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，紧接将于2010年8月6日至8日在费城德雷塞尔大学举行的2010年认知建模国际会议（ICCM）。在过去的二十年里，认知建模作为一门重要的学科出现了，它既促进了我们对思维的理解，也为开发现实世界的应用程序节省了金钱和生命。使用计算机对思维进行建模也将我们的思维理论应用于现实世界，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关键任务中的表现，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。它在其他相关会议之间填补了一个关键的利基，在该会议中，主题涵盖了认知模型的完整范围，包括连接主义、符号建模、动力系统、贝叶斯建模和认知架构。ICCM包括广泛领域的基础和应用研究，从低级感知和注意到高级解决问题和学习。有关会议的更多信息可在http://iccm2010.cs.drexel.edu.The上获得，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。每位学生将有20-30分钟的时间来展示他/她的论文研究。学生们将得到其他学生的反馈，以及该领域三位资深领导的评论和指导。导师将根据他们与学生合作的能力和专业知识的广度来挑选（认知建模是一个包含许多不同方法的广泛领域，研讨会组织者计划确保导师代表该领域的广度）。在为期一天的联合会议结束时，整个小组（学生和导师）将在当地一家餐馆享用晚餐，进行不那么正式但仍然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会议和会议招待会上与更大的社区打成一片。德雷塞尔大学已经慷慨地同意为博士联盟提供空间、音频/视频和网络设施，作为他们对ICCM会议的支持的一部分，并且不会收取NSF资金的间接费用。更广泛的影响：为了保持研究的新鲜和更新，有必要不断地将新的研究者引入该领域。博士生联盟是帮助研究生成功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创建一个多样化的学生和未来研究人员群体的第一步，通过将他们聚集在一起，使他们能够与该领域的高级领导以及将在未来几年活跃在该领域的其他学生建立联系网络。参与者将被鼓励在他们自己之间以及与处于专业发展关键阶段的资深研究人员建立一个社会网络，形成合作关系，并可能在未来几年提出新的研究问题。讲习班组织者将特别努力招收来自代表性不足的群体（包括妇女、少数民族和残疾人）的学生，以及来自规模较小的学校和（或）研究中心不太完善的学校的学生。

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.