INVITATION: ================= Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results to COGNITIVE 2014. The submission deadline has been extended to January 20, 2014. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended article versions to one of the IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org ================= ============== COGNITIVE 2014 | Call for Papers =============== CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS COGNITIVE 2014, The Sixth International Conference on Advanced Cognitive Technologies and Applications May 25 - 29, 2014 - Venice, Italy General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/COGNITIVE14.html Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/CfPCOGNITIVE14.html - regular papers - short papers (work in progress) - posters Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/SubmitCOGNITIVE14.html Submission deadline: January 20, 2014 Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org Print proceedings will be available via Curran Associates, Inc.: http://www.proceedings.com/9769.html Articles will be archived in the free access ThinkMind Digital Library: http://www.thinkmind.org Please note the Poster and Work in Progress options. The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas. All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress, Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels. Before submission, please check and conform with the Editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html COGNITIVE 2014 Topics (topics and submission details: see CfP on the site) BRAIN: Brain information processing and informatics Cognitive and computation models; Human reasoning mechanisms; Modeling brain information processing mechanisms; Brain learning mechanisms; Human cognitive functions and their relationships; Modeling human multi-perception mechanisms and visual, auditory, and tactile information processing; Neural structures and neurobiological process; Cognitive architectures; Brain information storage, collection, and processing; Formal conceptual models of human brain data; Knowledge representation and discovery in neuroimaging; Brain-computer interface; Cognition-inspired complex systems COGNITION: Artificial intelligence and cognition Expert systems, knowledge representation and reasoning; Reasoning techniques, constraint satisfaction and machine learning; Logic programming, fuzzy logic, neural networks, and uncertainty; State space search, ontologies and data mining; Games, planning and scheduling; Natural languages processing and advanced user interfaces; Cognitive, reactive and proactive systems; Ambient intelligence, perception and vision; Pattern recognition AGENTS: Agent-based adaptive systems Agent frameworks and development platforms; Agent models and architectures; Agent communication languages and protocols; Cooperation, coordination, and conversational agents; Group decision making and distributed problem solving; Mobile, cognitive and autonomous agents; Task planning and execution in multi-agent systems; Security, trust, reputation, privacy and safety in agent-based systems; Negotiation brokering and matchmaking in agent-oriented protocols; Web-oriented agents (mining, semantic discovery, navigation, etc.; SOA and software agents; Economic agent models and social adoption AUTONOMY: Autonomous systems and autonomy-oriented computing Self-organized intelligence nature-inspired thinking paradigms; Swarm intelligence and emergent behavior; Autonomy-oriented modeling and computation; Coordination, cooperation and collective group behavior; Agent-based complex systems modeling and development; Complex behavior aggregation and self-organization; Agent-based knowledge discovery and sharing; Autonomous and distributed knowledge systems; Autonomous knowledge via information agents; Ontology-based agent services; Knowledge evolution control and information filtering agents; Natural and social law discovery in multi-agent systems; Distributed problem solving in complex and dynamic environments; Auction, mediation, pricing, and agent-based market-places; Autonomous auctions and negotiations APPLICATIONS Agent-oriented modeling and methodologies; Agent-based interaction protocols and cognitive architectures; Emotional modeling and quality of experience techniques; Agent-based assistants and e-health; Agent-based interfaces; Knowledge and data intensive classification systems; Agent-based fault-tolerance systems; Learning and self-adaptation via multi-agent systems; Task-based and task-oriented agent-based systems; Agent-based virtual enterprise; Embodied agents and agent-based systems applications; Agent-based perceptive animated interfaces; Agent-based social simulation; Socially planning; E-Technology agent-based ubiquitous services and systems ----------------------- Committee: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/ComCOGNITIVE14.html COGNITIVE Advisory Chairs Hermann Kaindl, TU-Wien, Austria ??Sugata Sanyal, ??Tata Consultancy Services, Mumbai, India Po-Hsun Cheng (???), National Kaohsiung Normal University, Taiwan Narayanan Kulathuramaiyer, UNIMAS, Malaysia Susanne Lajoie, McGill University, Canada Jose Alfredo F. Costa, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Brazil Terry Bosomaier, Charles Sturt University, Australia Hakim Lounis, UQAM, Canada Darsana Josyula, Bowie State University; University of Maryland, College Park, USA Om Prakash Rishi, University of Kota, India COGNITIVE Industry/Research Chairs Qin Xin, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway Arnau Espinosa, g.tec medical engineering GmbH, Austria Knud Thomsen, Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland ================================================