From hedderik at van-rijn.org Fri Mar 2 15:37:24 2012 From: hedderik at van-rijn.org (Hedderik van Rijn) Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012 21:37:24 +0100 Subject: [ACT-R-users] ICCM 2012 deadline approaching! Message-ID: <366233B6-4B5C-4D8D-91CE-8243CE6543F7@van-rijn.org> Dear ACT-R'ers, this is just a quick note to let you know that the deadline for the poster-submissions for ICCM 2012 to be held in Berlin is quickly approaching. The deadline for submitting a poster-abstract is next Tuesday, March 6th. As noted on www.iccm2012.com, poster submissions can be anything between an extended abstract to a small 2-page paper. We will make sure that all submissions are evaluated by Monday March 12. Registration for ICCM 2012 will open by next Wednesday the latest, with fees (most probably) set at 200 euros for non-students, and 100 euros for students, including the conference dinner. Please register as soon as possible, and do make sure to check out the very interesting tutorials that will take place on the Thursday before the start of the main conference. Looking forward to seeing you all in Berlin! - Uwe Drewitz, Nele Russwinkel, Hedderik van Rijn. P.S. Please forward this to colleagues and students who might be interested in joining ICCM 2012! From mpavone at dmi.unict.it Sat Mar 3 16:03:26 2012 From: mpavone at dmi.unict.it (Mario Pavone) Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2012 22:03:26 +0100 Subject: [ACT-R-users] CfP PPSN 2012 - 12th Int. Conf. on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature, 1-5 September, 2012 Taormina, Italy Message-ID: <20120303220326.Horde.cqKqHeph4B9PUoceg1uSHoA@mbox.dmi.unict.it> ** Apologies for cross-posting ** ************************************************************************************** IMPORTANT: *Submission deadline Thursday March 15, 2012* ************************************************************************************** 12th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature - PPSN 2012 http://www.dmi.unict.it/ppsn2012/index.php ppsn2012 at dmi.unict.it 1-5 September, 2012 Hotel Villa Diodoro Taormina, Italy CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *** The submission system is now open *** https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ppsn2012 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AIMS & SCOPE Natural Computing is the study of computational systems which use ideas and get inspiration from natural systems, including biological, ecological, physical, chemical, and social systems. It is a fast-growing interdisciplinary field in which a range of techniques and methods are studied for dealing with large, complex, and dynamic problems with various sources of potential uncertainties. PPSN XII will be a showcase of a wide range of topics in Natural Computing including, but not restricted to: Evolutionary Computation, Neural Computation, Molecular Computation, Quantum Computation, Artificial Life, Swarm Intelligence, Artificial Ant Systems, Artificial Immune Systems, Self-Organizing Systems, Emergent Behaviors, and Applications to Real-World Problems. PPSN XII will also feature workshops and tutorials covering advanced and fundamental topics in the field of natural computation. Submissions should present significant contributions. All accepted papers will be presented during poster sessions and will be included in the proceedings. Following the tradition of PPSN, we plan to publish the proceedings in the Series Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) by Springer. The preceding symposia were held in Dortmund, Brussels, Jerusalem, Berlin, Amsterdam, Paris, Granada, Birmingham, Reykjavik, Dortmund, and Krakow. IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: March 15, 2012 Author notification: June 1, 2012 Camera-ready submission: June 20, 2012 PROCEEDINGS Accepted papers will appear in the PPSN 2012 proceedings published by Springer Verlag in the LNCS series. SUBMISSION Authors are invited to submit high-quality manuscripts reporting original unpublished research and recent developments in the topics related to the symposium. Simultaneous submission to other conferences or workshops with published proceedings is not allowed. Submissions must not exceed 10 pages formatted according to LNCS style. All papers will be peer reviewed and comments will be provided to the authors. The submission system can be accessed via https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ppsn2012 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Angelo Cangelosi, University of Plymouth, UK Natalio Krasnogor, University of Nottingham, UK Panos M. Pardalos, University of Florida, USA Leslie G. Valiant, Harvard University, USA TUTORIAL SPEAKERS Jaume Bacardit, University of Nottingham, UK Juergen Branke, University of Warwick, UK Pierre Collet, Strasbourg University, France Pier Luca Lanzi, Polytechnic of Milan, Italy Vittorio Maniezzo, University of Bologna, Italy Martin Pelikan, University of Missouri in St. Louis, USA Roberto Serra, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy Lee Spector, Hampshire College, USA ORGANIZING COMMITTEE *General Chairs Vincenzo Cutello, University of Catania, Italy Mario Pavone, University of Catania, Italy *Honorary Chair Hans-Paul Schwefel, Dortmund University of Technology, Germany *Programme Chairs Carlos A. Coello Coello, CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico Kalyanmoy Deb, Indian Institute of Technology, India Stephanie Forrest, University of New Mexico & Santa Fe Institute, USA Giuseppe Nicosia, University of Catania, Italy *Tutorial Chairs Giuseppe Narzisi, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA German Terrazas Angulo, University of Nottingham, UK CONTACT For further information, please send an email to ppsn2012 at dmi.unict.it Hope to see you in Taormina! -- Dr. Mario Pavone (PhD) Assistant Professor Department of Mathematics and Computer Science University of Catania V.le A. Doria 6 - 95125 Catania, Italy tel: 0039 095 7383038 fax: 0039 095 330094 Email: mpavone at dmi.unict.it http://www.dmi.unict.it/mpavone/ ------------------------------------------------ From johnboran2 at gmail.com Tue Mar 6 22:26:30 2012 From: johnboran2 at gmail.com (John Boran) Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 22:26:30 -0500 Subject: [ACT-R-users] cogsci.stackexchange.com Message-ID: Hi all, A new site has recently launched that may be of interest to the ACT-R community: cogsci.stackexchange.com . The site is a free Q&A site for cognitive scientists of all backgrounds and levels of expertise. The site is a member of the Stack Exchange network, whose flagship site, stackoverflow.com, is wildly popular with programmers-- attracting over a million registered users and several million questions and answers. The Q&A format from StackOverflow has proven to be very effective, generating spin-off sites such as stats.stackexchange.com, an invaluable resource for obtaining advice on statistics and machine learning (and also useful to ACT-R folk!) I believe cogsci.stackexchange.com can be an equally valuable resource for both professional and hobbyist cognitive scientists, but at this early stage the site needs to attract experts who can both ask and answer research-caliber questions. If this idea sounds interesting to you, please consider registering for the site and asking or answering a question or two-- or simply pass the word on. There have already been several posts that mention ACT-R. John Note: I am not affiliated with StackExchange in any way, other than as a member of the general community. From yliu at zju.edu.cn Thu Mar 8 08:35:47 2012 From: yliu at zju.edu.cn (yliu) Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 21:35:47 +0800 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Can someone tell me something further details about developing DEVICE in ACT-R Message-ID: <531213747.19089@csc.zju.edu.cn> Hi, Colleagues, As we know, when we develop a GUI interface for ACT-R model, there are no problems to add TEXT, BUTTON and LINE items to the model's GUI. However, in my project I want to add some other items such as cross, circle etc. to a cognitive model?s interface. I have learned that to build DEVICE can implement these functions. My problem is I don?t know how I can deal with it. Has someone got experiences doing so or and got examples on hand. Would you please give some little more details or some guides on that, for example, step 1 ?, step 2 ?. Thanks in advanced. Kind regards. Yanfei College of Informatics Zhejiang Sci-Tech Univ. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From db30 at andrew.cmu.edu Thu Mar 8 09:35:35 2012 From: db30 at andrew.cmu.edu (db30 at andrew.cmu.edu) Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 09:35:35 -0500 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Can someone tell me something further details about developing DEVICE in ACT-R In-Reply-To: <531213747.19089@csc.zju.edu.cn> References: <531213747.19089@csc.zju.edu.cn> Message-ID: --On Thursday, March 08, 2012 9:35 PM +0800 yliu wrote: > > Hi, Colleagues, > > > > As we know, when we develop a GUI interface for ACT-R model, there are no > problems to add TEXT, BUTTON and LINE items to the model's GUI. However, in > my project I want to add some other items such as cross, circle etc. to a > cognitive model??s interface. I have learned that to build DEVICE can > implement these functions. My problem is I don??t know how I can deal with > it. Has someone got experiences doing so or and got examples on hand. Would > you please give some little more details or some guides on that, for example, > step 1 ??, step 2 ??. > In the docs directory of ACT-R 6 is a set of slides named "extending-actr" which describes what is necessary to create a new device. In addition to those slides, there are files in the examples directory which create new devices (specifically "simple-new-device" and all of the "new-vision-test*" files). If you have any questions or problems with those materials please let me know. Dan From contact at iccm2012.com Thu Mar 8 09:28:48 2012 From: contact at iccm2012.com (ICCM 2012) Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 15:28:48 +0100 Subject: [ACT-R-users] ICCM registration is open Message-ID: Good News - registration for the ICCM 2012 is open! Use the link below or visit the conference home page. https://registrierung-online.info/register/registration_ICCM_2012.php If you register before the 25th of March you can benefit from the Early Bird rates. We also recommend booking your hotel room immediately. You will find a list of hotels with special rates on www.iccm2012.com. Looking forward to meet you in Berlin! - Uwe Drewitz, Nele Russwinkel, Hedderik van Rijn. Apologies for multiple copies. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From frank.ritter at psu.edu Mon Mar 12 02:39:29 2012 From: frank.ritter at psu.edu (Frank Ritter) Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 02:39:29 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] CogModel notes: ICCM12/BRIMS12/SI/confs/app/Jobs Message-ID: <312239.LGWBASKS@psu.edu> This is based on the International Cognitive Modeling Conference mailing list that I maintain. I forward messages about twice a year. (however, this is the fourth one for ICCM 2012.) The first announcement is driving this email -- the program and registration information for ICCM 2012 in Berlin. If you would like to be removed, please just let me know. I maintain it by hand to keep it small. cheers, Frank Ritter frank.e.ritter at gmail.com http://acs.ist.psu.edu http://www.frankritter.com **************************************************************** 1. ICCM 2012, Berlin, 12-15 April 2012, early reg. deadline: 24 Mar 12 http://www.iccm2012.com 2. ICCM 2012 tutorials program available, Berlin, 12 April 2012 http://www.iccm2012.com/tutorials/ 3. ACM TiiS special issue on Human Decision Making and Recommender Systems http://tiis.acm.org/special-issues.html 4. Cognitive Systems AAAI 2012 http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI/2012/aaai12cognitivecall.php 5. Caffine Zone 2, predicts caffeine level app for iOS devices http://caffeinezone.net 6. Workshop Proposals, KI 2012, Due: March 15 2012 http://www.dfki.de/ki2012/ 7. Special issue of Cog Sys Red on Mindreading at ONR, Deadline: 1 Jun 12 http://www.pbello.com/CFP%20Special%20Issue%20of%20CogSysRes%20on%20Mindreading.pdf 8. Augmented Cognition Technical Group Meeting, Proposals due March 17, 2012 https://www.hfes.org/Web/Register.aspx?Code=TG 9. Modeling Social Behavior program at NIH in simulation http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-GM-13-006.html 10. International Summit on Human Simulation (ISHS) 2012, due: 10 apr 12 http://www.societyhumansimulation.org/content/international-summit-human-simulation-2012 11. European Conf. on Cog. Ergonomics (ECCE) 2012, papes due: 2 apr 12 http://www.napier.ac.uk/ECCE12 12. International Neural Network Society Conference, papers due: 31 mar 12 http://inns.sit.kmutt.ac.th/wc2012/ 13. BRIMS 2012 schedule available on line http://brimsconference.org/schedule/ 14. New Journal: Biologically inspired cognitive architectures http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/727718/description 15. Post-Doc position at the Naval Sub. Med. Res. Lab. (NSMRL) in Groton, CT. 16. Frymoyer Endowed Chair Professor Position in IST at PSU http://ist.psu.edu/research/frymoyer-chair 17. PhD position, HrTeam http://www.cs.gc.cuny.edu/applications 18. 2 Lectureships at King's College London http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/pertra/vacancy/external/pers_detail.php?jobindex=11121 19. PhD Position, University of Osnabrueck Germany 20. PhD Scholarship at TU Berlin http://www.prometei.de/en/vacancies/scholarship.html 21. Professor Position at Technische Universitaet Berlin http://www.personalabteilung.tu-berlin.de/menue/jobs/ 22. Three 1-year Post PhD positions with DTRA (deadline: 1apr12) Jan Mahar Sturdevant 23. ACT-R Internship at PARC 24. Jobs at NSF, starting to eval from 1 mar 2012 http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/sbe12003/sbe12003.jsp?org=SBE **************************************************************** 1. ICCM 2012, Berlin, 12-15 April 2012, early reg. deadline: 24 Mar 12 http://www.iccm2012.com The conference will be held from 13 to 15 April 2012 in Berlin at the Technische Universitat Berlin (TU/Berlin). The tutorials will be held April 12, 2012. We hope to see you in Berlin! The program and the registration (early registration: E200 for faculty and E100 for students) are now available. The International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (ICCM) is the premier conference for research on computational models and computation-based theories of human behavior. ICCM is a forum for presenting, discussing, and evaluating the complete spectrum of cognitive modeling approaches, including connectionism, symbolic modeling, dynamical systems, Bayesian modeling, and cognitive architectures. ICCM includes basic and applied research, across a wide variety of domains, ranging from low-level perception and attention to higher-level problem-solving and learning. The chairs are: "Nele Russwinkel" , "Uwe Drewitz" , "Hedderik van Rijn" , "Jeronimo Dzaak" **************************************************************** 2. ICCM 2012 tutorials program available, Berlin, 12 April 2012 http://www.iccm2012.com/tutorials/ The Tutorials program at the International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (ICCM) 2012 will be held on 12 April 2012. It will provide conference participants with the opportunity to gain new insights, knowledge, and skills from a broad range of areas in the field of cognitive modeling. Tutorial topics will be presented in a taught format and are likely to range from practical guidelines to theoretical issues or software. Tutorials at ICCM have been held many times before, and this year's program will be modelled after them and after the series held at the Cognitive Science Conference. Tutorials are E10/half-day, or E20 for a whole day. Developing CLARION-based Agents Using the New CLARION Library Lynch, Full day (0900-1700) Heuristic models of judgment and decision-making: Implementations and applications Schooler & Neth, Half-day (afternoon: 1345-1700) Understanding cognitive processes through language use Tenbrink, Half-day (afternoon: 1345-1700) Cog. Robotics: The Symbolic and Sub-symbolic Robotics Intelligence Control System Kelley, Half-day (morning: 0900-1215) Scaling models of cog. to the world: Complexity-theo. tools for dealing with intractability van Rooij & Kwisthout, full day (0900-1700) **************************************************************** 3. ACM TiiS special issue on Human Decision Making and Recommender Systems http://tiis.acm.org/special-issues.html ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems on HUMAN DECISION MAKING AND RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS Main submission deadline: February 29th, 2012 http://tiis.acm.org/special-issues.html AIMS AND SCOPE A primary function of recommender systems is to help people make good choices and decisions. But in research on recommender systems, surprisingly little attention has been devoted to the decision making processes of users. Instead, it has focused mainly on (a) ways of eliciting and modeling users' preferences and (b) algorithms for identifying items that a user is likely to evaluate positively. Even systems that do explicitly aim to support the decision making process could benefit from greater use of knowledge about human decision making. And the growing amount of research on users' interaction with recommender systems, which aims to enhance their usability and acceptance, can be expanded to consider support for specific aspects of decision making. This special issue will highlight research that explicitly considers ways in which an understanding of human choice and decision making can benefit research and practice on recommender systems. The dimensions listed below indicate the range of work that is relevant to the special issue. In case of doubt about the relevance of your topic, please contact the special issue associate editors. TOPIC DIMENSIONS Types of Decision Made by Users of Recommender Systems - Decisions about items in some domain (e.g., products, documents, ...) - Decisions about actions performed as part of the domain-level decision making process (e.g., what information to divulge or to acquire) Aspects of the Recommendation Process - Acquiring information about users' preferences - Modeling users' preferences - Provision of decision-relevant information - Presentation and explanation of recommendations - Adaptation to the interaction context - Special characteristics of recommendation to groups Aspects of Human Choice and Decision Making - What people desire in a decision making process - Roles of justification and argumentation in decision making - Descriptive models of choice - Heuristics and biases - The nature of preferences - Temporal aspects of decision making - Forms of social influence - Roles of emotion and mood - Effects of learning from experience - Negotiation in decision making - Factors that influence decision making (e.g., culture, mood, time pressure ...) Evaluation Criteria for Recommender Systems - Decision quality - Minimization of effort and stress - Trust and confidence Nature of the Research Contribution - Novel functionality inspired by an understanding of human decision making - Empirical results concerning decision making with recommender systems - Innovation in research methodology (e.g., concerning ways of evaluating recommender systems or observing users' decision making processes) SPECIAL ISSUE ASSOCIATE EDITORS - Alexander Felfernig, Graz University of Technology, Austria (afelfern[at]ist[dot]tugraz[dot]at) - Francesco Ricci, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (francesco[dot]ricci[at]unibz[dot]it) - Li Chen, Hong Kong Baptist University, China - Giovanni Semeraro, Marco de Gemmis, and Pasquale Lops, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy IMPORTANT DATES - By February 29th, 2012: Submission of manuscripts [late, but query them if interested-fer] - By May 29th, 2012: Notification about decisions on initial submissions - By August 27th, 2012: Submission of revised manuscripts - By October 26th, 2012: Notification about decisions on revised manuscripts - By November 26th, 2012: Submission of manuscripts with final minor changes - Starting December, 2012: Publication of the special issue on the TiiS website, in the ACM Digital Library, and (shortly afterward) as a printed issue HOW TO SUBMIT Please see the instructions for authors on the TiiS website (tiis.acm.org). ABOUT ACM TiiS TiiS (pronounced "T double-eye S") is a recently founded