From grayw at rpi.edu  Tue Jun  3 09:08:59 2014
From: grayw at rpi.edu (Gray, Wayne)
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2014 13:08:59 +0000
Subject: [ACT-R-users] An interesting opportunity for "Junior research
	talents".
References: <4F2CDE3DD7F7C340BAA397976C5763E1288FDD@ARWEN.humboldt.intern>
Message-ID: <6442F804-6CF1-4755-80E8-867BED07685A@rpi.edu>



Begin forwarded message:

From: Humboldt Foundation <info at AvH.de<mailto:info at AvH.de>>
Subject: Ausschreibung des Sofja Kovalevskaja-Preises - Bewerbungsfrist 1. September / Call for applications for the Sofja Kovalevskaja Award - Deadline 1 September
Date: 2014-Jun-03 at 04:29:33 EDT
To: "Gray, Wayne D." <grayw at rpi.edu<mailto:grayw at rpi.edu>>

PLEASE FIND ENGLISH TRANSLATION BELOW!

Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,

mit dem Sofja Kovalevskaja-Preis bietet die Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung jungen Forscherpers?nlichkeiten aus aller Welt attraktive Karrierechancen in Deutschland. Nachwuchstalente aller Disziplinen aus dem Ausland erhalten die M?glichkeit, an deutschen Forschungseinrichtungen eine eigene Arbeitsgruppe zu etablieren.

Der Sofja Kovalevskaja-Preis belohnt herausragendes Talent und kreative Forschungsans?tze mit besten Konditionen: Mit einem Preisgeld von jeweils bis zu 1,65 Millionen Euro erhalten die Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler wertvolles Startkapital, um f?nf Jahre lang an einem Institut ihrer Wahl frei von administrativen Zw?ngen ihren Forschungsinteressen nachzugehen. Der Aufbau einer eigenen Nachwuchsgruppe erm?glicht es den Preistr?gerinnen und Preistr?gern au?erdem, in einer sehr fr?hen Phase einen wichtigen Grundstein f?r eine erfolgversprechende Karriere in der Wissenschaft zu legen. Es werden voraussichtlich acht Preise vergeben. Sie werden aus Mitteln des Bundesministeriums f?r Bildung und Forschung finanziert.

F?r den Preis k?nnen sich herausragend qualifizierte Nachwuchswissenschaftlerinnen und -wissenschaftler aller Disziplinen aus dem Ausland bewerben, die ihre Promotion vor nicht mehr als sechs Jahren abgeschlossen haben. Auch Bewerbungen direkt nach der Promotion sind m?glich. DieBewerbungsfrist endet am 1. September 2014.

Wir w?rden uns freuen, wenn Sie uns bei der Suche nach geeigneten internationalen Forscherpers?nlichkeiten unterst?tzen k?nnten, indem Sie diese Ausschreibung in Ihrem Hause bekannt machen. Wir w?ren Ihnen au?erdem sehr dankbar, wenn Sie weitere Kolleginnen und Kollegen bitten w?rden, geeignete Nachwuchstalente auf diesen Wissenschaftspreis aufmerksam zu machen.

Details ?ber das Bewerbungsverfahren f?r den Sofja Kovalevskaja-Preis finden Sie auf unserer Website unter: www.humboldt-foundation.de/skp<http://www.humboldt-foundation.de/skp>. F?r individuelle Fragen k?nnen Sie sich au?erdem gerne an info at avh.de<mailto:info at avh.de> wenden.


Mit herzlichem Dank f?r Ihre Unterst?tzung und
freundlichen Gr??en

Georg Scholl

Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Abteilung Strategie und Au?enbeziehungen
Referat Presse, Kommunikation und Marketing
Leiter

_________________________________________________________________________________



Dear Sir or Madam,

With the Sofja Kovalevskaja Award, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation is offering promising young researchers from all over the world attractive career prospects in Germany. Junior research talents of all disciplines from abroad are given the opportunity to establish working groups of their own at German research institutions.

