[ACT-R-users] ICCM Newsletter - ICCM and conference updates, resources, jobs

[Frank Ritter]

Content curated by: Dr. Frank E. Ritter
Edited by: David M. Schwartz

We hope you, your friends, and family are all healthy during these 
troubling times.
ICCM may be held virtually, details to follow, but will not be held in 
Toronto this summer.

CONFERENCES
   1)  MathPsych/ICCM 2020 (no physical conference, maybe virtual)
       http://mathpsych.org/conferences/2020/

   2)  SBP-BRiMS 2020, July 2020 -- Social Computing (still held, delay 
in notifications)
       http://sbp-brims.org/2020/

   3)  CogSci 2020 Update (now a virtual conference)
       https://cognitivesciencesociety.org/cogsci-2020/

   4)  Fifth Groningen Spring School on Cognitive Modeling (Canceled 
this year)
       http://www.cognitive-modeling.com/springschool/

   5)  40th Soar Workshop
       https://soar.eecs.umich.edu/workshop_registration/

RESOURCES
   6)  DataLake COVID-19 Dataset
       https://c3.ai/covid/

   7)  INNS Doctoral Dissertation Award
       https://www.inns.org/awards

   8)  Survey: What do you need to run online studies?
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfCQ28tMFm1HlUrzVhKu8s1zy76D2N-l1Ct8oBz6T8tVW2wIw/viewform

   9)  Bryson notes the role of AI in public policy [useful insights]
https://joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2019/09/new-job-professor-of-ethics-and.html

  10)  How to Speak -- by Patrick Winston [video]
       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Unzc731iCUY

JOBS
  11)  Call for assistance: COVID-19 Modelling [date passed, ongoing need]
       https://epcced.github.io/ramp/

  12)  Faculty positions at Penn State, IST (currently on hold, but online?)
       https://psu.jobs/job/91013

==============================CONFERENCES==============================
1)  MathPsych/ICCM 2020 (no physical conference, maybe virtual)
     http://mathpsych.org/conferences/2020/

[MathPsych/ICCM has a note on their website that the conference will
not be held in Toronto this summer as planned. There may be a virtual
conference held instead. More as it develops. Paper submissions
remain open.]

Submission Deadline (MathPsych): 17apr20
Submission Deadline (ICCM): 17apr20

The 53rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Mathematical Psychology, and
the 18th Annual Meeting of the International Conference on Cognitive
Modelling will gather jointly in Toronto, Canada, from 25-28jul20.

The goal of the annual meeting is to bring together researchers who are
interested in using computational and mathematical modeling to better
understand human cognition. It is a forum for presenting, discussing,
and evaluating the complete spectrum of cognitive modeling approaches,
including mathematical models, connectionism, symbolic modeling,
dynamical systems, Bayesian modeling, and cognitive architectures. We
welcome basic and applied research across a wide variety of domains,
ranging from low-level perception and attention to higher-level
problem-solving and learning, as well as neurocognitive modeling.


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2)  SBP-BRiMS 2020, Jul20 -- Social Computing (still held, delay in 
notifications)
     http://sbp-brims.org/2020/

The International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural
Modeling, & Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and
Simulation will be held between 14-17july20 in Lehman Auditorium, George
Washington U, Washington DC, USA.

SBP-BRiMS is an interdisciplinary computational social science
conference focused on both modeling complex socio-technical systems and
using computational techniques to reason about and study complex
socio-technical systems.  The participants in this conference take part
in forming the conversation on how computation is shaping the modern
world and helping us to better understand and reason about human
behavior. Both papers addressing basic research and those addressing
applied research are accepted.  All methodological approaches are
encouraged; however, the vast majority of papers use computer
simulation, network analysis or machine learning as the method of choice
in addressing human social and behavioral activities.  At the
conference, these paper presentations are complemented by data science
challenge problems, demonstrations of new technologies, and a government
funding panel.

All papers are qualified for the Best Paper Award. Papers with student
first authors will be considered for the Best Student Paper Award. Those
receiving these awards will be invited to publish an extended version in
a special issue of the journal/Computational and Mathematical
Organization Theory (https://link.springer.com/journal/10588)

IMPORTANT DATES:

Regular Paper Submission: 21feb20 (Midnight EST)
Author Notification: 16mar20
Final Version Submission for Regular Papers: 3apr20
Working Papers, Doctoral Consortium, Tutorial, Demo, and Challenge
Submission: 15may20

Submit your paper here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sbpbrims2020

Until the final paper deadline, you will be able to update your
submission.

All papers undergo a rigorous peer review process for presentation in
the plenary, regular, or poster sessions. All papers accepted to the
plenary sessions will be published in the archival proceedings - the
Springer LNCS volume. Regular papers will be evaluated for either the
archival or online proceedings. The remaining tracks will be published
online for 1 year on our non-archival conference website.  Each accepted
paper requires confirmation of conference registration and requires a
separate registration.

PAPER FORMATTING GUIDELINE:

The papers must be in English and MUST be formatted according to the
Springer-Verlag LNCS/LNAI guidelines.View sample LaTeX2e and WORD files
https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines?countryChanged=true
All regular paper submissions should be submitted as a paper with a
maximum of 10 pages. Total page count includes all figures, tables, and
references.

...

FUNDING PANEL & CROSS-FERTILIZATION ROUNDTABLES:

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, such as the National
Science Foundation (NSF), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Office of
Naval Research (ONR), Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR),
Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), Defense Advanced Research
Projects Agency (DARPA), Army Research Office (ARO), National Geospatial
Intelligence Agency (NGA), and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).

TRAVEL SCHOLARSHIPS:

It is anticipated that a limited number of travel scholarships will be
available on a competitive basis to students who are presenting
papers. Additional information will be provided soon.

TOPICS:

Submissions are solicited on research issues, methodologies, theories,
and applications. Topics of interests include but are not limited to the
following:

Advances in Sociocultural & Behavioral Process Modeling
Information, Systems, & Network Science
Military & Intelligence Applications
Health and Well-being
Example Other Applications of Interest to the Community

Late breaking and short papers are now referred to as working papers

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3)  CogSci 2020 Update (now a virtual conference)
     https://cognitivesciencesociety.org/cogsci-2020/

The Governing Board of the Cognitive Science Society has been monitoring
the COVID-19 situation carefully. While we all express our hopes for a
speedy resolution, it is now clear that it will not be possible for us
to hold our annual conference in Toronto this year. *We are excited,
however, to announce that CogSci 2020 will take place as a virtual
meeting on the same dates: 29jul20 - 1aug20*

We remain fully committed to making sure the Proceedings of the 42nd
Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society will appear as usual.
Notifications of acceptance will be provided in April. On notification
of decisions, authors will be able to indicate whether they wish to
present their material virtually. Regardless of their presentation
choice, all accepted authors will be able to publish in the proceedings.
Our intent at this time is to run our full program as a virtual
conference this year, including tutorials and workshops, all awards,
plenary speakers, symposia, paper tracks, and posters. We thank our
wonderful conference co-chairs, Blair Armstrong, Stephanie Denison,
Michael Mack, and Yang Xu, for their tremendous efforts in these
difficult times, as well as all of you who have contributed submissions,
reviews, and meta-reviews.

Although we are disappointed about not being able to host a physical
meeting this year, we are enthusiastic about the new possibilities of a
virtual meeting. We will announce further details in the coming weeks.

Thank you all for your words of support and enduring commitment to
cognitive science. As ever, any questions or concerns can be directed to
the Society Chair, Asifa Majid (asifa.majid at york.ac.uk), or the Society
Executive Officer, Anna Drummey (anna.drummey.css at gmail.com).

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4)  Fifth Groningen Spring School on Cognitive Modeling (Canceled this year)
     http://www.cognitive-modeling.com/springschool/

[This year's school is canceled, but one is planned for next year.]

We would like to remind you of the 5th annual Groningen Spring School on
Cognitive Modeling.

As last year, the Spring School will offer courses on the ACT-R, Nengo,
and PRIMs paradigms, as well as a course on error-driven learning. These
courses consist of daily lectures, as well as hands-on tutorials that
will give you practical experience with the topic.

As a special feature for our 5th anniversary this year, we are offering
a lecture series on dynamical systems. This lecture series should be
interesting for anyone looking into modeling cognitive dynamics. It can
be combined with each of the 4 courses mentioned above, but we
especially recommend it in combination with Nengo for everyone
interested in neuromorphic computing.

The first day of the Spring School will provide an introduction to all
five topics. From day two, spring school students will be asked to
commit to one topic, for which they will attend lectures as well as
hands-on tutorials. In addition, students can sign up for a second
topic, for which they will attend lectures only. All students are
invited to join a series of plenary research talks on the different
paradigms.

*The early registration deadline ends on feb15, so make sure to
sign up before then.*

Please feel free to forward the information to anyone who might be
interested in the Spring School.

We are looking forward to having you here in Groningen!

The Spring School team

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ACT-R
Jelmer Borst, Maarten van der Velde, Stephen Jones, & Katja Mehlhorn
(U of Groningen)

Nengo
Terry Stewart (U of Waterloo)

PRIMs
Niels Taatgen (U of Groningen)

Error-driven learning
Jacolien van Rij and Dorothe Hoppe (U of Groningen)

Dynamical Systems
Herbert Jaeger (U of Groningen)

Dr. Katja Mehlhorn, Docent
U of Groningen
https://www.ai.rug.nl/~katja/

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5)  40th Soar Workshop
     https://soar.eecs.umich.edu/workshop_registration/

The Soar Group at the U of Michigan and Soar Technology,
Inc. (https://soartech.com/) are pleased to announce that the 40th Soar
Workshop will be held from Monday, 1jun20 through Friday, 5jun20 at the
Bob and Betty Beyster Building at the U of Michigan in Ann
Arbor.

For those of you not familiar with the Soar Workshop, each year, members
of the Soar community--faculty, scientists, graduate students, technical
staff, and developers--gather together for several days of intensive
interaction and exchange on Soar.  The Soar community is widely
distributed geographically, so these workshops provide an opportunity to
have face-to-face conversations, learn about the status of other
participants' research, and get previews of what will happen in the
future. We will try to give as many members of the community as possible
the opportunity to describe their research or discuss the Soar issues
that are of concern to them.  This means the time available per talk is
short (typically either 5 or 20 minutes). Since workshop attendees are
already entrenched in the Soar world, brief talks that concentrate on
only the essentials work very well.

The workshop format is presentations only -- no formal papers. There is
no charge to attend the workshop.  You may sign up to give talks of
various lengths as soon as you're registered.Please upload a copy of
your presentation(s) by 5june20.

Questions and information regarding the workshop should be directed to
John Laird via email laird at umich.edu, mail or phone:

SoarWorkshop 40

c/o John Laird

2260 Hayward
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2121

734-647-1761

Hope to see you all there!

(Please forward to interested parties.)

John Laird

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6)  DataLake COVID-19 Dataset
     https://c3.ai/covid/

C3.ai, a leading enterprise AI software provider for accelerating
digital transformation, announced that the company will make a unified,
federated, open data image of critical COVID-19 data publicly available
at no cost to the global research community beginning on 13apr20.

C3.ai COVID-19 Data Lake data sets will initially include:
     Johns Hopkins U: COVID-19 Data Repository
     The Atlantic: COVID Tracking Project
     The New York Times: COVID-19 Data in the United States
     nCoV-2019 Data Working Group: Epidemiology Data
     MOBS Lab: COVID-19 Situation Report
     World Health Organization: Daily Situation Reports
     European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control:
         Worldwide Situation Updates
     U of Montreal: COVID-19 Image Data Collection
     National Center for Biotechnology Information Virus Database
     COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19)

Additional datasets, to be published 15may20, will include:
     Data Science for COVID-19: South Korea Dataset
     Indian Ministry of Health & Family Welfare: COVID-19 India
     Sito del Dipartimento della Protezione Civile Emergenza Coronavirus
     Data Science for COVID-19 Indonesia Initiative
     Kaiser Health: US Hospital ICU Beds
     HealthData.org: US Hospital Capacity
     Environment Protection Agency: US Air Quality
     New York ISO: Electricity Load Data
     US Census Bureau: Population Data
     IEEE: COVID-19 Tweets Dataset
     U of Washington: COVID-19 Projections
     Kaiser Family Foundation: Social Distancing Policies

The global research and developer communities are invited to help
expand the scale of the C3.ai COVID-19 Data Lake and enhance its
functionality by contributing additional open data sets through a
crowdsourcing model.

The C3.ai COVID-19 Data Lake uses the capabilities of the C3 AI Suite
to help organizations leverage existing enterprise systems, data
stores, and data lake investments by unifying all enterprise and
external data into a single current virtual data image without the need
to duplicate data.

The C3.ai COVID-19 Data Lake will be made publicly available at no cost
to the global research community. The open data sets will be accessible
via any utility that supports access through a RESTful API using common
tools such as Python, R, Microsoft Power BI, etc.

In addition, the C3.ai COVID-19 Data Lake will be immediately
accessible to researchers and organizations currently utilizing the C3
AI Suite, including member academic institutions and researchers
through the C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute (C3.ai DTI,
https://c3dti.ai/).

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7)  INNS Doctoral Dissertation Award
     https://www.inns.org/awards

The INNS Educational Committee invites nominations for the Doctoral
Award 2020.

This award is presented annually to the author(s) of the best doctoral
dissertation(s) in neural networks, machine learning, and related
fields by INNS members in recognition of his/her high-quality,
excellent, and outstanding research work.

Deadline to nominate has been extended to 30may20.
For more information, see:
https://neural.memberclicks.net/assets/DissertationAwardNNNS2020Advert.pdf

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8)  Survey: What do you need to run online studies?
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfCQ28tMFm1HlUrzVhKu8s1zy76D2N-l1Ct8oBz6T8tVW2wIw/viewform

Do you run studies online? Do you want to? Do you think it's not possible
to run your studies online? We'd like to understand better what your needs
are, and where existing software is or isn't fulfilling those needs. Please
fill out this 5-minute survey:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfCQ28tMFm1HlUrzVhKu8s1zy76D2N-l1Ct8oBz6T8tVW2wIw/viewform

We're planning some virtual workshops and (funding pending) some continued
software development. The hope is role out things quickly in order to
support people whose labs are currently shuttered. So this is your chance
to influence what we do.

Thank you for your time!

Joshua K Hartshorne
Assistant Prof
Boston College

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9)  Bryson notes the role of AI and public policy [useful insights]
https://joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2019/09/new-job-professor-of-ethics-and.html

     An article from Dr. Joan Bryson's blog where she notes the role of
     AI in public policy.

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10)  How to Speak -- by Patrick Winston [video]
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Unzc731iCUY

Lecture by Patrick Winston on how to give a talk. Useful. I don't agree
with all his suggestions, but on balance a useful talk on how to give 
talks.

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11)  Call for assistance: COVID-19 Modelling [date passed, ongoing need]
      https://epcced.github.io/ramp/

*Urgent call for modellers to support epidemic modelling* The Royal
Society is coordinating a call for Rapid Assistance in Modelling the
Pandemic (RAMP).

This urgent call to action is addressed to the scientific modelling
community, and is a scheme to allow those with modelling skills
(including data science) to contribute to current UK efforts in
modelling the COVID-19 pandemic.

A willingness to work on specified tasks, and to deadlines, is needed.
However, no previous experience in epidemic modelling, as such, is
required of RAMP participants.

Full details of the scheme, with an online form to volunteer on behalf
of your research group can be found here:
https://epcced.github.io/ramp/

If this link delivers an error message, please try pasting it directly
into your browser or alternatively try:
https://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/research/softmatter/research

Please draw this scheme to the attention of colleagues who may be
interested.

The online survey form should be filled out as soon as practicable and,
if at all possible, by 5pm on Thursday, 2apr20. The survey form will
cease to operate completely a day or two after that.

Note that RAMP does not address molecular modelling of the virus itself
or of new antivirals, vaccines, etc. These avenues are already the
subject of various efforts and initiatives internationally, such as
http://www.hecbiosim.ac.uk/covid-19

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12)  Faculty positions at Penn State, IST (currently on hold, but online?)
      https://psu.jobs/job/91013

[hiring is currently on hold due to the pandemic, but, there is
likely to be a need for online teachers in this area, so contact
me if interested -fer]

The College of Information Sciences and Technology at Penn State invites
applications for multiple, Open-Rank Teaching Faculty positions. Review
of applications begins immediately, with positions starting in fall
semester 2020. Selected candidates will have backgrounds and ability to
teach introductory and advanced courses in Human-Centered Design and
Development including: programming for the web; programming for mobile
applications; and software design and development. These are multi-year,
fixed-term appointments with an excellent possibility of renewal.

Successful applicants must be prepared to contribute through teaching in
both our residential and online programs. Contributing to both
undergraduate and graduate programs, including course design, is
expected. Successful applicants should have a Master’s degree or
terminal degree in a related discipline and a commitment to teaching
learners at all levels and from all backgrounds. Teaching and/or
Information Technology industry experience in one or more of the areas
listed above is preferred. Applicants will be considered for a teaching
faculty rank commensurate with their education and experience.

To apply, create an application account at https://psu.jobs/job/91013,
then submit the following material to
https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/14717 a cover letter detailing
relevant qualifications for this job, a resume or curriculum vitae, a
one (1) page teaching statement, and three (3) reference
letters. Inquiries about the positions may be directed to
facultyrecruiting at ist.psu.edu facultyrecruiting at ist.psu.edu.

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-- 
Frank.Ritter at psu.edu
Professor, College of IST
http://acs.ist.psu.edu
(814) 865-4453