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<p>CALL FOR PAPERS <br>
<br>
<b>2019 IEEE Conference on Cognitive and Computational Aspects of
Situation Management (CogSIMA 2019)</b><br>
8-11 April 2019, Luxor Hotel, Las Vegas, NV, USA</p>
<p><a href="http://www.cogsima2019.org">http://www.cogsima2019.org</a><br>
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Sponsored by the IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society</p>
<p><i>*** Submission Deadline: </i><i><b>December 23, 2018 </b></i><i>***</i><br>
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<p><u><b>DEFINITION AND SCOPE</b></u><br>
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<i>Where Cognitive Science meets Computer Science</i><br>
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The CogSIMA conference series provides an annual venue for
presenting multi-disciplinary research on complex heterogeneous
dynamical systems - of interacting humans, machines, computer
agents and/or networks - whose individual and/or collective
behavior depends on their Situation Awareness.<br>
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Examples of systems include a variety of command and control
systems, disaster monitoring and recovery systems, human-robot
teams, physical and cyber security situation awareness systems,
intelligent transportation systems, health care medical situation
control systems, and many other systems.<br>
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The CogSIMA conferences are aimed at researchers and practitioners
from academia, industry and government, with a wide variety of
backgrounds and experience including computer science, artificial
intelligence, human factors, cognitive science, modeling &
simulation, robotics, and systems engineering.<br>
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<u><b>TOPICS OF INTEREST</b></u><br>
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* Cognitive and computational foundations of situation awareness,
situation control, decision making, and belief management<br>
* Metaphysical studies of concepts and modeling of situations,
context, events, goals, intentions, actions, and, behavior<br>
* Situation sensing, perception, comprehension, prediction and
truth maintenance<br>
* "Big Data" analysis, (multi-modal) situation learning (e.g.,
from text, images, video) and situation knowledge acquisition<br>
* Social media processing for situation awareness<br>
* Cognitive information fusion<br>
* Integration of human and signal intelligence<br>
* Multi-agent situation awareness, situation control and decision
support<br>
* Models of collaboration and emergent behavior in cognitive
multi-agent systems<br>
* Situation recognition in autonomous vehicles (e.g., UAVs,
self-driving cars)<br>
* Situation assessment in Reinforcement Learning<br>
* Biologically-inspired computational models of situation
management<br>
* Approaches to spatial and temporal reasoning, reasoning about
goals, intentions and actions<br>
* Metrics and evaluation of performance of hybrid human-machine
systems<br>
* Models of human-machine collaboration, hybrid and distributed
cognition, situation understanding of cognitive agents and virtual
assistants<br>
* Ontology-based computing<br>
* Context modeling and discovery<br>
* Systems, platforms and tools for situation awareness, situation
control and decision support<br>
* System-level experiments<br>
* Application-specific research<br>
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<br>
<u><b>CALL FOR RESEARCH PAPERS</b></u><br>
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Two types of paper submissions will be accepted:<br>
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Regular Papers (5-7 pages): Papers that describe new results that
advance the state-of-the-art<br>
Poster Presentations (3-5 pages): Papers that describe work in
progress<br>
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Quantitative and/or qualitative methods and results are welcome,
as well as hypotheses-driven or more open-ended exploratory work.
Submissions must clearly outline the methodology (manipulations,
measurements, environment and context, etc.) and technologies
used, for both replicability and enabling in-depth review.<br>
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In addition, research providing novel system designs, algorithms,
interface technologies, and computational methods supporting
elements of situation management are encouraged. It is assumed
that the submitted papers address the issues related to the
general domain of situation management.<br>
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All papers must present original and unpublished work that is not
currently under review elsewhere.<br>
Each paper will be reviewed by at least three independent
referees. Papers will be evaluated according to their
significance, originality, technical content, style, clarity, and
relevance to the conference. At least one author of each accepted
paper is required to attend the conference.<br>
<br>
<br>
<u><b>HOW TO SUBMIT</b></u><br>
<br>
Authors should prepare a Portable Document Format (PDF) version of
their full paper in 2-column style (main text in 10-point size)
including figures and correct margins. Please use the stylesheet
templates provided by IEEE to assure that your proposal is in line
with our guidelines. Authors of accepted papers will need to sign
an IEEE copyright release form and present their paper at the
conference. The conference proceedings will be submitted to the
IEEE Xplore® digital library. All paper submissions will be
handled electronically by EDAS.<br>
For more information contact <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:admin@cogsima.org">admin@cogsima.org</a>.<br>
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<br>
<u><b>DUE DATES</b></u><br>
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Regular Papers and Poster Papers: <u><b>December 23, 2018</b></u><br>
Acceptance Notification: February 8, 2019<br>
Camera Ready due: February 21, 2019<br>
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<u><b>PUBLICATION</b></u><br>
<br>
The conference proceedings will be electronically published in the
IEEE CogSIMA Conference Proceedings and will be submitted to the
IEEE Xplore® digital library. At least one author of an accepted
paper is required to register for the conference at the full
(member or non-member) rate and the paper must be presented by an
author of that paper at the conference unless the TPC grants
permission for a substitute presenter arranged in advance of the
event and who is qualified both to present and answer questions.
Non-refundable registration fees must be paid prior to uploading
the final IEEE formatted, publication-ready version of the paper.
For authors with multiple accepted papers, one full registration
is valid for up to 3 papers. <br>
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<br>
<u><b>ORGANIZING COMMITTEE</b></u><br>
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General Chair<br>
Kellyn Rein (Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, Germany)<br>
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Honorary Chair<br>
Gabe Jakobson (CyberGem Consulting, USA)<br>
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Vice Chairs<br>
Scott Fouse (Independent Consultant, USA)<br>
Andrea Salfinger (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria)<br>
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Treasurer<br>
Ken Baclawski (Northeastern University, USA)<br>
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TPC Co-Chairs<br>
Galina Rogova (The State University of New York at Buffalo, USA)<br>
Nicolette McGeorge (Charles River Analytics, USA)<br>
Odd Erik Gundersen (Norwegian University of Science and
Technology, Norway)<br>
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Publicity Chair<br>
Patrícia Dockhorn Costa (Federal University of Espírito Santo,
Brazil)<br>
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Tutorial Chair<br>
Melita Hadzagic (OODA Technologies, Canada)<br>
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Publications Chair<br>
Mary Freiman (Aptima, USA)<br>
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<b><u>TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE</u></b><br>
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Kirstie Bellman, Topcy House Consulting, USA<br>
Joachim Biermann, Fraunhofer FKIE, Germany<br>
Eloi Bosse, University McMaster, Canada<br>
Dave Braines, IBM UK Ltd, United Kingdom (Great Britain)<br>
Jin-Hee Cho, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University,
USA<br>
Ho-Jin Choi, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
(KAIST), Korea<br>
Giuseppe D'Aniello, University of Salerno, Italy<br>
Natalia Derbentseva, Defence R&D Canada, Canada<br>
Valentina Dragos, ONERA, France<br>
Mica Endsley, SA Technologies, USA<br>
Robert Erbacher, Army Research Laboratory, USA<br>
Albert Esterline, North Carolina A&T State University, USA<br>
Göran Falkman, University of Skövde, Sweden<br>
Jesus Garcia, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain<br>
Olivier Grisvard, Thales Defence Mission Systems France, France<br>
Roman Ilin, AFRL, USA<br>
Anne-Laure Jousselme, NATO STO CMRE, Italy<br>
Mieczyslaw Kokar, Northeastern University, USA<br>
Robert Kozma, U of Memphis, USA<br>
Achim Kuwertz, Fraunhofer IOSB, Germany<br>
Christian Lebiere, Carnegie Mellon University, USA<br>
Gaëlle Lortal, Thales R&T, France<br>
Jose Luis Martinez Lastra, Tampere University of Technology,
Finland<br>
Dalila Megherbi, Unversity of Massachusetts, Lowell, USA<br>
Leo Motus, Estonian Academy of Science, Estonia<br>
Fatma Nasoz, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA<br>
Patrick Philipp, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany<br>
Albert Pritzkau, Fraunhofer FKIE, Germany<br>
Doug Riecken, Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), USA<br>
Andri Riid, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia<br>
Maria Riveiro, University of Skövde, Sweden<br>
Jean Roy, DRDC - Valcartier Research Centre, Canada<br>
Arezoo Sarkheyli-Hägele, Malmö universitet, Sweden<br>
Dylan Schmorrow, Soar Technology, Inc., USA<br>
David Schuster, San Jose State University, USA<br>
Alexander Smirnov, SPIIRAS, Russia<br>
Lauro Snidaro, University of Udine, Italy<br>
Dirk Soeffker, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany<br>
Joonwoo Son, Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Sci & Tech, Korea<br>
Alan Steinberg, Independent Consultant, USA<br>
Pontus Svenson, Kogma, Sweden<br>
Kuldar Taveter, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia<br>
Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, Wright State University, USA<br>
Robert Thomson, United States Military Academy, USA<br>
Risto Vaarandi, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia<br>
Wlodek Zadrozny, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA<br>
Chen Zhong, Indiana University Kokomo, USA<br>
Tom Ziemke, University of Skövde, Sweden<br>
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<u><b>CONTACT</b></u><br>
<br>
For questions, please contact us at <a
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:admin@cogsima.org">admin@cogsima.org</a>.<br>
Conference website: <a href="http://www.cogsima2019.org">www.cogsima2019.org</a></p>
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DI Dr. Andrea Salfinger
Postdoctoral Researcher
Department of Cooperative Information Systems (CIS)
Institute for Telecooperation (TK)
Johannes Kepler University Linz (JKU)
Altenberger Strasse 69
A-4040 Linz, Austria
WWW: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.jku.at">https://www.jku.at</a>
Telephone: +43-732-2468-4679
Email: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:andrea.salfinger@cis.jku.at">andrea.salfinger@cis.jku.at</a>
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