From grayw at rpi.edu Wed Jul 1 11:55:21 2009 From: grayw at rpi.edu (Wayne Gray) Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 11:55:21 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Multiple job opportunities, Rank Open Message-ID: <36110462-F722-4E4A-AAD8-2D41056AF0A2@rpi.edu> http://www.higheredjobs.com/details.cfm?JobCode=175379970 From tkelley at arl.army.mil Wed Jul 1 17:02:24 2009 From: tkelley at arl.army.mil (Kelley, Troy (Civ,ARL/HRED)) Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 17:02:24 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Act-r in C++ (UNCLASSIFIED) Message-ID: <2D30123DFDFF1046B3A9CF64B6D9AC90615E27@ARLABML03.DS.ARL.ARMY.MIL> Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE Hello, Is there any thought, or have there been any discussions, of porting ACT-R over to C++? I know I can see Christian rolling his eyes from here ;-).. But I think it would be a useful project for someone. Troy D. Kelley RDRL-HRS-EA U.S. Army Research Laboratory Human Research and Engineering Directorate (HRED) Aberdeen Proving Ground, Aberdeen MD 21005-5425 voice: 410-278-5869 fax: 410-278-9523 Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 5223 bytes Desc: not available URL: From stu at agstechnet.com Wed Jul 1 17:13:40 2009 From: stu at agstechnet.com (Stu @ AGS) Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 17:13:40 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Act-r in C++ (UNCLASSIFIED) In-Reply-To: <2D30123DFDFF1046B3A9CF64B6D9AC90615E27@ARLABML03.DS.ARL.ARMY.MIL> References: <2D30123DFDFF1046B3A9CF64B6D9AC90615E27@ARLABML03.DS.ARL.ARMY.MIL> Message-ID: <009b01c9fa90$cf4092c0$6dc1b840$@com> While its not the question you asked, I know that attempts and some success have been made porting ACT-R to Java. See: http://act-r.psy.cmu.edu/workshops/workshop-2002/talks/AnthonyHarrison.pdf; or http://sourceforge.net/projects/jactr/ Normally, I am not in favor of implementing an existing tool in another language unless there is some string justification for it. Stu 937-903-0558 Voice stu at agstechnet.com www.agstechnet.com From: act-r-users-bounces at act-r.psy.cmu.edu [mailto:act-r-users-bounces at act-r.psy.cmu.edu] On Behalf Of Kelley, Troy (Civ,ARL/HRED) Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 5:02 PM To: act-r-users at act-r.psy.cmu.edu Subject: [ACT-R-users] Act-r in C++ (UNCLASSIFIED) Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE Hello, Is there any thought, or have there been any discussions, of porting ACT-R over to C++? I know I can see Christian rolling his eyes from here ;-).. But I think it would be a useful project for someone. Troy D. Kelley RDRL-HRS-EA U.S. Army Research Laboratory Human Research and Engineering Directorate (HRED) Aberdeen Proving Ground, Aberdeen MD 21005-5425 voice: 410-278-5869 fax: 410-278-9523 Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From richard.samms at ieee.org Thu Jul 2 08:40:47 2009 From: richard.samms at ieee.org (Richard Samms) Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 08:40:47 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Act-r in C++ (UNCLASSIFIED) References: <2D30123DFDFF1046B3A9CF64B6D9AC90615E27@ARLABML03.DS.ARL.ARMY.MIL> <009b01c9fa90$cf4092c0$6dc1b840$@com> Message-ID: <7E4C916733A8489AAE6ABBFFDB8E1ABD@Weierstrass> Act-r in C++ (UNCLASSIFIED)Actually, the "string" (is that a Java Freudian slip) justification for a rewrite is the "rethink" that occurs in the process. I have never known of any rewrite that did not result in more efficient, smaller code/executables, and/or the correction of "undocumented features' and bugs. On the other hand, porting to a new language almost always results in the creation of more horrifying things. To paraphrase, "I don't know what the language of the future will look like, but it will be called C something or other." ----- Original Message ----- From: Stu @ AGS To: 'Kelley, Troy (Civ,ARL/HRED)' Cc: act-r-users at act-r.psy.cmu.edu Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 5:13 PM Subject: Re: [ACT-R-users] Act-r in C++ (UNCLASSIFIED) While its not the question you asked, I know that attempts and some success have been made porting ACT-R to Java. See: http://act-r.psy.cmu.edu/workshops/workshop-2002/talks/AnthonyHarrison.pdf; or http://sourceforge.net/projects/jactr/ Normally, I am not in favor of implementing an existing tool in another language unless there is some string justification for it. Stu 937-903-0558 Voice stu at agstechnet.com www.agstechnet.com From: act-r-users-bounces at act-r.psy.cmu.edu [mailto:act-r-users-bounces at act-r.psy.cmu.edu] On Behalf Of Kelley, Troy (Civ,ARL/HRED) Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 5:02 PM To: act-r-users at act-r.psy.cmu.edu Subject: [ACT-R-users] Act-r in C++ (UNCLASSIFIED) Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE Hello, Is there any thought, or have there been any discussions, of porting ACT-R over to C++? I know I can see Christian rolling his eyes from here ;-).. But I think it would be a useful project for someone. Troy D. Kelley RDRL-HRS-EA U.S. Army Research Laboratory Human Research and Engineering Directorate (HRED) Aberdeen Proving Ground, Aberdeen MD 21005-5425 voice: 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... URL: From rlwest at gmail.com Wed Jul 1 18:53:20 2009 From: rlwest at gmail.com (Robert West) Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 18:53:20 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Act-r in C++ (UNCLASSIFIED) In-Reply-To: <2D30123DFDFF1046B3A9CF64B6D9AC90615E27@ARLABML03.DS.ARL.ARMY.MIL> References: <2D30123DFDFF1046B3A9CF64B6D9AC90615E27@ARLABML03.DS.ARL.ARMY.MIL> Message-ID: <18f4e19a0907011553p46bd12cen346ae443cd0608e1@mail.gmail.com> there is also a python version, but it is a re implementation rather than a port, so some things are a bit different http://terry.ccmlab.ca:8080/tutorials Robert Dr. Robert L.West Institute of Cognitive Science Department of Psychology Carleton University lab page: http://www.ccmhome.blogspot.com/ On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Kelley, Troy (Civ,ARL/HRED) wrote: > Classification:? UNCLASSIFIED > Caveats: NONE > > Hello, > > Is there any thought, or have there been any discussions, of porting ACT-R > over to C++?? I know I can see Christian rolling his eyes from here ;-).. > But I think it would be a useful project for someone. > > Troy D. Kelley > RDRL-HRS-EA > U.S. Army Research Laboratory > Human Research and Engineering Directorate (HRED) > Aberdeen Proving Ground, Aberdeen MD 21005-5425 > voice: 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 > > From d.peebles at hud.ac.uk Thu Jul 2 09:55:18 2009 From: d.peebles at hud.ac.uk (David Peebles) Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 14:55:18 +0100 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Act-r in C++ (UNCLASSIFIED) In-Reply-To: <7E4C916733A8489AAE6ABBFFDB8E1ABD@Weierstrass> References: <2D30123DFDFF1046B3A9CF64B6D9AC90615E27@ARLABML03.DS.ARL.ARMY.MIL> <009b01c9fa90$cf4092c0$6dc1b840$@com> <7E4C916733A8489AAE6ABBFFDB8E1ABD@Weierstrass> Message-ID: "undocumented features and bugs"? In Dan's code? How DARE you Sir! Outraged, UK. === 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 From: act-r-users-bounces at act-r.psy.cmu.edu [mailto:act-r-users-bounces at act-r.psy.cmu.edu] On Behalf Of Richard Samms Sent: 02 July 2009 13:41 To: Stu @ AGS; 'Kelley, Troy (Civ,ARL/HRED)' Cc: act-r-users at act-r.psy.cmu.edu Subject: Re: [ACT-R-users] Act-r in C++ (UNCLASSIFIED) Actually, the "string" (is that a Java Freudian slip) justification for a rewrite is the "rethink" that occurs in the process. I have never known of any rewrite that did not result in more efficient, smaller code/executables, and/or the correction of "undocumented features' and bugs. On the other hand, porting to a new language almost always results in the creation of more horrifying things. To paraphrase, "I don't know what the language of the future will look like, but it will be called C something or other." ----- Original Message ----- From: Stu @ AGS To: 'Kelley, Troy (Civ,ARL/HRED)' Cc: act-r-users at act-r.psy.cmu.edu Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 5:13 PM Subject: Re: [ACT-R-users] Act-r in C++ (UNCLASSIFIED) While its not the question you asked, I know that attempts and some success have been made porting ACT-R to Java. See: http://act-r.psy.cmu.edu/workshops/workshop-2002/talks/AnthonyHarrison.pdf; or http://sourceforge.net/projects/jactr/ Normally, I am not in favor of implementing an existing tool in another language unless there is some string justification for it. Stu 937-903-0558 Voice stu at agstechnet.com www.agstechnet.com From: act-r-users-bounces at act-r.psy.cmu.edu [mailto:act-r-users-bounces at act-r.psy.cmu.edu] On Behalf Of Kelley, Troy (Civ,ARL/HRED) Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 5:02 PM To: act-r-users at act-r.psy.cmu.edu Subject: [ACT-R-users] Act-r in C++ (UNCLASSIFIED) Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE Hello, Is there any thought, or have there been any discussions, of porting ACT-R over to C++? I know I can see Christian rolling his eyes from here ;-).. But I think it would be a useful project for someone. Troy D. Kelley RDRL-HRS-EA U.S. Army Research Laboratory Human Research and Engineering Directorate (HRED) Aberdeen Proving Ground, Aberdeen MD 21005-5425 voice: 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 ________________________________ Inspiring tomorrow's professionals --- 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. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From richard.samms at ieee.org Thu Jul 2 10:23:49 2009 From: richard.samms at ieee.org (Richard Samms) Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 10:23:49 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Act-r in C++ (UNCLASSIFIED) References: <2D30123DFDFF1046B3A9CF64B6D9AC90615E27@ARLABML03.DS.ARL.ARMY.MIL><009b01c9fa90$cf4092c0$6dc1b840$@com> <7E4C916733A8489AAE6ABBFFDB8E1ABD@Weierstrass> Message-ID: Act-r in C++ (UNCLASSIFIED)Mea culpa. Of course I was speaking in generalities and humbly beg indulgence... Core dumps in Linux and blue screens on Windows Registry errors and missing file fragments Unmountable disks tied up in some threads These are a few of my favorite dreads ;-) ----- Original Message ----- From: David Peebles To: 'Richard Samms' ; Stu @ AGS ; 'Kelley, Troy (Civ,ARL/HRED)' Cc: act-r-users at act-r.psy.cmu.edu Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2009 9:55 AM Subject: RE: [ACT-R-users] Act-r in C++ (UNCLASSIFIED) "undocumented features and bugs"? In Dan's code? How DARE you Sir! Outraged, UK. === 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 From: act-r-users-bounces at act-r.psy.cmu.edu [mailto:act-r-users-bounces at act-r.psy.cmu.edu] On Behalf Of Richard Samms Sent: 02 July 2009 13:41 To: Stu @ AGS; 'Kelley, Troy (Civ,ARL/HRED)' Cc: act-r-users at act-r.psy.cmu.edu Subject: Re: [ACT-R-users] Act-r in C++ (UNCLASSIFIED) Actually, the "string" (is that a Java Freudian slip) justification for a rewrite is the "rethink" that occurs in the process. I have never known of any rewrite that did not result in more efficient, smaller code/executables, and/or the correction of "undocumented features' and bugs. On the other hand, porting to a new language almost always results in the creation of more horrifying things. To paraphrase, "I don't know what the language of the future will look like, but it will be called C something or other." ----- Original Message ----- From: Stu @ AGS To: 'Kelley, Troy (Civ,ARL/HRED)' Cc: act-r-users at act-r.psy.cmu.edu Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 5:13 PM Subject: Re: [ACT-R-users] Act-r in C++ (UNCLASSIFIED) While its not the question you asked, I know that attempts and some success have been made porting ACT-R to Java. See: http://act-r.psy.cmu.edu/workshops/workshop-2002/talks/AnthonyHarrison.pdf; or http://sourceforge.net/projects/jactr/ Normally, I am not in favor of implementing an existing tool in another language unless there is some string justification for it. Stu 937-903-0558 Voice stu at agstechnet.com www.agstechnet.com From: act-r-users-bounces at act-r.psy.cmu.edu [mailto:act-r-users-bounces at act-r.psy.cmu.edu] On Behalf Of Kelley, Troy (Civ,ARL/HRED) Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 5:02 PM To: act-r-users at act-r.psy.cmu.edu Subject: [ACT-R-users] Act-r in C++ (UNCLASSIFIED) Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE Hello, Is there any thought, or have there been any discussions, of porting ACT-R over to C++? I know I can see Christian rolling his eyes from here ;-).. But I think it would be a useful project for someone. Troy D. Kelley RDRL-HRS-EA U.S. Army Research Laboratory Human Research and Engineering Directorate (HRED) Aberdeen Proving Ground, Aberdeen MD 21005-5425 voice: 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Inspiring tomorrow's professionals --- 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. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From marc.halbruegge at gmx.de Thu Jul 2 16:38:03 2009 From: marc.halbruegge at gmx.de (=?iso-8859-1?Q?=22Marc_Halbr=FCgge=22?=) Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:38:03 +0200 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Act-r in C++ (UNCLASSIFIED) In-Reply-To: <2D30123DFDFF1046B3A9CF64B6D9AC90615E27@ARLABML03.DS.ARL.ARMY.MIL> References: <2D30123DFDFF1046B3A9CF64B6D9AC90615E27@ARLABML03.DS.ARL.ARMY.MIL> Message-ID: <20090702203803.52620@gmx.net> Hi, > Is there any thought, or have there been any discussions, of porting ACT-R > over to C++? I know I can see Christian rolling his eyes from here ;-).. > But I think it would be a useful project for someone. Calling C++ code from ACT-R is quite easy, here's an example: http://act-cv.sourceforge.net/ Running ACT-R from within C++ is not that complicated, either. If you're interested, I can put up a source code example for that as well (I don't have that much time for this kind of stuff at the moment, though). Porting ACT-R itself to C++ would be a hard task, and I don't really see a benefit. Greetz from Germany Marc -- Neu: GMX Doppel-FLAT mit Internet-Flatrate + Telefon-Flatrate f?r nur 19,99 Euro/mtl.!* http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/dsl02 From jeffreysander at gmail.com Fri Jul 3 11:53:07 2009 From: jeffreysander at gmail.com (Jeffrey Sander) Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 11:53:07 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] ACT-R-users Digest, Vol 48, Issue 3 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <7ba9e6d0907030853ye420732ic6035afea1216a12@mail.gmail.com> >From a programming point of view, code of any one language can execute code from any other language using a Foreign Function Interface (FFI). These are generally language specific and often not well documented, but with a little tinkering and a few questions one can get them to work well enough. I made use of Allegro Common Lisp's Java FFI to have the full version of ACT-R 6.0 run in ACL, but make use of Java code to evaluate the strength of poker hands. This was particularly useful since certain programming languages will perform computations much faster than others. Lisp itself is a functional and interpreted language which fundamentally limits its speed in various situations. Memory usage may also be a factor. If interested, this website provides a range of bench marks for different computations in various programming languages. It should help decide which language is best for a given task. The benchmarks were computed on a machine running Debian Linux, but should be comparable for a Windows or Macintosh OS. I've seen other members of the lab use other techniques, but I don't want to let out any trade secrets... Hope this is of general use and that the weather is as nice in pittsburgh as it is here. Jeffrey Sander Human Cortical Physiology and Stroke Neurorehabilitation Section Medical Neurology Branch, NINDS Building 10, Room 5N226 10 Center Drive MSC 1430 Bethesda, MD 20892-1430 Telephone (973) 495-1717 On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 12:00 PM, wrote: > Send ACT-R-users mailing list submissions to > act-r-users at act-r.psy.cmu.edu > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://act-r.psy.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/act-r-users > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > act-r-users-request at act-r.psy.cmu.edu > > You can reach the person managing the list at > act-r-users-owner at act-r.psy.cmu.edu > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of ACT-R-users digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Act-r in C++ (UNCLASSIFIED) (Marc Halbr?gge) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:38:03 +0200 > From: "Marc Halbr?gge" > Subject: Re: [ACT-R-users] Act-r in C++ (UNCLASSIFIED) > To: "Kelley, Troy (Civ,ARL/HRED)" , > act-r-users at act-r.psy.cmu.edu > Message-ID: <20090702203803.52620 at gmx.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Hi, > > > Is there any thought, or have there been any discussions, of porting > ACT-R > > over to C++? I know I can see Christian rolling his eyes from here ;-).. > > But I think it would be a useful project for someone. > > Calling C++ code from ACT-R is quite easy, here's an example: > http://act-cv.sourceforge.net/ > > Running ACT-R from within C++ is not that complicated, either. If you're > interested, I can put up a source code example for that as well (I don't > have that much time for this kind of stuff at the moment, though). > > Porting ACT-R itself to C++ would be a hard task, and I don't really see a > benefit. > > Greetz from Germany > Marc > -- > Neu: GMX Doppel-FLAT mit Internet-Flatrate + Telefon-Flatrate > f?r nur 19,99 Euro/mtl.!* http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/dsl02 > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > > End of ACT-R-users Digest, Vol 48, Issue 3 > ****************************************** > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lnl at psu.edu Mon Jul 6 21:08:27 2009 From: lnl at psu.edu (Long Lyle) Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 21:08:27 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Act-r in C++ (UNCLASSIFIED) In-Reply-To: <20090702203803.52620@gmx.net> References: <2D30123DFDFF1046B3A9CF64B6D9AC90615E27@ARLABML03.DS.ARL.ARMY.MIL> <20090702203803.52620@gmx.net> Message-ID: <4F182185-2CC8-4D6A-AAEC-E5FD6926AE26@psu.edu> On Jul 2, 2009, at 4:38 PM, Marc Halbr?gge wrote: > Hi, > >> Is there any thought, or have there been any discussions, of >> porting ACT-R >> over to C++? I know I can see Christian rolling his eyes from >> here ;-).. >> But I think it would be a useful project for someone. > > Calling C++ code from ACT-R is quite easy, here's an example: > http://act-cv.sourceforge.net/ > > Running ACT-R from within C++ is not that complicated, either. If > you're interested, I can put up a source code example for that as > well (I don't have that much time for this kind of stuff at the > moment, though). > > Porting ACT-R itself to C++ would be a hard task, and I don't really > see a benefit. > > Greetz from Germany > Marc > -- > Neu: GMX Doppel-FLAT mit Internet-Flatrate + Telefon-Flatrate > f?r nur 19,99 Euro/mtl.!* http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/dsl02 > _______________________________________________ > 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 There could be many benefits in porting to C++, such as: - performance gains in speed and memory - use of a language that is more common than Lisp (no pun intended) - improved ease of coupling to devices - easier parallel programming via threads or other means Lyle ----------------------------------------------- Prof. Lyle N. Long The Pennsylvania State University http://www.personal.psu.edu/lnl From marc.halbruegge at gmx.de Mon Jul 6 21:16:44 2009 From: marc.halbruegge at gmx.de (=?iso-8859-1?Q?=22Marc_Halbr=FCgge=22?=) Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2009 03:16:44 +0200 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Act-r in C++ (UNCLASSIFIED) In-Reply-To: <2D30123DFDFF1046B3A9CF64B6D9AC90615E32@ARLABML03.DS.ARL.ARMY.MIL> References: <2D30123DFDFF1046B3A9CF64B6D9AC90615E27@ARLABML03.DS.ARL.ARMY.MIL> <20090702203803.52620@gmx.net> <2D30123DFDFF1046B3A9CF64B6D9AC90615E32@ARLABML03.DS.ARL.ARMY.MIL> Message-ID: <20090707011644.269330@gmx.net> Dear list, here comes the promised example for those who expressed interest. Basic Info: Prerequisites * Linux operating system * Steel Bank Common Lisp, get it from http://www.sbcl.org if it is not part of your distribution. * A copy of the ACT-R architecture. This one is expected to reside in a directory called "actr6" relative to the lean_embedded_lisp executable. How to obtain lean_embedded_lisp * as tarball: http://act-cv.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/act-cv/lean_embedded_lisp.tar.gz?view=tar * svn repository: svn co https://act-cv.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/act-cv/lean_embedded_lisp lean_embedded_lisp Building lean_embedded_lisp * aclocal ; autoconf ; automake -a -c ; ./configure ; make * now type ./lean_embedded_lisp to see the demos Demonstrations * QSortKram: A model that performs the famous Quicksort algorithm (Hoare, C. A. R 1962) using ACT-R. Was part of a talk of mine two years ago (see refs below) * TestWorldKram: A simple Markovian Decision Process. An agent for this MDP is implemented in ACT-R and runs in the inferior lisp. * MarkovChainTest: Demonstrates how to collect data (simulated run times) from ACT-R models. This software is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License. Greetings from Germany Marc Halbruegge References Halbr?gge, M. (2007). Evaluating Cognitive Models and Architectures. In: Kaminka, G. A. & Burghart, C. R. (Hrsg.), Evaluating Architectures for Intelligence. Papers from the 2007 AAAI Workshop, S. 27-31, Menlo Park, California: AAAI Press. -- GRATIS f?r alle GMX-Mitglieder: Die maxdome Movie-FLAT! Jetzt freischalten unter http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/maxdome01 From marc.halbruegge at gmx.de Tue Jul 7 18:06:20 2009 From: marc.halbruegge at gmx.de (=?iso-8859-1?Q?=22Marc_Halbr=FCgge=22?=) Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:06:20 +0200 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Act-r in C++ (UNCLASSIFIED) In-Reply-To: <4F182185-2CC8-4D6A-AAEC-E5FD6926AE26@psu.edu> References: <2D30123DFDFF1046B3A9CF64B6D9AC90615E27@ARLABML03.DS.ARL.ARMY.MIL> <20090702203803.52620@gmx.net> <4F182185-2CC8-4D6A-AAEC-E5FD6926AE26@psu.edu> Message-ID: <20090707220620.33040@gmx.net> > > > > Porting ACT-R itself to C++ would be a hard task, and I don't really > > see a benefit. > > > > There could be many benefits in porting to C++, such as: > > - performance gains in speed and memory > - use of a language that is more common than Lisp (no pun intended) > - improved ease of coupling to devices > - easier parallel programming via threads or other means I would say that these are very valid points when comparing C++ to Lisp on a more abstract level. But when it comes to the specific task of running existing ACT-R models in a C++ architecture, one would end up writing just another Lisp interpreter in C++. That's why I don't expect any benefit here. Coupling to devices and parallel programming can be done (easily IMHO) using foreign functions. Just my two cents Marc -- GRATIS f?r alle GMX-Mitglieder: Die maxdome Movie-FLAT! Jetzt freischalten unter http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/maxdome01 From marc.halbruegge at gmx.de Tue Jul 7 18:10:21 2009 From: marc.halbruegge at gmx.de (=?iso-8859-1?Q?=22Marc_Halbr=FCgge=22?=) Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:10:21 +0200 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Act-r in C++ (UNCLASSIFIED) In-Reply-To: <20090707011644.269330@gmx.net> References: <2D30123DFDFF1046B3A9CF64B6D9AC90615E27@ARLABML03.DS.ARL.ARMY.MIL> <20090702203803.52620@gmx.net> <2D30123DFDFF1046B3A9CF64B6D9AC90615E32@ARLABML03.DS.ARL.ARMY.MIL> <20090707011644.269330@gmx.net> Message-ID: <20090707221021.33030@gmx.net> Hi again, > Dear list, > > here comes the promised example for those who expressed interest. > > Basic Info: > > Prerequisites > * Linux operating system I forgot to mention: Mac OS X should work well, too. Use MacPorts (http://www.macports.org) to install autoconf and automake if you don't have them. Greetz Marc > * Steel Bank Common Lisp, get it from http://www.sbcl.org if it is not > part of your distribution. > * A copy of the ACT-R architecture. This one is expected to reside in a > directory called "actr6" relative to the lean_embedded_lisp executable. > > How to obtain lean_embedded_lisp > * as tarball: > http://act-cv.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/act-cv/lean_embedded_lisp.tar.gz?view=tar > * svn repository: svn co > https://act-cv.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/act-cv/lean_embedded_lisp lean_embedded_lisp > > Building lean_embedded_lisp > * aclocal ; autoconf ; automake -a -c ; ./configure ; make > * now type ./lean_embedded_lisp to see the demos > > Demonstrations > * QSortKram: A model that performs the famous Quicksort algorithm > (Hoare, C. A. R 1962) using ACT-R. Was part of a talk of mine two > years ago (see refs below) > * TestWorldKram: A simple Markovian Decision Process. An agent for this > MDP is implemented in ACT-R and runs in the inferior lisp. > * MarkovChainTest: Demonstrates how to collect data (simulated run > times) from ACT-R models. > > This software is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public > License. > > Greetings from Germany > Marc Halbruegge > > > References > > Halbr?gge, M. (2007). Evaluating Cognitive Models and Architectures. In: > Kaminka, G. A. & Burghart, C. R. (Hrsg.), Evaluating Architectures for > Intelligence. Papers from the 2007 AAAI Workshop, S. 27-31, Menlo Park, > California: AAAI Press. > -- > GRATIS f?r alle GMX-Mitglieder: Die maxdome Movie-FLAT! > Jetzt freischalten unter http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/maxdome01 > _______________________________________________ > 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 -- Neu: GMX Doppel-FLAT mit Internet-Flatrate + Telefon-Flatrate f?r nur 19,99 Euro/mtl.!