ACM journal for research about intelligent systems that people interact with. The journal's procedures and infrastructure have been designed to combine the traditional quality and depth of ACM journals with the efficiency and predictability of the best-run conferences. **************************************************************** 4. Cognitive Systems AAAI 2012 http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI/2012/aaai12cognitivecall.php [again, late for submission, but they hope to make this an ongoing program.] As you might already know, there will be a new special track on Cognitive Systems at AAAI 2012 following the footsteps of the previous AAAI Integrated Intelligence track, but with a wider scope and a particular focus on integrated cognitive systems. This track also follows the direction of the recent 2011 AAAI Fall Symposium on Advances in Cognitive Systems. The CFP for the track can be viewed here: http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI/2012/aaai12cognitivecall.php The program committee for this special track consists of experts in cognitive systems to ensure that all papers receive a thorough, fair expert review. Thus, we hope that you will find this track a unique opportunity to disseminate your work in cognitive systems and look forward to receiving your papers. Sincerely, James Allen and Matthias Scheutz Special track co-chairs **************************************************************** 5. Caffine Zone 2, predicts caffeine level app for iOS devices http://caffeinezone.net I'd like to tell you about an iPhone/iPod/iPad app that we created, Caffeine Zone 2. Based on entering your caffeine consumption, Caffeine Zone 2 displays your caffeine level over time. You can set the display and alarms for levels of caffeine for optimal cognitive work, and also caffeine levels too much for optimum cognition and too much for sleep (these levels come with defaults). With use you might adjust your caffeine consumption, and for example, drink more decaf coffee. The lite version is free and includes ads, and the paid version ($0.99) has no ads. It would be particularly useful for people who have varying sleep patterns (e.g., shift work), people have trouble falling asleep because they consume caffeine too close to sleeping, and people who are interested in the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of caffeine. This work was initially created with support from ONR. It has since been released by ONR and PSU to a small company to develop it that is run by Dr. Frank Ritter. Dr. Kuo-Chuan Yeh (computer science, Penn State) helped create it. More information is available at http://caffeinezone.net/ . The software can be downloaded from the iTunes store. A number of free copies of the software are available for media and for government evaluators. Dr. Frank Ritter at ist.psu.edu College of Information Sciences and Technology The Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA 16802-3857 ph. (814) 865-4453 http://ritter.ist.psu.edu http://www.frankritter.com **************************************************************** 6. Workshop Proposals, KI 2012, Due: March 15 2012 http://www.dfki.de/ki2012/ KI 2012, Saarbrucken, 24-27 September KI 2012, the 35th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence, invites original research papers, as well as workshop and tutorial proposals from all areas of AI, its fundamentals, its algorithms, and its applications. Together with the main conference, we aim at organizing a small number of high-quality workshops suitable for a large percentage of conference participants, including graduate students as well as experienced researchers and practitioners. General Information Workshops will be free of charge for conference participants and will be held at the first day of the conference. Both full-day (6 hours) and half-day (3 hours) workshops are of interest. They should preferably be given in English. The KI 2012 conference organizers will provide logistic support and meeting places for the workshops as well as determine the dates and times of the workshops. Working and teaching material will be printed by the conference organization. Volumes are limited to a total of 200 pages. How to Propose a Workshop Proposals should be prepared in PDF, or plain ASCII (two pages) and sent by email to the KI 2012 Workshop Chair. Each workshop proposal should provide the following information: * Description of workshop topic and goal. This description should discuss the relevance of the suggested topic and its interest to the general AI community and the KI 2012 audience. * Names and full addresses (including email and web address) of the workshop organizer(s). This can be a single person or a group of persons. Please indicate the primary contact person for the workshop to KI 2012. Strong proposals include organizers who bring differing perspectives to the workshop topic and who are actively connected to the communities of potential participants. * Names and affiliation of the members of the proposed Program Committee. * For which areas of AI do you expect to draw participants for your workshop and how many participants do you expect? How do you plan to invite participants for the workshop? * A brief description of the workshop format regarding the mix of events such as paper presentations, invited talks, panels, demonstrations, and general discussions. * Do you expect the workshop to be a full-day workshop or a half-day workshop? * A list of important dates (submission deadline etc) for the workshop. Workshop organizers will be responsible for: * Producing a call for participation. This call will be posted on the KI 2012 website. * Organizers are responsible for additional publicity such as distributing the call to relevant newsgroups and electronic mailing lists, and especially to potential audiences from outside the KI conference community. * Submissions of the workshop papers will be handled by the workshop organizers. Please make sure that you have a proper review process. * Organizers are encouraged to maintain their own web site with updated information about the workshop. This site will be linked from the KI 2012 conference site. * Coordinating the production of the workshop notes. The workshop organizers coordinate the paper collection, production, and distribution of the working notes for the workshops. Important Dates and Information Proposal deadline: March 15, 2012 Notification of acceptance: April 1, 2012 CFP for the workshops due: April 15, 2012 Workshop proceedings ready: September 1, 2012 Workshop date: September 24, 2012, Saarbrucken Workshop Chair: Gabriele Kern-Isberner, TU Dortmund, gabriele.kern-isberner at cs.tu-dortmund.de KI 2012, Saarbrucken, 24-27 September, http://www.dfki.de/ki2012/ **************************************************************** 7. Special issue of Cog Sys Red on Mindreading at ONR, Deadline: 1 Jun 12 http://www.pbello.com/CFP%20Special%20Issue%20of%20CogSysRes%20on%20Mindreading.pdf Mindreading, or the ability to represent and reason about the mental states of other agents and oneself, is a pervasive part of cognition that has yet to be deeply explored from a computational perspective. As a fundamental enabler for language understanding, plan recognition, cooperation, competition and moral cognition, it follows that detailed models of mental state attributions are a prerequisite for the development of a more complete theory of the human mind. Current cognitive theories of mindreading are predominantly philosophical in nature, with empirical work seemingly unable to provide definitive answers as to which framework might be the most defensible. Now that researchers have started to build cognitive models of mental-state reasoning, it is hoped that computational considerations may weigh in on the matter of how best to understand mindreading. This special issue seeks to promote interdisciplinary dialogue between computational cognitive modelers, philosophers, and psychologists studying the nature and operation of the human capacity to mindread. The emphasis of the issue will be placed on computational models and how they both inform and are informed by work in other disciplines. Submissions should be sent to either paul.bello at navy.mil or mguarini at uwindsor.ca by June 1st 2012. Links to information for authors are contained in the PDF version of the call, which can be found at: http://www.pbello.com/CFP%20Special%20Issue%20of%20CogSysRes%20on%20Mindreading.pdf Paul Bello, Ph.D. Program Officer, Cognitive Science, Code 341 - Warfighter Performance Office of Naval Research 875 N. Randolph St. Suite 1425 Arlington, VA 22203 (Ph): 703-696-4318, (Cell): 703-742-9862 Email: paul.bello at navy.mil **************************************************************** 8. Augmented Cognition Technical Group Meeting, Proposals due March 17, 2012 https://www.hfes.org/Web/Register.aspx?Code=TG Please plan to participate with the Augmented Cognition Technical Group (ACTG) at the 56th Annual Meeting of HFES (October 22-26, 2012) at the Westin Boston Waterfront: https://www.hfes.org//Web/HFESMeetings/meetings.html. I am sure that it will be another exciting opportunity to exchange knowledge, catch up with colleagues, and make new connections! ACTG will be accepting proposals for lectures, posters, panels, symposia and/or tutorials. For submission instructions, please go to: https://www.hfes.org//Web/HFESMeetings/2012annualmeeting.html. Please keep in mind that Proposals are due March 17, 2012! The submission site is set to open on January 19th and can be found by following the link above. Also, keep your eyes open for student best paper and student grant opportunities. Sincerely, ACTG Program Chair LT Lee Sciarini Lee.Sciarini at navy.mil P.S. Don't forget to Renew/Join the Augmented Cognition Technical Group (ACTG)! Please go to the following web site if you are not a member of HFES: https://www.hfes.org/Web/Register.aspx?Code=TG or, if you are already member, click on the member link https://www.hfes.org/Web/Login.aspx, login, and select the technical group(s) you wish to join. The AUGMENTED COGNITION Technical Group is concerned with fostering the development and application of real-time physiological and neurophysiological sensing technologies that can ascertain a human's cognitive state while interacting with computing-based systems; data classification and integration architectures that enable closed-loop system applications; mitigation (adaptive) strategies that enable efficient and effective system adaptation based on a user's dynamically changing cognitive state; individually tailored training systems; and roadmaps for future directions concerning augmented cognition science and technology and guidelines of use for the technology and the user information that may be garnered from it. Similar to other TGs, such as the Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making (CETG) and the Training TGs, the AC-TG does not focus on anyone application area. The AC-TG aims to discover, develop, and apply neuroscience-based methodologies and tools that can enhance the human-centered approaches and ultimate capabilities of scientists and practitioners working in most any application area-where the focus may be general human-system integration issues, specific human-computer interaction techniques, or a combination of both. Examples of AC-TG application areas include: human-system interface design for complex and information-intensive systems (e.g., command and control, air traffic control, stock market), adaptive training systems for military and industry, brain-machine interfaces for cognitive therapy and enhancement, usability engineering, operator selection, market research, and interactive gaming. **************************************************************** 9. Modeling Social Behavior program at NIH in simulation http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-GM-13-006.html [past the date for letter of intent, but shows movement into this area by NIH-fer] This FOA, issued by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) and the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), solicits applications for developing and testing innovative theories and computational, mathematical, or engineering approaches to deepen our understanding of complex social behavior. This research will examine phenomena at multiple scales to address the emergence of collective behaviors that arise from individual elements or parts of a system working together. This FOA will support research that explores the often complex and dynamical relationships among the parts of a system and between the system and its environment in order to understand the system as a whole. To accomplish the goals of this FOA we encourage applications that build transdisciplinary teams of scientists spanning a broad range of expertise. Minimally this team should include senior investigators with expertise in the behavioral or social sciences as well as in computational and systems thinking (computer science, mathematics, engineering, systems-level methodology). Research can involve model organisms or humans. The FOA will support small research projects focusing on theory building and testing, development and testing of innovative methods or methodological approaches, as well as small infrastructure projects focusing on development and testing of shared resources (in the context of a driving biological, basic behavioral or social, or human health issue). The FOA also will fund larger and more integrative research projects focusing on the modeling of complex social behavior. Stephen E. Marcus, Ph.D. Epidemiologist and Program Director Social and Behavioral Modeling Research Program Division of Biomedical Technology, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology National Institute of General Medical Sciences National Institutes of Health Chairperson Department of Public Health and Certificate of Public Health Program FAES Graduate School at NIH Foundation for Advanced Education in the Sciences **************************************************************** 10. International Summit on Human Simulation (ISHS) 2012, due: 10 apr 12 http://www.societyhumansimulation.org/content/international-summit-human-simulation-2012 The International Summit on Human Simulation (ISHS) 2012 will be held at the TradeWinds Island Resort in St. Pete Beach, Florida, May 23-25, 2012. This annual event is intended to provide a forum for discussion and collaboration in the use of human simulation technology between corporations, academia, and government. Keynote speaker for this year is: Mr. George Solhan, Deputy Chief of Naval Research, Expeditionary Maneuver Warfare & Combating Terrorism Science & Technology. Call for Papers This is part of the International Society for Human Simulation. http://www.SocietyHumanSimulation.org/ The field of human simulation has entered every walk of life, from design and manufacturing to movie making and sports studies. It is a rich field with depth and breadth and continues to expand into new areas as industries find more uses for human simulations to reduce costs, time to market, and the need for costly physical prototypes; to study human performance; and to optimize product design for optimal human system integration. As part of this ISHS Society, the annual summit is aimed at sharing results, developments, and practices in the field. Proceedings of ISHS are published. Paper submission deadline Target dates Deadline for Submission: April 10, 2012 Response to authors: April 24, 2012 Papers, Abstracts, and Posters are welcome. Submit papers (in PDF) to: Melanie Laverman laverman at engineering.uiowa.edu Tel. 319.335.5722 Conference website is: http://www.societyhumansimulation.org/content/international-summit-human-simulation-2012 Proposed areas include but not limited to: - Agent-based modeling and training - Anatomical modeling - Avatar creation - Anthropometry - Applications of human models - Assembly line analysis - Biomechanical modeling - Cognition and perception modeling - Cognition and perception simulation - Computational biomechanics - Egress and ingress modeling - Ergonomics simulations - Human dynamics - Human modeling - Human motion - Human performance modeling - Human shape modeling - Human simulation - Human systems integration - Human vibration modeling - Kinetics and health applications - Man-in-the-loop simulators - Motion prediction - Occupant packaging - Physics-based human analysis - Physics-based human simulation - Posture and comfort - Practices in human simulation - Product interface - Safety simulations - Soft tissue modeling - Task simulation - Warfighter simulation Karim Abdel-Malek, PhD Director, Virtual Soldier Research (VSR) program Director, Center for Computer Aided Design Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering The University of Iowa Iowa City, IA 52242 amalek at engineering.uiowa.edu Tel. (319) 335-5676 http://www.ccad.uiowa.edu **************************************************************** 11. European Conf. on Cog. Ergonomics (ECCE) 2012, papes due: 2 apr 12 http://www.napier.ac.uk/ECCE12 Second call: ECCE 2012 - European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics August 28 - 31, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, UK http://www.napier.ac.uk/ECCE12 Deadline for workshop and tutorial proposals: 2 March 2012! ECCE 2012 is the 30th conference of the European Association of Cognitive Ergonomics. We invite long or short papers, posters, demonstrations, doctoral work-in-progress and proposals for workshops and tutorials in the areas of cognitive ergonomics, human technology interaction and cognitive engineering. This year's theme is Re-thinking cognition. Cognition is no longer viewed as being merely "rules and representations" but is now seen to be situated, distributed, shared, embodied and embedded. We invite researchers to consider how these new treatments have shaped and perhaps, even, overturned their thinking and practice. Accepted submissions in all categories will be published in the proceedings, which will also be available in the ACM digital library. Authors of the best quality papers will be invited to submit to a special issue of the journal Behaviour and Information Technology. Keynote speakers Professor Yvonne Rogers, Director of University College London Interaction Centre; Professor Philippe Palanque, IRIT (Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse) Professor Mike Wheeler, Dept. of Philosophy, University of Stirling Submission instructions are at http://www.napier.ac.uk/ECCE12 Key dates Submission of workshop and tutorial proposals: 2 March 2012 Submission of long and short papers, posters/demos and doctoral work-in-progress: 2 April 2012 (notification of acceptance 21 May) Camera-ready copy for all categories: 29 June 2012 Workshops/tutorials/doctoral consortium: 28 August 2012 Main conference sessions: 29 - 31 August 2012 Edinburgh in late August sees the annual Festivals draw to a close. Delegates arriving early may be able to catch the final events of the Fringe, while the International Festival ends with fireworks on 2 September. We have reserved a reasonable quota of hotel rooms, but you are advised to book early! Queries to ecce2012 at napier.ac.uk **************************************************************** 12. International Neural Network Society Conference, papers due: 31 mar 12 http://inns.sit.kmutt.ac.th/wc2012/ 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) 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 **************************************************************** 13. BRIMS 2012 schedule available on line, 12-15 Mar 12 http://brimsconference.org/schedule/ BRIMS 2012 conference schedule available on line. The Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation conference (BRIMS) has papers on cognitive modeling. You are invited to participate in the 21st Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (BRIMS), to be held at the Amelia Island Plantation, Amelia Island, Florida (near the Georgia / Florida border). 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. Highlights of BRIMS 2012 will include a fantastic lineup of keynote speakers spanning cognitive modeling, sociocultural modeling, and network science. 