From breslow at aic.nrl.navy.mil Mon Dec 1 11:11:10 2008 From: breslow at aic.nrl.navy.mil (breslow) Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 11:11:10 -0500 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Receiving two copies Message-ID: <49340C9E.3040305@aic.nrl.navy.mil> I'm receiving 2 copies of each email posting to the group. Can you correct this so that I receive only one? Thanks, Len From jeedward at yahoo.com Thu Dec 4 06:57:23 2008 From: jeedward at yahoo.com (John Edward) Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 03:57:23 -0800 (PST) Subject: [ACT-R-users] Special Session on Cognitive Modeling Architecture Message-ID: <483031.7746.qm@web45907.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> Special Session on Cognitive Modeling Architecture at AIPR-09: call for papers ? There is a Special Session on Cognitive Modeling Architecture at the 2009 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition (AIPR-09) (website: http://www.PromoteResearch.org) that will be held during July 13-16 2009 in Orlando, FL, USA. We invite draft paper submissions. The conference will take place at the same time and venue where several other international conferences are taking place. The other conferences include: ????????? International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Control Systems (ARCS-09) ????????? International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Genomics and Chemoinformatics (BCBGC-09) ????????? International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems and Web Technologies (EISWT-09) ????????? International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking and Communication Systems (HPCNCS-09) ????????? International Conference on Information Security and Privacy (ISP-09) ????????? International Conference on Recent Advances in Information Technology and Applications (RAITA-09) ????????? International Conference on Software Engineering Theory and Practice (SETP-09) ????????? International Conference on Theory and Applications of Computational Science (TACS-09) ????????? International Conference on Theoretical and Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (TMFCS-09) ? The website http://www.PromoteResearch.org contains more details. ? Sincerely John Edward Publicity committee ? ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jeedward at yahoo.com Tue Dec 9 11:21:26 2008 From: jeedward at yahoo.com (Ed) Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 08:21:26 -0800 (PST) Subject: [ACT-R-users] Special Session on Cognitive Modeling Architecture Message-ID: <394236.19383.qm@web45901.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> Special Session on Cognitive Modeling Architecture at the IICAI-09: Call for papers ? There is a Special Session on Cognitive Modeling Architecture at the 4th Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IICAI-09) that will be held in Tumkur (near Bangalore), India during December 16-18 2009. The conference consists of paper presentations, special workshops, sessions, invited talks and local tours, etc.? We invite draft paper submissions. Please see the website: http://www.iiconference.org ??for more details of the conference. ? Sincerely ? ? Edward Publicity Committee -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jc.augusto at ulster.ac.uk Wed Dec 10 10:19:22 2008 From: jc.augusto at ulster.ac.uk (Juan Carlos Augusto) Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:19:22 -0000 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Summer School in Artificial Intelligence (ACAI'09) Message-ID: <0DFE81066E3B42C2965104E7441E7E1F@juanLKV0Y41XCZ> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Intelligent Decision Support Systems (theory, algorithms, and applications) Advanced Course in Artificial Intelligence (ACAI'09) 23rd-29th of August, 2009 This prestigious Summer School will focus on methods and tools available for the development of Intelligent Decision Support Systems. These systems can take decisions by themselves or by interacting and cooperating with humans. They have a wide range of applications, for example: healthcare, finance and emergency response. The Summer School includes courses on preference modelling, argumentation, multiagent systems, uncertainty reasoning and various applications, delivered by distinguished academics and professionals with extensive experience in the development and application of such systems. The courses are designed to be interactive and will consist of a mixture of lectures and hands-on practice. The Summer School targets an audience at the PhD level who are interested in this exciting area: current PhD students, advanced MSc students and other professionals with suitable technical backgrounds. Confirmed Lecturers: ------------------------- Craig Boutilier (Univ. of Toronto, Canada): AI Approaches to Preference Elicitation and Assessment. Peter Lucas (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands): The Model-based Approach to Computer-aided Medical Decision Support. Da Ruan (Belgian Nuclear Research Center): To compensate or not to compensate: fuzzy aggregations in complex decision systems. Francesca Rossi (Univ. of Padova, Italy): Multi-agent preference reasoning: modelling, aggregation, elicitation, and manipulation. Tony Hunter (Univ. College London, United Kingdom): Introduction to formal argument systems for