From zhang at cis.uab.edu Mon Jan 5 15:18:16 2009 From: zhang at cis.uab.edu (IEEE-IRI-Publicity) Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 14:18:16 -0600 (CST) Subject: [ACT-R-users] CFP: 2009 IEEE Intl. Conf. on Information Reuse and Integration Message-ID: [Apologies if you received multiple copies because of cross-posting] ----------------------------------------------------------------- The 2009 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IEEE IRI-2009) Sponsored by: The IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society August 10-12, 2009 Hilton Hotel, Las Vegas, USA http://iri2009.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- The increasing volumes and dimensions of information have dramatic impact on effective decision-making. To remedy this situation, Information Reuse and Integration (IRI) seeks to maximize the reuse of information by creating simple, rich, and reusable knowledge representations and consequently explores strategies for integrating this knowledge into legacy systems. IRI plays a pivotal role in the capture, representation, maintenance, integration, validation, and extrapolation of information; and applies both information and knowledge for enhancing decision-making in various application domains. This conference explores three major tracks: information reuse, information integration, and reusable systems. Information reuse considers optimizing representation methodologies; information integration studies strategies for creatively applying models in novel domains; and reusable systems focus on ontological opportunities for deploying models and corresponding processes. The IEEE IRI conference serves as a forum for researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and government to present, discuss, and exchange ideas that address real-world problems with real-world solutions. The conference feature contributed and invited papers. Theoretical and applied papers are both included. The conference program will include special sessions, open forum workshops, and keynote speeches. A forum will be conducted with the intent of bridging IRI and Systems of Systems and why the future of intelligent computing - including computing applications - will lie at the juxtaposition of these two topical areas. The conference includes, but is not limited to, the areas listed below: - Large Scale Data and System Integration - Component-Based Design and Reuse - Unifying Data Models (UML, XML, etc.) and Ontologies - Database Integration - Structured/Semi-structured Data - Middleware & Web Services - Reuse in Software Engineering - Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery - Sensory and Information Fusion - Reuse in Modeling & Simulation - Automation, Integration and Reuse across Various Applications - Information Security & Privacy - Survivable Systems & Infrastructures - AI & Decision Support Systems - Heuristic Optimization and Search - Knowledge Acquisition and Management - Fuzzy and Neural Systems - Soft Computing - Evolutionary Computing - Case-Based Reasoning - Natural Language Understanding - Knowledge Management and E-Government - Command & Control Systems (C4ISR) - Human-Machine Information Systems - Space and Robotic Systems - Biomedical & Healthcare Systems - Homeland Security & Critical Infrastructure Protection - Manufacturing Systems & Business Process Engineering - Multimedia Systems - Service-Oriented Architecture - Autonomous Agents in Web-based Systems - Information Integration in Grid Computing Environments - Information Integration in Mobile Computing Environments - Information Integration in Ubiquitous Computing Environments - Systems of Systems - Semantic Web and Emerging Applications - Information Reuse, Integration and Sharing in Collaborative Environments Instructions for Authors: ------------------------- Papers reporting original and unpublished research results pertaining to the above and related topics are solicited. Full paper manuscripts must be in English of length 4 to 6 pages (using the IEEE two-column template). Submissions should include the title, author(s), affiliation(s), e-mail address(es), tel/fax numbers, abstract, and postal address(es) on the first page. Papers should be submitted at the conference web site: http://iri2009.