[ACT-R-users] CogModel notes: ICCM16+fellowships/confs/resources/Jobs
Frank Ritter
fer2 at psu.edu
Mon Mar 21 17:16:25 EDT 2016
The ICCM 2016 announcements drive this email (it will be at Penn
State, before CogSci, 3-6 Aug 2016 (hope you can come!). Deadline is
approaching and we now have student travel support!
There are also numerous timely announcements that indicate new
publication outlets (too many conferences, we should talk about this
as a community), resources, and jobs in Cog Sci and in cognitive
modeling, or jobs that might take modelers. I have also included
several unusual items, including some tools and an obituary.
I also should note: This is not our conference:
http://www.sci-en-tech.com/ICCM2016 [it is on engineering methods]
The 7th International Conference on Computational Methods (ICCM2016)
This is also not our conference:
https://www.waset.org/conference/2016/08/barcelona/ICCM [same title!]
[I have found that the conference committee on this one often do not
know they are on the committee! and they are not modellers]
If you would like to be removed, please just let me know. I maintain
it by hand to keep it small.
[Hypertext version available at
http://acs.ist.psu.edu/iccm2016/iccm-mailing-mar2016.html]
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1. ICCM 2016 Call for papers, due 8 April 16
http://acs.ist.psu.edu/iccm2016/submissions/
2. ICCM Student travel support (10)
http://acs.ist.psu.edu/iccm2016/stipend-application/
3. ICCM Tutorial program call
http://acs.ist.psu.edu/iccm2016/submissions/tutorials/
4. Fierces meeting in Moscow, 21-24 April 2016
http://school.bicasociety.org/
5. BICA meeting in NYC, 16-19 Jul 2016
http://bicasociety.org/meetings/2016/
20 Apr 2016 paper due date
6. SBP & BRiMS 16-Social Computing, Behavior Representation
28 Jun - 1 Jul 2016
http://sbp-brims.org
7. Nengo Summer School
http://www.nengo.ca/summerschool
8. Call for Fourth Annual Conference on Advances in Cognitive Systems
Northwestern 23-26 Jun 2016
http://www.cogsys.org/
9. CFP Collective Intelligence 2016 - Call for Papers
https://sites.google.com/a/stern.nyu.edu/collective-intelligence-conference/home
10. Call for special issues, J of Interaction Science
http://www.journalofinteractionscience.com/
11. Call for papers, Holistic approaches for Human-Vehicle Systems
IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems
12. Groningen Spring School on Cognitive Modeling
13. Call for Future CogSci Conference Organizers
14. Budapest Semester in Cognitive Science, and Summer program
http://www.bscs-us.org/
15. CogACLL 2016 - First Call of Papers due 8 & 29 May 2016
http://sites.google.com/site/cognitivews2016
16. AHFE 2016 International Conference on Simulation, 27-31 Jul 2016
17. MathPsych 2016
http://www.mathpsych.org/conferences/2016/
17b. 15th Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop, Due 15 Apr 16
https://sites.google.com/site/ncpw15/
17c. AGI-16 deadline extended to 1 Apr 16
** Resources **
18. Special issue on cognitive engineering, J of Interaction Science
http://www.journalofinteractionscience.com/about [open access]
19. Oxford books (>$100) get 30% off
https://global.oup.com/
20. Proceedings of Workshop on Cogn Archs for Social HRI
https://sites.google.com/site/cogarch4socialhri2016/proceedings
21. BRIMS 2013: introduction to CMOT special issue
http://alerts.springer.com/re?l=D0In5zo16I6hi0lc9I1
22. BRIMS 2012: introduction to CMOT special issue
http://alerts.springer.com/re?l=D0In5x8koI6hi0lc9I3
23. MSc Course in Cognitive Systems at Open U of Cyprus
** Jobs **
24. Tenure Track Asst Prof in Cognitive Psychology at Syracuse U
25. Post-doc/programmer in tutoring/modeling at PSU, Jul/Aug 2016
26. U of California at Riverside hiring 300 (!)
http://clusterhiring.ucr.edu
27. Aerospace Engineering and ethics, PSU
full consideration by Jan 2016
28. Visiting Assistant Professor, Bucknell U. Fall 2016
29. Robotics faculty member, Missouri U of S&T
Review started 1 feb 16
30. Open/data science developer jobs at Databrary.org
https://databrary.org/about/jobs.html
31. Researcher and Engineer positions at ATR Brain Labs, Kyoto, Japan
http://www.cns.atr.jp/en/
32. Postdoctoral Fellow, CMU with Gonzalez
http://www.cmu.edu/ddmlab/
[expired, but recurrent]
33. Positions available at the US Army Res Lab
34. Doctoral Student Fellowship - U of Lausanne, Switzerland
35. PostDoc: compt models of optogenetic stim in epilepsy patients
U of Newcastle
36. Research Positions with the US Air Force Res Lab
37. Post-doctoral positions at CMU, DDM Lab
38. Job(s) at Pacific Science, San Diego, CA (rolling deadline)
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1. ICCM 2016 Call for papers, due 8 April 16
http://acs.ist.psu.edu/iccm2016/submissions/
The ICCM2016 Call for Papers is available for download.
Deadline & Submitting
All paper, poster, symposium, and tutorial submissions are due on 8
Apr 2016, 5pm EST. They should be submitted via our online
submission system:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iccm2016
There are three types of submissions:
Papers: refereed papers of up to 6 pages. If a submission is accepted
to be published as a paper, the paper will be presented at the
conference either as a talk or as a poster.
Posters: refereed poster abstracts of up to 2 pages. If accepted, the
corresponding poster will be presented at the conference in a
dedicated poster session.
Symposia: refereed symposia abstracts of up to 2 pages. If accepted,
the conference committee will contact the authors to help organize
and schedule the symposium. A symposium submission should consist of
an introduction to the topic of the symposium and a brief
description of the speakers. Symposia have a maximum duration of 90
minutes, but can also be shorter.
Notification of acceptance expected by 6 May 2016.
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2. ICCM Student travel support (10)
http://acs.ist.psu.edu/iccm2016/stipend-application/
With assistance from National Science Foundation, we have financial
support for about ten (10) students to travel to and attend ICCM2016.
If you are an interested student, please use the Google Form link
(https://script.google.com/macros/s/AKfycby0VHWmhqkMw1OzH-rX4SWBEegeMT8StKkX72XxC2figMcGP2M2/exec)to
submit an stipend application. You will be asked to provide a CV and
brief research statement or cover letter in PDF form.
The stipend is available to all students (undergraduate, graduate)
enrolled at US institutions of higher education, as well as to US
citizens enrolled at higher education institutions world-wide. We
encourage you to apply, especially if you have not been to ICCM before
or if you think you can contribute to the diversity of our community.
For full consideration, please submit your application by 7 May
16. Awards will be made starting on that day.
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3. ICCM Tutorial program call
http://acs.ist.psu.edu/iccm2016/submissions/tutorials/
The Tutorial and Workshop program of ICCM will be held on 3 Aug
2016. 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. Workshops give an opportunity for
in-depth discussion on a specific topic important for cognitive
modeling. 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; please see previous years for
examples (2013, 2012).
Duration: Each tutorial or workshop is designed to be a half-day or
full-day in duration. Half-day tutorials/workshops are about 3 hours
long (not including breaks). Full day tutorials/workshops are about 6
hours long (not including breaks). Tutorial participants: Tutorial
participants will either be doing cognitive modeling or be interested
in learning more. They will be looking for insights into their own
areas and summaries of other areas providing tools, techniques, and
results to use in their own teaching and research. Most tutorials
should be at the introductory graduate school level or slightly
higher. That is, the tutorials should be accessible to postgraduate
students, but should assume a first degree in one of the cognitive
sciences.
Queries should be sent to the tutorial chair, Dr. Bill Kennedy
wkennedy at gmu.edu
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4. Fierces meeting in Moscow, 21-24 April 2016
http://school.bicasociety.org/
A three-day meeting of early-career researchers (students, interns,
postdocs, trainees, research staff and faculty, including young
scientists from around the world) with world-recognized leading
experts in the field of Biologically inspired cognitive
architectures. This School will develop future world leadership in the
field by young scientists for years to come. The friendly atmosphere
of excitement and opportunity will help us to initiate partnership and
collaboration using roundtables, breakout groups and discussion
panels. Working language of the School is English.
An event that will enhance your research career and is likely to
change your life. Seats are limited: contact burtsev.m at gmail.com,
asamsono at gmu.edu
Sponsored by: Russian Science Foundation National Research Nuclear
University <<MEPhI>>, BICA Society
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5. BICA meeting in NYC, 16-19 Jul 2016
http://bicasociety.org/meetings/2016/
20 Apr 2016 paper due date
[Following numerous requests, the BICA 2016 submission deadline is
extended until April 20: http://bica2016.bicasociety.org/deadlines/
-from Samsonovitch]
[deadlines are tight, this newsletter might not make it, but,
generally you can arrange to talk if you have something to say, and
you can attend, of course]
BICA 2016 will be hosted as a part of the unified Human-Level
Artificial Intelligence Framework event (HLAI-2016) at the New School
Center for Transformative Media in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New
York City, NY. In addition to BICA 2016, this event will also include
AGI-2016 (http://www.agi-conf.org), NeSy-2016
(http://www.neural-symbolic.org), possibly AIC-2016 and more,
co-located and immediately following IJCAI-2016
(http://ijcai-16.org). General Chair of HLAI 2016: Tarek
R. Besold. BICA 2016 Chair and Point of Contact: Alexei Samsonovich
Abstract-only OK for a talk, accepted papers will be published in
Elsevier journals BICA (acquires a Thomson Reuters JCR Impact Factor,
www.elsevier.com/locate/bica) and Procedia Computer Science
(www.journals.elsevier.com/procedia-computer-science/), both indexed
in Web of Science and Scopus (attendance is not required for
publication). Express your interest via email to
alexei at bicasociety.org
Abstract submission is encouraged by March 16
All kinds of submissions (all venues via EasyChair) due - March 20
Acceptance and Reviewer feedback -- on or before April 15
Early-bird registration deadline: April 20
Camera Ready Submission: May 15
Author Registration Deadline: May 15
Conference Dates: Jul 16 - 19
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6. SBP & BRiMS 16-Social Computing, Behavior Representation
28 Jun - 1 Jul 2016
http://sbp-brims.org
[late breaking results are still open]
From: Donald Adjeroh <Donald.Adjeroh at mail.wvu.edu>
Subject: 2nd Call for Papers: SBP and BRiMS 16 - Social Computing,
Behavior Representation
SBP and BRiMS 2016
The Conferences on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling and
Prediction (SBP) and Behavior Representation in Modeling and
Simulation (BRiMS) will jointly hold their meetings in 2016.
28 Jun - 1 Jul 2016
UCDC Center, Washington DC
IMPORTANT DATES
--------------------------
Paper registration deadline: 22 Jan 2016
Paper/full text due: 28 Jan 2016
Author notification: 1 Mar 2016
Final Version: 14 Mar 2016
Late-breaking results papers, Demo
and Industry Track abstracts due: 1 Feb - 1 May 2016 (rolling)
Author notification: 2 weeks after submission
Tutorial proposals due: 1 Feb 2016
Pre-conference Tutorial Sessions: 28 Jun 2016
Conference (Single Track): 29 Jun - 1 Jul 2016
ABOUT SBP-BRIMS
-------------------------
SBP-BRiMS is a multidisciplinary conference with a selective single
paper track and poster session. The conference also invites a small
number of high quality tutorials and nationally recognized keynote
speakers. The conference has grown out of two related meetings: SBP
and BRiMS, which were co-located in previous years.
Social computing harnesses the power of computational methods to study
social behavior, such as during team collaboration. Cultural
behavioral modeling refers to representing behavior and culture in the
abstract, and is a convenient and powerful way to conduct virtual
experiments and scenario analysis. Both social computing and cultural
behavioral modeling are techniques designed to achieve a better
understanding of complex behaviors, patterns, and associated outcomes
of interest. Moreover, these approaches are inherently
interdisciplinary; subsystems and system components exist at multiple
levels of analysis (i.e., "cells to societies") and across multiple
disciplines, from engineering and the computational sciences to the
social and health sciences.
