CogSIMA 2018 is sponsored by the IEEE Systems, Man and
Cybernetics Society of the IEEE
Call for Papers and Tutorials
CogSIMA 2018 continues and expands the research domain of situation management
that was established by the first conference CogSIMA 2011. The aim of CogSIMA
conferences is to provide a venue for presenting scientific results on
interdisciplinary studies of complex heterogeneous dynamical systems that
include humans, physical systems, and computer agents whose behaviors depend on
situations.
All papers must present original and unpublished work that is not currently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. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to attend the
conference. Three types of paper submissions will be accepted:
Oral Papers (5-7 pages): Papers that describe new results that advance the
state-of-the-art
Poster Papers (3-5 pages): Papers that describe work in progress
Late Breaking Reports (2-3 pages): Papers to present early findings of
cutting-edge research
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. It is assumed that the submitted papers
address the issues related to the general domain of situation management
Topics:
Cognitive models of situation awareness, decision making, and situation
management
Studies of concepts of situation, context, event, goal, intention, action,
activity, behavior in interactive human-machine systems
Situation sensing, 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
Context modeling and discovering
Systems, platforms and tools for situation awareness and decision support
System-level experiments
Application-specific research
Call for Special Sessions
Interested attendees are encouraged to propose special sessions, which consist
of five papers that provide a focused discussion of new or innovative topics.
Each proposal must include the session title, description, and organizers.
Special session papers will undergo the same review process. Special session
papers must be clearly indicated when submitted with a copy sent to the
designated special session organizer.
Call for Tutorials
Proposals are invited for half-day tutorials. Tutorials will be held on 11 June
2018. Tutorial proposal must include tutorial title, outline and description,
and bio of the tutorial instructor. Tutorial should be submitted via EDAS as
paper submissions with page limit of 1. For enquiries, please contact cogsimainfo@ieee.org.
Submission Guidelines
Submitted papers should clearly indicate on the first page the submission type.
Authors of accepted papers will need to sign an IEEE copyright release form and
present their paper at the conference. The conference proceedings will be
digitally published by IEEE Communications Society and will be included into
the IEEE Explore Digital Library.
All paper submissions will be handled electronically in EDAS via the CogSIMA
2018 submission page. Authors should prepare a Portable Document Format (PDF)
version of their full paper in 2-column style (main text in 10-point size)
including figures and correct margins. Please use the stylesheet templates
provided by IEEE to assure that your proposal is in line with our guidelines.
For more information contact cogsimainfo@ieee.org.
Publication
The conference proceedings will be electronically published in the IEEE CogSIMA
Conference Proceedings and will be included into the IEEE Explore Digital
Library. 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 and who
is qualified both to present and answer questions. Non-refundable registration
fees must be paid prior to uploading the final IEEE formatted,
publication-ready version of the paper. For authors with multiple accepted
papers, one full registration is valid for up to 3 papers.
Due Dates
Oral/Poster Papers and Tutorials: February 12, 2018
Late Breaking Reports: March 26, 2018
