From pirolli at parc.com Fri May 4 12:02:48 2007 From: pirolli at parc.com (Pirolli, Peter ) Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 09:02:48 PDT Subject: [ACT-R-users] Information Foraging Theory book is out Message-ID: I pleased to announce that Oxford University Press has published my book on Information Foraging Theory. The book contains some models derivative of ACT-R that address human-information interaction, and well as a variety of rational analysis models. For the book see: http://www.amazon.com/Information-Foraging-Theory-Interaction-Human- Technology/dp/0195173325 For a review see: http://www.websiteoptimization.com/speed/tweak/information-foraging/ From grayw at rpi.edu Sun May 6 13:01:09 2007 From: grayw at rpi.edu (Wayne Gray) Date: Sun, 6 May 2007 13:01:09 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Integrated Models of Cognitive Systems Message-ID: <8ED7E85B-25C6-4BBD-9466-46BF3F509145@rpi.edu> This is a good month for books from Oxford University Press. I am pleased to announce that Integrated Models of Cognitive Systems is now available. This is an edited volume of 30 chapters. Each chapter based on a talk and discussion that occurred during a workshop held in Saratoga Springs in March 2005. Many of the chapters are written by members of the ACTR community. Check it out: From OUP: Integrated Models of Cognitive Systems From Amazon: Integrated Models of Cognitive Systems Wayne **Rensselaer**Rensselaer**Rensselaer**Rensselaer**Rensselaer** Wayne D. Gray; Professor of Cognitive Science Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Carnegie Building (rm 108) ;;for all surface mail & deliveries 110 8th St.; Troy, NY 12180 EMAIL: grayw at rpi.edu, Office: 518-276-3315, Fax: 518-276-3017 for general information see: http://www.rpi.edu/~grayw/ for On-Line publications see: http://www.rpi.edu/~grayw/pubs/ downloadable_pubs.htm for the CogWorks Lab see: http://www.cogsci.rpi.edu/cogworks/ If you just have formalisms or a model you are doing "operations research" or" AI", if you just have data and a good study you are doing "experimental psychology", and if you just have ideas you are doing "philosophy" -- it takes all three to do cognitive science. **Rensselaer**Rensselaer**Rensselaer**Rensselaer**Rensselaer** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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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 cassin at rpi.edu Sun May 13 16:54:48 2007 From: cassin at rpi.edu (Nick Cassimatis) Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 16:54:48 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Postdoctoral position at RPI Message-ID: <00e601c795a0$f2a42c60$d7ec8520$@edu> I have funding for a postdoc at the Rensselaer Department of Cognitive Science. There is a little flexibility in the start date, but sooner is better. The overall aim of our lab is to advance the level of intelligence computational systems can model by developing a framework for integrating the strengths of multiple modeling approaches into a single cognitive architecture. Current projects involve judgment and decision making, natural language understanding, hybrids of probabilistic, logical and structured inference strategies, and reasoning about the beliefs, desires and intentions people. RPI is a top-tier research university. The Cognitive Science department is conducting research in a number of areas: cognitive modeling, human and machine learning, multi-agent interactions and social simulation, neural networks and connectionist models, human and machine reasoning, cognitive engineering, etc. RPI is located in historic Troy NY, in the Hudson River Valley, approximately 5 miles North of Albany, NY. It is three hours south of Montreal, 2.5 hours west of Boston, and two hours north of New York City, to which Amtrak runs several trains daily. The Albany area is notable for any things, including its affordable housing, cultural events (e.g., the famed Saratoga Performing Arts Center), and proximity to outdoor recreation (e.g., hiking/skiing in the Adirondack, White, Green, and Berkshire Mountains). See the Web page below regarding research: http://www.cassimatis.com/hlil.html ======================================== Nicholas L. Cassimatis Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute cassin at rpi dot edu ======================================== From pavel at dit.unitn.it Tue May 15 04:30:54 2007 From: pavel at dit.unitn.it (pavel) Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 10:30:54 +0200 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Final CfP: CONTEXT'07 workshop on Contexts and Ontologies: Representation and Reasoning (C&O:RR-2007) Message-ID: <010001c796cb$6ae10dd0$f0bca8c0@alphaekts5r299> Apologies for cross-postings ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS: submission deadline is approaching: 14 days left ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Third International Workshop on Contexts and Ontologies: Representation and Reasoning (C&O:RR-2007) http://www.c-and-o.net/ August 21, 2007, CONTEXT Workshop Program, Roskilde University, Denmark. OBJECTIVES The goal of this workshop is to bring people from the context and ontology communities together to discuss the approaches they use for information integration from the knowledge representation and reasoning perspective. Therefore, the workshop will push the cross-fertilization and exchange of ideas (e.g., which of the methods from the context community can be successfully adopted in the ontology community, and vice versa), and, hence, make their meeting mutually beneficial. TOPICS of interest include, but are not limited to: Information interoperability and reuse via multiple contexts and ontologies. Coordination of multiple contexts and ontologies. Modular ontologies. Logical formalisms for contexts and ontologies. Distributed reasoning algorithms for contexts and ontologies. Complexity of distributed reasoning for contexts and ontologies. Comparison of uses of contexts and ontologies. Applications of reasoning with contexts and ontologies in the areas of semantic web, information retrieval, e-commerce, telecommunications, multimedia, content indexing, grid and peer-to-peer, pervasive computing and ambient intelligence. INVITED TALKS: 1. Frank Wolter University of Liverpool, UK http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~frank/ 2. David Robertson University of Edinburgh, UK http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/groups/ssp/members/dave.htm 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. Contributions to the workshop can be made in terms of technical papers or statements of interest. Technical papers should be not longer than 10 pages using the LNCS Style. http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-164-2-72376-0,00.html 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 submitted (no later than May 28, 2007) by email to Luciano Serafini: serafini [at] itc [dot] it Contributions will be refereed by the Program Committee. Accepted papers and statements of interest will be published in the workshop proceedings as a volume of CEUR WS http://ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Publications/CEUR-WS/ IMPORTANT DATES May 28, 2007: Deadline for the submissions. June 19, 2007: Deadline for the notification of acceptance/rejection. June 25, 2007: CONTEXT'07 early registration deadline. July 9, 2007: Deadline for the receipt of camera-ready papers. August 21, 2007: C&O:RR-2007, Roskilde University, Denmark. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE 1.Paolo Bouquet University of Trento, Italy 2.Jerome Euzenat INRIA Rhone-Alpes, France 3.Chiara Ghidini Fondazione Bruno Kessler (ITC-IRST), Italy 4.Deborah L. McGuinness Stanford University, USA 5.Valeria de Paiva Palo Alto Research Center, USA 6.Luciano Serafini Fondazione Bruno Kessler (ITC-IRST), Italy 7.Pavel Shvaiko University of Trento, Italy 8.Holger Wache University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland, Switzerland PROGRAM COMMITTEE Horacio Arlo-Costa, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Alex Borgida, Rutgers University, USA Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento, Italy Vasant Honavar, Iowa State University, USA Yannis Kalfoglou, University of Southampton, UK David Leake, Indiana University, USA Maurizio Marchese, University of Trento, Italy Leo Obrst, MITRE, USA Fano Ramparany, France Telecom R&D, France Chantal Reynaud, Universit? Paris-Sud, France David Robertson, University of Edinburgh, UK Riccardo Rosati, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy Thomas Roth-Berghofer, DFKI, Germany Aviv Segev, Technion, Israel Heiner