First European Workshop on Cognitive Modeling
14. - 16.11.96,
TU Berlin
Preliminary time schedule for the workshop including demonstrations,
the tutorials and EuroSoar-10
- Most part of the workshop takes place at the Ernst-Reuter Haus (ER) of the TU. Tutorials and demonstrations take place at the Franklinbau (FR).
For information about the location of buildings and rooms please follow the
link from the workshop-homegage.
- Click here to get an overview of the time schedule.
- For PS-versions of the papers see Program and Invited Speakers
Wednesday
Registration for tutorial + workshop participants
(during the breaks in Room FR 5055)
Tutorials/Basics
ACT-R --- Room FR 6536
- 10:00 ACT-R I
- 11:20 coffee/tea break
- 11:40 ACT-R basics II
- 13:00 lunch
SOAR7 --- Room FR 6536
- 14:20 SOAR7 basics I
- 16:10 coffee/tea break
- 16:30 SOAR7 basics II
- 18:20 end of "Tutorials/Basics"
from 19:30 onwards: inofficial meeting in a pub
Thursday Morning
Registration --- ER Foyer
- 11:00 Opening of the Workshop --- Room ER A
- 12:00 Invited Talk
- Bonnie John (CMU, PA, USA):
Cognitive Modeling and Human-Computer Interaction
- 13:00 lunch
Tutorials/Extensions
ACT-R/Extensions --- Room FR 5516
- 09:00 ACT-R extension I
- 10:50 coffee/tea break
- 11:10 ACT-R extension II
- 13:00 end of "Tutorials/Extensions"
SOAR7/Extensions --- Room FR 6536
- 09:00 SOAR7 extension I
- 10:50 coffee/tea break
- 11:10 SOAR7 extension II
- 13:00 end of "Tutorials/Extensions"
Thursday Afternoon
Learning --- Room ER A
Chair: Fritz Wysotzki
- 14:30 Frank E. Ritter and Gordon D. Baxter (Nottingham, UK):
- Able, III: Learning in a More Visibly Principled Way (see also Demonstrations)
- 15:00 Niels Taatgen (Groningen, The Netherlands):
- Learning and Revising Task-Specific Rules in ACT-R
- 15:30 Ute Schmid and Fritz Wysotzki (Berlin, Germany):
- Skill Acquisition Can Be Regarded as Program Synthesis
- 16:00 Linda Briesemeister, Tobias Scheffer and Fritz Wysotzki (Berlin, Germany):
- A Concept Formation Based Algorithmic Model for Skill Acquisition
- 16:30 coffee/tea break
- 16:50 Gareth E. Miles and Stephen J. Payne (Cardiff, UK):
- Learning from Examples: Reminding or Heuristic Switching?
- 17:20 Fernand Gobet (Nottingham, UK):
- EPAM-like Simulations of the Recall of Random Chess Positions
- 17:50 Vittorio Maniezzo and Anna Navarra (Bologna, Italy):
- A Psychogenetic Model for Learning Sensorimotor Sequences
- 18:20 Wolfgang Stolzmann (Osnabrück, Germany):
- Learning Classifier Systems Using the Cognitive Mechanism of Anticipatory Behavioral Control
Thursday Evening
Demonstrations (19:00 - 20:30) --- Rooms FR 5516, FR 5045, FR 5051, FR 5055
- Richard Cooper and John Fox (London, UK):
COGENT: A Package to Assist Cognitive Modelling
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- Jans Aasman (Leidschendam, The Netherlands):
SOARing back to LISP (see also "EuroSoar-10")
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- Mark Müller and Ute Schmid (Berlin, Germany):
IPAL - A System that Integrates Problem Solving, Skill Acquisition and
Learning by Analogy
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- Klaus Eyferth, Sandro Leuchter und Yorck Hauss (Berlin, Germany):
Modelling Cognitive Skills of Air Traffic Enroute Controllers
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- Frank E. Ritter and Gordon D. Baxter (Nottingham, UK):
Able, III: Learning in a More Visibly Principled Way (see also
"Learning")
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- Christian Ebert, Daniel Glatz, Martin Jansche, Ralf Meyer-Klabunde,
and Robert Porzel (Heidelberg, Germany):
From Conceptualization to Formulation in Generating Spatial
Descriptions (see also "Natural Language Processing")
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from 21:00 onwards: inofficial meeting in a pub
Friday Morning
Reasoning
Chair: Ute Schmid
Spatial Reasoning
- 9:00 Christoph Schlieder (Freiburg, Germany):
- A Computational Account of Preferences in Mental Model Construction
- 9:30 Bettina Berendt (Hamburg, Germany):
- The Utility of Mental Images: How to Construct Stable Mental Models in
an Unstable Image Medium
- 10:00 coffee/tea break
Causal Reasoning
- 10:30 Peter Hawighorst (Osnabrück, Germany):
- Rough-Sets-Theory-Algorithms as Mental Tools to Construct Causal
Dependencies in Unknown Complex Systems
- 11:00 Michael May (Hamburg, Germany):
- Experimentation and the Formation of Causal Theories
- 11:30 Laurence Alpay, Eileen Scanlon, Rose Dieng and Alain Giboin (Milton
Keynes, UK):
- Modelling Reasoning Processes in Diagnostic Problem Solving: A Study
across Three Domains
- 12:00 Invited Talk
- Werner Tack (Saarbrücken):
Cooperative Rationality: A Cognitive Model of
- Social Conflicts
- 13:00 lunch
Friday Afternoon
Causal Reasoning, continued
- 14:30 Josef F. Krems (Chemnitz, Germany) and Todd Johnson (Columbus, OH, USA):
- Integration of Anomalous Data in Current Explanations: A Model-Based
Theory of Abductive Reasoning
Discovery, Insight, Creativity
Chair: Klaus Eyferth
- 15:00 Gerd Graßhoff (Hamburg, Germany):
- Cognitive Modelling of Scientific Discovery Processes
- 15:30 Marcus Winteroll (Hamburg, Germany):
- Symmetry - Modelling Albert Einstein's Method
- 15:50 Günther Knoblich (Hamburg, Germany) and Stellan Ohlsson (Chicago, IL,
USA):
- Can ACT-R Have Insights?
- 16:20 coffee/tea break
- 16:50 Luìs Macedo, Francisco C. Pereira, Carlos Grilo and
Amìlcar Cardoso (Coimbra,
- Portugal): Towards a Computational Case-Based Model for Creative Planning
- 17:20 Penousal Machado and Amìlcar Cardoso (Coimbra, Portugal):
- Generation and Evaluation of Artworks
- 17:40 Detlev Zimmermann (Saarbrücken, Germany):
- A Proposal for a Cognitive Model of Automatic Intention-Based Music
Composition
- 18:00 break
- 18:15 Discussion: Evaluation and Future of the Workshop
- 19:00 Invited Talk
- Friedhart Klix (HU Berlin):
Analogy detection - analogy construction
from 20:30 Special Event
Saturday Morning
Cognitive Architectures --- Room ER B
Chair: Josef Krems
- 09:30 Tim Read (Granada, Spain):
- Evaluating the Design Based Approach
- 10:30 Todd Johnson (Columbus, OH, USA):
- A Comparison of ACT-R and Soar
- 10:30 coffee/tea break
Natural Language Processing --- Room ER A
Chair: Robin Hörnig
- 09:30 John A. Bullinaria (London, UK):
- Connectionist Models of Reading: Incorporating Semantics
- 10:00 Enrico Blanzieri, Monica Bucciarelli and Pierpaolo Peretti (Torino,
Italy):
- Sentences and Mental States in Attributing Intentions: Modeling Their
Cognitive Balance
- 10:30 coffee/tea break
- 11:00 Christian Ebert, Daniel Glatz, Martin Jansche, Ralf Meyer-Klabunde,
and
- Robert Porzel (Heidelberg, Germany): From Conceptualization to Formulation in Generating Spatial
Descriptions (see also "Demonstrations")
- 11:30 break
Slot for Discussion Groups --- Room ER A
11:30 - 12:30
- 11:30 Shu-Chen Li, Ulman Lindenberger and Peter Frensch (Berlin, Germany):
- In Search of an Integrative Framework of Cognitive Aging: A
Computational Exploration of the Link Between Processing Efficiency and
Brain Catecholamines
- 12:00 open
- 12:30 Invited Talk --- Room ER A
- Gerhard Strube (Freiburg):
Motivation and Action Control in Cognitive Systems
EuroSoar-10 --- Room ER B
Chair: Josef Krems
- 11:00 - 12:30
Richard Young (Cambridge, UK): Soar Modelling and Rational Modelling of Exploratory Choice
Frank Ritter (Nottingham, UK): Update on modelling rapid decision making in a type of Air traffic
control
Todd Johnson (Columbus, OH, USA): Frequency Learning with Symbolic
Concept Acquisition
Jans Aasman (Leidschendam, The Netherlands): SOARing back to Lisp (see also "Demonstrations")
Bonnie John (CMU, PA, USA): Strategy shifts in the Kanfer-Ackerman Air Traffic Controller(tm) task and their implications for a Soar model
(last change: 08/11/96 by schmid)