The Sofja Kovalevskaja Award recognises outstanding talent and creative research approaches with exceptional conditions: With an award amount of up to 1.65 million EUR each winner receives valuable starting capital to spend five years pursuing an innovative research project at a research institute of his or her choice ? untroubled by administrative constraints. In addition, the establishment of their own junior research team enables the award winners to lay an important foundation for a promising academic career at a very early stage. Eight awards are expected to be granted. The programme is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.

Outstandingly qualified junior academics of all disciplines from abroad who completed their doctorate less than six years ago are eligible to apply for the Sofja Kovalevskaja Award. It is also possible to submit applications immediately after finishing one?s doctoral studies. Applications must be submitted by 1 September 2014.

We should be grateful if you could support us in looking for suitable international research talents by disseminating this announcement at your institution. Also, we should very much appreciate if you could request further colleagues to draw the attention of suitably talented junior researchers to this academic award.

Details of the application procedure for the Sofja Kovalevskaja Award can be found on our website at: www.humboldt-foundation.de/skp_en<http://www.humboldt-foundation.de/skp_en>. For individual questions, you are also welcome to contact info at avh.de<mailto:info at avh.de>.


Thank you very much in advance for your support.

Sincerely yours

Georg Scholl

Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Department Strategy and External Relations
Division Press, Communications and Marketing
Head of division

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From grayw at rpi.edu  Tue Jun  3 09:22:04 2014
From: grayw at rpi.edu (Gray, Wayne)
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2014 13:22:04 +0000
Subject: [ACT-R-users] An interesting opportunity for "Junior
	research	talents".
In-Reply-To: <6442F804-6CF1-4755-80E8-867BED07685A@rpi.edu>
References: <4F2CDE3DD7F7C340BAA397976C5763E1288FDD@ARWEN.humboldt.intern>
 <6442F804-6CF1-4755-80E8-867BED07685A@rpi.edu>
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Sorry, I should have sent this blurb from the webpage along:

Submit an application if you are a successful top-rank junior researcher from abroad, only completed your doctorate with distinction in the last six years, and have published work in prestigious international journals or publishing houses. The Sofja Kovalevskaja Award allows you to spend five years building up a working group and working on a high-profile, innovative research project of your own choice at a research institution of your own choice in Germany.

Scientists and scholars from all disciplines may apply directly to the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. The Humboldt Foundation plans to grant up to eight Sofja Kovalevskaja Awards. The award is valued at up to 1.65 million EUR.

The application submission deadline is September 1, 2014. The selection is scheduled for March 2015.




On 14-Jun-03, at 09:08, Gray, Wayne <grayw at rpi.edu<mailto:grayw at rpi.edu>> wrote:



Begin forwarded message:

From: Humboldt Foundation <info at AvH.de<mailto:info at AvH.de>>
Subject: Ausschreibung des Sofja Kovalevskaja-Preises - Bewerbungsfrist 1. September / Call for applications for the Sofja Kovalevskaja Award - Deadline 1 September
Date: 2014-Jun-03 at 04:29:33 EDT
To: "Gray, Wayne D." <grayw at rpi.edu<mailto:grayw at rpi.edu>>

PLEASE FIND ENGLISH TRANSLATION BELOW!

Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,

mit dem Sofja Kovalevskaja-Preis bietet die Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung jungen Forscherpers?nlichkeiten aus aller Welt attraktive Karrierechancen in Deutschland. Nachwuchstalente aller Disziplinen aus dem Ausland erhalten die M?glichkeit, an deutschen Forschungseinrichtungen eine eigene Arbeitsgruppe zu etablieren.

Der Sofja Kovalevskaja-Preis belohnt herausragendes Talent und kreative Forschungsans?tze mit besten Konditionen: Mit einem Preisgeld von jeweils bis zu 1,65 Millionen Euro erhalten die Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler wertvolles Startkapital, um f?nf Jahre lang an einem Institut ihrer Wahl frei von administrativen Zw?ngen ihren Forschungsinteressen nachzugehen. Der Aufbau einer eigenen Nachwuchsgruppe erm?glicht es den Preistr?gerinnen und Preistr?gern au?erdem, in einer sehr fr?hen Phase einen wichtigen Grundstein f?r eine erfolgversprechende Karriere in der Wissenschaft zu legen. Es werden voraussichtlich acht Preise vergeben. Sie werden aus Mitteln des Bundesministeriums f?r Bildung und Forschung finanziert.

