2017 IEEE Conference on Cognitive and Computational Aspects of Situation Management (CogSIMA)

March 27-31, 2017, Savannah, GA, USA

The 2017 IEEE Conference on Cognitive and Computational Aspects of Situation Management (CogSIMA) took place at the Hilton Savannah Desoto Hotel in Savannah, Georgia. Sessions

• Dealing with Situations
• SA and Big Data
• Dealing with Complex Environments
• Decision Making & Support
• Human-Machine Interaction
• Interaction with Autonomous Systems

Panels

• SA and Big Data
• SA and Robotics

Main Topics

• Theories of situation management, cognitive methods, and decision support
• Studies of concepts of situation, context, event, goal, intention, action, activity, behavior in interactive human-machine systems
• Situation perception, comprehension, tracking, prediction and management
• Collaborative decision support
• Approaches to spatial and temporal reasoning, reasoning about goals, intentions and actions, and collective reasoning by teams of human and/or machine agents
• Metrics and evaluation of performance of hybrid human-machine systems
• Situation-dependent data integration
• Information fusion
• Modeling of situations – model acquisition, construction, adaptation and learning
• Models of human-machine collaboration, hybrid and distributed cognition
• Ontology-based computing
• Systems, platforms and tools for situation awareness and decision support
• System-level experiments
• Application-specific research

Keynotes

• Dr. Kris Hammond, Narrative Science. “Communicating with the New Machine: Human Insight at Machine Scale”
• Dr. Doug Riecken, Program Officer Science of Information, Computation, Learning and Fusion, Air Force Office of Scientific Research. “Minsky K-line Memory: Integration of Multi-Strategy Reasoning and Learning”
• Dr. John D. Lee, University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Trusting Increasingly Autonomous Cars”
• Mr. Dave Gunning, DARPA.  “The Creation of Siri”

Tutorials

• Dr. Peter Erdi. “Systems Theoretical Approach to Situation Awareness: Historical and Modern Perspectives”
• Drs. James Llinas & Galina Rogova. “Higher Level Information Fusion for Intelligence Analysis, Decision-making, and Situation Management: Challenges and Computational Approaches”
• Drs. Bart Russell & Bill Casebeer “Building Closed-Loop Human Performance Improvement Systems: Keeping Autonomy in Mind“
• Dr. Kellyn Rein. “Are you Sure?” Uncertainty in Textual Information in Situation Understanding”

  More Info at IEEE CogSIMA 2017 website.