[ACT-R-users] BRiMS 2012 Submission Reminder

[Jastrzembski, Tiffany S Civ USAF AFMC 711 HPW/RHAC]

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The BRiMS 2012 Submission Deadline is fast approaching
All submissions must be in by January 6, 2012
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For details on submission content, guidelines, and templates, please
navigate to: http://brimsconference.org/submissions/
 
You are invited to participate in the 21st Conference on Behavior
Representation in Modeling and Simulation (BRiMS), to be held at the
Omni Amelia Island Plantation Resort in Amelia Island, Florida. BRiMS
enables modeling and simulation research scientists, engineers, and
technical communities across disciplines to meet, share ideas, identify
capability gaps, discuss cutting-edge research directions, highlight
promising technologies, and showcase the state-of-the-art in Department
of Defense related applications. The BRiMS Conference will consist of
many exciting elements in 2012, including special topic areas, technical
paper sessions,  special symposia/panel discussions, and government
laboratory sponsor sessions. 

The BRiMS Executive Committee invites papers, posters, demos, symposia,
panel discussions, and tutorials on topics related to the representation
of individuals, groups, teams and organizations in models and
simulations. All submissions are peer-reviewed (see
www.brimsconference.org for additional details on submission types). 

Key Dates:

All submissions due:          January 6, 2012

Tutorial Acceptance:          January 20, 2012

Authors Notification          January 30, 2012

Final version due:            February 15, 2012

Tutorials held:               March 12, 2012

BRIMS 2012 Opens:             March 13, 2012

Special Topic Areas of Interest are identified to elicit specific
technical content:

* M&S in military domains
* Tools for building distributed/large-scale M&S systems
* Data-driven M&S
* Modeling in multi-user gaming and simulation
* Modeling of business processes and organizations
* Models of online social interactions

General Topic Areas of Interest include, but are not limited to:

Modeling 
*  Intelligent agents and avatars/adversarial modeling
*  Cognitive robots and human-robot interaction
*  Models of reasoning and decision making
*  Model validation & comparison
*  Socio-cultural M&S: team/group/crowd/ behavior 
*  Physical models of human movement
*  Performance assessment and skill monitoring/tracking
*  Performance prediction/enhancement/optimization
*  Intelligent tutoring systems
*  Knowledge acquisition/engineering
*  Human behavior issues in model federations

Simulation 
*  Synthetic environments for human behavior representation 
*  Terrain representation and reasoning
*  Spatial reasoning
*  Time representation
*  Human behavior usability and interoperability
*  Efficiency, usability, affordability issues
*  Operator interfaces
*  Multi-resolution/fidelity simulations
*  Science of simulation issues

ACCOMMODATIONS and REGISTRATION

The conference will be held at the Omni Amelia Island Plantation Resort
in Amelia Island, FL.  Visit
http://www.omnihotels.com/FindAHotel/AmeliaIsland/MeetingFacilities/Reso
rtMap.aspx for general information about the site and accommodations.
Conference and hotel registration, general area, and travel information
can be found at www.brimsconference.org.

BRIMS PROGAM COMMITTEE:
Bradley J. Best (Adaptive Cognitive Systems)
William G. Kennedy (George Mason University)
Robert St. Amant (North Carolina State University)

BRIMS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE:
Joe Armstrong (CAE), Brad Cain (Defence Research and Development
Canada), Bruno Emond (National Research Council Canada), Coty Gonzalez
(Carnegie Mellon University), Brian Gore (NASA), Jeff Hansberger (Army
Research Laboratory), Kenneth Kwok (DSO National Laboratories,
Singapore), John Laird (University of Michigan), Christian Lebiere
(Carnegie Mellon University), Christopher Myers (Air Force Research
Laboratory), Bharat Patel (Defence Science and Technology Laboratory,
UK), Sylvain Pronovost (Carleton University & CAE), Venkat Sastry
(University of Cranfield), Barry Silverman (University of Pennsylvania),
Neil Smith (QinetiQ), LtCol David Sonntag (AOARD), Webb Stacy (Aptima),
Mike van Lent (SoarTech), Walter Warwick (Alion Science and Technology),
Jason Wong (Naval Undersea Warfare Center), Patrick Xavier (Sandia
National Laboratories)

A special thanks to the BRIMS 2012 Government Sponsors for their support
of this event:  Air Force Research Laboratory, Army Research Laboratory,
DARPA, Office of Naval Research, NASA, and the UK Ministry of Defence.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the BRIMS 2012
Conference Chair, Dr. Tiffany Jastrzembski
(tiffany.jastrzembski at wpafb.af.mil).  

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Tiffany S. Jastrzembski, Ph.D.
Cognitive Research Scientist
Air Force Research Laboratory
2698 G Street, Building 190
Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433-7604
tiffany.jastrzembski at wpafb.af.mil