* http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/dsl02 From pavel at dit.unitn.it Wed Jul 8 03:15:36 2009 From: pavel at dit.unitn.it (Pavel Shvaiko) Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 09:15:36 +0200 Subject: [ACT-R-users] 2nd CFP: ISWC'09 workshop on Ontology Matching (OM-2009) Message-ID: Apologies for cross-postings -------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Fourth International Workshop on ONTOLOGY MATCHING (OM-2009) http://om2009.ontologymatching.org/ October 25, 2009, ISWC'09 Workshop Program, Fairfax, near Washington DC., USA BRIEF DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES Ontology matching is a key interoperability enabler for the Semantic Web, as well as a useful tactic in some classical data integration tasks. It takes the ontologies as input and determines as output an alignment, that is, a set of correspondences between the semantically related entities of those ontologies. These correspondences can be used for various tasks, such as ontology merging and data translation. Thus, matching ontologies enables the knowledge and data expressed in the matched ontologies to interoperate. The workshop has three goals: 1. To bring together leaders from academia, industry and user institutions to assess how academic advances are addressing real-world requirements. The workshop will strive to improve academic awareness of industrial and final user needs, and therefore, direct research towards those needs. Simultaneously, the workshop will serve to inform industry and user representatives about existing research efforts that may meet their requirements. The workshop will also investigate how the ontology matching technology is going to evolve. 2. To conduct an extensive and rigorous evaluation of ontology matching approaches through the OAEI (Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative) 2009 campaign: http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2009/ This year's OAEI campaign introduces two new tracks about oriented alignments and about instance matching (a timely topic for the linked data community). Therefore, the ontology matching evaluation initiative itself will provide a solid ground for discussion of how well the current approaches are meeting business needs. 3. To examine similarities and differences from database schema matching, which has received decades of attention but is just beginning to transition to mainstream tools. TOPICS of interest include but are not limited to: Business cases for matching; Requirements to matching from specific domains; Application of matching techniques in real-world scenarios; Formal foundations and frameworks for ontology matching; Large-scale ontology matching evaluation; Performance of matching techniques; Matcher selection and self-configuration; Uncertainty in ontology matching; User involvement (including both technical and organizational aspects); Explanations in matching; Social and collaborative matching; Alignment management; Reasoning with alignments; Matching for traditional applications (e.g., information integration); Matching for dynamic applications (e.g., peer-to-peer, web-services). SUBMISSIONS Contributions to the workshop can be made in terms of technical papers and posters/statements of interest addressing different issues of ontology matching as well as participating in the OAEI 2009 campaign. Technical papers should be not longer than 12 pages using the LNCS Style: http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-164-2-72376-0,00.html Posters/statements of interest should not exceed 2 pages and should be handled according to the guidelines for technical papers. All contributions should be prepared in PDF format and should be submitted through the workshop submission site at: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=om20090 Contributors to the OAEI 2009 campaign have to follow the campaign conditions and schedule at http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2009/. IMPORTANT DATES FOR TECHNICAL PAPERS: August 11, 2009: Deadline for the submission of papers. September 6, 2009: Deadline for the notification of acceptance/rejection. October 2, 2009: Workshop camera ready copy submission. October 25, 2009: OM-2009, Westfields Conference Center, Fairfax, near Washington DC., USA. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE 1. Pavel Shvaiko (Main contact) TasLab, Informatica Trentina SpA, Italy 2. J?r?me Euzenat INRIA & LIG, France 3. Fausto Giunchiglia University of Trento, Italy 4. Heiner Stuckenschmidt University of Mannheim, Germany 5. Natasha Noy Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research, USA 6. Arnon Rosenthal The MITRE Corporation, USA PROGRAM COMMITTEE Yuan An, Drexel University, USA Zohra Bellahsene, LIRMM, France Paolo Besana, University of Edinburgh, UK Olivier Bodenreider, National Library of Medicine, USA Isabel Cruz, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Avigdor Gal, Technion, Israel Hyoil Han, Drexel University, USA Jingshan Huang, University of South Alabama, USA Wei Hu, Southeast University, China Ryutaro Ichise, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Antoine Isaac, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands Krzysztof Janowicz, University of Muenster, Germany Chiara Ghidini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (IRST), Italy Bin He, IBM, USA Yannis Kalfoglou, Ricoh Europe plc, UK Monika Lanzenberger, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Patrick Lambrix, Link?pings Universitet, Sweden Maurizio Lenzerini, University of Rome - Sapienza, Italy Enzo Maltese, University of Trento, Italy Fiona McNeill, University of Edinburgh, UK Christian Meilicke, University of Mannheim, Germany Luca Mion, TasLab, Informatica Trentina SpA, Italy Peter Mork, The MITRE Corporation, USA Leo Obrst, The MITRE Corporation, USA Massimo Paolucci, DoCoMo Labs, Germany Fran?ois Scharffe, INRIA, France Umberto Straccia, ISTI-C.N.R., Italy York Sure, University of Koblenz, Germany Andrei Tamilin, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (IRST), Italy Lorenzino Vaccari, PAT, Italy Ludger van Elst, DFKI, Germany Frank van Harmelen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands Yannis Velegrakis, University of Trento, Italy Baoshi Yan, Bosch Research, USA Rui Zhang, University of Trento, Italy Songmao Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China ------------------------------------------------------- Download the OM-2009 flyer: http://om2009.ontologymatching.org/Pictures/CfP_OM2009_flyer.pdf ------------------------------------------------------- More about ontology matching: http://www.ontologymatching.org/ http://book.ontologymatching.org/ Best Regards, Pavel ------------------------------------------------------- Pavel Shvaiko, PhD Innovation and Research Project Manager TasLab, Informatica Trentina SpA, Italy http://www.ontologymatching.org/ http://www.dit.unitn.it/~pavel/ http://www.infotn.it/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From frank.ritter at psu.edu Fri Jul 10 13:14:45 2009 From: frank.ritter at psu.edu (Frank Ritter) Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:14:45 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] CogModel notes: ICCM09, 10/CogSci09/CompNeuro/Books/Positions Message-ID: [Please forward as/what is appropriate, such as to students' mailing lists, and for calenders of events.] This is based on the International Cognitive Modeling Conference mailing list, which I maintain. I forward messages about twice a year, a few more close to ICCMs. (this is the last one for ICCM 2009!) The first announcement is driving this email, the announcement of the program at ICCM 2009. If you would like to be removed, please just let me know. I maintain it by hand to keep it small. cheers, Frank Ritter frank.e.ritter at gmail.com http://acs.ist.psu.edu http://www.frankritter.com 1. ICCM 2009 Conference Program available, 24-26 July 2009, Manchester, UK, http://web.mac.com/howesa/Site/ICCM_09_files/ICCM09-programme.pdf http://web.mac.com/howesa/Site/ICCM_09.html 2. ICCM 2009 Conference Tutorial Program, 23 July 2009, Manchester, UK http://acs.ist.psu.edu/iccm2009/tutorials.html 3. CogSci 2009 Tutorials and Workshops http://cognitivesciencesociety.org/conference2009/tutorials.html 4. ICCM 2010, Philadelphia, July 2010 More information will be available soon on the conference web site: http://iccm2010.cs.drexel.edu/ 5. Call for Abstracts - 2009 Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Conference http://www.ccnconference.org 6. OUP books on display at ICCM http://www.oup.com/us , enter promo code 27952 in the promo box for 20% off. 7. Ambitious new journal: Cognitive Computation http://www.springerlink.com/content/w2826455k852/?p=c4eec505da10437592e5213df1db472a&pi=0 8. Research Engineer on Knowledge Engineering in EADS IW-UK 9. Open position for PhD/postdoc position at Ghent University 10. Post Doc/Group Leader Position for Cognitive Computational Neuroscience at Chemnitz, Germany 11. Graduate student, postdoctoral, and research programmer positions at RPI [from Soar-group] 12. PhD position in Computational Cognitive Modeling, U. of Grenoble, France [from act-r-users at act-r.psy.cmu.edu] 13. Faculty positions at RPI http://www.higheredjobs.com/details.cfm?JobCode=175379970 14. Graduate fellowship at U. of Portsmouth 15. Job advert, U. of Texas at Houston http://www.shis.uth.tmc.edu/news-1/faculty-position-in-informatics [nothing further below] ********************************************************************** 1. ICCM 2009 Conference Program available, 24-26 July 2009, Manchester, UK, http://web.mac.com/howesa/Site/ICCM_09_files/ICCM09-programme.pdf http://web.mac.com/howesa/Site/ICCM_09.html ICCM is the premier international conference for research on computational models and computation-based theories of human behavior. ICCM is a forum for presenting, discussing, and evaluating the complete spectrum of cognitive models, including connectionism, symbolic modeling, dynamical systems, Bayesian modeling, 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. The proceedings of the 2007 conference are available from http://sitemaker.umich.edu/iccm2007.org/iccm_2007_proceedings_and_papers ********************************************************************** 2. ICCM 2009 Conference Tutorial Program, 23 July 2009, Manchester, UK http://acs.ist.psu.edu/iccm2009/tutorials.html EPAM/CHREST: Fifty years of simulating learning Lane and Gobet, Half-day (afternoon: 1345-1700) Cognitive modeling with the neural engineering framework Eliasmith and Stewart, Full-day (0900-1700) Agent-based simulation: Social science simulation and beyond Edmonds and Norling, Half-day (afternoon: 1345-1700) A summary of Human-System Integration in the System Development Process Ritter, Half-day (morning: 0900-1215) Registration is possible on the day if room is available. ********************************************************************** 3. CogSci 2009 Tutorials and Workshops http://cognitivesciencesociety.org/conference2009/tutorials.html Tutorials - All full-day unless otherwise indicated. Quantum Information Processing Theory Jerome R. Busemeyer & Zheng Wang jbusemey at indiana.edu Dynamic Field Theory: Conceptual Foundations and Applications in the Cognitive and Developmental Sciences Gregor Schoner, Vanessa Simmering, & Christian Faubel Gregor.Schoner at rub.de EPAM/CHREST Tutorial: Fifty Years of Simulating Human Learning Fernand Gobet & Peter Lane Fernand.Gobet at brunel.ac.uk CogSketch Tutorial (half-day) Kenneth D. Forbus forbus at northwestern.edu Workshops - All full-day unless otherwise indicated. ACT-R Workshop Anderson, Bothell, Lebiere, & Taatgen ja at cmu.edu Large-Scale Cognitive Modeling using Model Integrated Computing Scott Douglass & Jonathan Sprinkle scott.douglass at mesa.afmc.af.mil New Developments in the Cognitive Science of Religion. Hosted by the International Association for the Cognitive Science of Religion (IACSR)" Armin Geertz, Luther Martin, Robert McCauley awg at teo.au.dk Production of Referring Expressions: Bridging the Gap Between Computational and Empirical Approaches to Reference van Deemter, Gatt, van Gompel, & Krahmer e.j.krahmer at uvt.nl Intuitive Pedagogical Reasoning: An Interdisciplinary Workshop Patrick Shafto & Noah Goodman p.shafto at louisville.edu Swarm Cognition Workshop Vito Trianni & Elio Tuci vito.trianni at istc.cnr.it Psychocomputational Models of Human Language Acquisition William Gregory Sakas & Rens Bod sakas at hunter.cuny.edu