<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">[Apologies for cross-posting]</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">FINAL DEADLINE EXTENSION:</div><div class="">Due to international challenges which include the pandemic, we have decided to extend the deadline for paper and poster submissions to <b class="">January 31, 2021</b> (final extension). </div><div class="">In addition, we are changing the paper acceptance notification date to March 1, 2021.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">IMPORTANT - VIRTUAL CONFERENCE: </div><div class="">The organizing committee has decided that CogSIMA 2021 will be held as a <b class="">virtual conference</b>. </div><div class="">Even though there is hope with the vaccine coming out, we feel that with the hot spots going on around the world and slow roll out of the vaccine, it is unlikely that a large percentage of the CogSIMA community will feel safe to travel. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">REDUCED FEES: We are still working on the registration fees, but we do believe that like last year, we will be able to hold the registration fees to no more than $200.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Please check the web page <a href="http://www.cogsima2021.org" class="">http://www.cogsima2021.org</a> for additional information over the next few weeks.</div><div class="">Submit your papers via edas at <a href="https://edas.info/N27855" class="">https://edas.info/N27855</a> </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div class="">CALL FOR PAPERS</div><div class="">-------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div class="">2021 IEEE Conference on Cognitive and Computational Aspects of Situation Management (CogSIMA 2021)</div><div class="">17-20 May 2021</div><div class="">Virtual Conference </div><div class="">Hosted by Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://www.cogsima2021.org" class="">http://www.cogsima2021.org</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Sponsored by the IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society</div><div class="">-------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div class="">DEFINITION AND SCOPE</div><div class="">-------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div class="">Where Cognitive Science meets Computer Science</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We are proud to announce that the 11th IEEE Conference on Cognitive and Computational Aspects of Situation Management (CogSIMA) will be held in Europe for the very first time, in the vibrant and charming Tallinn, Estonia!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Organized by the IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society's Technical Committee on Cognitive Situation Management, the CogSIMA conference series provides the premier venue for discussing 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.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Since 2011 the CogSIMA conferences promote a holistic cognitive approach to multidisciplinary research on dynamic cyber-physical-social systems of systems, whose constituent systems can be autonomous, and often collaborate and interoperate with organizations, machines, computer agents, and humans situated in complex dynamic environments. Critical to these systems of systems are their cognitive capabilities to sense, perceive and comprehend situations, reason and act on situations, demonstrate abilities of learning, self-organization, and collective intelligence, and their ability to consider the impact of interdependencies with the other systems.</div><div class="">Adhering to its successful interdisciplinary tradition, CogSIMA 2021 will provide an inspiring forum for scientists and practitioners from diverse backgrounds including cognitive science, computer science, artificial intelligence, psychology, and human factors. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div class="">TOPICS OF INTEREST</div><div class="">-------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div class="">Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: </div><div class="">Situation Management – Foundations</div><div class="">• Conceptual frameworks, architectures, and models of cognitive situation management and control</div><div class="">• New advances in situation awareness, control, and decision support</div><div class="">• Situation awareness: public vs. organizational vs. team vs. individual; distributed vs. shared awareness</div><div class="">• Formalization of situations and situational reasoning</div><div class="">• Situational “Big Data” analysis, situation mining, discovery, early detection of anomalies and patterns</div><div class="">• Stimuli-reaction, negative feedback, and predictive situation control</div><div class="">• Situation modeling, comparison, assessment, validation, metrics, and performance measurements</div><div class="">• Near real-time situation awareness and control</div><div class="">• Mental models, self-awareness, cognitive processes, and impact of barriers (environmental, physiological, psychological, and social barriers)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Collective Situation Management and Control</div><div class="">• Collective intelligence and emergent behavior in situation management</div><div class="">• Biologically inspired computational models of situation management</div><div class="">• Cooperation and collaboration in multi-agent situation management</div><div class="">• Models of shared and distributed situation awareness and control</div><div class="">• Adaptation and self-organization in cognitive situation management and control</div><div class="">• Models of collective, autonomous, and resilient situation control in hostile environments</div><div class="">• Integration of self-awareness and self-X capability models into cognitive situation management</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Human-Artificial Intelligence Situation Management</div><div class="">• Socially sensitive design and socially responsive design</div><div class="">• Situation management in cyber-physical-social systems</div><div class="">• Integration of human and signal intelligence</div><div class="">• Human teaming with autonomous systems, human-AI teaming</div><div class="">• Computer-aided human decision-making in incomplete known, conflicting, and stressful situations</div><div class="">• Processing social media and other related human considerations to improve situation awareness</div><div class="">• The impact of human competence and motivation in situation management</div><div class="">• Distressed and handicapped persons in CogSIMA control loop</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Situation Management Applications</div><div class="">• System-level experiments and application-specific research</div><div class="">• Situation awareness and control for cybersecurity</div><div class="">• Autonomous vehicles and transportation systems</div><div class="">• Health care and pandemic situation management </div><div class="">• Political cooperation and disruption of fake data </div><div class="">• Defence and autonomous mission control applications</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div class="">SUBMISSIONS GUIDELINE AND PUBLICATION</div><div class="">-------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div class="">We invite two types of submissions, regular papers and poster presentations, which will undergo a competitive review process. All papers must present original and unpublished work that is not currently under review elsewhere. 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.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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. In addition, research providing novel system designs, algorithms, interface technologies, and computational methods supporting elements of situation management are encouraged. Submitted papers should address issues related to the general domain of situation management.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">• Regular Papers (5-8 pages): describe new results that advance the state-of-the-art. </div><div class="">• Poster Presentations (3-5 pages): describe work in progress and will be included in the final conference proceedings submitted to the IEEE Xplore® Digital Library.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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 who is qualified both to present and answer questions. All paper submissions will be handled electronically in EDAS (<a href="https://edas.info/index.php?c=27855" class="">https://edas.info/index.php?c=27855</a>). Authors should prepare a Portable Document Format (PDF) version of their paper using the stylesheet templates provided by IEEE. For authors with multiple accepted papers, one full registration is valid for up to 3 papers.</div><div class="">Accepted papers and poster presentations will be submitted for publication in the IEEE Xplore® Digital Library, which will be indexed by major indexing and web discovery services (such as Google Scholar, Scopus, DBLP, Semantic Scholar etc.).</div><div class="">Authors are requested to submit their papers electronically using the online conference management system (<a href="https://edas.info/N27855" class="">https://edas.info/N27855</a>) in PDF format before the deadline.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div class="">DUE DATES</div><div class="">-------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div class="">Regular Papers and Poster Papers: January 31, 2021 </div><div class="">Acceptance Notification: March 1, 2021</div><div class="">Camera Ready: March 31, 2021</div><div class="">-------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">CONTACT</div><div class="">For more information, please contact us at <a href="mailto:admin@cogsima.org" class="">admin@cogsima.org</a></div><div class="">Conference website: <a href="http://www.cogsima2021.org" class="">http://www.cogsima2021.org</a></div><div class="">CogSIMA community website: <a href="http://www.cogsima.org" class="">http://www.cogsima.org</a></div><div class="">Follow #cogsima on LinkedIn!</div><div class="">
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