The SBP-BRiMS conference invites modeling and simulation papers from
academics, research scientists, technical communities and defense
researchers across traditional disciplines to share ideas, discuss
research results, identify capability gaps, highlight promising
technologies, and showcase the state-of-the-art in applications in the
areas of cultural behavioral modeling, prediction, and social
computing.
Please see the SBP-BRiMS16 website for more details. Keynotes and
tutorials delivered in the previous SBP and BRiMS meetings are
available through the websites http://sbp-conference.org/ and
http://cc.ist.psu.edu/BRIMS2015/ .
CALL FOR PAPERS
------------------------
Submissions are solicited on research issues, theories, and
applications.
Topics of interests include the following.
Modeling
- Intelligent agents and avatars/adversarial modeling
- Cognitive robotics and human-robot interaction
- Models of reasoning and decision making
- Model validation & comparison
- Socio-cultural M&S: team/group/crowd/behavior
- Physical models of human movement
- Performance assessment & skill monitoring/tracking
- Performance prediction/enhancement/optimization
- Intelligent tutoring systems
- Knowledge acquisition/engineering
- Human behavior issues in model federations
Basic Research on Sociocultural & Behavioral Processes
- Group interaction and collaboration
- Group formation and evolution
- Group representation and profiling
- Collective action and governance
- Cultural patterns & representation
- Social conventions and social contexts
- Influence process and recognition
- Public opinion representation
- Information diffusion
- Psycho-cultural situation awareness
Methodological Issues
- Mathematical foundations
- Verification and validation
- Sensitivity analysis
- Matching technique or method to research questions
- Metrics and evaluation
- Methodological innovation
- Model federation and integration
- Evolutionary computing
- Optimization
Information, Systems, & Network Science
- Social medial and social network analysis
- Data mining on social media platforms
- Diffusion and other dynamic processes over networks
- Inference of network topologies and changes over time
- Analysis of link formations and link types
- Detection of communities and other types of structures in networks
- Analysis of high-dimensional networks
Military and Intelligence Applications
- Evaluation, modeling and simulation
- Group formation and evolution in the political context
- Technology and flash crowds
- Networks and political influence
- Group representation and profiling
- Reasoning about terrorist group behaviors and policies towards them
Health Applications
- Social network analysis to understand health behavior
- Modeling of health policy and decision making
- Modeling of behavioral aspects of infectious disease spread
- Intervention design and modeling for behavioral health
Other Applications
- Economic applications of behavioral and social prediction
- Viral marketing
- Reasoning about development aid through social modeling
- Reasoning about global educational efforts through cognitive simulation
FORMAT AND SUBMISSION
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The conference solicits three categories of papers:
- Regular papers (max. 10 pages)
All topics and authors (academic, government, industry) welcome
Published in a Springer volume and online. Plenary or poster presentation.
- Late-breaking results (max. 6 pages)
All topics and authors welcome.
Published online. Typically a poster or plenary presentation.
- Demos and Industry Track (2-page abstract, or max. 6 pages)
Published online. Typically a poster or demo presentation.
The papers must be in English and MUST be formatted according to the
Springer-Verlag LNCS/LNAI guidelines. Sample LaTeX and MS Word
templates are available at
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0.
A selection of authors will be invited to contribute journal versions
of their papers to one of two planned special issues of Computational
and Mathematical Organization Theory and another high-profile journal.
The submission website will be available at:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sbpbrims2016
For any questions and inquiries concerning submissions, please email
the program chairs.
PRE-CONFERENCE TUTORIAL SESSIONS
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Several half-day sessions will be offered on the day before the full
conference. Sessions will be designed to meet the needs of one of two
distinct groups. One group will consist of attendees who have
backgrounds in the computational sciences: computer science,
engineering, and other mathematically oriented disciplines. Other
tutorial sessions will be designed for behavioral and social
scientists and others (e.g. those with medical backgrounds or training
in public health) who may have limited formal education in the
computational sciences. Attendees will gain an understanding of
terminology, theories, and general computational techniques,
especially with respect to modeling approaches.
More details regarding the pre-conference tutorial sessions, including
instructors, course content, and registration information will be
posted to the conference website (http://sbp-brims.org/) as soon as
this information becomes available.
POSTER & NETWORKING SESSION
---------------------------------------------
We expect to invite the majority of all authors of paper submissions
to present a poster at a catered poster and network session.
DEMO SESSION
---------------------
We invite technical demonstrations from academia, industry and
government. Please submit a 2-page abstract. We will provide a desk
and power.
CHALLENGE PROBLEM
--------------------------------
The conference expects to announce a data modeling challenge as in
previous years.
FUNDING PANEL & CROSS-FERTILIZATION ROUNDTABLES
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Previous SBP conferences have included a Cross-fertilization
Roundtable session or a Funding Panel. The purpose of the
cross-fertilization roundtables is to help participants become better
acquainted with people outside of their discipline and with whom they
might consider partnering on future SBP-related research
collaborations. The Funding Panel provides an opportunity for
conference participants to interact with program managers from various
federal funding agencies. Participants for the previous funding panels
have included representatives from federal agencies, such as the NSF,
NIH, DoD, ONR, AFOSR, USDA, etc. The details for 2016 will be
confirmed at a later date.
BEST PAPER AWARDS
-----------------------------
SBP-BRiMS16 will feature a Best Paper Award and a Best Student Paper
Award. All papers are qualified for the Best Paper Award. Papers with
student first authors will be considered for the Best Student Paper
Award.
HOTEL AND LOGISTICS
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Information on accommodation and logistics will be provided at the
conference website as it becomes available at
http://sbp-brims.org/
TRAVEL SCHOLARSHIPS
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Previous SBP and BRiMS conferences provided competitive travel support
to participants. It is anticipated that a limited number of travel
scholarships will be available on a competitive basis. Additional
information will be provided at the SBP-BRIMS Conference website as it
becomes available at http://sbp-brims.org/
CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION
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CONFERENCE CHAIRS
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Kathleen M. Carley, CMU
Nitin Agarwal, U of Arkansas at Little Rock
PROGRAM CHAIRS
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Dongwon Lee, NSF/PSU, dlee at nsf.gov
Nathaniel Osgood, U of Saskatchewan, osgood at cs.usask.ca
David Reitter, PSU, reitter at psu.edu
Kevin Xu, U of Toledo, kevin.xu at utoledo.edu
AREA CHAIRS
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David Broniatowski, George Washington U
Sibel Adali, RPI
Christian Lebiere, CMU
Wen Dong, State U of NY, Buffalo
(further area chairs to be confirmed.)
TUTORIAL CHAIR
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Yu-Ru Lin, U of Pittsburgh
PUBLICITY CHAIRS
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Donald Adjeroh, West Virginia U
Nitin Agarwal, U of Arkansas at Little Rock
BRIMS SOCIETY CHAIR
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Christopher Dancy II, Bucknell U
Important Dates for Paper Submission
17 Mar (midnight PDT): Deadline for paper submission
15 Apr Decisions about paper acceptance
12 May Deadline for final papers
12 May Deadline for early registration
23-26 Jun Conference
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7. Nengo Summer School
http://www.nengo.ca/summerschool
[ongoing, may have opennings, and may occur next year]
From: Peter Blouw <pblouw at uwaterloo.ca>
To: act-r-users at ACTR-SERVER.HPC1.CS.cmu.edu
Subject: [ACT-R-users] 2016 Nengo Summer School - Applications Open
[All details about this school can be found online at
http://www.nengo.ca/summerschool]
The Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience at the U of Waterloo is
inviting applications for our 3rd annual summer school on large-scale
brain modeling. This two-week school will teach participants how to
use the Nengo software package to build state-of-the-art cognitive and
neural models to run in simulation and on neuromorphic hardware. Nengo
has been used to build what is currently the world's largest
functional brain model, Spaun [1], and provides users with a versatile
and powerful environment for designing cognitive and neural systems to
run in simulated and real environments.
We welcome applications from all interested graduate students,
research associates, postdocs, professors, and industry
professionals. No specific training in the use of modeling software is
required, but we encourage applications from active researchers with a
relevant background in psychology, neuroscience, cognitive science,
robotics, neuromorphic engineering, computer science, or a related
field. For a look at last year's summer school, check out this short
video: https://goo.gl/wy4dNC
[1] Eliasmith, C., Stewart T. C., Choo X., Bekolay T., DeWolf T., Tang
Y., Rasmussen, D. (2012). A large-scale model of the functioning
brain. Science. Vol. 338 no. 6111 pp. 1202-1205.
[http://nengo.ca/publications/spaunsciencepaper]
***Application Deadline: 15 Feb 2016***
Format: A combination of tutorials and project-based
work. Participants are encouraged to bring their own ideas for
projects, which may focus on testing hypotheses, modeling neural or
cognitive data, implementing specific behavioural functions with
neurons, expanding past models, or providing a proof-of-concept of
various neural mechanisms. Hands-on tutorials, work on individual or
group projects, and talks from invited faculty members will make up
the bulk of day-to-day activities. A project demonstration event will
be held on the last day of the school, with prizes for strong
projects!
Topics Covered: Participants will have the opportunity to learn how to:
build perceptual, motor, and sophisticated cognitive models using
spiking neurons model anatomical, electrophysiological, cognitive, and
behavioural data use a variety of single cell models within a
large-scale model integrate machine learning methods into biologically
oriented models interface Nengo with various kinds of neuromorphic
hardware (e.g. SpiNNaker) interface Nengo with cameras and robotic
systems implement modern nonlinear control methods in neural models
and much more... Date and Location: June 5th to June 17th, 2016 at the U
of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
Applications: Please visit http://www.nengo.ca/summerschool, where you
can find more information regarding costs, travel, lodging, along with
an application form listing required materials.
If you have any questions about the school or the application process,
please contact Peter Blouw (pblouw at uwaterloo.ca). We look forward to
hearing from you!
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8. Call for Fourth Annual Conference on Advances in Cognitive Systems
Northwestern 23-26 Jun 2016
http://www.cogsys.org/
Call For Papers Fourth Annual Conference on Advances in Cognitive
Systems, Northwestern, Evanston, IL, 23-26 Jun 2016
The goal of the Advances in Cognitive Systems conference is to bring
together researchers interested in building cognitive systems that
focus on high-level cognition and decision making, reliance on rich,
structured representations, and incorporation of insights about human
thinking. This venue is for dissemination of research results
pertaining to the original, yet unanswered, questions of Artificial
Intelligence: to produce computational artifacts that reproduce a
broad range of human cognitive abilities.
The conference welcomes work on any topic related to the
representation or organization of complex knowledge structures, their
use in multi-step cognition, or their acquisition from experience or
instruction. Some functional capabilities that arise in this context
include, but are not limited to:
- Conceptual Inference and Reasoning - Memory Storage and Retrieval
- Language Processing - Social Cognition and Interaction
- High-level Execution and Control - Problem Solving and Heuristic Search
- Cognitive Aspects of Emotion and Personality
- Metacognition and Meta-level Reasoning
- Structural Learning and Knowledge Capture
- Cognitive Vision and High-level Perception
Paper Submission, Review, and Publication
Manuscripts are limited to 12 pages. Papers accepted for the
conference will be allotted up to an additional four papers for
further elaboration. Accepted papers may also be invited to appear in
the online journal, Advances in Cognitive Systems. Submissions should
be formatted according to instructions provided at
http://www.cogsys.org/formatting, which provides Latex and Word
templates. Each submission should state explicitly the problem or
capability it addresses, describe its response to this problem, make
claims about this approach, and provide evidence in support of these
claims. Every paper should also discuss related efforts, examine
limitations of the reported work, and outline plans for future
research.
Because the conference aims to encourage research toward a broader
understanding of intelligence, its criteria include demonstrating new
functionality, integrating different facets of intelligence,
presenting a novel approach to an established problem, explaining
complex cognition in humans, and formally analyzing a difficult new
task. We also welcome submissions on new problems or testbeds that
challenge existing approaches.