Stuckenschmidt, University of Mannheim, Germany York Sure, AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Andrei Tamilin, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (ITC-IRST), Italy Sergio Tessaris, Free University of Bolzano/Bozen, Italy Rich Thomason, University of Michigan, USA Roy Turner, University of Maine, USA Ludger van Elst, DFKI, Germany Frank Wolter, University of Liverpool, UK Thanks for your time and cooperation! -------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------- Pavel Shvaiko PostDoc, 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/ http://www.c-and-o.net/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I remember a few ACT-R workshops back that someone, I think Richard Young, presented the idea of a production refractory period, and I was wondering if this idea has ever gained any ground? Or are there other ideas of satiation within ACT-R? I am asking this because we are having trouble with our robot performing the same productions over and over. Again, I understand that we need to activate other chunks to cause a different match, but the question is - Where does this increased activation come from? Is this a meta-cognitive function? If there are no "new" stimuli from the outside, what triggers an increase in activation? Troy D. Kelley US Army Research Laboratory Human Research and Engineering Directorate AMSRD-ARL-HR-SE Aberdeen, MD, 21005-5425 Ph: 410-278-5869 FAX: 410-278-9523 Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ijuvina at andrew.cmu.edu Tue May 15 11:47:07 2007 From: ijuvina at andrew.cmu.edu (Ion Juvina) Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 11:47:07 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Production satiation (UNCLASSIFIED) In-Reply-To: <2D30123DFDFF1046B3A9CF64B6D9AC9013D5E2@ARLABML03.DS.ARL.ARMY.MIL> References: <2D30123DFDFF1046B3A9CF64B6D9AC9013D5E2@ARLABML03.DS.ARL.ARMY.MIL> Message-ID: here is my 2 cents: a production's utility decreases when that production fires frequently in a sequence of productions that leads to very small rewards. so, all we need to do is make sure we have a "competitive" production there, that is, a production that contributes to getting higher rewards. example: a "ride-a-bike" production could lose the competition in favor of a "drive" production if the environment favors speed and safety. however, the "ride-a-bike" production can still win when the environment favors health and losing-weight criteria. ion On May 15, 2007, at 10:15 AM, Kelley, Troy ((Civ,ARL/HRED)) wrote: > Classification: UNCLASSIFIED > Caveats: NONE > > ACT-R users, > > I was wondering, and I have never heard of this, if there a concept > of production satiation in ACT-R, or someway to implement such a > concept? This seems to be a common problem in ACT-R where a > production will continue to fire over and over and it is difficult > to stop. I understand that the solution is to change the > activation of a chunk so that something else will match, but this > is difficult to accomplish when the matching chunk keeps increasing > in activation, thus causing more matches. I remember a few ACT-R > workshops back that someone, I think Richard Young, presented the > idea of a production refractory period, and I was wondering if this > idea has ever gained any ground? Or are there other ideas of > satiation within ACT-R? I am asking this because we are having > trouble with our robot performing the same productions over and > over. Again, I understand that we need to activate other chunks to > cause a different match, but the question is - Where does this > increased activation come from? Is this a meta-cognitive > function? If there are no ?new? stimuli from the outside, what > triggers an increase in activation? > > Troy D. Kelley > US Army Research Laboratory > Human Research and Engineering Directorate > AMSRD-ARL-HR-SE > Aberdeen, MD, 21005-5425 > Ph: 410-278-5869 > FAX: 410-278-9523 > > > > Classification: UNCLASSIFIED > Caveats: NONE > > _______________________________________________ > ACT-R-users mailing list > ACT-R-users at act-r.psy.cmu.edu > http://act-r.psy.