From hedderik at van-rijn.org Wed Feb 1 10:46:13 2012 From: hedderik at van-rijn.org (Hedderik van Rijn) Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2012 16:46:13 +0100 Subject: [ACT-R-users] PhD position Computational Modeling of Language / Development @ Groningen, The Netherlands Message-ID: If you're interested in a project on computational modeling of language acquisition or proficiency (see below), this might be an excellent opportunity. The computational modeling work will most likely be done in collaboration with the cognitive modeling group in Groningen, a vibrant and multi-departmental group of 5 tenured faculty and a large group of PhD students. Feel free to contact me or Petra Hendriks for more information. - Hedderik. P.S. The PhD position is fully funded, no tuition fees etc are required, and a (smalll) budget for travel and other expenses is available. PhD position Semantics and Cognition Vacancy number 212040 This PhD position in Semantics and Cognition concerns a follow-up project related to the NWO-funded Vici project "Asymmetries in Grammar" (2007-2012), led by Prof. Petra Hendriks. The Vici project investigated asymmetries between production and comprehension in child language through a combination of theoretical, experimental and computational methods (http://www.let.rug.nl/~hendriks/vici.htm). One of the findings of this project is that children's production of SVO word order and pronominal objects precedes the same children's comprehension of these forms. Ongoing research investigates in what way these comprehension delays in language acquisition are dependent on linguistic factors such as grammatical and discourse constraints, and cognitive factors such as processing speed, Theory of Mind abilities and working memory capacity. Applicants for this PhD position should be interested in one or more of the following areas: semantics/pragmatics, computational (cognitive) modeling, language acquisition, human sentence processing and are invited to submit a research proposal addressing the comprehension and production of a relevant aspect of child, adult or elderly language. The PhD project will be supervised by Prof. Petra Hendriks. Qualifications ? MA/MSc degree in relevant discipline ? strong motivation to complete a PhD thesis in four years ? proven affinity with chosen subject ? indication of research preferences and strategies for the elaboration of the PhD ? proven research abilities ? fluency in written and spoken English (TOEFL 620, IELTS 7,5, Cambridge Advanced CAE). Conditions of employment The University of Groningen offers a salary of ? 2,042 gross per month in the first year to ? 2,612 gross per month in the fourth year (figures based on full employment). The appointment is temporary for a specified period of four years. Affiliation The three PhD candidates will be affiliated with and enrolled in the research training program of the Graduate School for the Humanities. A staff-member of the Faculty of Arts will be the principal supervisor ('promotor'). The positions require residence in Groningen, 36 hours/week research and research training, and must result in a PhD thesis. After the first year there will be an assessment of the candidates' results and the progress of the project to decide whether the employment will be continued. How to apply Please adhere to the guidelines of the GSH format for applications to write your application. See:www.rug.nl/gradschoolHumanities/admissions/phdPositions Send us your entire application in just 1 pdf-file please + motivation letter in separate file. Incomplete dossiers will not be taken into consideration. Interviews with a selection of the best candidates will take place in the course of May. Starting date of the PhD projects: 1 September 2012. You may apply for one of these positions before 1 March 2012, 24:00 CET. Information For information you can contact: Prof D.J. Wolffram, Academic Director of the Graduate School of Humanities, +31 50 3637699, d.j.wolffram at rug.nl Ms M.R.B. Wubbolts, MA (for practical information), Coordinator of GSH, +31 50 3637336, m.r.b.wubbolts at rug.nl From reitter at cmu.edu Mon Feb 6 13:42:36 2012 From: reitter at cmu.edu (David Reitter) Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:42:36 -0500 Subject: [ACT-R-users] CFP: Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics CMCL 2012 Message-ID: Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL-2012) A workshop to be held June 7, 2012 at the North American Association for Computational Linguistics meeting (NAACL-HLT) in Montreal, Quebec http://www.psy.cmu.edu/~cmcl/ 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop Description This workshop provides a venue for work in computational psycholinguistics. ACL Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Martin Kay described this topic as "build[ing] models of language that reflect in some interesting way on the ways in which people use language." The 2012 workshop follows in the tradition of several previous meetings: ? the computational psycholinguistics meeting at CogSci in Berkeley in 1997 ? the Incremental Parsing workshop at ACL 2004 ? the first two CMCL workshops at ACL 2010 and ACL 2011 in inviting contributions that apply methods from computational linguistics to problems in the cognitive modeling of any and all natural language abilities. Scope and Topics The workshop invites a broad spectrum of work in the cognitive science of language, at all levels of analysis from sounds to discourse. Topics include, but are not limited to ? incremental parsers for diverse grammar formalisms ? derivations of comprehension difficulty predictions, or predictions regarding generalization in language learning ? stochastic models of factors encouraging one production or interpretation over its competitors ? models of semantic interpretation, including psychologically realistic notions of word meaning, phrase meaning, and composition ? models and empirical analysis of the relationship between mechanistic psycholinguistic principles and pragmatic or semantic adaptation, usually in dialogue ? models of human language acquisition ? models of linguistic information propagation and language evolution in communication networks Submissions This call solicits full papers reporting original and unpublished research that combines cognitive modeling and computational linguistics. Accepted papers are expected to be presented at the workshop and will be published in the workshop proceedings. They should emphasize obtained results rather than intended work, and should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported results. A paper accepted for presentation at the workshop must not be presented or have been presented at any other meeting with publicly available proceedings. If essentially identical papers are submitted to other conferences or workshops as well, this fact must be indicated at submission time. No submission should be longer than necessary, up to a maximum 8 pages plus two additional pages containing references. To facilitate double-blind reviewing, submitted manuscripts should not include any identifying information about the authors. Submissions must be formatted