IEEE CogSIMA 2011 Conference

The aim of this conference is to provide a venue for presenting scientific results of studies of complex, heterogeneous dynamical systems that include humans, physical systems and computer agents whose behaviors depend on situation. Examples of such systems include ad hoc mobile networks, physical and cyber security systems, disaster monitoring and recovery systems, epidemic monitoring and control, intelligent transportation systems, financial and investment services, and tactical and operational battlefield command and control systems. Common to these systems is the need to adequately perceive, reflect and act according to the situational changes happening both in the surrounding world and within the systems themselves. The amounts of information that needs to be processed in order to derive decisions overwhelm both the human cognitive capabilities and the computer processing power. Consequently, there is a need to develop new situation awareness and decision support approaches of augmenting the cognitive capabilities of both humans and computer agents.