[ACT-R-users] CFP - Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making (UNCLASSIFIED)

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

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CALL FOR PAPERS

Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making 

Special Section on: Developing and Understanding Computational Models of
Macrocognition

A growing number of cognitive modelers and computer scientists are directing
their efforts toward understanding and representing macrocognitive
processes.  Consequently, the literature across a wide variety of
disciplines-Human Factors, Cognitive Psychology, Human Behavior
Representation, Artificial Intelligence, Operations Research, Human Computer
Interaction, to name only a few-is now teeming with discussions of novel
computational architectures.  There are references to computational models
of situation awareness, to naturalistic decision making architectures, to
intelligent, context-sensitive adaptation and planning mechanisms, and even
to expert systems that purport to operate on more "meaningful" knowledge
representations.  While many might see this as an interesting departure from
the application of AI techniques to classic experimental paradigms in
cognitive psychology, this turn also raises a host of interesting issues.

For instance, research in macrocognition embraces phenomena and methods that
might seem abstract or imprecise to those coming from a more traditional
background in computational cognitive modeling.  Conversely, to the
macrocognitive researcher, computational cognitive models are likely to be
seen as couched at too fine a grain scale-exactly at the "micro" level to
which the macrocognitive researcher is reacting.  While there is no reason
to assume that these micro and macro views are incommensurable, a good deal
of work needs to be done to show how these views are best reconciled.

The goal of this Special Section of the JCEDM is to begin this work by
soliciting manuscripts from researchers across various disciplines who are
developing computational representations of macrocognitive processes
directly or are contributing to this body of work by theory,
experimentation, or practice.  To encourage the ongoing exchange of ideas
across disciplines, our aim with this special section will not be to justify
or reaffirm the importance of a macrocognitve perspective, nor will it be to
establish priority among various computational architectures.  Rather,
taking macrocognition as a starting point, we seek manuscripts that detail
how various aspects of the theory have begun to find expression in
computational architectures.

Suggested paper topics will include:

.	Presentations of new and innovative architectures representing
specific macrocognitive processes (e.g., recognitional decision making,
actionable models of situation awareness, problem detection) and their
application to real world problems

.	Discussion of the correspondence between conceptual and
computational models, of the relationship between macro- and microcognitive
models of cognition.

.	Methods for measuring and evaluating computational models of
macrocognitive processes

.	Methods for validating both conceptual and computational models of
macrocognition

 The closing date for submissions is 14 July, 2008.

Prepare manuscripts according to the JCEDM guidelines which follow the
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (5th ed.).
Manuscripts should not exceed 25 pages in length.
Manuscripts should be submitted electronically to
cedm.journal at satechnologies.com, with emails entitled "Submission for
Special Issue on Computational Models of Macrocognition"


Special Section Co-Editors:
Walter Warwick
MA&D Operation, Alion Science and Technology
wwarwick at alionscience.com

Laurel Allender
Army Research Laboratory Human Research and Engineering Directorate
lallende at arl.army.mil

John Yen
School of Information Sciences and Technology, The Pennsylvania State
University
jyen at ist.psu.edu

Classification:  UNCLASSIFIED 
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