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/act-r-users -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Kelley US Army Research Laboratory Human Research and Engineering Directorate AMSRD-ARL-HR-SE Aberdeen, MD, 21005-5425 Ph: 410-278-5869 FAX: 410-278-9523 -----Original Message----- From: Ion Juvina [mailto:ijuvina at andrew.cmu.edu] Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2007 11:47 AM To: Kelley, Troy (Civ,ARL/HRED) Cc: act-r-users at act-r.psy.cmu.edu Subject: Re: [ACT-R-users] Production satiation (UNCLASSIFIED) here is my 2 cents: a production's utility decreases when that production fires frequently in a sequence of productions that leads to very small rewards. so, all we need to do is make sure we have a "competitive" production there, that is, a production that contributes to getting higher rewards. example: a "ride-a-bike" production could lose the competition in favor of a "drive" production if the environment favors speed and safety. however, the "ride-a-bike" production can still win when the environment favors health and losing-weight criteria. ion On May 15, 2007, at 10:15 AM, Kelley, Troy ((Civ,ARL/HRED)) wrote: Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE ACT-R users, I was wondering, and I have never heard of this, if there a concept of production satiation in ACT-R, or someway to implement such a concept? This seems to be a common problem in ACT-R where a production will continue to fire over and over and it is difficult to stop. I understand that the solution is to change the activation of a chunk so that something else will match, but this is difficult to accomplish when the matching chunk keeps increasing in activation, thus causing more matches. I remember a few ACT-R workshops back that someone, I think Richard Young, presented the idea of a production refractory period, and I was wondering if this idea has ever gained any ground? Or are there other ideas of satiation within ACT-R? I am asking this because we are having trouble with our robot performing the same productions over and over. Again, I understand that we need to activate other chunks to cause a different match, but the question is - Where does this increased activation come from? Is this a meta-cognitive function? If there are no "new" stimuli from the outside, what triggers an increase in activation? Troy D. Kelley US Army Research Laboratory Human Research and Engineering Directorate AMSRD-ARL-HR-SE Aberdeen, MD, 21005-5425 Ph: 410-278-5869 FAX: 410-278-9523 Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE _______________________________________________ ACT-R-users mailing list ACT-R-users at act-r.psy.cmu.edu http://act-r.psy.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/act-r-users Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE From wiiat at kis-lab.com Fri May 18 12:44:27 2007 From: wiiat at kis-lab.com (Jia Hu) Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 01:44:27 +0900 Subject: [ACT-R-users] CFP: Biomedicine Applications of Web technologies 2007 [WI-IAT'07] Message-ID: <200705181707.l4IH7DTA008950@act-r.psy.cmu.edu> ================================================================================ Call for Papers International Workshop on BioMedicine applications of Web Technologies in conjunction with WI/IAT 2007 Silicon Valley, CA, USA, November 2-5, 2007 http://chunnan.iis.sinica.edu.tw/BMWT2007.html ======================================================================== ========================= Topics of the workshop ========================= BMWT 2007 will be part of events of the WI-IAT conference and will be arranged for a date during November 2-5. This workshop will cover interesting topics of applications of intelligent Web technologies in bio-medicine, including Web Ontology, Semantic Web, Web Usage Mining, Web Search and Intelligent Agents. Original contributions will be solicited in the following subjects (but not necessarily limited to): * Web information extraction and wrapper generation * Applications of Web taxonomies and ontologies in bio-medicine * Web-based service-oriented architecture in bio-medicine * Integration and maintenance of bio-medicine taxonomies and ontologies * Web content and structure mining , Web Information retrieval and filtering * Web-based data collection, curation and analysis * Text mining for metadata creation * Multimedia contents in bio-medicine on the Web * Web search engines, meta-search engines and inference engine * Semantic Web * Intelligent Web agents * Knowledge community formation and support This workshop intends