(Best viewed in HTML; Apologies for Cross-Postings) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The BRiMS 2012 Submission Deadline has been extended to January 6, 2012 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ For details on submission content, guidelines, and templates, please navigate to: http://brimsconference.org/submissions/ You are invited to participate in the 21st Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (BRiMS), to be held at the Omni Amelia Island Plantation Resort in Amelia Island, Florida. BRiMS enables modeling and simulation research scientists, engineers, and technical communities across disciplines to meet, share ideas, identify capability gaps, discuss cutting-edge research directions, highlight promising technologies, and showcase the state-of-the-art in Department of Defense related applications. The BRiMS Conference will consist of many exciting elements in 2012, including special topic areas, technical paper sessions, special symposia/panel discussions, and government laboratory sponsor sessions. The BRiMS Executive Committee invites papers, posters, demos, symposia, panel discussions, and tutorials on topics related to the representation of individuals, groups, teams and organizations in models and simulations. All submissions are peer-reviewed (see www.brimsconference.org for additional details on submission types). Key Dates: All submissions due: January 6, 2012 Tutorial Acceptance: January 20, 2012 Authors Notification January 30, 2012 Final version due: February 15, 2012 Tutorials held: March 12, 2012 BRIMS 2012 Opens: March 13, 2012 Special Topic Areas of Interest are identified to elicit specific technical content: * M&S in military domains * Tools for building distributed/large-scale M&S systems * Data-driven M&S * Modeling in multi-user gaming and simulation * Modeling of business processes and organizations * Models of online social interactions General Topic Areas of Interest include, but are not limited to: Modeling * Intelligent agents and avatars/adversarial modeling * Cognitive robots and human-robot interaction * Models of reasoning and decision making * Model validation & comparison * Socio-cultural M&S: team/group/crowd/ behavior * Physical models of human movement * Performance assessment and skill monitoring/tracking * Performance prediction/enhancement/optimization * Intelligent tutoring systems * Knowledge acquisition/engineering * Human behavior issues in model federations Simulation * Synthetic environments for human behavior representation * Terrain representation and reasoning * Spatial reasoning * Time representation * Human behavior usability and interoperability * Efficiency, usability, affordability issues * Operator interfaces * Multi-resolution/fidelity simulations * Science of simulation issues ACCOMMODATIONS and REGISTRATION The conference will be held at the Omni Amelia Island Plantation Resort in Amelia Island, FL. Visit http://www.omnihotels.com/FindAHotel/AmeliaIsland/MeetingFacilities/Reso rtMap.aspx for general information about the site and accommodations. Conference and hotel registration, general area, and travel information can be found at www.brimsconference.org. BRIMS PROGAM COMMITTEE: Bradley J. Best (Adaptive Cognitive Systems) William G. Kennedy (George Mason University) Robert St. Amant (North Carolina State University) BRIMS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: Joe Armstrong (CAE), Brad Cain (Defence Research and Development Canada), Bruno Emond (National Research Council Canada), Coty Gonzalez (Carnegie Mellon University), Brian Gore (NASA), Jeff Hansberger (Army Research Laboratory), Kenneth Kwok (DSO National Laboratories, Singapore), John Laird (University of Michigan), Christian Lebiere (Carnegie Mellon University), Christopher Myers (Air Force Research Laboratory), Bharat Patel (Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, UK), Sylvain Pronovost (Carleton University & CAE), Venkat Sastry (University of Cranfield), Barry Silverman (University of Pennsylvania), Neil Smith (QinetiQ), LtCol David Sonntag (AOARD), Webb Stacy (Aptima), Mike van Lent (SoarTech), Walter Warwick (Alion Science and Technology), Jason Wong (Naval Undersea Warfare Center), Patrick Xavier (Sandia National Laboratories) A special thanks to the BRIMS 2012 Government Sponsors for their support of this event: Air Force Research Laboratory, Army Research Laboratory, DARPA, Office of Naval Research, NASA, and the UK Ministry of Defence. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the BRIMS 2012 Conference Chair, Dr. Tiffany Jastrzembski ([log in to unmask]). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tiffany S. Jastrzembski, Ph.D. Cognitive Research Scientist Air Force Research Laboratory 2698 G Street, Building 190 Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433-7604 [log in to unmask] --------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send an empty email to mailto:[log in to unmask] For further details of CHI lists see http://listserv.acm.org ---------------------------------------------------------------