F?r den Preis k?nnen sich herausragend qualifizierte Nachwuchswissenschaftlerinnen und -wissenschaftler aller Disziplinen aus dem Ausland bewerben, die ihre Promotion vor nicht mehr als sechs Jahren abgeschlossen haben. Auch Bewerbungen direkt nach der Promotion sind m?glich. DieBewerbungsfrist endet am 1. September 2014.

Wir w?rden uns freuen, wenn Sie uns bei der Suche nach geeigneten internationalen Forscherpers?nlichkeiten unterst?tzen k?nnten, indem Sie diese Ausschreibung in Ihrem Hause bekannt machen. Wir w?ren Ihnen au?erdem sehr dankbar, wenn Sie weitere Kolleginnen und Kollegen bitten w?rden, geeignete Nachwuchstalente auf diesen Wissenschaftspreis aufmerksam zu machen.

Details ?ber das Bewerbungsverfahren f?r den Sofja Kovalevskaja-Preis finden Sie auf unserer Website unter: www.humboldt-foundation.de/skp<http://www.humboldt-foundation.de/skp>. F?r individuelle Fragen k?nnen Sie sich au?erdem gerne an info at avh.de<mailto:info at avh.de> wenden.


Mit herzlichem Dank f?r Ihre Unterst?tzung und
freundlichen Gr??en

Georg Scholl

Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Abteilung Strategie und Au?enbeziehungen
Referat Presse, Kommunikation und Marketing
Leiter

_________________________________________________________________________________



Dear Sir or Madam,

With the Sofja Kovalevskaja Award, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation is offering promising young researchers from all over the world attractive career prospects in Germany. Junior research talents of all disciplines from abroad are given the opportunity to establish working groups of their own at German research institutions.

The Sofja Kovalevskaja Award recognises outstanding talent and creative research approaches with exceptional conditions: With an award amount of up to 1.65 million EUR each winner receives valuable starting capital to spend five years pursuing an innovative research project at a research institute of his or her choice ? untroubled by administrative constraints. In addition, the establishment of their own junior research team enables the award winners to lay an important foundation for a promising academic career at a very early stage. Eight awards are expected to be granted. The programme is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.

Outstandingly qualified junior academics of all disciplines from abroad who completed their doctorate less than six years ago are eligible to apply for the Sofja Kovalevskaja Award. It is also possible to submit applications immediately after finishing one?s doctoral studies. Applications must be submitted by 1 September 2014.

We should be grateful if you could support us in looking for suitable international research talents by disseminating this announcement at your institution. Also, we should very much appreciate if you could request further colleagues to draw the attention of suitably talented junior researchers to this academic award.

Details of the application procedure for the Sofja Kovalevskaja Award can be found on our website at: www.humboldt-foundation.de/skp_en<http://www.humboldt-foundation.de/skp_en>. For individual questions, you are also welcome to contact info at avh.de<mailto:info at avh.de>.


Thank you very much in advance for your support.

Sincerely yours

Georg Scholl

Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Department Strategy and External Relations
Division Press, Communications and Marketing
Head of division

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From sandralvaughan at gmail.com  Sun Jun  8 12:03:56 2014
From: sandralvaughan at gmail.com (Sandra L. Vaughan)
Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2014 12:03:56 -0400
Subject: [ACT-R-users] Question regarding Dual-process theory of Minds
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ACT-R Researchers,

Is anyone aware of any researchers who have, or are currently, using ACT-R
to model the Dual-process Theory of minds?  In particular the (Evans and
Stanovich) tripartite Framework?

