From jeedward at yahoo.com Sun Mar 1 16:05:28 2009 From: jeedward at yahoo.com (Ed) Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 13:05:28 -0800 (PST) Subject: [ACT-R-users] IICAI-09 Call for papers Message-ID: <904211.11163.qm@web45904.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> IICAI-09 Call for papers: ? The 4th Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IICAI-09) will be held in Tumkur (near Bangalore), India during December 16-18 2009. The conference consists of paper presentations, special workshops, sessions, invited talks and local tours, etc.? We invite draft paper submissions. Please see the website: http://www.iiconference.org ??for more details of the conference. ? Sincerely ? ? Edward Publicity Committee -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From matousek at kiv.zcu.cz Tue Mar 3 07:15:14 2009 From: matousek at kiv.zcu.cz (Vaclav Matousek) Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 13:15:14 +0100 (CET) Subject: [ACT-R-users] TSD 2009 Conference - Call for Papers Message-ID: ############################################################################ TSD 2009 - CALL FOR PAPERS An International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE Primavera Hotel & Congress centre, Plzen, Czech Republic September 13-18, 2009 (after Interspeech-Eurospeech 2009) http://www.tsdconference.org/ ############################################################################ [Our apologies for possible duplicates of this message] [Our apologies if you are in our list by mistake, in this case please, simply reply STOP in the subject line] The conference is organized by the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, and the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno. TSD 2009 will be supported by International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) and Czech Society for Cybernetics and Informatics (CSKI). TSD SERIES TSD series evolved as a prime forum for interaction between researchers in both spoken and written language processing from the former East Block countries and their Western colleagues. Proceedings of TSD form a book published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. TOPICS Topics of the international conference will include (but are not limited to): text corpora and tagging transcription problems in spoken corpora sense disambiguation links between text and speech oriented systems parsing issues parsing problems in spoken texts multi-lingual issues multi-lingual dialogue systems information retrieval and information extraction text/topic summarization machine translation semantic networks and ontologies semantic web speech modeling speech segmentation speech recognition search in speech for IR and IE text-to-speech synthesis dialogue systems development of dialogue strategies prosody in dialogues emotions and personality modeling user modeling knowledge representation in relation to dialogue systems assistive technologies based on speech and dialogue applied systems and software facial animation visual speech synthesis The keynote topic of TSD 2009 conference is Modern approaches in semantic analysis. OFFICIAL LANGUAGE The official language of the event will be English, but papers on processing in languages other than English are strongly encouraged. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Frederick Jelinek, USA (general chair) Hynek Hermansky, Switzerland (executive chair) Eneko Agirre, Spain Genevieve Baudoin, France Jan Cernocky, Czech Rep. Attila Ferencz, Romania Alexander Gelbukh, Mexico Louise Guthrie, GB Jan Hajic, Czech Rep. Eva Hajicova, Czech Rep. Patrick Hanks, Czech Republic Ludwig Hitzenberger, Germany Jaroslava Hlavacova, Czech Rep. Ales Horak, Czech Rep. Eduard Hovy, USA Ivan Kopecek, Czech Rep. Steven Krauwer, The Netherlands Siegfried Kunzmann, Germany Natalija Loukachevitch, Russia Vaclav Matousek, Czech Rep. Hermann Ney, Germany Elmar Noeth, Germany Karel Oliva, Austria, Czech Rep. Karel Pala, Czech Rep. Nikola Pavesic, Slovenia Vladimir Petkevic, Czech Rep. Fabio Pianesi, Italy Adam Przepiorkowski, Poland Josef Psutka, Czech Rep. James Pustejovsky, USA Leon J.M. Rothkrantz, The Netherlands Ernst G. Schukat-Talamazzini, Germany Pavel Skrelin, Russia Pavel Smrz, Czech Rep. Marko Tadic, Croatia Tamas Varadi, Hungary Zygmunt Vetulani, Poland Taras Vintsiuk, Ukraine Yorick Wilks, GB Victor Zacharov, Russia FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE The conference program will include presentation of invited papers, oral presentations, and poster/demonstration sessions. Papers will be presented in plenary or topic oriented sessions. A preliminary conference program will be published at the conference www pages. One day of the conference will be dedicated for tutorials and workshops. Social events including a trip in the vicinity of Plzen will allow for additional informal interactions. SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Authors are invited to submit a full paper not exceeding 8 pages formatted in the LNCS style (see below). Those accepted will be presented either orally or as posters. The decision about the presentation format will be based on the recommendation of three reviewers. The authors are asked to submit their papers using the on-line form accessible from the conference website. Papers submitted to TSD 2009 must not be under review by any other conference or publication during the TSD review cycle, and must not be previously published or accepted for publication elsewhere. As reviewing will be blind, the paper should not include the authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity, e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...", should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as "Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...". Papers that do not conform to the requirements above are subject to be rejected without review. The authors are strongly encouraged to write their papers in TeX or LaTeX formats. These formats are necessary for the final versions of the papers that will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes. Authors using a WORD compatible software for the final version must use the LNCS template for WORD and within the submit process ask the Proceedings Editors to convert the paper to LaTeX format. For this service a service-and-license fee of CZK 1500 