From marewski at mpib-berlin.mpg.de Mon Jul 4 11:34:27 2011 From: marewski at mpib-berlin.mpg.de (Marewski, Julian) Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2011 17:34:27 +0200 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Doctoral student position at the University ofLausanne Faculty for Business and Economics (HEC): Cognitive modeling of decision making processes Message-ID: Apologies for cross-posting Dear all, I seek candidates for a doctoral student position at the Department of Organizational Behavior of the Faculty for Business and Economics at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Since the position can start as early as the summer/fall 2011, I'd like to spread the word quickly. I would appreciate it if this email could be passed on to potentially interested students. The student will have virtually no tasks other than doing her/his research. There are no teaching obligations. Parts of the research should focus on the mathematical or computational modeling of human cognitive decision processes and/or on the cognitive mechanisms underlying bounded rationality in organizations in business, industry, and/or political contexts. Candidates with an interest in heuristic decision making and/or ACT-R modeling are especially encouraged to apply (but prior knowledge of these is not necessary.) Swiss salaries are competitive. Best wishes and many thanks, Julian The Department of Organizational Behavior of the Faculty for Business and Economics at the University of Lausanne seeks applicants for Doctoral Student Fellowship The position (60%) is to begin August 1st, 2011 or later. The contract is limited to 1 year, and can be prolonged for 2x2 years. The maximum funding period is 5 years. Successful candidates will obtain a Ph.D. in Management. The work location is Lausanne Dorigny. Job description We seek applicants to work on the cognitive modeling of decision making processes in organizations in business, industry, and/or political contexts. We expect Ph.D. candidates to publish their research in top-tier journals. The candidate is expected to devote at the very least 50% of her/his time to her/his research project, and at the very most 50% (and only if necessary) to support other research, administrative, and teaching activities. Excellent candidates will be freed as much as possible to devote their time exclusively to research. Requirements Applicants should be interested in the mathematical or computational modeling of human cognitive decision processes as well as in the cognitive mechanisms underlying bounded rationality in organizations in business, industry, and/or political contexts. Knowledge of quantitative research methods, and ideally, programming skills (e.g., MATLAB, R, ACT-R) is helpful but not required. A university degree in psychology, business, economics, mathematics, computer sciences, physics, biology, or another quantitatively-oriented discipline as well as very good English skills are required. Application materials and deadline Please submit applications by July 15th, 2011. Applications include a cover letter describing research interests and a potential thesis project, curriculum vitae, university transcripts, two letters of recommendation, previous work transcripts (if available), and up to two publications (if available). The preferred method of submission are PDF files e-mailed to the responsible professor, Julian Marewski (marewski at mpib-berlin.mpg.de ). The Department of Organizational Behavior and Lausanne The Department of Organizational Behavior of the Faculty for Business and Economics at the University of Lausanne provides a stimulating, interdisciplinary research environment. We value the diversity of the expertise of the members of the department (we have Ph.D.s in business, management, psychology, and economics) as well as the diversity of the departments at the Faculty of Business and Economics. We publish in top-tier journals in different disciplines, including Science, Psychological Review, and the American Economic Review. Our department's members come from different countries, and the working language of the department is English. Located near Lake Geneva and surrounded by the Jura Mountains and the French Alps, Lausanne is a beautiful and cosmopolitan spot to live and work. We have a collegial atmosphere that makes it easy for us to carry out our research. Information about the Department of Organizational Behavior is available at http://www.hec.unil.ch/hec/recherche/unite?set_language=en&unite_id=239& cl=en . Information about the University of Lausanne's Ph.D. program can be found at http://www.hec.unil.ch/hec/doctorats/phdmanagement/why/welcome . More information about the position can be inquired directly from Julian Marewski (marewski at mpib-berlin.mpg.de and http://www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/en/staff/julian-marewski ). Disclaimer: This ad stills requires final official approval from the University of Lausanne. ________________________________ From dlunt at adcogsys.com Mon Jul 11 13:29:43 2011 From: dlunt at adcogsys.com (dlunt at adcogsys.com) Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 10:29:43 -0700 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Senior Scientist Position (hiring notice) Message-ID: <20110711102943.184790b0c349f06413a1f321f9d36d1e.a41df53779.wbe@email09.secureserver.net> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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This process has been accelerated due to initiatives such as the Linked Data project, which encourages not only governments and public institutes to make their data available to the public, but also private organizations in