From coty at cmu.edu Wed Jul 8 09:35:14 2026 From: coty at cmu.edu (Cleotilde Gonzalez) Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2026 09:35:14 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Human-AI Complementarity Workshop at Carnegie Mellon University Message-ID: ? Call for Submissions: Human-AI Complementary Workshop 2026- Thursday, September 24 - Friday, September 25, 2026 We're excited to invite submissions to the Human-AI Complementary Workshop, the flagship annual event of the NSF AI Institute for Societal Decision Making (NSF AI-SDM) . This year's theme focuses on *Dynamic Human-AI Alignment*?bringing together researchers and practitioners working on complementary human-AI systems, collaborative decision-making, AI-assisted cognition, adaptive teaming, and related topics. We are accepting submissions in three categories: ? ? Research talks & posters ? ? Tutorials ? ? Industry demonstrations ?? 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For more information, check out: https://metacognition.syracuse.edu/metacog-26-symposium-on-artificial-metacognition/ Christian On Tue, May 12, 2026 at 4:07?PM Christian Lebiere wrote: > Paulo Shakarian (Syracuse), Nate Bastian (West Point, DARPA), Francesco > Restuccia (Northeastern), Arslan Basharat (KitWare) and I are preparing a > proposal for a ?Symposium on Artificial Metacognition? at the 2026 AAAI > Fall Symposium Nov. 5-7. A draft description is pasted below. > > > > If you would like to help us with the proposal, please fill out this > 1-question survey to voice your support: > https://forms.gle/DuHB7xpGqSScYSPz9 > > > > If you want to get more involved, please send us an email ? we would be > looking for: > > > > - Program committee members > - Keynote speaker nominations > - Sponsorship > - Any advice based on our last two METACOG workshops > > > > Thank you again for your support ? and we look forward to getting this > approved and seeing you all in Arlington in November! > > > > - Paulo, Nate, Francesco, Arslan and Christian > > > > *---* > > > *METACOG-26: Symposium on Artificial Metacognition* > > *Proposal for the AAAI 2026 Fall Symposium Series* > > November 5?7, 2026 ? Westin Arlington, Arlington, VA > > *1. Symposium Description* > > Artificial Metacognition is the ability for an AI system to reason about > itself. The idea is based on a concept in cognitive psychology [1, 2]. In > the early 2000s, AAAI held several symposia on this topic [3, 4]. Recently, > due to the advent of the LLM, neurosymbolic AI, and the need for more > robust AI systems, this topic has re-emerged in a series of small venues > [5, 6] and most recently an ?emerging trends? talk at AAAI-2026 [7]. The > study of metacognition goes beyond related topics such as > out-of-distribution detection and uncertainty quantification by not only > detecting when a model could potentially be in an error mode, but > determining aspects about security, computational efficiency, power usage, > explainability, and corrective action in a unified, often cognitively > inspired, framework. Recent events have brought together researchers from > computer science, cognitive psychology, electrical engineering, mechanical > engineering, systems engineering, and mathematics. The proposed Symposium > on Artificial Metacognition will continue this exploration by inviting > papers featuring a variety of methodologies that have been explored in the > recent literature, including stress testing of robotic systems, model > introspection, model certification, performance prediction, critique models > for LLMs, metacognitive rule learning, and metacognitive extensions to > cognitive architectures such as ACT-R, SOAR and the Common Model of > Cognition. > > *2. Objectives* > > The objectives of the symposium are as follows: > > - Survey and synthesize current approaches to metacognition in AI > systems, including monitoring, control, and metareasoning. > - Understand the requirements for and trade-offs among various > metacognitive approaches. > - Identify novel methods for metacognition that improve AI performance > in operational, out-of-distribution, and cross-domain settings. > - Identify application areas suitable for the deployment of > metacognitive methods, including autonomy, cyber, vision, robotics, and > decision support. > - Foster cross-disciplinary collaboration between AI, cognitive > psychology, cognitive modeling, control theory, and systems engineering. > - Examine the relationship between AI metacognition and human > operators, including trust, calibration, and human-AI teaming. > > *3. Topics of Interest* > > Specific topics to be covered include, but are not limited to: > > - AI Agents with Metacognition (LLM-based agents, autonomous agents, > and embodied agents that self-monitor and self-regulate). > - Cognitive model architectures with metacognitive extensions (e.g., > ACT-R, Soar, the Common Model of Cognition). > - Metacognitive rule learning (data-driven and neuro-symbolic learning > of error-detection and constraint rules). > - Critique models (training, evaluation, and deployment of models that > produce natural-language feedback on the outputs of other AI systems). > - Explainable performance prediction of black-box AI systems. > - Stress testing of reinforcement learning and perception systems. > - Metacognitive monitoring vs. metacognitive control, including > metareasoning and resource regulation. > - Neuro-symbolic AI architectures for metacognition. > - Self-adaptive, self-healing, and self-repairing AI systems for new > domains. > - Out-of-distribution detection, abductive inference, and > consistency-based verification as metacognitive cues. > - Trust calibration, human-in-the-loop metacognition, and human-AI > teaming. > - Datasets, benchmarks, and evaluation methodology for metacognitive > AI. > - Applications of metacognitive AI to autonomy, robotics, cyber > operations, and decision support. > > *4. Symposium Format* > > METACOG-26 will be a 2.5-day symposium following the standard AAAI Fall > Symposium structure. Programming will combine traditional paper sessions > with extended discussion, a poster session, two invited keynotes, and a > closing panel. This structure is consistent with the symposium series? > emphasis on intimate forums and substantive discussion. We anticipate > accepting up to 14 full papers (oral) and up to 12 posters. Submission will > be peer-reviewed by the organizing committee and a small program committee > drawn from the prior workshops. Accepted papers will be published in the > AAAI Technical Report series. > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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