will be levied automatically. The paper format for review has to be either PDF or PostScript file with all required fonts included. Upon notification of acceptance, presenters will receive further information on submitting their camera-ready and electronic sources (for detailed instructions on the final paper format see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html#Proceedings.) Authors are also invited to present actual projects, developed software or interesting material relevant to the topics of the conference. The presenters of the demonstration should provide the abstract not exceeding one page. The demonstration abstracts will not appear in the conference proceedings. LOCATION Plzen (Pilsen) is located in Western Bohemia on the confluence of four rivers. With 170 thousand inhabitants it is the fourth largest city in the Czech Republic and an important industrial, commercial, cultural, and administrative center. Plzen is well known for its brewing tradition. The trademark Pilsner-Urquell penetrated all over the world thanks to the traditional recipe, high quality hops and good wells. Beer lovers will also appreciate a visit to the brewery museum or the Brewery itself. Apart from its famous beer, Plzen has a lot of hidden treasures in its core. Plzen can pride itself on the second largest synagogue in Europe. The old city center is dominated by a 13th-century Gothic church which features the highest tower in Bohemia (102.34 m). It is possible to go up the stairs and admire the panorama. Not far from the church is a splendid Renaissance Town Hall from 1558 and plenty of pleasant cafes and pubs. Plzen has also a beautiful historical underground - under the city center there are 25 km of tunnels. Visitors can pass through the most beautiful part of this labyrinth. It is also recommended to visit the Zoo having the second largest space for bears in Europe and keeping the Komodo dragons - large lizards existing in only a few Zoos in the world.. In the neighborhood of the city there are castle Radyn? and hunting-seat Kozel. St. Peter's Rotunda in Star? Plzenec was built in the 10th century. The University of West Bohemia in Plzen provides a variety of courses for both Czech and international students. It is the only institution of higher education in this part of the country which prepares students for careers in engineering (electrical and mechanical), science (computer science, applied mathematics, physics, and mechanics), education (both primary and secondary), economics, philosophy, politology, archaeology, anthropology, foreign languages, law and public administration, art and design. GETTING THERE The city has an access from the D5 highway connecting Prague (Praha) with Germany. Plzen has a very good bus and train connections with the capital Prague (takes about 1 - 1.5 hour). From the international airport Prague - Ruzyne you can reach Plzen by frequent public transport in 1.5 - 2 hours. IMPORTANT DATES March 22, 2009 Submission of full papers May 15, 2009 Notification of acceptance May 31, 2009 Final papers (camera-ready) submission and registration Sept. 13-18, 2009 TSD 2009 Conference The contributions to the conference will be published in proceedings that will be made available to participants at the time of the conference. CONFERENCE FEES The conference fee depends on the date of payment and on your status. It includes meals at the main conference time (Sept. 15-17), one copy of the proceedings, refreshments, social events and organizing costs. The fee does not include accommodation. Full participant: Early payment (by May 31): CZK 9000 Late payment (by August 15): CZK 11000 On-site payment: CZK 13000 Student: Early payment (by May 31): CZK 7500 Late payment (by August 15): CZK 9500 On-site payment: CZK 11500 The payment may be refunded up until August 15, at the cost of CZK 1500. No refund is possible after this date. All costs are in Czech Crowns (Czech Koruna, CZK), see e.g. http://www.xe.com/ucc/ for the current exchange rate. At least one of the authors has to register and pay the registration fee by May 31, 2009 for their paper to be included in the conference proceedings. Only one paper of up to 8 pages is included in the regular registration fee. The additional paper and page charge is CZK 1000 per page. An author with more than one paper pays the additional paper(s) rates unless a co-author has also registered and paid the full registration fee. The organizing committee will provide discounts and grants for participants from East European countries (Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, ...). To apply for a grant, send an email to tsd2009 at tsdconference.org with subject 'Grant Application', in which you briefly describe the reasons for your application. Each applicant must send a separate e-mail. ACCOMMODATION The organizing committee has arranged accommodation at reasonable prices in the Primavera hotel and student dormitories. The current prices of the accommodation will be available at the conference website. ADDRESS All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to: Mrs. Helena Ptackova University of West Bohemia in Pilsen Faculty of Applied Sciences Department of Computer Science Univerzitni 8 CZ - 306 14 PLZEN Czech Republic Tel: +420 377 632 401 Fax: +420 377 632 402 E-mail: tsd at kiv.zcu.cz TSD 2009 conference web site: http://www.tsdconference.org/ ----- From jeedward at yahoo.com Sun Mar 8 06:44:52 2009 From: jeedward at yahoo.com (John Edward) Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2009 03:44:52 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [ACT-R-users] Draft paper submission is extended (will not be extended further): AIPR-09 Message-ID: <824086.76122.qm@web45909.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> Draft paper submission is extended (will not be extended further): AIPR-09 ? ? *Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email. Please forward to interested people.