WICS: Merging professional development and science: Constructing a successful grant proposal (half-day, afternoon) Feldman, van Hell, Kroll, & Rajaram lf503 at albany.edu ********************************************************************** 4. ICCM 2010 will be held August 5-8, 2010, in Philadelphia, PA. More information will be available soon on the conference web site: http://iccm2010.cs.drexel.edu/ Any questions about ICCM 2010 can be directed to Dario Salvucci: http://www.cs.drexel.edu/~salvucci/ ********************************************************************** 5. Call for Abstracts - 2009 Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Conference http://www.ccnconference.org [I've gotten on this mailing list recently, comp-neuro, and it has a lot on cognitive modeling, although on a finer grained level. I include two announcements from this list here.] From: "ccnc-announce" Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 00:48:41 -0600 ------------------------------------------------------- ~ Call for Abstracts ~ 4th CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE www.ccnconference.org To be held in conjunction with the 2009 Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society at the Sheraton Boston Hotel in Boston, MA. CCN CONFERENCE DATES: Wed-Thu November 18 & 19, 2009 All three of our previous meetings have been a great success, two as satellites to Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting (2005, 2007) and in 2006 with Psychonomics. Attendance has ranged from 115-250. ____________________________________________________________________________ * DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 Abstracts are to be submitted online via the website www.ccnconference.org. Abstract submission and registration will open on June 15. As in past years, there will be two categories of submissions: -Poster only -Poster, plus short talk (15 min) to highlight the poster Abstracts should be limited to 250 words. Women and underrepresented minorities are especially encouraged to apply. Reviewing of posters will be inclusive and only to ensure appropriateness to the meeting. Short talks will be selected on the basis of research quality, relevance to conference theme, and expected accessibility in a talk format. Abstracts not selected for short talks will still be accepted as posters as long as they meet appropriateness criteria. * NOTIFICATION OF POSTER ACCEPTANCE: Approx. August 15, 2009 * CONTRIBUTED SHORT TALK SELECTION: Approx. September 15, 2009 __________________________________________________________________________ Program: * 2009 Keynote Speaker: Neil Burgess, University College London * Three symposia, each including a mixture of modelers and non-modelers and focused on a common theme or issue: ** Top-Down Mechanisms of Visual Attention Moderator: Steven Bressler, Florida Atlantic University ** Our Vision for the Word: Modeling Orthographic Processing Moderators: Carol Whitney, University of Maryland, College Park Jonathan Grainger, CNRS, France ** Context, Memory, and the Brain Moderators: Michael Hasselmo, Boston University Ken Norman, Princeton University * Approximately 12 short talks will be chosen featuring selected posters. * Poster sessions * We are again planning another special issue of Brain Research for selected papers from this meeting -- no need to indicate interest with your abstract submission at the present time. * We plan to award a limited number of competitive travel fellowships for students -- look for a notice by late summer. We especially encourage applications from members of underrepresented minorities. * Registration fees: $175 ($75 for students). ________________________________________________________________ 2009 Planning Committee: Suzanna Becker, McMaster University Carlos Brody, Princeton University Nathaniel Daw, New York University Michael Hasselmo, Boston University David Noelle, University of California, Merced Ken Norman, Princeton University Maximilian Riesenhuber, Georgetown University Ex officio: Randall O'Reilly, University of Colorado, Boulder Jonathan Cohen, Princeton University Executive Organizer: Thomas Hazy, University of Colorado, Boulder For more information and to sign up for the mailing list visit: www.ccnconference.org _______________________________________________ Comp-neuro mailing list Comp-neuro at neuroinf.org http://www.neuroinf.org/mailman/listinfo/comp-neuro ********************************************************************** 6. OUP books on display at ICCM http://www.oup.com/us , enter promo code 27952 in the promo box for 20% off. There will be a display of books from Oxford at the International Conference on Cognitive Modeling. These books are available through their web site using a promo code for a discount. ********************************************************************** 7. Ambitious new journal: Cognitive Computation http://www.springerlink.com/content/w2826455k852/?p=c4eec505da10437592e5213df1db472a&pi=0 [From the editor's introduction:] Cognitive Computation speci?cally aims to publish cutting-edge articles describing original basic and applied work involving biologically inspired theoretical, computational, experimental and integrative accounts of all aspects of natural and arti?cial cognitive systems. By establishing a forum to bring together different scientific communities, Cognitive Computation will promote a more comprehensive and uni?ed understanding of diverse topics, including those related to perception, action, attention, learning and memory, decision making, language processing, communication, reasoning, problem solving and consciousness aspects of cognition. ********************************************************************** 8. Research Engineer on Knowledge Engineering in EADS IW-UK Hiring request Research Engineer on Knowledge Engineering in EADS IW-UK Job Summary The job holder will do research works on some Knowledge Engineering, Semantic techniques and Artificial Intelligence (including semantic web techniques, knowledge management, knowledge-based systems, data mining, machine learning techniques, decision support, artificial life algorithms..) aiming at assisting and optimising engineering, manufacturing and maintenance activities. He/she will be the UK focal point for the team. Since UK is a new implantation for the team, the job holder will have to contribute to the identification of Business Units' needs in UK and to the building of new research projects with the local BU's. He/she will also contribute to increase the IW UK academic network. Job Key data * Job located in UK (Bristol) * Research works and research project management in the team "Intelligent and Semantic Systems" (including 14-16 people) located in Suresnes, Toulouse, Singapore and UK * Collaboration with international research labs, European partners and all the Business Units of EADS * Starting date : summer 2009 Profile of the candidate * Master or same level diploma. Preferably with a first professional experience in aeronautics. * General background in Computer Science/Information Technology * If possible: skills and experience related to Knowledge engineering (Artificial Intelligence and/or Semantic systems) * Good project management, communication and relationship skills Tasks/Main responsibilities * The job holder will be in charge mainly of research projects for EADS UK Business Units and customers, relying on available team competencies and capabilities in the various countries. He/she will also participate to some projects for other countries, with team members from other sites. The first projects will target to set up knowledge management systems for manufacturing and integration of manufacturing constraints in early design phases and services of information retrieval and experience reuse for in service support * The job holder will be in charge of some research projects related to Knowledge engineering, Semantic techniques and Artificial Intelligence (including semantic web techniques, knowledge-based systems, data mining, machine learning techniques..) aiming at assisting and optimising engineering (design/simulation), manufacturing and maintenance activities. * The job holder will provide an expertise and state of the art knowledge on these topics in a complementary manner, considering the competencies available in the transnational team.. He/she will ensure technology monitoring on these techniques, internal and external communications and relationship with academic labs and networks. * The job holder will participate to the elaboration of new projects (find domain applications and use cases, proposal, negotiation with partners?). * The job holder will manage some of these projects, and will be responsible for the achievement of their results, the works and deliverables in the respect of the budgets and deadlines. * He/she will ensure the relationship with the customers of the research projects: European project partners, EADS BUs?. * He/she will analyse the user needs and the problems to solve, and elaborate some innovative proposals. He/she will design the solution satisfying the needs and implement demonstrators. * He/she will support the transfer of results and knowledge to the Business Units. The job holder will protect the research results and will launch the adapted actions related to intellectual property (patents?). * To support the growth of IW UK, the job holder will contribute to the acquisition of projects for UK Business Units For all his/her activities, the job holder will report to the Team Leader Contact Romaric Redon EADS Innovation Works TCC5 Simulation, IT & Systems Engineering RTL Research Team Leader Intelligent and Semantic Systems team romaric.redon at eads.net Application should be received through http://www.eads.net/1024/fr/career/jobmarket/jobmarket.html Ref EADS0015 ********************************************************************** 9. Open position for PhD/postdoc position at Ghent University From: Benjamin Schrauwen To: comp-neuro at neuroinf.org Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:08:28 +0200 Subject: [Comp-neuro] Open position for PhD/postdoc position at Ghent University One open PhD or postdoc position in "learning dynamic feature hierarchies using reservoir computing" is available at the Reservoir Lab (http://reslab.elis.ugent.be), part of the Electronics and Information Systems Department, faculty of Engineering of the Ghent University, Belgium (http://ugent.be). The research will take place in the recently started "Self-organized Recurrent Neural Learning for Language Processing" (ORGANIC) project, funded by the European Commission within the 7th Framework Program. Details about the project can be found at the preliminary reservoir computing website (http://reservoir-computing.org). Current state-of-the-art speech & handwriting recognition systems still perform much worse than human beings who can effortlessly decode the speech or handwriting of most people, even in fairly adverse conditions (e.g. the presence of noise in case of speech recognition). The fact that the human brain works so efficiently is owed to its self-organizing capacity, the deeply hierarchical approach, the adoption of unsupervised and supervised learning strategies, and the capacity to adapt almost instantly to new circumstances. Why not try to build an automatic speech recognizer and handwriting recognition engine that incorporates the same principles? The research concerns the investigation of architectures and algorithms for the efficient learning of large recurrent neural networks hierarchies based on the Reservoir Computing concept (where only a linear readout layer is learned in a supervised way whereas the recurrent connections are fixed or trained in an unsupervised way). Important research topics are the unsupervised learning of a large hierarchy of recurrent sub-layers, and the integration of various adaptation techniques. The application domain is mainly speech recognition, but also off-line handwriting recognition. Candidates should have a Masters or PhD degree in Electrical, Computer or Physics Engineering; or in Physics, Mathematics, Computational Neuroscience or Computer Science. A good knowledge of English is essential. The ideal candidates have some acquaintance with Machine Learning, programming (Python, Matlab, ...), statistics, signal processing, speech recognition, or control engineering. We offer an opportunity to perform three years of research and to obtain a doctoral degree in this domain (if applicable). There will be ample opportunities for establishing international contacts (stays at partner universities, participation to international conferences). As an employee of the university you will receive a competitive salary, as well as excellent secondary benefits (holiday allowance, etc.). Belgium was ranked first on the "Best Countries for Academic Research" worldwide list (The Scientist, 2007), and Ghent University was appointed