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/. If web submission is not possible, manuscripts should be sent as an attachment via email to either of the Program Chairs (mailing address available on the conference website) on or before the deadline date of February 18, 2009. The attachment must be in .pdf (preferred) or word.doc format. The subject of the email must be IEEE IRI 2009 Submission. Papers will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. Authors should certify that their papers represent substantially new work and are previously unpublished. Paper submission implies the intent of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper, if accepted. Important Dates: ---------------- Janurary 20, 2009 Workshop/Special session proposal February 18, 2009 Paper submission deadline May 1, 2009 Notification of acceptance May 20, 2009 Camera-ready paper due May 20, 2009 Presenting author registration due July 30, 2009 Advance (discount) registration for general public and other co-author July 30, 2009 Hotel reservation (special discount rate) closing date August 10-12, 2009 Conference events Orgizing Committee: ------------------- Honorary General Chair Lotfi Zadeh Univ. of California, Berkeley, USA zadeh at cs.berkeley.edu General Chairs Stuart Rubin SPAWAR Systems Center, USA stuart.rubin at navy.mil Shu-Ching Chen Florida International University, USA chens at cs.fiu.edu Program Chairs Kang Zhang University of Texas at Dallas, USA kzhang at utd.edu Reda Alhajj University of Calgary, Canada alhajj at ucalgary.ca Program Vice-Chairs Althea Liang Qianhui SMU, Singapore Special Tracks Chairs Du Zhang California State University, USA Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar Florida Atlantic University, USA Eric Groire Universitd'Artois, France Publicity Chairs Chengcui Zhang University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA zhang at cis.uab.edu James B. D. Joshi University of Pittsburgh, USA jjoshi at mail.sis.pitt.edu Li Tan Washington State University Finance/Registration/Local Arrangement Chair Suresh Vadhva California State University, USA vadhva at ecs.csus.edu Publications Chair Min-Yuh Day NTU, Taiwan, R.O.C. myday at iis.sinica.edu.tw Seung-Yun Kim Shepherd University Asian Liaison Wen-Lian Hsu Academia Sinica, Taiwan, R.O.C. Industry/Canadian Liaison, Editor June R. Massoud Genesis Consulting Inc., Canada junermassoud at hotmail.com Local Arrangements Chairs Louellen McCoy SPAWAR Systems Center, USA Ju-Yeon Jo University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA Webmaster Reda Alhajj University of Calgary, Canada _______________________________________________ ieeeauthors mailing list ieeeauthors at cis.uab.edu http://crier.cis.uab.edu/mailman/listinfo/ieeeauthors From hejibo at gmail.com Tue Jan 6 22:24:24 2009 From: hejibo at gmail.com (Jibo He) Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:24:24 +0000 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Birthday Please Message-ID: Hi Click on the link below and please enter your birthday for me. I am creating a birthday list of all my friends and family. http://www.birthdayalarm.com/bd2/84023778a187800123b1445149616c150107367d1386 Many Thanks, Jibo From db30 at andrew.cmu.edu Wed Jan 7 16:56:16 2009 From: db30 at andrew.cmu.edu (Dan Bothell) Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:56:16 -0500 Subject: [ACT-R-users] New ACT-R 6.0 release Message-ID: <573BCFCE651708F2DF72C3CC@DHL8KLC1.psy.cmu.edu> The winter release of ACT-R 6.0 is now available on the ACT-R web site along with some slides that describe the major updates and changes since the summer release (which was discussed at the Workshop). Both can be found on the "Software & Tutorials" page, and here's a direct link to the slides: As always, feel free to let me know if you have any questions or problems. Dan From kurupu at rpi.edu Tue Jan 13 11:55:22 2009 From: kurupu at rpi.edu (Unmesh Kurup) Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 11:55:22 -0500 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Gauging Interest for AAAI Fall Symposium on Multi-Representational Architectures Message-ID: <200901131655.n0DGta1B025921@smtp5.server.rpi.edu> **Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email** We are planning on organizing a symposium for the 2009 AAAI Fall Symposium series on Multi-Representational Architectures for Human-Level Intelligence. The abstract for the symposium is at the end of this email. At this time we are trying to gauge interest in this topic from the broader AI/CogSci community. If you think you would be interested in submitting to/attending such a symposium, please send me an email with your name and affiliation. thanks, Unmesh Kurup Postdoctoral Researcher Dept of Cog Sci, RPI 110 8th St, Troy NY 12180 Chairs: Unmesh Kurup(RPI) and B. Chandrasekaran(Ohio State) Organizing Committee: Bonny Banerjee(Securboration), John Laird (U. Michigan), Scott Lathrop (USMA), Marvin Minsky (MIT Media Lab), Samuel Wintermute (U. Michigan) Abstract Multi-Representational Architectures for Human-Level Intelligence --- A multiplicity of representational frameworks has been proposed for explaining and creating human level intelligence. Each has been proven useful or effective for some class of problems, but not across the board. This fact has led researchers to propose that perhaps the underlying design of cognition is multi-representational, or hybrid, with different subsystems with different representations and processes interacting to produce the complexity of cognition. The first proposals in this mold were by attempting to integrate connectionism and symbolic representation frameworks to cover a larger range of phenomena than either could, at that time. Since then other notions of multi-representationalism have been put forward: including versions of Soar and ACT-R, Polyscheme as well as calls for multi-modal representations as part of architectures. This seems a good time to review the state of the research on multi-representational frameworks in producing complex intelligent behavior. While the idea of multiple representations seems to gather widespread agreement, there are puzzling issues about the underlying theoretical framework: What count as different representations? Are there different types of "hybridness", e.g., representational framework A being a substrate for representational framework for B, vs A and B working side by side and interacting? What are the design principles that govern how a problem is decomposed and allocated to the appropriate representational subsystem? The main aim of the symposium is to bring researchers in different types of multiple representations to explore the above questions. We hope to examine working applications based on hybrid representations with the hope of characterizing how the match between the tasks and the representations in these systems. From Research at psut.edu.jo Thu Jan 15 23:06:36 2009 From: Research at psut.edu.jo (Research) Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 04:06:36 -00 Subject: [ACT-R-users] EUROMEDIA 2009 First Call for Papers Message-ID: <4116-2200915164636359@Zoubi> 15th Annual Media Conference EUROMEDIA 2009 April 15-17, 2009, Novotel, Bruges, Belgium, http://www.eurosis.org/cms/?q=taxonomy/term/172 ORGANISED BY ETI GENERAL CONFERENCE CHAIR: Jeanne Schreurs, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium SPONSORS: EUROSIS, University Hasselt, Delft University of Technology, Belgacom, TTVI, Ghent University, DG-INFSO The 2009 EUROMEDIA conference covers the latest developments in web-multimedia and communications technology while also looking at their implementation in Broadband networking, mobile computing, and broadband networking, distributed computing, telematics, E-technology and real world environments like embedded systems, security systems and training systems. New topics are human computer interaction with a focus on the interaction of users with multimodal interfaces and the usability and experiences of users with multimodal systems based on different media. The EUROMEDIA conference is held concurrently with the ECEC and FUBUTEC conferences. The conference is structured around 5 tracks: WEBTEC, which deals with web technology-COMTEC, which covers communications technology-MEDIATEC, which covers multimedia technology-APTEC, which provides an overview of media-integration and ETEC, which covers electronic commerce. The conference also features special WORKSHOPS on E-Business, D-TV, Medical Imaging, Facial and Biometric Recognition, Computer Graphics and Cyber Security. CONFERENCE DEADLINES Send all submissions in an ELECTRONIC FORM ONLY in (zipped) Microsoft Word format, PDF format indicating the designated track and type of submission (full paper or an extended abstract) to EUROSIS, For submissions also please put in the subject in your Email to Philippe.Geril at eurosis.org, the following indications: EUROMEDIA 2009 and designated track or USE THE THEMES or WORKSHOPS pages! Please also provide your name, affiliation, full mailing address, telephone /fax number and Email address on all submissions as well. Only original papers, which have not been published elsewhere, will be accepted for publication Submission Deadline: February 5, 2009. February 15, 2009: Notification of Acceptance or Rejection. March 20, 2009: Authors Provide Camera-ready Manuscript. From d.peebles at hud.ac.uk Wed Jan 28 02:53:04 2009 From: d.peebles at hud.ac.uk (David Peebles) Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 07:53:04 +0000 Subject: [ACT-R-users] International Conference on Cognitive Modeling 2009 Message-ID: <78F316635BD64E4FB7787E15A7DE6AEA40B28C5D11@VE2K7-02.AD.HUD.AC.UK> Announcing the 9th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling 2009 July 24th-26th 2009, Manchester, UK. ICCM is the premier international conference for research on computational models and computation-based theories of human behaviour. ICCM is a forum for presenting, discussing, and evaluating the complete spectrum of cognitive models, including connectionism, symbolic modelling, dynamical systems, Bayesian modelling, and cognitive architectures. ICCM includes basic and applied research, across a wide variety of domains, ranging from low-level perception and attention to higher-level problem-solving and learning. ICCM 2009 will follow a successful meeting in Michigan (ICCM 2007). Invited Speakers: Nick Chater, University College London Dario Salvucci, Drexel University. Lael Schooler, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin Conference web site: http://www.iccm2009.net/ Tutorials deadline: 5th March 2009. Submission deadline: 14th April 2009. Poster: http://www2.hud.ac.uk/hhs/staff/files/peebles/iccm2009-13.pdf Sponsors: EOARD, dstl, AISB, Lispworks, Soar Technology, AGS. === David Peebles PhD CPsychol Department of Behavioural Sciences, University of Huddersfield, Queensgate, Huddersfield, HD1 3DH, UK. Tel. +44 (0) 148 447 3620 http://www2.hud.ac.uk/hhs/staff/shumdp.php http://www.iccm2009.net This transmission is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you receive it in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail and remove it from your system. If the content of this e-mail does not relate to the business of the University of Huddersfield, then we do not endorse it and will accept no liability. From zhang at cis.uab.edu Thu Jan 29 22:14:30 2009 From: zhang at cis.uab.edu (Chengcui Zhang) Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 21:14:30 -0600 (CST) Subject: [ACT-R-users] CFP: IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IEEE IRI-2009) Message-ID: [Apologies if you received multiple copies because of cross-posting] News Update: **** There will be new IRI Society (SIRI) Memberships and Awards. ----------------------------------------------------------------- The 2009 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IEEE IRI-2009) Sponsored by: The IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society August 10-12, 2009 Hilton Hotel, Las Vegas, USA http://iri2009.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- The increasing volumes and dimensions of information have dramatic impact on effective decision-making. To remedy this situation, Information Reuse and Integration (IRI) seeks to maximize the reuse of information by creating simple, rich, and reusable knowledge representations and consequently explores strategies for integrating this knowledge into legacy systems. IRI plays a pivotal role in the capture, representation, maintenance, integration, validation, and extrapolation of information; and applies both information and knowledge for enhancing decision-making in various application domains. This conference explores three major tracks: information reuse, information integration, and reusable systems. Information reuse considers optimizing representation methodologies; information integration studies strategies for creatively applying models in novel domains; and reusable systems focus on ontological opportunities for deploying models and corresponding processes. The IEEE IRI conference serves as a forum for researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and government to present, discuss, and exchange ideas that address real-world problems with real-world solutions. The conference feature contributed and invited papers. Theoretical and applied papers are both included. The conference program will include special sessions, open forum workshops, and keynote speeches. A forum will be conducted with the intent of bridging IRI and Systems of Systems and why the future of intelligent computing - including computing applications - will lie at the juxtaposition of these two topical areas. There will be new IRI Society Memberships and Awards. The conference includes, but is not limited to, the areas listed below: - Large Scale Data and System Integration - Component-Based Design and Reuse - Unifying Data Models (UML, XML, etc.) and Ontologies - Database Integration - Structured/Semi-structured Data - Middleware & Web Services - Reuse in Software Engineering - Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery - Sensory and Information Fusion - Reuse in Modeling & Simulation - Automation, Integration and Reuse across Various Applications - Information Security & Privacy - Survivable Systems & Infrastructures - AI & Decision Support Systems - Heuristic Optimization and Search - Knowledge Acquisition and Management - Fuzzy and Neural Systems - Soft Computing - Evolutionary Computing - Case-Based Reasoning - Natural Language Understanding - Knowledge Management and E-Government - Command & Control Systems (C4ISR) - Human-Machine Information Systems - Space and Robotic Systems - Biomedical & Healthcare Systems - Homeland Security & Critical Infrastructure Protection - Manufacturing Systems & Business Process Engineering - Multimedia Systems - Service-Oriented Architecture - Autonomous Agents in Web-based Systems - Information Integration in Grid Computing Environments - Information Integration in Mobile Computing Environments - Information Integration in Ubiquitous Computing Environments - Systems of Systems - Semantic Web and Emerging Applications - Information Reuse, Integration and Sharing in Collaborative Environments Instructions for Authors: ------------------------- Papers reporting original and unpublished research results pertaining to the above and related topics are solicited. Full paper manuscripts must be in English of length 4 to 6 pages (using the IEEE two-column template). Submissions should include the title, author(s), affiliation(s), e-mail address(es), tel/fax numbers, abstract, and postal address(es) on the first page. Papers should be submitted at the conference web site: http://iri2009.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/. If web submission is not possible, manuscripts should be sent as an attachment via email to either of the Program Chairs (mailing address available on the conference website) on or before the deadline date of March 1, 2009. The attachment must be in .pdf (preferred) or word.doc format. The subject of the email must be IEEE IRI 2009 Submission. Papers will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. Authors should certify that their papers represent substantially new work and are previously unpublished. Paper submission implies the intent of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper, if accepted. Important Dates: ---------------- Janurary 20, 2009 Workshop/Special session proposal March 1, 2009 Paper submission deadline (Extended!) May 1, 2009 Notification of acceptance May 20, 2009 Camera-ready paper due May 20, 2009 Presenting author registration due July 30, 2009 Advance (discount) registration for general public and other co-author July 30, 2009 Hotel reservation (special discount rate) closing date August 10-12, 2009 Conference events Orgizing Committee: ------------------- Honorary General Chair Lotfi Zadeh Univ. of California, Berkeley, USA zadeh at cs.berkeley.edu General Chairs Stuart Rubin SPAWAR Systems Center, USA stuart.rubin at navy.mil Shu-Ching Chen Florida International University, USA chens at cs.fiu.edu Program Chairs Kang Zhang University of Texas at Dallas, USA kzhang at utd.edu Reda Alhajj University of Calgary, Canada alhajj at ucalgary.ca Program Vice-Chairs Althea Liang Qianhui SMU, Singapore Special Tracks Chairs Du Zhang California State University, USA Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar Florida Atlantic University, USA Eric Gregoire Universited'Artois, France Publicity Chairs Chengcui Zhang University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA zhang at cis.uab.edu James B. D. Joshi University of Pittsburgh, USA jjoshi at mail.sis.pitt.edu Li Tan Washington State University Finance/Registration/Local Arrangement Chair Suresh Vadhva California State University, USA vadhva at ecs.csus.edu Publications Chair Min-Yuh Day NTU, Taiwan, R.O.C. myday at iis.sinica.edu.tw Seung-Yun Kim Shepherd University Asian Liaison Wen-Lian Hsu Academia Sinica, Taiwan, R.O.C. Industry/Canadian Liaison, Editor June R. Massoud Genesis Consulting Inc., Canada junermassoud at hotmail.com Local Arrangements Chairs Louellen McCoy SPAWAR Systems Center, USA Ju-Yeon Jo University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA Webmaster Reda Alhajj University of Calgary, Canada Chengcui Zhang Ph.D. Assistant Professor Associate Director of the Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Lab Department of Computer and Information Sciences University of Alabama at Birmingham _______________________________________________ ieeeauthors mailing list ieeeauthors at cis.uab.edu http://crier.cis.uab.edu/mailman/listinfo/ieeeauthors