domains such as medicine, geography, music etc. These actors often publish their data sources in their respective languages, and as such, in order to make this information interoperable and accessible to members of other linguistic communities, multilingual knowledge representation, access and translation are an impending need. Given the success of the first edition of this workshop, which was co-located with the 19th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2010), we were encouraged to organize the second version of this series. In this second edition we will have a special focus on: ? representation of multilingual information and language resources in Semantic Web and Linked Data formats ? cross-lingual discovery and representation of mappings between multilingual Linked Data vocabularies and datasets ? cross-lingual querying of knowledge repositories and Linked Data ? machine translation and localization strategies for the Semantic Web Further topics of interest include: ? standards and best practices for representing multilingual data on the Web ? transformation of (multilingual) resources to Semantic Web and Linked Data representations ? architectures and infrastructure for a truly multilingual Semantic Web ? models for multilingualism in knowledge representation, in particular OWL and RDF(S) ? localization of ontologies to multiple languages, incl. label translation, multilingual terms ? lexicon models for ontologies ? automatic integration of (multilingual) lexicons with ontologies ? multilingual and cross-lingual ontology-based information extraction and ontology population ? multilingual aspects of semantic search of knowledge repositories ? multilingual aspects of ontology verbalization ? ontology learning across languages Important Dates August 15th - submission deadline September 5th - notification September 10th - camera-ready deadline October 23th or 24th - workshop Submission will be through the Easy Chair system: https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=msw2. We will accept long papers of at most 12 pages (LNCS), short papers describing preliminary results (max. 6 pages) as well as position papers describing work on progress or planned work (max. 6 pages). Organizing Committee Elena Montiel-Ponsoda, OEG - Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid, Spain Web: http://www.oeg-upm.net/index.php/en/phd/52-emontiel John McCrae, Semantic Computing Group, CITEC ? University of Bielefeld Web: http://www.sc.cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de/people/jmccrae Paul Buitelaar, DERI - National University of Ireland, Galway Web: http://www.paulbuitelaar.net/ Philipp Cimiano, Semantic Computing Group, CITEC ? University of Bielefeld Web: http://www.cimiano.de Program Committee Guadalupe Aguado de Cea, OEG, Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid, Spain Dimitra Anastasiou, Language & Literary Studies, University of Bremen, Germany Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles, IRIT, Knowledge Engineering, Cognition and Cooperation, France Roberto Basili, Universita Tor Vergata, Rome - Artificial Intelligence group, Italy Kalina Boncheva - Natural Language Processing Group, University of Sheffield, UK Francis Bond, NICT - Language Infrastructure Group, Japan Christopher Brewster, Aston University - Operations and Information Management Group, UK Nicoletta Calzolari, ILC-CNR - Computational Linguistics Institute, Italy Jeremy Carroll, TopQuadrant, USA Key-Sun Choi, KAIST - Semantic Web Research Center, South-Korea Thierry Declerck, DFKI - Language Technology Lab, Germany Aldo Gangemi, ISTC-CNR - Semantic Technology Laboratory, Italy Asuncion G?mez P?rez, OEG, Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid, Spain Gregory Grefenstette, Exalead, France Siegfried Handschuh, DERI, Nat. Univ. of Ireland, Galway, Ireland Michael Hausenblas, DERI, Nat. Univ. of Ireland, Galway, Ireland Laura Hollink, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands Antoine Isaac, Vrije Universiteit - Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Group, the Netherlands Ernesto William De Luca, Universitaet Magdeburg - Data and Knowledge Engineering Group, Germany Vanessa L?pez, KMI, Open University, UK Gerard de Melo, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK Sergei Nirenburg, University of Maryland - Institute for Language and Information Technologies, USA Alessandro Oltramari, Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Psychology, Pittsburgh, USA Jacco van Ossenbruggen, CWI - Semantic Media Interfaces & VU - Intelligent Systems, the Netherlands Wim Peters, University of Sheffield - Natural Language Processing group, UK Laurette Pretorius, University of South Africa - School of Computing, South-Africa James Pustejovsky, Brandeis University ? CS Dept., Lab for Linguistics and Computation, USA Felix Sasaki, University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, Germany Marta Sabou, Department of New Media Technology ? MODUL University, Vienna Martin Volk, Universitaet Z?rich - Institute of Computational Linguistics, Switzerland Piek Vossen, Vrije Universiteit - Dept. of Language, Cognition and Communication, the Netherlands Yong Yu, Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China The workshop is endorsed and sponsored by the Monnet project (http://www.monnet-project.eu) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From annacer at itaca.upv.es Thu Jul 21 12:26:45 2011 From: annacer at itaca.upv.es (Ana Maria Navarro Cerda) Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 18:26:45 +0200 Subject: [ACT-R-users] ACT-R driver user model Message-ID: <38377C5B3FD63648815A35D48D3E20E0890B386E@agenda07.upvnet.upv.es> Dear all, I have found a lot of different papers and studies concerning ACT-R models of drivers, but I have not found any existent model in the ACT-R repository. Does anybody know if there is any available code that I can use for testing purposes? Best regards, Ana Navarro Ana Navarro Cerd? R&D Department ITACA-TSB [cid:image001.gif at 01CC47D3.B1E5CA00] Health & Wellbeing Technologies Univ. Polit?cnica de Valencia Edificio G8 - Camino de Vera s/n 46022 Valencia tel: +34 96 387 76 06 fax: +34 96 387 72 79 e-mail: annacer at itaca.upv.es http://www.tsb.upv.es -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.gif Type: image/gif Size: 598 bytes Desc: image001.gif URL: From salvucci at drexel.edu Thu Jul 21 12:57:38 2011 From: salvucci at drexel.edu (Dario Salvucci) Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 12:57:38 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] ACT-R driver user model In-Reply-To: <38377C5B3FD63648815A35D48D3E20E0890B386E@agenda07.upvnet.upv.es> References: <38377C5B3FD63648815A35D48D3E20E0890B386E@agenda07.upvnet.upv.es> Message-ID: <34E3E6F8-D630-47F6-A9A5-F6E06068171B@drexel.edu> Dear Ana, The ACT-R driver model code is posted here: http://www.cs.drexel.edu/~salvucci/download/ACT-R Driver Model.zip However, this model (from the 2006 paper) worked in ACT-R 5.0, and is not compatible with the current 6.0. There's a new version (of the lane-keeping model only) that works with Java ACT-R: http://cog.cs.drexel.edu/act-r/ I can package this up and send it to you if you'd like, feel free to contact me directly. Best regards, Dario On Jul 21, 2011, at 12:26 PM, Ana Maria Navarro Cerda wrote: > Dear all, > I have found a lot of different papers and studies concerning ACT-R models of drivers, but I have not found any existent model in the ACT-R repository. Does anybody know if there is any available code that I can use for testing purposes? > Best regards, > Ana Navarro > > Ana Navarro Cerd? > R&D Department > _____________________________________ Dario Salvucci, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Computer Science Drexel University http://www.cs.drexel.edu/~salvucci/ From zhang at cis.uab.edu Wed Jul 27 16:31:04 2011 From: zhang at cis.uab.edu (Chengcui Zhang) Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 15:31:04 -0500 (CDT) Subject: [ACT-R-users] IRI 2011 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Message-ID: CALL FOR PARTICIPATION IEEE IRI 2011 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration 3-5 August 2011 Las Vegas, USA http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~iri2011/ 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 systems and applications. 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. 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. Theoretical and applied papers are both included. The conference program will include special sessions, open forum workshops, panels and keynote speeches. If you plan to attend, please hurry up on travel arrangements. The conference room rate at the Tuscany Suites & Casino is $35/night + tax. Hotel website: http://www.tuscanylv.com/ Information on the conference program and registration is available at: http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~iri2011/ See you in Las Vegas! IEEE IRI 2011 organization committee IRI 2011 HIGHLIGHTS We have an exciting program designed to appeal to researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and government. It includes: * Two keynote talks; * Panel; * Four special Sessions: power and energy, health informatics, robotics, energy and education; * Presentations of around 90 research papers; * Workshops; * Banquet. KEYNOTE TALKS * Lotfi A. Zadeh Professor in the Graduate School Computer Science Division Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Director of Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing (BISC) University of California, USA "The concept of a Z-number -- a New Direction" * Elisa Bertino Professor of Computer Science Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (courtesy) Research Director of CERIAS Interim Director of Cyber Center, Discovery Park Purdue Unviersity, USA "Protecting Information Systems from Insider Threats - Concepts and Issues" WORKSHOP * The conference also features a Workshop on Issues and Challenges in Social Computing (WICSOC): http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~iri2011/WICSOC2011/index.html -- Chengcui Zhang Ph.D. Assistant Professor Associate Director of the Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Lab Department of Computer and Information Sciences University of Alabama at Birmingham _______________________________________________ ieeeauthors mailing list ieeeauthors at cis.uab.edu http://crier.cis.uab.edu/mailman/listinfo/ieeeauthors From D.Brumby at cs.ucl.ac.uk Thu Jul 28 10:47:59 2011 From: D.Brumby at cs.ucl.ac.uk (Duncan Brumby) Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 15:47:59 +0100 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Faculty Position openings in CS at UCL References: <54B9802705BD0048BFFEBF5037FC86960FFF6981@AMSPRD0104MB099.eurprd01.prod.exchangelabs.com> Message-ID: <162D4A99-96AD-45D3-AC7C-AED9F0F96DB0@cs.ucl.ac.uk> > > Faculty Position in Computational Linguistics > Closing date: 30-Sep-2011 > Further details at: > https://atsv7.wcn.co.uk/search_engine/jobs.cgi?owner=5041178&ownertype=fair&jcode=1200111 > Anyone interested in applying should be aware that three letters of reference, each sent *directly* by the reference writer to Lynette Hothi < lynette.hothi at ucl.ac.uk> by the closing date. --duncan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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