to bring together researchers and practitioners to foster the exchange of ideas and the dissemination of emerging techniques on intelligent Web technology in bio-medicine applications. The workshop will capture current important developments of new models, new methodologies and new tools for building a variety of embodiments of scalable, effective and intelligent Web-based information systems for the ever-increasing needs of bio-medicine applications. ================== Type of workshop ================== The workshop will run as a half-day workshop for approximately 5 hours with 1~2 keynote speeches and 8~12 paper presentations. ================== Important dates ================== June 20, 2007: Due date for full workshop papers submission August 1, 2007: Final acceptance by Workshop Co-Chairs August 2, 2007: Notification of paper acceptance to authors August 17, 2007: Camera-ready of accepted papers November 2-5, 2007: Workshops ========================== Paper submission guideline ========================== (1) All submitted papers will be reviewed on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity by at least two reviews for each paper. (2) We will use WI-IAT 2007 Cyberchair system for on-line paper submission and review process. Details to be announced. (3) The length of accepted papers should NOT exceed 4 pages (IEEE-CS format, extra payment is only available for one more extra page). (4) We will not have a separate workshop registration fee this year. (i.e., only one conference registration covers everything). ================= Program committee ================= (Tentative) Howard CT Ho, IBM Almaden, USA Chun-Nan Hsu, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Chung-Yen Lin, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Wen-Hsiang Lu, NCKU, Taiwan Louiqa Raschid, U of Maryland, USA Shin-Mu Tseng, NCKU, Taiwan Samson Tu, Stanford, USA Qiang Yang, HKUST, Hong Kong, China Ueng-Cheng Yang, NYMU, Taiwan ==================== Organizing committee ==================== Chun-Nan Hsu (Co-Chair) Institute of Information Science Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan chunnan at iis.sinica.edu.tw Vincent Shin-Mu Tseng (Co-Chair) Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan tsengsm at mail.ncku.edu.tw Wen-Hsiang Lu (Co-Chair) Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan whlu at mail.ncku.edu.tw From wiiat at kis-lab.com Fri May 18 12:44:43 2007 From: wiiat at kis-lab.com (Jia Hu) Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 01:44:43 +0900 Subject: [ACT-R-users] =?utf-8?q?CFP=3A_WImBI_2007_=40_WI-IAT_2007?= Message-ID: <200705181707.l4IH7SQp008958@act-r.psy.cmu.edu> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ International Workshop on New Computing Paradigms for Web Intelligence meets Brain Informatics (WImBI 2007) for IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conferences on WI/IAT 2-5 November 2007, Silicon Valley, USA http://www.maebashi-it.org/wimbi07/WImBI2007.htm ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ This workshop is based on a new perspective of Web Intelligence (WI) research in terms of Brain Informatics (BI), which is a new interdisciplinary field to study human information processing mechanism systematically from both macro and micro points of view by cooperatively using experimental cognitive neuroscience and WI centric advanced information technology. We argue that new instrumentation (fMRI etc.) and advanced information technology are causing an impending revolution in Web intelligence and Brain Sciences (BS). This revolution is bi-directional: new understanding and discovery of human intelligence models in BS will yield a new generation of WI research and development; and WI based portal techniques will provide a new powerful platform for BS. The synergy between WI with BI will yield profound advances in the analysing and understanding of the mechanism of data, knowledge, intelligence and wisdom, as well as their relationship, organization and creation process. It means that fundamental and implementation of Web intelligence will be studied as a central topic and in a unique way. It will fundamentally change the nature of information technology in general and artificial intelligence in particular, towards human-level Web intelligence. The main themes, to be addressed include, but not limited