<div dir="ltr">[Apologies for multiple postings] <br> <br>We are pleased to announce the call for contributions for the inaugural IJCAII 2020 Workshop on Neuro-Cognitive Modeling of Humans and Environments, which will be held in Yokohama, Japan on Monday, 13th of July, 2020. The workshop is a half-day workshop that aims to initiate multidisciplinary gathering of experts interested in the area of dynamic human crowd motion and behavior, and their relationships to environmental conditions.<br> <br>We are looking for two-page extended abstracts that can be presented in poster and spotlight sessions. Please find the details of the submission instructions below. Additional information (e.g., invited speakers) will be available on our website (<a href="https://ncmhe.github.io/">https://ncmhe.github.io/</a>).<br> <br>Should you have any questions, please forward them to Sejong (<a href="mailto:yoons@tcnj.edu">yoons@tcnj.edu</a>).<br> <br>We are looking forward to seeing you in Yokohama!<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);border-right:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;padding-right:1ex"></blockquote>Best Regards,<br>NCMHE Organizers (<span>Vladimir</span> Pavlovic, Mubbasir Kapadia, Sejong Yoon)<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);border-right:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;padding-right:1ex"></blockquote>=== SUMMARY ===<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);border-right:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;padding-right:1ex"></blockquote>Title: Neuro-Cognitive Modeling of Humans and Environments<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);border-right:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;padding-right:1ex"></blockquote>When: July 13, 2020 (Morning)<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);border-right:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;padding-right:1ex"></blockquote>Where: Yokohama, Japan<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);border-right:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;padding-right:1ex"></blockquote>What: 2 page extended abstract in IJCAI format<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);border-right:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;padding-right:1ex"></blockquote>How: Submit to CMT site
(now accepting submissions)
-- <a href="https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/NCMHE2020">https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/NCMHE2020</a><br>Deadline: April 24, 2020<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);border-right:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;padding-right:1ex"></blockquote>=== DETAILS ===<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);border-right:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;padding-right:1ex"></blockquote>1. Background<div>Recent advances in AI help improving our understanding on dynamic human crowd motion and behavior. These advances provide essential grounds for modeling and simulating human crowd under various environmental conditions such as architectural structures (e.g. buildings, stations, stadiums, museums, airports). There is a growing recent interest in identifying relationship between human (crowd) behavior and the built environmental structures, utilizing recent developments in AI and machine learning techniques as well as incorporating findings from perceptual, cognitive principles.</div><div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);border-right:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;padding-right:1ex"></blockquote>This inaugural IJCAI-PRICAI 2020 Workshop aims to initiate the first-of-its-kind gathering of multidisciplinary experts interested in this area. This multidisciplinary approach combines cognitive principles and many different areas of machine learning to study the relationship between human behavior and the spaces they inhabit. It will also provide a platform for discussion on collecting appropriate data and challenges in the future gatherings.</div><div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);border-right:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;padding-right:1ex"></blockquote>We are looking for submissions of position papers and work-in-progress extended abstracts (2 pages) on the relevant topics, including but not limited to:</div><div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);border-right:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;padding-right:1ex"></blockquote>- Identifying existing challenges in the modeling of humans and environments<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);border-right:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;padding-right:1ex"></blockquote>- Identifying and analyzing the relationships between human (crowd) and various environments<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);border-right:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;padding-right:1ex"></blockquote>- Novel neuro-cognitive models for human (crowd) motion and behavior<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);border-right:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;padding-right:1ex"></blockquote>- Deep learning-based models<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);border-right:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;padding-right:1ex"></blockquote>- Reinforcement learning-based models<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);border-right:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;padding-right:1ex"></blockquote>- Graph-based representation learning models<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);border-right:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;padding-right:1ex"></blockquote>- Applications of neuro-cognitive models for human (crowd) and environment<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);border-right:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;padding-right:1ex"></blockquote>- Datasets for studying human (crowd) and environment relationships<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);border-right:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;padding-right:1ex"></blockquote><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);border-right:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;padding-right:1ex"></blockquote>2. How to Submit</div><div>Papers must be written in English, and no longer than 2 pages in IJCAI-PRICAI format. The reviewing process will follow the double blind policy. Position papers, forwarding looking work (work yet to be done), and summaries of published work are all welcome.</div><div><br></div><div>The official template can be downloaded from: <a href="https://www.ijcai.org/authors_kit">https://www.ijcai.org/authors_kit</a><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);border-right:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;padding-right:1ex"></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>Ths link to the submission CMT site is open: <a href="https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/NCMHE2020">https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/NCMHE2020</a>
</div><div><br></div><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);border-right:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;padding-right:1ex"></blockquote>3. IMPORTANT DATES<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);border-right:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;padding-right:1ex"></blockquote>Submission deadline: April 24, 2020<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);border-right:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;padding-right:1ex"></blockquote>Acceptance notification: May 24, 2020<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);border-right:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;padding-right:1ex"></blockquote>Camera ready deadline: May 31, 2020<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);border-right:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;padding-right:1ex"></blockquote>Workshop date: July 13, 2020 (Morning)<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);border-right:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;padding-right:1ex"></blockquote><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);border-right:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;padding-right:1ex"></blockquote>4. Program Schedule<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);border-right:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;padding-right:1ex"></blockquote>The inaugural event will be scheduled as a half-day workshop, with 1~2 invited talks and spotlight presentations followed by a poster session. The details will be announced closer to the workshop date on the website: <a href="https://ncmhe.github.io/">https://ncmhe.github.io/</a> For
each accepted paper, an author is expected to register and attend the workshop to present the work.
<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);border-right:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;padding-right:1ex"></blockquote><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);border-right:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;padding-right:1ex"></blockquote>5. Organizers<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);border-right:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;padding-right:1ex"></blockquote><span>Vladimir</span> Pavlovic (Rutgers University, Samsung AI Center)<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);border-right:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;padding-right:1ex"></blockquote>Mubbasir Kapadia (Rutgers University)<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);border-right:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;padding-right:1ex"></blockquote>Sejong Yoon (The College of New Jersey)</div><div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);border-right:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;padding-right:1ex"></blockquote>Sejong is the primary contact for the organizing committee. Please send your questions to: <a href="mailto:yoons@tcnj.edu">yoons@tcnj.edu</a><br><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Sejong Yoon, Ph.D.<br>Assistant Professor<br>Department of Computer Science<br>The College of New Jersey<br>* mail: P.O. Box 7718, Ewing, NJ 08628-0718<br>* email: <a href="mailto:yoons@tcnj.edu" target="_blank">yoons@tcnj.edu</a></font></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">* phone: 609-771-2194</span><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>