IMAACA 2019 Call For Papers

Automation and Cognition

Track Description

The purpose of this session is to assess the situation concerning the ongoing research which jointly uses cognitive approaches and formal modelling and simulation to analyse, design and control complex systems. Complex systems are understood in this context as composed of intelligent machines and humans, and being in charge to accomplish complex tasks in a collaborative way. For those systems, human beings are necessarily implied in their global behavior –including stability–, what crucially calls for a better understanding of their behaviour facing diverse complex situations: normal situations, risky situations, critical and accidental situations. Tools and methods proposed by cognitive Sciences, Cognitive Engineering and Knowledge Engineering allow to take into account the different mechanisms involved in human behaviour such as: perception, understanding, interpretation, adaptation, decision, planning, action, control, etc.

This special session is seeking original scientific contributions on suitable topics, which may include, but are not limited to:

Designing new methodological tools to integrate cognitive and formal approaches
The use of cognitive approaches in all the stages of complex system design
The use of ontologies in the integrated modelling and analysis process
The use of ontologies in all the stages of complex system design
Integrating human behaviours in control and automation
Resilience analysis of complex systems (such as defined)
Vulnerability analysis of complex systems (such as defined)
Robustness of complex systems (such as defined)
Stability of complex systems (such as defined)
Identification, modelling, simulation and analysis of problems emerging from normal, risky, critical and accidental situations.

The following is a non-exhaustive list of application areas: