<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:3.75pt;text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:black">IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and
Developmental Systems</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:11.25pt;text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:black">Special Issue on Neuromorphic Computing
and Cognitive Systems</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:black">AIM AND SCOPE</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:17.25pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:black">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.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:black">THEMES</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:17.25pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:black">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</span></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:black">Neuromorphic cognitive systems</span></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:black">Cognitive robotics</span></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:black">Brain-inspired data representation models</span></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:black">STDP, Spike-based sensing and learning algorithms</span></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:black">Spike based processing and methods for configuring
spike-based processors</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:black"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:black">SUBMISSION</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:17.25pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:black">Manuscripts should be prepared according
to the “Information for Authors” of the journal found at <a href="http://cis.ieee.org/publications.html">http://cis.ieee.org/publications.html</a> and
submissions should be done through the IEEE TCDS Manuscript center: <a href="https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tcds-ieee">https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tcds-ieee<span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none"> </span></a>and
please select the category “SI: Neuromorphic Computing”.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:17.25pt"><br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:black">IMPORTANT DATES</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:17.25pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:black">15 June 2016-</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:red">Extended to 30 June 2016</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:black">: Deadline for
manuscript submission <br>
15 Sep 2016: Notification of authors <br>
15 Oct 2016: Deadline for revised manuscripts <br>
15 Nov 2016</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:宋体;color:black">：</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:black">Final version <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:17.25pt"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:black">GUEST EDITORS </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Huajin
Tang, Sichuan University, China. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:宋体">（</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><a href="mailto:htang@scu.edu.cn">htang@scu.edu.cn</a></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:宋体">）</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Tiejun
Huang</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt"><font face="宋体">, </font></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Peking
University, China. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:宋体">（</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><a href="mailto:tjhuang@pku.edu.cn">tjhuang@pku.edu.cn</a></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:宋体">）</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Garrick
Orchard</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:宋体">，</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">National
University of Singapore </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt"><font face="宋体">(</font></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><a href="mailto:garrickorchard@nus.edu.sg">garrickorchard@nus.edu.sg</a></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:宋体">）</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Arindam
Basu</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:宋体">，</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Nanyang
Technological University, Singapore </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt"><font face="宋体">(</font></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><a href="mailto:arindam.basu@ntu.edu.sg">arindam.basu@ntu.edu.sg</a></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:宋体">）</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Jeffrey
L. Krichmar</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:宋体">，</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">University
of California, Irvine, US </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:宋体">（</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><a href="mailto:jkrichma@uci.edu">jkrichma@uci.edu</a></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:宋体">）</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"></span></p></div>