Where Cognitive Science Meets Computer Science
Since 2011 the CogSIMA conferences promote a holistic cognitive approach to multidisciplinary research on dynamic cyber-physical-social systems of systems, whose constituent systems can be autonomous, and often collaborate and interoperate with organizations, machines, computer agents, and humans situated in complex dynamic environments. Critical to these systems of systems are their cognitive capabilities to sense, perceive and comprehend situations, reason and act on situations, demonstrate abilities of learning, self-organization, and collective intelligence, and their ability to consider the impact of interdependencies with the other systems.
The CogSIMA conferences are aimed at researchers and practitioners from academia, industry and government, with a wide variety of backgrounds and experience including computer science, human factors, cognitive science, modeling & simulation, robotics, and systems engineering.
Topics of Interest
Situation Management – Foundations
- Conceptual frameworks, architectures, and models of cognitive situation management and control
- New advances in situation awareness, control, and decision support
- Situation awareness: public vs. organizational vs. team vs. individual; distributed vs. shared awareness
- Formalization of situations and situational reasoning
- Situational “Big Data” analysis, situation mining, discovery, early detection of anomalies and patterns
- Stimuli-reaction, negative feedback, and predictive situation control
- Situation modeling, comparison, assessment, validation, metrics, and performance measurements
- Near real-time situation awareness and control
- Mental models, self-awareness, cognitive processes, and impact of barriers (environmental, physiological, psychological, and social barriers)
Collective Situation Management and Control
- Collective intelligence and emergent behavior in situation management
- Biologically inspired computational models of situation management
- Cooperation and collaboration in multi-agent situation management
- Models of shared and distributed situation awareness and control
- Adaptation and self-organization in cognitive situation management and control
- Models of collective, autonomous, and resilient situation control in hostile environments
- Integration of self-awareness and self-X capability models into cognitive situation management
Human-Artificial Intelligence Situation Management
- Socially sensitive design and socially responsive design
- Situation management in cyber-physical-social systems
- Integration of human and signal intelligence
- Human teaming with autonomous systems, human-AI teaming
- Computer-aided human decision-making in incomplete known, conflicting, and stressful situations
- Processing social media and other related human considerations to improve situation awareness
- The impact of human competence and motivation in situation management
- Distressed and handicapped persons in CogSIMA control loop
Situation Management Applications
- System-level experiments and application-specific research
- Situation awareness and control for cybersecurity
- Autonomous vehicles and transportation systems
- Health care and pandemic situation management
- Political cooperation and disruption of fake data
- Defence and autonomous mission control applications
Past CogSIMA Conferences
CogSIMA Activities
Please find further information on activities from the CogSIMA community under www.cogsima.org.