Sincerely,
Sandy Vaughan

Sandra  L. Vaughan
AFIT PhD Student
Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson AFB
Dayton, Ohio

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From wkennedy at gmu.edu  Mon Jun  9 12:19:20 2014
From: wkennedy at gmu.edu (William G Kennedy)
Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2014 16:19:20 +0000
Subject: [ACT-R-users] ACT-R-users Digest, Vol 16, Issue 2
In-Reply-To: <mailman.101.1402329626.10522.act-r-users@act-r.psy.cmu.edu>
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Message-ID: <CFBB5587.1415A%wkennedy@gmu.edu>

Sandy,

Yes, I have, but not specifically the tripartite framework.

I have related papers on the ACT-R website.

//
Bill

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PhD, CAPT, USN (Ret.)
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Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study
George Mason University, MS 6B2
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From bejohn at us.ibm.com  Wed Jun 11 19:28:56 2014
From: bejohn at us.ibm.com (Bonnie E John)
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 19:28:56 -0400
Subject: [ACT-R-users] Anybody in ACT-R funded by The HUman Brain Project?
Message-ID: <OFFD6ACAA8.91E159BC-ON85257CF4.00806B86-85257CF4.0080FDDC@us.ibm.com>


Folks,
I heard a great talk today by Prof.Sean Hill of the EU's Human Brain
Project.
In it he alluded to their being some researchers that work from high-level
theories of human behavior, like problem-solving and other things that
ACT-R has traditionally done, but he didn't know the names off the top of
his head of those researchers. (Evidently there are 200+ researchers
currently funded). It seems like a natural for ACT-R involvement if they
indeed want converging research approaches from high-level down as well as
low-level up.
So I wondered if anybody from ACT-R was in this project.
Anyone?
Thanks,
Bonnie




Title:  "The Human Brain Project: Building the Brain from Big Data?
Abstract:
Understanding the human brain is one of the greatest scientific challenges
of our time. Such an understanding will lead to fundamentally new computing
technologies, transform the diagnosis and treatment of brain diseases, and
provide profound insights into our humanity. The goal of the Human Brain
Project (HBP) is to pull together all our existing knowledge about the
human brain and to reconstruct the brain, piece by piece, in
supercomputer-based models and simulations. The models offer the prospect
of a new understanding of the human brain and its diseases and of
completely new computing and robotic technologies. The HBP infrastructure
will consist of a tightly linked network of six informatics-based
platforms, which will operate as a resource both for core HBP research and
for external projects, chosen by competitive call. The HBP will drive
innovation in information technology, creating new technologies for
interactive supercomputing, visualization and big data analytics; federated
analysis of globally distributed data; simulation of the brain and other
complex systems; objective classification of disease; scalable and
configurable neuromorphic computing systems, based on the brain?s
principles of computation and cognition and its architectures.

Link: https://www.humanbrainproject.eu/
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From m.k.van.vugt at rug.nl  Thu Jun 12 03:32:34 2014
From: m.k.van.vugt at rug.nl (Marieke van Vugt)
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 09:32:34 +0200
Subject: [ACT-R-users] Anybody in ACT-R funded by The HUman Brain
	Project?
In-Reply-To: <OFFD6ACAA8.91E159BC-ON85257CF4.00806B86-85257CF4.0080FDDC@us.ibm.com>
References: <OFFD6ACAA8.91E159BC-ON85257CF4.00806B86-85257CF4.0080FDDC@us.ibm.com>
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Hi Bonnie,
Niels Taatgen and myself submitted a proposal to HBP which got high scores but did not get funded. I don?t think there is any ACT-R involvement in the project (apart from this attempt)?at least as judged from the grant agreement that we received as part of the application procedure.
Best,
Marieke

On Jun 12, 2014, at 1:28 , Bonnie E John <bejohn at us.ibm.com> wrote:

> Folks,
> I heard a great talk today by Prof.Sean Hill of the EU's Human Brain Project.
> In it he alluded to their being some researchers that work from high-level theories of human behavior, like problem-solving and other things that ACT-R has traditionally done, but he didn't know the names off the top of his head of those researchers. (Evidently there are 200+ researchers currently funded). It seems like a natural for ACT-R involvement if they indeed want converging research approaches from high-level down as well as low-level up.
> So I wondered if anybody from ACT-R was in this project. 
> Anyone?
> Thanks,
> Bonnie
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Title:  "The Human Brain Project: Building the Brain from Big Data?
> Abstract:
> Understanding the human brain is one of the greatest scientific challenges of our time. Such an understanding will lead to fundamentally new computing technologies, transform the diagnosis and treatment of brain diseases, and provide profound insights into our humanity. The goal of the Human Brain Project (HBP) is to pull together all our existing knowledge about the human brain and to reconstruct the brain, piece by piece, in supercomputer-based models and simulations. The models offer the prospect of a new understanding of the human brain and its diseases and of completely new computing and robotic technologies. The HBP infrastructure will consist of a tightly linked network of six informatics-based platforms, which will operate as a resource both for core HBP research and for external projects, chosen by competitive call. The HBP will drive innovation in information technology, creating new technologies for interactive supercomputing, visualization and big data analytics; federated analysis of globally distributed data; simulation of the brain and other complex systems; objective classification of disease; scalable and configurable neuromorphic computing systems, based on the brain?s principles of computation and cognition and its architectures.
> 
> Link: https://www.humanbrainproject.eu/
> 
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From julian.marewski at unil.ch  Thu Jun 12 09:58:27 2014
From: julian.marewski at unil.ch (Julian Marewski)
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 15:58:27 +0200
Subject: [ACT-R-users] Call for Papers - Special Issue of the Journal of
	Behavioral Decision Making - Strategy Selection: A
	Theoretical and Methodological Challenge
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Apologies for cross-postings.

 

Special Issue of the Journal of Behavioral Decision Making

 

Call for Papers

 

Strategy Selection:

A Theoretical and Methodological Challenge 

Deadline: January 31st, 2015

 

Guest editors:

Julian N. Marewski (julian.marewski at unil.ch; University of Lausanne)

Arndt Br?der (broeder at uni-mannheim.de; University of Mannheim)

Andreas Gl?ckner (andreas.gloeckner at psych.uni-goettingen.de; University of
G?ttingen)

Resident Editor:

George Wright (University of Strathclyde; george.wright at strath.ac.uk)

 

The Journal of Behavioral Decision Making will publish a special issue on a
topic that poses a paramount stumbling block across different theoretical
frameworks in the cognitive sciences, biology, economics, and beyond:
Strategy selection, or the challenge of modeling the mechanisms that
determine how humans and other agents choose among different behaviors.

 

Background: The Strategy Selection Problem

Decision behavior is contingent on environmental and task demands, often in
an adaptive man?ner. In multi-strategy approaches, such observed behavioral
changes have been characterized as a selection between 'strategies',
'heuristics', 'production rules' or 'routines' (e.g., Anderson et al., 2004;
Gigeren?zer, Todd, and the ABC Research Group, 1999; Payne, Bettman &
Johnson, 1993). Alternative single process approaches like ?evidence
accumulation models? (e.g., Bhatia, 2013; Busemeyer & Townsend, 1993; Newell
& Lee, 2011) or ?parallel constraint satisfaction models? (e.g., Holyoak &
Simon, 1999; Gl?ckner & Betsch, 2008), conceptualize adaptivity as a change
in process parameters, such as decision thresholds or connection weights. 

                Although a considerable amount of research has been devoted
to identifying strategies and their component processes as well as their
dependencies on task and environmental factors, there is still a shortage of
precise models how strategies are selected or parameters are adjusted. What
are the meta-decision processes that allow for strategy selection or
parameter adjustment and that do not require 'homunculus' arguments? How can
they be modeled in a formal fashion? Do the models allow for predictions
rather than post-hoc interpretations of behavior? 

                The fundamental problem of strategy selection is not unique
to the decision sciences, but similar questions emerge also in other domains
of cognitive psychology and in biology, economics, and machine learning
(e.g., Seth, Prescott, & Bryson, 2011). Hence, the problem is truly
interdisciplinary, and cognitive psychology will benefit from solutions and
theo?ries in other disciplines (and vice versa).