Each submission will be assigned to multiple referees who will
evaluate the paper for itscontribution to understanding cognitive
systems, clarity of claims about this contribution, convincing
evidence in support of those claims, and cogent presentation of its
ideas to readers. We encourage authors to examine the review form
(http://www.cogsys.org/review-form-2016) before drafting their
manuscripts to ensure that their submissions address all of the
dimensions on which reviewers will evaluate them.
The conference aims to be as inclusive as possible while still
fostering innovative research on the computational nature of
intelligence. The conference FAQ page (http://www.cogsys.org/faq)
attempts to clarify the scope of the event. Authors who have questions
about whether their research is appropriate for the meeting should
contact the Conference Chairs, via acs2016 at cs.northwestern.edu, for
additional information.
Important Dates for Paper Submission
March 17th (midnight PDT): Deadline for paper submission
April 15th: Decisions about paper acceptance
May 12th: Deadline for final papers May 12th:
Deadline for early registration
June 23-26th: Conference
Workshop Proposals
ACS invites proposals for half-day or full day workshops to be held at
the end of the conference on the afternoon of Sunday, June
26th. Workshop participants will have the opportunity to meet and
discuss targeted issues pertaining to cognitive systems -- providing an
intimate and informal setting for active exchange among researchers,
developers, and users on topics of current interest. The format of
workshops will be determined by their organizers. Organizers are
highly encouraged to propose alternative formats beyond paper/poster
presentations, and should encourage the submission and presentation of
position papers that discuss new research ideas. Proposals for
workshops should be 2-3 pages in length and describe the topic, the
format, and an explanation of target participation. Workshop
organizers must submit their proposals via email to
ACS2016 at cs.northwestern.edu by March 17th.
Conference Chairs
Kenneth D. Forbus, Northwestern
Thomas Hinrichs, Northwestern
Organizing Committee
Paul Bello, Naval Research Laboratory
Kenneth Forbus, Northwestern
Ashok Goel, Georgia Institute of Technology
John Laird, U of Michigan
Pat Langley, ISLE
Sergei Nirenburg, RPI
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9. CFP Collective Intelligence 2016 - Call for Papers
https://sites.google.com/a/stern.nyu.edu/collective-intelligence-conference/home
[program to be posted shortly]
To: "naacsos-list at lists.andrew.cmu.edu" <naacsos-list at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Collective Intelligence 2016 - Call for Papers
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2016 19:11:37 +0000
From: Thomas W Malone via Naacsos-list <naacsos-list at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>
NAACSOS - http://www.casos.cs.cmu.edu/naacsos/
Call for Papers (Extended Abstracts)
https://sites.google.com/a/stern.nyu.edu/collective-intelligence-conference/home
Collective Intelligence 2016
1-3 June 2016
New York U, New York, NY
The annual interdisciplinary conference that brings together
researchers from the academy, businesses, non-profits, governments and
the world at large to share insights and ideas from a variety of
fields relevant to understanding and designing collective intelligence
in its many forms.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
human computation
social computing
crowdsourcing
crowdfunding
wisdom of crowds (e.g., prediction markets)
group memory and extended cognition
collective decision making and problem-solving
participatory and deliberative democracy
animal collective behavior
organizational design and strategy
public policy design (e.g., regulatory reform)
ethics of collective intelligence (e.g., "digital sweatshops")
computational models of group search and optimization
emergence and evolution of intelligence
new technologies for making groups smarter
Submissions of two types are invited:
Reports of original results
Demonstrations of tools/technology
To encourage a diversity of innovative ideas from a variety of fields,
submissions may refer to work that is recently published, under review
elsewhere, or in preparation, and may link to up to one publicly
accessible paper for the purpose of describing the work in
detail. However, submissions will be evaluated solely on the submitted
abstract, which must therefore comprise an entirely self-contained
description of the work.
After review by the Program Committee, a subset of submitted abstracts
will be invited for oral presentation with additional presentation as
posters and/or demos. A second subset will also be invited exclusively
for presentation as posters and/or demos.
Authors will not receive detailed feedback from the review process,
just an accept/reject decision. The main criteria will be: 1) whether
the subject matter is a good fit for the Collective Intelligence
conference; 2) whether there are interesting claims made with a
promise to present evidence or non-obvious arguments in support of
them. The review committee will not assess the validity of the
evidence or arguments.
Accepted submissions will be compiled into a single report which will
be made available to conference participants. We emphasize that
abstracts that are distributed to conference participants are not
intended to be considered archival publications or to preclude
submission of the reported work to archival journals; however, we
cannot guarantee that certain journals do not have policies precluding
the distribution of extended abstracts. Accepted abstracts will be
included as submitted (i.e., submissions should be camera-ready).
If your abstract is accepted for presentation or poster session, at
least one author has to commit to attending the conference.
Please check out prior programs and proceedings to learn more about
the Collective Intelligence conference and academic community:
(http://www.ci2012.org/) Collective Intelligence Conference
Proceedings, MIT, 2012
(http://collective.mech.northwestern.edu/?page_id=217) Collective
Intelligence Conference Proceedings, MIT, 2014
(https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/collectiveintelligence/schedule/)
Collective Intelligence Conference Program, Santa Clara, 2015
DEADLINES
Abstract submission deadline | 8 Feb 2016 Midnight PST
Program Announcement | 1 Mar 2016
Conference Chair
(http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/natalia-levina)
Natalia Levina (NYU Stern School of Business)
Program Chairs
(http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/profile.aspx?facId=240491)
Karim Lakhani (Harvard Business School)
(https://www.si.umich.edu/people/paul-resnick)Paul Resnick (U of Michigan)
Program Committee Members
(http://tepper.cmu.edu/our-faculty-and-research/about-our-faculty/faculty-profiles/awoolley/williams-woolley-anita)
Anita Woolley (CMU)
(http://questromapps.bu.edu/mgmt_new/profiles/O%27MahonySiobhan.html)
Siobhan O'Mahony (Boston U)
(http://web.eecs.umich.edu/%7Ewlasecki/index.html)Walter Lasecki (U of Michigan)
(http://yiling.seas.harvard.edu/)Yiling Chen (Harvard)
(http://www.wbs.ac.uk/about/person/emmanouil-gkeredakis)
Emmanouil Gkeredakis (Warwick Business School)
(https://mitsloan.mit.edu/faculty/detail.php?in_spseqno=19289)Sinan Aral (MIT)
(https://research.facebook.com/researchers/1471283266479125/lada-adamic/)
Lada Adamic (Facebook)
(http://www.chabris.com/)Christopher Chabris (Union College)
(http://icouzin.princeton.edu/) Iain Couzin (Princeton)
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10. Call for special issues, J of Interaction Science
http://www.journalofinteractionscience.com/
The J of Interaction Science:
Please contact one of us to discuss any special issue you may wish to
organize. Remember, it's never too late or too soon to think about
special issues, submission or your own editorial.
Prof. Christian Stary, christian.stary at jku.at
Dr Gisela Susanne Bahr, gbahr at fit.edu
editorial at journalofinteractionscience.com
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11. Call for papers, Holistic approaches for Human-Vehicle Systems
IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems
Call for Papers
IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems
Special Issue on: "Holistic approaches for Human-Vehicle Systems:
combining models, interactions and control"
Ground vehicles operate in a complex human-vehicle-road environment
involving numerous levels of interaction among drivers, vehicles, and
the ambient within which they travel. Human drivers may be
"intelligent controllers" that define the intended driving direction
and/or operate (totally or partially) autonomous vehicles. To support
the development of safe driver-vehicle interactions in an era of
increasing automation, methods for modeling and analyzing the
contribution of driver performance are critical and essential. This
raises interesting challenges associated with the characterization and
modeling of human behaviors, particularly with respect to cognition
and neuromuscular dynamics, their implication in closed-loop
driver-vehicle performance, and their induced modifications brought
about by interaction with the surrounding environment. Specifically,
holistic approaches are of interest, which aim at efficiently and
quantitatively combine different aspects of the human-vehicle
interaction in specific application domains.
This special issue focuses on these relevant driver-vehicle
interaction topics, with attention paid to the range of vehicles and
associated technology currently on the market and emerging in the era
of increased automation.
The topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Modeling and characterization of driver-vehicle interactions
- Human driver modeling: neuromuscular dynamics, skills and learning
- Advanced vehicle control systems with driver-in-the-loop
- Intelligent and cognitive vehicles
- Advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS)
- Modeling and characterization of human drivers' errors
- Characterization and quantification of driver's capabilities
Important Dates:
Manuscript submission: 15 Apr 16
Completion of first round of reviews: 31 Jul 16
Revised manuscript submission: 31 Sep 16
Notification of final decision: 15 Dec 16
Final manuscript submission: 31 Jan 17
Paper should be submitted through
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/thms, with a cover letter that
contains the statement: "This manuscript is being submitted to the
Special Issue: Modeling, Dynamics, Perception and Control of Human-V
ehicle Systems". For detailed submission information, please refer to
"Information for Authors" at
http://ieee-smc.org/publications/thms-info-for-authors.pdf.
Guest Editors:
Mara Tanelli, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Dongpu Cao, Cranfield U, UK
Rafael Toledo, Universidad Politecnica de Cartagena, Spain
Laura Stanley, Montana State U-Bozeman
All enquiries to: mara.tanelli at polimi.it
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12. Groningen Spring School on Cognitive Modeling
[noted because it is an ongoing event]
From: Niels Taatgen <n.a.taatgen at rug.nl>
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 09:43:07 +0100
To: <act-r-users at andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: [ACT-R-users] Groningen Spring School on Cognitive Modeling
NOTE: register before 31 Jan to avoid late fee
Groningen Spring School on Cognitive Modeling
- ACT-R, Nengo, PRIMs, & Accumulator Models -
Date: 4-8 April 2016
Location: Groningen, NL
Fee: ? 200 (late fee ?50 after 31 Jan)
Registration: http://www.ai.rug.nl/springschool
The Groningen Spring School on Cognitive Modeling will cover four
different modeling paradigms: ACT-R, Nengo, PRIMs, and Accumulator
models. It thereby offers a unique opportunity to learn the relative
strengths and weaknesses of these approaches. Each day will consist of
four theory lectures, one on each paradigm. Each modeling paradigm
also includes hands-on assignments. Although students are free to
chose the number of lectures they attend, we recommend students to
sign up for lectures on two of the modeling paradigms, and complete
the tutorial units for one of the paradigms. At the end of each day
there will be a plenary research talk, to show how these different
approaches to modeling are applied.
Admission is limited, so register soon!
ACT-R
Jelmer Borst, Hedderik van Rijn, Niels Taatgen (U of Groningen)
http://act-r.psy.cmu.edu
ACT-R is a high-level cognitive theory and simulation system for
developing cognitive models for tasks that vary from simple reaction
time experiments to driving a car, learning algebra, and air traffic
control. ACT-R can be used to develop process models of a task at a
symbolic level. Participants will follow a compressed five-day version
of the traditional summer school curriculum. We will also cover the
connection between ACT-R and fMRI, and the timing extension to ACT-R.
Nengo
Terry Stewart (U of Waterloo)
http://www.nengo.ca
Nengo is a toolkit for converting high-level cognitive theories into
low-level spiking neuron implementations. In this way, aspects of
model performance such as response accuracy and reaction times emerge
as a consequence of neural parameters such as the neurotransmitter
time constants. It has been used to model adaptive motor control,
visual attention, serial list memory, reinforcement learning, Tower of
Hanoi, and fluid intelligence. Participants will learn to construct
these kinds of models, starting with generic tasks like representing
values and positions, and ending with full production-like
systems. There will also be special emphasis on extracting various
forms of data out of a model, such that it can be compared to
experimental data.
PRIMs
Niels Taatgen (U of Groningen)
http://www.ai.rug.nl/~niels/actransfer.html
How do people handle and prioritize multiple tasks? How can we learn
something in the context of one task, and partially benefit from it in
another task? The goal of PRIMs is to cross the artificial boundary
that most cognitive architectures have imposed on themselves by
studying single tasks. It has mechanisms to model transfer of
cognitive skills, and the competition between multiple goals. In the
tutorial we will look at how PRIMs can model phenomena of cognitive
transfer and cognitive training, and how multiple goals compete for
priority in models of distraction.
Accumulator Models
Marieke van Vugt (U of Groningen)
Decisions can be described in terms of a process of evidence
accumulation, modeled with a drift diffusion mechanism. The advantage
of redescribing the behavioral data with an accumulator model is that
those can be decomposed into more easily-interpretable cognitive
mechanisms such as speed-accuracy trade-off or quality of
attention. In this course, you will learn about the basic mechanisms
of drift diffusion models and apply it to your own dataset (if you
bring one). You will also see some applications of accumulator models
in the context of neuroscience and individual differences.
Niels Taatgen - Professor n.a.taatgen at rug.nl
U of Groningen, Artificial Intelligence http://www.ai.rug.nl/~niels
+31 50 3636435
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13. Call for Future CogSci Conference Organizers
Jan 2016
Call for Future CogSci Conference Organizers
The Cognitive Science Society seeks organizers for the upcoming 2019
and 2020 annual conferences, both of which will take place in North
America. Organizers are responsible for the scientific content of the
program such as creating the conference theme, inviting keynotes and
other symposia, overseeing the submission/review process, and creating
the program schedule. Organizers are NOT responsible for budget,
administrative details, or other logistics. They will have input in
the 2019 and 2020 conference destinations, but it is not required.
All organizers (2-4 each year) must possess a PhD and will receive a
VIP travel package to the annual conference. Co-organizers do not need
to be from the same institution, region, or area of expertise.
If you are interested in serving as a conference organizer, please
complete the following form by February 15:
http://cbs.az1.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_3OY0vcVhtVd4ofj (or email
Wong).
If you have any questions, please direct them to the Conference
Officer, Jessica Wong, at cogsci.jessica at gmail.com.
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14. Budapest Semester in Cognitive Science, and Summer program
http://www.bscs-us.org/
[deadlines may have passed, but ongoing]
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2016 01:46:03 +0100 (CET)
From: Erdi Peter <erdi.peter at wigner.mta.hu>
Subject: [Comp-neuro] study abroad programs in Budapest
BSCS-US announces its two programs in Budapest for 2016.
1. Our regular program: BSCS - BUDAPEST SEMESTER IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE
PHILOSOPHY TO NEUROSCIENCE will be held in the Fall of 2016, see
http://www.bscs-us.org/
2. We opened also a new program now in its second year:
Systems Neuroscience: a study abroad summer program
Program start/end dates
12 June - 5 Aug 2016
The BSCS Systems Neuroscience Program takes place at and academically
supervised by the Department of Anatomy, Histology and Embryology,
Semmelweis U Medical School, Budapest
For details, see: http://sysneuro-semester.org/
Inquiry:
Peter Erdi (SysNeuro Director; BSCS Co-Director)
perdi at kzoo.edu, bscs at bscs-us.org, jhegedus at kzoo.edu
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15. CogACLL 2016 - First Call of Papers due 8 & 29 May 2016
http://sites.google.com/site/cognitivews2016
From: Alessandro Lenci
alessandro.lenci at unipi.it
Subject: [CUNY2016] CogACLL 2016 - First Call of Papers
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CogACLL 2016 - First Call For Papers
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ACL 2016 Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of Computational Language
Learning (CogACLL)
11 Aug 2016
Berlin, Germany
http://sites.google.com/site/cognitivews2016
Deadline for Long and Short Paper Submissions: 8 May 16 (11:59pm GMT -12)
Deadline for System Demonstrations: 29 May 16 (11:59pm GMT -12)
This workshop is endorsed by http://ifarm.nl/signll/ SIGNLL, the
Special Interest Group on Natural Language Learning of the
http://www.aclweb.org/ Association for Computational Linguistics.
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The human ability to acquire and process language has long attracted
interest and generated much debate due to the apparent ease with which
such a complex and dynamic system is learnt and used on the face of
ambiguity, noise and uncertainty. This subject raises many questions
ranging from the nature vs. nurture debate of how much needs to be
innate and how much needs to be learned for acquisition to be
successful, to the mechanisms involved in this process (general vs
specific) and their representations in the human brain. There are also
developmental issues related to the different stages consistently
found during acquisition (e.g. one word vs. two words) and possible
organizations of this knowledge. These have been discussed in the
context of first and second language acquisition and bilingualism,
with crosslinguistic studies shedding light on the influence of the
language and the environment.
The past decades have seen a massive expansion in the application of
statistical and machine learning methods to natural language
processing (NLP). This work has yielded impressive results in numerous
speech and language processing tasks, including e.g. speech
recognition, morphological analysis, parsing, lexical acquisition,
semantic interpretation, and dialogue management. The good results
have generally been viewed as engineering achievements. Recently
researchers have begun to investigate the relevance of computational
learning methods for research on human language acquisition and
change.
The use of computational modeling is a relatively recent trend boosted
by advances in machine learning techniques, and the availability of
resources like corpora of child and child-directed sentences, and data
from psycholinguistic tasks by normal and pathological groups. Many of
the existing computational models attempt to study language tasks
under cognitively plausible criteria (such as memory and processing
limitations that humans face), and to explain the developmental stages
observed in the acquisition and evolution of the language
abilities. In doing so, computational modeling provides insight into
the plausible mechanisms involved in human language processes, and
inspires the development of better language models and
techniques. These investigations are very important since if
computational techniques can be used to improve our understanding of
human language acquisition and change, these will not only benefit
cognitive sciences in general but will reflect back to NLP and place
us in a better position to develop useful language models.
Success in this type of research requires close collaboration between
the NLP, linguistics, psychology and cognitive science
communities. The workshop is targeted at anyone interested in the
relevance of computational techniques for understanding first, second
and bilingual language acquisition and language change in normal and
clinical conditions. Long and short papers are invited on, but not
limited to, the following topics:
* Computational learning theory and analysis of language learning
and organization
* Computational models of first, second and
bilingual language acquisition
* Computational models of language changes in clinical conditions
* Computational models and analysis of factors that influence language
acquisition and use in different age groups and cultures
* Computational models of various aspects of language and their
interaction effect in acquisition, processing and change
* Computational models of the evolution of language
* Data resources and tools for investigating computational models of
human language processes
* Empirical and theoretical comparisons of the learning environment
and its impact on language processes
* Cognitively oriented Bayesian models of language processes
* Computational methods for acquiring various linguistic information
(related to e.g. speech, morphology, lexicon, syntax, semantics,
and discourse) and their relevance to research on human language
acquisition
* Investigations and comparisons of supervised, unsupervised and
weakly-supervised methods for learning (e.g. machine learning,
statistical, symbolic, biologically-inspired, active learning,
various hybrid models) from a cognitive perspective
SUBMISSIONS
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We invite 3 submission modalities:
* Regular long papers (8 content pages + 1 page for references):
Long papers should report on original, solid and finished research
including new experimental results, resources and/or techniques.
* Regular short papers (4 content pages + 1 page for references):
Short papers should report on small experiments, focused contributions,
ongoing research, negative results and/or philosophical discussion.
* System demonstration (2 pages): System demonstration papers should
describe and document the demonstrated system or resources. We
encourage the demonstration of both early research prototypes and
mature systems, that will be presented in a separate demo session.
All submissions must be in PDF format and must follow the ACL 2016
formatting requirements.
We strongly advise the use of the provided Word or LaTeX template
files. For long and short papers, the reported research should
be substantially original. The papers will be presented orally or as
posters. The decision as to which paper will be presented orally
and which as poster will be made by the program committee based
on the nature rather than on the quality of the work.
Reviewing will be double-blind, and thus no author information
should be included in the papers; self-reference should be
avoided as well. Papers that do not conform to these requirements
will be rejected without review. Accepted papers will appear in the
workshop proceedings, where no distinction will be made between
papers presented orally or as posters.
Submission and reviewing will be electronic, managed by the START
system:
https://www.softconf.com/acl2016/CogACLL/
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PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Dora Alexopoulou, U of Cambridge (UK)
Afra Alishahi, Tilburg U (Netherlands)
Colin Bannard, U of Liverpool (UK)
Philippe Blache, LPL-CNRS (France)
Antal van den Bosch, Radboud U Nijmegen (Netherlands)
Chris Brew, Nuance Communications (USA)
Grzegorz Chrupa?a, Saarland U (Germany)
Alexander Clark, Royal Holloway, U of London (UK)
Robin Clark, U of Pennsylvania
Walter Daelemans, U of Antwerp (Belgium)
Dan Dediu, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (NL)
Barry Devereux, U of Cambridge (UK)
Emmanuel Dupoux, ENS - CNRS (France)
Afsaneh Fazly, U of Toronto (Canada)
Marco Idiart, Federal U of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil)
Gianluca Lebani, U of Pisa (Italy)
Igor Malioutov, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Tim O'Donnel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Muntsa Padro, Nuance (Canada)
Lisa Pearl, U of California - Irvine
Ari Rappoport, The Hebrew U of Jerusalem (Israel)
Sabine Schulte im Walde, U of Stuttgart (Germany)
Ekaterina Shutova, U of Cambridge (UK)
Maity Siqueira, Federal U of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil)
Mark Steedman, U of Edinburgh (UK)
Suzanne Stevenson, U of Toronto (Canada)
Remi van Trijp, Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris (France)
Shuly Wintner, U of Haifa (Israel)
Charles Yang, U of Pennsylvania
Menno van Zaanen, Tilburg U (Netherlands)
Alessandra Zarcone, Saarland U (Germany)
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WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS AND CONTACT
Anna Korhonen (U of Cambridge, UK)
Alessandro Lenci (U of Pisa, Italy)
Brian Murphy (Queen's U Belfast, UK)
Thierry Poibeau (LATTICE-CNRS, France)
Aline Villavicencio (Federal U of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
For any inquiries regarding the workshop please send an email
to cognitive2016 at gmail.com
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16. AHFE 2016 International Conference on Simulation, 27-31 Jul 2016
[this has a cognitive architectures track, now]
From: "AHFE Conference" <admin at ahfe2016.org>
Subject: AHFE 2016 International Conference on Simulation (27-31 Jul
2016 Walt Disney World)
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 01:53:35 +0000
AHFE Mailing List Subscription
admin at ahfe.org?Subject=Subscribe
admin at ahfe.org?Subject=Unsubscribe
Dear Colleagues,
This is a gentle reminder for the AHFE 2016 International Conference
on Human Factors and Simulation abstract and paper proposal submission
extended deadline. The conference will be held at Walt Disney World(R)
Swan and Dolphin Hotel, FL, 27-21 Jul 2016
(http://www.ahfe2016.org/).
The 7th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and
Ergonomics (AHFE 2016) incorporates 26 thematic areas with
participation of 2000 researcher and industry participant from more
than 62 countries worldwide.
Peer-review accepted full papers will be published in the AHFE 2016
proceedings and as chapters in Springer Multi-volume Edited Books
under the prestigious series of LNCS Advances in Intelligent Systems
and Computing/
The extended deadline is approaching quickly!
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Abstract Submission Deadline (500 words): 25 Feb 2016
Submission Website: https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/AHFE2016/
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Areas of interest include, but are not limited to those listed here:
- Simulation of physiological behavior, measures, predictions
- Virtual Reality and computer simulation of human behavior and performance
- Computational models of human performance
- Interaction with virtual environments
- Simulator-based evaluations of human factors issues
- Assessment of new simulation technologies and total ownership cost aspects
- Developments in simulation and virtual environments to address HFergonomics issues
- Human performance modelling
We are looking forward to receiving your submission and welcoming you
to Walt Disney World Florida!
Best Regards,
AHFE Administration
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17. MathPsych 2016
http://www.mathpsych.org/conferences/2016/
The 49th Annual Meeting of the Society for Mathematical Psychology will
take place in New Brunswick, New Jersey from 4-7 Aug. The local host
is Pernille Hemmer of Rutgers University.
The Professional Development Symposium hosted by the Women of Math
Psych will also be held on 4 Aug.
More information on the conference site and hotel is available
http://www.mathpsych.org/conferences/2016/.
The Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society will be held after
MathPsych in Philadelphia, PA, starting with workshops and tutorials
10 Aug 2016. Philadelphia is approximately a 1.25 hour drive
from New Brunswick. There is also easy access via New Jersey transit
and SEPTA with travel time of approximately 1.5 hours.
The Annual Summer Interdisciplinary Conference will be held at the
Hotel Oswald in Selva Val Gardena, Italian Dolomites from 3-8 Jul.
Submission & Registration
Submissions for the conference and registrations will be accepted from
1 Mar to 15 Apr 2016. The deadline for submissions is Friday, 15 Apr
2016. See the submission page for more details.
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17b. 15th Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop, Due 15 Apr
https://sites.google.com/site/ncpw15/
Updated Announcement 10 Mar 2016:
New Submission Date, Speaker Titles, Submission + Publication Details
NCPW15 - 8-9 Aug 2016 - Philadelphia, PA
https://sites.google.com/site/ncpw15/
15th Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop
Contemporary Neural Network Models:
Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Cognition
Funded by the W. K. & K. W. Estes Fund, Google DeepMind, and the
Rumelhart Emergent Cognitive Functions Fund
Organized by: Jay McClelland, Stefan Frank & Daniel Mirman
500-Word Abstracts and Applications to Attend Due: 15 Apr
Notification of Acceptance and Travel Awards: 15 May
We are pleased to announce a workshop on Contemporary Neural Network
Models, bringing the latest developments in Deep Neural Networks, Deep
Reinforcement Learning Networks, and Recurrent Neural Networks with
Long-Short-Term Memory Units into contact with contemporary cognitive
science and cognitive neuroscience research. Plenary speakers are
established and emerging experts in the development of deep neural
network models of perception, action and cognition, and include
authors of Google DeepMind's projects achieving human-level
performance in Atari games and Go and in creating innovative Cognitive
architectures such as the Neural Turing Machine. The workshop, which
continues the (http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/%7Ejxb/NCPW.html) Neural
Computation and Psychology Workshop (NCPW) series, will take place on
Aug 8-9, 2016 in Philadelphia - in North America for the first time
after 14 previous meetings in Europe.
The Workshop has both a research dissemination and tutorial
purpose. Research submissions are welcome based on a 500-word abstract
for spoken and poster presentations in any area of computational
research that applies neural network models or related approaches to
understanding human cognition. To foster exchange of ideas,
presentation of recently published work or work also submitted
elsewhere is welcome, and there will be a publication option for new
work. Both junior and senior scientists interested in learning more
about the latest developments are encouraged to attend (space is
limited and application is required) with or without making a
presentation. Thanks to generous support, costs will be low and travel
awards will encourage participation by a diverse population of
participants with relevant goals. The
(https://sites.google.com/site/ncpw15/) conference website provides
full details and instructions for those interested in participating.
Abstracts and applications to attend are due Apr 15 and notification
of acceptance and travel awards will be made by May 15.
Keynote Presentations
Nikolaus Kriegeskorte, MRC-CBU Cambridge, UK. Deep Convolutional
Nets and Biological Object Vision.
Marco Zorzi, U of Padova. Unsupervised Deep Learning Models
of Perception and Cognition: Space, Numbers, Words
Andrew Saxe, Harvard U. A Theory of the Dynamics of Deep Learning:
Consequences for Perceptual Learning and Semantic Development
Greg Wayne, Google DeepMind. Integrating Neural and Symbolic
Computation: The Neural Turing Machine and Beyond
Timothy Lillicrap, Google DeepMind. Deep Reinforcement Learning:
Algorithms and Applications from Reaching and Grasping to Winning at
Go
Linda Smith, Indiana U. What's Deep about Deep Learning? What Can it
Tell us About the Mind?
Workshop Structure
Each of the two days of the NCPW workshop will include three 75 minute
sessions led by invited speakers. The first five of these sessions
will each focus on a different aspect or topic in contemporary neural
network research, and each will be led by a different expert. The
final session will begin with a commentary by a senior Cognitive
Scientist (Linda Smith) followed by a panel discussion with the other
five speakers. During lunch each day, the day's speakers will each
hold a smaller discussion session with a subset of the workshop
participants, and materials will be circulated in advance. Two
1.5-hour sessions each day will be devoted to submitted presentations
selected for their scientific value and the extent to which they
advance the use of neural network architectures, tools, and concepts
in both computational and cognitive (neuro)science domains. A poster
session at the end of the first day will allow all of the participants
an opportunity to present and obtain feedback from the invited
speakers, and to learn from and network with each other. A conference
dinner on the first evening and a reception on the second evening will
allow for informal interactions.
NCPW15 will be complemented by a separate day-long tutorial on
Wednesday, 10 Aug as part of the Cognitive Science Society meeting
also in Philadelphia (pending acceptance by the Program
Committee). This day-long event will provide additional tutorial
presentations, followed by in depth how-to sessions associated with
the actual implementation and effective practical mastery of deep
learning networks for cognitive science research.
Participants, Publication, Travel Awards, Costs, and Logistics
The target population is PhD students, post-doctoral fellows, and more
advanced researchers at any level. Both contributing researchers and
non-presenting attendees are welcome to apply. Contributing
researchers will be selected based on a 500-word submitted research
abstract, according to past policies of NCPW. As noted above,
presentation of recently published work or work also submitted
elsewhere are welcome. Participants will be invited to contribute
otherwise unpublished work to a planned Frontiers in Cognitive Science
Research Topic on contemporary neural network models.
Selection of non-presenting attendees will be based on the relevance
of the workshop to the attendee's goals as described in a short essay
as well as a CV and, for junior scientist, a mentor's letter of
support. Both trainees and contributing researchers not selected for
oral presentations have the option to present a poster in the poster
session. A total of 25 travel support awards ($250 domestic/$750
international) are available both for trainees and for contributing
researchers to partially defray costs of attendance; support will be
awarded based on the criteria above as well as need with attention to
encouraging diversity. There is no registration fee for accepted
participants. A low-price accommodation option ($50/night) will be
available.
Application Process and Venue: More detailed information on the
application process and the venue are available at the
(https://sites.google.com/site/ncpw15/) conference website. The
deadline for presentation abstract submissions and for applications to
attend will be April 15, 2016, and notification of acceptance and
travel awards for trainees and participating researchers will be on 15
May 2016.
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17c. AGI-16 deadline extended to 1 Apr 16
http://agi-conf.org/2016
Good news for busy researchers! The paper submission deadline for
AGI-16 has been extended till April 1.
Recall that the Ninth Annual Conference on Artificial General
Intelligence, AGI-16,
http://agi-conf.org/2016
will be held in New York City (Jul 16-19, 2016), as part of a larger event --
HLAI-16 ... HUMAN-LEVEL AI 2016: http://agi-conf.org/hlai2016/ This
will be the first-ever Multi-conference focused on the creation of
thinking machines with capability at the human level and beyond.
Gary Marcus and Stephen Grossberg are lined up as keynote speakers,
and will be joined by 2-3 additional prestigious keynotes to be
announced shortly.
HLAI-16 will include AGI-16, and also BICA-16 (Biologically Inspired
Cognitive Architectures), and the 2016 "Neural-Symbolic Learning and
Reasoning" and "AI and Cognition" Workshops. These four conferences
are normally held separately each year, at different times and
locations. But this year they are coming together in time and space as
a unique and unprecedented Multi-conference.
Furthermore, the HLAI-16 Multi-conference will occur immediately after
the IJCAI-16 (the largest international AI conference), which is also
in New York City .
AGI-16 will be organized just like previous AGI conferences, with the
same focus and structure. Registration for each of the conferences
within the multi-conference will be done separately. However, there
will be numerous common events: common keynotes, a common poster and
demo session, and a common multi-conference banquet. Most importantly,
all 4 events will be held together at the New School in lower
Manhattan, allowing free and wide-ranging HLAI and AGI discussions
among attendees and presenters at all 4 conferences.
Why a Human-Level AI Multi-conference in 2016?
Looking backward, 2016 is the 60th anniversary of the Dartmouth
Conferences, which effectively inaugurated the history of AI and
cognitive systems research.
Looking forward, 2016 is an unprecedentedly exciting time for AI R&D
in general. It is a time when we are seeing a constant stream of
practical and theoretical successes in various parts of the AI
field. And it is a time when the quest to create AI systems with
general intelligence at the human level and beyond is taken more
seriously by a broader community than ever before.
So 2016 is a perfect year to gather together an unprecedentedly large
number of serious researchers and developers in the areas of AGI and
Human-Level AI, for sharing ideas and results and planning
collaborative R&D.
And to top it all off, New York City in the summer is a fantastic
place to be.
The paper submission deadline has been extended till April 1, 2016;
please see: http://agi-conf.org/2016/call-for-papers/
for further relevant dates. Note that the deadline for workshops,
tutorials and demos has already passed.
Yours,
AGI-16 Conference Chair:
Ben Goertzel, OpenCog Foundation
Program Committee Chairs:
Pei Wang, Temple University
Bas Steunebrink, Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence
Organizing Committee:
Matthew Ikle, Adams State College, OpenCog Foundation
Jose Hernandez-Orallo, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia)
Tutorials and Workshops Chair)
Brandon Rohrer, Microsoft (Poster and Demo Sessions Chair)
Ed Keller, New School (Local Co-chair)
AGI Conference Series Chairs:
Ben Goertzel, OpenCog Foundation
Marcus Hutter, ANU
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18. Special issue on cognitive engineering, J of Interaction Science
http://www.journalofinteractionscience.com/about [open access]
We are writing today to let you know about some recent articles
published in our open access journal Journal of Interaction Science
(JoIS), and to invite you to be part of it.
Chris Stary's Special issue on recent advances in cognitive
engineering has been a great success! Here is a list of the articles
and the editorial. Please note that we one article is not yet listed
here because it is still in production.
1. Patterns to explore cognitive preferences and potential
collective intelligence empathy for processing knowledge in virtual
settings by Salim Chujfi, Christoph Meinel Journal of Interaction
Science 2015, 3:5 (3 September 2015)
http://news.springer.com/re?l=D0In5xzz3I6hg61ejIf
2. Modeling and Supporting Web-Navigation by Herre van Oostendorp,
Sonal Aggarwal Journal of Interaction Science 2015, 3:3 (29 Jul
2015)
http://news.springer.com/re?l=D0In5xzz3I6hg61ejIh
3. Personal ecologies of calendar artifacts by Anke Dittmar, Laura
Dardar Journal of Interaction Science 2015, 3:2 (28 Jul 2015)
http://journalofinteractionscience.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40166-015-0007-x
4. The concept of "presence" as a measure of ecological validity in
driving simulators by Christophe Deniaud, Vincent Honnet, Benoit
Jeanne, Daniel Mestre Journal of Interaction Science
http://news.springer.com/re?l=D0In5xzz3I6hg61ejIj
5. Editorial: Special issue on recent advances in cognitive
engineering by Chris Stary, Journal of Interaction Science 2015, 3:4
(28 Aug 2015)
http://journalofinteractionscience.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40166-015-0009-8
The vision of JoIS is based on interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary
science model for the investigation, development, integration and
evaluation of humans interacting with technology. We welcome
cross-cutting method developments as well as analytical application
studies evaluated in the field.
Enjoy some of our latest articles
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19. Oxford books (>$100) get 30% off
https://global.oup.com/
Oxford University Press has a spring sale. They publish the Oxford
Series on Cognitive Models and Architectures
(https://global.oup.com/academic/content/series/o/oxford-series-on-cognitive-models-and-architectures-oscma).
If you purchase $100 or more, you can have 30% off, not just the cognitive modeling books.
The code is 33835 .
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20. Proceedings of Workshop on Cogn Archs for Social HRI
https://sites.google.com/site/cogarch4socialhri2016/proceedings
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2016 09:47:08 +0000
From: Severin Lemaignan <severin.lemaignan at PLYMOUTH.AC.UK>
Subject: 2nd CfP: Cognitive Architectures for Social HRI - Workshop at HRI'16
HRI'16 2nd Workshop on Cognitive Architectures for Social Human-Robot
Interaction
Full day workshop -- Monday 7th March, 2016 (Christchurch, New Zealand)
https://sites.google.com/site/cogarch4socialhri2016/
https://sites.google.com/site/cogarch4socialhri2016/proceedings
DESCRIPTION
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Cognitive Architectures are constructs (encompassing both theory and
models) that seek to account for cognition (over multiple timescales)
using a set of domain-general structures and mechanisms. Typically
(but not always) inspired by human cognition, the emphasis is on
deriving a set of principles of operation not constrained to a
specific task or context. This therefore presents a holistic
perspective: it forces the system designer to initially take a step
back from diving into computational mechanisms and consider what sort
of functionality needs to be present, and how this relates to other
cognitive competencies. Thus the very process of applying such an
approach to HRI may yield benefits, such as the integration of
evidence from the human sciences in a principled manner, the
facilitation of comparison of different systems (abstracting away from
specific computational algorithms), and as a more principled manner to
verify and refine the resultant autonomous systems.
For HRI, such an approach to building autonomous systems based on
Cognitive Architecture - 'cognitive integration' - would emphasise
first those aspects of behaviour that are common across domains,
before applying these to specific interaction contexts for
evaluation. Furthermore, given inspiration from human cognition, it
can also inherently take into account the behaviour of the humans with
which the system should interact, with the intricacies and
sub-optimality that this entails.
To date, there have been relatively few efforts to apply such ideas to
the context of HRI in a structured manner. The first workshop sought
to bring attention to the topic by providing a forum to discuss the
reasons and potential for the application of Cognitive Architectures
to autonomous HRI systems. In this second workshop, we propose
focusing more specifically on the application of Cognitive
Architectures to *Social* HRI systems. The format of the workshop is
oriented towards discussion shaped by participant contributions, and
we expect vibrant interactivity to contribute to the
cross-fertilization of ideas in this exciting area.
In order to consolidate the outcomes of the workshop, we are planning
a special issue (journal TBA), to which we will invite participants to
submit extended versions of their workshop papers. To maintain
continuity with the workshop, we will expect all submissions to answer
the same questions listed above. Given this common ground between
submissions, we envisage that this will additionally form a future
reference point for the application of Cognitive Architectures to
social HRI research and applications.
ORGANISERS AND CONTACT
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Paul Baxter (Plymouth U, UK) paul.baxter at plymouth.ac.uk
Greg Trafton (Naval Research Laboratory)
Severin Lemaignan (Plymouth U, UK)
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21. BRIMS 2013: introduction to CMOT special issue
http://alerts.springer.com/re?l=D0In5zo16I6hi0lc9I1
[This is the most recent special issue of Computational and
Mathematical Organization Theory to arise from the BRIMS conference]
BRIMS 2013: Introduction to CMOT special issue
Behavior representation in modeling and simulation: introduction to
CMOT special issue: BRiMS 2013
William G. Kennedy, Robert St. Amant & David Reitter, p. 1-3
Abstract: http://alerts.springer.com/re?l=D0In5zo16I6hi0lc9I1
Full text PDF: http://alerts.springer.com/re?l=D0In5zo16I6hi0lc9I2
An agent-based model of organizational ambidexterity decisions and
strategies in new product development
Christine Chou, Steven O. Kimbrough, 4-46
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10588-015-9195-8
A longitudinal study of evolving networks in response to natural
disaster
Alireza Abbasi, Naim Kapucu, 47-70
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10588-015-9196-7
Weekends as social distancing and their effect on the spread of influenza
Philip C. Cooley, Sarah M. Bartsch..., 71-87
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10588-015-9198-5
Individual and organizational conditions for the emergence and
evolution of bandwagons
Davide Secchi, Nicole L. Gullekson, 88-133
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10588-015-9199-4
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22. BRIMS 2012: introduction to CMOT special issue
http://alerts.springer.com/re?l=D0In5x8koI6hi0lc9I3
[Another special issue of Computational and Mathematical Organization
Theory to arise from the BRIMS conference]
BRIMS 2012: Introduction to CMOT special issue
Behavioral representation in modeling and simulation: introduction to
CMOT special issue--BRiMS 2012
Bradley J. Best, William G. Kennedy & Robert St. Amant
http://alerts.springer.com/re?l=D0In5x8koI6hi0lc9I3
Optimal exploration and exploitation: the managerial intentionality perspective
Sasanka Sekhar Chanda & Sougata Ray
http://alerts.springer.com/re?l=D0In5x8koI6hi0lc9I5
ACT-R models of information foraging in geospatial intelligence tasks
Jaehyon Paik & Peter Pirolli
http://alerts.springer.com/re?l=D0In5x8koI6hi0lc9I7
Modeling the span of control of leaders with different skill sets
Walid F. Nasrallah, Charbel J. Ouba, Ali A. Yassine & Issam M. Srour
http://alerts.springer.com/re?l=D0In5x8koI6hi0lc9I9
On the robustness of centrality measures against link weight quantization in social networks
Sho Tsugawa, Yukihiro Matsumoto & Hiroyuki Ohsaki
http://alerts.springer.com/re?l=D0In5x8koI6hi0lc9Ib
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23. MSc Course in Cognitive Systems at Open U of Cyprus
From: George Angelos Papadopoulos <george at CS.UCY.AC.CY>
Subject: MSc Course in Cognitive Systems
To: CHI-ANNOUNCEMENTS at LISTSERV.ACM.ORG
MSc Course in Cognitive Systems
As we enter the new era of cognitive systems that learn, reason, and
interact with humans in a cognitively-compatible manner, we are
pleased to announce the start of an innovative distance learning
M.Sc. Program in Cognitive Systems. The program is offered jointly by
two state universities of Cyprus: the Open U of Cyprus, School of Pure
and Applied Sciences, and the U of Cyprus, Departments of Psychology
and Computer Science.
Courses will be taught in English via live online weekly meetings,
exams will be taken in-class at a student's country of residence, and
an optional summer camp will be held in Cyprus.
Information about the curriculum structure and modules, application
deadlines and fees, and financial support opportunities can be found
online at: http://cogsys.ouc.ac.cy Applications for the academic year
2016-2017 are accepted online from March 15, 2016.
We appreciate your help in circulating this announcement to interested students.
A promotional flyer can be downloaded from: http://cogsys.ouc.ac.cy/flyer
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24. Tenure Track Asst Prof in Cognitive Psychology at Syracuse U
[slightly out of date, but note that it is multi-year hiring plan]
Tenure Track Asst Prof in Cognitive Psychology at Syracuse U.
As part of our multiyear hiring plan, the Department of Psychology at
Syracuse U invites applications for a full time tenure-track position
in Cognitive Psychology to join the Cognition, Brain, & Behavior (CBB)
area. The successful candidate is expected to pursue an exceptional
program of research using rigorous methods and driven by a strong
theoretical foundation to understand fundamental mechanisms underlying
cognition. Candidates with a program of research utilizing outstanding
quantitative skills will receive special consideration. Applicants for
the position should have a PhD in Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive
Science, or a related field. Successful candidates will show evidence
of (1) high quality scholarship and the potential to build a vigorous
program of funded research (2) teaching promise at the undergraduate
and graduate levels and (3) promise of excellence in engaging graduate
and undergraduate students in research. Responsibilities include
maintaining an active program of research, teaching and advising at
the graduate and undergraduate levels, and contributing to the CBB
program. Information about the department may be found at
http://psychology.syr.edu/. CBB has collaborations with the
Interdisciplinary Neuroscience program
http://neuroscience.syr.edu/index.html. Review of applications will
begin 1 Nov 2015 and will continue until the position is filled.
The university and department have a strong commitment to achieving
diversity among faculty and staff. Syracuse U is an equal
opportunity, affirmative-action institution. We are particularly
interested in receiving applications from members of underrepresented
groups and strongly encourage women and persons of color to apply for
these positions. The Department of Psychology and broader Syracuse
community provides a rich and supportive environment for inclusive
research involving ethnically and economically diverse populations.
Syracuse is located in beautiful Upstate New York. The city and
surrounding areas offer outstanding school systems, a modest cost of
living, proximity to nature (Adirondack Mountains, Thousand Islands,
Lake Ontario, and the Finger Lakes) and easy access to major eastern
cities. Several major medical centers, including SUNY Upstate Medical
Center and the Syracuse VA Medical Center, are in close proximity to
Syracuse U and offer opportunities for interdisciplinary research.
Applicants must complete a brief online faculty application at
https://www.sujobopps.com/postings/61035. Attach electronic copies of
your curriculum vitae and a cover letter describing your research and
teaching accomplishments and interests and one representative
paper. Three letters of recommendation are required. Detailed
instructions for uploading their confidential recommendation letter
into the system will be sent to references identified in your
application. Applications will be reviewed as they are received and
will continue until the position is filled.
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25. Post-doc/programmer in tutoring/modeling at PSU, Jul/Aug 2016
Ritter will have a post-doc position available Jul/Aug 2016 for a
period of at least one year but more likely 2 or 3 years (subject to
continued funding from ONR and successful performance). It will be to
work on the D2P tutoring system (http://acs.ist.psu.edu/projects/d2p)
and related modeling and experimental studies in learning. Experience
with Ruby would be helpful, as well as ACT-R, Lisp, R, Java, and
Unity. But strong programming in other areas would be welcome and
could transition to our tools. It is similar in many ways to Coty
Gonzalez's positions in this message.
This is not a formal announcement, but if interested, please let
frank.ritter at psu.edu know of your interest. Salary is designed to be
competeative, and includes some travel, and, of course, writing.
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26. U of California at Riverside hiring 300 (!)
http://clusterhiring.ucr.edu
Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2015 14:04:44 -0800
From: Aaron Seitz <aseitz at ucr.edu>
To: <comp-neuro at neuroinf.org>
The U of California at Riverside (UCR) is embarking on a major new
hiring initiative that will add 300 tenure-track positions in 33
cross-disciplinary areas selected through a peer-reviewed competition
(http://clusterhiring.ucr.edu). Over the next three years, UCR will
hire multiple faculty members in each area and invest in research
infrastructure to support their work. This initiative will build
critical mass in vital and emerging fields of scholarship, foster
truly cross-disciplinary work and further diversify the faculty at one
of America's most diverse research universities. In a major
Neuroscience initiative, we seek to hire up to 8 tenure-track or
tenured faculty members as part of a cross campus multi-disciplinary
effort to study the nervous system (from development, to function, to
aging, degeneration and repair). We seek researchers that collectively
span multi-disciplinary levels of investigation (molecular mechanisms
to circuit analysis to complex behaviors) using state of the art
techniques (molecular, optogenetics, behavioral, educational,
computational, imaging, genetic and research of clinical populations)
applied to experimental model systems of health, injury and disease
(invertebrate, vertebrate or human systems). Our goal is to recruit a
team of collaborative individuals with an outstanding record,
committed to excellence in research, that complement existing campus
strengths. Applicants for tenured positions should also demonstrate
notable scientific contributions and sustained extramural
support. Successful candidates must also have clear potential or
demonstrated ability to work successfully with and benefit a diverse
student body. UCR is a world-class research university with an
exceptionally diverse undergraduate student body. Its mission is
explicitly linked to providing routes to educational success for
underrepresented and first-generation college students. A commitment
to this mission is a preferred qualification.
Depending on research focus, training background and career
achievements, successful candidates will be appointed at the rank of
assistant, associate or full professor within College of Natural and
Agricultural Sciences, Bourns College of Engineering, College of
Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Graduate School of Education or
the School of Medicine. To foster development of collaborative
research across hiring units, the successful candidates will
participate in a campus wide seminar program and annual research
retreat. Particular strengths on the campus pertinent to this
recruitment include sensory processing, neurodevelopmental and
neurodegenerative disorders, glial-neuronal interactions, cognitive
neurotherapeutics, functional imaging, assessment and interventions of
clinical populations, child development, circuits, neurobiology and
endocrinology of behavior. Successful candidates will be also expected
to contribute to teaching at both the graduate and undergraduate
levels depending upon the college/department to which the candidate is
assigned. Advancement through the faculty ranks at the U of California
is through a series of structured, merit-based evaluations, occurring
every 2-3 years, each of which includes substantial peer input.
The U of California, Riverside is centrally located within the
Southern California area and situated in an historic citrus growing
area surrounded by mountain ranges. Riverside is an hour away from ski
slopes, surfing, or hiking in mountain wilderness or desert
environments, and housing in the area is very affordable. The campus
is located in close proximity to a host of high profile universities,
research institutes, and biotech industries in Southern
California. Applicants must hold a Ph.D., M.D., Pharm D., or
equivalent degree and qualify for a tenure track or tenured faculty
appointment at the U of California. Applications will be reviewed
beginning 1 Jan and the positions will remain open until
filled.
To Apply: Please submit the following items electronically through the
APRecruit system: Cover Letter, Curriculum vitae, statement of
research accomplishments and goals, statement of teaching expertise.
Choose the appropriate link based on qualifications
Asst Prof - https://aprecruit.ucr.edu/apply/JPF00498
Assoc/Full Prof - https://aprecruit.ucr.edu/apply/JPF00490
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27. Aerospace Engineering and ethics, PSU
full consideration by Jan 2016
[search might be quite far along, but an interesting position]
The Department of Aerospace Engineering and the Rock Ethics Institute
(the "Rock") invite nominations and applications for an open-rank
tenure-track position starting in 2016. The Department seeks an
outstanding individual who is committed to undergraduate and graduate
education and to the establishment of an externally-funded research
program that supports graduate education.
Candidates must possess technical expertise related to the design and
engineering of unmanned air vehicles and systems, as well as
demonstrable complementary interests in the societal and ethical
aspects of such systems. Candidates who can contribute to
interdisciplinary and collaborative programs involving UAS and ethics
are of primary interest. The research area represented by this search
could be viewed as a special aspect of a broader one at the
intersection of robotics, cognitive science, human-computer
interactions, autonomy, and ethics. Applicants must have a doctorate
in engineering or science.
This aerospace faculty member will be affiliated with the Penn State
Rock Ethics Institute (http://rockethics.psu.edu). We seek candidates
who will build on the Rock's tradition of excellence in collaborative,
interdisciplinary ethics research and ethically informed decision
support for significant societal issues, as well as its success in
integrating ethics into the curriculum.
Responses received before Jan 2016 are assured full consideration, but
the search will remain open until the position is filled. Applicants
should submit electronically a single pdf file to job 60531 at
www.psu.jobs. The file should contain: a cover letter; a CV;
statements of research and teaching interests; a statement of how the
candidate's work is relevant to the Rock's vision and how such a
position would enhance their own work; and the names and contact
information for at least three references.
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28. Visiting Assistant Professor, Bucknell U. Fall 2016
[URL too long]
We're looking for a VAP who would begin Fall 2016 (information
contained in the link below). Could be useful for some senior grad
students there who have a background in CS, or others.
https://www.higheredjobs.com/institution/details.cfm?JobCode=176218507&Title=Visiting%20Assistant%20Professor%20in%20Computer%20Science
Chris Dancy <christopher.dancy at bucknell.edu>
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29. Robotics faculty member, Missouri U of S&T
Review started 1 feb 16
My department is currently searching for a robotics faculty member,
specifically human-robot collaboration; control and coordination;
sensing, perception, and vision; design, particularly using novel
locomotion and materials; (e) innovative applications (factory,
mining, surgery, space, harsh environments, etc.). Our department has
growing space systems focus with faculty in cube/nanosats, propulsion,
tracking and estimation, materials and structures, we are seeking a
new key addition in robotics.
Information on the faculty positions can be found here:
http://mae.mst.edu/department/maejobpositions/
Review started 1 feb 16
Thank you for your help
Joshua L. Rovey, Ph.D. Ph: (573) 341-4613
Assoc Prof of Aerospace Eng roveyj at mst.edu
Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Missouri U of Science & Technology (Formerly U of Missouri-Rolla)
Rolla, MO. 65409-0050 http://campus.mst.edu/aplab/
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30. Open/data science developer jobs at Databrary.org
https://databrary.org/about/jobs.html
[seems out of date, but this is an ongoing project and has jobs
listed on 19 mar 16]
From: Rick Gilmore <rogilmore at psu.edu>
Subject: Open/data science developer jobs at Databrary.org
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 10:55:47 -0400
Colleagues,
As some of you know, I am co-PI and associate director of the
Databrary (http://databrary.org) digital data library. The project is
funded by NSF, NICHD, and the Society for Research in Child
Development.
We have several openings for full-time or contract developers
(https://databrary.org/about/jobs.html).
An especially urgent need is for a Java developer to help us enhance
an open source video coding/tagging/annotation tool called Datavyu
(http://datavyu.org). The job posting is here:
https://databrary.org/about/jobs/datavyu.html
While we have some preference for having a developer in the NYC area
for proximity to the NYU-based team, we are open to other
arrangements, including the possibility of working remotely from say,
State College.
Best,
Rick O. Gilmore, Ph.D. (814) 865-3664
Assoc Prof of Psychology rogilmore at psu.edu
Penn State
University Park, PA 16801
http://www.personal.psu.edu/rog1
http://gilmore-lab.github.io
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31. Researcher and Engineer positions at ATR Brain Labs, Kyoto, Japan
http://www.cns.atr.jp/en/
[these folks made an interesting presentation at BICA this fall]
Subject: [Comp-neuro] Researcher and Engineer positions at ATR Brain Labs,
Kyoto, Japan
Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR),
Kyoto, Japan, has openings for researcher and research engineer
positions and invite applications from people with strong motivations
and ambitions in the research project described below.
We will study how to analyze multi-modal sensor measurements to create
"artificial intelligence with consciousness" by installing a
"consciousness module" to man-made information-processing systems.
In particular, we will develop and implement machine-learning
techniques for attention, which dynamically processes data stream to
find where to focus and intensively analyze and picks up information
essential for decision-making. Our attention module will be developed
for video, audio, and bio signals.
Our project is in close collaboration with neuroscientists led by Dr.
Ryota Kanai (CEO & Chief Scientist, ARAYA Brain Imaging, Tokyo,
Japan). PIs and co-PIs in the project are Dr. Ryota Kanai (ARAYA),
Prof. Naotsugu Tsuchiya (Monash U, Australia), Dr. Masafumi
Oizumi (RIKEN, Japan), Dr. Motoaki Kawanabe (ATR), and Prof. Takuya
Maekawa (Osaka U, Japan).
We look forward to your applications and recommendations.
Motoaki Kawanabe, Ph.D.
Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR), Kyoto, Japan
= Requirements for Researchers =
Applicants must:
- have a Ph.D. (or be near completion).
- have strong motivations and ambitions to take part in the research above.
Successful candidates will have interest in neural and cognitive
science with expertise in one or more of the following areas are
welcomed:
- Machine learning, pattern recognition, signal processing, computer
vision, robotics, bio-medical engineering.
= Requirements for Research Engineers =
Applicants must have strong motivations and ambitions to take part in
the research above mainly from program development, data analysis, and
experimental support.
= Number of openings =
A few
= Employment conditions =
Position : Full-time Researcher / Full-time Research Engineer
Tenure : Single year based contract, renewable based on evaluation
Treatment: Based on individual performance
Work Location:
Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR)
2-2-2 Hikaridai, Seika-cho, Soraku-gun, Kyoto 619-0288, Japan
= Application materials =
Please submit the following five materials to the contact address
below, either in printed or electronic form:
1. CV
2. List of publications
3. Reprints of 1-3 major publications (applicants for Researchers) or
summary of past projects
4. Essay (up to two pages in A4 or letter size) describing:
- Summary of your previous research and/or development
- Interests for research
- Additional research skills not directly foreseeable from 1 or 2
5. Recommendation letters from more than two researchers
* If submitted in printed form, original documents will not be returned.
= Judging system =
After documentary examination, we ask for presentation and interview if needed
= Starting date =
Soon (negotiable)
= Deadline for application =
Opens until positions are filled.
= Contact =
Department of Dynamic Brain Imaging
ATR Cognitive Mechanisms Laboratories
(Application for Researcher Position)
2-2-2 Hikaridai, Seika-cho, Soraku-gun, Kyoto 619-0288, Japan
dbi-cma at atr.jp
= Use of personal data =
All personal data received will be properly managed and only be used
for the purpose of recruitment.
--
KANEMURA Atsunori, Ph.D.
Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR), Kyoto, Japan
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32. Postdoctoral Fellow, CMU with Gonzalez
http://www.cmu.edu/ddmlab/
[expired, but recurrent]
[left in because there are often jobs here]
JOB OPPORTUNITY: POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW POSITION
Starting on Jan 2016
Dynamic Decision Making Laboratory
Department of Social and Decision Sciences
CMU
http://www.cmu.edu/ddmlab/
Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Fellow position in the
Dynamic Decision Making Laboratory (DDMLab:
http://www.cmu.edu/ddmlab/) at CMU. The post-doctoral fellow will be
involved in projects related to Network Science, broadly defined,
aiming at the study of the formation and behavior of networks
departing from the individual behavior. Research will involve
investigation of dynamic decision making, and the emergence,
maintenance and reduction of trust and credibility with
experience. The candidate should have a strong background on
behavioral and computational research, and will work with Professor
Gonzalez and collaborators from many other universities.
The ideal candidate should 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, social, and computational science perspectives. The
applicant should have a strong behavioral and technical background in
modeling (cognitive, mathematical, computational modeling), and must
be interested in both, basic and applied areas of psychological
research. 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. The position is a one-year full time position with full
benefits with possibility of renewal to a second year.
The DDMLab is part of the Department of Social and Decision Sciences
at CMU, which is located in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh,
PA. Pittsburgh is one of America's most livable cities
(http://www.cmu.edu/student-life/pittsburgh.shtml), and it has a
strong university presence with over a dozen colleges and campuses and
a great cultural scene.
Applicants should send a letter of interest, curriculum vitae,
relevant journal articles, and three letters of reference before 30
Nov 2015. Please send electronic documents (Word, Pdf) to:
coty at cmu.edu. Cleotilde Gonzalez <coty at cmu.edu>
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33. Positions available at the US Army Res Lab
From: "Marge, Matthew R CIV USARMY RDECOM ARL (US)"
<matthew.r.marge.civ at MAIL.MIL>
Subject: Civil service and postdoctoral positions available at the
U.S. Army Research Laboratory
To: HRI-ANNOUNCEMENT at LISTSERV.ACM.ORG
The U.S. Army Research Laboratory is seeking both civil service
positions and postdoctoral fellows interested in enhancing performance
in human-robot interaction.
The goal of the Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) program is to maximize
the effectiveness of integrating intelligent, autonomous, unmanned
technology into the Soldier team through the development of current
and future Soldier-system interactions. We seek to identify tools,
techniques, and measures that can be used to improve and assess
performance for human-systems teams. We are interested in research
results that can be applicable across environments, operations, and
platforms, including human interactions with microsystems. Specific
areas of interest include: manned-unmanned teaming; naturalistic
communications including natural language and multimodal interfaces;
impact of social and cultural context on human-robot interaction;
human-systems team processes & performance; intent; HRI metrics
development; trust; situation awareness; and strategies for workload
management. Positions are available for conducting research on
human-robot interaction at Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD and Orlando,
FL.
U.S. citizenship is required.
For more information about the U.S. Army Research Lab (Research areas; Post
Doctoral Programs): http://www.arl.army.mil
If interested, send resume/CV and inquiries to: Susan G. Hill,
susan.g.hill.civ at mail.mil
Keywords: Human-robot interaction; HRI; Manned-unmanned teaming; Human
performance; Unmanned systems; Autonomous systems; Intelligent
systems; Microsystems; User Interfaces; Trust; Intent; Social-Cultural
context; Natural Language; Gesture; Human factors
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34. Doctoral Student Fellowship - U of Lausanne, Switzerland
From: "Julian Marewski" <Julian.Marewski at unil.ch>
To: <act-r-users at ACTR-SERVER.HPC1.CS.cmu.edu>
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 14:12:58 +0100
Doctoral Student Fellowship
Applicants should be interested in the mathematical or computational
modeling of human decision or memory processes, and/or in the cognitive
mechanisms underlying bounded and ecological rationality, and/or in
ecological approaches to cognition in general. We are also interested in
receiving applications from candidates with a background in history or
biology, who seek to apply experimental and simulation methods to understand
past and modern-day collective behavior in humans (e.g., mass phenomena in
World War II or in the Roman military). Knowledge of quantitative research
methods, and ideally, programming skills (e.g., MATLAB, R, LISP) is helpful
but not required. A university degree in psychology, business, economics,
mathematics, computer science, physics, biology, or history is required.
Very good English skills are required.
The doctoral student position (minimum 60%) can begin as early as 1 Aug
2016, or later if the candidate asks for a later starting date. The maximum
funding period is 5 years, with the first contract being 1 year and then
renewable 2X2 years. Successful candidates will obtain a Ph.D. The doctoral
student will be mentored by Julian Marewski. The work location is Lausanne
Dorigny.
Please submit applications by 1 May, but the job offer will remain
open until the position is filled.
Applications include a cover letter describing research interests and
a potential thesis project, curriculum vitae, university transcripts,
and two letters of recommendation. The preferred method of submission
are PDF files e-mailed to julian.marewski at unil.ch.
The Department of Organizational Behavior of the Faculty for Business
and Economics at the U of Lausanne provides a stimulating,
interdisciplinary research environment. We value the diversity of the
expertise of the members of the department (we have Ph.D.s in
psychology, business, management, and economics; current doctoral
students have a Master degree in e.g., psychology, business or
physics). We publish in top-tier journals in different disciplines,
including Science, Psychological Review, and the American Economic
Review. Our department's members come from different countries, and
the working language of the department is English.
Located near Lake Geneva and surrounded by the Jura Mountains and the
French Alps, Lausanne is a beautiful and cosmopolitan spot to live. We
have a collegial atmosphere that makes it easy for us to carry out our
research.
Information about the Department of Organizational Behavior is
available at
http://www.hec.unil.ch/hec/recherche/unite?set_language=en More
information about the position can be inquired directly from
julian.marewski at unil.ch
This is an non-official job description from the U of Lausanne.
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35. PostDoc: compt models of optogenetic stim in epilepsy patients
U. of Newcastle
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2016 22:41:04 +0000
From: Marcus Kaiser <m.kaiser at newcastle.ac.uk>
To: comp-neuro at neuroinf.org
Subject: [Comp-neuro] PostDoc position: developing computational models of
optogenetic stimulation in epilepsy patients
a 3-year PostDoc position for developing computational models of
optogenetic stimulation in epilepsy patients is available within my
lab as part of the CANDO project at Newcastle U.
*** About CANDO ***
CANDO (Controlling Abnormal Network Dynamics using Optogenetics,
http://www.cando.ac.uk/) is a world-class, multi-site,
cross-disciplinary project to develop a cortical implant for
optogenetic neural control. The goal is to create a first-in-human
trial in patients with focal epilepsy. This seven year, ?10M
Innovative Engineering for Health Award, funded by the
http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/ Wellcome Trust and the
http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/ Engineering and Physical Sciences Research
Council (EPSRC) involves a team of over 30 neuroscientists, engineers
and clinicians based at http://www.ncl.ac.uk/ion/ Newcastle U,
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/electricalengineering Imperial College
London, https://www.ucl.ac.uk/medphys U College London and
http://www.newcastle-hospitals.org.uk/ The Newcastle Hospitals NHS
Foundation Trust.
*** Available RA position ***
As part of this project, the lab of Prof. Marcus Kaiser
(http://www.dynamic-connectome.org/) is seeking a talented and
enthusiastic research fellow with a PhD awarded, or a PhD thesis about
to be submitted, in computational biology or related subjects.
Objectives of this position are, first, to develop a detailed
simulation of human brain activity at the local and global level of
epilepsy patients. Second, the effect of stimulation on ongoing
activity will be studied. Third, dynamical systems theory and
extensive simulations will be used to find optimal stimulation
approaches that can reach desired oscillation patterns with minimal
stimulation. Simulations will be informed by invasive recordings and
non-invasive brain connectivity measurements in human epilepsy
patients.
Good communication skills, very strong dynamics modelling skills, and
a track record of previous peer-reviewed journal publications. You
will have experience with modelling brain rhythms and dynamical
systems. The position will include brief visits to our partners in the
UK and abroad.
*** Research Environment ***
Neuroinformatics at Newcastle U in the UK covers a range of topics
from electrophysiology to neuroimaging. We are among the pioneers in
connectome analysis and the establishment of large-scale neuroscience
data management and analysis platforms, e.g. through the ?4m
EPSRC-funded CARMEN project. Our strength is a close collaboration
between computational, experimental, and clinical researchers.
We currently have a team of 12 faculty members in the areas of
Neuroinformatics and Neurotechnology which is growing to 15 members by
the end of this year: http://neuroinformatics.ncl.ac.uk/
*** How to Apply ***
To apply, follow the information at
http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AUD320/research-assistant-associate-computational-models-of-epileptic-brain-tissue-d34374r/
The deadline is Thursday 7 April.
For further information, contact Marcus.Kaiser at ncl.ac.uk
Marcus Kaiser, Ph.D. https://twitter.com/ConnectomeLab @ConnectomeLab
Professor of Neuroinformatics
Interdisciplinary Computing and Complex Biosystems (ICOS) Research Group
School of Computing Science
Newcastle U
Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU, UK
Lab website: http://www.dynamic-connectome.org/
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36. Research Positions with the US Air Force Res Lab
[some deadlines past, but some not given, and ongoing hiring here it
appears]
From: "GUNZELMANN, GLENN F DR-03 USAF AFMC 711 HPW/RHAC"
<glenn.gunzelmann at us.af.mil>
To: "act-r-users at ACTR-SERVER.HPC1.CS.cmu.edu"
<act-r-users at ACTR-SERVER.HPC1.CS.cmu.edu>
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 21:49:50 +0000
Subject: [ACT-R-users] Research Positions with the US Air Force Res Lab
**With apologies and respect to our valued colleagues of other
nationalities, only US citizens and permanent legal residents of the
United States are eligible for these positions.**
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory's Cognitive Models and Agents
Branch has a variety of research positions available for talented
cognitive, computational, and computer scientists interested in
working on basic and applied cognitive science research. Positions
will contribute to various projects spanning the breadth research
activities within the branch, including: (a) predictive models of
learning and forgetting; (b) decision heuristics; (c) interactive task
learning; (d) robustness; (e) simulations of fatigue and vigilance;
(f) integrated models of physiology, perception, cognition, and
action; (g) autonomous teammates and trainers, and (h) high
performance and distributed computing for model testing and
validation.
We have a number of full-time, paid positions available to qualified
and enthusiastic individuals, including at least the following:
1. Full-time government civilian employee (early to mid-career): Focus
is on the application of computational cognitive science and
artificial intelligence to autonomy. See position description and
application instructions here:
https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/427565200 **Note: The
application deadline for this is 1 February!!
2. Model developer (multiple opportunities): PhD required. Experience
in developing computational models in complex tasks. Preference for a
range of experience encompassing multiple modeling approaches spanning
multiple levels of abstraction (e.g., Soar; ACT-R; IMPRINT; GOMS)
3. Software engineer: Background/familiarity with cognitive science
and artificial intelligence is a benefit
4. Sleep Scientist: Experience in designing and executing experiments
involving 24+ hours of total sleep deprivation
5. Research Assistants (B.S. or B.A. in psychology): Experience in
experiment design, data collection, and analysis. Experience with R
and/or Matlab desired. Experience with EEG also a plus. Excellent
writing & communication skills.
All positions are located in Dayton, OH, at Wright Patterson
AFB. Positions would start as early as June 2016.
If interested, please email glenn.gunzelmann at us.af.mil. Include a
current CV.
Glenn Gunzelmann, Ph.D. (937) 938-3554
Senior Research Psychologist glenn.gunzelmann at us.af.mil
S&T Advisor, Cognitive Models & Agents Branch
711 HPW/RHAC
Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433-7905
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37. Post-doctoral positions at CMU, DDM Lab
Dynamic Decision Making Laboratory
Department of Social and Decision Sciences
CMU
http://www.cmu.edu/ddmlab/
The Dynamic Decision Making Laboratory (DDMLab:
http://www.cmu.edu/ddmlab/) at CMU is seeking applications for two
post-doctoral research fellows.
(1) A first post-doctoral fellow position is funded by The National
Science Foundation (NSF), Decision, Risk, and Management Sciences
program. This fellow will be involved in theoretical research
regarding learning theories of decisions based on experiential and
descriptive information. The ideal candidate should have a Ph.D. in
Psychology and strong interest in Decision Sciences. The applicant
should have a strong experimental background as well as experience or
interest in computational/cognitive modeling approaches to explain
behavior. Strong behavioral modeling background in reinforcement
learning methods and Bayesian learning approaches are a
plus. Particular knowledge of the literature related to Decisions from
Experience and Behavioral Game Theory is desired. This position has a
starting date of May-June 2016.
(2) A second post-doctoral fellow position is funded by the Army
Research Laboratories (ARL). This fellow will be involved in basic
research on Network Science, broadly defined. Our project aim at the
study of the formation and behavior of networks departing from
individual behavior. Research will involve investigation of dynamic
decision making, and the emergence, maintenance and reduction of trust
and credibility on information with experience. The ideal candidate
should have a Ph.D. in Human Factors Engineering or Information
Sciences, and should have broad research interests involving human
behavior, learning, and decision making from the cognitive, social,
and computational science perspectives. The applicant should have a
strong behavioral and technical background in modeling (cognitive,
mathematical, computational modeling), and must be interested in both,
basic and applied areas of psychological research. Particular
knowledge on Decisions from Experience, Behavioral Game Theory,
Network theory from the experimental and computational perspectives
are a plus. The candidate will interact with a large network of
collaborators in Engineering and Computer Science. This position has
an immediate starting date.
Both positions are full time research positions with full benefits for
one year, with a possibility of renewal for a second year. All
applicants should demonstrate technical skills in Matlab, R, and
Python; knowledge in statistics, writing abilities, and good
communication skills.
Applicants please send: a letter of interest, curriculum vitae,
relevant journal articles, and three letters of reference before 15
Mar 2015. A decision will be made by 31 Mar. Please send electronic
documents (Word, Pdf) to: coty at cmu.edu.
The DDMLab is part of the Department of Social and Decision Sciences
at CMU, which is located Pittsburgh, PA. Pittsburgh is one of
America's most livable cities and it has a strong university presence
with over a dozen colleges and campuses and a great cultural scene.
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38. Job(s) at Pacific Science, San Diego, CA (rolling deadline)
Cognitive Scientist / Senior Scientist Pacific Science & Engineering
Group, Inc., San Diego, CA
Pacific Science & Engineering (PSE) is seeking a highly qualified
professional to join our full-time technical staff as a cognitive
scientist. PSE is a San Diego-based, employee-owned, small business,
specializing in human factors engineering, research, development, and
cognitive engineering services for clients worldwide. We take a
scientific approach to improving human performance and in developing
and assessing user interfaces in complex work domains, including
military, national security, medical, and commercial information
systems. Candidates should be capable of working flexibly in small
research teams on several concurrent projects, taking leading and
supporting roles, as necessary. We are looking for a motivated
self-starter. Excellent verbal, technical communication skills are
necessary.
Desirable education, skills and experience include:
- PhD in cognitive science, cognitive or perceptual psychology, human
factors, or a related field
- Research experience in human cognition or perception in laboratory
and applied settings
- Experience in measurement of human performance
- Research interests in decision-making, automation, modeling and
simulation
- Experience with task- or user-centered design
Responsibilities of the position are:
- Perform human factors engineering and applied, cognitive science
research
- Develop creative and scientifically-based solutions to complex,
applied problems
- Assume responsibilities and contribute at all levels in small
project teams
- Prepare, critique and discuss reports and descriptions of research
methods and findings, present and publish research
PSE provides a flexible work environment, competitive benefits, and
compensation based on accomplishment and experience. Some travel is
necessary. U.S. Citizenship is required - position requires successful
completion of a security clearance for access to classified
information. Email resume and statement of interest to Mary Ann King
at making at pacific-science.com. For additional information, visit
www.pacific-science.com.
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