marcin.parzycki at swps.edu.pl Web page: http://software.ucv.ro/~badica_costin/maseb2007/ Title: Agent & Data Mining Interaction (ADMI 2007) Organisers: Pericles A. Mitkas, Longbing Cao, Vladimir Gorodetsky, Justin Zhan Email: mitkas at eng.auth.gr; lbcao at it.uts.edu.au Web page: http://issel.ee.auth.gr/ADMI For more information, please visit the conference website at http://www.maebashi-it.org/wi07/iat/?index=workshop. ++++++++++ Tutorials ++++++++++ IAT'07 also welcomes Tutorial proposals. IAT'07 will include tutorials providing in-depth background on subjects that are of broad interest to the intelligent agent community. Both short (2 hours) and long (half day) tutorials will be considered. The tutorials will be part of the main conference technical program. Detailed information is available at the conference homepage. Note: we will not have a separate tutorials registration fee (i.e., only one conference registration covers everything). ++++++++++++++++ Important Dates ++++++++++++++++ Workshop proposal submission: March 20, 2007 Electronic submission of full papers: ** June 1, 2007 ** Tutorial proposal submission: June 15, 2007 Notification of paper acceptance: July 22, 2007 Camera-ready copies of accepted papers: August 17, 2007 Conference: November 2-5, 2007 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Conference Organization ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Conference Chair: * Andrei Broder, Yahoo! Research, USA Program Chair: * Tsau Young (T.Y.) Lin, San Jose State University/UC Berkeley, USA IAT Program Co-Chairs: * Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, UWF/Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, USA * Matthias Klusch, German Research Center for AI, Germany * Chengqi Zhang, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia IAT Program Vice Co-chairs * Longbing cao University of Technology Sydney Australia * Joseph A. Giampapa Carnegie Mellon University USA * Maria Gini University of Minnesota USA * Vladimir Gorodetsky St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation Russia * Alessio Lomuscio Imperial College London UK * Zbigniew Ras University of North Carolina USA * Marius C. Silaghi Florida Institute of Technology USA * Makoto Yokoo Kyushu University Japan WI Program Co-Chairs: * Laura Haas, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA * Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Science, Poland * Rajeev Motwani, Stanford University, USA WI Program Vice Co-chairs * Ajith Abraham Yonsei University South Korea * Peter Brusilovsky University of Pittsburgh USA * Ashish Goel Stanford University USA * Ramanathan V. Guha Google USA * Jane Yung-jen Hsu National Taiwan University Taiwan * Ravi Kumar Yahoo! Research USA * Jie Lu University of Technology Sydney Australia * Tsuyoshi Murata Tokyo Institute of Technology Japan * York Sure Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe Germany * Pang-Ning Tan Michigan State University USA * Bhavani Thuraisingham University of Texas at Dallas USA * Mohammed Zaki Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute USA Organizing Chair: * Howard Ho, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA Workshop Co-Chairs: * Vijay Raghavan, University of Louisiana, USA * Yuefeng Li, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Tutorial Chair: * Pawan Lingras, Saint Mary's University, Canada Industry/Demo-Track Chair: * Jianchang Mao, Yahoo! Inc., USA Local Accommodations Co-Chairs: * David Scot Taylor, San Jose State University, USA * Tom Qi Zhang, Google, USA Publicity Chair: * James Wang, Clemson University, USA (chair) Publicity Co-Chairs: * Martine De Cock, Ghent University, Belgium * Jia Hu, International WIC Institute, China * Debajyoti Mukhopadhyay, West Bengal University of Technology, India IEEE-CS-TCII Chair: * Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan ACM-SIGART Chair * Maria Gini, University of Minnesota, USA WIC Co-Chairs/Directors: * Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan * Jiming Liu, University of Windsor, Canada WIC Advisory Board: * Edward A. Feigenbaum, Stanford University, USA * Setsuo Ohsuga, Waseda University, Japan * Benjamin Wah, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA * Philip Yu, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA * L.A. Zadeh, University of California Berkeley, USA WIC Tech. Committee & WI/IAT Steering Committee: * Jeffrey Bradshaw, UWF/Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, USA * Nick Cercone, York University, Canada * Dieter Fensel, University of Innsbruck/Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Austria * Georg Gottlob, Oxford University, UK * Lakhmi Jain, University of South Australia, Australia * Jianchang Mao, Yahoo! Inc., USA * Pierre Morizet-Mahoudeaux, Compiegne University of Technology, France * Hiroshi Motoda, Osaka University, Japan * Toyoaki Nishida, Kyoto University, Japan * Andrzej Skowron, Warsaw University, Poland * Jinglong Wu, Kagawa University, Japan * Xindong Wu, University of Vermont, USA * Yiyu Yao, University of Regina, Canada Webmaster: * Albert Sutojo, San Jose State University, USA Abbreviation: IAT 2007, IAT2007, IAT'2007, IAT'07, IAT07, IAT 07, IAT-07, IAT-2007 *** Contact Information *** Jia Hu International WIC Institute, China E-mail: hujia at kis-lab.com From zhang at cis.uab.edu Sat Jun 2 11:49:44 2007 From: zhang at cis.uab.edu (Chengcui Zhang) Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2007 10:49:44 -0500 (CDT) Subject: [ACT-R-users] Deadline Extended: IEEE workshop on Semantic Computing and Multimedia Systems (SCMS 2007) Message-ID: [Apologies if you received multiple copies because of cross-posting] Dear Prospective Author: The paper submission deadline has been extended to June 13th (FIRM). Manuscripts should be sent as an attachment via email to one of the Program Chairs - Dr. Chengcui Zhang: zhang at cis.uab.edu Dr. Hongli Luo (luoh at ipfw.edu)) on or before the deadline date of June 13, 2007. All papers should be in Adobe portable document format (PDF). Submissions should include the name and the email address of the corresponding author. Again, all information regarding paper submission requirements are elaborated in the workshop web site at: http://www.cis.uab.edu/kddm/scms07/call01.htm best, Chengcui Zhang Ph.D. Assistant Professor Associate Director of the Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Lab Department of Computer and Information Sciences [Apologies if you received multiple copies because of cross-posting] ----------------------------------------------------------------- The First IEEE International Workshop on Semantic Computing and Multimedia Systems (IEEE-SCMS 2007), in conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (IEEE-ICSC 2007). September 17-19, 2007, Irvine, California, USA http://www.cis.uab.edu/kddm/scms07/index.htm ----------------------------------------------------------------- Scope: With the explosion of multimedia data (image, video, structured text, etc.) and the recent advances in networks and information technology, multimedia computing is having an unprecedented impact on every aspect of our life, from the personal use of multimedia mobile devices, such as iPod and PDA, to a wide spectrum of domains such as business and healthcare. The new multimedia standards (e.g., MPEG-21) facilitate the seamless integration of multiple modalities into interoperable multimedia frameworks, transforming the way people work and interact with multimedia data. These key technologies and multimedia solutions interact and collaborate with each other in an ever effective way, bringing along the multimedia revolution. Traditional multimedia research, which lies in signal