problem analysis and decision making. ------------------------- VENUE: School of Computing and Mathematics, University of Ulster, Jordanstown Campus, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom ACCOMMODATION: provided within the Jordanstown Campus at an advantageous price (with options for self-catering or all inclusive). Other options are available in B&Bs and hotels within the Belfast area. GRANTS: ECCAI will make available 25 grants to support students travelling to ACAI'09. Each award will consist of Euros 400 for reimbursement of travel and partial payment of registration fees. More details will be provided at http://www.eccai.eu/travelaw.shtml REGISTRATION: early registration (deadline 1st of June): Euros 340. Registration after that date is Euros 420. This covers attendance at any number/combination of lectures, access to their pedagogical material, coffee breaks, reception and gala dinner (at the Parliament Building, Stormont). A place at ACAI'09, accommodation on campus and gala dinner are only guaranteed with registration before the 1st of July. Group discounts are available under request when there are three or more attendees from the same institution. POSTER COMPETITION: there will be an opportunity for Ph.D. students to explain their work. A panel will select the three most interesting presentations and prizes will be given in the closing ceremony during the gala dinner. TOURISM: there will be a trip organized to the north coast of the island, an area of outstanding natural beauty which includes the Giant's Causeway and many other touristic attractions. CONTACT DETAILS: more details on air travel, accommodation, registration, etc., available at www.ulster.ac.uk/acai09 or by contacting us through email: acai2009 at ulster.ac.uk SPONSORS: European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI) Higher Education Academy (United Kingdom) University of Ulster Computer Science Research Institute (CSRI) SUPPORTED by the British Computer Society Specialist Group on Artificial Intelligence (SGAI) SUMMER SCHOOL CO-CHAIRS: Juan Carlos Augusto and Hui Wang (U. of Ulster and CSRI) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Representative publications can be found at: http://actr.psy.cmu.edu/people/index.php?id=10 The ideal candidate will have established expertise in computational cognitive modeling and an interest in developing and validating architecture-based theoretical accounts in this area. If interested, please respond to me at glenn.gunzelmann at mesa.afmc.af.mil for more details. -Glenn _________________________________ Glenn Gunzelmann, Ph.D. Research Psychologist Air Force Research Laboratory _________________________________ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From fmcneill at staffmail.ed.ac.uk Fri Dec 12 07:42:21 2008 From: fmcneill at staffmail.ed.ac.uk (Fiona McNeill) Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 12:42:21 +0000 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Final CFP: Workshop on Matching and Meaning (deadline December 19th) Message-ID: <20081212124221.kipryhzx8g04w4ow@www.staffmail.ed.ac.uk> Apologies for cross-postings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Workshop on Matching and Meaning: Automated development, evolution and interpretation of ontologies http://dream.inf.ed.ac.uk/events/wmm-2009/ 9th April 2009, part of AISB'09 Convention, Edinburgh, UK OVERVIEW The problem of semantic misalignment - of two systems failing to understand one another when their semantic representation is not identical - occurs in a huge variety of areas: the Semantic Web, databases, natural language processing; anywhere, indeed, where semantics are necessary but centralised control is undesirable or impractical. In highly dynamic domains, where interactions are between a large, diverse and evolving community, there is a need for the resolving of these misalignments - through developing and evolving existing ontologies or interpreting unknown ontologies in terms of known ones - to be done automatically and on-the-fly. The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers interested in the problems of automated development, evolution and interpretation of ontologies in the many different domains in which it occurs. We are primarily interested in the exchange of ideas and the stimulation of debate, and the workshop is intended to be a forum for researchers to present ongoing work and ideas and to engage in discussion with other researchers from the field. We are particularly interested in novel ideas and innovative research, which may be in its early stages, and encourage reports on work in progress. Topics of interest include: * Ontology evolution * Ontology matching and alignment * Ontology versioning * Representational or structural change * Formal aspects of ontology dynamics * Foundational issues * Social and collaborative matching * Background knowledge in matching * Extensions to ontology languages to better support change * Belief revision for ontologies and the Semantic Web * Inconsistency handling in evolving ontologies * Uncertainty in matching * Change propagation in ontologies and metadata * Ontologies for dynamic environments * Dynamic knowledge construction and exploitation * Case studies, software tools, use cases, applications * Development and evolution of ontologies in humans and animals * Open problems SUBMISSION