Where Cognitive Science meets Computer Science
The CogSIMA conference series provides an annual venue for presenting multi-disciplinary research on complex heterogeneous dynamical systems - of interacting humans, machines, computer agents and/or networks - whose individual and/or collective behavior depends on their situation awareness. Examples of systems include a variety of command and control systems, disaster monitoring and recovery systems, human-robot teams, physical and cyber security situation awareness systems, intelligent transportation systems, health care medical situation control systems, and many other systems. Common to these systems is the need to adequately perceive, reflect, act, and communicate according to the current situation and expected changes - both in the environment and within the systems themselves. The amount and variable quality of information that needs to be processed in order to derive decisions typically poses significant challenges for both human cognitive capabilities and computer processing power.
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.
The theme "Improved Situation Awareness in Theory and Application" will cover theory and applications of cognitive situation awareness/management in many fields including air traffic control, military operations, transportation, power systems, law enforcement, emergency management, health care, space, education, mining, and oil and gas operations, driving among others, developments of advanced information displays, the design of automated decision support systems, information fusion algorithms, new training approaches for improving SA in individuals and teams and other aspects of interest for more informed decision making.
Topics of Interest
- Situation sensing, perception, comprehension, and prediction
- "Big Data" analysis and social media processing for situation awareness
- Cognitive information fusion
- Integration of human and signal intelligence, cyber-physical-social systems
- Models of collaboration and emergent behavior in cognitive multiagent systems
- Situation recognition in autonomous systems and autonomous vehicles
- Situation assessment in Reinforcement Learning and Deep Learning
- Generative AI and Explainable AI for situation awareness and situated human-machine interaction
- Cognitive Situation Management with Neuroergonomics and Brain-Machine Interface
- Biologically-inspired computational models of situation management
- Approaches to spatial and temporal reasoning, reasoning about goals, intentions and actions
- Models of human-machine collaboration
- Performance evaluation and metrics of human- machine systems including human-AI teaming
- Ontology-based computing, context modeling and discovery, situation modeling, representation and identification
- Systems, platforms and tools for situation awareness, situation control, and decision support
- System-level experiments and application-specific research
Past CogSIMA Conferences
CogSIMA Activities
Please find further information on activities from the CogSIMA community under www.cogsima.org.
