<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Special Issue on Problem-solving, Creativity and Spatial Reasoning in</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Cognitive Systems (ProSocrates) @ Cognitive Systems Research, Elsevier</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">The focus of this ProSocrates Special Issue is to bring</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">problem-solving, spatial cognition/reasoning, cognitive systems and</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">creativity disciplines together, by bringing in dialogue specialists</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">from each of the fields. Authors of experimental, theoretical and</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">computational work which combines perspectives from at least 2 these</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">topics are invited to submit contributions. The larger aim of</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">integrating these topics is to produce theoretical tools, approaches</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">and methodologies for creative and spatial problem solving in</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">cognitive systems, in a manner that would benefit from such</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">interdisciplinary bootstrapping.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Papers included in this issue will address such questions/debates as:</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">How spatial reasoning can help in problem solving?</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">How can problems be modeled in order to be solved creatively?</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">How can spatial reasoning improve cognitive and/or creative skills in</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">people? and in cognitive systems?</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">What is the relation between Creativity and Spatial Reasoning?</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">How sketches, shapes and colours can be interpreted cognitively and/or</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">creatively?</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">What is the relation between computational creativity, cognitive</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">creativity and reasoning?</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">How analogy and metaphor, image schemas and concept blending shed</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">light on creative problem solving?</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Possible topics to be explored by the contributions to this special</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">issue include:</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Spatial cognition, creative cognition</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Spatial reasoning, case-based reasoning, analogical reasoning</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">General and spatial problem solving, knowledge representation for</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">problem-solving, cross-modal creativity and problem solving</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Analogy and metaphor, concept blending, image schemas</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Cognitive modeling and qualitative modeling</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Computational creativity, computational cognitive systems</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Symbolic, subsymbolic and hybrid approaches, evolutionary approaches</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">and genetic algorithms</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Systems for enhancing human spatial reasoning and/or creativity</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Cognitive recommender systems, natural and artificial cognitive systems</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Visuospatial creativity, insight and re-representation</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Applications in Education, Robotics, Design, etc.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">SUBMISSION GUIDELINES</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Submissions to the special issue must include original research.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Papers must be new and have not been published or submitted to other</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">journals. Authors should prepare their manuscript according to the</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">"Guide for Authors" available at the journal homepage:</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="http://www.journals.elsevier.com/cognitive-systems-research/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">http://www.journals.elsevier.<wbr>com/cognitive-systems-<wbr>research/</a><span style="font-size:12.8px">.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Submission should be made via the EVISE system:</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="https://www.evise.com/profile/api/navigate/COGSYS" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">https://www.evise.com/profile/<wbr>api/navigate/COGSYS</a><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Authors must select “VSI: ProSocrates” when they reach the "Article</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Type" step in the submission process. All papers will be peer-reviewed</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">following the reviewing procedures of the Cognitive Systems Research</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">(CSR) journal.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">All papers will undergo a preliminary screening to ensure relevance to</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">the special issue prior to be the peer-review phase; research papers</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">that do not sufficiently address the special issue call may not be</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">selected for a full peer review (such a decision will be communicated</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">rapidly).</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">IMPORTANT DATES</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Deadline for paper submission (Extended): December 15th, 2017</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Notification of acceptance: July 15th, 2018</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Publication date: September 15th, 2018</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">GUEST EDITORS</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Zoe Falomir</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">University of Bremen, Bremen Spatial Cognition Centre, Germany</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="mailto:zfalomir@uni-bremen.de" style="font-size:12.8px">zfalomir@uni-bremen.de</a><br style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="http://cosy.informatik.uni-bremen.de/staff/zoe-falomir-llansola" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">http://cosy.informatik.uni-<wbr>bremen.de/staff/zoe-falomir-<wbr>llansola</a><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Ana-Maria Oltețeanu</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">University of Bremen, Bremen Spatial Cognition Centre, Germany</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="mailto:amoodu@informatik.uni-bremen.de" style="font-size:12.8px">amoodu@informatik.uni-bremen.<wbr>de</a><br style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="http://cosy.informatik.uni-bremen.de/staff/ana-maria-olteteanu" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">http://cosy.informatik.uni-<wbr>bremen.de/staff/ana-maria-<wbr>olteteanu</a><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>------------------------------------------------------------<br>Dr.-Ing. Zoe Falomir Llansola<br><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/zfalomir/home" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/site/zfalomir/home</a></div><div><br>Twitter at @zfalomir</div><div>------------------------------------------------------------</div></div></div></div></div>
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