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 for 2013: [estimated] All submissions due: 14 Dec 2012 Tutorial Acceptance: 31 Jan 2013 Authors Notification 31 Jan 2013 Tutorials: late March 2013 BRIMS 2013: 13 March 2013 BRIMS PROGAM COMMITTEE: William Kennedy (George Mason University) Bradley Best (Adaptive Cognitive Systems) Robert St. Amant (North Carolina State University) If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the BRIMS 2012 Conference Chair, Dr. Tiffany Jastrzembski (tiffany.jastrzembski at wpafb.af.mil). **************************************************************** 14. New Journal: Biologically inspired cognitive architectures http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/727718/description The focus of the journal is on the integration of many research efforts in addressing the challenge of creating a real-life computational equivalent of the human mind. Therefore, the journal publishes on the multidisciplinary study of cognitive architectures found in vivo and in silico. To help foster a wider understanding, at a computational level, of how natural intelligent systems develop their cognitive, metacognitive, and learning functions, the journal will promote the overarching goal of creating one unifying widespread framework for the computational modeling of biologically inspired cognitive architectures. The scope includes (but is not limited to): Cognitive science, with a focus on higher cognitive functions and their cognitive architecture models: including autonomous cognition and metacognition, imagery, sensemaking, meta-learning, self-regulated learning, life-long learning and cognitive growth, "critical mass" of a learner, models of creativity, affects, emotions and feelings, emotional competence, social cognition, the self, human-like episodic memory, language perception, processing, production, acquisition, and development; Computer science and engineering, with a focus on human-like artificial intelligence: cognitive architectures, virtual and physical cognitive robotics, synthetic characters, bootstrapped and human-like learning, human-computer interface, vision, computational linguistics, intelligent tutoring systems; Neuroscience, with a focus on higher cognition and learning: system-level computational neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, models of the neural substrates of semantic and episodic memory and awareness, agency, emotions and feelings, theory of mind and social cognition, language, imagery, voluntary control, goal and value systems, spatial cognition, etc. Contributions to the journal should include a cognitive architecture element and an element of biological inspiration, the latter understood broadly (e.g., inspiration by the human cognition). Both mature and new cutting edge research are welcomed, provided they have a strong emphasis on concrete empirical or theoretical studies. Submissions of a purely philosophical nature are discouraged and will be redirected elsewhere. Editor in Chief: Alexei Samsonovich **************************************************************** 15. Post-Doc position at the Naval Sub. Med. Res. Lab. (NSMRL) in Groton, CT Post-Doctoral position is available (starting as soon as Jan 2012) for a candidate with the necessary multi-disciplinary training in psychology, physiology, and/or human factors engineering. The candidate will have the opportunity to participate in one or more of our on-going projects (e.g., "Enhance Underwater Sound Localization by Electro-mechanical Means", "Developing Methods for Measuring and Monitoring the Bioeffects of Underwater Tool Noise", "An Examination of Audiovisual Integration for Periscope Operations", and/or "Impact of Stress/fatigue/inattention on Decision-making in Submarine Scenarios"). In the first two years, the candidate will be expected to learn the nuances of our specialized field, as well as how to conduct research inside of a military lab. Toward the end of the second year, the candidate will take what he/she has learned and generate a research proposal worthy of financial support. By the end of the third year, the candidate is expected to be fully engaged and supported in independent research, either at NSMRL or at one of our many collaborating academic/industrial partners. QUALIFICATIONS: - Ph.D. or Sc.D. required - U.S. citizenship required. - Degree in biomedical engineering, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, acoustics, audiology, psychoacoustics, experimental psychology, physics, or related field. - Superb analytical, writing and presentation skills required. - Ability to travel 10-20% of the time. POINT-OF-CONTACT: Dr. Michael Qin michael.qin at med.navy.mil 860.694.3295 **************************************************************** 16. Frymoyer Endowed Chair Professor Position in IST at PSU http://ist.psu.edu/research/frymoyer-chair The Pennsylvania State University College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) is seeking candidates for the position of Frymoyer Chair. The Frymoyer Chair is a tenured, full professor in the College of Information Sciences and Technology. The anticipated start date is Fall 2012 or Spring 2013. The endowed chair was established in 1999 through a gift of $1.5 million from the Edward J. Frymoyer Foundation. The holder of the Frymoyer Chair is expected to have a significant impact not only in the College, but also across multiple disciplines at the University and in the public and private sectors. Funds from the endowment will support the chair holder's contributions to instruction, research, and public service with the overall intent to foster the use, benefits, and effectiveness of the information sciences around the globe. The College was founded in 1998 to develop information science and technology leaders for the digital, global society, and enrolled its first class of students in the 1999-2000 academic year. The College at University Park, which includes 50 full-time faculty, currently serves approximately 1100 undergraduate students, 110 resident graduate students, primarily in the Ph.D. program, and 100 non-resident graduate students in a professional master's degree program. In addition, the IST undergraduate curriculum is offered at 19 other Penn State campuses. In January 2004, the College moved into a new 190,000 square foot building on the University Park campus. The building houses both the College of IST and the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. To learn more about our structure, vision, mission, goals, faculty and students, please see http://ist.psu.edu. We seek a candidate who will provide research leadership as our College moves forward in its second decade of existence. We have faculty strengths in: (1) computational informatics and artificial intelligence; (2) human computer interaction and cognitive studies; (3) information systems development/enterprise architecture; (4) security and informatics; and (5) social policy, economics and informatics. As an interdisciplinary faculty we collaborate on problems of national significance. We are particularly interested in candidates with demonstrated research leadership in cutting edge problem areas such as infrastructure and internet security and privacy, innovation in web search, health informatics, network science, social media, and educational technology. The successful candidate will have a well defined and sustained record of funded research and accomplishments. However, we will not limit our search to specific research areas or problems. Applications from those who seek to be a part of a vibrant, civil and diverse academic community and who do research and teaching in any of the information and technology sciences are welcome. Qualified candidates are invited to send a cover letter with their research vision, their curriculum vita, as well as names and email addresses of four persons who will write letters of recommendation to chairsearch at ist.psu.edu. Review of applications will continue until the position is filled. Penn State is committed to affirmative action, equal opportunity and the diversity of its workforce. **************************************************************** 17. PhD position, HrTeam http://www.cs.gc.cuny.edu/applications [this may be out of date, but probably represents an ongoing possibility] The HRTeam project at The City University of New York is recruiting a Ph.D. candidate in computer science. We take a multiagent systems approach to challenging human-robot interaction problems. We deploy a team consisting of multiple heterogeneous physical robots, collaborating with humans. Their combined abilities provide diverse functionality and employ innovative coordination and decision-making techniques. The team's world is dynamic, as is the team's composition, and there is a substantial machine learning component based on the FORR cognitive architecture. We seek an exceptional computer science Ph.D. candidate with good communication skills, strong programming skills, and preferably with an interest in cognitive science and/or robotics. The appointment includes a stipend and tuition support, starting in Fall 2012. A master's degree or the equivalent in computer science is preferred but not required. The applicant should be an experienced programmer, a strong researcher, and a good collaborator. Please send a preliminary application, including your CV and a motivation letter (PDF format preferred), to susan.epstein at hunter.cuny.edu. Preliminary applications will be reviewed beginning December 15, 2011. Note that a formal application to the Graduate Center at the City University of New York will also be required. See http://www.cs.gc.cuny.edu/applications for details. Decisions can be expected in March 2012. The HRTeam project is funded by the National Science Foundation and is co-directed by Professors Elizabeth Sklar, Susan L. Epstein and Simon Parsons. **************************************************************** 18. 