* ? The deadline for draft paper submission at the 2009 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition (AIPR-09) (website: http://www.PromoteResearch.org) is extended due to numerous requests from the authors. The conference will be held during July 13-16 2009 in Orlando, FL, USA. We invite draft paper submissions. The conference will take place at the same time and venue where several other international conferences are taking place. The other conferences include: ????????? International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Control Systems (ARCS-09) ????????? International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Genomics and Chemoinformatics (BCBGC-09) ????????? International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems and Web Technologies (EISWT-09) ????????? International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking and Communication Systems (HPCNCS-09) ????????? International Conference on Information Security and Privacy (ISP-09) ????????? International Conference on Recent Advances in Information Technology and Applications (RAITA-09) ????????? International Conference on Software Engineering Theory and Practice (SETP-09) ????????? International Conference on Theory and Applications of Computational Science (TACS-09) ????????? International Conference on Theoretical and Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (TMFCS-09) ? The website http://www.PromoteResearch.org contains more details. ? Sincerely John Edward Publicity committee -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From D.H.van.Rijn at rug.nl Wed Mar 11 17:56:37 2009 From: D.H.van.Rijn at rug.nl (Hedderik van Rijn) Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 22:56:37 +0100 Subject: [ACT-R-users] PhD scholarship available at University of Groningen Message-ID: <96A396AC-6632-49B4-834C-3F3685CED7BE@rug.nl> Dear colleague, a 4-year PhD scholarship has become available at the Department of Psychology at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. This scholarship is only applicable to holders of a non-Dutch passport. If you happen to know someone who qualifies, who is interested in formal approaches to cognition and who is looking for a PhD position, could you ask him/her to contact me? (Obviously, if you yourself are interested, feel free to contact me as well.) The topic of the project can be either time perception or optimized learning regimes (i.e., spacing). Possible methodologies: computational/statistical modeling, EEG, TMS, eye tracking, and more traditional behavioral experiments. More information on the scholarship can be found here: http://www.rug.nl/bureau/expertisecentra/azis/az/producten/ubboe/ubboinshort Proposals for projects need to be in as soon as possible. - Hedderik. From zhang at cis.uab.edu Thu Mar 12 01:44:08 2009 From: zhang at cis.uab.edu (IEEE-IRI-Publicity) Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:44:08 -0500 (CDT) Subject: [ACT-R-users] IEEE IRI 2009: Deadline Extended to March 29 Message-ID: [Apology for cross postings!] Due to many requests, the submission deadline has been extended to March 29, 2009. Highlights of IRI'09: * There will be new IRI Society (SIRI) Memberships and Awards. * IEEE IRI 2009 will be held at Tuscany Hotel at an incredible rate of $45/night. * The following Special/Featured Topic Issues have been approved to include papers from IEEE IRI 2009 1. International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (http://ejournals.wspc.com.sg/ijseke/ijseke.shtml) 2. Informatica (http://www.informatica.si/) 3. International Transactions on Systems Science and Applications (http://siwn.org.uk/itssa/) 4. International Journal of Information & Decision Sciences (IJIDS) (http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=306) ----------------------------------------------------------------- The 2009 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IEEE IRI-2009) Sponsored by: The IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society August 10-12, 2009 Tuscany Hotel, Las Vegas, USA http://iri2009.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- The increasing volumes and dimensions of information have dramatic impact on effective decision-making. To remedy this situation, Information Reuse and Integration (IRI) seeks to maximize the reuse of information by creating simple, rich, and reusable knowledge representations and consequently explores strategies for integrating this knowledge into legacy systems. IRI plays a pivotal role in the capture, representation, maintenance, integration, validation, and extrapolation of information; and applies both information and knowledge for enhancing decision-making in various application domains. This conference explores three major tracks: information reuse, information integration, and reusable systems. Information reuse considers optimizing representation methodologies; information integration studies strategies for creatively applying models in novel domains; and reusable systems focus on ontological opportunities for deploying models and corresponding processes. The IEEE IRI conference serves as a forum for researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and government to present, discuss, and exchange ideas that address real-world problems with real-world solutions. The conference feature contributed and invited papers. Theoretical and applied papers are both included. The conference program will include special sessions, open forum workshops, and keynote speeches. A forum will be conducted with the intent of bridging IRI and Systems of Systems and why the future of intelligent computing - including computing applications - will lie at the juxtaposition of these two topical areas. There will be new IRI Society Memberships and Awards. The conference includes, but is not limited to, the areas listed below: - Large Scale Data and System Integration - Component-Based Design and Reuse - Unifying Data Models (UML, XML, etc.) and Ontologies - Database Integration - Structured/Semi-structured Data - Middleware & Web Services - Reuse in Software Engineering - Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery - Sensory and Information Fusion - Reuse in Modeling & Simulation - Automation, Integration and Reuse across Various Applications - Information Security & Privacy - Survivable Systems & Infrastructures - AI & Decision Support Systems - Heuristic Optimization and Search - Knowledge Acquisition and Management - Fuzzy and Neural Systems - Soft Computing - Evolutionary Computing - Case-Based Reasoning - Natural Language Understanding - Knowledge Management and E-Government - Command & Control Systems (C4ISR) - Human-Machine Information Systems - Space and Robotic Systems - Biomedical & Healthcare Systems - Homeland Security & Critical