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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.