processing and data communication, is now challenged by the new requirements such as multi-modal interaction and mining, cooperative processing, new multimedia standards, Quality of Service (QoS), multimedia security, and social issues, which are just a few of the major research areas. The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers working in the areas of multimedia systems to discuss the state of the art of the research on multimedia information systems, present theoretical frameworks and practical implementations, and identify challenges and open issues in multimedia system design and modeling. This workshop has a special focus on the different system aspects of this growing research in multimedia semantic computing, including pervasive multimedia computing systems, multimedia delivery over the network, personalized multimedia information retrieval systems which adapt to the users needs, integration of semantic content and schema from distributed multimedia sources so that the user sees a unified view of heterogeneous data, clustering and classification of semantically-tied information in different multimedia modalities, security issues in multimedia/hypertext systems, etc. We invite researchers from various disciplines to submit original research contributions to this workshop. IEEE SCMS 2007 will be held in conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (http://icsc2007.eecs.uci.edu/). Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following: * content-based retrieval (image, video, audio, etc.) * multimodal data analysis and interaction * Multimedia streaming and networking * human-centered multimedia computing * image/video/audio databases * multimedia data mining * multimedia data storage * social network analysis from multimedia * multimedia data modeling * distributed multimedia systems * multimedia data visualization * multimedia assurance and security * applications --------------------------------------------------------------------- Instructions for authors: Papers reporting original and unpublished research results on the above and related topics are solicited. Authors should submit a 6- to 8-page technical paper manuscript (in English) in double-column IEEE format including authors' names and affiliations, and a short abstract, following the document templates available on the ICSC2007 web page (http://icsc2007.eecs.uci.edu/submission.html). Manuscripts should be sent as an attachment via email to one of the Program Chairs listed below on or before the deadline date of June 13, 2007. All papers should be in Adobe portable document format (PDF). Submissions should include the name and the email address of the corresponding author. All submitted papers will be refereed for quality, originality and relevance by the Program Committee. The acceptance/rejection of the papers will be based on the review results. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates: Full Paper Submission Deadline: June 13, 2007 (Firm) Notification of Results: July 1, 2007 Camera-Ready Due: July 15, 2007 Author Registration: July 15, 2007 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Program Co-chairs: Chengcui Zhang (zhang at cis.uab.edu) The University of Alabama at Birmingham Hongli Luo (luoh at ipfw.edu) Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne --------------------------------------------------------------------- Program Committee: Shu-Ching Chen Florida International University, USA Mei-Ling Shyu University of Miami, USA Xingquan Zhu Florida Atlantic University, USA William I. Grosky University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA Ishwar K. Sethi Oakland University, USA Latifur Khan University of Texas at Dallas, USA Min Chen University of Montana, USA Shermann S. M. Chan Florida International University, USA Shih-Hsi Liu California State University, Fresno, USA Alan Sprague The University of Alabama at Birmingham _______________________________________________ ieeeauthors mailing list ieeeauthors at cis.uab.edu http://crier.cis.uab.edu/mailman/listinfo/ieeeauthors From zhang at cis.uab.edu Mon Jun 11 12:39:52 2007 From: zhang at cis.uab.edu (Chengcui Zhang) Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 11:39:52 -0500 (CDT) Subject: [ACT-R-users] Deadline Extended: IEEE workshop on Semantic Computing and Multimedia Systems (SCMS 2007) Message-ID: Dear Prospective Author: This is just a friendly reminder that the deadline for the SCMS 2007 paper submission is Wednesday, June 13, 2007. Again, all information regarding paper submission requirements are elaborated in the workshop web site at: http://www.cis.uab.edu/kddm/scms07/call01.htm best, Chengcui Zhang Ph.D. Assistant Professor Associate Director of the Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Lab Department of Computer and Information Sciences [Apologies if you received multiple copies because of cross-posting] ----------------------------------------------------------------- The First IEEE International Workshop on Semantic Computing and Multimedia Systems (IEEE-SCMS 2007), in conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (IEEE-ICSC 2007). September 17-19, 2007, Irvine, California, USA http://www.cis.uab.edu/kddm/scms07/index.htm ----------------------------------------------------------------- Scope: With the explosion of multimedia data (image, video, structured text, etc.) and the recent advances in networks and information technology, multimedia computing is having an unprecedented impact on every aspect of our life, from the personal use of multimedia mobile devices, such as iPod and PDA, to a wide spectrum of domains such as business and healthcare. The new multimedia standards (e.g., MPEG-21) facilitate the seamless integration of multiple modalities into interoperable multimedia frameworks, transforming the way people work and interact with multimedia data. These key technologies and multimedia solutions interact and collaborate with each other in an ever effective way, bringing along the multimedia revolution. Traditional multimedia research, which lies in signal processing and data communication, is now challenged by the new requirements such as multi-modal interaction and mining, cooperative processing, new multimedia standards, Quality of Service (QoS), multimedia security, and social issues, which are just a few of the major research areas. The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers working in the areas of multimedia systems to discuss the state of the art of the research on multimedia information systems, present theoretical frameworks and practical implementations, and identify challenges and open issues in multimedia system design and modeling. This workshop has a special focus on the different system aspects of this growing research in multimedia semantic computing, including pervasive multimedia computing systems, multimedia delivery over the network, personalized multimedia information retrieval systems which adapt to the users needs, integration of semantic content and schema from distributed multimedia sources so that the user sees a unified view of heterogeneous data, clustering and classification of semantically-tied information in different multimedia modalities, security issues in multimedia/hypertext systems, etc. We invite researchers from various disciplines to submit original research contributions to this workshop. IEEE SCMS 2007 will be held in conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (http://icsc2007.eecs.uci.edu/). Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following: * content-based retrieval (image, video, audio, etc.) * multimodal data analysis and interaction * Multimedia streaming and networking * human-centered multimedia computing * image/video/audio databases * multimedia data mining * multimedia data storage * social network analysis from multimedia * multimedia data modeling * distributed multimedia systems * multimedia data visualization * multimedia assurance and security * applications --------------------------------------------------------------------- Instructions for authors: Papers reporting original and unpublished research results on the above and related topics are solicited. Authors should submit a 6- to 8-page technical paper manuscript (in English) in double-column IEEE format including authors' names and affiliations, and a short abstract, following the document templates available on the ICSC2007 web page (http://icsc2007.eecs.uci.edu/submission.html). Manuscripts should be sent as an attachment via email to one of the Program Chairs listed below on or before the deadline date of June 1, 2007. All papers should be in Adobe portable document format (PDF). Submissions should include the name and the email address of the corresponding author. All submitted papers will be refereed for quality, originality and relevance by the Program Committee. The acceptance/rejection of the papers will be based on the review results. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates: Full Paper Submission Deadline: June 1, 2007 (PDF format) Notification of Results: July 1, 2007 Camera-Ready Due: July 15, 2007 Author Registration: July 15, 2007 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Program Co-chairs: Chengcui Zhang (zhang at cis.uab.edu) The University of Alabama at Birmingham Hongli Luo (luoh at ipfw.edu) Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne --------------------------------------------------------------------- Program Committee: Shu-Ching Chen Florida International University, USA Mei-Ling Shyu University of Miami, USA Xingquan Zhu Florida Atlantic University, USA William I. Grosky University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA Ishwar K. Sethi Oakland University, USA Latifur Khan University of Texas at Dallas, USA Min Chen University of Montana, USA Shermann S. M. Chan Florida International University, USA Shih-Hsi Liu California State University, Fresno, USA Alan Sprague The University of Alabama at Birmingham _______________________________________________ ieeeauthors mailing list ieeeauthors at cis.uab.edu http://crier.cis.uab.edu/mailman/listinfo/ieeeauthors From pavel at dit.unitn.it Tue Jun 12 03:16:08 2007 From: pavel at dit.unitn.it (pavel) Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 09:16:08 +0200 Subject: [ACT-R-users] 2nd CFP: The ISWC'07 workshop on Ontology Matching (OM-2007) Message-ID: <003201c7acc1$c9647ca0$f0bca8c0@alphaekts5r299> Apologies for cross-postings -------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Second International Workshop on ONTOLOGY MATCHING (OM-2007) http://om2007.ontologymatching.org/ November 11, 2007, ISWC'07 + ASWC'07 Workshop Program, Busan, Korea 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) 2007 campaign. The particular focus of this year's OAEI campaign is on real-world matching tasks from specific domains, e.g., medicine, food. 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: Requirements to ontology matching from specific domains; Application of ontology matching techniques in real-world scenarios; Social and collaborative ontology matching; Interaction design for ontology matching; Interactive ontology matching; Background knowledge in ontology matching; Uncertainty in ontology matching; Formal foundations and frameworks for ontology matching; Performance of ontology matching techniques; Ontology matching evaluation methodology; Ontology matching for information integration; Ontology matching for dynamic environments; Systems and infrastructures. FORMAT AND SUBMISSIONS The schedule assumes one day workshop. The workshop will consist of the following components: technical presentations, OAEI'07 results presentations, posters, workshop on consensus building (of reference alignments) and 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 2007 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 and should be submitted (no later than August 3, 2007) through the workshop submission site at: https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/ISWC2007/ Technical papers will be refereed by the Program Committee. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. Contributors to the OAEI 2007 campaign have to follow the contest conditions at: http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2007/. IMPORTANT DATES FOR TECHNICAL PAPERS August 3, 2007: Deadline for the submission of papers. September 7, 2007: Deadline for the notification of acceptance/rejection. September 28, 2007: Workshop camera ready copy submission. November 11, 2007: OM-2007, BEXCO, Busan, Korea. 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. Fausto Giunchiglia University of Trento, Italy 4. Bin He IBM Almaden Research Center, USA PROGRAM COMMITTEE Olivier Bodenreider, National Library of Medicine, USA Francesco Guerra, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy Wei Hu, Southeast University, China Jingshan Huang, University of South Carolina, USA Todd Hughes, DARPA, USA Michael Huhns, University of South Carolina, USA Ryutaro Ichise, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Anthony Jameson, DFKI, Germany Yannis Kalfoglou, University of Southampton, UK Vipul Kashyap, Clinical Informatics R&D, USA Christian Meilicke, University of Mannheim, Germany Peter Mork, The MITRE Corporation, USA Meenakshi Nagarajan, Wright State University, USA Luigi Palopoli, University of Calabria, Italy Luciano Serafini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (ITC-IRST), Italy Marco Schorlemmer, IIIA-CSIC, Spain Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz, Germany Umberto Straccia, ISTI-C.N.R., Italy Heiner Stuckenschmidt, University of Mannheim, Germany Petko Valtchev, Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Canada Frank van Harmelen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands Ludger van Elst, DFKI, Germany Baoshi Yan, Bosch Research, USA Mikalai Yatskevich, University of Trento, Italy Songmao Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China ------------------------------------------------------- Download the OM-2007 flyer: http://om2007.ontologymatching.org/Pictures/CfP_OM2007_flyer.pdf ------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- Pavel Shvaiko University of Trento Dept. of Information and Communication Technology Sommarive 14, POVO, 38050, TRENTO, ITALY Web: http://www.dit.unitn.it/~pavel/ http://www.ontologymatching.org/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative (OAEI) is a coordinated international initiative set up for evaluating ontology matching systems. OAEI campaigns consist of applying matching systems to ontology pairs and evaluating their results. OAEI-2007 is the fourth OAEI campaign. It will consist of four tracks gathering six data sets and different evaluation modalities. The tracks cover: (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. Anyone developing ontology matchers can participate by evaluating their systems and sending the results to the organizers. Tools for evaluating results and preliminary test bench tuning are available. Final results of the campaign will be presented at the Ontology Matching workshop and published in the proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES May 15th, 2007: First publication of test cases June 15th, 2007: Comments on test cases (any time before that date) July 2nd, 2007: Final publication of test cases Sept. 3rd, 2007: Preliminary results due (for interoperability-checking) Oct. 1st, 2007: Participants send final results and supporting papers Oct. 11th, 2007: Organizers publish results for comments Nov. 11th, 2007: OM-2007 workshop, Busan, KR + OAEI-2007 final results ready. 