using NAACL 2012 style files available at http://www.naaclhlt2012.org/conference/conference.php Contributions should be submitted in PDF via the submission site: http://www.psy.cmu.edu/~cmcl/submit The submission deadline is 11:59PM Eastern Time on March 20, 2012. Best Student Paper The best paper whose first author is a student will receive the Best Student Paper award. Publication All accepted CMCL papers will be published in the workshop proceedings as is customary at ACL conferences. Important Dates Submission deadline: 20 March 2012 Notification of acceptance: 17 April 2012 Camera-ready versions due: 30 April 2012 Workshop: 7 June 2012 Workshop Chairs Roger Levy, Department of Linguistics, University of California at San Diego David Reitter, Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University Program Committee Matthew Crocker (Saarbr?cken University) Robert Daland (UC Los Angeles) Vera Demberg (Saarbr?cken University) Amit Dubey (University of Edinburgh) Michael C. Frank (Stanford University) Ted Gibson (MIT) Guodong Zhou (Soochow University) John T. Hale (Cornell University) Keith Hall (Google) Jeffrey Heinz (University of Delaware) T. Florian Jaeger (University of Rochester) Gaja Jarosz (Yale University) Frank Keller (University of Edinburgh) Richard L. Lewis (University of Michigan) Brian Edmond Murphy (University of Trento) Ulrike Pado (VICO Research & Consulting) Sebastian Pad? (University of Heidelberg) Amy Perfors (Adelaide University) Brian Roark (Oregon Health & Science University) William Schuler (The Ohio State University) Mark Steedman (University of Edinburgh) Patrick Sturt (University of Edinburgh) Shravan Vasishth (University of Potsdam) Nathaniel Smith (UC San Diego) Lisa Pearl (UC Irvine) Noah Goodman (Stanford University) Klinton Bicknell (UC San Diego) Brian Dillon (University of Massachussetts) Naomi Feldman (University of Maryland) From marcusst at mail.nih.gov Tue Feb 7 15:41:19 2012 From: marcusst at mail.nih.gov (Marcus, Stephen (NIH/NIGMS) [E]) Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2012 15:41:19 -0500 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Modeling Social Behavior FOA Released Message-ID: <72BADBE572A8CA4889991C87507FA1EE2C7F9A2A9F@NIHMLBX07.nih.gov> http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-GM-13-006.html Stephen Stephen E. 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If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the BRIMS 2012 Conference Chair, Dr. Tiffany Jastrzembski (tiffany.jastrzembski at wpafb.af.mil). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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 From ja0s at andrew.cmu.edu Tue Feb 14 15:09:57 2012 From: ja0s at andrew.cmu.edu (john) Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:09:57 -0500 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Overhauling the ACT-R website Message-ID: <4F3ABF95.2090909@andrew.cmu.edu> Members of the ACT-R community: The current ACT-R website probably could use some improvements. Suggestions welcome We are also finding it increasing difficulty to maintain the current site and are looking for a better, more modern system. Suggestions again welcome. Thanks, John -- John R. Anderson Richard King Mellon Professor of Psychology and Computer Science 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 sharma.animesh at gmail.com Tue Feb 14 16:13:08 2012 From: sharma.animesh at gmail.com (Animesh Sharma) Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:13:08 +0100 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Overhauling the ACT-R website In-Reply-To: <4F3ABF95.2090909@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <4F3ABF95.2090909@andrew.cmu.edu> Message-ID: Dear John, If you are looking for simply managing online content, depending on traffic, I would recommend either http://wordpress.org/ (low traffic) or http://www.joomla.org/ (high trafffic). For application development, I would suggest http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/java/overview.html . Regards, Animesh --------------------------"The Answer Lies In The Genome"-------------------------- On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 9:09 PM, john wrote: > Members of the ACT-R community: > > The current ACT-R website probably could use some improvements. > Suggestions welcome > > We are also finding it increasing difficulty to maintain the current > site and are looking for a better, more modern system. Suggestions > again welcome. > > Thanks, > John > > -- > John R. Anderson > Richard King Mellon Professor > of Psychology and Computer Science > 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 grayw at rpi.edu Tue Feb 14 17:31:04 2012 From: grayw at rpi.edu (Gray, Wayne) Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:31:04 +0000 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Overhauling the ACT-R website In-Reply-To: References: <4F3ABF95.2090909@andrew.cmu.edu> Message-ID: <8C7DC459-659A-414A-8E17-4128C39A16F4@rpi.edu> Surely not Wordpress!! How about Drupal?? On 12-Feb-14, at 22:13 , Animesh Sharma wrote: Dear John, If you are looking for simply managing online content, depending on traffic, I would recommend either http://wordpress.org/ (low traffic) or http://www.joomla.org/ (high trafffic). For application development, I would suggest http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/java/overview.html . Regards, Animesh --------------------------"The Answer Lies In The Genome"-------------------------- On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 9:09 PM, john > wrote: Members of the ACT-R community: The current ACT-R website probably could use some improvements. Suggestions welcome We are also finding it increasing difficulty to maintain the current site and are looking for a better, more modern system. Suggestions again welcome. Thanks, John -- John R. Anderson Richard King Mellon Professor of Psychology and Computer Science 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 _______________________________________________ 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 stephane at gamard.net Tue Feb 14 17:53:09 2012 From: stephane at gamard.net (Stephane Gamard) Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 23:53:09 +0100 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Overhauling the ACT-R website In-Reply-To: <8C7DC459-659A-414A-8E17-4128C39A16F4@rpi.edu> References: <4F3ABF95.2090909@andrew.cmu.edu> <8C7DC459-659A-414A-8E17-4128C39A16F4@rpi.edu> Message-ID: <13A19DD3-8C3A-4352-9733-33D2EB01B02D@gamard.net> Hi all, I was about to queue the multiple advantages of wordpress until I read Wayne's reply ;). To sum it up (and that has pretty much been my job for the past 5 years: portals/content/accessibility) I would put it this way: - Low-end, basic HTML serving with minimal hassle and small application: wordpress. - Medium-end, some "semantic" features and high extensibility (large active communities): Drupal, Magnolia (mainly depends on the software stack one wants to control) - High-end, fully "enterprise" capable: Liferay, Exo (java based) I personally would push toward something that is starting to be semantic-aware, as to best