2 Lectureships at King's College London http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/pertra/vacancy/external/pers_detail.php?jobindex=11121 King's College London is advertising two Lectureships (assistant professorships) in Robotics. I have no involvement in the hiring process, but am keen to encourage applications from people with research interests related to my own, in areas such as machine learning, pattern recognition, computer vision, neural computation, cognitive or developmental robotics, and intelligent systems. The official job advert is below. Lectureships in Informatics (Robotics) x2 The Department of Informatics is seeking applications from candidates with an excellent research track record for up to two lectureship positions. It is anticipated that the successful applicants will contribute to research and teaching in the area of Robotics. Current areas of focus in the Centre for Robotics Research (CRR) include biomedical robotics, bio-inspired robotics, soft robotics, robot topology and algorithms, autonomous grasping and manipulations, and multi-modal sensing for robotic perception and haptics. CRR also has close collaborations with King's-affiliated hospitals and various EU partners through a number of FP7 funded projects. An ability to help build links to other groups, for example to Agents & Intelligent Systems, or to contribute to the broader teaching needs of the Department, may be deemed to be an advantage. Applications from outstanding researchers in other areas of Informatics will also be considered, if they can contribute significantly to the development of the Department. The Department of Informatics was formed in August 2010 from the previous Department of Computer Science, incorporating the Centre for Robotics Research and the Centre for Telecommunications Research, as part of the new School of Natural and Mathematical Sciences. These appointments are part of a strategic growth of the Department, and provide an opportunity for outstanding researchers to contribute to, and help shape the direction of, the Department in its new form. Applicants for the lectureships must have a PhD, an excellent publication record, and the ability to attract research funding. Appointment at the level of Senior Lecturer may be possible for suitably qualified candidates. All applicants must have the enthusiasm and commitment required to enhance the research standing of the new department, and to make a full contribution to teaching and administrative activities. The appointment will be made, dependent on relevant qualifications and experience, within the Grade 6/7 scale, currently ?33,193 to ?47,659, per annum, inclusive of ?2,323 London Allowance, per annum. This is a full-time, permanent position. For an informal e-mail discussion, please contact the Head of Department, Professor Michael Luck: michael.luck at kcl.ac.uk For an application pack please click on the 'Further details' link below. Alternatively, please email strand-recruitment at kcl.ac.uk. All correspondence MUST clearly state the job title and reference number G6-7/CEE/959/11-JT. Further Details: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/pertra/vacancy/external/pers_detail.php?jobindex=11121 http://www.kcl.ac.uk/nms/depts/informatics/index.aspx Dr Michael Spratling Senior Lecturer Department of Informatics and Division of Engineering King's College London, Strand, London. WC2R 2LS. UK. **************************************************************** 19 . PhD Position, University of Osnabrueck Germany Doctoral / Postdoctoral Position Artificial Intelligence Group of the Institute of Cognitive Science (IKW) University of Osnabrueck (Germany) The Artificial Intelligence Group of the Institute of Cognitive Science (IKW) at the University of Osnabrueck (Germany) seeks applicants for a doctoral / postdoctoral position (salary level E 13 TV-L, 50%) The position is limited until September 30th, 2014 and provides the possibility of further scientific qualification (PhD / Habilitation). The main research areas of the AI group are non-classical forms of reasoning, ontologies and text technology, neural-symbolic integration, and cognitive architectures. The duties of the successful applicant include 2 hours teaching load (teaching language is English) as well as participation in the research activities of the AI group. Applicants should have an excellent academic degree (Master/Diploma) in computer science or a related discipline, and potentially a PhD degree. In the ideal case, the successful candidate has experience in interdisciplinary research and fulfils at least two of the following requirements: - Thorough knowledge in formal logic and knowledge representation formalisms, in particular with respect to ontology design and inference procedures - Thorough knowledge in the theory of artificial neural networks - Thorough knowledge in cognitive modeling - Thorough knowledge in the development of algorithms - Practical knowledge in at least one of the following programming languages: Prolog, Java, ML/Scheme, or a similar language The University of Osnabrueck strives for an increase in the number of women in academic employment. Women are therefore especially encouraged to submit their applications and will be preferentially considered provided they are equally qualified. Disabled candidates with equal qualifications will be given preference. There is an option for part-time employment. Letters of application with the usual documents (CV, list of publications, and the names of two referees) should be sent to the Director of the Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrueck, Albrechtstrasse 28, 49076 Osnabrueck. The deadline for applications is 21.02.2012. Further information can be provided by Prof. Dr. Kai-Uwe Kuehnberger (kkuehnbe at uni-osnabrueck.de). **************************************************************** 20. PhD Scholarship at TU Berlin http://www.prometei.de/en/vacancies/scholarship.html *3 Year Scholarship of 1468.00 ? taxfree* *Topic: Modeling the Perception of Causal Relationships in Human-Computer Interaction* *Description:* Under which conditions do we perceive two events as causally related and classify them as cause and effect? Early works by Michotte (1962) and experiments by Einhorn and Hogarth (1986) provide answers to this question from a psychological perspective. 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 Universitat Berlin Zentrum Mensch-Maschine-Systeme, GRK 1013/2 prometei Sekr. FR 2-6 Franklinstrasse 28-29 D-10587 Berlin phone: +49 30 314-24671 **************************************************************** 21. Professor Position at Technische Universitaet Berlin http://www.personalabteilung.tu-berlin.de/menue/jobs/ Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience & School for Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Fakultaet IV) Technische Universitaet Berlin Applications are solicited for the post of a Professor for "Modeling of Cognitive Processes" (tenured) salary grade W2 / W3 corresponding to an associate (W2) or a full (W3) professor position. The department encourages both senior scientists and scientists, who are still earlier in their career, to apply. The successful candidate will join the faculty of the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin (cf. http://www.bccn-berlin.de/) as well as the School for Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Fakultaet IV, cf. http://www.eecs.tu-berlin.de/) of the Berlin University of Technology. She/he is expected to conduct collaborative research in the area of "Modeling of Cognitive Processes". She/he will join the teaching efforts within the Master/PhD program in Computational Neuroscience of the Bernstein Center as well as within the departmental graduate programs in electrical engineering and computer science in abovementioned area. The successful candidate is expected to contribute to the department's undergraduate teaching programs. She/he shall also be open for scientific collaborations with the department's engineering-oriented research groups, for example in the areas machine learning, computer vision, intelligent agents, or robotics. Candidates must meet the requirements of the Berlin Higher Education Act (Par. 100 BerlHG). These requirements include a completed university degree or PhD, the Habilitation or equivalent achievements, educational and didactic competences. More detailed information are available on request; strong research experience in the field of "Modeling of Cognitive Processes". Additional experience in one application domain (intelligent agents, cognitive robotics, human-machine systems, etc.) and a solid track record in the acquisition of research grants are desirable. Contact person for more information: Prof. Dr. Klaus Obermayer, E-Mail: oby at cs.tu-berlin.de, Tel. +49 (0) 30 314-73120 or -73442. To ensure equal opportunities between men and women, applications from women with the respective qualifications are explicitly encouraged. Handicapped applicants with the same qualifications are preferred. Please send your written application (including CV, publication list, teaching experience, research statement) inside by four weeks with the job reference number IV-55 to: Praesident der Technischen Universitaet Berlin Dean of School IV, Sekr. FR 5-1 Franklinstrasse 28/29 10587 Berlin, Germany Please send only copies and not original documents, as they will not be returned. This description is also available at http://www.personalabteilung.tu-berlin.de/menue/jobs/. **************************************************************** 22. Three 1-year Post PhD positions with DTRA (deadline: 1apr12) Jan Mahar Sturdevant Usually, we are looking for three people with specific technical expertise to place them at Defense Threat Reduction Agency, or DTRA, down in Washington DC. Specifically, we place recent or fairly recent graduates with doctoral or terminal degrees in to post-doctoral fellowships with the Basic and Applied Sciences Directorate at DTRA. The areas of expertise we are seeking is as follows: TA2 = Cognitive and Information Science: The basic science of cognitive and information science results from the convergence of computer, information, mathematical, network, cognitive, and social science. This research thrust expands our understanding of physical and social networks and advances knowledge of adversarial intent with respect to the acquisition, proliferation, and potential use of WMD. The methods may include analytical, computational or numerical, or experimental means to integrate knowledge across disciplines and improve rapid processing of intelligence and dissemination of information. TA6 = Cooperative Counter WMD Research with Global Partners: Cooperative fundamental research to reduce the global threat of WMD in collaboration with a broad range of global research partners. This thrust area involves exploratory applied research that may have a basic research component to address opportunities to reduce, eliminate, and counter WMD across the Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and High Explosive (CBRNE) spectrum. Strong international relationships will foster smooth transition of C-WMD program ownership to the partnering country. The foci are to improve international collaboration to detect, characterize, and report WMD, and to advance host nation sustainment through a culture of