second place on the "Best Places to Work in Academia" non-US list (The Scientist, 2006). To apply, please send an email to Benjamin Schrauwen (Benjamin "dot" Schrauwen "at" UGent "dot" be) with: a detailed curriculum vitae (with your course program and grades), and a brief introduction of your research interests and plans. The position is available now. With kind regards, Benjamin Schrauwen ---------------------------- - Dr. ir. Benjamin Schrauwen - - Reservoir Lab, Electronics and Information Systems Department - Faculty of Engineering Sciences, Ghent University - - St. Pietersnieuwstraat 41, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium - work phone: +32-9-264.95.26 - website: http://reslab.elis.ugent.be/ ---------------------------- _______________________________________________ Comp-neuro mailing list Comp-neuro at neuroinf.org http://www.neuroinf.org/mailman/listinfo/comp-neuro ********************************************************************** 10. Post Doc/Group Leader Position for Cognitive Computational Neuroscience at Chemnitz, Germany [from: "the computational neuroscience email list at neuroinf.org." ] Post Doc/Group Leader Position for Cognitive Computational Neuroscience A postdoctoral / group leader position is available at the Technical University of Chemnitz (Germany) in the Department of Computer Science. The position is initially for three years, starting in October 2009 (or soon thereafter), but with a possibility of renewing. The candidate should have a PhD and prior experience in developing neurocomputational systems, particularly with respect to data in the neurosciences and psychology. Experience in interdisciplinary projects or own experimental studies is welcome. A background in parallel computing or virtual reality is beneficial but not required. The position requires teaching students in computer science in the area of artificial intelligence, machine learning, computational neuroscience and image processing but the major focus is on research. The envisaged research focus should be on the development of neurocomputational models closely linked to the neurosciences and/or the application of neurocomputational principles for cognitive systems in the area of object recognition, visual attention, visual masking, space perception, emotions, neural learning rules, cognitive control, decision making, reward-based learning (dopamine, basal ganglia), grasping, or eye movements. Additionally planned own experimental studies will be supported. It is expected that the candidate applies for research grants to expand the research group. We offer excellent research support for the development of neurocomputational systems in form of research seminars, parallel computing hardware, virtual reality setups, and eye tracking. In addition, we have many contacts to multiple experimental groups in Germany and participate in various international collaborations. The salary is according to German standards (E 13 TV-L or A13h). The university is an equal opportunity employer. Women are encouraged to apply. Disabled applicants will receive priority in case they have equal qualifications. Chemnitz is the third-largest city of the state of Saxony and close to scenic mountains. Major cities nearby are Leipzig and Dresden with a rich tradition of music and culture. [it is a charming city sympathetic to cognitive modeling -fer] Applications should be sent by email (preferably in PDF format) to Fred Hamker (fred.hamker at informatik.tu-chemnitz.de) before July 5th, 2009, but later applications will be considered until the position is filled. -------------------- Prof. Dr. Fred H Hamker Artificial Intelligence Department of Computer Science Technical University Chemnitz Strasse der Nationen 62 D - 09107 Chemnitz Germany Tel: +49 (0)371 531-37875 Fax: +49 (0)371 531-25739 email: fred.hamker at informatik.tu-chemnitz.de www: http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/informatik/KI/ ********************************************************************** 11. Graduate student, postdoctoral and research programmer positions at RPI [from Soar-group] List-Id: "The soar-group mailing list." The Human-Level Intelligence Laboratory at Rensselaer has just been awarded a grant to study "Unified Theories of Language and Cognition". As a consequence, we have funding for several graduate student, postdoctoral and research programmer positions. The project aims to develop a unified computational theory of language use that significantly expands the ability of computers to understand language and explains how people use background knowledge and context to achieve deep understanding of language even when it is highly ambiguous, novel, ungrammatical and/or metaphorical. Many aspects of this problem (for example, the reasoning algorithms and ontologies involved) are not specific to language and thus an interest in language is not strictly necessary to participate. Rensselaer is located in the Hudson Valley, equidistant from Boston and New York City. It is conceivable that we could work something out with someone who is constrained to reside near one of those cities. Our primary criterion for bringing new people into the lab is the intelligence, curiosity, energy and motivation needed to solve the problems involved in this project. Background in one or more of the following areas, would help, though is not necessary: * Linguistics. Formal syntax and semantics, construction grammars and pragmatics are especially relevant. * Reasoning algorithms. Our work integrates multiple forms of reasoning algorithms, including those based on first-order logic, SAT, probability theory and analogy. * Ontologies. Our approach is knowledge-intensive and will require the ability to acquire and organize this knowledge. * Semantic Web. We will be interfacing with information available in many machine-readable, distributed knowledge bases. There are many interesting problems involved in using this information for reasoning and language understanding. * Software engineering. All our work is integrated within a single cognitive architecture. This presents several interesting software engineering challenges. If you are interested in a position, please send a note to me at cassin at rpi dot edu. ********************************************************************** 12. PhD position in Computational Cognitive Modeling at the U. of Grenoble, France [from act-r-users at act-r.psy.cmu.edu] A full-time PhD position is available at the University of Grenoble, France, for a period of 3 years in order to qualify for a PhD degree. The position is funded by the National Research Agency of France (ANR). The successful applicant will work as part of the Gaze&EEG project whose one of the goals is to design and implement a computational model of information search in web-like materials, using data from both eye-tracking and EEG. Interested individuals should send an email with their detailed CV and motivation letter to Anne Gu?rin-Dugu? (anne.guerin at gipsa-lab.grenoble-inp.fr) and Beno?t Lemaire (Benoit.Lemaire at imag.fr) before July 10, 2009. Salary: 1,400? net / month Starting date: October 1st, 2009 Contact information: Beno?t Lemaire, TIMC-IMAG, U. of Grenoble, France, http://www-timc.imag.fr/Benoit.Lemaire Thanks to the joint EEG-eye tracking methodology, this project gives us the great opportunity to deal with more ecological visual tasks, in order to propose cognitive models partially explaining the human behavior during natural cognitive tasks. The task we will study is information seeking on Web pages. Knowing where and why a user is likely to gaze at is important for the design and evaluation of complex documents and especially web pages. Many works have already been done in this area, in particular in the context of web usability [1], but they usually consider that the user is processing the page without any specific goal, because they can only take into account visual features, without incorporating the processing of textual data and its relationship to the user goal. A completely different approach have been to model to semantic similarity between the textual material and the goal [2] but without taking into account the visual features, which is known to affect the gaze. Therefore, we want to develop a computational model based on complex materials composed of textual items and images, integrating memory, visual and semantic processes, and will validate experimental data on eye movements and eye-fixation-related potentials extracted from EEG signals. The PhD student will first familiarize with the eye-fixation-related potentials (EFRP) technique [3] at the University of Nice during a semester. This technique records at the same time eye movements and EEG signals. Then the PhD student will design experiments in order to study specific brain waves (such as the N400) on stimuli composed of text and natural images referring to congruent or not congruent concepts. Finally, the student will use that information to design a computational model of information search, extending the existing models of our team [4,5]. The successful applicant will be supervised by Anne Gu?rin-Dugu? (GIPSA-lab) and Beno?t Lemaire (TIMC-IMAG). Applicants should have a master degree in cognitive science, computer science or psychology and demonstrate their ability to carry out high-quality research in cognitive modeling. A good level of proficiency in computer programming is necessary. Familiarity with signal processing is desirable. Good knowledge in either vision or semantics would be an advantage. [1] Baccino, T., Bellino, C., & Colombi, T. (2005). Mesure de l'utilisabilit? des Interfaces. Paris: Herm?s Science Publisher (Lavoisier). [2] Blackmon, M. H., Kitajima, M., & Polson, P. G. (2005). Tool for accurately predicting website navigation problems, non-problems, problem severity, and effectiveness of repairs. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human factors in Computing Systems, pp. 31-40. [3] Baccino, T., & Manunta, Y. (2005). Eye-Fixation-Related Potentials: Insight into Parafoveal Processing. Journal of Psychophysiology, 19(3), 204-215. (http://www.lutin-userlab.fr/baccino/Publications/Articles/Baccino%20et%20Manunta%20(2005).pdf) [4] Chanceaux, M., Gu?rin-Dugu?, A., Lemaire, B., Baccino, T. (2009). A model to simulate Web users' eye movements. In Proceedings of the 12th IFIP TC13 Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT' 2009), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Berlin: Springer Verlag. (http://membres-timc.imag.fr/Myriam.Chanceaux/activites/publications/2009_interact.pdf) [5] Chanceaux, M., Gu?rin-Dugu?, A., Lemaire, B., Baccino, T. (2008). Towards a model of information seeking by integrating visual, semantic and memory maps, In B. Caputo, M Vincze (Eds), Proceedings of the 4th International Cognitive Vision Workshop, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5329, Berlin: Springer Verlag, 65-78. (http://membres-timc.imag.fr/Myriam.Chanceaux/activites/publications/2008_icvw.pdf) ********************************************************************** 13. Positions at RPI http://www.higheredjobs.com/details.cfm?JobCode=175379970 The School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences seeks to hire three faculty for its Games and Simulation Arts and Science (GSAS) degree program. Rensselaer's GSAS was formally announced as a B.S. degree with enrollment beginning in Fall 2007. It is among a handful of such programs in the country. The Program is designed (1) to educate students for early career positions, and (2) to provide them with the technical, communication, and leadership skills needed to help shape an industry emerging out of the "games" phenomenon. Rank for these tenured, tenure-track positions is open. As such, the job title will be Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or Professor, depending upon qualifications and experiences of the selected candidates. Duties include teaching in the area of GSAS, relevant research or other visible work, and service to the department, Institute and profession. Whereas primary teaching responsibilities are with the GSAS program, the department affiliation may include Art, Cognitive Science, Communications, Economics, or Science & Technological Studies. However, as game design, development, and research can provide junctures and cooperation between the arts and cultural studies, social sciences, computer sciences, engineering, and information technology, we are seeking faculty with broad visions who may not fit into the traditional departmental structure. Qualifications: An appropriate terminal degree (MS, MFA, or PhD), professional activity and visibility in the game industry and/or history of academic research and teaching in areas related to Games and Simulations broadly defined. Rank: Open with the expectation that one of the three will be Associate or Full and that the other two will be junior positions. Salary: Commensurate with experience