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However, I want to stress that we are holding this very much in the spirit of the 2001 ACT-R Post Graduate School and want this to be an opportunity for ACT-R users to discuss issues. Therefore, we (the teachers) are deliberately leaving plenty of time for discussion of issues of interest to the community. To further facilitate this there will be an ACT-R dinner afterwards at which such discussions can continue. If you are interested in attending the dinner and have not yet done so please RSVP to Jennifer Ferris (jlferris at cmu.edu). Hope to see you in Ann Arbor, John -- ========================================================== 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/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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For further information. see: http://www.ijcnn2007.org (click on "technical program", "plenary speakers", etc.) General Chair: Jennie Si Arizona State University Program Chair: Ron Sun Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ======================================================== 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 wiiat at kis-lab.com Tue Jun 19 04:37:44 2007 From: wiiat at kis-lab.com (Jia Hu) Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 17:37:44 +0900 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Final Call for Tutorial: IEEE/WIC/ACM WI-IAT'07 Message-ID: <200706190901.l5J91Gnj002787@act-r.psy.cmu.edu> [Apologies if you receive this more than once] ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT 2007) Silicon Valley, USA, November 2-5, 2007 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ++++++++++++++++++ Call for Tutorials ++++++++++++++++++ The 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'07) and Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'07) takes place on November 2-5, 2007, in Silicon Valley, the center of high tech and web technology. The IEEE/WIC/ACM 2007 joint conference is organized by San Jose State University, and sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Intelligent Informatics (TCII), Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC), and ACM-SIGART. Homepage: http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/wi07/wi/?index=tutorial and http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/wi07/iat/?index=tutorial WI 2007 and IAT 2007 will include tutorials providing in-depth background on subjects that are of broad interest to the intelligent agent community. Both short (2 hours) and long (half day) tutorials will be considered. The following is a *non-exclusive* list of preferred topic areas for tutorial proposals: Web Intelligence: - Intelligent/Semantic Web Services - Intelligent Wireless Web and Ubiquitous Computing - Rules and Inference Engines for the Web - Semantic Web Concepts and Techniques for Security and Trust - Service-Oriented Computing - Social Networks and Social Intelligence - e-learning and e-science - Web Intelligence and Education Intelligent Agent Technology: - Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation - Agent Technologies in e-Business Systems - Agent-Mediated Knowledge Management - Peer-to-Peer Models for Multi-Agent Systems - Agent-Based Grid Computing Submission Details: Proposals for tutorials should consist of an outline and background information on the presenter(s). The tutorial outline should be limited to 2 pages and contain the following information: 1. Title and abstract of the tutorial 2. Proposed duration: 2 hours or half-day 3. Intended audience: to whom is the tutorial of interest 4. Prerequisite knowledge: what the attendees should already know 5. Detailed outline The background information on the presenter(s) should be limited to 1-2 pages and contain: 1. Names, affiliations, homepages and contact details 2. Short biographies 3. Information about previous tutorials given by the same presenters (title, location, number of attendees, etc.) Tutorial materials such as handouts and slides should be included if already available, but are not required for submission. Please send your proposal to pawan at cs.smu.ca or Pawan.Lingras at smu.ca Important Dates: July 1, 2007 Tutorial submissions July 10, 2007 Acceptance notices October 1, 2007 Camera-ready copy of tutorial handouts November 2-5, 2007 WI-IAT'07 tutorials Tutorial Chair: Pawan Lingras, Saint Mary's University, Canada Email: pawan at cs.smu.ca or Pawan.Lingras at smu.ca +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ From zerpac at camelot.rect.ucv.ve Thu Jun 21 18:22:45 2007 From: zerpac at camelot.rect.ucv.ve (Carlos E. Zerpa) Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 18:22:45 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] A Brief Question Message-ID: <000c01c7b452$b19071e0$723a11ac@equipo1> (In English language) Hello. I am looking for a LISP Interpreter in Internet. How I can get it? Actually, I am reading the book of Dr. Anderson "Essential LISP" (Anderson, Corbett y Reiser, 1987) and I need the most advisable LISP interpreter to learn about it. Today I was trying with an applet JAVA in http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/CDMTCS/chaitin/unknowable/lisp.html but I think this site is not to me very useful to learn using the book. Thanks for the aid that can give me. (En idioma espa?ol) Hola. Estoy buscando un interprete de LISP en Internet. ?C?mo puedo hallarlo? Actualmente leo el libro del Dr. Anderson titulado "Essential LISP" (Anderson, Corbett y Reiser, 1987) y necesito el interprete de LISP m?s conveniente para aprender de dicho lenguaje. Hoy estuve ensayando con un applet en JAVA en la direcci?n http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/CDMTCS/chaitin/unknowable/lisp.html pero creo que este sitio no me resulta muy ?til para aprender utilizando el libro. Gracias por la ayuda que puedan darme. Prof. Carlos E. Zerpa, MPs. Jefe (E) Departamento de Educaci?n para Ingenier?a Facultad de Ingenier?a Edificio del Decanato, piso 3, Ofc. 331 Universidad Central de Venezuela Telf. 58-212-605-3084 e-mail: zerpac at camelot.rect.ucv.ve -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From db30 at andrew.cmu.edu Fri Jun 22 11:22:45 2007 From: db30 at andrew.cmu.edu (Dan Bothell) Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 11:22:45 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] A Brief Question In-Reply-To: <000c01c7b452$b19071e0$723a11ac@equipo1> References: <000c01c7b452$b19071e0$723a11ac@equipo1> Message-ID: --On Thursday, June 21, 2007 6:22 PM -0400 "Carlos E. Zerpa" wrote: > > (In English language) > Hello. > I am looking for a LISP Interpreter in Internet. How I can get it? For general information about Lisp I would suggest checking out the Association of Lisp Users web site at: Specifically, they have a list of Lisp implementations on the page: Hope that helps, Dan From ritter at acs.ist.psu.edu Tue Jun 26 00:37:57 2007 From: ritter at acs.ist.psu.edu (ritter) Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 00:37:57 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [ACT-R-users] CogModeling notes: ICCM07/CogSci07/HFES/Soar/IJNN/Books/Position Message-ID: <20070626043757.90683ED08A@acs.ist.psu.edu> [Please forward as/what is appropriate, such as to students' mailing lists, and for calanders of events. ] This is based on the International Cognitive Modeling Conference mailing list, which I maintain. I forward messages about twice a year, more around the ICCM conference. The first two announcements are the ones that are driving this email, the announcement of the tutorials program at ICCM 2007 and the ICCM program. cheers, Frank Ritter (frank.ritter at psu.edu, http://acs.ist.psu.edu) 1. Tutorials program, 2007 Int. Conference on Cognitive Modeling (ICCM) 26 July 2007, in Ann Arbor, MI http://acs.ist.psu.edu/iccm2007/tutorials.html 2. ICCM 2007 Conference Program 27-29 July 2007, in Ann Arbor, MI. http://sitemaker.umich.edu/iccm2007.org/program 3. CogSci 2007 Tutorials program, 1 Aug 07 http://csep.psyc.memphis.edu/cogsci07/tutorials.htm 4. Human Performance Modeling activities at HFES, 1-4 Oct 2007 http://www.hfes.org/web/HFESMeetings/07annualmeeting.html 5. Soar May 2007 Workshop Proceedings http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~soar/sitemaker/workshop/27/ 6. 