GUIDELINES We encourage the submission of extended abstracts that discuss ongoing research, problem descriptions and overviews of the domain. These may be of any length; we expect two or three pages will be appropriate in most cases. This workshop will be non-archival so it is not necessary that abstracts should meet fixed standards; they are primarily intended to highlight ideas. Submissions will be subject to light reviewing, mainly intended to check fit to workshop. Abstracts should be submitted electronically in pdf format to f.j.mcneill-at-ed.ac.uk by 19th December 2008. Notification of acceptance will be sent to the submitting author on 13th February 2009. VENUE The workshop will take place at the Edinburgh Convention Centre at Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh, as part of the AISB 2009 Convention (http://www.aisb.org.uk/convention/aisb09/), on April 9th 2009. All workshop participants must be registered for the AISB 2009 Convention. Registration for this workshop is included in the convention registration fee. IMPORTANT DATES Submission: Friday, 19th December 2008 Notification: Friday, 13th February 2009 Workshop: 9th April 2009 AISB09 Convention: 6th - 9th April 2009 PROGRAMME Presentations: Authors of accepted abstracts will give presentations of their work; exact times to be decided. Posters: If it is not possible to fit in presentations for all accepted authors, some may be asked to present posters instead. There will be a session of 5 minute poster talks. Panel: The technical programme will end with a 90 minute panel discussion on a topic of mutual interest to be decided. Three speakers will speak for 10 minutes each with a brief to stimulate debate during the remaining 60 minutes. Discussion amongst all participants, rather than question-and-answering for the panel, will be strongly encouraged. ORGANISERS Fiona McNeill, University of Edinburgh, UK Michael Chan, University of Edinburgh, UK PROGRAMMING COMMITTEE Manuel Atencia Arcas, IIIA-CSIC, Spain Paolo Besana, University of Edinburgh, UK Alan Bundy, University of Edinburgh, UK Jerome Euzenat, INRIA Grenoble Rhone-Alpes, France Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento, Italy Adam Pease, Articulate Software, USA Pavel Shvaiko, TasLab, Informatica Trentina, Italy -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. From ja+ at cmu.edu Fri Dec 12 10:38:24 2008 From: ja+ at cmu.edu (John Anderson) Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 10:38:24 -0500 Subject: [ACT-R-users] ACT-R summer/winter school and workshop updates Message-ID: Colleagues: This appears to be the schedule for the next two years: Summer schools: There will be no summer school in 2009 (our sabbatical) There will be a summer school in 2010, probably before ICCM. Workshops: In 2009 We will propose a 1 day workshop associated with Cognitive Science in Amsterdam. It will focus on technical ACT-R material that would not be presented at ICCM or Cognitive Science. In preparation for our proposal to Cognitive Science we would appreciate hearing from you if you think you might have something you would like to present. We hope to have some comparable meeting in 2010 but will wait on the experience from 2009 to tune our plans. Post Graduate School: We were not able to find a generally agreeable time for the summer of 2009. Instead we will have a winter post-graduate school in early 2010 in some place warm and pleasant, preferably with easy airplane access for our scattered members. Given the CMU calendar, preferable dates would be Jan 4-Jan 10 and Mar 5 - 14. Another option a long weekend (Fri - Mon) at other times. We would be interested in the schedule constraints of others as we try to optimize timing. To highlight things it would be useful to get from community members: 1. tentative talks for the 2009 Cognitive Science workshop 2. schedule constraints for the winter of 2010. The former is more urgent. Best Wishes on the holidays, John -- ========================================================== John R. Anderson Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Phone: 412-417-7008 Fax: 412-268-2844 email: ja at cmu.edu URL: http://act.psy.cmu.edu/ From icnc_fskd_cfp at tjut.edu.cn Mon Dec 22 07:44:38 2008 From: icnc_fskd_cfp at tjut.edu.cn (ICNC'09-FSKD'09) Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 20:44:38 +0800 Subject: [ACT-R-users] =?gb2312?b?U0NJLUVJLUlTVFAtaW5kZXhlZCBJQ05DJzA5LUZT?= =?gb2312?b?S0QnMDk6IFBhcGVycyBkdWUgSmFuIDI0?= Message-ID: <429943283.03448@eyou.net> * Kindly forward to your colleagues or students who may be interested * ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The 5th International Conference on Natural Computation (ICNC'09) The 6th International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD'09) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 14-16 August 2009, Tianjin, China *** Submission Deadline: 24 January 2009 *** ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://www.icnc09-fskd09.tjut.edu.cn ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call for Papers, Invited Sessions & Sponsorship The joint ICNC'09-FSKD'09 will be held in Tianjin, China. Tianjin is one of the four municipalities in China. It is a financial and commercial center in North China and is known for its numerous travel resources and rich history, such as Huangyaguan Great Wall, Dule Temple, Panshan Mountain