leverage content (linked-data) and take advantage of the multiplicity of content-enhancement that are popping all over the web. Here's my 2 cents, and wish you the best for the site project, _Stephane On Feb 14, 2012, at 11:31 PM, Gray, Wayne wrote: > Surely not Wordpress!! How about Drupal?? > > > On 12-Feb-14, at 22:13 , Animesh Sharma wrote: > >> Dear John, >> If you are looking for simply managing online content, depending on traffic, I would recommend either http://wordpress.org/ (low traffic) or http://www.joomla.org/ (high trafffic). For application development, I would suggest http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/java/overview.html . >> Regards, >> Animesh >> >> --------------------------"The Answer Lies In The Genome"-------------------------- >> >> >> >> On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 9:09 PM, john wrote: >> Members of the ACT-R community: >> >> The current ACT-R website probably could use some improvements. >> Suggestions welcome >> >> We are also finding it increasing difficulty to maintain the current >> site and are looking for a better, more modern system. Suggestions >> again welcome. >> >> Thanks, >> John >> >> -- >> John R. Anderson >> Richard King Mellon Professor >> of Psychology and Computer Science >> 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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 terry.stewart at gmail.com Wed Feb 15 00:04:26 2012 From: terry.stewart at gmail.com (Terry Stewart) Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:04:26 -0500 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Overhauling the ACT-R website In-Reply-To: References: <4F3ABF95.2090909@andrew.cmu.edu> <8C7DC459-659A-414A-8E17-4128C39A16F4@rpi.edu> Message-ID: I'd also recommend Drupal. ?We've been using it for both our lab site and our modelling software site , plus starting up a model repository: . ?Fairly quick to set up (as long as your webserver can run php and you have a sql database somewhere, which is pretty standard), nicely customizable (usually through modules, and the few times I've had to poke around in the internals it's been surprisingly well-written php code), and a good online community. :) Terry On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 5:31 PM, Gray, Wayne wrote: > Surely not Wordpress!! How about Drupal?? > > From bejohn at us.ibm.com Wed Feb 15 09:12:57 2012 From: bejohn at us.ibm.com (Bonnie E John) Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 09:12:57 -0500 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Overhauling the ACT-R website In-Reply-To: <13A19DD3-8C3A-4352-9733-33D2EB01B02D@gamard.net> References: <4F3ABF95.2090909@andrew.cmu.edu> <8C7DC459-659A-414A-8E17-4128C39A16F4@rpi.edu> <13A19DD3-8C3A-4352-9733-33D2EB01B02D@gamard.net> Message-ID: We use drupal for the CogTool website and it has been nothing but a headache - I can go into details, but won't here unless somebody asks me to. As further evidence against drupal, just last week, Terry Winograd was speaking at the HCI Seminar and the HCI Institute's web page, which also uses drupal, showed the talk being in two different locations depending on where you looked on the HCII page -- drupal had a bug that updated the information in one place and didn't in another! Bonnie From: Stephane Gamard To: "Gray, Wayne" Cc: john , "" Date: 02/14/2012 05:54 PM Subject: Re: [ACT-R-users] Overhauling the ACT-R website Sent by: act-r-users-bounces at act-r.psy.cmu.edu Hi all, I was about to queue the multiple advantages of wordpress until I read Wayne's reply ;). To sum it up (and that has pretty much been my job for the past 5 years: portals/content/accessibility) I would put it this way: - Low-end, basic HTML serving with minimal hassle and small application: wordpress. - Medium-end, some "semantic" features and high extensibility (large active communities): Drupal, Magnolia (mainly depends on the software stack one wants to control) - High-end, fully "enterprise" capable: Liferay, Exo (java based) I personally would push toward something that is starting to be semantic-aware, as to best leverage content (linked-data) and take advantage of the multiplicity of content-enhancement that are popping all over the web. Here's my 2 cents, and wish you the best for the site project, _Stephane On Feb 14, 2012, at 11:31 PM, Gray, Wayne wrote: Surely not Wordpress!! How about Drupal?? On 12-Feb-14, at 22:13 , Animesh Sharma wrote: Dear John, If you are looking for simply managing online content, depending on traffic, I would recommend either http://wordpress.org/ (low traffic) or http://www.joomla.org/ (high trafffic). For application development, I would suggest http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/java/overview.html . Regards, Animesh --------------------------"The Answer Lies In The Genome"-------------------------- On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 9:09 PM, john wrote: Members of the ACT-R community: The current ACT-R website probably could use some improvements. Suggestions welcome We are also finding it increasing difficulty to maintain the current site and are looking for a better, more modern system. Suggestions again welcome. Thanks, John -- John R. Anderson Richard King Mellon Professor of Psychology and Computer Science 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 _______________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________ 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... 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For example: * If you want only a more modern look and feel, this issue is largely orthogonal to the technology; the design would have to be spec'ed out no matter what the back-end content system might be. * If you just need to post occasional entries/updates, wordpress might work. But I'm guessing that it'd be a challenge to get wordpress to do even what the current web site does, never mind more than this, so wordpress seems like a less desirable option. * If you'd like a user name space where people can log in and submit new papers, etc., then something like drupal might provide this service and you'd have to live with its drawbacks. I'm not really familiar with Magnolia and Joomla but these seem analogous to drupal, and maybe are easier to deal with? Dario On Feb 15, 2012, at 9:12 AM, Bonnie E John wrote: > We use drupal for the CogTool website and it has been nothing but a headache - I can go into details, but won't here unless somebody asks me to. As further evidence against drupal, just last week, Terry Winograd was speaking at the HCI Seminar and the HCI Institute's web page, which also uses drupal, showed the talk being in two different locations depending on where you looked on the HCII page -- drupal had a bug that updated the information in one place and didn't in another! > Bonnie > > Stephane Gamard ---02/14/2012 05:54:50 PM---Hi all, I was about to queue the multiple advantages of wordpress until I read Wayne's reply ;). To > > From: Stephane Gamard > To: "Gray, Wayne" > Cc: john , "" > Date: 02/14/2012 05:54 PM > Subject: Re: [ACT-R-users] Overhauling the ACT-R website > Sent by: act-r-users-bounces at act-r.psy.cmu.edu > > > > > Hi all, > > I was about to queue the multiple advantages of wordpress until I read Wayne's reply ;). To sum it up (and that has pretty much been my job for the past 5 years: portals/content/accessibility) I would put it this way: > - Low-end, basic HTML serving with minimal hassle and small application: wordpress. > - Medium-end, some "semantic" features and high extensibility (large active communities): Drupal, Magnolia (mainly depends on the software stack one wants to control) > - High-end, fully "enterprise" capable: Liferay, Exo (java based) > > I personally would push toward something that is starting to be semantic-aware, as to best leverage content (linked-data) and take advantage of the multiplicity of content-enhancement that are popping all over the web. > > Here's my 2 cents, and wish you the best for the site project, > > _Stephane > > On Feb 14, 2012, at 11:31 PM, Gray, Wayne wrote: > Surely not Wordpress!! How about Drupal?? > > > On 12-Feb-14, at 22:13 , Animesh Sharma wrote: > Dear John, > If you are looking for simply managing online content, depending on traffic, I would recommend either http://wordpress.org/ (low traffic) or http://www.joomla.org/ (high trafffic). For application development, I would suggest http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/java/overview.html . > Regards, > Animesh > > --------------------------"The Answer Lies In The Genome"-------------------------- > > > > On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 9:09 PM, john wrote: > Members of the ACT-R community: > > The current ACT-R website probably could use some improvements. > Suggestions welcome > > We are also finding it increasing difficulty to maintain the current > site and are looking for a better, more modern system. Suggestions > again welcome. > > Thanks, > John > > -- > John R. Anderson > Richard King Mellon Professor > of Psychology and Computer Science > 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/ ___________________________________________ Dario Salvucci, Ph.D. Associate Professor & Graduate Advisor Department of Computer Science Drexel University http://www.cs.drexel.edu/~salvucci/ From unmeshk at cmu.edu Wed Feb 15 12:00:47 2012 From: unmeshk at cmu.edu (Unmesh Kurup) Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 12:00:47 -0500 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Overhauling the ACT-R website In-Reply-To: <84A99979-0BB5-4333-BF9C-5A6B3509544D@drexel.edu> References: <4F3ABF95.2090909@andrew.cmu.edu> <8C7DC459-659A-414A-8E17-4128C39A16F4@rpi.edu> <13A19DD3-8C3A-4352-9733-33D2EB01B02D@gamard.net> <84A99979-0BB5-4333-BF9C-5A6B3509544D@drexel.edu> Message-ID: <4F3BE4BF.1010001@cmu.edu> Here's my experience. Wordpress is the simplest and easiest to use. If the functionality of the website is going to remain the same and all you need is an update to the look and feel, there are a whole of paid themes for Wordpress from ~ $39 to $150 that will make a world of difference. Some examples... http://www.elegantthemes.com/gallery/ http://www.woothemes.com/themes/ http://themeforest.net/category/wordpress Joomla - is a more full-featured Content Management System. Joomla is great if you do not want to modify or tweak the standard code. The automatically generated code is horrendous to read (at least it used to be). Drupal - Like Joomla is a full-featured CMS. It is open-source to boot. It is great if you want to tweak or modify the code since it make much more sense that Joomla code. On the other hand, as others have pointed out, there are some problems. As for suggestions for improvements... 1. I know message boards are so 1999, but it seems like there would be enough interest in the community to have a message board rather than a mailing list. It is straightforward to set up a phpbb board. 2. A way for people to submit their publications to the site. This functionality would probably take Wordpress out of the running. Drupal/Joomla can handle it, as well as some of the others that have been mentioned. --unm On 2/15/12 11:40 AM, Dario Salvucci wrote: > You might have to choose your poison based on what functionality you need. Drupal is used for our department's web site, and they loved it at first, but a lot of problems came up later; my impression of drupal is that it's powerful, but sometimes too powerful, and it's easy to get lost in the complexity. > > Ultimately it may come down to what exactly is needed that the current web site doesn't fulfill. For example: > > * If you want only a more modern look and feel, this issue is largely orthogonal to the technology; the design would have to be spec'ed out no matter what the back-end content system might be. > > * If you just need to post occasional entries/updates, wordpress might work. But I'm guessing that it'd be a challenge to get wordpress to do even what the current web site does, never mind more than this, so wordpress seems like a less desirable option. > > * If you'd like a user name space where people can log in and submit new papers, etc., then something like drupal might provide this service and you'd have to live with its drawbacks. > > I'm not really familiar with Magnolia and Joomla but these seem analogous to drupal, and maybe are easier to deal with? > > Dario > > > On Feb 15, 2012, at 9:12 AM, Bonnie E John wrote: > >> We use drupal for the CogTool website and it has been nothing but a headache - I can go into details, but won't here unless somebody asks me to. As further evidence against drupal, just last week, Terry Winograd was speaking at the HCI Seminar and the HCI Institute's web page, which also uses drupal, showed the talk being in two different locations depending on where you looked on the HCII page -- drupal had a bug that updated the information in one place and didn't in another! >> Bonnie >> >> Stephane Gamard ---02/14/2012 05:54:50 PM---Hi all, I was about to queue the multiple advantages of wordpress until I read Wayne's reply ;). To >> >> From: Stephane Gamard >> To: "Gray, Wayne" >> Cc: john, "" >> Date: 02/14/2012 05:54 PM >> Subject: Re: [ACT-R-users] Overhauling the ACT-R website >> Sent by: act-r-users-bounces at act-r.psy.cmu.edu >> >> >> >> >> Hi all, >> >> I was about to queue the multiple advantages of wordpress until I read Wayne's reply ;). To sum it up (and that has pretty much been my job for the past 5 years: portals/content/accessibility) I would put it this way: >> - Low-end, basic HTML serving with minimal hassle and small application: wordpress. >> - Medium-end, some "semantic" features and high extensibility (large active communities): Drupal, Magnolia (mainly depends on the software stack one wants to control) >> - High-end, fully "enterprise" capable: Liferay, Exo (java based) >> >> I personally would push toward something that is starting to be semantic-aware, as to best leverage content (linked-data) and take advantage of the multiplicity of content-enhancement that are popping all over the web. >> >> Here's my 2 cents, and wish you the best for the site project, >> >> _Stephane >> >> On Feb 14, 2012, at 11:31 PM, Gray, Wayne wrote: >> Surely not Wordpress!! How about Drupal?? >> >> >> On 12-Feb-14, at 22:13 , Animesh Sharma wrote: >> Dear John, >> If you are looking for simply managing online content, depending on traffic, I would recommend either http://wordpress.org/ (low traffic) or http://www.joomla.org/ (high trafffic). For application development, I would suggest http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/java/overview.html . >> Regards, >> Animesh >> >> --------------------------"The Answer Lies In The Genome"-------------------------- >> >> >> >> On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 9:09 PM, john wrote: >> Members of the ACT-R community: >> >> The current ACT-R website probably could use some improvements. >> Suggestions welcome >> >> We are also finding it increasing difficulty to maintain the current >> site and are looking for a better, more modern system. Suggestions >> again welcome. >> >> Thanks, >> John >> >> -- >> John R. Anderson >> Richard King Mellon Professor >> of Psychology and Computer Science >> 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/ > ___________________________________________ > Dario Salvucci, Ph.D. > Associate Professor& Graduate Advisor > Department of Computer Science > Drexel University > http://www.cs.drexel.edu/~salvucci/ > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 rec38 at drexel.edu Wed Feb 15 23:04:34 2012 From: rec38 at drexel.edu (Bob Cochran) Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 23:04:34 -0500 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Overhauling the ACT-R website In-Reply-To: <4F3ABF95.2090909@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <4F3ABF95.2090909@andrew.cmu.edu> Message-ID: <4F3C8052.7050207@drexel.edu> On 02/14/2012 03:09 PM, john wrote: > Members of the ACT-R community: > > The current ACT-R website probably could use some improvements. > Suggestions welcome > > We are also finding it increasing difficulty to maintain the current > site and are looking for a better, more modern system. Suggestions > again welcome. > > Thanks, > John > You should take a look at the Django library for Python on the server side & JQuery for the Javascript library on the client side. The Django project has a great website for documentation & tutorials: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/ If you're comfortable writing python scripts (on Linux), you'll pick up Django quickly. From Kevin.Gluck at wpafb.af.mil Thu Feb 16 09:13:40 2012 From: Kevin.Gluck at wpafb.af.mil (Gluck, Kevin A Civ USAF AFMC 711 HPW/RHAC) Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 09:13:40 -0500 Subject: [ACT-R-users] FW: Two Faculty Positions WSU/AFRL Message-ID: <18FBE179D741F4449F34CE82D244E539017B0AAF@VFOHMLMC11.Enterprise.afmc.ds.af.mil> Please see the official announcement regarding two tenure-track faculty positions in the Psychology Dept at Wright State University. Note the emphases on cognitive modeling and collaboration with autonomous systems. I encourage people with strong quantitative and computational modeling backgrounds to apply. The url for accessing their online application system is in the pdf. Best regards, Kevin -----Original Message----- From: John Flach [mailto:john.flach at wright.edu] Sent: Friday, February 10, 2012 11:29 AM To: 'woods.2 at osu.edu '; Rich Jagacinski; Peter Hancock; Robert Hoffman; Penelope Sanderson; Max Mulder; PJ Stappers; Markus Feufel; Peter M. Todd; Don Norman; Edwin Hutchins; Greg Jamieson; Ann Bisantz; Kevin Bennett; Gluck, Kevin A Civ USAF AFMC 711 HPW/RHAC; J. Caird; Richard Catrambone; Steve Fiore; Lawrence Hettinger; Missy Cummings; Nancy Cooke; Tom Eggemeier; Neville Stanton; Neville Moray; Neelam Naikar; Gavan Lintern; Matthijs Amelink; Raja Parasuraman; Amy. Pritchett; Alex Kirlik; Chris Wickens; John Holden; Willian Mace; Randall J Mumaw; Leonard S. Dr. Mark; Walter.W.Johnson at nasa.gov; Beth Veinott ARA/CSD; Jerry Busemeyer; Art Kramer; Nadine B B Sarter; John Lee Subject: Two Faculty Positions WSU/AFRL All, Attached is an ad for two faculty positions in the HFIO Ph.D. program at WSU. We are particularly interested in people who can build active collaborations with AFRL Human Effectiveness Research Programs as described in the ad. Please pass this information along to qualified people that you think might be interested. Thanks for your help with this. Best regards, John -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Assistant- Associate Professor - Psychology Feb 2012.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 189993 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Both lines of research indicate that the perception of a causal relationship depends on a number of cues, such as temporal order and spatial contiguity. Starting from these classical works, the PhD project will build a computational model for the perception of causality. The model will be developed in the cognitive architecture ACT-R (Anderson et al., 2004). Events during human computer interaction will serve as cases for the modeling and experiments will be run to validate the models. The PhD project will be conducted in close cooperation with the other scholarship-holders of the research cluster 6 "Usability Workbench". It will be part of a research program of the Chair of "Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics" at TU Berlin. Applicants for this projects must have a master degree or diploma in psychology, human factors, computer science or cognitive science. In particular, experience in modelling with ACT-R is required. Expertise in empirical methods and statistics as well as good skills in German and English are also expected. More Information: http://www.prometei.de/en/vacancies/scholarship.html Contact: Ms. Sandra Widera Technische Universit?t Berlin Zentrum Mensch-Maschine-Systeme, GRK 1013/2 prometei Sekr. FR 2-6 Franklinstrasse 28-29 D-10587 Berlin phone: +49 30 314-24671 fax: +49 30 314-25042 e-mail: {$ext.ml_links.fileSymbol} sandra.widera at zmms.tu-berlin.de -- Nele Ru?winkel (Dr.-Ing.) 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Cross-research in areas such as computational linguistics, natural language processing, information retrieval and ontology development, maintenance and integration have produced a wealth of multidisciplinary theories, methods, models and tools (Roche, 2008) (Staab, 2008) (Pereira et al. 2009) (Costa, 2006). More specifically, the relationship between the lexicon (lexical approaches and resources) and ontology development methods and tools, have been recently well explored in research (Huang et al, 2010). On the contrary, the relationship between terminology and ontology studies, in particular in what concerns to the initial phases of ontology development, has not received so much attention from the scientific communities involved. On the other side, in diverse professional areas, new challenges are appearing related with information and knowledge management in highly specialised technical domains, under tightly constrained time requirements, unfolding in collaborative networking contexts. Short-term collaborative networking between individuals, groups and organisations, is recognised by researchers and practitioners as possible solution to cope with an increasingly complex social and economic business