From benna86 at gmail.com Thu May 3 07:44:03 2012 From: benna86 at gmail.com (stefano bennati) Date: Thu, 3 May 2012 13:44:03 +0200 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Strange behavior of (get-mouse-coordinates) Message-ID: Hi all ACT-R users, I have a strange problem with the function (get-mouse-coordinates). Actually the problem comes from the (cursor-position) function, that is called by the previous. Basically, if I load ACT-R and my model in Allegro Lisp, the function is returning the correct mouse coordinates, while if I load the model from the ACT-R Environment GUI: Error:No methods applicable for generic function > # with args > (# #) of classes > (VISIBLE-VIRTUAL-WINDOW POSITION)Error in update of Handler: HANDLER7 For > object: .ENV_WINDOW message: # @ #x21611daa> The code is exactly the same... These are some interesting pieces of code: (defun init-window () > (setf *screen* (open-exp-window ... (setq b2 (add-button-to-exp-window :x x :y y :height height :width width :color color :action #'button-pressed))) ... (defun button-pressed (button) (print-warning "position ~s" (cursor-position *screen*)) ) Does somebody have a clue? Thank you in advance! Stefano -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From db30 at andrew.cmu.edu Thu May 3 09:05:37 2012 From: db30 at andrew.cmu.edu (db30 at andrew.cmu.edu) Date: Thu, 03 May 2012 09:05:37 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Strange behavior of (get-mouse-coordinates) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <67E7614A509A57544ECF1567@actr6b.psy.cmu.edu> --On Thursday, May 03, 2012 1:44 PM +0200 stefano bennati wrote: > Hi all ACT-R users, > I have a strange problem with the function?(get-mouse-coordinates). Actually > the problem comes from the?(cursor-position) function, that is called by the > previous. > > > Basically, if I load ACT-R and my model in Allegro Lisp, the function is > returning the correct mouse coordinates, > while if I load the model from the ACT-R Environment GUI: > > > ... > > Does somebody have a clue? > Thank you in advance! > Cursor-position is an Allegro Common Lisp function which is why it only works with an ACL based window. Get-mouse-coordinates is the ACT-R command that works for all the included ACT-R devices. So, if you use that it will work regardless of what type of window is opened. Dan From db30 at andrew.cmu.edu Thu May 3 12:59:39 2012 From: db30 at andrew.cmu.edu (db30 at andrew.cmu.edu) Date: Thu, 03 May 2012 12:59:39 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] New ACT-R 6.0 release Message-ID: <609F1E021D87A8A2AB0CA12B@actr6b.psy.cmu.edu> ACT-R 6.0 v1.4 [r1227] is now the current version on the ACT-R web site. Here are the changes that I think are the most significant since the last release: - More debugging documents and broken models have been added to the tutorial in units 3, 5, and 7. - A new request parameter, :mp-value, has been added to the retrieval buffer. That allows one to temporarily change the value of the declarative module's :mp parameter for that request. That was added as a way to force a perfect match in a model which uses partial matching, but it could also be used to adjust the mismatch penalty for other purposes. - The production compilation trace now includes a specific reason why a buffer blocks the compilation of two productions. Here's an example from the paired-learning model of tutorial unit 7: Production Compilation process started for ENCODE-ARG1 Buffer VISUAL prevents composition of these productions because the first production makes a request and the second production harvests the chunk. Production READ-ARG1 and ENCODE-ARG1 cannot be composed. - A new command, with-parameters, has been added which allows one to temporarily set model parameters before executing some code and have the original parameter settings restored upon completion of that code. Full details are in the manual, but here's a simple example to show how it can be used: (with-parameters (:v t :trace-detail high :act t) (run 10)) - There's a new directory included with the sources called user-loads. Like several other of the included directories, all of the .lisp files in that directory will be loaded automatically when load-act-r-6.lisp is loaded. This one differs from the others in that it does not have any of the ACT-R source files in it and it will be the last one processed. Therefore, it is safe to put a model file in there to have it loaded with the rest of the system. If you have any comments, questions, or problems with this update please let me know. Dan From benna86 at gmail.com Fri May 4 08:23:15 2012 From: benna86 at gmail.com (stefano bennati) Date: Fri, 4 May 2012 14:23:15 +0200 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Strange behavior of (get-mouse-coordinates) In-Reply-To: <67E7614A509A57544ECF1567@actr6b.psy.cmu.edu> References: <67E7614A509A57544ECF1567@actr6b.psy.cmu.edu> Message-ID: Hi Dan, thanks for your answer. I tried using the (get-mouse-coordinates) function, but it returns always (0 0) inside the environment, while with allegro gives the right numbers. Also I figured out some other strange behaviour: assigning an action to a button, the function is called twice for every click in Allegro, while in the environment works as expected. Thanks again Stefano 2012/5/3 > > > --On Thursday, May 03, 2012 1:44 PM +0200 stefano bennati < > benna86 at gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi all ACT-R users, >> I have a strange problem with the function (get-mouse-**coordinates). >> Actually >> the problem comes from the (cursor-position) function, that is called by >> the >> previous. >> >> >> Basically, if I load ACT-R and my model in Allegro Lisp, the function is >> returning the correct mouse coordinates, >> while if I load the model from the ACT-R Environment GUI: >> >> >> ... >> >> >> Does somebody have a clue? >> Thank you in advance! >> >> > > Cursor-position is an Allegro Common Lisp function which is why it only > works with an ACL based window. Get-mouse-coordinates is the ACT-R > command that works for all the included ACT-R devices. So, if you > use that it will work regardless of what type of window is opened. > > Dan > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Because the workshop is based on a set of book chapters and concrete exercises of varying difficulty, the course material is appropriate for researchers with a wide range of prior knowledge and interests. Although some basic knowledge of Bayesian inference is an advantage, this is not a prerequisite. In the course we use WinBUGS in combination with R or Matlab (the choice is yours), and therefore some basic knowledge of either R or Matlab is also an advantage. We can provide you with a PC with R and WinBUGS, however, we advise you to bring your own laptop. Please note that Matlab is not available on the workshop PCs. **** Summary **** In this workshop, plenary lectures provide the theoretical background of Bayesian statistics, and practical computer exercises teach you how to use the popular WinBUGS program and apply it to a wide range of different statistical models. After completing this workshop, you will have gained not only a new understanding of statistics, but also the technical skills to implement models that are appropriate for the substantive hypotheses that you seek to test. **** Course materials **** For several years now, Michael Lee and Eric-Jan Wagenmakers have been working on a course book about Bayesian graphical modeling. This book is used to teach graphical modeling courses at UCI, OSU, UW, and UvA. A thoroughly updated and restructured version of this course book will form the basis of this workshop. At the start of the workshop, you will receive a printed copy of the latest version of the book, a memory stick with all the computer code, and a printed copy of the solutions to the exercises. **** Costs **** Student: 500 euros Non-student: 600 euros **** More information can be found at the following website: http://bayescourse.socsci.uva.nl/ From cfp2012 at gcis.csie-conf.org Sat May 26 07:39:21 2012 From: cfp2012 at gcis.csie-conf.org (=?utf-8?B?5YiY6ICB5biI?=) Date: Sat, 26 May 2012 19:39:21 +0800 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Congress on Intelligent Systems & Software Engineering (IEEE Xplore/Ei Compendex/ISTP) Message-ID: 2012 3rd Global Congress on Intelligent Systems (GCIS 2012) http://gcis-conf.org 2012 3rd World Congress on Software Engineering (WCSE 2012) http://wcse-conf.org 6-8 November 2012, Wuhan, China GCIS & WCSE 2012 intends to be a global forum for researchers and engineers to present and discuss recent innovations and new techniques in intelligent systems and software engineering. Due to many requests, the submission deadline is now extended to 16 June 2012. GCIS & WCSE 2012 conference proceedings will be published by the CPS which will include the conference proceedings in the IEEE Xplore and submit the conference proceedings to Ei Compendex and ISTP for indexing (1st GCIS & WCSE 2009 and 2nd GCIS & WCSE 2010 proceedings were already indexed in Ei Compendex). Selected papers will be published in related journal special issues in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (SCI; Impact Factor: 1.614), Decision Support Systems (SCI; Impact Factor: 2.622), Information Systems Frontiers (SCI; Impact Factor: 1.309), Information Systems Management (SCI; Impact Factor: 0.756), and Enterprise Information Systems (SCI; Impact Factor: 2.809) after expansion, review, and revision as required. The registration fee of US$430 or RMB 2700 includes publication of 1 paper, lunches, dinners, and banquet. 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URL: From pavel at dit.unitn.it Tue May 29 14:51:55 2012 From: pavel at dit.unitn.it (Pavel Shvaiko) Date: Tue, 29 May 2012 20:51:55 +0200 Subject: [ACT-R-users] 1st CFP: ISWC'12 workshop on Ontology Matching (OM-2012) Message-ID: <4A119F5558E4400DA840DE7F2823F5CA@ITN96946> Apologies for cross-postings -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1st CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Seventh International Workshop on ONTOLOGY MATCHING (OM-2012) http://om2012.ontologymatching.org/ November 11 or 12, 2012, ISWC Workshop Program, Boston, MA USA BRIEF DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES Ontology matching is a key interoperability enabler for the Semantic Web, as well as a useful tactic in some classical data integration tasks dealing with the semantic heterogeneity problem. It takes the ontologies as input and determines as output an alignment, that is, a set of correspondences between the semantically related entities of those ontologies. These correspondences can be used for various tasks, such as ontology merging, data translation, query answering or navigation on the web of data. Thus, matching ontologies enables the knowledge and data expressed in the matched ontologies to interoperate. The workshop has three goals: 1. To bring together leaders from academia, industry and user institutions to assess how academic advances are addressing real-world requirements. The workshop will strive to improve academic awareness of industrial and final user needs, and therefore, direct research towards those needs. Simultaneously, the workshop will serve to inform industry and user representatives about existing research efforts that may meet their requirements. The workshop will also investigate how the ontology matching technology is going to evolve. 2. To conduct an extensive and rigorous evaluation of ontology matching approaches through the OAEI (Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative) 2012 campaign: http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2012/. The particular focus of this year's OAEI campaign is on real-world specific matching tasks involving, e.g., biomedical ontologies. Therefore, the ontology matching evaluation initiative itself will provide a solid ground for discussion of how well the current approaches are meeting business needs. 3. To examine similarities and differences from database schema matching, which has received decades of attention but is just beginning to transition to mainstream tools. This year, in sync with the main conference, we encourage submissions specifically devoted to: (i) repeatable evaluations of the approaches proposed (not necessarily within OAEI) and (ii) application of the matching technology in real-life scenarios and assessment of its usefulness to the final users. TOPICS of interest include but are not limited to: Business and use cases for matching (e.g., open government data); Requirements to matching from specific domains; Application of matching techniques in real-world scenarios; Formal foundations and frameworks for matching; Matching patterns; Instance matching and data interlinking; Large-scale matching evaluation; Performance of matching techniques; Matcher selection and self-configuration; User involvement (including both technical and organizational aspects); Explanations in matching; Social and collaborative matching; Alignment management; Reasoning with alignments; Matching for traditional applications (e.g., information integration); Matching for emerging applications (e.g., linked data, search). SUBMISSIONS Contributions to the workshop can be made in terms of technical papers and posters/statements of interest addressing different issues of ontology matching as well as participating in the OAEI 2012 campaign. Technical papers should be not longer than 12 pages using the LNCS Style: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 Posters/statements of interest should not exceed 2 pages and should be handled according to the guidelines for technical papers. All contributions should be prepared in PDF format and should be submitted through the workshop submission site at: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=om2012 Contributors to the OAEI 2012 campaign have to follow the campaign conditions and schedule at http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2012/. IMPORTANT DATES FOR TECHNICAL PAPERS AND POSTERS: July 31, 2012: Deadline for the submission of papers. August 31, 2012:Deadline for the notification of acceptance/rejection. September 10, 2012: Workshop camera ready copy submission. November 11th or 12th, 2012: OM-2012, The Boston Park Plaza Hotel & Towers, Boston, MA USA. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE 1. Pavel Shvaiko (Main contact) TasLab, Informatica Trentina SpA, Italy 2. J?r?me Euzenat INRIA & LIG, France 3. Anastasios (Tasos) Kementsietsidis IBM Research, USA 4. Ming Mao SAP Labs, USA 5. Natasha Noy Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research, USA 5. Heiner Stuckenschmidt University of Mannheim, Germany PROGRAM COMMITTEE Michele Barbera, SpazioDati, Italy Chris Bizer, Free University Berlin, Germany Olivier Bodenreider, National Library of Medicine, USA Marco Combetto, Informatica Trentina, Italy J?r?me David, INRIA & LIG, France Alfio Ferrara, University of Milan, Italy Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento, Italy Bin He, IBM, USA Wei Hu, Nanjing University, China Ryutaro Ichise, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Antoine Isaac, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam & Europeana, Netherlands Krzysztof Janowicz, University of California, USA Anja Jentzsch, Free University Berlin, Germany Ernesto Jimenez-Ruiz, University of Oxford, UK Yannis Kalfoglou, Ricoh Europe plc, UK Patrick Lambrix, Link?pings Universitet, Sweden Monika Lanzenberger, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Rob Lemmens, ITC, The Netherlands Maurizio Lenzerini, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy Vincenzo Maltese, University of Trento, Italy Fiona McNeill, University of Edinburgh, UK Christian Meilicke, University of Mannheim, Germany Peter Mork, Noblis, USA Nico Lavarini, Cogito - Expert System, Italy Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, University of Leipzig, Germany Andriy Nikolov, Open University, UK Leo Obrst, The MITRE Corporation, USA Yefei Peng, Google, USA Fran?ois Scharffe, LIRMM, France Luciano Serafini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler - IRST, Italy Kavitha Srinivas, IBM, USA Umberto Straccia, ISTI-C.N.R., Italy Ondrej Svab-Zamazal, Prague University of Economics, Czech Republic C?ssia Trojahn dos Santos, INRIA & LIG, France Rapha?l Troncy, EURECOM, France Giovanni Tummarello, Fondazione Bruno Kessler - IRST, Italy Lorenzino Vaccari, European Commission - Joint Research