Infrastructure Protection - Manufacturing Systems & Business Process Engineering - Multimedia Systems - Service-Oriented Architecture - Autonomous Agents in Web-based Systems - Information Integration in Grid Computing Environments - Information Integration in Mobile Computing Environments - Information Integration in Ubiquitous Computing Environments - Systems of Systems - Semantic Web and Emerging Applications - Information Reuse, Integration and Sharing in Collaborative Environments Instructions for Authors: ------------------------- Papers reporting original and unpublished research results pertaining to the above and related topics are solicited. Full paper manuscripts must be in English of length 4 to 6 pages (using the IEEE two-column template). Submissions should include the title, author(s), affiliation(s), e-mail address(es), tel/fax numbers, abstract, and postal address(es) on the first page. Papers should be submitted at the conference web site: http://iri2009.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/. If web submission is not possible, manuscripts should be sent as an attachment via email to either of the Program Chairs (mailing address available on the conference website) on or before the deadline date of March 29, 2009. The attachment must be in .pdf (preferred) or word.doc format. The subject of the email must be IEEE IRI 2009 Submission. Papers will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. Authors should certify that their papers represent substantially new work and are previously unpublished. Paper submission implies the intent of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper, if accepted. Important Dates: ---------------- Janurary 20, 2009 Workshop/Special session proposal March 29, 2009 Paper submission deadline (Extended!) May 20, 2009 Notification of acceptance June 15, 2009 Camera-ready paper due June 15, 2009 Presenting author registration due July 30, 2009 Advance (discount) registration for general public and other co-author July 30, 2009 Hotel reservation (special discount rate) closing date August 10-12, 2009 Conference events Orgizing Committee: ------------------- Honorary General Chair Lotfi Zadeh Univ. of California, Berkeley, USA zadeh at cs.berkeley.edu General Chairs Stuart Rubin SPAWAR Systems Center, USA stuart.rubin at navy.mil Shu-Ching Chen Florida International University, USA chens at cs.fiu.edu Program Chairs Kang Zhang University of Texas at Dallas, USA kzhang at utd.edu Reda Alhajj University of Calgary, Canada alhajj at ucalgary.ca Program Vice-Chairs Althea Liang Qianhui SMU, Singapore Special Tracks Chairs Du Zhang California State University, USA Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar Florida Atlantic University, USA Eric Gregoire Universited'Artois, France Publicity Chairs Chengcui Zhang University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA zhang at cis.uab.edu James B. D. Joshi University of Pittsburgh, USA jjoshi at mail.sis.pitt.edu Li Tan Washington State University litan at wsu.edu Finance/Registration/Local Arrangement Chair Suresh Vadhva California State University, USA vadhva at ecs.csus.edu Publications Chair Min-Yuh Day NTU, Taiwan, R.O.C. myday at iis.sinica.edu.tw Seung-Yun Kim Shepherd University Asian Liaison Wen-Lian Hsu Academia Sinica, Taiwan, R.O.C. Industry/Canadian Liaison, Editor June R. Massoud Genesis Consulting Inc., Canada junermassoud at hotmail.com Local Arrangements Chairs Louellen McCoy SPAWAR Systems Center, USA Ju-Yeon Jo University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA Webmaster Reda Alhajj University of Calgary, Canada _______________________________________________ ieeeauthors mailing list ieeeauthors at cis.uab.edu http://crier.cis.uab.edu/mailman/listinfo/ieeeauthors From bej at cs.cmu.edu Thu Mar 12 10:49:02 2009 From: bej at cs.cmu.edu (Bonnie John) Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:49:02 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Continous motor operations? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <49B920DE.7030704@cs.cmu.edu> Anybody out there using ACT-R to model continuous motor operations, like those that pilots execute when hand flying an aircraft (stick -- or yoke -- and throttle)? Boeing might be interested and I'd like to talk about building such models into CogTool. Thanks, Bonnie Bonnie E. John Professor, HCI Institute Carnegie Mellon University http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~bej/ From rsun at rpi.edu Mon Mar 16 23:19:13 2009 From: rsun at rpi.edu (Professor Ron Sun) Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 23:19:13 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Reminder: INNS Award nominations by April 1, 2009 Message-ID: **** Reminder: INNS Award nominations **** INNS (International Neural Networks Society; http://www.inns.org) has a well established awards program, designed to recognize individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the field of Neural Networks. Up to three awards, one in each of the following categories, are presented annually at IJCNN to senior individuals for outstanding contributions made to the field of Neural Networks. The Hebb Award - recognizes achievement in biological learning. The Helmholtz Award - recognizes achievement in sensation/perception. The Gabor Award - recognizes achievement in engineering/application. In addition, there is the Young Investigator Award: up to two awards are presented annually to individuals with no more than five years postdoctoral experience and who are under forty years of age, for significant contributions to the field of Neural Networks. The INNS Awards Committee is now inviting nominations for the 2010 Hebb, Helmholtz, and Gabor awards as well as the Young Investigator awards. You can find the details of the nomination procedure on the INNS Web page: http://www.inns.org; please click on "awards program". I would urge you to think of highly qualified candidates and send in formal nominations for them (see the INNS web page for the instructions). Please email the nominations (along with attachments) directly to the chair of the Awards Committee at rsun at rpi.edu by April 1, 2009. Ron Sun Chair, Awards Committee ======================================================== Professor Ron Sun Cognitive Science Department Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 