long-term cooperation and scientific responsibility for C-WMD programs. Multidisciplinary research in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics promotes transparency through quality research publications and continual dialogue between scientist/engineers and young researchers. (BAP) Technical Writer for Research and Development Enterprise, Basic and Applied Sciences Directorate (RD-BA): technical writer/graphic designer will plan, analyze, and create solutions to communications problems in collaboration with team members representing a number of disciplines. The technical writer/designer will work with subject matter experts (SMEs) to determine specific content and identify goals for successful communication product development. Strategic communication tools are expected to present complex information in both print and electronic formats such that technical and non-technical end users are considered. Communications products will include, but are not limited to, technical newsletters, specialized brochures, annual reports, and web pages. Application deadline is 4/1/12... email jbm18 at psu.edu to get the application form [it's too big to include here-fer] Further Detail For qualified candidate, this opportunity would provide the following to a US citizen, capable of obtaining a security clearance at the Secret level, to spend one year working at DTRA (Fort Belvior): ? $71,663 annual salary ? $ 1,000 monthly living allowance ? Domestic Travel allowance ? Potential funding for additional academic degrees Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship Program The objective of this fellowship program is to establish and sustain a long-term process through which the University Strategic Partners (USP) will develop and execute a Post- Doctoral Research Fellowship Program to address critical scientific, technology and engineering needs for reducing the threat from Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD). This project will enable DTRA to utilize mission-critical expertise possessed by highly qualified faculty and graduate students (nearing completion of their degree) who hold doctoral or terminal professional degrees in relevant scientific, technical and engineering disciplines. Post-Doctoral / Masters Fellows will be selected based upon their responsive ability to enhance the joint DTRA-Strategic Partnership mission requirements. Key science and technology skills include: nuclear and radiation physics; weapons engineering; structural, electrical and mechanical engineering; broad-based nano-technological engineering and applications; weapons effects and system response technologies; physics, chemistry and biological sciences related to detection, characterization and destruction of WMD materials; medical and pharmaceutical sciences; information technology, modeling, data visualization and advanced computational sciences; social, adversarial and behavioral modeling, science and analysis. Post-Doctoral / Masters Research Fellows will be assigned to DTRA's Research and Development and subsequently detailed to perform such duties as may be required among the various agency Enterprises, Directorates and Offices which are typically reviewing research proposals and white papers. **************************************************************** 23. ACT-R Internship at PARC 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 **************************************************************** 24. Jobs at NSF, starting to eval from 1 mar 2012 http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/sbe12003/sbe12003.jsp?org=SBE Dear Colleague Letter - Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) Employment Opportunity DATE: February 28, 2012 The Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) announces a nationwide search for senior researchers to serve as Program Directors. Formal consideration of interested applications will begin March 1 and will continue until selections are made. While we are interested in a variety of experts that span the Directorate's multidisciplinary scope, we currently anticipate one specific area of need, with the following target start date: Science of Science and Innovation Policy (SciSIP) (Summer 2012) seeks a scholar with broad expertise in areas of science and innovation policy, developing, improving and expanding models, analytical tools, data and metrics that can applied in the science policy decision making process. Successful candidates will have training in social or economic science, including economics, science and technology studies, organizational science, or other related fields and demonstrated expertise in research methods that advance science and innovation policy. This expertise may encompass a wide variety of scientific approaches, for example: qualitative case studies to help describe complex processes and formulate hypotheses; quantitative and statistical methods that build new linked datasets on researchers, grants, patents, publications, citations and firms and workers; or analytical models that develop new tools for describing complex outcomes or to identify the marginal impact of Federal funding on scientific progress and outcomes. Applicants must have a Ph.D. or equivalent experience and at least six years of successful research, research administration, and/or managerial experience pertinent to the position. For additional information about the above program, please see http://www.nsf.gov/div/index.jsp?org=SMA The position requires effective oral and written communication skills, and familiarity with NSF programs and activities is highly desirable. The incumbent is expected to work effectively both individually within the specific NSF program and as a member of crosscutting and interactive teams. The incumbent must also demonstrate a capability to work across government agencies to promote NSF activities and to leverage program funds through interagency collaborations. For additional information on NSF's rotational programs, please see "Programs for Scientists, Engineers, and Educators" on the NSF website at: http://www.nsf.gov/about/career_opps/. How to Apply: Applicants should indicate within their cover letter and subject line of the email that they are applying for a position in the SciSIP program. Please submit a cover letter and curriculum vitae to khenders at nsf.gov. **************************************************************** -30- From cisp-bmei-cfp at cqupt.edu.cn Tue Mar 13 02:24:59 2012 From: cisp-bmei-cfp at cqupt.edu.cn (BMEI CISP) Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 14:24:59 +0800 Subject: [ACT-R-users] [IEEE Xplore/ISI/Ei] Informatics Track Submission Deadline 30 March, Chongqing, China Message-ID: <531620743.29575@localhost.com> Dear Colleague, Topics of the BMEI 2012 Special Track on Informatics include (but are not limited to): Communications and Networking, Software Engineering, Data Engineering, Intelligent Computing, Information Security, Automation and Control, etc.. We cordially invite you to submit a paper to the upcoming 2012 5th International Conference on BioMedical Engineering and Informatics (BMEI 2012) and 2012 5th International Congress on Image and Signal Processing (CISP 2012), to be jointly held from 16-18 October 2012, in Chongqing, China. BMEI'12-CISP'12 is a premier international forum for scientists and researchers to present the state of the art of multimedia, signal processing, biomedical engineering and informatics. BMEI?12-CISP?12 is technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. As with past BMEI-CISP conferences, all papers in conference proceedings will be indexed by both EI Compendex and ISTP, as well as included in the IEEE Xplore (IEEE Conference Record Number for CISP'12: 20190; IEEE Conference Record Number for BMEI'12: 20189). Substantially extended versions of best papers will be considered for publication in a BMEI'12-CISP'12 special issues of the Multimedia Tools and Applications journal (SCI-indexed). 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.. The registration fee of US$430 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 China?s mainland are encouraged to propose invited sessions. The first author of each paper in an invited session must not be affiliated with an organization in China?s mainland. All papers in the invited sessions can be marked as "Invited Paper". The organizer(s) for each invited session with at least 6 registered papers will (jointly) enjoy an honorarium of US*D 400. 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 list of recommended papers is determined by 10 August 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. Please send your proposal to cisp-bmei at cqupt.edu.cn For more information, visit the conference web page: http://cisp-bmei.cqupt.edu.cn If you have any questions after visiting the conference web page, please email the secretariat at cisp-bmei at cqupt.edu.cn Join us at this major event in beautiful Chongqing !!! Organizing Committee cisp-bmei at cqupt.edu.cn P.S.: Kindly forward to your colleagues and students in your school/department. If you wish to unsubscribe, in which case we apologize, please reply with " unsubscribe act-r-users at andrew.cmu.edu " in your email subject. 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For more details please see the announcement at: From reitter at cmu.edu Sat Mar 17 15:59:58 2012 From: reitter at cmu.edu (David Reitter) Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 15:59:58 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] DEADLINE EXTENDED: Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics CMCL 2012 Message-ID: <2F2BE13A-6FBC-4DAE-9745-54A855475B31@cmu.edu> 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/ Submission deadline: 30 March 2012 *EXTENDED DEADLINE!* FINAL 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. The workshop is sponsored by the Association for Computational Linguistics and the Cognitive Science Society. 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 30, 2012. We have extended the deadline in response to popular demand. Best Student Paper The best paper whose first author is a student will receive the Best Student Paper award, sponsored by the Cognitive Science Society. The award includes a one-year membership to the society and a cash prize. Publication All accepted CMCL papers will be published in the workshop proceedings as is customary at ACL conferences. Important Dates Submission deadline: 30 March 2012 *EXTENDED DEADLINE!