Connectionists: Cognitive Computation journal (Springer Nature): Vol.7, No.6 / Dec 2015 Issue [Increased Impact Factor (2014/15) & Table of Contents Alert]

[Dr Amir Hussain]

Dear Colleagues: (with advance apologies for any cross-postings)

Happy New Year!

We are delighted to announce the publication of Volume 7, No.6 / Dec 2015
Issue, of (Springer Nature's) Cognitive Computation journal - www.springer
.com/12559

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Important News: Increased Impact Factor & Six bi-monthly Journal Issues
from 2015!
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As you will know, Cognitive Computation was selected for coverage in
Thomson Reuter’s products and services in 2011. Beginning with V.1 (1)
2009, this publication is now indexed and abstracted in: ♦ Science Citation
Index Expanded (also known as SciSearch®) ♦ Journal Citation
Reports/Science Edition ♦ Current Contents®/Engineering Computing and
Technology ♦ Neuroscience Citation Index®
Cognitive Computation received its first Impact Factor (IF) in 2011

The IF for 2014 has increased to 1.44 (with a first five year IF 1.7) - Thomson
Reuters Journal Citation Reports® 2014

Many congratulations to the editors, reviewers and authors!

Want to be part of the growing success? Visit the journal homepage (http://
springer.com/12559) for instructions on submitting your research.

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Quarterly to Bi-monthly Issues, from 2015!!
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Due to continuously growing number of high quality submissions, the number
of Issues has increased from four (quarterly Issues) to six (bi-monthly
Issues) each year, starting Feb 2015!
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The December 2015 Issue comprises a Special Issue titled: "Dealing with Big
Data-Lessons from Cognitive Computing" (the Guest Editorial is available
for free download here:
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-015-9364-6). This is
followed by seven regular papers, including an invited paper by Hojjat
Adeli et al titled: "Nature Inspired Computing: An Overview and Some Future
Directions" (free download available here:
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-015-9370-8)

The full listing of published articles (Table of Contents) for this
December 2015 Issue can be viewed here (and also at the end of this
message, followed by an overview of the previous Issues/Archive listings):
http://link.springer.com/journal/12559/7/6/

A list of the journal's Open Access articles can be found here:
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Other 'Online First' published articles not yet in a print issue can be
viewed here:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/121361/?Content+Status=Accepted

All previous Volumes and Issues of the journal can be viewed here:
http://link.springer.com/journal/volumesAndIssues/12559

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Reminder: Cognitive Computation "LinkedIn" Group:
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To further strengthen the bonds amongst the interdisciplinary audience of
Cognitive Computation, we have set-up a "Cognitive Computation LinkedIn
group", which has over 800 members already! We warmly invite you to join us
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Springer's Publishing Editor: Marleen Moore: Marleen.Moore at springer.com

Finally, we would like to invite you to submit short or regular papers
describing original research or timely review of important areas - our aim
is to peer review all papers within approximately six-eight weeks of
receipt.

We also welcome relevant high quality proposals for Special Issues - two
are already planned for 2016 (see:
http://www.springer.com/biomed/neuroscience/journal/12559?detailsPage=press
 )

With our very best wishes to all aspiring readers and authors of Cognitive
Computation, for a very happy, healthy, safe and prosperous New Year!

Professor Amir Hussain, PhD (Editor-in-Chief: Cognitive Computation)
E-mail: ahu at cs.stir.ac.uk (University of Stirling, Scotland, UK)

Professor Igor Aleksander, PhD (Honorary Editor-in-Chief: Cognitive
Computation) (Imperial College, London, UK)
http://www.springer.com/12559

NEW: Open Access Springer Nature/BMC journal: Big Data Analytics (
http://www.bdataanalytics.com/) -  Now accepting submissions!

NEW: Springer Series on Socio-Affective Computing:
http://www.springer.com/series/13199

Also consider your work for related Book Series:
SpringerBriefs on Cognitive Computation:
http://www.springer.com/series/10374

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Table of Contents Alert -- Cognitive Computation Vol 7 No 6, December 2015

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SPECIAL ISSUE PAPERS:

Introduction: Dealing with Big Data-Lessons from Cognitive Computing
Ahsan Abdullah, Amir Hussain, Imtiaz Hussain Khan
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-015-9364-6

An Integrated Qualitative and Quantitative Biochemical Model Learning
Framework Using Evolutionary Strategy and Simulated Annealing
Zujian Wu, Wei Pang, George M. Coghill
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-015-9328-x OPEN ACCESS

Specific Biomarkers: Detection of Cancer Biomarkers Through High-Throughput
Transcriptomics Data
Wei Du, Zhongbo Cao, Yan Wang, Fengfeng Zhou, Wei Pang, Xin Chen, Yuan
Tian, Yanchun Liang
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-015-9336-x

Sherlock: A Semi-automatic Framework for Quiz Generation Using a Hybrid
Semantic Similarity Measure Chenghua Lin, Dong Liu, Wei Pang, Zhe Wang
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-015-9347-7    OPEN ACCESS

Novel Optimization Framework to Recover True Image Data
Mohsin Bilal, Hasan Mujtaba, Muhammad Arfan Jaffar
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-015-9339-7

A Novel Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Based Spatiotemporal Cognition Study of
the Human Brain Using Clustering
Ahsan Abdullah, Imtiaz Hussain Khan, Abdullah Basuhail, Amir Hussain
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-015-9358-4

REGULAR PAPERS:

Nature Inspired Computing: An Overview and Some Future Directions
Nazmul Siddique, Hojjat Adeli
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-015-9370-8 OPEN ACCESS

Bivariate Nonisotonic Statistical Regression by a Lookup Table Neural System
Simone Fiori, Tianxia Gong, Hwee Kuan Lee
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-015-9353-9

A Unified Biologically-Inspired Prediction Framework for Classification of
Movement-Related Potentials Based on a Logistic Regression Model
Zeng Tang, Jun Lu, Peitao Wang
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-015-9360-x

Development and Implementation of a Wheeled Inverted Pendulum Vehicle Using
Adaptive Neural Control with Extreme Learning Machines
Junjie Sun, Zhijun Li
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-015-9363-7

V4 Neural Network Model for Shape-Based Feature Extraction and Object
Discrimination
Hui Wei, Zheng Dong
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-015-9361-9

Convergence Proof of Approximate Policy Iteration for Undiscounted Optimal
Control of Discrete-Time Systems
Yuanheng Zhu, Dongbin Zhao, Haibo He, Junhong Ji
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-015-9350-z

Self-Adaptive Windowing Approach for Handling Complex Concept Drift
Imen Khamassi, Moamar Sayed-Mouchaweh, Moez Hammami, Khaled Ghédira
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-015-9341-0

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Previous Issues/Archive: Overview:
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All previous Volumes and Issues can be viewed here:
http://link.springer.com/journal/volumesAndIssues/12559

Alternatively, the full listing of the Inaugural Vol. 1, No. 1 / March
2009, can be viewed here (which included invited authoritative reviews
by leading researchers in their areas - including keynote papers from
London University's John Taylor, Igor Aleksander and Stanford
University's James McClelland, and invited papers from Ron Sun, Pentti
Haikonen, Geoff Underwood, Kevin Gurney, Claudius Gross, Anil Seth and
Tom Ziemke):
http://www.springerlink.com/content/1866-9956/1/1/

The full listing of Vol. 1, No. 2 / June 2009, can be viewed here
(which included invited reviews and original research contributions
from leading researchers, including Rodney Douglas, Giacomo Indiveri,
Jurgen Schmidhuber, Thomas Wennekers, Pentti Kanerva and Friedemann
Pulvermuller):
http://www.springerlink.com/content/1866-9956/1/2/

The full listing of Vol.1, No. 3 / Sep 2009, can be viewed here:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/1866-9956/1/3/

The full listing of Vol. 1, No. 4 / Dec 2009, can be viewed here:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/1866-9956/1/4/

The full listing of Vol.2, No. 1 / March 2010, can be viewed here:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/1866-9956/2/1/

The full listing of Vol.2, No. 2 / June 2010, can be viewed here:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/1866-9956/2/2/

The full listing of Vol.2, No. 3 / Aug 2010, can be viewed here:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/1866-9956/2/3/

The full listing of Vol.2, No. 4 / Dec 2010, can be viewed here:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/1866-9956/2/4/

The full listing of Vol.3, No.1 / Mar 2011 (Special Issue on:
Saliency, Attention, Active Visual Search and Picture Scanning, edited
by John Taylor and Vassilis Cutsuridis), can be viewed here:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/1866-9956/3/1/
The Guest Editorial can be viewed here:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/hu2245056415633l/

The full listing of Vol.3, No.2 / June 2011 can be viewed here:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/1866-9956/3/2/

The full listing of Vol. 3, No. 3 / Sep 2011 (Special Issue on:
Cognitive Behavioural Systems, Guest Edited by: Anna Esposito,
Alessandro Vinciarelli, Simon Haykin, Amir Hussain and Marcos
Faundez-Zanuy), can be viewed here:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/1866-9956/3/3/
The Guest Editorial for the special issue can be viewed here:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/h4718567520t2h84/