110 Eighth Street, Carnegie 302A Troy, NY 12180, USA phone: 518-276-3409 fax: 518-276-3017 email: rsun at rpi.edu web: http://www.cogsci.rpi.edu/~rsun ======================================================= From rsun at rpi.edu Sat Mar 21 17:01:22 2009 From: rsun at rpi.edu (Professor Ron Sun) Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 17:01:22 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] post-doctoral position in cognitive modeling Message-ID: I am looking for a post-doctoral researcher, to join in a basic research project investigating cognitive modeling, cognitive architectures, and cognitive social simulation. The starting date is August 1, 2009 (although a slight change, say by a month, is also possible). This will be a full-time research position, with the expectation that you devote 90% of your time to project-related research work (not your own research topics). Prospective applicants should have a finished Ph.D degree. They should have a background in computer science (the equivalent of a BS in computer science), with strong Java programming skills, and have prior exposure to psychology and cognitive science (with background in cognitive architectures, human and machine learning, motivation, or social psychological modeling preferred), and other related areas. Prospective applicants with expertise and interests in cognitive science should apply by EMAILing me: (1) a complete vitae, and (2) samples of best prior writings (published papers), and also FAX me (3) GRE/TOEFL scores (if available), and (4) copies of the transcripts of the BS, MS, Ph.D programs previously attended. Also send me the reference letters (if available). See the following Web page regarding my research (in the afore-described areas and in other areas): http://www.cogsci.rpi.edu/~rsun Two sample publications are downloadable from my Web site: R. Sun, E. Merrill, and T. Peterson, From implicit skills to explicit knowledge: A bottom-up model of skill learning. Cognitive Science, Vol.25, No.2, pp.203-244. 2001. http://www.cogsci.rpi.edu/~rsun/sun.cs01.pdf R. Sun, P. Slusarz, and C. Terry, The interaction of the explicit and the implicit in skill learning: A dual-process approach. Psychological Review, Vol.112, No.1, pp.159-192. 2005. http://www.cogsci.rpi.edu/~rsun/sun-pr2005-f.pdf RPI is a top-tier research university. The new CogSci department has identified research as its primary missions. The department is conducting research in a number of areas: cognitive architectures, cognitive modeling, human and machine learning, multi-agent interactions and social simulation, neural networks and connectionist models, human and machine reasoning, cognitive engineering, perception and motor control, and so on. RPI is located in historic Troy NY, in the Hudson River Valley, approximately 5 miles North of Albany, NY. It is three hours south of Montreal, 2.5 hours west of Boston, and two hours north of New York City, to which Amtrak runs several trains daily. The Albany area is notable for many things, including its affordable housing, cultural events (e.g., the famed Saratoga Performing Arts Center), and proximity to outdoor recreation (e.g., hiking/skiing in the Adirondack, White, Green, and Berkshire Mountains). ======================================================== Professor Ron Sun Cognitive Science Department Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 110 Eighth Street, Carnegie 302A Troy, NY 12180, USA phone: 518-276-3409 fax: 518-276-3017 email: rsun at rpi.edu web: http://www.cogsci.rpi.edu/~rsun ======================================================= From zhang at cis.uab.edu Mon Mar 23 17:41:49 2009 From: zhang at cis.uab.edu (IEEE-IRI-Publicity) Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:41:49 -0500 (CDT) Subject: [ACT-R-users] [Deadline approaching] IEEE IRI 2009 Message-ID: [Apology for cross postings!] Technical paper submission deadline: Mar. 29th! Highlights of IRI'09: * There will be new IRI Society (SIRI) Memberships and Awards. * IEEE IRI 2009 will be held at Tuscany Hotel at an incredible rate of $45/night. * The following Special/Featured Topic Issues have been approved to include papers from IEEE IRI 2009 1. International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (http://ejournals.wspc.com.sg/ijseke/ijseke.shtml) 2. Informatica (http://www.informatica.si/) 3. International Transactions on Systems Science and Applications (http://siwn.org.uk/itssa/) 4. International Journal of Information & Decision Sciences (IJIDS) (http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=306) -------------------------------------------------------- The 2009 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IEEE IRI-2009) Sponsored by: The IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society August 10-12, 2009 Tuscany Hotel, Las Vegas, USA http://iri2009.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- The increasing volumes and dimensions of information have dramatic impact on effective decision-making. To remedy this situation, Information Reuse and Integration (IRI) seeks to maximize the reuse of information by creating simple, rich, and reusable knowledge representations and consequently explores strategies for integrating this knowledge into legacy systems. IRI plays a pivotal role in the capture, representation, maintenance, integration, validation, and extrapolation of information; and applies both information and knowledge for enhancing decision-making in various application domains. This conference explores three major tracks: information reuse, information integration, and reusable systems. Information reuse considers optimizing representation methodologies; information integration studies strategies for creatively applying models in novel domains; and reusable systems focus on ontological opportunities for deploying models and corresponding processes. The IEEE IRI conference serves as a forum for researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and government to present, discuss, and exchange ideas that address real-world problems with real-world solutions. The conference features contributed and invited papers. Theoretical and applied papers are both included. The conference program will include special sessions, open forum workshops, and keynote speeches. A forum will be conducted with the intent of bridging IRI and Systems of Systems and