Starting date: As soon as Spring 2010 as late as Fall 2010. To apply send a resume, a cover letter describing your professional interests and qualifications, portfolio or selected research publications (as appropriate), and a list of 5 people from which letters of recommendation may be requested after receipt of your application. Work samples may be in the form of DVDs, CDs, websites, books, articles, or other appropriate media (for return please include a SASE). Named one of the "New Ivies," Rensselaer is an emerging elite university with nationally recognized graduate and undergraduate academic programs. For the eighth year in a row, Rensselaer has been counted among the top 50 universities in the nation, according to U. S. News & World Report. With approximately 5000 undergraduate and 2500 graduate students from across the country and around the globe, Rensselaer is located in Troy, NY, the heart of the "Tech Valley" region of the Hudson River Valley with New York City, Boston, and Montreal only a few hours away. The region hosts diverse communities and is known for its quality of life. Outdoor recreation opportunities are plentiful in the Adirondack and Berkshire Mountains that are only an hour or so away. The area boasts affordable Victorian architecture and is a cultural center for the arts. Review of applications will begin July 1, 2009 and will continue until suitable candidates are found. Application Information Apply for this Position through My HigherEdJobs Postal Address: Wayne Gray School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Sage Laboratory 110 8th Street Troy, NY 12180-3590 Email Address: grayw at rpi.edu ********************************************************************** 14. Graduate fellowship at U. of Portsmouth One or two 3-year PhD scholarships have become available in the School of Creative Technologies, at the University of Portsmouth, England. The PhD will work with cognitive models using a high level behaviour representation language, including extending it, applying it, or testing it to work as a cognitive model or as an agent in a game. Contact Tony Kalus , if you are interested, for details. ********************************************************************** -30- From D.H.van.Rijn at rug.nl Sat Jul 11 11:57:48 2009 From: D.H.van.Rijn at rug.nl (Hedderik van Rijn) Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 17:57:48 +0200 Subject: [ACT-R-users] CogSci 2009 - Session Recommender System Message-ID: <551A629A-E205-484E-B96E-3DEDB5F43EA2@rug.nl> As many of you will be attending CogSci 2009 in a couple of weeks, we would like to ask you for a favor: test the new conference session recommender system for CogSci 2009! Last year, the course User Models at the AI department at the University of Groningen was focussed on developing a recommender system for conference talks/sessions. Based on that work, one of our Master students, Emil Kraaikamp, developed a recommender system for CogSci 2009. This system will be made available to all attendees of CogSci 2009. However, before opening this system to 1000+ people, we would like to test the system on a slightly smaller scale. So, if you're attending CogSci 2009, and want to be one of the first to test this new recommender system, please visit: http://www.ai.rug.nl/ cogsci09 - and give our recommender system a test drive! (Instructions can be found on the HowTo page.) If you notice anything that does not work, or does not work as expected, please let me (D.H.van.Rijn at rug.nl) or Emil Kraaikamp (ekraaikamp at gmail.com ) know! Hope to see you all at ICCM or CogSci09, - Hedderik. -- http://www.van-rijn.org From D.H.van.Rijn at rug.nl Sat Jul 11 13:06:46 2009 From: D.H.van.Rijn at rug.nl (Hedderik van Rijn) Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 19:06:46 +0200 Subject: [ACT-R-users] CogSci 2009 - Session Recommender System In-Reply-To: <551A629A-E205-484E-B96E-3DEDB5F43EA2@rug.nl> References: <551A629A-E205-484E-B96E-3DEDB5F43EA2@rug.nl> Message-ID: <1B202227-420F-43CF-AFAA-28A4568DE034@rug.nl> > this new recommender system, please visit: http://www.ai.rug.nl/ > cogsci09 This URL should read: http://www.ai.rug.nl/cogsci09 - Hedderik. From pavel at dit.unitn.it Mon Jul 13 17:21:56 2009 From: pavel at dit.unitn.it (Pavel Shvaiko) Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:21:56 +0200 Subject: [ACT-R-users] OAEI-2009: Call for ontology matching systems participation Message-ID: <00B97E7D5D8446249C941F20BA4F98D0@ITN96946> Apologies for cross-postings +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Call for ontology matching systems participation +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ OAEI-2009 Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative in cooperation with the ISWC Ontology Matching workshop October 25, 2009 - Chantilly, near Washington DC., USA http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2009/ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 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-2009 is the sixth OAEI campaign. It will consist of five tracks gathering elleven test cases and different evaluation modalities. The tracks cover: (i) comparison track; (ii) expressive ontologies; (iii) directories and thesauri; (iv) oriented matching; (v) instance matching. 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 June 1st, 2009: First publication of test cases June 22nd, 2009: Comments on test cases (any time before that date) July 6th, 2009: Final publication of test cases Sept. 1st, 2009: Preliminary results due (for interoperability-checking) Sept. 28st, 2009: Participants send final results and supporting papers Oct. 5th, 2009: Organizers publish results for comments Oct. 25th, 2009: OM-2009 workshop + OAEI-2009 final results ready. More about OAEI-2009: http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2009/ More about OAEI: http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/ More about OM-2009: http://om2009.ontologymatching.org/ More about ontology matching: http://www.ontologymatching.org/ ------------------------------------------------------- Download the OM-2009 flyer: http://om2009.ontologymatching.org/Pictures/CfP_OM2009_flyer.pdf ------------------------------------------------------- Cheers, Pavel --------------------------------------- Pavel Shvaiko, Ph.D. Innovation and Research Project Manager TasLab - Informatica Trentina S.p.A. Via G. Gilli, 2 38100 Trento - Italy -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ja+ at cmu.edu Fri Jul 17 12:30:01 2009 From: ja+ at cmu.edu (John Anderson) Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 12:30:01 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Future of ACT-R Workshops Message-ID: Colleagues: I was hoping that there would be some discussion of the future of ACT-R Workshops at the Future of ACT-R session at the ACT-R workshop before Cognitive Science. However, Richard Young urges me to have some position with respect to this matter in advance of ICCM. There is some possibility (I don't know how likely) that ICCM might turn to annual summer meeting which would conflict with the nearly annual ACT-R Workshops that have been the mainstay of the ACT-R community. Richard argues that the "ACT-R" position on this might inform the ICCM decision. So subject to further input from the ACT-R community here is our position and some facts: 1. It would be nice from the perspective of the ACT-R community to continue the 2 ICCM meetings every 3 years with the European meeting around around Easter (or however that logic works). This would mean two annual meetings every three years and something different on the third year to shake us up. 2. However, it seems like the tail wagging the dog to insist on this if the rest of the ICCM community wants to go to annual meetings. So if ICCM goes annual, we will have to adapt. There are at least 4 ways to adapt: (a) Be inventive every year and figure out something different every year. Having experienced trying to be inventive for two years in a row, I can say this is an unlikely option. (b) Have a one-day workshop/tutorial like we did before the 2007 ICCM or like we are doing before this years Cognitive Science. While these are great as one-time options I don't think they provide for enough community interaction. (c) Have an annual meeting in the winter. The logistics may be problematical. More about this below. (d) Have an annual meeting in late Spring (late May probably) a couple of months before the probable ICCM meetings. My current guess is that this is the most likely option but it is also the one that offers the most conflict with a summer ICCM. That time is the best time in Pittsburgh weather-wise although I note that Wayne Gray held a very successful meeting in the DC area and Danilo Fum held a very successful meeting in Trieste. These may models for future meetings. 3. The choice among these options and others (if ICCM goes annual summer) awaits further discussion of the community. With respect to next year there remain a number of options on the table: 1. Hold a meeting nearly right after the New Year in Miami (most likely location). However, nothing has been done to plan this and so it is becoming less likely. 2. There has been discussion of a joint meeting of ACT-R and Soar focused on architecture. This would be during the May/June border when weather is nicest in Pittsburgh and Ann Arbor. I think this could be quite exciting but a comparative-architectures meeting is not a model for re-occurring future meetings because it would compete too much with ICCM. 3. Relive the 2001 Postgraduate school at Coolfont before the 2009 ICCM meetings in Philadelphia. Please think about these options and let your opinions be known electronically or at the Cognitive Science workshop. I hope to see most of you over the next couple of weeks, John -- ========================================================== John R. Anderson Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Office: Baker Hall 345D Phone: 412-417-7008 Fax: 412-268-2844 email: ja at cmu.edu URL: http://act.psy.cmu.edu/ From db30 at andrew.cmu.edu Fri Jul 17 14:54:23 2009 From: db30 at andrew.cmu.edu (db30 at andrew.cmu.edu) Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:54:23 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Summer ACT-R 6.0 release Message-ID: <1781C29E6AF2C189BCFE8C7A@act-r6.cmu.edu> The summer release of ACT-R 6.0 is now available on the ACT-R web site. Like the spring release, there are again no significant changes in the main ACT-R code. The biggest change in this release is a new version of tutorial unit 5. In the new unit a modified version of the siegler model is used as an example instead of being the task for the assignment. The assignment is now to build a model that can learn to play a simple game under a variety of different conditions. The other noteworthy change is the addition of the run-environment command for those using ACL or LispWorks under either Windows or Mac OS X. This command can be used instead of start-environment to simplify the process because it will first spawn the appropriate environment application and then initiate the connection. As always, feel free to let me know if you have any questions or problems. Dan From Kevin.Gluck at mesa.afmc.af.mil Sat Jul 18 17:51:08 2009 From: Kevin.Gluck at mesa.afmc.af.mil (Gluck, Kevin A Civ USAF AFMC 711 HPW/RHAC) Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 17:51:08 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Future of ACT-R Workshops Message-ID: I'd like to see ICCM and the ACT-R workshop adopt alternating biennial schedules. Both co-located with CogSci, of course. ----- Original Message ----- From: act-r-users-bounces at act-r.psy.cmu.edu To: act-r-users at act-r.psy.cmu.edu Sent: Fri Jul 17 12:30:01 2009 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Future of ACT-R Workshops Colleagues: I was hoping that there would be some discussion of the future of ACT-R Workshops at the Future of ACT-R session at the ACT-R workshop before Cognitive Science. However, Richard Young urges me to have some position with respect to this matter in advance of ICCM. There is some possibility (I don't know how likely) that ICCM might turn to annual summer meeting which would conflict with the nearly annual ACT-R Workshops that have been the mainstay of the ACT-R community. Richard argues that the "ACT-R" position on this might inform the ICCM decision. So subject to further input from the ACT-R community here is our position and some facts: 1. It would be nice from the perspective of the ACT-R community to continue the 2 ICCM meetings every 3 years with the European meeting around around Easter (or however that logic works). This would mean two annual meetings every three years and something different on the third year to shake us up. 2. However, it seems like the tail wagging the dog to insist on this if the rest of the ICCM community wants to go to annual meetings. So if ICCM goes annual, we will have to adapt. There are at least 4 ways to adapt: (a) Be inventive every year and figure out something different every year. Having experienced trying to be inventive for two years in a row, I can say this is an unlikely option. (b) Have a one-day workshop/tutorial like we did before the 2007 ICCM or like we are doing before this years Cognitive Science. While these are great as one-time options I don't think they provide for enough community interaction. (c) Have an annual meeting in the winter. The logistics may be problematical. More about this below. (d) Have an annual meeting in late Spring (late May probably) a couple of months before the probable ICCM meetings. My current guess is that this is the most likely option but it is also the one that offers the most conflict with a summer ICCM. That time is the best time in Pittsburgh weather-wise although I note that Wayne Gray held a very successful meeting in the DC area and Danilo Fum held a very successful meeting in Trieste. These may models for future meetings. 