Connectionists: ATM Call for Books Proposals

[Kai-Uwe Kuehnberger]

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              C A L L   F O R   B O O K S   P R O P O S A L S

Atlantis Thinking Machines
(Studies in Computational Cognition)
                              ISSN: 1877-3273

          All books are published in collaboration with Springer

http://www.atlantis-press.com/publications/books/atm.html

******************************** Overview **********************
Initially, the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) aimed at 
constructing 'thinking machines' - that is, computer systems with 
human-like, domain-independent intelligence. But this task proved more 
difficult than expected. As the years passed, AI researchers gradually 
shifted focus to producing AI systems that intelligently approached 
specific tasks in relatively narrow domains, basing their works on 
earlier research from classical disciplines like psychology, logics, 
linguistics, and computer science.

During the past few decades however, research in understanding and 
reproducing human intelligence has expanded from traditional approaches 
into diverse areas, including disciplines like neurosciences, 
neuro-informatics, computational linguistics, and - perhaps most 
importantly - cognitive science. Moreover, new results in research on 
neural and probabilistic machine learning, dynamical systems, biological 
processes in and structures of the brain, as well as robotics and 
large-scale systems are greatly affecting current research in 
understanding and reproducing human intelligence.

Given the great progress made with these new approaches, more and more 
researchers from multiple disciplines have recognised the necessity of 
returning to one of the original goals of AI in the early days, namely 
to build models of domain-independent intelligence. Increasingly, there 
is a call to focus less on highly specialised 'narrow AI' problem 
solving systems, and more on confronting the difficult issues involved 
in creating 'general AI', i.e. domain-independent intelligence modeling 
both lower and higher cognitive abilities in one comprising framework. 
This book series publishes books resulting from theoretical research on 
and reproductions of general AI. Practically this does not mean to 
abandon classical findings, but this book series intends to focus on the 
establishment of new theories and paradigms. At the same time, the 
series aims at exploring multiple scientific angles and methodologies, 
certainly including results deriving from research in cognitive science, 
the neurosciences, theoretical and experimental AI, biology and from 
innovative interdisciplinary methodologies.

Research fields covered by the series include:

    * Cognitive science, incl. cognitive architecture
    * (Computational) Neuroscience
    * Robotics and autonomous systems
    * Recurrent and Neural networks
    * Learning theories
    * Reasoning and knowledge representation
    * Hybrid systems / neuro-symbolic integration
    * Semantic web, incl. web services, ontologies
    * Grid computing
    * Biological systems
    * (computational) Biology


********************* Scope and Coverage *************************
The series aims at publishing original research monographs, text books 
and edited volumes. We aim at offering a fast turnaround time so that 
the volumes in this series will be published in a timely manner. Also, 
the volumes will be reasonably priced, allowing them to be bought not 
only by institutional buyers but also by interested individuals, thus 
exposing the books to the widest possible audience.

All books will be published, marketed and sold in collaboration with 
Springer. The electronic version of the book will be published on 
SpringerLink and be part of the relevant Springer subject collections.

********************* Editorial Team *********************
Editor-in-Chief:
Kai-Uwe Kühnberger, University of Osnabrück, Germany.

Associate Editors:
* Ben Goertzel, Novamente LLC, Rockville MD, USA
* Boicho Kokinovn, Central and East European Center for Cognitive 
Science, Sofia, Bulgaria
* Pei Wang, Temple University,  Philadelphia, USA
* Pascal Hitzler, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, USA

********************* Prospective Authors/Editors *********************
If you have an idea for an edited or authored text book, lecture notes, 
conferences' proceedings, monographs, case studies which would fit in 
this series, we would welcome the opportunity to review your proposal. 
Each proposal will be reviewed by the Series Editor and/or associate 
editors with additional reviews from independent reviewers where 
appropriate. Final decision regarding acceptance/revision/rejection will 
be based on the reviews and assessment of the publisher, Atlantis Press.

********************* Contact *********************
Kai-Uwe Kühnberger
Institute of Cognitive Science
University of Osnabrück
Albrechtstrasse 28, 49076 Osnabrück
Email: kkuehnbe at uos.de <mailto:kkuehnbe at uos.de>

********************* About Atlantis Press and Springer 
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is a publishing company serving the scientific community by providing 
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