Connectionists: 2nd Call for Papers: IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems Special Issue on Neuromorphic Computing and Cognitive Systems

[Huajin Tang]

*IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems*

*Special Issue on Neuromorphic Computing and Cognitive Systems*



*AIM AND SCOPE*

In recent years neuromorphic computing has become an important emerging
research area. There has been rapid progress in computational theory,
learning algorithms, signal processing and circuit design and
implementation, which have shown appealing computational advantages over
conventional solutions. The low size, weight, and power of these hardware
architectures shows great potential for embedded cognitive systems.
Starting from emulating the computational principles and architecture found
in neural systems, neuromorphic computing aims to integrate sensory coding,
synaptic computing (e.g., STDP), learning and memory, and attempts to
develop neuromorphic sensors and chips, and cognitive behaving systems such
as robots. Neuromorphic hardware has provided a fundamentally different
technique for data representation and learning, e.g., asynchronous events
rather than regularly sampled frames of images. Various hardware systems
leveraging on neural spikes based computing have been reported to achieve
good performance with much lower power consumption. Therefore, neuromorphic
computing can inform cognitive systems because the algorithms that run on
this hardware must be neurobiologically inspired. A huge potential exists
for applying this emerging computing framework to the next generation of
cognitive systems and robotics, neuro-inspired sensors and processors, etc.

*THEMES*

This special issue aims to report state-of-the-art approaches and recent
advances on (a) learning algorithms constrained by limits of biology and
neuromorphic hardware (b) neuromorphic hardware for cognitive systems and
(c) applications of neuromorphic architecture or hardware to cognitive
robotics. Topics relevant to this special issue include, but are not
limited to

·         Neuromorphic cognitive systems

·         Cognitive robotics

·         Brain-inspired data representation models

·         STDP, Spike-based sensing and learning algorithms

·         Spike based processing and methods for configuring spike-based
processors


*SUBMISSION*

Manuscripts should be prepared according to the “Information for Authors”
of the journal found at http://cis.ieee.org/publications.html and
submissions should be done through the IEEE TCDS Manuscript center:
https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tcds-ieee
<https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tcds-ieee>and please select the category
“SI: Neuromorphic Computing”.


*IMPORTANT DATES*

15 June 2016-Extended to 30 June 2016: Deadline for manuscript submission
15 Sep 2016: Notification of authors
15 Oct 2016: Deadline for revised manuscripts
15 Nov 2016：Final version

*GUEST EDITORS *

Huajin Tang,    Sichuan University, China.  （htang at scu.edu.cn）

Tiejun Huang, Peking University, China. （tjhuang at pku.edu.cn）

Garrick Orchard，National University of Singapore (garrickorchard at nus.edu.sg）


Arindam Basu，Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (
arindam.basu at ntu.edu.sg）

Jeffrey L. Krichmar，University of California, Irvine, US （jkrichma at uci.edu）
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