From zerpac at camelot.rect.ucv.ve  Wed Sep  5 12:01:12 2007
From: zerpac at camelot.rect.ucv.ve (Carlos E. Zerpa)
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 12:01:12 -0400
Subject: [ACT-R-users] Your request: personal data
References: <mailman.1.1187884801.29718.act-r-users@act-r.psy.cmu.edu>
Message-ID: <000701c7efd5$fb024150$363a11ac@equipo1>

Dear Jennifer Ferris

I am new for ACT-R community and actually I am projecting research using
ACT-R for modeling moral cognition. This effort is very hard and language
(my language is Spanish) limits my contacts with other researchers in ACT-R.
I am psychologist and recently I am studying ACT-R model for my doctoral
disertation.
If my data are important for you, then I send you the next information about
me:

>1) Your name.
My name is Carlos Enrique Zerpa G.
>2) The institution at which you are located.
My institutions are a) Universidad Central de Venezuela, Facultad de
Ingenier?a;  and b) Universidad Cat?lica "Andr?s Bello", Postgrado en
Procesos de Aprendizaje y Doctorado en Psicolog?a.
>3) Your email address.
My e-mail address is: zerpac at ucv.ve
>4) Your website (if you have one).
I have not a web site update, but exist a web site with informationa about
my work: http://www.ing.ucv.ve/Ciclo_Basico/CB_DEI/docente.htm

Best wishes.

Prof. Carlos E. Zerpa
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
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> Hello all...
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> I'm in the process of updating information on the ACT-R Website
(http://act-r.psy.cmu.edu/).
>
> If you are new to the ACT-R community and perform ACT-R research, please
let me know. Provide me with the following information:
> 1) Your name.
> 2) The institution at which you are located.
> 3) Your email address.
> 4) Your website (if you have one).
>
> If you are already on the website and your information is incorrect or
needs to be updated, please contact me.
>
> One last note, if you have new ACT-R related publications, please send
them to me with a citation as well as the topic that you would like to be
listed under. The topics are listed below:
>
>    1. ACT-R Theory
>    2. Perception and Attention
>          1. Psychophysical Judgements
>          2. Visual Search
>          3. Eye Movements
>          4. Multi-Tasking
>          5. Task Switching
>          6. Subitizing
>          7. Stroop
>          8. Driving and Flying Behavior
>          9. Situational Awareness and Embedded Cognition
>         10. Graphical User Interfaces
>         11. Time Perception
>    3. Learning and Memory
>          1. List Memory
>          2. Interference
>          3. Implicit Learning
>          4. Skill Acquisition
>          5. Cognitive Arithmetic
>          6. Category Learning
>          7. Learning by Exploration and Demonstration
>          8. Updating Memory and Prospective Memory
>          9. Causal Learning
>         10. Working Memory
>         11. Practice and Retention
>         12. Representation
>    4. Problem Solving and Decision Making
>          1. Tower of Hanoi
>          2. Choice and Strategy Selection
>          3. Mathematical Problem Solving
>          4. Spatial Reasoning and Navigation
>          5. Dynamic Systems
>          6. Use and Design of Artifacts
>          7. Game Playing
>          8. Insight and Scientific Discovery
>          9. Programming
>         10. Reasoning
>         11. Errors
>    5. Language Processing
>          1. Parsing
>          2. Analogy and Metaphor
>          3. Language Learning
>          4. Sentence Memory
>          5. Lexical Processing
>    6. Other
>          1. Cognitive Development
>          2. Individual Differences
>          3. Motivation, Emotion, & Cognitive Moderators
>          4. Cognitive Workload
>          5. Computer Generated Forces, Video Games, and Agents
>          6. fMRI
>          7. Communication, Negotiation, and Group Decision Making
>          8. Instructional Materials
>          9. User Modeling
>         10. Intelligent Tutoring Systems
>         11. Information Search
>         12. Tools
>         13. Comparative (Inter-species)
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> Thank you!!!
> Jennifer Ferris
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From d.peebles at hud.ac.uk  Thu Sep  6 07:43:39 2007
From: d.peebles at hud.ac.uk (David Peebles)
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 12:43:39 +0100
Subject: [ACT-R-users] ACT-R hits the high street
Message-ID: <EEBD94B58694344CAC221BFDDC10E0F118A4A9@VEXCH02.AD.HUD.AC.UK>

Apologies for the frivolous nature of this message but I saw this scene (see photo attached) while visiting my home town last week and thought you should all be aware of recent ACT-R related developments here in the UK.

I went in to speak to the manager to ask why she'd chosen the name for the store (as opposed to Soar, Leabra, Clarion etc.) and she said that she'd only recently changed the name from NGOMSL after visiting Ann Arbor and bumping into the ACT-R group during their get-together at Zanzibar.  She was so impressed by the sharp looks, sophisticated demeanour and overall sartorial elegance of the group she had to change the name to reflect her admiration.  She also said something about having her "finger on the pulse" and ACT-R being "at the cutting edge", "where it's at" and "what the kids are all talking about on the streets" but I wandered the streets for over an hour and only heard ONE conversation between two kids concerning how it was possible for the human mind to occur in the physial universe...

If you look very closely you can just see that at the back of the store is a range of t-shirts from the ACT-R workshops, knee-length shorts (as worn by Dan), cream jackets (as worn by John) and retina-burning bright orange shirts (as worn by Niels and Greg).  They don't do a mail order service unfortunately, but if you get in touch with me with your order I'll get you what you want next time I go back home.

Cheers,

David

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David Peebles 
Department of Behavioural Sciences
University of Huddersfield
Queensgate
Huddersfield HD1 3DH
UK
Tel. +44 (0) 148 447 3620 
http://www.hud.ac.uk/hhs/dbs/psy/staff/cv/dpe_cv.htm



 





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From ritter at ist.psu.edu  Sat Sep  8 09:03:54 2007
From: ritter at ist.psu.edu (Frank Ritter)
Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2007 09:03:54 -0400
Subject: [ACT-R-users] GOMS Paper
In-Reply-To: <18f4e19a0708300740k23811b34kf66d536a3f60cbd5@mail.gmail.com>
References: <18f4e19a0708300740k23811b34kf66d536a3f60cbd5@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <p0623090cc3083fb6e8f5@[130.203.152.67]>

thank you Rob for pointing out you paper and noting that the issue was out.

we also have an act-r model in that issue, which I follow roughly 
Rob's template in announcing.

Ritter, F. E., Kukreja, U., & St. Amant, R. (2007). Including a model 
of visual processing with a cognitive architecture to model a simple 
teleoperation task. Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision 
Making, 1(2), 121-147.

Abstract:
This article describes progress in providing user models with 
sufficient visual information and motor control to perform 
teleoperation with an unmodified, physically realized robot. User 
models that are built by extending cognitive models to interact 
directly with interfaces can provide a theoretical basis for 
predicting user behavior. These models can help in summarizing and 
explaining usability issues in domains for which conventional user 
testing is too time consuming, too demanding of other resources, or 
too dynamic for static models. The user model consists of an ACT-R 
cognitive model and the SegMan image-processing and interpretation 
system. ACT-R supports directing simple rover navigation and 
response-time predictions. SegMan supports interpreting many aspects 
of HCI interfaces and can now interpret simple aspects of video used 
in simple navigation tasks and can generate key presses and mouse 
actions directly. Processing limited amounts of an image as a human 
fovea helped make this system work in real time. A study in robot 
teleoperation provides evidence that the cognitive and 
perceptual-motor model approximates human behavior (based on 
comparison of task time, learning behavior, and mouse actions) in a 
simple navigation task. This work demonstrates how user modeling 
techniques are maturing to the extent that they can be used for 
assessing interfaces for dynamic tasks by predicting performance 
during teleoperation, a common human-robot interaction task.

a prepublication version of the article is at 
http://acs.ist.psu.edu/papers/ritterKSA07.pdf

cheers,

Frank
ps.  Rob, I'd like a copy of your paper.  my print copy has not arrived.


