HCP 2011 - Fourth International Conference on Human Centered Processes (HCP-2011)

HCP 2011

Fourth International Conference on Human Centered Processes (HCP-2011)

Genova, Italy - February 9-11, 2011

The Conference is hosted at the Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Genoa

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The study of operational strategies and processes used by human beings has been the place where Cognitive Science and more traditional approaches recently met, and has led to the concept of Human Centered Designs and Technologies. Such a movement is an important challenge for both scientists and firms concerned by human beings in a workday context because the complementarity of cognitive and traditional approaches provide a great number of additional dimensions that allow to design and analyse more complete and complex systems.

The general focus of this Conference is placed on the natural cognition and is aimed at exploiting the full Cognitive Science core ? Psychology, Philosophy, and Computer Science ? in operational research (OR), in order to tackle the problem of understanding and modelling human expertise in industrial settings. This emphasis enhances traditional OR practises often inattentive to cognitive issues relevant in industry, such as knowledge engineering, discovery of rules, updating and maintenance of rules, rule-based systems, models designed to aid complex human decision-making.

This fourth conference is in line with the series of Human Centered Processes conferences held previously in Brest (France, 1999), in Luxembourg (2003), and in Delft (Netherlands, 2008) under the umbrella of the EURO Working Group Human Centered Processes. The first HCP conference was mainly devoted to the application of cognitive approaches in various fields of process control and other complex industrial problems usually managed by Operational researchers. The second HCP conference was dedicated to distributed decision and man-machine cooperation. Both of these conferences put special emphasis upon cognitive models of decision making. The third conference focused on the human actor and software agent collaboration in safety and time critical systems-of-systems.

HCP 2011 will not be devoted to a main topic, in order to encourage the maximum scientific exchange between practitioners in different research topics. HCP 2011 welcomes progress, innovations, demonstrations and case-studies on the following well-known (non-exhaustive) list of HCP-related topics:

Human Centered Capabilities & Interaction
Knowledge management, Knowledge discovery and data visualization, Human abilities/skills in man-machine interaction, Language engineering, Speech recognition, Case-based supervised cross learning, Ontology and conceptualization, Cognitive job design, Cognitive task analysis, Task modelling, Collaborative work, Intelligent computer teaching systems, e-learning and learning support systems,...
Human Centered Decision Making & Decision Support
Cognitive approach, Multi-agent paradigm in distributed decision making, Action/decision systems in E and M-commerce, Ethical dilemmas in decision making, Intelligent decision support for sustainable development, Risk management, Explanation-aware computing,...
Human Actor & Software System Design Aspects
Cognitive engineering and design, Context modeling and management in human centered processes, Software internationalization and localization, Mobile cognition, Simulated environments, User modelling, Modelling of political-social processes, Explanation-aware software design,...

Workshop proposals are also welcome on the same topics. After workshop acceptance, the proposer will have the charge of paper reviewing and acceptance processes, including deadline setting. To propose a workshop please send an email to the Conference organizing committee stating the title and subject of the proposed workshop, explaining its relevance, and specifying the number of expected submissions.