From coty at cmu.edu Thu Jun 6 15:13:57 2013 From: coty at cmu.edu (Cleotilde Gonzalez) Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 19:13:57 +0000 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Post-Doctoral Fellow position Message-ID: <64368A2D531CFE4AAE1B46464451F8761EBD4A@PGH-MSGMB-03.andrew.ad.cmu.edu> POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW Starting on September 2013 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) is expecting to have one and possibly two openings for a Postdoctoral fellowship position to be part of an interdisciplinary research project focused on the study of credibility and trust in large networked data sources. This will be a one-year position from September 2013 to August 2014. The ideal candidate should have a strong technical background (cognitive/computational modeling, machine learning, data mining), as well as a strong behavioral background (experimental and cognitive psychology, decision sciences). Technical skills in Matlab and R are required. Knowledge of programming skills in Java and PHP are desired. Demonstrated writing abilities of research manuscripts is required. The position will involve interacting with faculty of diverse backgrounds (computer scientists, human factors engineers) at Carnegie Mellon and at other universities. Candidates are expected to be capable of working under limited supervision, be highly productive, creative, and enthusiastic for interdisciplinary research. Prospective candidates are expected to be familiar with literature in all of these areas: 1) Cognitive modeling/cognitive psychology 2) Decision Sciences 3) Human Factors and technical areas such as data mining and machine learning Applicants should send their curriculum vitae, relevant journal articles, and the names and contact of three references before July 15, 2013. A decision is expected to be made by July 31st. 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 208 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From julian.marewski at unil.ch Fri Jun 7 08:59:38 2013 From: julian.marewski at unil.ch (Julian Marewski) Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2013 14:59:38 +0200 Subject: [ACT-R-users] PhD student position in Adaptive Decision Making and Cognition at the University of Lausanne- ---job pre-announcement Message-ID: <002501ce637e$de8350a0$9b89f1e0$@marewski@unil.ch> Apologizes for cross-postings. Dear Madam, Dear Sir: Is there a possibility that you could forward this job announcement to interested students and/or distribute it at your faculty? Thank you very much. Sincerely, Julian Marewski Doctoral Student Position in Adaptive Decision Making and Cognition The Modeling Adaptive Cognition Research Group at the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Lausanne seeks applicants for a doctoral student position. The position (60%) is to begin November 1st, 2013, or on a later starting date to be mutually agreed upon. The position has a funding duration of a maximum of 5 years. The work location is the University of Lausanne, Lausanne Dorigny, Switzerland. The doctoral student will be mentored by Professor Julian Marewski and work in the Modeling Adaptive Cognition Research Group at the Department of Organizational Behavior. Job Description We seek applicants to work on an interdisciplinary research program on modeling adaptive decision making processes and cognition in real-world domains. Current and past researchers working on this program have had backgrounds in psychology, cognitive science, economics, mathematics, biology, physics, and computer science to name but a few. We provide excellent resources, including a fully-equipped laboratory for conducting human subject experiments and computer simulations, an excellent international research network, and most importantly, the time to think. The position is heavily-research oriented, preparing for a career in academia. We expect Ph.D. candidates to publish in top-tier journals. We are an international research group. Our working language is English. There are no teaching obligations. Research on Adaptive Decision Making Processes and Cognition Research on adaptive decision making processes and cognition addresses a key question: How do humans make decisions under uncertainty, that is, when time and information are limited and the future is unknown? In experiments, computer simulations, and mathematical analyses, we study both (i) how people make such decisions, and (ii) how they ought to make these decisions in order to behave adaptively. In doing so, we build detailed computational models of how decision processes are adapted to the structure of the environment, as well as how the decision processes interplay with other cognitive processes, such as memory or time perception. Areas of research include (but are not limited to) modeling how people select from a repertoire of decision strategies, how people make inductive inferences, how memory is nestled into to the structure of the environment, how to predict memory retrieval