<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
</head>
<body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<p>Dear colleagues,</p>
<p>We cordially invite you to consider contributing to the 9th
edition of the <b class="">IEEE Conference on Cognitive and
Computational Aspects of Situation Management (CogSIMA)</b>: <br
class="">
Sponsored by the IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society, <b
class="">CogSIMA 2019</b> will take place at the <b class="">Luxor
Las Vegas</b>, Nevada, USA, <b class="">8-11 April 2019</b>. <br>
Please find more information on program and venue under <a
href="http://www.cogsima2019.org/">www.cogsima2019.org</a>,
which provides further details on our scientific program
(including tutorials, keynotes, oral paper sessions, poster
trailers session) as well as the complimentary social program.<br
class="">
<br class="">
Adhering to its successful interdisciplinary tradition, CogSIMA
2019 will provide a lively exchange forum for scientists and
practitioners from diverse backgrounds to advance the field of <b>cognitive
situation management</b>. We aim to bring together researchers
from cognitive science, human factors, artificial intelligence,
computer science, modeling and simulation, robotics, systems
engineering, and related areas, to progress towards the ambitious
goal: Engineering complex cognitive systems of interacting humans,
machines, computer agents and networks that correctly understand
and intelligently act upon their environment's situations.<br
class="">
<br class="">
Application areas include autonomous vehicles, health care medical
situation control systems, human-robot teams, intelligent
transportation systems, disaster monitoring and recovery systems,
physical and cyber security situation awareness systems, command
and control systems, and many others.<br class="">
<br>
We would like to invite you to contribute to this endeavor and
present your research at CogSIMA 2019! <br>
Please note that <b class="">Full Papers</b> and <b class="">Poster
Presentations</b> are <b class="">due 10 December 2018</b>. <br>
For further information on submission guidelines and author
requirements, please see <a class="">www.cogsima2019.org</a>.<br>
Accepted papers and poster presentations will be submitted for
publication in the IEEE Xplore® digital library. <br class="">
<br class="">
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: <br class="">
- Cognitive and computational foundations of situation awareness,
situation control, decision making, and belief management <br
class="">
- Metaphysical studies of concepts and modeling of situations,
context, events, goals, intentions, actions, and, behavior <br
class="">
- Situation sensing, perception, comprehension, prediction and
truth maintenance <br class="">
- Big Data analysis, (multi-modal) situation learning (e.g., from
text, images, video) and situation knowledge acquisition <br
class="">
- Social media processing for situation awareness <br class="">
- Cognitive information fusion <br class="">
- Integration of human and signal intelligence <br class="">
- Multi-agent situation awareness, situation control and decision
support <br class="">
- Models of collaboration and emergent behavior in cognitive
multi-agent systems <br class="">
- Situation recognition in autonomous vehicles (e.g., UAVs,
self-driving cars) <br class="">
- Situation assessment in Reinforcement Learning <br class="">
- Biologically-inspired computational models of situation
management <br class="">
- Approaches to spatial and temporal reasoning, reasoning about
goals, intentions and actions <br class="">
- Metrics and evaluation of performance of hybrid human-machine
systems <br class="">
- Models of human-machine collaboration, hybrid and distributed
cognition, situation understanding of cognitive agents and virtual
assistants <br class="">
- Ontology-based computing <br class="">
- Context modeling and discovery <br class="">
- Systems, platforms and tools for situation awareness, situation
control and decision support <br class="">
- System-level experiments <br class="">
- Application-specific research<br class="">
<br>
For questions, please contact us at <a class=""
href="mailto:admin@cogsima.org">admin@cogsima.org</a>.<br
class="">
We look forward to seeing you in Las Vegas!<br class="">
<br class="">
Best regards,<br class="">
<b class="">CogSIMA 2019 Organizers</b>:<br>
<br class="">
General Chair<br class="">
Kellyn Rein (Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, Germany)<br>
<br>
Honorary Chair<br>
Gabe Jakobson (CyberGem Consulting, USA)<br>
<br>
Vice Chairs<br>
Scott Fouse (Independent Consultant, USA)<br>
Andrea Salfinger (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria)<br>
<br class="">
Treasurer<br class="">
Ken Baclawski (Northeastern University, USA)<br class="">
<br class="">
TPC Co-Chairs<br class="">
Galina Rogova (The State University of New York at Buffalo, USA)<br
class="">
Nicolette McGeorge (Charles River Analytics, USA)<br class="">
Odd Erik Gundersen (Norwegian University of Science and
Technology, Norway)<br class="">
<br class="">
Publicity Chair<br class="">
Patrícia Dockhorn Costa (Federal University of Espírito Santo,
Brazil)<br class="">
<br class="">
Tutorial Chair<br class="">
Melita Hadzagic (OODA Technologies, Canada)<br class="">
<br class="">
Publications Chair<br class="">
Mary Freiman (Aptima, USA)<br>
<br class="">
<a class="">www.cogsima2019.org </a></p>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
-----------------------------------------------------
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>
----------------------------------------------------- </pre>
</body>
</html>