and Food Street. Selected best papers will appear in SCI-indexed journal(s), such as the Soft Computing journal. The rest of the accepted papers will appear in conference proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society and will be indexed by both EI and ISTP, as well as the IEEE Xplore. ICNC'09-FSKD'09 aims to provide a high-level international forum for scientists and researchers to present the state of the art of intelligent methods inspired from nature, particularly biological and physical systems, with applications to data mining, manufacturing, design, and more. This is an exciting and emerging interdisciplinary area in which a wide range of theory and methodologies are being investigated and developed to tackle complex and challenging problems. Previously, the joint conferences in 2005 through 2008 each attracted over 3000 submissions from more than 30 countries. To promote international participation of researchers from outside the country/region where the conference is held (i.e., China), foreign experts are encouraged to propose invited sessions. The first author of each paper in an invited session must not be affiliated with an organization in China. All papers in the invited sessions will be marked as "Invited Paper". One organizer for each invited session with at least 6 registered papers will enjoy an honorarium of USD 400. Invited session organizers will solicit submissions, conduct reviews and recommend accept/reject decisions on the submitted papers. Each invited session proposal should include the following information: (1) the name, bio, and contact information of each invited session organizer; (2) the title and a short synopsis of the invited session. Please send your proposal to icnc2009 at tjut.edu.cn For more information, visit the conference web page. If you have any questions after visiting the conference web page, please email the secretariat at icnc2009 at tjut.edu.cn Join us at this major event in historic Tianjin !!! * If you wish to unsubscribe, in which case we apologize, please reply * with "unsubscribe act-r-users at andrew.cmu.edu" in your email subject. * ??????????????? %RECVMAIL????? From wiiat at kis-lab.com Tue Dec 23 12:32:46 2008 From: wiiat at kis-lab.com (WI-IAT'09) Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 02:32:46 +0900 Subject: [ACT-R-users] WI/IAT'09: Call for Workshop Proposals (Milano, Italy) Message-ID: <200812240232448443134@kis-lab.com> [Apologies if you receive this more than once] ============================================================== Call for Workshop Proposals 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT'09) Milano, Italy, September 15-18, 2009 http://www.wi-iat09.disco.unimib.it/WI09/WIhome.htm http://www.wi-iat09.disco.unimib.it/IAT09/IAThome.htm ******************************************************************* Workshop Proposals Due: ** January 15 **, 2009 All papers accepted for workshops will be included in the Workshop Proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press, which are indexed by EI. =================================================================== The Program Committees of the 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT'09) invite proposals for Workshops. The Workshops will be held within the Conference, September 15-18, 2009 at Milano, Italy. The main goal of the WI-IAT'09 workshops is to stimulate and facilitate active exchange, interaction and comparison of approaches, methods and ideas related to specific topics, both theoretical and applied, in the general areas related to Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology. The workshops will provide an informal setting where participants will have the opportunity to discuss specific technical topics in an atmosphere that fosters the active exchange of ideas. The workshop organizers will be responsible for advertising the workshop, forming the program committees, reviewing and selecting the papers, and guaranteeing a high quality worthy of the prestige and range of the Conference. All papers accepted for workshops will be included in the Workshop Proceedings, which are expected to be published by IEEE Computer Society Press and will be available at the workshops. The workshop organizers will also have the discretion of editing selected papers (after their expansion and revision) into books or special journal issues. Workshops may be full-day or half-day. A full-day workshop should select 10-14 regular papers, while a half-day workshop should select 5-7 regular papers, from a large number of submissions. Submissions accepted as workshop papers will be allocated 4 pages in the proceedings. The workshop organizers should ensure the presence of authors of accepted papers at the workshops. Optionally, the workshop may be started or concluded by a panel focusing on interesting aspects, controversial issues, or unsolved problems to stimulate lively, thoughtful, and thought-provoking debate; we expect the workshop organizers to actively engage the audience and help them gain a deeper understanding of the issues. The goal of a panel is to debate and thus panels should always reflect more than one point of view. *** Workshop Topics Each workshop subject will focus on new research challenges and initiatives in Web Intelligence (WI) and Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT). The workshops should provide an informal