2007 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks August 12-17, 2007 http://www.ijcnn2007.org 7. Book: Integrated Models of Cognitive Systems book, Gray (ed.), 2007 http://www.rpi.edu/~grayw/pubs/papers/2007/Gray-IMoCS/Gray-IMoCS.htm 8. Book: In order to learn: How the sequence of topics influence learning Ritter, Nerb, Lehtinen, & O'Shea (eds.) (June, 2007) http://acs.ist.psu.edu/papers/ritterNLOS07.html 9. Book: How can the human mind occur in the physical universe? Anderson. (July 2007). http://act-r.psy.cmu.edu/publications/pubinfo.php?id=680 10. Post-Doctoral Research Associate/Research Engineer https://jobs.ncsu.edu/ . (Click on "Search Vacancies". Enter position number "04-32-0707".) *************************************************** 1. Tutorials program, 2007 Int'l Conference on Cognitive Modeling 26 July 2007, Ann Arbor, Michigan http://acs.ist.psu.edu/iccm2007/tutorials.html The Tutorials program at ICCM 2007 will be held on Wed 26 July 2007 at the Rackham building at the University of Michigan. The format of this year's program is modelled on previously successful ICCM tutorials, and is similar to the series held at the annual Cognitive Science Society Conferences. Registration: Tutorials cost $60 for each half-day tutorial and $40 for students. You are encouraged to register through the conference site, or, if space is available, pay on the day. Attendance at the tutorials does not require conference registration; tutorial registration does not provide conference entrance. Advanced Tutorial on ACT-R 6.0 Anderson et al., Full-day (0915-1700) An introduction to the COGENT Cognitive Modelling Environment Cooper, Half-day (1345-1700) Soar Laird et al., Full-day (0915-1700) Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Modeling Using Leabra In PDP++ Noelle , Full-day (0915-1700) If you are having trouble getting a room, in addition the conference web site, you might try Ann Arbor Area Convention Bureau at 800 888 9487 or http://www.annarbor.org/ *************************************************** 2. ICCM 2007 Conference Program 27-29 July 2007, in Ann Arbor, MI. http://sitemaker.umich.edu/iccm2007.org/program ICCM is the premier international conference for research on computational models and computation-based theories of human behavior. ICCM is a forum for presenting, discussing, and evaluating the complete spectrum of cognitive models, including connectionism, symbolic modeling, dynamical systems, Bayesian modeling, and cognitive architectures. ICCM includes basic and applied research, across a wide variety of domains, ranging from low-level perception and attention to higher-level problem-solving and learning. *************************************************** 3. CogSci 2007 Tutorials program http://csep.psyc.memphis.edu/cogsci07/tutorials.htm Tutorial presenters and attendees are required to register for their tutorial through the on-line conference registration system (available beginning in April, 2007), but there is no additional fee for the tutorial. Tutorial attendance is FREE of charge! Space is limited, so admittance into the tutorials will be on a first come, first served basis. The tutorial program will be held on Wednesday, August 1, 2007. The full-day tutorial sessions will run from 8:30AM to 5:00PM, with a break for lunch at noon. The half-day tutorial will run from 1:30 to 5:00. Tutorial 1 (Full-day): Comp. Cog. Neuroscience Modeling Using Leabra In PDP++ David C. Noelle Tutorial 2 (Full-day): Quantum Information Processing Theory Jerome R. Busemeyer and Zheng Wang Tutorial 3 (Full-day): Soar John Laird Tutorial 4 (Half-day): ACT-R Niels Taatgen and Hedderik van Rijn *************************************************** 4. Human Performance Modeling activities at HFES Conference 1-4 Oct 07 http://www.hfes.org/web/HFESMeetings/07annualmeeting.html To: From: "Dario Salvucci" Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 11:04:13 -0400 Subject: [HFES-HPMTG]HPM-TG program at HFES'07 Dear HPM-TG members, We are very pleased to announce our TG's program for the HFES 2007 annual meeting in Baltimore. The HPM program includes several exciting sessions that span the many diverse areas covered by our TG. The titles, authors, and abstracts are listed below. We would also like to take another opportunity to thank all the reviewers that volunteered to evaluate submissions this year. Your efforts have enabled us to put together an excellent program, and we very much appreciate your help! See you in Baltimore! Dario Salvucci HPM-TG Program Chair -------------------------------------------------------------------------- MODELING HUMAN PERFORMANCE IN THE ENVIRONMENTAL CONTEXT Tuesday, October 2, 2007 ** Modeling Human Performance with Environmental Stressors: A Case Study of the Effect of Vehicle Motion Wojciechowski, Josephine: US Army Research Laboratory Human performance modeling tools are used to predict mission performance as a function of human performance. The U.S. Army Research Laboratory has developed a human performance modeling tool, the Improved Performance Research Integration Tool (IMPRINT), for investigation of the impact on a Soldier?s performance when the Soldier subjected to environmental stressors such as heat and cold.?? IMPRINT has the capability to create user-defined stressors to study the stressors? effect on human performance and therefore system performance. This case study used data from literature to create a user-defined stressor in IMPRINT to predict the effect of riding in a moving vehicle on task time and performance. This capability can provide useful information to system designers. ** Modeling the Effects of Behavior Moderators for Simulation-Based Human Factors Design Neal Reilly, W.: Charles River Analytics Bachman, John: Charles River Analytics Harper, Karen: Charles River Analytics Marotta, Stephen: Charles River Analytics Pfautz, Jonathan: Charles River Analytics Designing systems, interfaces, procedures and artifacts in simulated environments before they are developed and deployed has the potential to greatly decrease the costs of design and development and, in some cases, can provide significant safety advantages. Creating realistic models of humans is an important aspect of the modeling problem, but existing models tend to model typical humans and fail to account for the significant differences seen from person to person or even by the same person in different circumstances. In the model-ing literature, models of the factors that lead to such differences (including personality, affect, training, etc.) are typically called behavior moderators or performance moderators. This paper describes the MINDS (Modeling INdividual Differences and Stressors) project, which builds on previous work in behavior mod-erator modeling by supporting richer representations of moderators, moderator dynamics, and moderator