3. The choice among these options and others (if ICCM goes annual summer) awaits further discussion of the community. With respect to next year there remain a number of options on the table: 1. Hold a meeting nearly right after the New Year in Miami (most likely location). However, nothing has been done to plan this and so it is becoming less likely. 2. There has been discussion of a joint meeting of ACT-R and Soar focused on architecture. This would be during the May/June border when weather is nicest in Pittsburgh and Ann Arbor. I think this could be quite exciting but a comparative-architectures meeting is not a model for re-occurring future meetings because it would compete too much with ICCM. 3. Relive the 2001 Postgraduate school at Coolfont before the 2009 ICCM meetings in Philadelphia. Please think about these options and let your opinions be known electronically or at the Cognitive Science workshop. I hope to see most of you over the next couple of weeks, John -- ========================================================== John R. Anderson Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Office: Baker Hall 345D Phone: 412-417-7008 Fax: 412-268-2844 email: ja at cmu.edu URL: http://act.psy.cmu.edu/ _______________________________________________ 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... URL: From salvucci at cs.drexel.edu Sat Jul 18 20:20:54 2009 From: salvucci at cs.drexel.edu (Dario Salvucci) Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 20:20:54 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Future of ACT-R Workshops In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Personally I think ICCM is better off staying on a 2-out-of-3-year schedule with springtime European meetings -- for the sake of ICCM itself, as well as the ACT-R workshop. Dario On Jul 17, 2009, at 12:30 PM, John Anderson wrote: > Colleagues: > > I was hoping that there would be some discussion of the future of > ACT-R Workshops at the Future of ACT-R session at the ACT-R workshop > before Cognitive Science. However, Richard Young urges me to have > some position with respect to this matter in advance of ICCM. There > is some possibility (I don't know how likely) that ICCM might turn to > annual summer meeting which would conflict with the nearly annual > ACT-R Workshops that have been the mainstay of the ACT-R community. > Richard argues that the "ACT-R" position on this might inform the > ICCM decision. > > So subject to further input from the ACT-R community here is our > position and some facts: > > 1. It would be nice from the perspective of the ACT-R community to > continue the 2 ICCM meetings every 3 years with the European meeting > around around Easter (or however that logic works). This would mean > two annual meetings every three years and something different on the > third year to shake us up. > > 2. However, it seems like the tail wagging the dog to insist on > this if the rest of the ICCM community wants to go to annual > meetings. So if ICCM goes annual, we will have to adapt. There > are at least 4 ways to adapt: > (a) Be inventive every year and figure out something different > every year. Having experienced trying to be inventive for two years > in a row, I can say this is an unlikely option. > (b) Have a one-day workshop/tutorial like we did before the 2007 > ICCM or like we are doing before this years Cognitive Science. > While these are great as one-time options I don't think they provide > for enough community interaction. > (c) Have an annual meeting in the winter. The logistics may be > problematical. More about this below. > (d) Have an annual meeting in late Spring (late May probably) a > couple of months before the probable ICCM meetings. My current guess > is that this is the most likely option but it is also the one that > offers the most conflict with a summer ICCM. That time is the best > time in Pittsburgh weather-wise although I note that Wayne Gray held > a very successful meeting in the DC area and Danilo Fum held a very > successful meeting in Trieste. These may models for future meetings. > > 3. The choice among these options and others (if ICCM goes annual > summer) awaits further discussion of the community. > > With respect to next year there remain a number of options on the > table: > 1. Hold a meeting nearly right after the New Year in Miami (most > likely location). However, nothing has been done to plan this and > so it is becoming less likely. > 2. There has been discussion of a joint meeting of ACT-R and Soar > focused on architecture. This would be during the May/June border > when weather is nicest in Pittsburgh and Ann Arbor. I think this > could be quite exciting but a comparative-architectures meeting is > not a model for re-occurring future meetings because it would compete > too much with ICCM. > 3. Relive the 2001 Postgraduate school at Coolfont before the 2009 > ICCM meetings in Philadelphia. > > Please think about these options and let your opinions be known > electronically or at the Cognitive Science workshop. > > I hope to see most of you over the next couple of weeks, > John > > -- > > ========================================================== > > John R. Anderson > Carnegie Mellon University > Pittsburgh, PA 15213 > Office: Baker Hall 345D > Phone: 412-417-7008 > Fax: 412-268-2844 > email: ja at cmu.edu > URL: http://act.psy.cmu.edu/ > _______________________________________________ > 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 > _____________________________________ Dario Salvucci, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Computer Science Drexel University http://www.cs.drexel.edu/~salvucci/ From D.H.van.Rijn at rug.nl Sun Jul 19 06:08:42 2009 From: D.H.van.Rijn at rug.nl (Hedderik van Rijn) Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 12:08:42 +0200 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Future of ACT-R Workshops In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <12977602-DAF9-44A8-A487-685A14BBF4DF@rug.nl> On Jul 18, 2009, at 23:51 , Gluck, Kevin A Civ USAF AFMC 711 HPW/RHAC wrote: > I'd like to see ICCM and the ACT-R workshop adopt alternating > biennial schedules. Both co-located with CogSci, of course. > I like this option quite a bit as well. It will enable people with less travel funds to attend both conferences regularly. If either ICCM or the ACT-R WS wants to hold more meetings, additional Winter or Spring meetings could be added to this schedule, for example the SOAR- ACT-R meeting John mentioned. However, I completely agree with John that this year's construction does not provide for much "community building". Therefore, I would prefer to have a biannual multi-day (2?) ACT-R workshop aligned with CogSci, not as a one-day CogSci-workshop as it is this year. If ICCM decides to go annual, I would *not* be in favor of keeping it co-located with CogSci, as two very similar conferences in a row is a bit too much. As this does not hold, in my experience, for a workshop- conference sequence, I would be in favor of having ICCM move to either Spring or Autumn, and to have the ACT-R workshop aligned with CogSci. - Hedderik. -- http://www.van-rijn.org From ritter at ist.psu.edu Wed Jul 22 15:50:32 2009 From: ritter at ist.psu.edu (Frank Ritter) Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:50:32 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Future of ACT-R Workshops In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: That is a useful and thoughtful approach. Here are a couple of further thoughts. Many of those options are attractive. There are clearly many purposes these meetings serve. Thus, a homogenous answer and schedule of meetings can be a poorer diet than a heterogeneous approach that supports a broader set of needs, but does not satiate any of them. There is an attraction to meetings in Pittsburgh and to a lesser extent Ann Arbor, because I can get more students more easily to them. Having it this year with Cogsci, or even ICCM, made it impossible to get students there. (this is not one-sided, I understand that other students can get there). But, having ACT-R at a resort location is not particularly an important issue for me. cheers, Frank At 12:30 -0400 17/7/09, John Anderson wrote: >Colleagues: > >I was hoping that there would be some discussion of the future of >ACT-R Workshops at the Future of ACT-R session at the ACT-R workshop >before Cognitive Science. However, Richard Young urges me to have >some position with respect to this matter in advance of ICCM. There >is some possibility (I don't know how likely) that ICCM might turn to >annual summer meeting which would conflict with the nearly annual >ACT-R Workshops that have been the mainstay of the ACT-R community. >Richard argues that the "ACT-R" position on this might inform the >ICCM decision. > >So subject to further input from the ACT-R community here is our >position and some facts: > >1. It would be nice from the perspective of the ACT-R community to >continue the 2 ICCM meetings every 3 years with the European meeting >around around Easter (or however that logic works). This would mean >two annual meetings every three years and something different on the >third year to shake us up. > >2. However, it seems like the tail wagging the dog to insist on >this if the rest of the ICCM community wants to go to annual >meetings. So if ICCM goes annual, we will have to adapt. There >are at least 4 ways to adapt: > (a) Be inventive every year and figure out something different >every year. Having experienced trying to be inventive for two years >in a row, I can say this is an unlikely option. > (b) Have a one-day workshop/tutorial like we did before the 2007 >ICCM or like we are doing before this years Cognitive Science. >While these are great as one-time options I don't think they provide >for enough community interaction. > (c) Have an annual meeting in the winter. The logistics may be >problematical. More about this below. > (d) Have an annual meeting in late Spring (late May probably) a >couple of months before the probable ICCM meetings. My current guess >is that this is the most likely option but it is also the one that >offers the most conflict with a summer ICCM. That time is the best >time in Pittsburgh weather-wise although I note that Wayne Gray held >a very successful meeting in the DC area and Danilo Fum held a very >successful meeting in Trieste. These may models for future meetings. > >3. The choice among these options and others (if ICCM goes annual >summer) awaits further discussion of the community. > >With respect to next year there remain a number of options on the table: >1. Hold a meeting nearly right after the New Year in Miami (most >likely location). However, nothing has been done to plan this and >so it is becoming less likely. >2. There has been discussion of a joint meeting of ACT-R and Soar >focused on architecture. This would be during the May/June border >when weather is nicest in Pittsburgh and Ann Arbor. I think this >could be quite exciting but a comparative-architectures meeting is >not a model for re-occurring future meetings because it would compete >too much with ICCM. >3. Relive the 2001 Postgraduate school at Coolfont before the 2009 >ICCM meetings in Philadelphia. > >Please think about these options and let your opinions be known >electronically or at the Cognitive Science workshop. > >I hope to see most of you over the next couple of weeks, >John > >-- > >========================================================== > >John R. Anderson >Carnegie Mellon University >Pittsburgh, PA 15213 >Office: Baker Hall 345D >Phone: 412-417-7008 >Fax: 412-268-2844 >email: ja at cmu.edu >URL: http://act.psy.cmu.edu/ >_______________________________________________ >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 From Kevin.Gluck at mesa.afmc.af.mil Wed Jul 22 18:47:32 2009 From: Kevin.Gluck at mesa.afmc.af.mil (Gluck, Kevin A Civ USAF AFMC 711 HPW/RHAC) Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:47:32 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Research Opportunities Available with the PALM Team Message-ID: The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory's Performance and Learning Models (PALM) Team has a variety of positions available for cognitive, computational, and computer scientists, ranging from intern to research assistant to post-doc to visiting faculty. Only U.S. citizens and permanent legal residents of the United States are eligible for these positions. 