From hmbarber at cs.york.ac.uk  Tue Sep 18 12:35:50 2007
From: hmbarber at cs.york.ac.uk (Heather)
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:35:50 +0100
Subject: [ACT-R-users] ITIS Call for Papers
Message-ID: <46EFFE66.7040307@cs.york.ac.uk>

Please can we request that you post the following call for papers to 
your members.
Thank you,
Heather

____________________________

INTETAIN 2008 Workshop on Integrating Technologies for Interactive Stories
http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~hmbarber/itis.htm


*** ITIS: Integrating Technologies for Interactive Stories ***
* Call for Workshop Papers *

Interactive Story has the potential to revolutionise entertainment. As a 
research area, however, it is becoming
increasingly disparate; although groundbreaking work is being done, 
there has thus far been only minimal
consideration of integration. To effectively further the field, the 
exchange of ideas and the consideration of
their integration have become necessary. Without such an effort, there 
may be no way to create a single
interactive story system of sufficiently high quality. The ITIS workshop 
aims to encourage the integration of
techniques for interactive stories and further collaboration between 
research groups. It will bring together
researchers from different aspects of interactive stories, and should 
aid in ultimately leading to interactive
story systems which are more complete and entertaining.

A subset of submitted papers will be selected for oral presentation at 
the workshop. In the event that a large
number of high quality submissions be received, a poster session will be 
held to showcase further papers. The
workshop will also include discussion sessions which will encourage 
researchers to exchange ideas and
consider integrating their various methodologies into a single idealised 
system (the nature of such a system
will also be discussed within the scope of the workshop). The workshop's 
collaborative nature will also aid in
the reduction of repeated work between research groups, helping 
researchers to recognise how their research
fits into the bigger picture rather than viewing it as an isolated 
component of a far-distant whole.
All researchers in any aspect of the broad field of Interactive Story 
are encouraged to submit papers for
presentation at ITIS. This may include, but is in no way limited to:

* Story generation
* Character development
* Emotions
* Language generation and processing
* Interface and presentation issues

Submissions should be 6 pages in length in ACM two-column conference 
style format. Please refer to the
workshop website for further instructions.

* Important Dates *

Submission deadline: 14th October 2007 (00:00 CET).

Workshop Date: 7th January 2008



From pavel at dit.unitn.it  Wed Sep 19 10:19:51 2007
From: pavel at dit.unitn.it (Pavel)
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:19:51 +0200
Subject: [ACT-R-users] ONTOLOGY MATCHING book announcement
Message-ID: <F78E6625674D4CE1BAE9D4D1198852A9@PCAdmin>


Apologies for cross-postings

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                                ONTOLOGY MATCHING
                                      book announcement
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We are pleased to announce the availability of the first book
about the Ontology Matching area:

ONTOLOGY MATCHING

Authors:
Jerome Euzenat, INRIA Rhone-Alpes, France,
Pavel Shvaiko, University of Trento, Italy.

URL: http://book.ontologymatching.org

Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg (DE), 2007
343 p., 67 illus., Hardcover
ISBN: 978-3-540-49611-3

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ABSTRACT

Ontologies tend to be found everywhere. They are viewed as the
silver bullet for many applications, such as database integration,
peer-to-peer systems, e-commerce, semantic web services, or
social networks. However, in open or evolving systems, such as
the semantic web, different parties would, in general, adopt
different ontologies. Thus, merely using ontologies, like using XML,
does not reduce heterogeneity: it just raises heterogeneity
problems to a higher level. Euzenat and Shvaiko's book is devoted
to ontology matching as a solution to the semantic heterogeneity
problem faced by computer systems. Ontology matching aims at
finding correspondences between semantically related entities of
different ontologies. These correspondences may stand for
equivalence as well as other relations, such as consequence,
subsumption, or disjointness, between ontology entities.
Many different matching solutions have been proposed so far
from various viewpoints, e.g., databases, information systems,
artificial intelligence. With Ontology Matching, researchers and
practitioners will find a reference book which presents currently
available work in a uniform framework. In particular, the work and
the techniques presented in this book can equally be applied to
database schema matching, catalog integration, XML schema
matching and other related problems. The objectives of the book
include presenting (i) the state of the art and (ii) the latest research
results in ontology matching by providing a detailed account of
matching techniques and matching systems in a systematic way
from theoretical, practical and application perspectives.