to: 1. Intelligent and knowldge-based technologies in Web Intelligence (WI) ? Web Data Mining and Reasoning ? Ontology Engineering and Sematic Web ? Social Networks Mining ? Web Information Gathering ? Adaptive Web and Information Foraging ? Web Agent Technology ? Granular Computing (GrC) for WI ? Autonomy-Oriented Computing (AOC) for WI ? Web Support Systems ? Intelligent E-Technology ? Active Media Technology 2. Studies on human intelligence as explored in neuroscience, cognitive psychology, and brain science instrumentation. ? Biologically Motivated Intelligent Algorithms and Systems ? Brain Informatics for WI ? Computational Modeling of Cognitive Processing ? Databasing the Brain and Brain Information Base Construction ? Developing Brain Informatics Data Grid and Research Support Portals ? Human Level WI ? Knowledge Representation and Discovery in Neuroimaging ? Multimodal Information Fusion for Brain Image Interpretation ? New Cognitive Models for WI ? New Computational Models for WI ? Statistical Analysis and Pattern Recognition in Neuroimaging 3. WIC (Web Intelligence Consortium) research centres reports. PAPER PUBLICATION Papers will be published by IEEE-CS Press. The length of accepted papers should NOT exceed 4 pages (IEEE-CS format, extra payment is only available for one more extra page). Also a selected number of accepted papers will be expanded and revised for inclusion in several special issues. WORKSHOP WEB PAGE http://www.maebashi-it.org/wimbi07/WImBI2007.htm IMPORTANT DEADLINES June 20, 2007: Full workshop papers submission http://wi-consortium.org/wiiat07/scripts/ws_submit.php August 2, 2007: Notification of paper acceptance August 17, 2007: Camera-ready of accepted papers November 2-5, 2007: Workshops WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS: Dieter Fensel, University of Innsbruck, Austria (dieter.fensel at deri.org) Yuefeng Li, Queensland University of Technology, Australia (y2.li at qut.edu.au) Yulin Qin, Carnegie Mellon University, USA (yulinq at yahoo.com) Program Committee: Jiyuan An, Deakin University, Australia, jiyuan at deakin.edu.au, Hui Wang, Ulster Univeristy, UK, h.wang at ulster.ac.uk, Jigui Sun, Jilin University, China, jgsun at jlu.edu.cn Yue Xu, Queensland University of Technology, Australia, yue.xu at qut.edu.au, Raymond Lau, City University, Hong Kong, raylau at cityu.edu.hk, Longbing Cao, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia, lbcao at it.uts.edu.au, Yiyu Yao, University of Regina, Canada, yyao at cs.uregina.ca, Pawan Lingras, SMU, Canada, < pawan at cs.smu.ca>, Chunping Li, Tsinghua University, China, cli at tsinghua.edu.cn, Guoyin Wang, Chongqing Univeristy of Technology, China, wanggy at cqupt.edu.cn, Shichao Zhang, UTS, Australia, zhangsc at it.uts.edu.au, Frank van Harmelen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Frank.van.Harmelen at cs.vu.nl Hamish Cunningham, University of Sheffield, hamish at dcs.shef.ac.uk Lael Schooler, Max Planck Institute Berlin, schooler at mpib-berlin.mpg.de Michael Witbrock, CYC, witbrock.cyc.com at gmail.com Stijn Heymans, University of Innsbruck, Austria, stijn.heymans at deri.org Peter Brezany, University of Vienna, Austria brezany at par.univie.ac.at Joongmin Choi, Hanyang University, Korea, jmchoi at cse.hanyang.ac.kr Yanqing Zhang, Georgia State University, USA, yzhang at cs.gsu.edu Shusaku Tsumoto, Shimane University, Japan, tsumoto at computer.org Mariofanna Milanova, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA, mgmilanova at ualr.edu Duoqian Miao, Tongji University, China, ldgyq2003 at yahoo.com.cn Wenyu Qu, Dalian Maritime University, China, eunice_01 at 163.com Gisela Susanne Bahr, Florida Institute of Technology, USA, gbahr at fit.edu From draggycn at yahoo.com.cn Sat May 19 08:56:53 2007 From: draggycn at yahoo.com.cn (=?gb2312?q?=C1=FA=A1=F6Xiaolong?=) Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 20:56:53 +0800 (CST) Subject: [ACT-R-users] About inhibition Message-ID: <839188.41762.qm@web15012.mail.cnb.yahoo.com> I do not know if it is the right explaination for the inhibiton with ACT-R. Inhibition is the activation of a production and disengagement of another production. So ACT-R look on the inhibition as one kind of activation of production. Is that proper? Thanks ----------------- Xiaolong Zhang No.19 Xinjiekouwai St. College of Psychology, Beijing Normal University Beijing China 100875 --------------------------------- ????????3.5G???20M??? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From d.mcnamara at mail.psyc.memphis.edu Sat May 19 09:04:14 2007 From: d.mcnamara at mail.psyc.memphis.edu (Danielle S. McNamara) Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 08:04:14 -0500 Subject: [ACT-R-users] About inhibition In-Reply-To: <839188.41762.qm@web15012.mail.cnb.yahoo.com> References: <839188.41762.qm@web15012.mail.cnb.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20070519130126.M25276@mail.psyc.memphis.edu> For evidence (and a simulation) that inhibition involves activation (albeit not productions in this case), see McNamara, D. S., & McDaniel, M. A. (2004). Suppressing irrelevant information: Knowledge activation or inhibition? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 30, 465-482. http://csep.psyc.memphis.edu/mcnamara/pdf/2004JEPLMC30.pdf Danielle S. McNamara, Ph.D. ? ? ? ? ? 202 Psychology Building (shipping address: 3693 Norriswood) The University of Memphis Memphis, TN 38152-3230 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? EMAIL: d.mcnamara at mail.psyc.memphis.edu, dsmcnamr at memphis.edu IIS Office Phone: 901-678-3803 (FIT, Rm. 403C) Psychology Main Office: 901-678-2145; FAX: 901-678-2579 LAB: 901-678-2037 ?(FIT, 410) WEB site: ?http://csep.psyc.memphis.edu/McNamara ---------- Original Message ----------- From: ????Xiaolong To: ACT-R-users at act-r.psy.cmu.edu Sent: Sat, 19 May 2007 20:56:53 +0800 (CST) Subject: [ACT-R-users] About inhibition > I do not know if it is the right?explaination for the inhibiton with ACT-R. > Inhibition is the activation of a production and disengagement of another production. > So ACT-R look on the inhibition as one kind of activation of production. > ? > Is that proper? > ? > Thanks > > ----------------- Xiaolong Zhang No.19 Xinjiekouwai St. College of Psychology, Beijing Normal University Beijing China 100875 > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ????????????????3.5G??????20M?????? ------- End of Original Message ------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pavel at dit.unitn.it Wed May 23 08:43:48 2007 From: pavel at dit.unitn.it (pavel) Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 14:43:48 +0200 Subject: [ACT-R-users] 1st CFP: The ISWC'07 workshop on Ontology Matching (OM-2007) Message-ID: <018201c79d38$4dc0aa30$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... URL: From pavel at dit.unitn.it Wed May 23 08:45:25 2007 From: pavel at dit.unitn.it (pavel) Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 14:45:25 +0200 Subject: [ACT-R-users] 1st Call for Ontology Matching Systems Participation: The OAEI'07 campaign Message-ID: <018301c79d38$64663de0$f0bca8c0@alphaekts5r299> Apologies for cross-postings +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Call for ontology matching systems participation +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ OAEI-2007 Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative in cooperation with the ISWC Ontology Matching workshop November 11, 2007 - Busan, Korea http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2007/ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ontology matching is an important task for semantic system interoperability. Yet it is not easy to assess the respective qualities of available matching systems. 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. More about OAEI-2007: http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2007/ More about OAEI: http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/ More about OM-2007: http://om2007.ontologymatching.org/ More about ontology matching: http://www.ontologymatching.org/ ------------------------------------------------------- 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... URL: From wiiat at kis-lab.com Thu May 31 03:15:43 2007 From: wiiat at kis-lab.com (Jia Hu) Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 16:15:43 +0900 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Reminder: IEEE/WIC/ACM IAT 2007: deadline approaching Message-ID: <200705310738.l4V7ctB8025665@act-r.psy.cmu.edu> [Apologies if you receive this more than once] ##################################################################### 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