* 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 Klinton Bicknell (UC San Diego) Matthew Crocker (Saarbr?cken University) Robert Daland (UC Los Angeles) Vera Demberg (Saarbr?cken University) Brian Dillon (University of Massachussetts) Amit Dubey (University of Edinburgh) Michael C. Frank (Stanford University) Ted Gibson (MIT) Noah Goodman (Stanford University) Naomi Feldman (University of Maryland) 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) Lisa Pearl (UC Irvine) Amy Perfors (Adelaide University) Brian Roark (Oregon Health & Science University) William Schuler (The Ohio State University) Nathaniel Smith (UC San Diego) Mark Steedman (University of Edinburgh) Patrick Sturt (University of Edinburgh) Shravan Vasishth (University of Potsdam) Guodong Zhou (Soochow University) From mpavone at dmi.unict.it Sat Mar 17 12:18:50 2012 From: mpavone at dmi.unict.it (Mario Pavone) Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 17:18:50 +0100 Subject: [ACT-R-users] CfP PPSN 2012 - 12th Int. Conf. on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature, 1-5 September, 2012 Taormina, Italy Message-ID: <20120317171850.Horde.iINEJeph4B9PZLlqUSjVUXA@mbox.dmi.unict.it> ** Apologies for cross-posting ** ******************************************************************************* IMPORTANT: *FINAL extended deadline: March 30, 2012* ******************************************************************************* 12th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature - PPSN 2012 http://www.dmi.unict.it/ppsn2012/index.php ppsn2012 at dmi.unict.it 1-5 September, 2012 Taormina, Italy CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *** The submission system is now open *** https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ppsn2012 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AIMS & SCOPE Natural Computing is the study of computational systems which use ideas and get inspiration from natural systems, including biological, ecological, physical, chemical, and social systems. It is a fast- growing interdisciplinary field in which a range of techniques and methods are studied for dealing with large, complex, and dynamic problems with various sources of potential uncertainties. PPSN XII will be a showcase of a wide range of topics in Natural Computing including, but not restricted to: Evolutionary Computation, Neural Computation, Molecular Computation, Quantum Computation, Artificial Life, Swarm Intelligence, Artificial Ant Systems, Artificial Immune Systems, Self-Organizing Systems, Emergent Behaviors, and Applications to Real-World Problems. PPSN XII will also feature workshops and tutorials covering advanced and fundamental topics in the field of natural computation. Submissions should present significant contributions. All accepted papers will be presented during poster sessions and will be included in the proceedings. Following the tradition of PPSN, we plan to publish the proceedings in the Series Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) by Springer. The preceding symposia were held in Dortmund, Brussels, Jerusalem, Berlin, Amsterdam, Paris, Granada, Birmingham, Reykjavik, Dortmund, and Krakow. IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: March 30, 2012 Author notification: June 1, 2012 Camera-ready submission: June 10, 2012 PROCEEDINGS Accepted papers will appear in the PPSN 2012 proceedings published by Springer Verlag in the LNCS series. SUBMISSION Authors are invited to submit high-quality manuscripts reporting original unpublished research and recent developments in the topics related to the symposium. Simultaneous submission to other conferences or workshops with published proceedings is not allowed. Submissions must not exceed 10 pages formatted according to LNCS style. All papers will be peer reviewed and comments will be provided to the authors. The submission system can be accessed via https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ppsn2012 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Angelo Cangelosi, University of Plymouth, UK Natalio Krasnogor, University of Nottingham, UK Panos M. Pardalos, University of Florida, USA Leslie G. Valiant, Harvard University, USA http://www.dmi.unict.it/ppsn2012/keynote.php TUTORIAL SPEAKERS Jaume Bacardit, University of Nottingham, UK Juergen Branke, University of Warwick, UK Pierre Collet, Strasbourg University, France Pier Luca Lanzi, Polytechnic of Milan, Italy Vittorio Maniezzo, University of Bologna, Italy Martin Pelikan, University of Missouri in St. Louis, USA Roberto Serra, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy Lee Spector, Hampshire College, USA http://www.dmi.unict.it/ppsn2012/tutorials.php ORGANIZING COMMITTEE *General Chairs Vincenzo Cutello, University of Catania, Italy Mario Pavone, University of Catania, Italy *Honorary Chair Hans-Paul Schwefel, Dortmund University of Technology, Germany *Programme Chairs Carlos A. Coello Coello, CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico Kalyanmoy Deb, Indian Institute of Technology, India Stephanie Forrest, University of New Mexico & Santa Fe Institute, USA Giuseppe Nicosia, University of Catania, Italy CONTACT For further information, please send an email to ppsn2012 at dmi.unict.it Hope to see you in Taormina! -- Dr. Mario Pavone (PhD) Assistant Professor Department of Mathematics and Computer Science University of Catania V.le A. Doria 6 - 95125 Catania, Italy tel: 0039 095 7383038 fax: 0039 095 330094 Email: mpavone at dmi.unict.it http://www.dmi.unict.it/mpavone/ ------------------------------------------------ From MANWAR at pitt.edu Wed Mar 21 12:38:43 2012 From: MANWAR at pitt.edu (Mohd Anwar) Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 12:38:43 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] [Iri2012] IEEE IRI Deadline Approaching Message-ID: <0d1e6b520ce05ad2395d6e0d53483bb5.squirrel@webmail.pitt.edu> ===================================== The 13th IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration When: Aug 8, 2012 - Aug 10, 2012 Where: Las Vegas, USA Paper Submission deadline: Mar 28, 2012 (Midnight PST) Notification: May 10, 2012 Camera-ready Version Due: May 24, 2012 Registration deadline: May 24, 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. -------Special Sessions --------------- Special Sessions: power and energy, health informatics, robotics, energy and education. ---------------------------------------------------- ------- Workshops ----------------------------------- Data Integration and Mining Issues and Challenges in Social Computing Empirical Methods for Recognizing Inference in Text ---------------------------------------------------- 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. *********************** Mohd Anwar, Ph.D. School of Information Sciences University of Pittsburgh _______________________________________________ Iri2012 mailing list Iri2012 at list.pitt.edu https://list.pitt.edu/mailman/listinfo/iri2012 From ema at msu.edu Thu Mar 29 15:47:58 2012 From: ema at msu.edu (Erik Altmann) Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 15:47:58 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Decay, again Message-ID: Zombie theoretical construct that won't die, or functional core of human memory systems? We report, you decide... Altmann, E. M. & Schunn, C. D. (in press). Decay versus Interference: A new look at an old interaction. Psychological Science. (PDF) Erik. Erik M. Altmann Department of Psychology Michigan State University East Lansing, MI 48824 517-353-4406 (voice) 517-353-1652 (fax) http://www.msu.edu/~ema -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From coty at cmu.edu Fri Mar 30 14:19:19 2012 From: coty at cmu.edu (Cleotilde Gonzalez) Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:19:19 -0500 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Post-doctoral fellow position at the Dynamic Decision Making Laboratory Message-ID: <4a6d84a4bc5a970c553aa94dd325b87d.squirrel@webmail.andrew.cmu.edu> POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW 2 positions Dynamic Decision Making Laboratory www.cmu.edu/ddmlab Carnegie Mellon University The Dynamic Decision Making Laboratory (DDMLab) in the department of Social and Decision Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) invites applications for two Postdoctoral Fellowship positions in Dynamic Decision Making and Learning. The positions are available for up to two years, starting on September 1, 2012. Both positions will involve behavioral and computational research on dynamic decision making. Ideal candidates will have a Ph.D. in Psychology, Decision Sciences, or Human Factors Engineering, Management, or equivalent training. Applicants should have broad research interests involving human behavior, learning and decision making from the cognitive and/or the social psychology perspectives. Position 1. The post-doctoral fellow will be involved in a research project funded by the National Science Foundation, aiming at the study of decision making phenomena that emerges from Decisions from Experience. The candidate should have a strong background on behavioral and computational research and will work directly with Professor Gonzalez and other fellows in the DDMLab. Position 2. The post-doctoral fellow will be involved in a research project funded by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, aiming at the study of socio-cognitive aspects of the evolution and mitigation of conflict. The candidate should have a strong background on behavioral and computational research, and will work with Professor Gonzalez and a team involving well known cognitive modelers. Applicants should send curriculum vitae, statement of research skills and interests, relevant journal articles, and three reference letters. Electronic applications are encouraged. Please send electronic documents (Word, Pdf) to: coty at cmu.edu or forward paper documents to: Prof. Cleotilde Gonzalez Dynamic Decision Making Laboratory Social and Decision Sciences Department Carnegie Mellon University 5000 Forbes Ave ? Porter Hall Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Carnegie Mellon is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. For more information on our Equal Employment/Affirmative Action Policy and our Statement of Assurance, go to: http://www.cmu.edu/policies/documents/SoA.html