interactions and by providing moderator-integration approaches for common behavior-modeling technolo-gies, including production rules, fuzzy logic, and Bayesian networks. We provide a demonstration scenario from a military-operation domain. ** The "Etiquette Engine": A Computational Model of Social Interaction Politeness Miller, Christopher: Smart Information Flow Technologies Wu, Peggy: Smart Information Flow Technologies Recent work by ourselves and others supports the claim that the ?etiquette? which a computer or decision aid exhibits in its interactions with human users can have significant effects on overall performance. To date, however, much work in this area has used loose and intuitive notions of what constitutes ?etiquette?. We have developed and provided initial testing of a computational model of a significant aspect of eti-quette?the perceived ?politeness? needed and/or used. We are using a rich, universal theory of human-human politeness behaviors and the culture-specific interpretive frameworks for them. Our computational implementation of this model links observable and inferred aspects of power and familiarity relationships, the degree of imposition of an act (all of which have implications for roles and intents) and the actor?s char-acter to produce expectations about politeness behaviors. We see applicability of this model to interactive avatar behavior generation and adaptation through modular, cross-cultural etiquette libraries. ** Predicting Situation Awareness from Team Communications Bolstad, Cheryl: SA Technologies Foltz, Peter: Pearson Knowledge Technologies Franzke, Marita: Pearson Knowledge Technologies Cuevas, Haydee: SA Technologies Rosenstein, Mark: Pearson Knowledge Technologies Costello, Anthony: SA Technologies Given the importance of Situation Awareness (SA) in military operations, there is a critical need for a real-time, unobtrusive tool that objectively and reliably measures warfighters? SA in both training and operations. Just as the requirement for improved access to SA measures has become vital, it is now commonplace for military team communications to be mediated by technology, hence easily captured and available for analysis. We believe that team communications can be used to derive SA measures. To address this issue, we are developing the Automated Communications Analysis of Situation Awareness (ACASA) system. ACASA combines the explanatory capacity of the SA construct with the predictive and computational power of TeamPrints, to assess team and shared SA as well as other cognitive processes. TeamPrints is a system that combines computational linguistics and machine learning techniques coupled with Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) to analyze team communication.?? In this paper, we present the findings from an exploratory evaluation of how well TeamPrints predicts SA from the team communications arising during a military training exercise. ** Modeling Situation Awareness Supported by Advanced Flight Deck Displays Wickens, Christopher: Alionscience: MA&D Operations Sebok, Angela: Alionscience: MA&D Operations bagnall, tim: alionscience: Ma&D operations Kamienski, Jill: Alionscience: MA&D Operations A two module computational model of situation awareness is presented. One module, characterizing stage 1 (noticing) SA is based on the SEEV model of selective attention in complex environments, and consists of components of Salience (capturing attention), Effort (inhibiting attention movement), Expectancy (for events along a channel) and Value (of attending those events). These are combined additively and accurately predict visual scanning on the flight deck and in driving. The second module characterizing stage 2 (understanding) SA, results from the integration of noticed information, and its decay if unattended. We describe briefly the application and validation of the attention module to pilot scanning of the synthetic vision system display suite, and in more detail, the application to predicting differences in situation awareness supported by 3 formats of a wake vortex display, designed to alert pilots to dangers in the flight path ahead ----- THE NEXT GENERATION OF COGNITIVE MODELING TOOLS: OPPORTUNITIES, CHALLENGES AND BASIC NEEDS Panel Session Thursday, October 4, 2007 Bernard, Michael: Sandia National Laboratories Forsythe, J. Chris: Sandia National Laboratories Allender, Laurel: Army Research Laboratory Cohn, Joseph: Naval Research Laboratory Radvansky, Gabriel: University of Notre Dame Ritter, Frank: Pennsylvania State University In the past twenty or so years the scientific community has made impressive advancements in the modeling and simulation of general human cognition. This progress has led to the beginnings of wide-spread applications and use. In fact, we are now at a point where the community can begin to make fairly accurate predictions as to how this technology will be used in the next twenty?plus years. Accordingly, the purpose of this panel is to engage the community at large regarding the future needs and requirements associated with building cognitive models for various scientific and engineering endeavors. Specifically, this panel will discuss and make recommendations with regard to the future functionality of cognitive modeling that could be encompassed in next-generation capabilities.?? To do this, we will concentrate on four different domain areas.?? These are: academic use of cognitive modeling, cognitive model development, neuroscience-related issues, and practical applications of cognitive modeling. ----- EXPLORING COGNITIVE PERFORMANCE THROUGH MODELING ** Computational GOMSL Modeling towards Understanding Cognitive Strategy in Dual-Task Performance with Automation Kim, Sang-Hwan: North Carolina State University Kaber, David: North Carolina State University Perry, Carlene: North Carolina State University The objective of this study was to assess the use of a computational cognitive model for describing human performance with an adaptively automated system, with and without advance cueing of control mode transitions. A dual-task piloting simulation was developed to collect human performance data under auditory cueing or no cueing of automated or manual control. GOMSL models for simulating user behavior were constructed based on a theory of increased memory transactions at mode transitions. The models were applied to the same task simulation and scenarios performed by the humans. Comparison of results on human and model output demonstrated the model to be generally descriptive of performance; however, it was not accurate in predicting timing of memory use in preparing for manual control. Interestingly, the human data didn??t reveal differences between cued and no cue trials. A refined GOMSL model was developed by modifying assumptions on the timing and manner of memory use, and considering human parallel processing in dual-task performance. Results revealed the refined model to be more plausible for representing behavior. Computational cognitive modeling appears to be a viable approach to represent operator performance in adaptive systems. ** A Queueing Network Model of Task Prioritization Using a General Hierarchy of Prioritization Rules Zhang, Guoxi: Purdue University Feyen, Robert: University of Minnesota - Duluth Earlier, Zhang and Feyen (2005) proposed a qualitative framework for predicting how people working in a multitasking scenario switch between concurrent tasks with dynamically changing priorities. This paper describes a validation study of a computational model derived from this framework. Utilizing a general hierarchy of prioritization rules suggested by a companion empirical study, a model of a multiple task scenario built using