environment. Moreover, the current demand for continuous innovation leads to an higher heterogeneity in the technical and scientific domains simultaneously involved in collaborative projects and activities (e.g involving SMEs and research centres) (Camarinha-Matos, 2006). Managing information and knowledge in this context places new and interesting challenges to terminology and knowledge representation, particularly when these challenges are seen from an integrated terminology/knowledge representation perspective. Terminological or ontological approaches alone are not likely to be enough in answering to the needs of precision and detail of the specialised technical domains, as much as the research efforts of articulated terminology/ontology approaches are likely to be inadequate in terms of the required resources (time and persons). Thus, these challenges call for more than the setup and configuration of common terminological or ontological resources, particularly when considering the usually accepted time-frames for developing semantic and terminological artifacts. Effective ways to collaboratively construct shared conceptualisations by the means of negotiation and representational artifacts, such as semi-formal ontologies, are then required. Topics of interest This workshop intends to join, under a multi-disciplinary tent, specialists in terminology, information/ knowledge management, ontology development, and collaboration processes, to debate the interplay between terminology and knowledge representation methods and techniques in contexts of collaborative work. Papers are invited on, but not limited to, the following topics: The interplay between terminology and conceptualization processes Interfaces between terminology work and ontology development/maintenance Collaborative processes in terminology work Collaborative conceptualization processes and representations of knowledge Conceptualization processes and semi-formal ontologies Cognitive semantics and semi-formal ontologies Knowledge organisation systems and collaboration Modelling networks of actors and semantic networks (socio-semantic networks) Theory, methods and tools for conceptual negotiation Using multimodal corpora for semi-formal ontology development Design and management of semi-formal ontology libraries Using terminological resources for semi-formal ontology development Term extraction and validation in domain-dependent, time-constrained applications Terminological approaches to support the identification of conceptual relations The role of conceptual relations in the development of semi-formal ontologies Type of submission Extended abstract (1500-2000 words) Extended abstracts must be submitted in https://www.softconf.com/lrec2012/TermKnowledge2012/ Important dates Submission deadline: 29FEB12 Acceptance notification: 12MAR12 Camera ready full paper: 2ABR12 Workshop date: 22MAY12, afternoon session Organizing Committee Ant?nio Lucas Soares (als at fe.up.pt) - University of Porto and INESC Porto, Portugal Rute Costa (rute.costa at fcsh.unl.pt) - New University of Lisbon, Portugal Carla Pereira (cpereira at estgf.ipp.pt) - IPP/ESTGF and INESC Porto, Portugal Alessandro Oltramari (aoltrama at andrew.cmu.edu) - Carnegie-Mellon University, USA Christophe Roche (christophe.roche at univ-savoie.fr) - University of Savoie, France Anita Nuopponen (atn at UWasa.fi) - University of Vaasa, Finland Programme Committee Gerhard Budin - University of Vienna Chiara Ghidini - Bruno Kessler Foundation (FBK) - Trento, Italy Guadalupe Aguado de Cea - Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid Hanne ErdmanThomsen - Copenhagen Business School Mustafa Jarrar - University of Birzeit, Palestine _______________________________________________ Alessandro Oltramari Research Associate Psychology Department Carnegie Mellon University 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh PA 15213 Tel.: +1-412-268-6284 Fax.: +1-412-268-2798 Homepage: http://www.psy.cmu.edu/people/oltramari.html FMS group: http://fms.psy.cmu.edu/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Renowned as the Mountain City, Chongqing is a magnet for visitors from home and abroad for its cultural heritage and numerous attractions. There are many karst caves, hot springs, and gorges in the area. Major tourist spots in and near Chongqing include Dazu Grottoes (rock carvings began in the Tang Dynasty 650 A.D.), Three Gorges, Jinyun Mountain Natural Reserve, Hongya Cave, Shibaozhai, Wulong Karst, etc.. All papers in the conference proceedings will be indexed by both EI Compendex and ISTP as with the past ICNC-FSKD conferences. Extended versions of selected best papers will appear in an ICNC-FSKD special issue of Computers & Mathematics with Applications, an SCI-indexed journal. ICNC'12-FSKD'12 is technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. ICNC-FSKD is a premier international forum for scientists and researchers to present the state of the art of data mining and intelligent methods inspired from nature, particularly biological, linguistic, and physical systems, with applications to computers, circuits, systems, control, communications, and more. This is an exciting and emerging interdisciplinary area in which a wide range of theory and methodologies are being investigated and developed to tackle complex and challenging problems. The registration fee of US-D430 includes proceedings, lunches, dinners, banquet, coffee breaks, and all technical sessions. To promote international participation of researchers from outside the country/region where the conference is held (i.e., China's mainland), researchers outside of Chinas mainland are encouraged to propose invited sessions. An honorarium of US-D400 will be enjoyed by the organizer(s) for each completed (with at least 6 registered papers) invited session. The first author of each paper in an invited session must not be affiliated with an organization in China?s mainland. "(Invited Paper)" may be added below the title of each paper in the invited sessions. Invited session organizers will solicit submissions, conduct reviews and recommend accept/reject decisions on the submitted papers. Invited session organizers will be able to set their own submission and review schedules, as long as a set of recommended papers is determined by 21 March 2012. Each invited session proposal should include: (1) the name, bio, and contact information of each organizer of the invited session; (2) the title and a short synopsis of the invited session. 