why the future of intelligent computing - including computing applications - will lie at the juxtaposition of these two topical areas. There will be new IRI Society Memberships and Awards. The conference includes, but is not limited to, the areas listed below: - Large Scale Data and System Integration - Component-Based Design and Reuse - Unifying Data Models (UML, XML, etc.) and Ontologies - Database Integration - Structured/Semi-structured Data - Middleware & Web Services - Reuse in Software Engineering - Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery - Sensory and Information Fusion - Reuse in Modeling & Simulation - Automation, Integration and Reuse across Various Applications - Information Security & Privacy - Survivable Systems & Infrastructures - AI & Decision Support Systems - Heuristic Optimization and Search - Knowledge Acquisition and Management - Fuzzy and Neural Systems - Soft Computing - Evolutionary Computing - Case-Based Reasoning - Natural Language Understanding - Knowledge Management and E-Government - Command & Control Systems (C4ISR) - Human-Machine Information Systems - Space and Robotic Systems - Biomedical & Healthcare Systems - Homeland Security & Critical Infrastructure Protection - Manufacturing Systems & Business Process Engineering - Multimedia Systems - Service-Oriented Architecture - Autonomous Agents in Web-based Systems - Information Integration in Grid Computing Environments - Information Integration in Mobile Computing Environments - Information Integration in Ubiquitous Computing Environments - Systems of Systems - Semantic Web and Emerging Applications - Information Reuse, Integration and Sharing in Collaborative Environments Instructions for Authors: ------------------------- Papers reporting original and unpublished research results pertaining to the above and related topics are solicited. Full paper manuscripts must be in English of length 4 to 6 pages (using the IEEE two-column template). Submissions should include the title, author(s), affiliation(s), e-mail address(es), tel/fax numbers, abstract, and postal address(es) on the first page. Papers should be submitted at the conference web site: http://iri2009.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/. If web submission is not possible, manuscripts should be sent as an attachment via email to either of the Program Chairs (mailing address available on the conference website) on or before the deadline date of March 29, 2009. The attachment must be in .pdf (preferred) or word.doc format. The subject of the email must be IEEE IRI 2009 Submission. Papers will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. Authors should certify that their papers represent substantially new work and are previously unpublished. Paper submission implies the intent of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper, if accepted. Important Dates: ---------------- Janurary 20, 2009 Workshop/Special session proposal March 29, 2009 Paper submission deadline (extended) May 20, 2009 Notification of acceptance June 15, 2009 Camera-ready paper due June 15, 2009 Presenting author registration due July 30, 2009 Advance (discount) registration for general public and other co-author July 30, 2009 Hotel reservation (special discount rate) closing date August 10-12, 2009 Conference events PLEASE SEE WEBSITE FOR ORGANIZING COMMITTEE. _______________________________________________ ieeeauthors mailing list ieeeauthors at cis.uab.edu http://crier.cis.uab.edu/mailman/listinfo/ieeeauthors From cl at cmu.edu Mon Mar 23 19:41:19 2009 From: cl at cmu.edu (Christian Lebiere) Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:41:19 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] DSF Challenge Message-ID: Dear Colleague: We write to invite you to participate in a Modeling Comparison Challenge: "Predicting Cognitive Performance in Open-ended Dynamic tasks". The goal of the challenge is to advance the state of the art in cognitive modeling by evaluating alternative cognitive models against human performance in a common dynamic task. The task captures in an integrated manner some of the key aspects of human cognition including the detection of temporal regularities and the ability to control dynamic systems. The description of the challenge and the information for participation (including data, task environment, references and documentation) can be found on the challenge web site: http://www.cmu.edu/ddmlab/modeldsf Please send an E-mail to: DSFChallenge at gmail.com to register as soon as possible. You must be registered before submitting your model. The most important dates are: The Modeling Comparison Challenge will be the focus of a symposium at the Behavior Representation In Modeling and Simulation (BRIMS-2009) on April 1, 2009 in Sundance, Utah. Deadline for model submissions is May 15, 2009. Announcement of the challenge results is June 1, 2009. The results and winner(s) will be presented at a symposium at the International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (ICCM 2009) in Manchester, UK on July 24th-26th, 2009. One representative for each of the 3 best models will be invited to present at the ICCM symposium. Their expenses will be covered for up to $2000 US dollars. Thank you for your attention and we look forward to receiving your models! Christian Lebiere, Coty Gonzalez, Walter Warwick. From hussain.fehmida at gmail.com Wed Mar 25 02:28:03 2009 From: hussain.fehmida at gmail.com (Fehmida Hussain) Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 10:28:03 +0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] altering rule firing time Message-ID: I am modeling a simple behavioral task in which I record latency and accuracy data. The value of :dat is 50 ms. Now if I want to simulate the effect of slow response time in the model due to some developmental disorder or pathology, is is technically correct to alter the rule firing time e.g increase it from 50 ms? Is there any issue with this kind of change, has anyone done this before? thanks -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ja+ at cmu.edu Fri Mar 27 10:43:41 2009 From: ja+ at cmu.edu (John Anderson) Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 10:43:41 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] ACT-R workshop Message-ID: Colleagues: There will be an ACT-R workshop focused on architecture in Amsterdam on Wednesday