a queueing network approach was compared to the empirical results. On all metrics considered, no means were found significantly different and the model replicated all but one of 54 task sequences demonstrated by human subjects. Comparisons to similar models utilizing only single prioritization rules revealed that the general hierarchy yielded substantially better predictions. ** ACT-R Model of EEG Latency Data Cassenti, Daniel: U.S. Army Research Laboratory Anderson and Lebiere?s (1998) modeling system ACT-R (Adaptive Control of Thought ? Rational) has been a leading contributor to advances in cognitive science. Despite the modeling system?s success there are areas in which it may be improved. The present research advocates a suggested approach to improving ACT-R?s predictive capacity by using EEG (electroencephalography) latency data to predict the time it takes to achieve certain mental steps. A model is presented which successfully represents EEG data from a simple auditory experiment. Implications of this modeling approach to ACT-R and to the field of cognitive science are discussed. ** Stress, Fatigue and Workload: Determining the Combined Affect on Human Performance Mock, Jessica: UCF/NASA Objective: To determine how stress, fatigue and workload when combined affect human performance in control room operations.?? Background: Past studies have been conducted on the individual impact of stress, fatigue and workload on human performance, however, no study has looked at the combined impact using both objective and subjective measures. Methods: Twenty-five individuals participated in the study. Each individual participated in a simulation exercise donning a physiological measurement device and completed a series of questionnaires pre and post exercise. Results: Eleven factors were statistically significant in describing stress, fatigue or workload.?? Number of problems and effort was found to be statistically significant for all three variables. Completion time, change in heart rate, and blood pressure was significant for two of the variables. A fuzzy mathematical model was developed using AHP and regression. Observation data revealed no participants experiencing high levels of stress, fatigue or workload thus resulting in low or very low changes in human performance. Validation of the model using simulated data did show the model could predict with 90% accuracy change in human performance. Conclusion: A fuzzy mathematical model can help predict the change in human performance based on physiological and subjective measures that can be collected in an occupational environment non-intrusively. Application: Potential applications of this research include the assessment of human performance associated with console long duration operations in the military and nuclear power industry. ** Evaluating Systematic Error Predictions in a Routine Procedural Task Tsai, Jennifer: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Byrne, Michael: Rice University Systematic errors in routine procedural tasks present an important problem for psychologists who study interactions between humans and technological systems. This paper details an experiment designed to examine systematic error patterns and evaluate error predictions made by a notable psychological theory and industry-standard usability tools when performing multiple routine procedural tasks on a single highly visual interface. Participants completed three dynamic, computer-based routine procedural tasks involving execution of multiple steps. Differences were found in error frequencies at particular steps between the three tasks, a result that is consistent with predictions derived from Altmann and Trafton's (2002) activation-based model of memory for goals, but contrary to those of usability guidelines. Error patterns were reminiscent of several familiar types of systematic error. ----- POSTER SESSIONS Evaluation of a Software Implementation of the Cognitive Reliability and Error Analysis Method (CREAM) Roger Serwy, Esa Rantanen The Cognitive Reliability and Error Analysis Method (CREAM) represents a second-generation approach to human reliability analysis (HRA). The method, however, is very tedious to apply manually and not yet in widespread us and therefore largely untested. To allow for rapid and systematic evaluation of the CREAM method, a software tool for its application was developed. Results from several analyses undertaken to evaluate the method and the tool are presented. *************************************************** 5. Soar May 2007 Workshop Proceedings http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~soar/sitemaker/workshop/27/ The 27th Soar Workshop was held Monday, May 21 through Friday, May 25, 2007, in Ann Arbor, MI, hosted by the Center for Cognitive Architecture at the University of Michigan, and Soar Technology, Inc. Proceedings from the previous Soar workshops are available online: http://sitemaker.umich.edu/soar/soar_workshops *************************************************** 6. 2007 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks 2007 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks Orlando, Florida August 12-17, 2007 See the program details at: http://www.ijcnn2007.org We invite participation to the 2007 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2007), sponsored by the International Neural Network Society and co-sponsored by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. It is the premier event in the field of neural networks. It covers all topics in neural network theories and applications. IJCNN 2007 will feature plenary speakers, special sessions, moderated panel discussions, pre-conference tutorials, post- conference workshops, regular technical sessions, poster sessions, and social functions. For further information. see: http://www.ijcnn2007.org (click on "technical program", "plenary speakers", etc.) General Chair: Jennie Si Arizona State University Program Chair: Ron Sun Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute *************************************************** 7. Integrated Models of Cognitive Systems book, Gray (ed.) The first book in the Oxford Series on Cognitive Models and Architectures is now published: Gray, W. D.(Ed.) (2007). Integrated models of cognitive systems. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN13: 9780195189193 http://www.rpi.edu/~grayw/pubs/papers/2007/Gray-IMoCS/Gray-IMoCS.htm http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Psychology/Cognitive/?view=usa&ci=9780195189193 Integrated Models of Cognitive Systems [FROM THE EDITOR'S PREFACE] It is with pleasure that I introduce researchers, teachers, and students to this volume on Integrated Models of Cognitive Systems. All such volumes present a snapshot of the time in which they are created; it is the intent of the contributors that this snapshot will grace a postcard to the future. The history of cognitive studies is a history of trying to understand the mind by slicing and dicing it into functional components and trying to thoroughly understand each component. Throughout time the size of the components has gotten smaller and their shape has varied considerably with the result that what was a whole, the human mind, has now become a jigsaw puzzle of oddly shaped parts. The emphasis on cognitive systems is an emphasis on how these pieces fit together to achieve "complete processing models" (Newell, 1973) or "activity producing subsystems" (Brooks, 1991). An emphasis on integrated models is an emphasis that recognizes that the cognitive system is too large and complex for a single researcher or laboratory to model and that progress can only be made by developing our various parts so that they