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Universit? di Trento http://www.unitn.it/cimec/evento/20412/harvard-summer-school-cimec > > > _______________________________________________ Alessandro Oltramari Research Associate Psychology Department Carnegie Mellon University 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh PA 15213 Tel.: +1-412-268-6284 Fax.: +1-412-268-2798 Homepage: http://www.psy.cmu.edu/people/oltramari.html FMS group: http://fms.psy.cmu.edu/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Peter.Pirolli at parc.com Tue Feb 21 14:37:39 2012 From: Peter.Pirolli at parc.com (Peter.Pirolli at parc.com) Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:37:39 PST Subject: [ACT-R-users] ACT-R Internship at PARC Message-ID: <183612AA-8DB3-4D47-97E0-4A7A7AF3458C@parc.com> The Augmented Social Cognition area (ASC) at PARC has an opening for a summer internship in computational cognitive modeling under the direction of Peter Pirolli. The overall goal of the project is to develop integrated cognitive-neuroscience architectures for understanding sensemaking. More specifically we are developing ACT-R models to simulate how people solve tasks that involve interacting with muli-layered map interfaces that contain various kinds of information and forming and evaluating hypotheses about what is going on. Experience with ACT-R models and/or spatial cognition will be a major advantage. If interested, please send an email and CV to Peter Pirolli, pirolli at parc.com From rsun at rpi.edu Tue Feb 21 19:05:33 2012 From: rsun at rpi.edu (Professor Ron Sun) Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:05:33 -0500 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Fwd: INNS-WC2012 References: <58691.58.8.146.236.1329851320.squirrel@webmail.sit.kmutt.ac.th> Message-ID: Begin forwarded message: > From: jonathan at sit.kmutt.ac.th > Date: February 21, 2012 2:08:40 PM EST * Apologies if you received multiple copies of this announcement. * Kindly forward to those who may be interested. Thanks. ********** INNS-WC 2012 - Call for Symposium Proposals ********* INNS-WC2012 : 3rd Winter Conference of the International Neural Network Society Bangkok, Thailand, October 3-5, 2012 http://inns.sit.kmutt.ac.th/wc2012/ Proposals are solicited for INNS-WC2012 Symposia under the broad theme of Natural and Machine Intelligence. Each symposium will consist of both invited and contributed papers. All accepted papers will appear in the INNS-WC2012 conference proceedings in Elsevier's Procedia Computer Science. Each proposal for symposium should include the following information: * Name/Title of the Symposium * Symposium organizer and affiliation * Subject areas to be covered by the symposium * Potential authors Important Dates: Deadline for symposium proposal submission: March 31, 2012 Notification of proposal acceptance: April 15, 2012 Deadline for symposium session papers submission: May 15, 2012 Notification of paper acceptance: June 15, 2012 Camera-ready paper: July 15, 2012 Proposal for symposium should be submitted in electronic form (Word or pdf) to inns at sit.kmutt.ac.th by March 31, 2012 ORGANIZERS - International Neural Network Society (INNS) - National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (BIOTEC), National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA) - King Mongkut University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT) SPONSOR - Elsevier B.V. - Procedia Computer Science Collocated Conferences ===================== - The 11th International Conference on Bioinformatics (InCoB 2012 - www.incob2012.org) - The 3rd International Conference on Computational Systems-Biology and Bioinformatics (CSBio2012 - www.csbio.org) ======================================================== Professor Ron Sun President, International Neural Network Society Cognitive Science Department Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 110 Eighth Street, Carnegie 302A Troy, NY 12180, USA phone: 518-276-3409 fax: 518-276-3017 email: dr.ron.sun [AT] gmail.com web: http://sites.google.com/site/drronsun ======================================================= From aaztiria at mondragon.edu Thu Feb 23 11:02:20 2012 From: aaztiria at mondragon.edu (Asier Aztiria) Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 17:02:20 +0100 Subject: [ACT-R-users] CFP AITAmI'12 - 7th Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Ambient Intelligence Message-ID: 7th Workshop onArtificial Intelligence Techniques for Ambient Intelligence (AITAmI?12) *Focus of 2012 edition: Context and Situation Understanding* * * Guanajuato, Mexico - 26th-27th of June 2012 http://www.mondragon.edu/kongresuak/aitami2012/en *Important Dates* Paper submission: 15 March 2012 Notification: 16 April 2012 Paper final submission (with revisions): 30 April 2012 * * * * *Background and Goals:** ** *Imagine a future where human environments respond to human preferences and needs. In this world, devices equipped with simple intelligence and the abilities to sense, communicate, and act will be unremarkable features of our world. We will *expect* the car to warn us of hazards, track our location and provide timely route advice. We will speak to simple machines and hold conversations with more complex systems, such as intelligent homes that will help us monitor conditions, track routine tasks, and program the behaviour of the heater, lights, garden watering and the entertainment centre. Analogous systems at work will make simple decisions in our stead ranging from scheduling meetings to negotiating for common services over the web. Such systems will also acquire, and adapt to our preferences over time. In sum, we will come to view simple software intelligence as an ambient feature of our environment. This workshop will provide the opportunity to understand latest developments and take action to shape the future of the area by gathering researchers in a variety of AI subfields together with representatives of commercial interests to explore the technology and applications for ambient intelligence. The 7th edition of AITAmI will focus on the understanding of Context and Situations as key concepts which support accurate diagnosis and reasoning for the decision making processes that sustain Ambient Intelligence applications. This event will build up on the topics discussed during the previous successful editions: *AITAmI?06* held during ECAI?06 *AITAmI?07 *held during IJCAI?07, *AITAmI?08 * held during ECAI?08, *AITAmI?09* held during IE?09, *AITAmI?10* held during IE?10, and *AITAmI?11* held during IE?11. *Areas of interest:* include, but are not limited to, the following: - Context Awareness - Activity recognition - Individual/Group emotional status - Individual/Group preferences - Mediating conflicting interests - Non invasive sensing and interaction - Cognitive modelling of users - Modelling complex environments (Smart homes, smart cars, hospitals, museums, transportation, classrooms, open spaces, etc.) - Intelligent interactive systems - Multi-modal interfaces (voice, image and video, bio-signals, handwriting, etc. as well as... - Agent-based approaches to AmI - Applications (Health, industry, teaching, supporting group collaboration, etc.) - Responsive/active architecture - Innovative applications of AI to Ambient Intelligence - Traditional relevant areas of AI (KR, reasoning about actions, spatio-temporal reasoning, CBR, planning, uncertainty, learning, belief revision, vision, decision-making, etc.) *Submission Details: *Authors wishing to participate as speakers in this event should: ? Submit papers of no more than 12 pages formatted according to the IOS Press style: http://www.iospress.nl/service/authors/latex-and-word-tools-for-book-authors/ ? Online submission system for this event: https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/AITAMI2012/ * * *Publications:* all papers accepted will be published in the proceedings of the event which will be a volume in the Book Series on *Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments:* http://www.iospress.nl/bookserie/ambient-intelligence-and-smart-environments/ This series is now indexed by Scopus, DBLP and ACM Digital Library. *Co-Chairs* A. Aztiria (U. of Mondragon, Spain) J.C. Augusto (U. of Ulster, UK) D. Cook (Washington State U., USA) *Invited Speakers:* Hedda R. Schmidtke (Technology for Pervasive Computing, Germany) *Best Presentation Awards: * there will be prizes in the categories of ?Best Paper? and ?Best Presentation?. *Web page: * http://www.mondragon.edu/kongresuak/aitami2012/en *Contact:* aaztiria at mondragon.