Computer Modeling calls for papers / publications

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Future Generation Computer Systems: Extreme Scale Parallel Architectures and Systems

This special issue invites submissions from researchers working on Experimental Infrastructures for Exascale Research and Development. Work in this area includes investigation of experimental components and systems for extreme-scale, simulation methods and tools targeting extreme scale, benchmarking, application characterisation workload generation tools, and other related experimental systems and methods.

Submissions are encouraged on disruptive approaches to address the challenges of research and development for systems that do not exist as-of-yet. Another aspect of equal importance is the creation of a palette of scientific methods and experimental infrastructures (in software and/or hardware) to evaluate novel ideas (technologies, algorithms, systems). Some of the pressing issues that need to be addressed in this context are scalability of experiments, validation/extrapolation of scientific results, and characterization of expected workloads and their synthetic generation. Given the high cost of ownership and the limited access to the top-end of parallel systems, it is important to pursue experimental architectures and systems comprising of off-the-shelf components, configured, modified, or enhanced in such a way that they can provide insight into aspects of exascale systems.

Topics

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Testbed design and evaluation
Experimental clusters/systems targeting extreme scale
Workload generation and benchmarking
Exascale application characterisation
Analytical modelling and simulation of systems
Techniques for extrapolation of experimental results to extreme-scale
Validation of projection/extrapolation techniques
Suitability/adaptability of commercial, off-the-shelf components (COTS)
Cost, energy, performance and resilience
Methodologies and tools
Co-design approaches

Important Dates

Full paper submission deadline: 29 June 2012
Review results and notification of acceptance: 31 August 2012
Final revised paper: 31 October 2012
Publication: February 2013

Guest Editors

Shoukat Ali, Exascale Systems, IBM Research, Ireland (ALISHOU8@ie.ibm.com)
Kostas Katrinis, Exascale Systems, IBM Research, Ireland (katrinisk@ie.ibm.com)
Rolf Riesen, Exascale Systems, IBM Research, Ireland (rolf.riesen@ie.ibm.com)
Georgios Theodoropoulos, Exascale Systems, IBM Research, Ireland (geortheo@ie.ibm.com)

Submission Format

Submissions must be written in English. Papers must contain novel ideas and must differ significantly in content from previously published papers and papers under simultaneous submission. Authors should prepare and submit manuscripts according to the Guide for Authors in the following link: http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/505611/authorinstructions

If you have any questions about paper submission or the special issue, please contact one of the Guest Editors.

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Cognitive Systems Research: Computational Models of Mindreading

Special issue editors: Paul Bello (paul.bello@navy.mil) & Marcello Guarini (mguarini@uwindsor.ca)

Mindreading, or the ability to represent and reason about the mental states of other agents and oneself, is a pervasive part of cognition that has yet to be deeply explored from a computational perspective. As a fundamental enabler for language understanding, plan recognition, cooperation, competition and moral cognition, it follows that detailed models of mental state attributions are a prerequisite for the development of a more complete theory of the human mind. Current cognitive theories of mindreading are predominantly philosophical in nature, with empirical work seemingly unable to provide definitive answers as to which framework might be the most defensible. Now that researchers have started to build cognitive models of mental-state reasoning, it is hoped that computational considerations may weigh in on the matter of how best to understand mindreading. This special issue seeks to promote interdisciplinary dialogue between computational cognitive modelers, philosophers, and psychologists studying the nature and operation of the human capacity to mindread. The emphasis of the issue will be placed on computational models and how they both inform and are informed by work in other disciplines.

Papers on mindreading are invited from AI, cognitive, social and developmental psychology, cognitive neuroscience, linguistics, philosophy of psychology and other related disciplines.
A non-exclusive set of possible topics (among other possibilities) are:

• Computational representations of mental states
• Cognitive models of the attribution process, including attribution errors.
• Developmental models of mindreading, including both spontaneous elicitation and verbally presented mindreading tasks.
• Imagination as it relates to mindreading
• Introspection and its relationship to 3rd-person mental-state attribution
• Propositional attitude reports
• Philosophical foundations, including the theory/simulation debate and the debate over the domain-specificity of the human mindreading capacity.
• Computational/formal treatments of theory-driven, simulation-oriented, modular, hybrid, or other accounts of mindreading.
• Mental state reasoning in abduction and plan-recognition.
• Mindreading and moral, legal or other forms of normative cognition

Please submit papers electronically, in a PostScript or PDF form, by June 1st 2012, to the editors listed above.

Call for Papers for Special Issue or Section of the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology: Advances in Data Analytic Methods for Evaluating Treatment Outcome and Mechanisms of Change

Important Dates

June 1, 2012: deadline to submit a 1-page proposal outlining the full manuscript
July 1, 2012: notification to authors of selected proposals
October 1, 2012: deadline to submit full manuscript

The Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology (JCCP) plans to publish a special issue or section on "Advances in Data Analytic Methods for Evaluating Treatment Outcome and Mechanisms of Change" in 2013.

Over the past decade, there has been considerable advancement in the areas of data and statistical modeling to better test hypotheses about treatment trajectory, outcomes, moderation, mediation, and the appropriate handling of missing data.

The objective of this special issue is to facilitate the dissemination of these new technologies, thereby enhancing the quality of research as it relates to topics central to JCCP.

To this end, we are calling for original manuscript submissions within this broad framework, which include, but are not limited to, the following topics:

Applying sophisticated growth curve models to more accurately model change in outcomes over time;
Multivariate multilevel modeling;
Appropriate management of missing data;
Addressing non ignorable missingness;
Multilevel meta-analyses;
Examining predictors and moderators of treatment outcome;
Establishing causal inference

We intend to publish papers that introduce recent developments in data analysis and illustrate their utility for advancing knowledge about treatment efficacy and mechanisms of change, using clinically relevant examples.

Ideal manuscripts would preferably demonstrate the application of the technique(s) to an existing dataset or to simulated datasets (as in a Monte Carlo study), possibly with a comparison to other available and often employed techniques.

As such, the papers in this special issue/section can complement articles covering these topics published in other established outlets (e.g., Psychological Methods, Statistics in Medicine), which typically provide a more technical analysis of the statistical performance of various techniques and approaches.

The editors for this issue are David Rosenfield (Guest Editor), Scott N. Compton (JCCP Associate Editor), Stefan G. Hofmann (JCCP Associate Editor) and Jasper A. J. Smits (JCCP Incoming Associate Editor).

Authors interested in having a manuscript considered for this special issue/section need to first submit a 1-page proposal outlining the full manuscript by June 1, 2012. Authors of selected proposals will be notified by July 1, 2012 inviting them to submit a full paper due October 1, 2012.

All invited manuscripts will undergo the normal peer review process. Note that an initial invitation does not guarantee acceptance. All manuscripts should be prepared in strict accordance with JCCP guidelines (see the Instructions to Authors section of the JCCP homepage) and eventually submitted through the JCCP manuscript submission portal.

Questions about appropriate topics, as well as the 1-page proposals, can be sent to Dr. David Rosenfield.