can fit together with the parts developed by other researchers in other laboratories. As Editor it is my duty and pleasure to write a preface to this volume. I view my task as providing a succinct summary of how this volume came to be, an equally succinct overview of the volume, and thanks to the many people whose efforts contributed to its production and to the success of the workshop on which the volume is based. I will, however, avoid in this Preface a more detailed discussion of integrated models of cognitive systems. That discussion is provided by Chapter 1 of this volume and continues throughout the collective work. Check it out: From OUP: Integrated Models of Cognitive Systems From Amazon:?Integrated Models of Cognitive Systems You can order this book at http://www.oup.com/us a 20 % discount is available with the code 26070 *************************************************** 8. Book: In order to learn: How the sequence of topics influence learning Ritter, Nerb, Lehtinen, & O'Shea (eds.) http://acs.ist.psu.edu/papers/ritterNLOS07.html The order that material, for both facts and skills, is presented or explored by a learner can strongly influence what is learned, how fast performance increases, and sometimes, even that the material is learned at all. In this book we argue that these effects are more pervasive and important than they have previously treated, and we are able to provide a preliminary summary of what research tells us about how to order instructional material. We explore some of the foundation topics in this area of intersection of psychology, of machine learning, artificial intelligence, and cognitive modeling, and of instructional design. We include several case studies, and note numerous questions that will lead to further research projects and provide food for thought for professionals working in these areas such as education. You can order this book at http://www.oup.com/us a 20 % discount is available with the code 26070 *************************************************** 9. Book: How can the human mind occur in the physical universe? Anderson. (July 2007). http://act-r.psy.cmu.edu/publications/pubinfo.php?id=680 (models) http://www.us.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Psychology/Cognitive/?view=usa&ci=9780195324259 "The question for me is how can the human mind occur in the physical universe. We now know that the world is governed by physics. We now understand the way biology nestles comfortably within that. The issue is how will the mind do that as well."--Allen Newell, December 4, 1991, Carnegie Mellon University The argument John Anderson gives in this book was inspired by the passage above, from the last lecture by one of the pioneers of cognitive science. Newell describes what, for him, is the pivotal question of scientific inquiry, and Anderson gives an answer that is emerging from the study of brain and behavior. Humans share the same basic cognitive architecture with all primates, but they have evolved abilities to exercise abstract control over cognition and process more complex relational patterns. The human cognitive architecture consists of a set of largely independent modules associated with different brain regions. In this book, Anderson discusses in detail how these various modules can combine to produce behaviors as varied as driving a car and solving an algebraic equation, but focuses principally on two of the modules: the declarative and procedural. The declarative module involves a memory system that, moment by moment, attempts to give each person the most appropriate possible window into his or her past. The procedural module involves a central system that strives to develop a set of productions that will enable the most adaptive response from any state of the modules. Newell argued that the answer to his question must take the form of a cognitive architecture, and Anderson organizes his answer around the ACT-R architecture, but broadens it by bringing in research from all areas of cognitive science, including how recent work in brain imaging maps onto the cognitive architecture. You can order this book at http://www.oup.com/us a 20 % discount is available with the code 26070 *************************************************** 10. Post-Doctoral Research Associate/Research Engineer The Ergonomics Lab in the Edward P. Fitts Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering at NC State University is seeking a post-doctoral associate to join a highly productive research team. The Ergonomics area of the department currently includes three full-time research and teaching faculty supervising masters and doctoral students. The Lab conducts externally-sponsored and student research on both cognitive and physical ergonomics topics (e.g., analysis of human-automation interaction, human-machine interface design, biomechanical and cognitive modeling, causality determination in human decision making, human reliability assessment). The Ergonomics Lab is in the process of expanding two directions of research including: (1) human factors in design and evaluation of assistive robotics and telemedicine systems, and (2) situation awareness in dynamic control tasks and the use of in-vehicle technologies and automated devices. The Lab currently has research equipment to support these directions, including prototype and commercial robots, control software systems, virtual reality-based driving simulations and physical vehicle interfaces. The successful candidate will work with the faculty in expansion of these facilities and develop new proposals for sponsored research on topics related to the thrust directions. The Lab currently has funds to secure new high-fidelity simulation facilities to define and evaluate robot-health practitioner interaction paradigms in local and telemedicine scenarios involving large-scale and rural health facilities. The Lab also has funds for a new high-fidelity driving simulator to develop a model of situation awareness in driving and to predict driver performance under normal and hazard conditions. With these new systems, the Lab will study human performance in both domains towards developing system design methodologies for effective patient service delivery with robotic technology and to promote driving system safety and effective vehicle automation design. The requirements for this position include a PhD in engineering/computer science with a concentration in human factors, computational intelligence or cognitive science. A research background in human performance/cognitive modeling, situation awareness and workload analysis, and human factors experimentation, including studies on human-robot interaction and driving systems, is desired. The initial desired term of the appointment is for 2 yrs. The position is renewable on yearly basis, based on performance, up to 3 yrs. For those wishing to apply for this position, please submit the below documents on-line at: https://jobs.ncsu.edu/ . (Click on "Search Vacancies". Enter position number "04-32-0707".) (1) cover letter with objective for applying; (2) curriculum vitae including separate lists of journal and conference publications; (3) statement of research interests and goals; and (4) names and contact information for three professional references. Applications will be accepted through July 15, 2007 and will be reviewed with the objective of filling the position by August 15, 2007. North Carolina State University is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. In addition, NC State University welcomes all persons without regard to sexual orientation. Individuals with disabilities desiring accommodation in the application process should contact Debbie Allgood-Staton at (919)-515-2362. -30-