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Introduction:The
Tutorials program at ICCM 2006 will be held on
Wednesday 5 April 2006 at the CSIA (Centro Servizi
Informatici di Ateneo, also known as part of H2)
building (via Valerio 12, I-34127 Trieste) at the
University of Trieste.
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to the campus]
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to the building from the conference center]
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of the campus showing H2] Tutorials have been
held successfully at previous ICCM meetings, and
are now an established feature of the conference.
The format of this year's program is modelled on
previously successful ICCM tutorials, and is
similar to the series held at the annual Cognitive
Science Society Conferences.
Registration:
Tutorials cost 35 Euros (about 25 pounds or about
$40) for each half-day tutorial and about $30 in
Euros for students (bring ID to show at
registration). You are encouraged to register
through
the
conference site, or, if space is available,
paid for on the day. Lunch can be purchased
seperately near the tutorial site. Attendance at
the tutorials does not require conference
registration; tutorial registration does not
provide conference entrance. If you are not
registering for the conference, you can register
for the tutorials at the door.
There will be a meeting of the tutorial
committee, tutors, and interested tutees after the
tutorials, location to be announced at the
tutorials.
Registration for tutorial attendees will be from
8.30 am on 5 April at the ground floor of the CSIA
building. It should take less than 5 minutes to get
from the tutorial desk to the tutorial rooms, but
please allow yourself this time to get to the room.
If you have a lap top, please bring it to the
sessions, as you will work in pairs in the
tutorials.
The morning session includes a 15 min. coffee
break, and the afternoon session includes a 15 min.
tea break.
Directions:
If you fly into Trieste airport you can take a taxi
or bus or rent a car to get to the city center. The
bus
(start: Ronchi Airport, stop: Trieste) appears to
run about every half-hour, and cost under $5. Taxis
are 'rather expensive', which I interpret to be
about $40.
Once in town, from Trieste train station, go to
University/CSIA (taxi or bus or car). Take
bus
line "17/" from the central train station
(close to the bus station) to the University (ask
the busdriver to let you off at the university, you
need to buy a bus ticket before getting on the
bus). Then walk to the CSIA using the maps above.
I personally recommend at taxi from the city
center, which will cost about 8 euros. The tutorial
site is about 5 min. up the hill from the main
university steps.
Topics
agimap&emdash;A tool chain to
support the modelling of the interaction level of
dynamic systems
Urbas et al., Half-day (1345-1700)
Psi and MicroPsi&emdash;A novel
approach for modeling emotion and cognition in a
cognitive architecture
Bach, Dörner, and Vuine, Half-day (1345-1700)
Introduction to
Connectionist Simulation in Social
Cognition
Van Overwalle, Half-day (0915-1230)
Simulation exercises in
Social Cognition with FIT
Van Overwalle, Half-day (1345-1700)
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agimap&emdash;A tool
chain to support the modelling of the interaction
level of dynamic systems
Half-day tutorial (1345-1700)
[more
information]
in the CSIA, room to be announced
Leon Urbas
Technische Universität Berlin, Center of
Human-Machine-Systems University
leon.urbas@ tu-berlin.de, and
Marcus Heinath, Technische Universität
Berlin, Germany
Sandra Trösterer, Technische Universität
Berlin, Germany
Nele Pape, Technische Universität Berlin,
Germany
Jeronimo Dzaack, Technische Universität
Berlin, Germany
Sandro Leuchter, Fraunhofer IITB, Karlsruhe,
Germany
Jürgen Kiefer, Technische Universität
Berlin, Germany
Agimap is a tool chain that supports cognitive
modelling in an effective and efficient way at the
interaction level (i.e., perception and execution)
and is implemented for ACT-R 6.0. ACT-R models are
derived from a graphical description of the
interface or an intermediate high-level XML
representation. The tool chain provides a graphical
editor to create an XML model of the human-machine
interface. XSLT is used to transform this
representation to genuine model (Lisp) code.
Currently, the tool chain supports code creation
for ACT-R's perceptual-motor subsystem and its AGI
interface. To connect the AGI interface elements
with a simulated external task environment or even
a real process control system the agimap-extension
for cognitive architectures is used. In typical
applications the amount of code generated by agimap
can take up to 50% of the model's code. The
approach allows efficiently dividing the physical
and cognitive modelling tasks by using and
connecting engineering simulation tools for the
"machine" part and cognitive architectures for the
cognition part what speeds up the modelling process
furthermore. The development of agimap was
supported by DFG and VolkswagenStiftung.
Prerequisite knowledge: We expect
participants to have some general programming
experience and a basic understanding of symbolic
processing. Some prior knowledge of ACT-R or
rule-based systems is required.
Leon Urbas is an information systems
engineer by training and has a professional
background in information and automation systems
design for the chemical process industries. He is
head of the user modelling research group MoDyS at
the Center of Human Machine Systems at Technische
Universität Berlin and spokesman of the DFG
funded research training group prometei that
investigates methods for the prospective design of
humanmachine-interaction. Marcus Heinath
studied media technology in Ilmenau, Germany
and is member of the research training group
prometei. His research interest is in integrated
engineering approaches for user modelling as a
design tool. Sandra Trösterer studied
psychology in Graz, Austria and Braunschweig,
Germany and is now research scientist at the MoDyS
research group. Her research interest is in
cognitively sound user modelling as a tool for
hypothesis generation and usability evaluation.
Nele Pape studied cognitive science in
Osnabrück, Germany. She joined the MoDyS
research group as research scientist in the area of
first principles cognitive modelling. Jeronimo
Dzaack studied computer science in Bremen,
Germany. As a member of the research training group
prometei he investigates on usability design and
usability testing with cognitive architectures.
Sandro Leuchter studied computer science in
Berlin, Germany. He worked as a research scientist
in the MoDyS Research Group. Since 2005 he has been
a senior research scientist and group manager at
the Fraunhofer Institute for Information and Data
Processing in Karlsruhe. Jürgen Kiefer
studied psychology in Saarbrücken,
Germany. He is member of the research training
group prometei and investigates modeling approaches
that could explain differences in multitasking
performance.
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Psi and MicroPsi&emdash;A
novel approach for modeling emotion and cognition
in a cognitive architecture
Half-day tutorial (1400-1715)
in the CSIA, room to be announced
Joscha Bach
Institute for Cognitive Science, University of
Osnabrueck
Dietrich Dörner
Institute for Theoretical Psychology, University of
Bamberg
Ronnie Vuine
Humboldt University of Berlin
The Psi theory of German psychologist Dietrich
Dörner sketches a cognitive architecture
integrating emotion and motivation in a non-trivial
way. Despite recent attempts for the inclusion of
motivation into architectures, for instance Ron
Sun's Clarion, most models of cognition treat
emotion and motivation as additional modules that
do not have a direct influence on problem solving,
representation, perception and memory. The Psi
theory addresses this by proposing a multithematic
motivational model and a system of emotional
modulators that affect all levels of cognition. Psi
is a nascent architecture that has not been applied
to capture a wide set of regularities, such as
ACT-R, but its assumptions with respect to
emotional modulation have been tested by comparing
computer models with the emotional responses and
behavior strategies of human subjects in a complex
problem solving task.
MicroPsi is a framework that aims at
implementing Psi agents on a neurosymbolic level.
It features an editor and simulator for
hierarchical spreading activation networks, which
make up the control structures and working memory
of the agents, a graphical simulation environment
that allows to distribute agents over computer
networks to facilitate multi agent interaction, and
components to visualize the simulation world and
the emotional states of the agent. The MicroPsi
framework has also been applied outside our group
as a robot control architecture.
The tutorial will give an overview of the theory
(first half) and show the application of the
framework, i.e. how to set up agents based on a
hybrid neurosymbolic formalism that is supported by
a graphical editor, and how to deploy multi-agent
simulations in the simulation environment. We will
also demonstrate the 3D viewer and the integration
of agent definitions with robotic sensors and
actuators to use MicroPsi as a robotic control
architecture.
For further information, please visit our
project homepage at www.cognitive-agents.org, where
we will provide an introduction.
Prerequisite knowledge: We expect
participants to have some general programming
experience and a basic understanding of symbolic
processing. No prior knowledge of PSI or rule-based
systems required.
Joscha Bach majored in Computer Science,
recieving his Diplom in 2000, since then he has
worked on MAS, social simulation and robotic soccer
at the AI department of the Humboldt University of
Berlin. He initiated work on the MicroPsi framework
in 2002. Since 2003, he has been affiliated with
the Institute for Cognitive Science, University of
Osnabrueck, as teacher and assistant researcher
within the AI group, with focus on models of
emotion and the Psi theory. He is currently
finishing his PhD.
Dr. phil. Dietrich Dörner, Institute
for Theoretical Psychology, University of Bamberg
1979 -1989 Professor for General Psychology at
the University of Bamberg, Germany.
1989 -1991 Director of the Max Planck Project
Group of Cognitive Anthropology, Berlin.
since 1991: Director of the Institute for
Theoretical Psychology, University of Bamberg.
Research Areas: Psychology, Logic, Philosophy,
Neurophysiology, Artificial Intelligence,
Simulation of Human Activity in Complex Domains
Selected Publications
Dörner, D. (1974): Die kognitive
Organisation beim Problemlösen ö Eine
kybernetische Theorie der elementaren neuronalen
Prozesse beim Denken Cognitive Organisation of
Problem Solving ö A Cybernetical Theory of the
Elementary Neuronal Processes of Thinking). Bern:
Huber.
Dörner, D. (1976): Problemlösen als
Informationsverarbeitung (Problem Solving as
Information Processing). Stuttgart: Kohlhammer.
Dörner, D. (1983): Lohhausen: Vom Umgang
mit Unbestimmtheit und Komplexität (Lohhausen:
How to Cope with Uncertainty and Complexity). Bern:
Huber.
Dörner, D. (1999): Bauplan für eine
Seele (Blueprint for a Soul). Reinbek: Rowohlt.
Dörner, D. (2002): Die Mechanik des
Seelenwagens (Mechanics of the Soul). Bern: Huber.
Ronnie Vuine is a student of Computer
Science and Philosophy at Humboldt University of
Berlin and former student of software engineering
at Hasso-Plattner Institute, Potsdam. Since 2002
project lead and principal contributer to the
software development of MicroPsi framework.
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Introduction to
Connectionist Simulation in Social Cognition
morning (0915-1230)
Simulation exercises in Social Cognition with
FIT
afternoon (1345-1700)
in the CSIA, room to be announced
Frank Van Overwalle
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Frank.VanOverwalle@vub.ac.be
You can register to Part I only, or Part I
and II.
Part I of this workshop offers an introduction
to connectionist modeling on mainstream social
cognition topics such as person and group
impression formation and attitude formation. Part
II offers concrete hands-on experience and
exercises using the FIT software on these topics.
Participants need no specific knowledge of social
psychology, and only a very basic knowledge on
connectionist modeling is needed (e.g., what a
learning algorithm is and how it works will be
briefly explained/rehearsed).
Part I gives an introduction on connectionist
modeling of social cognition. The tutorial will
lead to a better understanding of how to model
social cognition, and introduces some particular
solutions to help modeling this area. Included are
demonstrations of published simulation work by the
author. The topics covered are listed below, but
some flexibility is possible depending on the
interest of the audience.
- An introduction to the major principles of
the simulations
- Impression formation about a person,
including the influence of contrast and
assimilation, increased recall of inconsistent
behaviors and the situational context
- Group stereotypes and biases, including
illusory correlation and accentuation
- Attitude formation and the role of
systematic versus heuristic processing
Part II of the workshop involves an introduction
to the FIT simulation program (can be downloaded
via the links provided), and a demonstration of the
simulations that were explained in Part I using
simple demos of the main principles and simulations
underlying connectionist learning in social
cognition. In addition, exercises will be given so
that participants get some hands-on experience with
these simulations. Please bring a laptop (PC only)
with you and indicate this on the registration
form. Our plan is to have participants work in
pairs, so do not worry if you can't bring one.
Material for the tutorial:
Part I: none is required
Part II:
FIT
program (including introductory examples and
electronic manual)
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Accompanying
FIT project files
Material for preparation (if you wish) or for
later reference
Part I:
PowerPoint
presentations
Part II:
Readings
and exercises
Frank Van Overwalle is a full professor
affiliated with the Department of Psychology at the
Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He defended his PhD in
1987 for which he received the Tobie Jonckheere
Award of the Belgian Royal Academy of Sciences,
Letters and Arts. His main interest is in
attribution and causal learning, social cognition
and connectionism (artificial neural networks). He
has authored some 35 peer-refereed scientific
publications, in the domain of social cognition.
His recent research focuses on connectionist
network models of various phenomena in the domain
of social cognition at large, to demonstrate the
common cognitive processes underlying many social
findings. The aim is to abolish ad-hoc hypothesis
building which is currently very flourishing in
social psychology, and to attempt to develop a more
general cognitive theory, in line with general
theories of psychological information processing.
This has resulted in a number of publications in
top-ranking journals such as Psychological Review
and Personality and Social Psychology Review. His
work has received over 180 references in the
combined Science, Social Science and Arts &
Humanities Citation Index.
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Important
Dates
- 28 February 2006: Camera-ready abstract copy
due for inclusion in proceedings and
advertisements.
- 15 March 2006: Camera-ready tutorial notes
due (if we are to copy)
Chair
Frank E. Ritter (Penn State)
Committee
members
Nick Braisby (Open University)
Fabio Del Missier (U. of Trieste)
Glenn Gunzelman (USAF)
Lucio Inguscio (U. of Rome "La Sapienza")
Randy Jones (Soar Tech and Colby College)
Josef Krems (TU Chemnitz)
Josef Nerb (U. of Education, Freiburg)
Mike Schoelles (RPI)
Peter Wallis (U. of Sheffield)
Further contact
details:
Frank E. Ritter
College of Information Sciences and Technology
University Park, PA 16802
Tel: + 1 814 865 4453 (on sabbatical at Tufts in
Spring 2006, so use email please)
General Contact:
iccm2006@units.it.
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