<div dir="ltr"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt"><b>Cognitive Systems Research (CSR) Journal</b><br></span></font><div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt"><br clear="all"></span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt">CALL FOR PAPERS <br>
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</span></font></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">We are happy to call for papers for the journal special issue:<br>
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</b>"<b>Social Cognitive Systems in Smart Environments: Approaches for Learning, Reasoning, and Adaptation</b>"</span><b>
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</b><br></div><div><b>Webpage: </b><b><b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><a href="https://www.journals.elsevier.com/cognitive-systems-research/call-for-papers/special-issue-social-cognitive-systems-in-smart-environment" target="_blank">https://www.journals.elsevier.<wbr>com/cognitive-systems-<wbr>research/call-for-papers/<wbr>special-issue-social-<wbr>cognitive-systems-in-smart-<wbr>environment</a></span></b> </b><a href="http://cognitive-mirroring.org/en/events/hai2017_workshop/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"></span></b></a></div>
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<b><font size="2">I. Aim and Scope </font><br>
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A “smart” environment incorporates intelligent systems (e.g., smart
home, smart factory, smart city, smart car etc.) employing heterogeneous
devices, such as: sensors, actuators, cameras, networks, and screens.
Within such a smart environment, autonomous agents can take on an
important mediating role between human users and the environment. This
is particularly true if high-level cognitive functions and computational
intelligence are employed to handle the uncertainty of the complex
environment so as to allow agents to act appropriately within different
contexts of interaction.</p>
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Using robotic systems in smart environments opens the door to several
socio-cognitive applications, such as: reducing cognitive load for
individuals interacting with a smart environment, assisting the elderly
and people with cognitive disabilities in mobility and daily tasks
(which requires robots to learn the multimodal characteristics of human
behavior and to spatially perceive the environment containing other
smart objects to decide the best way to employ/manipulate them in order
to successfully perform tasks), and developing a cloud-connected robot
system to incrementally share knowledge between robots in different
smart environments about the behavioral characteristics of human users
in order to interact with them adaptively. To meet the requirements of
these target applications, robots need to be able to learn how to use
the capabilities of their smart environments to better address the needs
of the human users. Industrial applications of such technologies
include factories of the future and the digital eco-system within an
autonomous car.</p>
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This special issue aims to shed light on cutting edge lines of
interdisciplinary research in cognitive science, artificial
intelligence, and robotics covering basic research and applications.
Recent advances and possible future research avenues on smart robots and
environments would be discussed in detail in this journal special
issue.</p></div><div><p>
<strong>II. Potential Topics</strong><strong> </strong></p>
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Topics relevant to this special issue include, but are not limited to:<strong> </strong></p>
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Cyber-physical systems in smart environments</li><li>
Multimodal human robot interaction</li><li>
Cognitive modeling of human behavior</li><li>
Cognitive architectures and strategies for intelligent interaction with the environment</li><li>
AI and machine learning approaches applied to human-robot-environment interaction</li><li>
Internet of things</li><li>
Ambient assisted living</li><li>
Infotainment in smart vehicles</li><li>
Natural user interface design</li><li>
Cloud robotics</li><li>
Ubiquitous computing</li></ul></div><div><p>
<strong>III. Submission</strong><strong> </strong></p>
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Submissions to the special issue must include original research that
has not been published nor submitted to other journals. Authors should
prepare their manuscript according to the "Guide for Authors" available
at the journal homepage: <a href="http://www.journals.elsevier.com/cognitive-systems-research/" rel="" target="_blank">http://www.journals.elsevier.<wbr>com/cognitive-systems-<wbr>research/</a>. Papers should be submitted through the EVISE system: <a href="https://www.evise.com/evise/jrnl/cogsys" rel="external" target="_blank">https://www.evise.com/<wbr>evise/jrnl/cogsys</a>. Authors should select "<strong>VSI:Smart Environments"</strong> as the article type during the submission process.</p></div><div><p>
<strong>IV. Timline (<u>Submission portal will be open on March 1, 2018</u>)<br></strong></p>
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Deadline for paper submission: April 30, 2018</li><li>
First notification for authors: July 31, 2018</li><li>
Deadline for revised papers submission: September 30, 2018</li><li>
Final notification for authors: November 30, 2018</li><li>
Deadline for submission of camera-ready manuscripts: January 15, 2019</li></ul></div><p>
<strong>V. Guest editors</strong></p>Dr. Amir Aly, Ritsumeikan University, Japan (<a href="mailto:amir.aly@em.ci.ritsumei.ac.jp" target="_blank">amir.aly@em.ci.ritsumei.ac.jp</a><wbr>)<br>Dr. Shashank Pathak,Visteon Corporation, Germany (<a href="mailto:shashank.pathak@visteon.com" target="_blank">shashank.pathak@visteon.com</a>)<br>Dr. Sean Andrist, Microsoft Research, USA (<a href="mailto:sandrist@microsoft.com" target="_blank">sandrist@microsoft.com</a>)<br>Prof. Armando Tacchella, University of Genoa, Italy (<a href="mailto:armando.tacchella@unige.it" target="_blank">armando.tacchella@unige.it</a>)<br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><font size="2"><span><b>Amir Aly, Ph.D.</b><br></span></font><font size="2"><span>Senior Researcher</span></font><font size="2"><span><span><font size="2"><span><span><font size="2"><span><span><font size="2"><span><span><font size="2"><span><br></span></font></span></span></font></span></span></font></span></span></font></span>Emergent Systems Laboratory</span></font><br><font size="2"><span><span><font size="2"><span><span><font size="2"><span></span></font></span></span></font></span>College of Information Science and Engineering</span></font><br><font size="2"><span><span><font size="2"><span><span><font size="2"><span><span><font size="2"><span><span><font size="2"><span><span><font size="2"><span>Ritsumeikan University<br></span></font></span></span></font></span></span></font></span></span></font></span></span></font></span>1-1-1 Noji Higashi, Kusatsu, Shiga 525-8577<br>Japan</span></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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