ICCI05

Scope

Cognitive Informatics (CI) is a cutting-edge and multidisciplinary research area that tackles the fundamental problems shared by modern informatics, computation, software engineering, AI, cybernetics, cognitive science, neuropsychology, medical science, philosophy, linguistics, and life sciences. CI is the transdisciplinary study of cognitive and information sciences, which investigates into the internal information processing mechanisms and processes of the natural intelligence � human brains and minds � and their engineering applications in computing and ICT industries.

The development and the cross fertilization between the above science and engineering disciplines has led to a whole range of extremely interesting new research areas known as CI. Following the successful organization of the First and Second IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics (ICCI�02, ICCI'03 and ICCI'04), the theme of the Fourth IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics (ICCI'05) is on "Natural Intelligence and Autonomous Computing." The objectives of ICCI'05 are to draw attention of researchers, practitioners and graduate students on the investigation of cognitive mechanisms and processes of human information processing, and to stimulate the international effort on cognitive informatics research and engineering applications. Original papers are invited from multidisciplinary perspectives on subject areas including, but not limited to, the following:

* Informatics	* Cognitive Science	* Cognitive Informatics (CI)
Nature of software	Natural intelligence	Autonomous computing
Quantum information processing	Philosophy of mind	Intellectual foundations of informatics
Bioinformatics	Brain organization	Information models of the brain
Quantum information processing	Cognitive mechanism and process	Informatics foundations of software engineering
Artificial intelligence	Memory	Expressive mathematics
Fuzzy logic	Learning	Internal information processing mechanisms
Machine learning	Thinking	Software agent systems
Neural networks	Reasoning	Ergonomics
Pattern recognition	Problem solving	Informatics laws of software
Agent technologies	Cognitive linguistics	Knowledge representation
Web-based information systems	Neuropsychology	Neural computation

* Selected papers from the ICCI'05 proceedings will be published in International Journal(s), such as IJCiNi and IEEE-TSMC.

* Paper Submission

* Submission of full papers due on Monday, Feb. 7, 2005.

* Papers should be sent to both PC Co-Chairs by email attachment:

- Prof. Du Zhang (zhangd@gaia.ecs.csus.edu)

- Prof. Witold Kinsner (kinsner@ee.umanitoba.ca)

* Proposals for Workshops and Special Sessions in ICCI'05

* Proposals should be received by the Conference Chair by Monday, February 14, 2005:

- Prof. Yingxu Wang (yingxu@ucalgary.ca)

- Accepted workshop/special section papers will be included in the ICCI'05 proceedings

* ICCI'05 Program

* See the ICCI'04 Program

* See the ICCI'03 Program

* See the ICCI'02 Program

* Camera-Ready Papers

* Format and technical information: See http://www.ewh.ieee.org/reg/7/winnipeg/links/icci/

* IEEE paper reference format, example, instructions, and copyright form are available via the links.

* Camera-ready papers due on Monday, May 16, 2005

* Camera-ready papers should be sent to both PC Co-Chairs by email attachment.

* Registration

* Registration form: [PDF] [Word]

* Registration should be received by Monday, May 16, 2005

* Finance and registration Chair: Prof. Chen-Yu (Phillip) Sheu, psheu@uci.edu

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