2 - 5 June 2025
2025 IEEE Conference on Cognitive and Computational Aspects of Situation Management (CogSIMA)
Improved Situation Awareness
in Theory and Application
University of Duisburg-Essen
Duisburg, Germany
Photo: Ilja Höpping, Stadt Duisburg
About
Where Cognitive Science meets Computer Science
The CogSIMA conference series provides the premier venue for discussing complex heterogeneous dynamical systems - of interacting humans, machines, and computer agents - whose collective behavior depends on their cognitive capabilities to comprehend, explain, predict and act upon the surrounding operational situations.
Adhering to its successful interdisciplinary tradition, CogSIMA 2025 will provide a stimulating forum for scientists and practitioners from diverse backgrounds to advance the field of cognitive situation management, supported by the IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society's Technical Committees on Cognitive Situation Management and Interactive and Wearable Computing and Devices. We aim to bring together researchers from computer science, human factors, cognitive science and artificial intelligence, modeling and simulation, robotics, systems engineering, and related areas, to progress towards this ambitious goal.
Application areas include autonomous vehicles, command and control systems, disaster monitoring and recovery systems, human-robot teams, human-AI teaming, physical and cyber security situation awareness and cyber warfare systems, intelligent transportation systems, health care medical situation control systems, and many others.
For questions concerning CogSIMA 2025 contact us at admin@cogsima.org.
We look forward to seeing you in Duisburg!
Please consult www.cogsima2025.org for the most recent updates.
Important Dates
Papers due: November 29, 2024
Acceptance Notification: February 25, 2025
Camera Ready due: March 25, 2025
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
Location
University of Duisburg-Essen,
Campus Duisburg
Campus Duisburg
Forsthausweg
47057 Duisburg
Germany
The local organization will be organized by the Chair of Dynamics and Control (SRS), University of Duisburg-Essen, more detailed information are given at www.srs.uni-due.de
For its 15th edition, the CogSIMA conference series will take place in Germany for the very first time, in the city of Duisburg.
The conference will be held at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Campus Duisburg, one of the leading academic institutions in the heart of Germany's industrial region, offering an ideal backdrop for a technical conference. The location at the Gerhard Mercator house at the Campus in Duisburg will provide a welcoming environment promoting interaction and communication among the conference attendees. The conference venue is easy to reach with public transport, is ideally located in vicinity to the university cafeteria where the participants will have lunch together. This, as well as the organized discussions, will result in a stimulating, exciting event designed for scientific and social exchange and networking.
The University Duisburg-Essen is one of the youngest universities in Germany (founded in 2003) and was generated by the merger of the former universities of Duisburg and Essen. With close to 40.000 students among all disciplines from engineering, education, and medicine up to nano sciences, the university is the 10th largest university in Germany.
Photos: UDE / Uni Duisburg-Essen / Universität Duisburg-Essen
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Duisburg at the Rhine is the westernmost city in the Ruhr region, part of the Rhein-Ruhr metropole, the largest contiguous conurbation in Germany and the fifth largest in Europe (Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region).
In Germany, Duisburg stands for coal and steel (until the middle of the last century), but for the last 30 years it has been undergoing structural change towards new industrial fields (continuing high tech steel manufacturing) and regional and national tasks. The Port of Duisburg is the largest inland port in the world and one of the most central logistical hubs in Europe.
The entire region with the central cities of Duisburg, Essen, Bochum and Dortmund as well as 54 smaller local cities was chosen as one of the European Capitals of Culture in 2010, highlighting in particular the coexistence of industry, culture and its centuries-old social diversity.
The University of Duisburg-Essen is conveniently situated near several renowned destinations, including the UNESCO World Heritage sites in Cologne and Aachen (cathedrals), Essen (Zeche Zollverein), and the Roman limes wall in Xanten.
Local/regional attractions:
Photo by By Konstantin von Wedelstaedt - GFDL 1.2
Transport
The region has excellent national and international public transport connections. This applies in particular to the integration into the European high-speed rail network in Germany and France as well as with four international airports all parts of the world. The closest airport Düsseldorf is the 3rd largest in Germany and within minutes to reach from Duisburg main station.
Travel to germany
NO VISA REQUIRED for nationals from US, Canada, Australia, South Korea, NewZealand, Israel, UK, EU (for stays under 90 days).
A passport is required for travel and can also be used for free travel in the SCHENGEN area (most of EU+).
Example distances:
Paris: 3h by train, <1 h by plane
Rome: 2h by plane
Vienna: 10h by train, <2 h by plane
Amsterdam: <2 h by train, 30 min by plane
Munich: <6 h by train, < 2h by plane
Heidelberg: 3h by train
Accommodation
Recommended Hotels:
Intercity Hotel
Accor Mercure Hotel
Steigenberger Hotel (Wyndham)
B & B Hotel
Accor IBIS Budget
All hotels are well connected to the conference venue by streetcar, and most hotels (close to main station) are also very well and directly connected to the national rail network serving an easy connection to Düsseldorf airport (12 min. via regional train).
