2024 IEEE Conference on Cognitive and Computational Aspects
of Situation Management (CogSIMA)

May 7-10, 2024 | Montréal, Canada

Photo by Matthias Mullie on Unsplash

Organizing Committee


General Chair
Elisa Shahbazian
OODA Technologies Inc.,
Canada

General Co-Chair
Melita Hadzagic
OODA Technologies Inc.
Canada
   

Honorary Chair
Gabriel Jakobson
CyberGem Consulting,
USA
Local Chair
Jeremy Cooperstock
McGill University
Canada

Finance Chair
Ken Baclawski
Northeastern University,
USA
     
TPC Co-Chair
Galya Rogova
The State University of New York at Buffalo, USA

TPC Co-Chair
Alicia Ruvinsky
ERDC US Army,
USA

TPC Co-Chair
Tom Ziemke, Linköping University, Sweden
     

Industry Liaison
Chair
Michael Kozak
Lockheed Martin,
USA

IEEE/IEEE SMC Liaison Co-Chair
Enrique Herrera-Viedma
University of Granada,
Spain

IEEE/IEEE SMC Liaison Co-Chair
Giancarlo Fortino
University of Calabria,
Italy
   

CAN Gov DND Liaison Chair
Andre Dupuis
Space Strategies Consulting Ltd,
Canada

CogSIMA Steering Committee Chair
Scott Fouse
Independent Consultant,
USA

Publicity / Keynote
Chair
Kellyn Rein
Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, Germany
   

Tutorial Chair
Andrea Salfinger
University of Udine,
Italy

Publication Chair
Benito Mendoza
New York City College of Technology (CityTech),
USA


Technical Program Committee

Dave Braines, IBM UK Ltd, United Kingdom (Great Britain), United Kingdom (Great Britain)
Jin-Hee Cho, Virginia Tech, USA, USA
Nancy Cooke, Arizona State University, USA, USA
Giuseppe D'Aniello, University of Salerno, Italy, Italy
Natalia Derbentseva, Defence R&D Canada, Canada, Canada
Patricia Dockhorn Costa, Federal University of Espirito Santo, Brazil, Brazil
Valentina Dragos, ONERA, France, France
Varun Dutt, Indian Institute of Technology, Mandi, India, India
Göran Falkman, University of Skövde, Sweden, Sweden
Jesus Garcia, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain, Spain
Georg Hägele, Husqvarna Group, Sweden, Sweden
Mieczyslaw Kokar, Northeastern University, USA, USA
Achim Kuwertz-Wolf, Fraunhofer IOSB & Fraunhofer Institute of Optronics, System Technologies and Image Exploitation (IOSB), Germany, Germany
Kathryn Laskey, George Mason University, USA, USA
Christian Lebiere, Carnegie Mellon University, USA, USA
Gaëlle Lortal, Thales R&T, France, France
Dalila B. Megherbi, Unversity of Massachusetts, Lowell, USA, USA
Patrick Philipp, University of Applied Sciences Koblenz, Germany, Germany
Arezoo Sarkheyli-Hägele, Malmö universitet, Sweden, Sweden
David Schuster, San Jose State University, USA, USA
Alexander Smirnov, SPIIRAS, Russia, Russia
Lauro Snidaro, University of Udine, Italy, Italy
Dirk Soeffker, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany, Germany
Alan N. Steinberg, Alan Steinberg, Independent Consultant, USA, USA
Pontus Svenson, RISE, Sweden, Sweden
Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, Wright State University, USA, USA
Robert Thomson, United States Military Academy & Army Cyber Institute, USA, USA
Risto Vaarandi, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia, Estonia
Rob Vingerhoeds, ISAE-SUPAERO, France, France
Chen Zhong, University of Tampa, USA, USA

News

May 10: We thank our speakers, attendees and organizing team for making CogSIMA 2024 happen! Please stay tuned for CogSIMA 2025 in Duisburg, Germany!

May 10: We thank our sponsors and patrons IEEE, IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society, ISIF, and OODA Technologies Inc.!
May 8: Venue update - on May 9 - 10, the conference events will take place in Arts W-120.
May 3: Venue updated - the main conference events will take place in Leacock 232.
Apr 18: We are pleased to announce keynotes by Dr. Kellyn Rein and Mr. Pete JW Saunders.
Apr 8: Tentative Program available.
Mar 28: Accommodations: CogSIMA 2024 group rates at Royal Victoria College (reserved for students, reservations due April 1) and Hôtel Le Cantlie Suites (reservations due April 8)
Mar 27: Paper acceptance notifications have been sent out.
Mar 06: We are thrilled to share that McGill Univ.'s user-centered design experts of the ADvanced AIRspace Usability (ADAIR) project will instruct a tutorial on Situation Awareness in the Design of Future Complex Systems.
Feb 29: We are excited to announce tutorials by renowned experts Prof. Péter Érdi on the cybernetics topic of feedback control, Prof. Prof. Galina Rogova on decision making under risk, and Alan Steinberg on context-sensitive information exploitation systems.
Feb 26: We are pleased to announce that Prof. Giancarlo Fortino (Univ. of Calabria, IT) will present a keynote address on "Situation-Aware Wearable Computing Systems".
Feb 5: Registration fees have been posted.
Oct 3: We are very happy to announce that the Technical Committee on Cognitive Situation Management has been recognized with the 2023 Most Active SMC Technical Committee Award Cybernetics at IEEE SMC 2023.

 

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