                Past attempts to solve the issue in decision research range
from cost-benefit analyses (Beach & Mitchell, 1978), and reinforcement
learning processes (Rieskamp & Otto, 2006) to cognitive affordances, shaped
by environmental structure (Marewski & Schooler, 2010). In the alternative
single process approaches attentional shifts and speed-accuracy tradeoffs
(Busemeyer & Townsend, 1993) or multi-layered decision processes (Gl?ckner &
Betsch, 2008) have been assumed. In neighboring disciplines such as biology,
economics, and machine learning, the strategy selection problem is
conceptualized in terms of action and operator selection or the setting of
weights/utitities in rational deliberation. How do these different modeling
approaches relate to each other conceptually, which ones are superior when
it comes to predicting adaptive behavior, and what are adequate
methodological approaches to test them? Despite the cross-discplinary
prominence of the strategy selection problem, there is no consensus
regarding these and many other important theoretical and methodological
questions.     

 

Aims of the Special Issue

                The special issue will not only present cutting-edge
research and theoretical developments on the ?selection challenge?, but also
present a synopsis of the various theoretical approaches and foster exchange
between them.  In doing so, the special issue aims to provide an overview of
the scholarly debates associated with this modeling challenge, and hopefully
contribute to integrate the existing approaches into an overarching
perspective

                

Submission Guidelines & Deadlines

Papers submitted for inclusion in the special issue should contain original
and unpublished work relevant to the strategy selection problem. While the
special issue places an emphasis on empirical (e.g., experimental or
observational) research that, ideally, makes use of formal methods (e.g.,
computer simulations and mathematical analysis), full consideration will
also be given to purely theoretical contributions and comprehensive reviews.
Manuscripts should be submitted electronically via email to one of the the
guest editors in accordance with the JBDM guidelines. All submitted papers
will be refereed for their methodological soundness, clarity of the
presented results and conclusions, and the relevance of the submission for
the special issue. The submission deadline for manuscripts is January 31st ,
2015.

 

A more detailed version of this call for papers can be found on the
<http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1099-0771> JBDM
website at  <http://ow.ly/xPPtm> http://ow.ly/xPPtm.  

 

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From coty at cmu.edu  Fri Jun 13 14:40:35 2014
From: coty at cmu.edu (Cleotilde Gonzalez)
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 18:40:35 +0000
Subject: [ACT-R-users] Post-Doctoral Position at the DDMLab, Carnegie Mellon
Message-ID: <64368A2D531CFE4AAE1B46464451F876514EC4@PGH-MSGMB-03.andrew.ad.cmu.edu>

Folks,

    my lab (www.cmu.edu/ddmlab) invites applications for a post-doctoral fellow position, to get engaged in interdisciplinary research projects involving experimental and computational cognitive modeling of dynamic decision making and decisions from experience.  Please see the ad below and feel free to distribute widely. Apologies for cross-postings.



thank you,



Coty

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JOB OPPORTUNITY: POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW POSITION

Dynamic Decision Making Laboratory

www.cmu.edu/ddmlab

Carnegie Mellon University

Starting on September 2014



Keeping cyber space protected against illegal intrusions is one of the more important challenges today. In contrast to the physical world, there are many distinct cognitive challenges that a decision maker confronts in the cyber world. Science of cyber security aimed at understanding and predicting human behavior in these situations is greatly needed. The new post-doctoral fellow will be involved in doing behavioral experimental and computational research on dynamic decision making and decisions from experience in the context of cyber security.



The Dynamic Decision Making Laboratory (DDMLab) is an interdisciplinary research team, involved in a variety of basic science projects sponsored by many organizations such as National Science Foundation, Army Research Laboratories, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, and others. Postdoctoral fellow will work directly with Professor Gonzalez and other researchers in the DDMLab; and will be part of an interdisciplinary research team involving collaborations with other laboratories at Carnegie Mellon University (such as the CyLab and CUPS) and with multiple other universities.