July 29th, the day before Cognitive Science during the Tutorial and Workshop meetings. I am attaching the abstract that will appear in the Cognitive Science proceedings. A number of you have already volunteered to participate in presentations. If you would like to renew your offer (not really necessary) or volunteer now please let me know. We will try to prepare a tentative schedule within a few weeks. Best Wishes, 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/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: CogSci-symposium-abstract.doc Type: application/octet-stream Size: 33792 bytes Desc: not available URL: From zhang at cis.uab.edu Sun Mar 29 13:02:31 2009 From: zhang at cis.uab.edu (IEEE-IRI-Publicity) Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 12:02:31 -0500 (CDT) Subject: [ACT-R-users] [Final CFP] IEEE IRI 2009 Message-ID: [Apology for cross postings!] Technical paper submission deadline: Mar. 29th! Highlights of IRI'09: * There will be new IRI Society (SIRI) Memberships and Awards. * IEEE IRI 2009 will be held at Tuscany Hotel at an incredible rate of $45/night. * The following Special/Featured Topic Issues have been approved to include papers from IEEE IRI 2009 1. International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (http://ejournals.wspc.com.sg/ijseke/ijseke.shtml) 2. Informatica (http://www.informatica.si/) 3. International Transactions on Systems Science and Applications (http://siwn.org.uk/itssa/) 4. International Journal of Information & Decision Sciences (IJIDS) (http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=306) -------------------------------------------------------- The 2009 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IEEE IRI-2009) Sponsored by: The IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society August 10-12, 2009 Tuscany Hotel, Las Vegas, USA http://iri2009.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- The increasing volumes and dimensions of information have dramatic impact on effective decision-making. To remedy this situation, Information Reuse and Integration (IRI) seeks to maximize the reuse of information by creating simple, rich, and reusable knowledge representations and consequently explores strategies for integrating this knowledge into legacy systems. IRI plays a pivotal role in the capture, representation, maintenance, integration, validation, and extrapolation of information; and applies both information and knowledge for enhancing decision-making in various application domains. This conference explores three major tracks: information reuse, information integration, and reusable systems. Information reuse considers optimizing representation methodologies; information integration studies strategies for creatively applying models in novel domains; and reusable systems focus on ontological opportunities for deploying models and corresponding processes. The IEEE IRI conference serves as a forum for researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and government to present, discuss, and exchange ideas that address real-world problems with real-world solutions. The conference features contributed and invited papers. Theoretical and applied papers are both included. The conference program will include special sessions, open forum workshops, and keynote speeches. A forum will be conducted with the intent of bridging IRI and Systems of Systems and why the future of intelligent computing - including computing applications - will lie at the juxtaposition of these two topical areas. There will be new IRI Society Memberships and Awards. The conference includes, but is not limited to, the areas listed below: - Large Scale Data and System Integration - Component-Based Design and Reuse - Unifying Data Models (UML, XML, etc.) and Ontologies - Database Integration - Structured/Semi-structured Data - Middleware & Web Services - Reuse in Software Engineering - Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery - Sensory and Information Fusion - Reuse in Modeling & Simulation - Automation, Integration and Reuse across Various Applications - Information Security & Privacy - Survivable Systems & Infrastructures - AI & Decision Support Systems - Heuristic Optimization and Search - Knowledge Acquisition and Management - Fuzzy and Neural Systems - Soft Computing - Evolutionary Computing - Case-Based Reasoning - Natural Language Understanding - Knowledge Management and E-Government - Command & Control Systems (C4ISR) - Human-Machine Information Systems - Space and Robotic Systems - Biomedical & Healthcare Systems - Homeland Security & Critical Infrastructure Protection - Manufacturing Systems & Business Process Engineering - Multimedia Systems - Service-Oriented Architecture - Autonomous Agents in Web-based Systems - Information Integration in Grid Computing Environments - Information Integration in Mobile Computing Environments - Information Integration in Ubiquitous Computing Environments - Systems of Systems - Semantic Web and Emerging Applications - Information Reuse, Integration and Sharing in Collaborative Environments Instructions for Authors: ------------------------- Papers reporting original and unpublished research results pertaining to the above and related topics are solicited. Full paper manuscripts must be in English of length 4 to 6 pages (using the IEEE two-column template). Submissions should include the title, author(s), affiliation(s), e-mail address(es), tel/fax numbers, abstract, and postal address(es) on the first page. Papers should be submitted at the conference web site: http://iri2009.