using internet search engines such as Google. Requirements Applicants should be interested in modeling decision and/or other cognitive processes. A university degree in psychology, business, economics, mathematics, computer sciences, physics, biology, or in a related discipline as well as good English skills are required. Already existing modeling or programming skills (e.g., MATLAB, R, LISP, ACT-R) are helpful but not required. Application Materials and Deadline The application deadline is August 1st, 2013, but applications will be accepted until the position is filled. Application materials include a cover letter describing research interests, a curriculum vitae, university transcripts, an extract of prior scientific work (if available), and two letters of recommendation. Please submit your materials via email to julian.marewski at unil.ch. Working at the University of Lausanne The Modeling Adaptive Cognition Research Group is located at the Department of Organizational Behavior of the Faculty for Business and Economics at the University of Lausanne. The department provides a stimulating interdisciplinary research environment (e.g., consisting of psychologists, economists, and organization scientists -- our last hire was a physicist). We publish in top-tier journals in different disciplines, including Science, Psychological Review, and the American Economic Review. Located at Lake Geneva and surrounded by the Jura Mountains and the French Alps, Lausanne is a beautiful and cosmopolitan spot to live and work. The Lake Geneva region enjoys a Mediterranean microclimate. More information about the position can be inquired via email (julian.marewski at unil.ch ). Information about the Modeling Adaptive Cognition Research Group is available at http://www.modeling-adaptive-cognition.org/. Information about the Department of Organizational Behavior can be found at http://www.hec.unil.ch/ob/home. Disclaimer: This is not an official job ad of the University of Lausanne. ---------------------------------------- Assistant Professor Department of Organizational Behavior Professeur assistant en pr?titularisation conditionnelle D?partement de comportement organisationnel Universit? de Lausanne/University of Lausanne Quartier UNIL-Dorigny B?timent Internef Bureau/Office 601 1015 Lausanne Switzerland Julian.Marewski at unil.ch T?l: 0041.(0)21.692.33.81 Web: http://www.hec.unil.ch/people/jmarewski &vue=contact&set_language=en&cl=en and http://www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/en/staff/julian-marewski and http://www.modeling-adaptive-cognition.org/members/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jlferris at cmu.edu Wed Jun 12 10:59:54 2013 From: jlferris at cmu.edu (Jennifer Ferris) Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 10:59:54 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Ph. D. Position - University of Lausanne Message-ID: <3e8bc78509a26ab10e85422a96e0e2b4.squirrel@webmail.andrew.cmu.edu> Doctoral Student Position in Adaptive Decision Making and Cognition The Modeling Adaptive Cognition Research Group at the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Lausanne seeks applicants for a doctoral student position. The position (60%) is to begin November 1st, 2013, or on a later starting date to be mutually agreed upon. The position has a funding duration of a maximum of 5 years. The work location is the University of Lausanne, Lausanne Dorigny, Switzerland. The doctoral student will be mentored by Professor Julian Marewski and work in the Modeling Adaptive Cognition Research Group at the Department of Organizational Behavior. Job Description We seek applicants to work on an interdisciplinary research program on modeling adaptive decision making processes and cognition in real-world domains. Current and past researchers working on this program have had backgrounds in psychology, cognitive science, economics, mathematics, biology, physics, and computer science to name but a few. We provide excellent resources, including a fully-equipped laboratory for conducting human subject experiments and computer simulations, an excellent international research network, and most importantly, the time to think. The position is heavily-research oriented, preparing for a career in academia. We expect Ph.D. candidates to publish in top-tier journals. We are an international research group. Our working language is English. There are no teaching obligations. Research on Adaptive Decision Making Processes and Cognition Research on adaptive decision making processes and cognition addresses a key question: How do humans make decisions under uncertainty, that is, when time and information are limited and the future is unknown? In experiments, computer simulations, and mathematical analyses, we study both (i) how people make such decisions, and (ii) how they ought to make these decisions in order to behave adaptively. In doing so, we build detailed computational models of how decision processes are adapted to the structure of the environment, as well as how the decision processes interplay with other cognitive processes, such as memory or time perception. Areas of research include (but are not limited to) modeling how people select from a repertoire of decision strategies, how people make inductive inferences, how memory is nestled into to the structure of the environment, how to predict memory retrieval using internet search engines such as Google. Requirements Applicants should be interested in modeling decision and/or other cognitive processes. A university degree in psychology, business, economics, mathematics, computer sciences, physics, biology, or in a related discipline as well as good English skills are required. Already existing modeling or programming skills (e.g., MATLAB, R, LISP, ACT-R) are helpful but not required. Application Materials and Deadline The application deadline is August 1st, 2013, but applications will be accepted until the position is filled. Application materials include a cover letter describing research interests, a curriculum vitae, university transcripts, an extract of prior scientific work (if available), and two letters of recommendation. Please submit your materials via email to julian.marewski at unil.ch. Working at the University of Lausanne The Modeling Adaptive Cognition Research Group is located at the Department of Organizational Behavior of the Faculty for Business and Economics at the University of Lausanne. The department provides a stimulating interdisciplinary research environment (e.g., consisting of psychologists, economists, and organization scientists -- our last hire was a physicist). We publish in top-tier journals in different disciplines, including Science, Psychological Review, and the American Economic Review. Located at Lake Geneva and surrounded by the Jura Mountains and the French Alps, Lausanne is a beautiful and cosmopolitan spot to live and work. The Lake Geneva region enjoys a Mediterranean microclimate. More information about the position can be inquired via email (julian.marewski at unil.ch). Information about the Modeling Adaptive Cognition Research Group is available at http://www.modeling-adaptive-cognition.org/. Information about the Department of Organizational Behavior can be found at http://www.hec.unil.ch/ob/home. Disclaimer: This is not an official job ad of the University of Lausanne. From cl at cmu.edu Fri Jun 14 11:09:22 2013 From: cl at cmu.edu (Christian Lebiere) Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 11:09:22 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] 2013 ACT-R Workshop Message-ID: Please register for the ACT-R Worskhop at ICCM 2013 asap. =================== 2013 ACT-R Workshop This year we will hold a 1-day ACT-R Workshop before the ICCM conference in Ottawa on Thursday, July 11, the day before the main ICCM program begins.? The workshop will consist of updates on ACT-R, presentations on architectural issues, and symposium discussions.?? The goal is to provide a forum for communication and discussion among the ACT-R community with a focus on architectural issues.? Registration for the workshop is free but required for planning purposes.? Registration, together with requests for presentation and suggestions for symposium topics, should be sent to Christian Lebiere at cl at cmu.edu using the form below.? Requests for presentations will be accommodated based on available time and relation to architectural themes. 2013 ACT-R Workshop Registration Name: ________________________ Presentation title (optional): _______________________________________________________ Symposium topic (optional): ______________________________________________________ From db30 at andrew.cmu.edu Tue Jun 25 13:18:34 2013 From: db30 at andrew.cmu.edu (db30 at andrew.cmu.edu) Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 13:18:34 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] New ACT-R 6.0 release Message-ID: ACT-R 6.0 v1.5 [r1395] is now the current version on the ACT-R web site. Here are the significant changes from the previous version: - There is now a whynot-dm command that is similar to the whynot command. It compares chunks from declarative memory to the most recent retrieval request that occurred and reports why those chunks were or were not chosen to be retrieved. - Added the ability to pass request parameters when making a direct request in a production by putting the chunk and the request parameters in a list: (p direct-request-with-parameters =retrieval> isa visual-location ==> +visual-location> (=retrieval :attended nil)) - Productions now allow slots which exist in a subtype of a chunk-type to be specified under an isa test of the parent type in both the conditions and actions. Specifying a slot in a condition which does not exist in the type named in the isa test adds an implicit test that the chunk in the buffer have such a slot. Here is an example of a production which was not allowed previously but is allowed now: (chunk-type parent) (chunk-type (child (:include parent)) slot) (p use-child-slot =goal> isa parent slot =x ==> =goal> slot nil +retrieval> isa parent slot nil) - Added an alternate mechanism for extending chunks. Instead of extending the chunk-type and thus adding the new slots to every chunk of that type, the new mechanism works by creating new subtypes for each combination of slots that get added to a chunk-type. It then changes the chunk-type of an extended chunk to match the appropriate subtype. It also allows for removing extended slots from a chunk by setting them to nil, which will also lead to a change in the type of the extended chunk. When using the new mechanism, an extended chunk will only have the extended slots which contain values. To use the new mechanism the type that is going to be extended must be declared as static when creating the chunk-type: (chunk-type (type-name (:static t)) ...) To go along with that change, the way productions handle a test for " nil" when the chunk in the buffer is of a static chunk-type has been changed. Such a condition will be true if the chunk does not have such a slot. Additional details on this new mechanism can be found in the "Static Type Mechanism" section of the reference manual. For details on what else has changed, you can view the commit log on the ACT-R web site: You can also subscribe to a feed to be notified of every change to the sources: I will be discussing these changes in detail at the 2013 ACT-R Workshop. If you have any comments, questions, or problems with this update please let me know. Dan From matthew.alexander.kelly at gmail.com Wed Jun 26 10:12:41 2013 From: matthew.alexander.kelly at gmail.com (Matthew Kelly) Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 10:12:41 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] ICCM 2013 schedule Message-ID: <4B4FFAAC-6FC4-4974-B7ED-5F114758037B@gmail.com> The schedule for ICCM 2013: the 12th annual International Conference on Cognitive Modelling, is now available. ICCM 2013 will be at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada and will run from July 11 to 14th. See the following link for details: http://www.iccm-conference.org/2013/schedule We look forward to seeing you there Program Co-Chairs: Robert L. West (rlwest at gmail.com) Terry Stewart (terry.stewart at gmail.com) Tutorials Chair Frank Ritter (ritter at ist.psu.edu) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From daniel.n.cassenti.civ at mail.mil Wed Jun 26 12:13:59 2013 From: daniel.n.cassenti.civ at mail.mil (Cassenti, Daniel N CIV (US)) Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 16:13:59 +0000 Subject: [ACT-R-users] ICCM 2013 schedule (UNCLASSIFIED) In-Reply-To: <4B4FFAAC-6FC4-4974-B7ED-5F114758037B@gmail.com> References: <4B4FFAAC-6FC4-4974-B7ED-5F114758037B@gmail.com> Message-ID: <9012E7D0592886489AAE7707AD7BB5A0297483CE@umechphd.easf.csd.disa.mil> Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE Dear Colleagues, I wanted to piggyback on this email to let you know that the Behavior Representation in Modeling & Simulation (BRiMS) conference will be co-located on the same dates as ICCM (many thanks to ICCM for helping us arrange this). Please see the schedule here: https://cc.ist.psu.edu/BRIMS2013/schedule.html. Registration for ICCM will also entitle you to attend BRiMS talks, so in effect this will be two conferences for the price of one. I hope that you will take advantage of this deal! Best Regards, Dan Cassenti BRiMS Conference Chair -----Original Message----- From: act-r-users-bounces at act-r.psy.cmu.edu [mailto:act-r-users-bounces at act-r.psy.cmu.edu] On Behalf Of Matthew Kelly Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2013 10:13 AM To: act-r-users at act-r.psy.cmu.edu Subject: [ACT-R-users] ICCM 2013 schedule The schedule for ICCM 2013: the 12th annual International Conference on Cognitive Modelling, is now available. ICCM 2013 will be at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada and will run from July 11 to 14th. See the following link for details: http://www.iccm-conference.org/2013/schedule We look forward to seeing you there Program Co-Chairs: Robert L. West (rlwest at gmail.com) Terry Stewart (terry.stewart at gmail.com) Tutorials Chair Frank Ritter (ritter at ist.psu.edu) Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE From reitter at psu.edu Wed Jun 26 11:35:18 2013 From: reitter at psu.edu (David Reitter) Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 11:35:18 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] BRIMS 2013 Schedule In-Reply-To: <4B4FFAAC-6FC4-4974-B7ED-5F114758037B@gmail.com> References: <4B4FFAAC-6FC4-4974-B7ED-5F114758037B@gmail.com> Message-ID: <4E3720C3-CB32-4B0E-957E-7069BEB3EFE9@psu.edu> ... and the BRIMS 2013 is announcing its schedule, too: https://cc.ist.psu.edu/BRIMS2013/schedule.html BRIMS will be co-located with ICCM at Carleton University in Ottawa. Registration is shared with ICCM; attendees may see all sessions. Please register now if you haven't done so. -- Dr. David Reitter Assistant Professor of Information Sciences and Technology Penn State University http://www.david-reitter.com