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ICSAI2012CFP at mail.ytu.edu.cn Fri Feb 24 08:26:04 2012 From: ICSAI2012CFP at mail.ytu.edu.cn (Prof Sun) Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 21:26:04 +0800 Subject: [ACT-R-users] ICSAI 2012, Yantai, China: Extended Deadline 5 March [EI Compendex/ISTP/IEEE Xplore] Message-ID: <0163B9AC320690662D22DA922B0E6848@ccyr> Dear Colleague, Upon numerous requests, the upcoming 2012 International Conference on Systems and Informatics (ICSAI 2012) extends the submission deadline to 5 March 2012. We cordially invite you to submit a paper to ICSAI 2012 to be held from 19-21 May 2012 in Yantai, China. ICSAI 2012 aims to be a premier international forum for scientists and researchers to present the state of the art of systems engineering and information science. Topics include (but are not limited to): Systems ? Control and Automation Systems ? Power and Energy Systems ? Intelligent Systems ? Computer Systems and Applications Informatics ? Communications and Networking ? Image, Video, and Signal Processing ? Data Engineering and Data Mining ? Software Engineering The registration fee of US$400 includes proceedings, lunches, dinners, banquet, coffee breaks, and all technical sessions. ICSAI 2012 is technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society. All papers in conference proceedings will be indexed by both EI Compendex and ISTP, as well as the IEEE Xplore (IEEE Conference Record #19873; IEEE Catalog Number CFP1273R-CDR; ISBN: 978-1-4673-0197-8). 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URL: From MANWAR at pitt.edu Tue Feb 28 12:31:38 2012 From: MANWAR at pitt.edu (Mohd Anwar) Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 12:31:38 -0500 Subject: [ACT-R-users] [Iri2012] IEEE IRI 2012 CFP Reminder Message-ID: <8ac3514d97ae0772884bbb1f73c28afd.squirrel@webmail.pitt.edu> CALL FOR PAPERS -- IEEE IRI 2012 ============================================= The 13th IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration When: Aug 8, 2012 - Aug 10, 2012 Where: Las Vegas, USA Submission of abstract (Required) : March 5, 2012 Submission Deadline: Mar 12, 2012 Notification Due: Apr 27, 2012 Final Version Due: May 14, 2012 http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~iri2012/ ================================================ Given the emerging global Information-centric IT landscape that has tremendous social and economic implications, effectively processing and integrating very large volumes of information from diverse sources to enable effective decision making and knowledge generation have become one of the most significant challenges of current times. 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 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 Applications ? Information Security & Privacy ? Survivable Systems & Infrastructures ? AI & Decision Support Systems ? Heuristic Optimization and Search ? Knowledge Acquisition and Management ? Fuzzy and Neural Systems ? Soft/Evolutionary Computing ? Case-Based Reasoning ? Natural Language Understanding ? Knowledge Management and E-Government ? Command & Control Systems (C4ISR) ? Human-Machine Information Systems ? Biomedical & Healthcare Systems ? Homeland Security & Critical Infrastructure Protection ? Manufacturing Systems & Business Process Engineering ? Space and Robotic Systems ? Multimedia Systems ? Service-Oriented Architectures ? Autonomous Agents in Web-based Systems ? Information Integration in Grid, Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing Environment ? 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 up to 8 pages (using the IEEE two-column template). The online submission site is: https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=iri2012. Papers will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. Paper submission implies the intent of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper, if accepted. Best Paper Award: The best paper will be selected by separate committee and will be the one that reports the most novel and promising research work that has a high potential impact in the real world. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Lotfi A. Zadeh, University of California, Berkeley, USA Honorary General Chair: Lotfi Zadeh, University of California, Berkeley, USA General Chairs Stuart Rubin SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific, USA Shu-Ching Chen Florida International University, USA Program Chairs Elisa Bertino Purdue University, USA Bhavani Thuraisingham University of Texas at Dallas, USA James B.D. Joshi University of Pittsburgh, USA Chengcui Zhang The University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA Contact: Please contact jjoshi "at" sis.pitt.edu for more information. _______________________________________________ Iri2012 mailing list Iri2012 at list.pitt.edu https://list.pitt.edu/mailman/listinfo/iri2012 From cl at cmu.edu Wed Feb 29 15:59:31 2012 From: cl at cmu.edu (Christian Lebiere) Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 15:59:31 -0500 Subject: [ACT-R-users] 2012 ACT-R Workshop Message-ID: The Nineteenth Annual ACT-R workshop will take place from Friday July 27 to Sunday July 29 2012 at Carnegie Mellon University following the ACT-R Summer School. Mornings will be devoted to research presentations, each lasting about 20 minutes plus questions. Participants are invited to present their ACT-R research by submitting a one-page abstract with their registration. Afternoons will feature discussion sessions and instructional tutorials. Suggestions for the topics of the tutorials and discussion sessions are welcome. Friday afternoon will feature a presentation by an invited speaker. Admission to the workshop is open to all. The early registration fee (before July 1) is $100 and the late registration fee (after July 1) is $125. Informal proceedings of past workshops can be found on the ACT-R web site (http://act-r.psy.cmu.edu/workshops/). Requests for presentations should be submitted before July 1 to receive full consideration for inclusion in the workshop program. A preliminary program of presentations will be made available in early July.? Housing is available on a limited basis in the CMU dormitories for the duration of the workshop at the rate of about $60/day for single rooms and $40/day for double rooms. Registration information will be available at a later date.? Inquiries can be sent to cl at cmu.edu or jlferris at cmu.edu. Christian