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/. If web submission is not possible, manuscripts should be sent as an attachment via email to either of the Program Chairs (mailing address available on the conference website) on or before the deadline date of March 29, 2009. The attachment must be in .pdf (preferred) or word.doc format. The subject of the email must be IEEE IRI 2009 Submission. Papers will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. Authors should certify that their papers represent substantially new work and are previously unpublished. Paper submission implies the intent of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper, if accepted. Important Dates: ---------------- Janurary 20, 2009 Workshop/Special session proposal March 29, 2009 Paper submission deadline (extended) May 20, 2009 Notification of acceptance June 15, 2009 Camera-ready paper due June 15, 2009 Presenting author registration due July 30, 2009 Advance (discount) registration for general public and other co-author July 30, 2009 Hotel reservation (special discount rate) closing date August 10-12, 2009 Conference events PLEASE SEE WEBSITE FOR ORGANIZING COMMITTEE. _______________________________________________ ieeeauthors mailing list ieeeauthors at cis.uab.edu http://crier.cis.uab.edu/mailman/listinfo/ieeeauthors From jybeziau at hotmail.com Sun Mar 29 15:26:44 2009 From: jybeziau at hotmail.com (Jean-Yves Beziau) Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 19:26:44 +0000 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Is logic universal? Call for papers In-Reply-To: <20090202150135.98E05413404@kletz.unipd.it> References: <20090202150135.98E05413404@kletz.unipd.it> Message-ID: Is logic universal? Call for papers Special issue of the journal Logica Universalis (Birkhauser/Springer) http://www.birkhauser.ch/LU There will be a special issue of the journal logica universalis dedicated to the question "Is logic universal?" Many questions are connected to this issue: 1. Do all human beings have the same capicity of reasoning? Does a man, a woman, a child, a papuan, a yuppie, reason in the same way? 2. Does reasoning evolve? Did human beings reason in the same way two centuries ago? In the future will human beings reason in the same way? Did computers change our way to reason? Is a mathematical proof independent of time and culture ? 3. Do we reason in different ways depending on the situation? Do we use the same logic for everyday life, physics, economy? 4. Do the different systems of logic reflect the diversity of reasonings? 5. Is there any absolute true way of reaoning ? Any contibutions dedicated to one aspects of the question "Is logic universal?" is welcome. Submit your paper to universal.logic at ufc.br before August 31st 2009 _________________________________________________________________ Drag n? drop?Get easy photo sharing with Windows Live? Photos. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowslive/products/photos.aspx -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From atilla.elci at gmail.com Sat Mar 28 13:50:57 2009 From: atilla.elci at gmail.com (Atilla Elci) Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 19:50:57 +0200 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Final CFP: IEEE ESAS 2009, 20 July 2009, Seattle, WA, USA. In-Reply-To: <2991b4c10903280935v3b7c2adep4b5d3e4e8e9b4b35@mail.gmail.com> References: <2991b4c10903280935v3b7c2adep4b5d3e4e8e9b4b35@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <2991b4c10903281050p1fbc2600xa558c81064039ea2@mail.gmail.com> My Dear Colleague: Apologies for likely cross-postings. Please forward to interested colleagues and students -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Final CFP; extended deadline is March 31st. CALL FOR PAPERS =============== 4th IEEE International Workshop on Engineering Semantic Agent Systems (ESAS 2009) 20 July 2009 to 24 July 2009 Seattle, WA, USA. Main theme of the workshop is Applying Semantic Technologies in Research and Development of Ontology-Enabled Multi-Agent Systems. Semantic Web technology topics are welcome. Researchers and practitioners? working on the following are especially encouraged to submit papers: realization of multi-agent systems through semantic web technology, ontology-based agent applications, distributed control and processing applications, security & trust, interoperability, service levels and quality issues in such systems. Enterprises and research centers developing ontologies, languages, integrated development environments, tools, and middleware. Other relevant topics in semantic Web and multi-agent systems are welcome. This one-day workshop will take place IN CONJUNCTION WITH COMPSAC 2009. The deadline has been extended to 31st March 2009 (final). Original research papers will be considered. All submitted papers will be reviewed by the large international program committee considering originality, significance, correctness, presentation, and relevance. We also encourage authors to present position papers on practical studies and experiments, critiques of existing work, emerging issues, and novel ideas under development. Papers must be submitted electronically via the ESAS2009 Submission Page (URL: http://rs.cs.iastate.edu/COMPSAC2009Workshops/ESAS2009/). Manuscripts will be limited to six pages for regular/invited paper, four pages for short paper, two pages for fast abstract and position statement including all figures, tables, and references. Extra page charges apply. The format of submitted papers must follow the IEEE conference proceedings guidelines (i.e., 8.5" x 11", Two-Column Format (PDF: instruct.pdf; DOC: instruct.doc); Layout Guide (PDF: format.pdf; DOC: format.doc; all under ftp://pubftp.computer.org/press/outgoing/proceedings/). All accepted papers will be published in the electronic conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society, indexed through INSPEC and EI Index (Elsevier's Engineering Information Index), and automatically included in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper must register as a full participant of COMPSAC for the paper to be included in the proceedings. Each accepted paper must be presented in person. ESAS 2009 authors will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for publication in a special issue in an academic journal (TBD). After the conference book project is being finalized with a major scientific publisher. The authors of ESAS 2008 and 2007 were invited to submit extended versions of their papers for publication in the Special Issue on Engineering Semantic Agent Systems of the Expert Systems: The Journal of Knowledge Engineering by Blackwell Publishing (http://www.wiley.com/bw/journal.asp?ref=0266-4720). Paper selection is being finalized for late 2009 publication. A special issue of the best papers of ESAS 2006 has been published with the Multiagent and Grid Systems - An International Journal, IOS Press, ISSN 1574-1702; Volume 4, Number 3, 2008, pp: 293-346. Enquiries: aelci at ieee.org Web address: http://conferences.computer.org/compsac/2009/workshops/ESAS2009.html Sponsored by: IEEE Computer Society ---------------------------------------