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KEYWORDS

Catalogue integration
Data integration
Ontologies
Ontology alignment
Schema matching
Semantic web

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CONTENTS

  Introduction
Part I - The Matching Problem
  Chapter 1 - Applications
  Chapter 2 - The matching problem
Part II - Ontology Matching Techniques
  Chapter 3 - Classifications of ontology matching techniques
  Chapter 4 - Basic techniques
  Chapter 5 - Matching strategies
Part III - Systems and Evaluation
  Chapter 6 - Overview of matching systems
  Chapter 7 - Evaluation of matching systems
Part IV - Representing, Explaining, and Processing Alignments
  Chapter 8 - Frameworks and formats: representing alignments
  Chapter 9 - Explaining alignments
  Chapter 10 - Processing alignments
Part V - Conclusions
  Appendices
  Bibliography
  Index
---------------------------------------------------------------------------


Best Regards, 
-------------------------------------------------------
Pavel Shvaiko
Postdoc, University of Trento
Dept. of Information and Communication Technology
Sommarive 14, POVO, 38050, TRENTO, ITALY
Web: http://www.dit.unitn.it/~pavel/
http://www.ontologymatching.org/

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From bhanupvsr at gmail.com  Tue Sep 25 17:14:34 2007
From: bhanupvsr at gmail.com (Bhanu Prasad)
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 17:14:34 -0400
Subject: [ACT-R-users] AIPR-08: Call for papers
Message-ID: <621812f80709251414q7bfbbf5cpc79a6bd5a7e385f9@mail.gmail.com>

*Apologies for cross-posting. Please forward to interested people*



The 2008 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Pattern
Recognition (AIPR-08) will be held during July 7-10 2008 in Orlando, FL, USA.
You can see more details about the conference (and some other conferences
that will be held at the same place and time) at the website:
www.PromoteResearch.org <http://www.promoteresearch.org/>





Please feel free to contact me.



Best regards



B. Prasad

Program Committee Co-Chair of AIPR-08
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From racosta at student.dei.uc.pt  Wed Sep 26 11:51:26 2007
From: racosta at student.dei.uc.pt (Rui Costa)
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:51:26 +0100
Subject: [ACT-R-users] Cognitive multi-agent system
Message-ID: <46FA7FFE.4010609@student.dei.uc.pt>

Hi,

I'm a computer science student looking for a theme about cognition that 
can be studied using a multi-agent system, can you advice me?

best regards,
Rui Costa


From pirolli at parc.com  Thu Sep 27 18:39:50 2007
From: pirolli at parc.com (Pirolli, Peter <Peter.Pirolli@parc.com>)
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 15:39:50 PDT
Subject: [ACT-R-users] Research Position at PARC
Message-ID: <9BEC93BC-879E-413F-ACBE-C0E0FA2A0B17@parc.com>

The Augmented Social Cognition area (ASC) at the Palo Alto Research  
Center (PARC) anticipates a new position opening for a Cognitive  
Modeler. ASC is expanding PARC?s research on human-information  
interaction to include socially mediated, distributed, cognitive  
systems, with a current focus on Web 2.0 systems such as wikis,  
social tagging, and blogs. The ideal candidate will have a Ph.D. in  
Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Science, or related fields, with  
experience in performing empirical psychological studies and  
developing computational models of cognition. Experience with  
empirical studies and evaluations of human-computer interaction  
systems, or computer-supported cooperative work is desirable. In  
addition to skills in writing computational cognitive models,  
familiarity with mathematical models of psychology, statistical  
natural language models, and stochastic graph models and algorithms  
would be an asset. Ability to independently write code to run  
empirical studies and analyze data is a must.



PARC has been at the forefront of human-computer interaction research  
since it was founded in 1970, having been the site of seminal work on  
the personal computer, networked computing, the graphical user  
interface, input devices, the psychology of human-computer  
interaction, information visualization, information foraging theory,  
and ubiquitous computing.



Applicants are asked to submit an email to isljobs at parc.com with the  
subject ?Cognitive modeler? and including the following materials:  
(1) a Curriculum Vitae, (2) three letters of recommendation, and (3)  
no more than three selected papers illustrating recent research.  
General inquiries about the position can be sent to Peter Pirolli at  
pirolli at parc.com.