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URL: From byrne at rice.edu Wed Jul 22 19:33:59 2009 From: byrne at rice.edu (Mike Byrne) Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:33:59 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Future of ACT-R Workshops In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <7D9C7861-AAB3-4430-BDF4-7D8CF030DB92@rice.edu> On Jul 18, 2009, at 17:51, Gluck, Kevin A Civ USAF AFMC 711 HPW/RHAC wrote: > I'd like to see ICCM and the ACT-R workshop adopt alternating > biennial schedules. Both co-located with CogSci, of course. I vote for this as well, though the rider that it be co-located with CogSci is not necessary for me. In fact, I'd rather see them *not* co-located and be moved to early summer, like late May/early June. (Actually mid-May would be even better but I understand we'd start running into issues with academic calendars that early.) -Mike From r.m.young at acm.org Thu Jul 23 04:46:34 2009 From: r.m.young at acm.org (Richard M Young) Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 09:46:34 +0100 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Future of ACT-R Workshops Message-ID: <200907230913.n6N9DARH010828@act-r.psy.cmu.edu> I'm not sure about other European academic timetables, but a workshop too early in the summer would be difficult for the Brits. For example, our academic year (3rd term = approx 2nd semester) ran this year until 12 June, and our Board of Examiners meeting was on 1st July, so it's only really with July that we can regard the summer conference season as starting. In general, I believe for people from outside N America, the timing of the past years has been better: holding the Act-R workshop just before some other major conference, such as Cog Sci in years when it's in N America. That makes for a sensible & worthwhile trans-Atlantic trip. Incidentally (though only partly relevant to this email thread), the awkwardness of early summer conferences was one of the reasons why previous European ICCMs have been held in the spring, not the summer. We do appreciate that that timing is not ideal for American academics. It's an imperfect world ... ~ Richard At 00:33 23/07/2009, Mike Byrne wrote: >On Jul 18, 2009, at 17:51, Gluck, Kevin A Civ USAF AFMC 711 HPW/RHAC >wrote: > > > I'd like to see ICCM and the ACT-R workshop adopt alternating > > biennial schedules. Both co-located with CogSci, of course. > >I vote for this as well, though the rider that it be co-located with >CogSci is not necessary for me. > >In fact, I'd rather see them *not* co-located and be moved to early >summer, like late May/early June. (Actually mid-May would be even >better but I understand we'd start running into issues with academic >calendars that early.) > >-Mike From susan.chipman at gmail.com Thu Jul 23 08:35:45 2009 From: susan.chipman at gmail.com (Susan Chipman) Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 08:35:45 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Future of ACT-R Workshops In-Reply-To: <200907230913.n6N9DARH010828@act-r.psy.cmu.edu> References: <200907230913.n6N9DARH010828@act-r.psy.cmu.edu> Message-ID: <9a69fa4f0907230535n68f8c036l55dad13265204e43@mail.gmail.com> Just a comment that the extreme variability of academic calendars across various American universities always made it difficult to schedule ONR meetings, particularly in the early Fall and late Spring. Susan Chipman On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 4:46 AM, Richard M Young wrote: > I'm not sure about other European academic timetables, but a workshop > too early in the summer would be difficult for the Brits. For > example, our academic year (3rd term = approx 2nd semester) ran this > year until 12 June, and our Board of Examiners meeting was on 1st > July, so it's only really with July that we can regard the summer > conference season as starting. > > In general, I believe for people from outside N America, the timing > of the past years has been better: holding the Act-R workshop just > before some other major conference, such as Cog Sci in years when > it's in N America. That makes for a sensible & worthwhile trans-Atlantic > trip. > > Incidentally (though only partly relevant to this email thread), the > awkwardness of early summer conferences was one of the reasons why > previous European ICCMs have been held in the spring, not the > summer. We do appreciate that that timing is not ideal for American > academics. > > It's an imperfect world ... > > ~ Richard > > At 00:33 23/07/2009, Mike Byrne wrote: > >On Jul 18, 2009, at 17:51, Gluck, Kevin A Civ USAF AFMC 711 HPW/RHAC > >wrote: > > > > > I'd like to see ICCM and the ACT-R workshop adopt alternating > > > biennial schedules. Both co-located with CogSci, of course. > > > >I vote for this as well, though the rider that it be co-located with > >CogSci is not necessary for me. > > > >In fact, I'd rather see them *not* co-located and be moved to early > >summer, like late May/early June. (Actually mid-May would be even > >better but I understand we'd start running into issues with academic > >calendars that early.) > > > >-Mike > > _______________________________________________ > 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... URL: From pavel at dit.unitn.it Tue Jul 28 02:26:56 2009 From: pavel at dit.unitn.it (Pavel Shvaiko) Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 08:26:56 +0200 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Final CFP: ISWC'09 workshop on Ontology Matching (OM-2009) Message-ID: <56D0C2F03E984E53A5C93DEBEF61C23C@ITN96946> Apologies for cross-postings ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS: submission deadline is approaching: 15 days left ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Fourth International Workshop on ONTOLOGY MATCHING (OM-2009) http://om2009.ontologymatching.org/ October 25, 2009, ISWC'09 Workshop Program, Chantilly, near Washington DC., USA BRIEF DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES Ontology matching is a key interoperability enabler for the Semantic Web, as well as a useful tactic in some classical data integration tasks. It takes the ontologies as input and determines as output an alignment, that is, a set of correspondences between the semantically related entities of those ontologies. These correspondences can be used for various tasks, such as ontology merging and data translation. Thus, matching ontologies enables the knowledge and data expressed in the matched ontologies to interoperate. The workshop has three goals: 1. To bring together leaders from academia, industry and user institutions to assess how academic advances are addressing real-world requirements. The workshop will strive to improve academic awareness of industrial and final user needs, and therefore, direct research towards those needs. Simultaneously, the workshop will serve to inform industry and user representatives about existing research efforts that may meet their requirements. The workshop will also investigate how the ontology matching technology is going to evolve. 2. To conduct an extensive and rigorous evaluation of ontology matching approaches through the OAEI (Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative) 2009 campaign: http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2009/ This year's OAEI campaign introduces two new tracks about oriented alignments and about instance matching (a timely topic for the linked data community). Therefore, the ontology matching evaluation initiative itself will provide a solid ground for discussion of how well the current approaches are meeting business needs. 3. To examine similarities and differences from database schema matching, which has received decades of attention but is just beginning to transition to mainstream tools. TOPICS of interest include but are not limited to: Business cases for matching; Requirements to matching from specific domains; Application of matching techniques in real-world scenarios; Formal foundations and frameworks for ontology matching; Large-scale ontology matching evaluation; Performance of matching techniques; Matcher selection and self-configuration; Uncertainty in ontology matching; User involvement (including both technical and organizational aspects); Explanations in matching; Social and collaborative matching; Alignment management; Reasoning with alignments; Matching for traditional applications (e.g., information integration); Matching for dynamic applications (e.g., peer-to-peer, web-services). SUBMISSIONS Contributions to the workshop can be made in terms of technical papers and posters/statements of interest addressing different issues of ontology matching as well as participating in the OAEI 2009 campaign. Technical papers should be not longer than 12 pages using the LNCS Style: http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-164-2-72376-0,00.html Posters/statements of interest should not exceed 2 pages and should be handled according to the guidelines for technical papers. All contributions should be prepared in PDF format and should be submitted through the workshop submission site at: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=om20090 Contributors to the OAEI 2009 campaign have to follow the campaign conditions and schedule at http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2009/. IMPORTANT DATES FOR TECHNICAL PAPERS: August 11, 2009: Deadline for the submission of papers. September 6, 2009: Deadline for the notification of acceptance/rejection. October 2, 2009: Workshop camera ready copy submission. October 25, 2009: OM-2009, Westfields Conference Center, Chantilly, near Washington DC., USA. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE 1. Pavel Shvaiko (Main contact) TasLab, Informatica Trentina SpA, Italy 2. J?r?me Euzenat INRIA & LIG, France 3. Fausto Giunchiglia University of Trento, Italy 4. Heiner Stuckenschmidt University of Mannheim, Germany 5. Natasha Noy Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research, USA 6. Arnon Rosenthal The MITRE Corporation, USA PROGRAM COMMITTEE Yuan An, Drexel University, USA Zohra Bellahsene, LIRMM, France Paolo Besana, University of Edinburgh, UK Olivier Bodenreider, National Library of Medicine, USA Isabel Cruz, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA J?r?me David, INRIA & LIG, France Avigdor Gal, Technion, Israel Hyoil Han, Drexel University, USA Jingshan Huang, University of South Alabama, USA Wei Hu, Southeast University, China Ryutaro Ichise, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Antoine Isaac, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands Krzysztof Janowicz, University of Muenster, Germany Chiara Ghidini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (IRST), Italy Bin He, IBM, USA Yannis Kalfoglou, Ricoh Europe plc, UK Monika Lanzenberger, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Patrick Lambrix, Link?pings Universitet, Sweden Maurizio Lenzerini, University of Rome - Sapienza, Italy Vincenzo Maltese, University of Trento, Italy Fiona McNeill, University of Edinburgh, UK Christian Meilicke, University of Mannheim, Germany Luca Mion, TasLab, Informatica Trentina SpA, Italy Peter Mork, The MITRE Corporation, USA Leo Obrst, The MITRE Corporation, USA Massimo Paolucci, DoCoMo Labs, Germany Fran?ois Scharffe, INRIA, France Umberto Straccia, ISTI-C.N.R., Italy York Sure, University of Koblenz, Germany Andrei Tamilin, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (IRST), Italy Lorenzino Vaccari, PAT, Italy Ludger van Elst, DFKI, Germany Frank van Harmelen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands Yannis Velegrakis, University of Trento, Italy Baoshi Yan, Bosch Research, USA Rui Zhang, University of Trento, Italy Songmao Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China ------------------------------------------------------- Download the OM-2009 flyer: http://om2009.ontologymatching.org/Pictures/CfP_OM2009_flyer.pdf ------------------------------------------------------- More about ontology matching: http://www.ontologymatching.org/ http://book.ontologymatching.org/ Best Regards, Pavel ------------------------------------------------------- Pavel Shvaiko, PhD Innovation and Research Project Manager TasLab, Informatica Trentina SpA, Italy http://www.ontologymatching.org/ http://www.dit.unitn.it/~pavel/ http://www.infotn.it/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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