The full listing of Vol. 3, No. 4 / Dec 2011 can be viewed here:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/1866-9956/3/4/

The full listing of Vol. 4, No.1 / Mar 2012 can be viewed here:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/1866-9956/4/1/

The full listing of Vol. 4, No.2 / June 2012 can be viewed here:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/1866-9956/4/2/

The full listing of Vol. 4, No.3 / Sep 2012 (Special Issue on:
Computational Creativity, Intelligence and Autonomy, Edited by: J.
Mark Bishop and Yasemin J. Erden) can be viewed here:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/1866-9956/4/3/

The full listing of Vol. 4, No.4 / Dec 2012 (Special Issue titled:
"Cognitive & Emotional Information Processing", Edited by: Stefano
Squartini, Björn Schuller and Amir Hussain, which is followed by a
number of regular papers), can be viewed here:
http://link.springer.com/journal/12559/4/4/page/1

The full listing of Vol. 5, No.1 / March 2013  Special Issue titled:
Computational Intelligence and Applications Guest Editors: Zhigang
Zeng & Haibo He, which is followed by a number of regular papers), can
be viewed here:
http://link.springer.com/journal/12559/5/1/page/1

The full listing of Vol. 5, No.2 / June 2013  Special Issue titled:
Advances on Brain Inspired Computing, Guest Editors: Stefano
Squartini, Sanqing Hu & Qingshan Liu, which is followed by a number of
regular papers), can be viewed here:
http://link.springer.com/journal/12559/5/2/page/1

The full listing of Vol. 5, No.3 / Sep 2013 Special Issue titled: In
Memory of John G Taylor: A Polymath Scholar, Guest Editors: Vassilis
Cutsuridis & Amir Hussain, which is followed by a number of regular
papers), can be viewed here:
http://link.springer.com/journal/12559/5/3/page/1

The full listing of Vol. 5, No.4 / Dec 2013, which includes regular
papers (including an invited paper by Professor Ron Sun, Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute, USA, titled: Moral Judgment, Human Motivation,
and Neural Networks), and a Special Issue titled: Advanced Cognitive
Systems Based on Nonlinear Analysis. Guest Editors: Carlos M. Travieso
and Jesús B. Alonso, can be viewed here:
http://link.springer.com/journal/12559/5/4/page/1

The full listing of Vol. 6, No.1 / Mar 2014, can be viewed here:
http://link.springer.com/journal/12559/6/1/page/1

The full listing of Vol. 6, No.2 / June 2014, can be viewed here:
http://link.springer.com/journal/12559/6/2/page/1

The full listing of Vol. 6, No.3 / Sep 2014, can be viewed here:
http://link.springer.com/journal/12559/6/3/page/1

The full listing of Vol. 6, No.4 / Dec 2014 (Special Issue on Modeling
emotion, behaviour and context in socially believable robots and ICT
interfaces, Guest Editors: Anna Esposito, Leopoldina Fortunati, and
Giuseppe Lugano) can be viewed here:
http://link.springer.com/journal/12559/6/4/page/1

The full listing of Vol. 7, No.1 / Feb 2015 can be viewed here:
http://link.springer.com/journal/12559/7/1/  (with the first six papers
part of a Special Issue on "Neural Signal Processing", Guest Edited by:
Jordi Sole´-Casals, Francois-Benoit Vialatte, Justin Dauwels. The Guest
Editorial titled: "Alternative Techniques of Neural Signal Processing in
Neuroengineering" is available (for free download) here:
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-015-9317-0)

The full listing of Vol. 7, No. 2 / April 2015, can be viewed here:
http://link.springer.com/journal/12559/7/2/ This comprises a Special Issue
on "Sentic Computing", Guest Edited by: E. Cambria and A. Hussain. The
Guest Editorial titled: "Sentic Computing" is available (for free download)
here:  http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-015-9325-0

The full listing of Vol. 7, No. 3 / June 2015, can be viewed here:
http://link.springer.com/journal/12559/7/3/

The full listing of Vol. 7, No. 4 / August 2015, can be viewed here:
http://link.springer.com/journal/12559/7/4/
<http://link.springer.com/journal/12559/6/4/> This comprises an invited
paper by A. Vinciarelli and A. Esposito, et al. titled: Open Challenges in
Modelling, Analysis and Synthesis of Human Behaviour in Human–Human and
Human–Machine Interactions, which is  followed by six regular papers.

The full listing of Vol. 7, No. 5 / October 2015, can be viewed here:
http://link.springer.com/journal/12559/7/5/
<http://link.springer.com/journal/12559/6/5/>

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