and vibrant forum for researchers and industry practitioners to share their research results and practical development experiences in these two fields. Suggested workshop topics include, but are not limited to: - Web Intelligence, Brain Informatics and Cognition-inspired Computing - Intelligent e-Technology (including e-Science, e-Business, e-Learning, e-Finance, e-Government, e-Community) - Intelligent Web Interaction - Knowledge Grids and Grid Intelligence - Semantics and Ontology Engineering - Social Networks and Social Intelligence - Web Agents - Web Information Filtering and Retrieval - Web Mining and Farming - Web Monitoring and Change - Web Personalization and Recommendations - Web Scale Reasoning - Web Security, Integrity, Privacy and Trust - Web Services and Grid Services - Web Support Systems - World Wide Wisdom Web (W4) - Intelligent Web Querying - Agent Systems Modeling and Methodology - Autonomous Knowledge and Information Agents - Autonomous Auctions and Negotiation - Autonomy-Oriented Computing (AOC) - Learning and Self-Adapting Agents - Agents and Data Mining Interaction - Multiagent Systems in e-Business *** Workshop Proposal Submission Workshop proposals should include the following elements: - Title of the workshop - The organizers name, affiliation, mailing address and e-mail address - A description of the topic of the workshop (not exceeding 200 words) - Type of the workshop (full-day or half-day) - A description of how the workshop will contribute to the field of Web Intelligence and/or Intelligent Agent Technology - A short description on how the workshop will be advertised so as to ensure a sufficiently wide range of authors and high quality papers - Optionally, only for full-day workshops, the title of a proposed panel, with a brief description highlighting the reasons of interest of the issues to be debated After the acceptance of a workshop proposal the organizer(s) should: - Create a Call for papers/participation for the workshop - Create a Web page for the workshop, the link of which will be published on the Conference Web site - Create a Board of Reviewers (Program Committee) - Review and select papers - Schedule the workshop activities. Those papers selected by a workshop organizer will also be reviewed by the Workshop Co-Chairs for final acceptance. All submitted papers will be reviewed on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity. We will provide an online paper submission and review system to support the workshops. *** Important Dates - Workshop proposal submission due: January 15, 2009 - Notification to workshop proposers: January 25, 2009 - Each Workshop Organizer Sends out Call for Workshops Papers: February 5, 2009 - Due date for full workshop papers submission (4 pages): April 30, 2009 - Final acceptance by Workshop Co-Chairs: June 10, 2009 - Notification of paper acceptance to authors: June 8, 2009 - Camera-ready of accepted papers: June 30, 2009 - Workshop day: September 15, 2009 *** Workshop proposal submissions The above described workshop proposals must be submitted via e-mail (workshops.wi.iat at gmail.com). We look forward to your support in making 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM WI-IAT'09 workshops an exciting event. *** Workshop Co-Chairs: - Paolo Boldi, DSI, Universita' degli Studi di Milano (boldi [at> dsi.unimi.it) - Giuseppe Vizzari, DISCO, Universita' degli Studi di Milano Bicocca (vizzari [at> disco.unimib.it) From jeedward at yahoo.com Sun Dec 28 10:40:18 2008 From: jeedward at yahoo.com (John Edward) Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 07:40:18 -0800 (PST) Subject: [ACT-R-users] Special session on Cognitive Modeling Architecture Message-ID: <981784.24378.qm@web45913.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> Special Session on Cognitive Modeling Architecture at AIPR-09: call for papers ? There is a special session on Cognitive Modeling Architecture at the 2009 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition (AIPR-09) (website: http://www.PromoteResearch.org) that will be held during July 13-16 2009 in Orlando, FL, USA. We invite draft paper submissions. The conference will take place at the same time and venue where several other international conferences are taking place. The other conferences include: ????????? International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Control Systems (ARCS-09) ????????? International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Genomics and Chemoinformatics (BCBGC-09) ????????? International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems and Web Technologies (EISWT-09) ????????? International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking and Communication Systems (HPCNCS-09) ????????? International Conference on Information Security and Privacy (ISP-09) ????????? International Conference on Recent Advances in Information Technology and Applications (RAITA-09) ????????? International Conference on Software Engineering Theory and Practice (SETP-09) ????????? International Conference on Theory and Applications of Computational Science (TACS-09) ????????? International Conference on Theoretical and Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (TMFCS-09) ? The website http://www.PromoteResearch.org contains more details. ? Sincerely John Edward Publicity committee -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: