[CogSci] 026 IEEE Conference on Cognitive and Computational Aspects of Situation Management (CogSIMA), March 9-12, 2026, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA

[Elmira Zahmat Doost]

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*CALL FOR PAPERS*

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2026 IEEE Conference on Cognitive and Computational Aspects of Situation
Management (CogSIMA)
March 9-12, 2026 | Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
Sponsored by the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society
*Expanding the Situation Awareness Boundary*
In its 16th edition, the CogSIMA conference series will take place at ASU
for the very first time, in the city of Tempe, AZ. ASU offers an ideal
setting for a technical conference, given the university's strong
commitment to supporting events like CogSIMA and its extensive experience
in hosting conferences and symposiums. The location at the Memorial Union
on ASU’s Tempe campus will provide an environment appropriate to the size
and importance of the CogSIMA conference that promotes interaction and
communication. CogSIMA 2026 is sponsored by the IEEE Systems, Man, and
Cybernetics Society (SMCS) and supported by the IEEE SMCS Technical
Committees on Cognitive Situation Management and on Interactive and
Wearable Computing and Devices.

Confirmed *keynote speakers:*
● *Mica Endsley*, SA Technologies
● *Maia Cook*, Pacific Science and Engineering
● *Subbarao Kambhampati,* Arizona State University

The CogSIMA conference series provides an annual venue for presenting
multi-disciplinary research on complex heterogeneous dynamical systems – of
interacting humans, machines (AI, automation, robots), computer agents
and/or networks – whose individual and/or collective behavior depends on
their situation awareness.

Application areas include autonomous vehicles, command and control systems,
disaster monitoring and recovery systems, human-robot teams, human-AI
teaming, physical and cyber security situation awareness and cyber warfare
systems, intelligent transportation systems, health care medical situation
control systems, and others.

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 and simulation, robotics, and systems
engineering.

Accepted papers and poster presentations will be submitted for publication
in the IEEE Xplore® Digital Library, which will be indexed by all major
indexing and web discovery services (such as Google Scholar, Scopus, Web of
Science, DBLP, Semantic Scholar etc.).

Please consult https://edas.info/web/cogsima2026/home.html for further
information and updates on our program, venue, submission guidelines, and
author requirements.

*Submit your paper*: https://edas.info/N34186

*Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:*

● Conceptual framing of human-machine teams, including machines as
fully-fledged teammates vs. tools, human-animal teaming analogs, and
anthropomorphism
● Sociotechnical studies, including test and evaluation of
application-specific research
● Cognitive architectures for human-machine teaming
● Team performance metrics and measurement in human-machine systems
● Expert to novice comparisons in human-machine systems
● Human-machine relative task difficulty impacts on performance
● Sequential decision making and impacts to human-machine performance
● Quantitative modeling of social factors impacting
● Human-machine decision dyads
● Situation sensing, perception, comprehension, and prediction
● “Big Data” analysis and social media processing for situation awareness
● Cognitive information fusion
● Integration of human and signal intelligence, cyber-physical-social
systems
● Models of collaboration and emergent behavior in cognitive multi-agent
systems
● Situation recognition in autonomous systems and autonomous vehicles
● Situation assessment in reinforcement learning and deep learning
● Generative AI and explainable AI for situation awareness and situated
human-machine interaction
● Cognitive situation management with neuroergonomics and Brain-Machine
Interface
● Biologically-inspired computational models of situation management
● Approaches to spatial and temporal reasoning, reasoning about goals,
intentions, and actions
● Models of human-machine collaboration
● Performance evaluation and metrics of human-machine systems, including
human-AI teaming
● Ontology-based computing, context modeling and discovery, situation
modeling, representation, and identification
● Systems, platforms, and tools for situation awareness, situation control,
and decision support
● System-level experiments and application-specific research
● Use of Large Language Models for improving situation understanding
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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES AND PUBLICATION
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Two types of paper submissions will be accepted:
● *Regular Papers* (5-8 pages) that describe new results that advance the
state-of-the-art. Each accepted paper will be allocated a slot for oral
presentation during the conference.
● *Poster Papers *(3-5 pages) that describe work in progress. Each accepted
poster will be presented in a 5 min. talk in the poster session and will be
included in the final conference proceedings submitted to the IEEE Xplore®
Digital Library.

All paper submissions will be handled electronically by EDAS. Authors
should prepare a Portable Document Format (PDF) version of their full paper
in 2-column style (main text in 10-point size). Please use the stylesheet
templates provided by IEEE to assure that your submission is in line with
the IEEE guidelines. 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 rate and the
paper must be presented by an author of that paper at the conference unless
the TPC/conference organizers grant permission for a virtual presentation
or a substitute presenter. Non-refundable registration fees must be paid
prior to
uploading the final IEEE formatted, publication-ready version of the paper.

*Submit your paper*: https://edas.info/N34186
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DUE DATES
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Regular and Special Session Papers submission:* Oct. 24, 2025*
Poster Papers submission: *Oct. 24, 2025*
Acceptance Notification: Dec. 15, 2025
Camera Ready: Jan. 15, 2026
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CALL FOR SPECIAL SESSION PROPOSALS
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The CogSIMA 2026 Organizing Committee is also welcoming proposals for
Special Sessions on complex heterogeneous dynamical systems - of
interacting humans, machines, and computer agents - whose collective
behavior depends on their cognitive capabilities to comprehend, explain,
predict, and act upon the surrounding operational situations.

The purpose of special sessions is to stimulate a focused discussion on new
or innovative topics. Of particular interest are proposals that address
cutting-edge research or topics beyond traditional situation understanding
and management. Organizers of accepted special sessions will be asked to
chair the session and will be consulted when finalizing the list of papers
in the
session.

*Proposal Requirements*: Each special session proposal should include an
overview of the topic that identifies its relevance and introduces the
papers to be presented. This description will be
made available in the proceedings. Each proposal should also include a list
of committed papers.

The following information must be included in a complete special session
proposal:

● Title of the proposed special session
● Names and affiliations of the organizers, including brief bio and contact
information
● Session abstract (less than 250 words), including the significance of the
topic and the rationale for the proposed session
● List of committed papers, including a tentative title, author list, and a
short abstract for each paper. At least 5 papers are expected.

Committed papers are not automatically accepted; they must be submitted to
the conference by the standard deadline and will be reviewed through the
same process as regular papers.

*Evaluation Criteria*: Special session proposals will be evaluated based on
the importance of the topic, relevance to the cognitive and computational
aspects of situation management, the
number of potential papers (assessed from the list of committed papers),
and the qualification of the organizers. Once the proposal has been
approved, it will be included among the sessions available for authors to
submit their papers to. Proposals will be evaluated on a rolling basis.
Please submit as soon as possible but not later than Oct. 1. All papers
submitted to a special session will be reviewed through the same review
process as the regular papers of the conference to ensure that
contributions are of high quality. If a special session has more papers
accepted than can be accommodated in the schedule can accommodate, some
papers might be moved to other relevant sessions.

*Important Dates*: Submission of special session proposals: *October 1,
2025.*
Notification of acceptance: October 10, 2025.

*Questions and submissions*: specialsessions at cogsima.org
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For questions, please contact us at admin at cogsima.org and visit the
conference
website: https://edas.info/web/cogsima2026/home.html

Best regards,
The *IEEE CogSIMA 2026 Organizing Committee*

Further information:
CogSIMA 2026 conference website: https://edas.info/web/cogsima2026/home.html
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