The ideal candidate will have a Ph.D. in Psychology, Decision Sciences, or Human Factors Engineering, and should have broad research interests involving human behavior, learning and decision making from the cognitive and social psychology perspectives. The ideal candidate should have a strong behavioral background (experimental and cognitive psychology, decision sciences) and also a technical background (cognitive, mathematical, computational modeling). Particular knowledge on Decisions from Experience and Behavioral Game Theory, literature, experimental methods and paradigms are a plus. Technical skills in Matlab, R and Python are ideal. Demonstrated writing ability of research manuscripts is required. Experience or technical knowledge in areas of cyber security is desirable, but not required.



Applicants should send a letter of interest, curriculum vitae, relevant journal articles, and three reference letters before July 15, 2014, when the evaluation process will start. A decision is expected to be made by August 1st. Electronic applications are encouraged.  Please send electronic documents (Word, Pdf) to: coty at cmu.edu.



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




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From db30 at andrew.cmu.edu  Fri Jun 13 16:53:28 2014
From: db30 at andrew.cmu.edu (db30 at andrew.cmu.edu)
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 16:53:28 -0400
Subject: [ACT-R-users] New ACT-R 6.0 release
Message-ID: <8E7832C79D807655FC0A7657@actr6b.cmu.edu>


ACT-R 6.0 v1.5 [r1577] is now the current version on the ACT-R web site.

This update is mostly minor bug fixes, but here are a couple of things
that are worth noting:

- The vision module now sets the default distance of visual-location
chunks in pixels instead of inches based on :viewing-distance and
:pixels-per-inch because the determination of nearest uses the distance
values so everything should be in the same units.

- The default devices were updated to be more consistent in the features
they produce for button and text items, but there will still be differences
based on different font metrics for real interface windows.

- Updates to the ccl-cocoa device by Clayton Stanley.  Most of the
improvements focused on enabling more intuitive and consistent keyboard
navigation between views in the window. A #\tab cycles focus between the
views, #\shift+#\tab cycles backwards, #\space when the focused view is
a button fires the action for that button, etc. This was all implemented
in a way where the model has to essentially 'enable' this sort of
navigation (space bar to fire a button in particular) by first pressing
#\tab on the window, so that one of the buttons has focus (instead of the
window). So this all should be implemented in a way that has no impact on
any prior or future models that - for instance - use #\space to do
something when the (default) window has focus.

- Added a collection of extensions for the motor module that have been
used for various tasks in /extras/extended-motor-actions.  Those extensions
include: holding and releasing actions for keys, buffers for tracking hands
individually, and more high-level 'press-key like' actions.

- Added some very speculative code which can take advantage of multiple
cores in a machine (when supported within a Lisp) that can be used to
perform things like finding chunks and computing activations in parallel.
For many models (all those in the tutorial and several other of the test
models) the overhead outweighs the benefit, but there may be situations
where it provides an improvement.  It can be found in
/extras/parallel-execution.


For details on what else has changed, you can view the commit log on the
ACT-R web site:

<http://act-r.psy.cmu.edu/log/actr6log.txt>


If you have any comments, questions, or problems with this update please
let me know.

Dan


From sandralvaughan at gmail.com  Thu Jun 19 10:09:24 2014
From: sandralvaughan at gmail.com (Sandra L. Vaughan)
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 10:09:24 -0400
Subject: [ACT-R-users] Has the WASON Card Selection Task been modeled in
	ACT-R?
Message-ID: <CABWwtQPbH8Y9V_uL1tS8tiB+c+Gz0UqChcYe8JhphsJa-Wtyuw@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Cognitive modelers and researchers,

Does anyone know if the famous Wason Card selection task has been modeled
in ACT-R?

I would think it would be categorized under 'Problem solving and decision
making' -> 'Reasoning' but I cannot find any references to this particular
model in the 'Publications and Models'.

Thanks!!
Sandy Vaughan


Sandra  L. Vaughan
Air Force Institute of Technology
Cell 706 619 6185
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