International Conference on Cognitive Modeling 2010 Doctoral Consortium

这笔资金用于支持一个由大约10名研究生和杰出的研究人员组成的博士联盟(研讨会)。该活动将于2010年8月5日星期四举行，紧接着2010年8月6日至8日在费城德雷克塞尔大学举行的2010年国际认知建模会议(ICCM)。在过去的二十年里，认知建模已经成为一门重要的学科，无论是为了促进我们对大脑的理解，还是为了开发节省资金和生命的现实世界应用程序。使用计算机对大脑进行建模也开启了将我们的大脑理论应用于现实世界的可能性，从能够更好地设计人机界面，到评估任务工作量和预测人类在任务关键角色中的表现，再到创建参与大规模训练演习的人类模拟。ICCM是研究计算模型和基于计算的人类行为理论的主要国际论坛。它填补了其他相关会议之间的一个关键利基，因为会议主题涵盖了包括连接主义、符号建模、动力系统、贝叶斯建模和认知架构在内的所有认知模型。ICCM包括广泛领域的基础和应用研究，从低层次的感知和关注到高层次的问题解决和学习。有关这次会议的更多信息，请访问http://iccm2010.cs.drexel.edu.The，该博士联盟将汇集来自世界各地的认知建模领域的顶尖研究生。每个学生将有大约20-30分钟的时间来介绍他/她的论文研究。学生将得到其他学生的反馈，以及该领域三位高级领导的评论和指导。这些导师将根据他们与学生合作的能力以及他们的专业知识广度而被挑选出来(认知建模是一个广泛的领域，有许多不同的方法，研讨会的组织者计划确保导师代表该领域的广度)。在为期一天的联盟会议结束时，整个小组(学生和导师)将在当地一家餐厅享用晚餐，进行不那么正式但仍有价值的讨论和互动。会议第二天正式开始，学生们现在可以在会议期间和会议招待会上与更大的社区打成一片。德雷克塞尔大学已经慷慨地同意为博士团提供空间、视听和网络设施，作为他们对ICCM会议的支持的一部分，并且不会向NSF基金收取管理费用。深远的影响：为了不断刷新和更新研究，有必要不断地将新的研究人员引入该领域。博士联合体是帮助研究生顺利过渡到独立研究人员的重要途径。因此，该联盟的一个主要目标是作为建立一个多样化的学生和未来研究人员群体的第一步，将他们聚集在一起，以便他们能够建立一个联系网络，既与该领域的高级领导人，也与将在未来多年活跃在该领域的其他学生。将鼓励参与者在他们自己之间以及与处于其专业发展关键阶段的高级研究人员建立一个社交网络，以形成合作关系，并可能产生新的研究问题，以便在未来几年得到解决。讲习班组织者将特别努力从代表性不足的群体(包括妇女、少数群体和残疾人)招收学生，以及从规模较小的学校和/或研究中心较少的学校招收学生。

This is funding to support a doctoral consortium (workshop) of approximately 10 graduate students along with distinguished research faculty. The event will take place on Thursday, August 5, 2010, immediately preceding the 2010 International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (ICCM) to be held August 6-8, 2010, at Drexel University in Philadelphia. Cognitive modeling has emerged over the last twenty years as an important discipline, both for advancing our understanding of the mind and for developing real-world applications that save money and lives. Using computers to model the mind has also opened up the application of our theories of the mind to real world applications, from being able to better design human-computer interfaces, to evaluating task workload and predicting human performance in mission-critical roles, to creating simulations of humans that participate in large-scale training exercises. ICCM is the premier international forum for research on computational models and computation-based theories of human behavior. It fills a critical niche between other related conferences, in that conference topics span the complete spectrum of cognitive models including connectionism, symbolic modeling, dynamical systems, Bayesian modeling, and cognitive architectures. ICCM includes basic and applied research across a wide variety of domains, ranging from low-level perception and attention to higher-level problem-solving and learning. More information about the conference is available at http://iccm2010.cs.drexel.edu.The doctoral consortium will bring together the top graduate students in cognitive modeling from around the world. Each student will have about 20-30 minutes to present his/her thesis research. Students will get feedback from the other students, as well as comments and mentoring from three senior leaders in the field. The mentors will be picked for their ability to work with students, as well as for their breadth of expertise (cognitive modeling is a broad field with many different methodologies, and the workshop organizers plan to ensure that the mentors represent the breadth of the field). At the conclusion of the daylong consortium sessions, the entire group (students and mentors) will enjoy a dinner at a local restaurant for less formal but still valuable discussions and interaction. The conference proper begins the following day, at which the students can now mingle with the larger community both in the conference sessions and at the conference reception. Drexel University has graciously agreed to contribute space, audio/visual, and networking facilities for the doctoral consortium as part of their support for the ICCM conference, and will not charge overhead on the NSF funding.Broader Impacts: To keep refreshing and renewing research, it is necessary to continually bring new investigators into the field. The doctoral consortium is an important avenue for helping graduate students successfully transition to independent researchers. Thus, a primary objective of the consortium is to serve as a first step in creating a diverse cohort of students and future researchers, by bringing them together so that they can build up a network of contacts, both with senior leaders in the field and with other students who will be active in the field for years to come. Participants will be encouraged to create a social network both among themselves and with senior researchers at a critical stage in their professional development, to form collaborative relationships, and perhaps to generate new research questions to be addressed during the coming years. The workshop organizers will make a particular effort to recruit students from under-represented groups (including women, minorities, and persons with disabilities), as well as students from smaller schools and/or schools with less established research centers.