How to Submit
We invite two types of submissions, regular papers and poster presentations, which will undergo a competitive review process. All papers must present original and unpublished work that is not currently under review elsewhere. Each paper will be reviewed by at least three independent referees. Papers will be evaluated according to their significance, originality, technical content, style, clarity, and relevance to the conference.
Quantitative and/or qualitative methods and results are welcome, as well as hypotheses-driven or more open-ended exploratory work. Submissions must clearly outline the methodology (manipulations, measurements, environment and context, etc.) and technologies used, for both replicability and enabling in-depth review. In addition, research providing novel system designs, algorithms, interface technologies, and computational methods supporting elements of situation management are encouraged. Submitted papers should address issues related to the general domain of situation management.
Regular Papers (5-8 pages): describe new results that advance the state-of-the-art. Each accepted paper will be allocated approximately 25 minutes for the oral presentation during the conference.
Poster Presentations (3-5 pages): describe work in progress. Each accepted poster will be presented in a 5 min. talk in the poster session, and will be included in the final conference proceedings submitted to the IEEE Xplore® Digital Library.
At least one author of an accepted paper is required to register for the conference at the full (member or non-member) rate and the paper must be presented by an author of that paper at the conference, unless the TPC grants permission for a substitute presenter arranged in advance of the event who is qualified both to present and answer questions. All paper submissions will be handled electronically in EDAS. Authors should prepare a Portable Document Format (PDF) version of their paper using the stylesheet templates provided by IEEE.
Papers must have been presented on-site at the conference in Duisburg to be included in the final conference proceedings submitted to the IEEE Xplore® Digital Library.
Call for special session proposals
The CogSIMA 2025 Organizing Committee is welcoming proposals for Special Sessions on complex heterogeneous dynamical systems - of interacting humans, machines, and computer agents - whose collective behavior depends on their cognitive capabilities to comprehend, explain, predict, and act upon the surrounding operational situations.
The purpose of special sessions is to stimulate a focused discussion on new or innovative topics. Of particular interest are proposals that address “breaking news” research or topics different from traditional situation understanding and management related topics. Organizers of accepted special sessions will be asked to chair the session and will be consulted when finalizing the list of papers in the session.
Proposal Requirements
Each special session proposal should include an overview of the topic that identifies its relevance and introduces the papers to be presented. This description will be made available in the proceedings. Each proposal should also include a list of committed papers.
The following information must be included in a special session proposal:
Title of the proposed special session
Names and affiliations of the organizers
including brief bio and contact information
Session abstract (less than 250 words)
including the significance of the topic and the rationale for the proposed session
List of committed papers
including a tentative title, author list, and a short abstract for each paper. At least 5 papers are expected.
Evaluation Criteria
Special session proposals will be evaluated based on the importance of the topic, relevance to the cognitive and computational aspects of situation management, number of potential papers (assessed from the list of committed papers), and the qualification of the organizers. Once the proposal has been approved, it will be included among the sessions available for authors to submit their papers to. All papers submitted to a special session will be reviewed through the same review process as the regular papers of the conference to ensure that contributions are of high quality. If a special session has more papers accepted than the schedule can accommodate, some papers might be moved to other relevant sessions.
Important Dates
Submission of Special session proposals:
Nov 11, 2024
Notification of acceptance:
Nov 15, 2024
Questions and submissions:
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Registration Fees
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Discounted rates will be provided for IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC) Society members and IEEE members, as well as students.
Committees
Organizing Committee
General Chair:
Dirk Söffker, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Vice Chair:
Andrea Salfinger, University of Udine, Italy
Honorary Chair:
Gabe Jakobson, CyberGem Consulting, USA
TPC Co-Chairs:
Giuseppe D'Aniello, University of Salerno, Italy
Andreas Wendemuth, OVGU Magdeburg, Germany
Erik Blasch, AFOSR, USA
Special Session Chairs:
Annette Kluge, RUB, Bochum, Germany
Axel Schulte, University of Armed Forces, Munich, Germany
Galina Rogova, Encompass Consulting, USA
Stefan Kopp, University of Bielefeld, Germany
Jim Llinas, University at Buffalo, USA
Treasurer:
Ken Baclawski, Northeastern University, USA
CogSIMA Steering Committee Chair:
Scott Fouse, Independent Consultant, USA
International Liaisons Chairs:
Giancarlo Fortino, University of Calabria, Italy
Publications Chair:
Benito Mendoza, New York City College of Technology (CityTech), USA
Social Chair:
Kellyn Rein, Fraunhofer Gesellschaft (retired), Germany
Local Arrangements Chairs:
Jonathan Liebeton, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Olena Shyshova, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Yvonne Vengels, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Adnan Hasanovic, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Technical Program Committee
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