From ion.juvina at wright.edu Thu Feb 1 14:12:58 2018 From: ion.juvina at wright.edu (Ion Juvina) Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2018 14:12:58 -0500 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Call for papers - MathPsych/ICCM 2018 Message-ID: <747088BC-79BB-483A-9183-D4045C8448CD@wright.edu> Call for papers - MathPsych/ICCM 2018 University of Wisconsin, Madison July 21st-24th, 2018 (July 21st is for Workshops, Tutorials & Opening reception) Submissions are due March 15th, 11.59pm EDT. We invite you to MathPsych/ICCM 2018, the joint gathering of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Society for Mathematical Psychology and the 16th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (ICCM): the premier conference for research on computational models and computation-based theories of human cognition. Following our success in 2017, ICCM has again joined forces with the Society for Mathematical Psychology to create a conference in which all sessions are open to all attendees, and cross-talk is highly encouraged. MathPsych/ICCM 2018 is a forum for presenting and discussing the complete spectrum of cognitive modeling approaches, including connectionism, symbolic modeling, dynamical systems, Bayesian modeling, and cognitive architectures. Research topics can range from low-level perception to high-level reasoning. We also welcome contributions that use computational models to better understand neuroscientific data. We are pleased to announce four world-class invited speakers: Angela Yu (University of California, San Diego) Naomi Feldman (University of Maryland) Jennifer Trueblood (Vanderbilt University, Estes Early Career Award winner) Leslie Blaha (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, FABBS Early Career Award winner) We will have three invited symposia: On the relationship between scientific practice and statistical practice (Organizers: Rich Shiffrin & Joachim Vandekerckhove) Probabilistic Specification and Quantitative Testing of Decision Theories (Organizers: Michel Regenwetter & Clintin Stober) Computational Brain & Behavior, a new journal sponsored by the Society for Mathematical Psychology (Organizer: Scott Brown) We have separate submissions for the MathPsych parallel tracks and the ICCM single-track. For MathPsych, submissions are brief 250-word abstracts to be considered for both talks and posters. For ICCM submissions are 6-page full papers to be considered for talks, and 2-page poster abstracts. We are working with TopiCS to create a special issue based on the best full ICCM papers. Submissions may be made by researchers, faculty, post-docs, graduate students and undergraduate students. Any one person may present only one paper, but may also be a co-author of other papers (when you are presenting author of a MathPsych paper, you cannot also be a presenting author of an ICCM paper and vica versa). We also welcome pre-conference workshop/tutorial submissions that are not specific to MathPsych or ICCM. All types of submissions are due on March 15th, 11.59pm EDT. More information can be found on our website: http://mathpsych.org/conferences/2018/ Registration fees have not yet been determined, although we expect they will be approximately $200 (faculty/professionals) and $80 (students). Registration will open on May 1st. We hope to see you in Madison! 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URL: From pblouw at uwaterloo.ca Thu Feb 8 12:05:12 2018 From: pblouw at uwaterloo.ca (Peter Blouw) Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2018 12:05:12 -0500 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Feb 15 Application Deadline - 2018 Nengo Summer School Message-ID: [All details about this school can be found online at https://www.nengo.ai/summerschool] The Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience at the University of Waterloo is excited to announce a special version of our annual Nengo summer school that will host the* first public access* to *Braindrop*, a new mixed analog-digital neuromorphic chip developed in collaboration with Stanford and Yale. In addition to introducing Braindrop, this two-week school will teach participants to use the Nengo simulation package to build state-of-the-art cognitive and neural models to run both in simulation and on neuromorphic hardware. Nengo provides users with a versatile and powerful environment for designing cognitive and neural systems, and has been used to build what is currently the world's largest functional brain model, Spaun [1]. Nengo is also being used to program a variety of state-of-the-art neuromorphic chips, including Braindrop! For a look at last year's summer school, check out this short video: https://goo.gl/4tVUkQ We welcome applications from all interested graduate students, research associates, postdocs, professors, and industry professionals with a relevant background. [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. DOI: 10.1126/science.1225266. [ http://compneuro.uwaterloo.ca/files/publications/eliasmith.2012.pdf] Application Deadline: February 15, 2018 *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! Participants will have the opportunity to learn how to: - interface Nengo with various kinds of neuromorphic hardware - build perceptual, motor, and 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 cameras and robotic systems - implement modern nonlinear control methods in neural models - and much more... *Date and Location:* June 3th to June 15th, 2018 at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. *Applications*: Please visit http://www.nengo.ai/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 (peter.blouw at appliedbrainresearch.com). 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IMPORTANT DATES: Short Paper (6-page) Submission: Deadline: 20-March-2018 Author Notification: 10-April-2018 Camera-Ready Version Submission: 17-April-2018 Short/Late Breaking Paper (6-page) Submission: 14-May-2018 Tutorial, Demo, and Challenge Problem Submissions: 14-May-2018 Doctoral consortium submissions due: 14-May-2018 Author Notification: 01-June-2018 Final Version Submission for Late Breaking Papers: 18-June 2018 Final Version Submission for Challenge Problem: 25-June 2018 All papers are qualified for the Best Paper Award. Papers with student first authors will be considered for the Best Student Paper Award. Top papers will be invited to publish an extended version in a special issue of Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory. All accepted regular papers will be published in our archival physical proceedings - the Springer LNCS volume. Short papers are intended for late breaking findings, research at a more conceptual stage, and other research not appropriate as a regular paper. Short papers received by the March 20 deadline, and accepted for the conference will be included in the archival conference proceedings. Short/Late Breaking papers received after March 20, and accepted for the conference will be published only in our on-line non-archival proceedings. The conference will include the following special sessions: Pre-conference Tutorial Sessions: July 10 (first day of the conference) Graduate Consortium: July 13 Poster Session: At Conference Poster Night Technology Demos: During Conference lunch times and Poster Night Challenge Problem Evaluation: At Conference Poster Night Funding Panel & Cross-Fertilization Roundtable* * Previous SBP conferences have included a Cross-Fertilization and/or Funding Panels. The purpose of these panels is to help participants become better acquainted with people outside of their discipline and provide an opportunity for conference participants to interact with program managers from various federal funding agencies. FORMAT AND SUBMISSION: See our webpage (http://sbp-brims.org) for format details. For any questions and inquiries concerning submissions, please email at sbpbrims at andrew.cmu.edu. CALL FOR PAPERS: SBP-BRIMS is an interdisciplinary conference integrating methods from the computational sciences and the social sciences. Submissions are solicited on research issues, theories, methodologies, and applications. Late-breaking research is encouraged. Historical topics of interest have included the following, however this is by no means exhaustive or exclusive: Advances in Sociocultural & Behavioral Process Modeling * Group formation, interaction, and evolution * Collective action, public opinion representation, and governance * Cultural patterns, representation, and psycho-cultural situation awareness * Social conventions, social contexts and influence processes * Intelligent agents and avatars/adversarial modeling * Models of reasoning and decision making * Performance prediction, assessment, & skill monitoring/tracking Information, Systems, & Network Science * Data mining and analytics on social media for social and human dynamics * Diffusion and other dynamic processes over networks * Detection and inference over network topologies and changes over time * Analysis of high-dimensional networks, link formations, and link types Military & Intelligence Applications * Evaluation, modeling and simulation of military capacities and political influence * Impact of technological innovation on influence and information spread * Group representation and profiling, including extremist behaviors and policies * Cybersecurity, cyber-policy, and attribution * Methods of collating open source data into information describing events and activities Applications for Health and Well-being * Social network analysis to understand health behavior * Modeling of public health and health care policy and decision making * Modeling of behavioral aspects of infectious disease spread * Modeling of behavioral aspects of prevention and treatment for chronic diseases (e.g., cancer, obesity, asthma) * Intervention design and modeling for behavioral health Example Other Applications of Interest to the Community * Model federation, validation and integration * Evolutionary computing and optimization * Education, training, professional development and workforce training in modeling and simulation TRAVEL SCHOLARSHIPS: It is anticipated that a limited number travel scholarships will be available on a competitive basis. 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Here are 2 postings for our team (apply online): https://careers.l3tjobs.com/job/L3TEUS4250/Cognitive-Data-Scientist https://careers.l3tjobs.com/job/L3TEUS4252/Software-Engineer In addition, we are always on the lookout for potential contributors to our research efforts, including (but not limited to) interns, recent undergraduates, postdocs, and visiting faculty. We are currently looking for individuals to support our research in these areas: (1) linking EEG to models of vigilance (2) developing models of situation representation, including extensions to our language processing capabilities (3) integrating models of physiological factors with a cognitive architecture for monitoring of workload, fatigue, and other aspects of cognitive performance (4) extending our existing mathematical models of learning and forgetting (5) creating models and agents capable of interactive task learning for human machine teaming Please contact me if interested. -Glenn ____________________________________ Glenn Gunzelmann, Ph.D. Senior Research Psychologist S&T Advisor, Cognitive Science, Models, & Agents Branch 711 HPW/RHAC 2620 Q Street Bldg 852, Rm 3-312 Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433-7905 Phone: (937) 938-3554 Email: glenn.gunzelmann at us.af.mil ____________________________________ From eaharono at andrew.cmu.edu Thu Feb 15 14:45:53 2018 From: eaharono at andrew.cmu.edu (Efrat Aharonov-Majar) Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2018 19:45:53 +0000 Subject: [ACT-R-users] The 2018 Choice Prediction Competition (CPC18) Message-ID: On behalf of the organizing team of The 2018 Choice Prediction Competition: ****************************** Hi: We invite you to participate in the 2018 choice prediction competition ("CPC18") for human decision making. The main goal of this competition is to improve our understanding of the ways by which behavioral decision research can contribute to the derivation of useful predictions of human decision making, above and beyond what is possible using data-driven machine learning tools (if at all possible). CPC18 distinguishes between two very different prediction tasks: predicting the aggregate population behavior in an unfamiliar choice problem, and predicting the individual behavior in a familiar choice problem. Specifically, CPC18 includes two parallel competition tracks, and you are invited to participate in either one, or better yet, in both. A second goal of the competition is to then understand what type of models are better suited to handle each type of task. The rules of the competition and further details are given in https://cpc18.wordpress.com. A white paper summarizing the current stage of the competition is provided here. The deadline for final submissions is May 12, 2018 (but for one of the tracks, a partial submission must be made by May 8th; see website for details). To compete, you are required to register by April 10th. As in some of the previous choice prediction competitions, the prize for the winners is an invitation to be a co-author of the paper that summarizes the competition. The competition's basic idea is as follows. We previously collected a large dataset of human choices between monetary gambles, under risk and under ambiguity, with and without feedback. This dataset includes over 500,000 individual consequential choices. Almost all of this data is publicly available at https://zenodo.org/record/845873#.WeDg9GhSw2x, and can (and probably should) be used to develop and train your predictive models. In those experiments, each decision maker faced many problems, and the two tracks differ with respect to the exact prediction challenge: In track "Individual behavior, familiar problems" the task is to predict the individual behavior of a small portion of these decision makers in some of the problems they faced. Therefore, a small portion of the data already collected will be used as the competition data in that track and is thus not available. The goal in this track is to predict, as accurately as possible, the individual behavior reflected in that data. In track "Aggregate behavior, unfamiliar problems" the task is to predict the aggregate choice rates in a new experiment with new problems that we will run (during March-April 2018). As in some of the previous choice prediction competitions, the submissions should be computer programs that read the parameters of the choice problems as input, and derive the predicted choice rates as output. We hope that you are up for the challenge! 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