Center, Italy Ludger van Elst, DFKI, Germany Shenghui Wang, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands Baoshi Yan, LinkedIn, USA Songmao Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China ------------------------------------------------------- Download OM-2012 flyer: http://om2012.ontologymatching.org/Pictures/CfP_OM2012_flyer.pdf ------------------------------------------------------- More about ontology matching: http://www.ontologymatching.org/ http://book.ontologymatching.org/ ------------------------------------------------------- Best Regards, Pavel ------------------------------------------------------- Pavel Shvaiko, PhD Innovation and Research Manager TasLab, Informatica Trentina SpA, Italy http://www.ontologymatching.org/ http://www.taslab.eu/ http://www.infotn.it/ http://www.dit.unitn.it/~pavel/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From n.a.taatgen at rug.nl Thu May 31 03:25:11 2012 From: n.a.taatgen at rug.nl (Niels Taatgen) Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 09:25:11 +0200 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Brain Informatics conference Message-ID: <821E3B41-8BBA-4CCC-8ADD-BB56975C2D62@rug.nl> Dear all, The Brain Informatics conference has in previous years presented several papers on the link between modeling and the brain, so submitting something might be interesting for ACT-R people. Niels Papers Due: *** 10 June 2012 ***NEW DEADLINE*** Due to repeated requests, the deadline is extended to 10th June. ****************************************************************** Final Call For Papers The 2012 International Conference on Brain Informatics (BI'12) December 4-7, 2012, Macau SAR, China http://www.fst.umac.mo/wic2012/BI/ A Special Event of the Alan Turing Year (Centenary of Alan Turing's birth) as part of World Intelligence Congress 2012 Turing Keynote Speaker: Edward Feigenbaum (1994 Turing Award Winner) ################################################################## # (Papers Due: *** 10 June 2012 *** NEW DEADLINE *** # Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings # by Springer as a volume of the series of Lecture Notes # in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI), which are indexed by EI. ################################################################## BI 2012 provides a leading international forum to bring together researchers and practitioners that explore the interplay between the studies of human brain and the research of informatics. On the one hand, research of informatics opens a new avenue for modeling and characterizing the human brain based on the notions of information processing systems. On the other hand, informatics-enabled brain studies, e.g., based on fMRI, EEG, and MEG, significantly broaden the spectrum of theories and models of brain sciences and offer new insights into the development of systems with human-level intelligence. Web Intelligence centric information technologies are applied to support brain science studies. For instance, the wisdom Web and knowledge grids enable high-speed, large-scale analysis, simulation, and computation as well as new ways of sharing research data and scientific discoveries. Topics ------------------------------------ High-quality papers in all BI related areas are solicited. The topics and areas include, but not limited to: - Human reasoning mechanisms - Human learning mechanisms - Human higher cognitive functions - Systematic design of cognitive experiments - HIPS meets complex systems - Databasing the brain and constructing data brain models - Formal conceptual models of human brain data - Multi-media brain data mining - Multi-aspect analysis in fMRI/EEG/MEG/PET Papers exploring new directions will receive a careful and supportive review. All submitted papers will be reviewed on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity. On-line Submissions and Publication ------------------------------------ The proceeding of the conference will be published by Springer as a volume of the series of Lecture Notes in Computer Science/Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNCS/LNAI). Authors are strongly encouraged to use Springer LNCS/LNAI manuscript submission guidelines (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) or their initial submissions (a maximum of 12 pages in Springer LNCS/LNAI style file). All papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format only, using the conference management tool. A selected number of the best papers from BI'12 will be expanded and revised for possible inclusion in "Knowledge and Information Systems: An International Journal" (http://www.cs.uvm.edu/~kais/) by Springer and "Cognitive Systems Research: An International Journal" (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/13890417) by Elsevier. Awards ------ BI 2012 best paper awards and student paper awards will be conferred on the authors at the conference. Notes ----- The BI 2012 will co-locate with WI'12, IAT'12, AMT'12, and ISMIS'12 as a Congress, a Special Event of the Alan Turing Year (Centenary of Alan Turing's birth). The Congress will have a joint opening, keynotes, reception and banquet. *** Contact Information *** Fabio Massimo Zanzotto (University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy) =============================================== Niels Taatgen - Professor University of Groningen, Artificial Intelligence web: http://www.ai.rug.nl/~niels email: niels at ai.rug.nl Telephone: +31 50 3636435 ===============================================