Connectionists: Increased Impact Factor (2015/16) and Table of Contents Alert: Cognitive Computation journal (Springer Nature): Vol.8, No.5 / Oct 2016 Issue

Fri Oct 28 13:53:15 EDT 2016

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

We are delighted to announce the publication of Volume 8, No.5 / Oct 2016
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
since 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 ISI IF for 2015/16 has increased to 1.933 (from 1.44 in 2014/15) -
Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Reports® 2015

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, since 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, since Feb 2015!
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The October 2016 Issue comprises a Special Issue on: Advances in
Brain-Inspired Cognitive Systems (BICS), including a selection of 18
papers. The Guest Editorial (by Bin Luo, Amir Hussain, Mufti Mahmud and Jin
Tang) is available for FREE download from:
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-016-9431-7

The full listing of published articles (Table of Contents) for this October
2016 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/12559/8/5/

A list of the journal's Open Access articles can be found here:
http://link.springer.com/search?query=&search-within=Journal&facet-journal-id=12559&package=openaccessarticles

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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We also welcome relevant high quality multi-disciplinary proposals for
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exciting forthcoming one, titled: "Advances in Biologically Inspired
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- submissions are now closed!)

With our very best wishes to all aspiring readers and authors of Cognitive
Computation.

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)
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Also consider your work for a related forthcoming Book Series:
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Table of Contents Alert -- Cognitive Computation Vol 8 No 5, October 2016

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Advances in Brain-Inspired Cognitive Systems
Bin Luo, Amir Hussain, Mufti Mahmud, Jin Tang
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-016-9431-7/

Action-Based Pedestrian Identification via Hierarchical Matching Pursuit
and Order Preserving Sparse Coding
Si-Bao Chen, Yi Xin, Bin Luo
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-016-9393-9/

A Generative Learning Approach to Sensor Fusion and Change Detection
Alexander R. T. Gepperth, Thomas Hecht, Mandar Gogate
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-016-9390-z/

A Human Visual Experience-Inspired Similarity Metric for Face Recognition
Under Occlusion
Jian-Xun Mi, Chao Li, Cong Li, Tao Liu, Ying Liu
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-016-9420-x/

A Sensor Self-aware Distributed Consensus Filter for Simultaneous
Localization and Tracking
Xiangyuan Jiang, Peng Ren, Chunbo Luo
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-016-9423-7/

Common Visual Patterns Discovery with an Elastic Matching Model
Meili Zhao, Bo Jiang, Bin Luo, Jin Tang
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-016-9401-0/

Discriminative Lasso
Zhihong Zhang, Jianbing Xiahou, Zheng-Jian Bai, Edwin R. Hancock…
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-016-9402-z/

Fast Robot Localization Approach Based on Manifold Regularization with
Sparse Area Features
Hua Wu, Yan-Xiong Wu, Chang-An Liu, Guo-Tian Yang, Shi-Yin Qin
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-016-9427-3/

Hierarchical Visual Perception and Two-Dimensional Compressive Sensing for
Effective Content-Based Color Image Retrieval
Yan Zhou, Fan-Zhi Zeng, Hui-min Zhao, Paul Murray, Jinchang Ren
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-016-9424-6/

Improved Reversible Image Authentication Scheme
Zhaoxia Yin, Xuejing Niu, Zhili Zhou, Jin Tang, Bin Luo
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-016-9408-6/

Multi-manifolds Discriminative Canonical Correlation Analysis for Image
Set-Based Face Recognition
Haifeng Hu, Jianquan Gu
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-016-9403-y/

Target Tracking Based on Biological-Like Vision Identity via Improved
Sparse Representation and Particle Filtering
Gun Li, Zhong-yuan Liu, Hou-biao Li, Peng Ren
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-016-9410-z/

A Bio-Inspired Incremental Learning Architecture for Applied Perceptual
Problems
Alexander Gepperth, Cem Karaoguz
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-016-9389-5/

An Automated Method for Characterization of Evoked Single-Trial Local Field
Potentials Recorded from Rat Barrel Cortex Under Mechanical Whisker
Stimulation
Mufti Mahmud, Claudia Cecchetto, Stefano Vassanelli
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-016-9399-3/

A Neuro-Fuzzy Control System Based on Feature Extraction of Surface
Electromyogram Signal for Solar-Powered Wheelchair
M. Shamim Kaiser, Zamshed Iqbal Chowdhury, Shamim Al Mamun
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-016-9398-4/

Biologically Inspired Progressive Enhancement Target Detection from Heavy
Cluttered SAR Images
Fei Gao, Fei Ma, Yaotian Zhang, Jun Wang, Jinping Sun, Erfu Yang
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-016-9405-9/

Parallel Brain Simulator: A Multi-scale and Parallel Brain-Inspired Neural
Network Modeling and Simulation Platform
Xin Liu, Yi Zeng, Tielin Zhang, Bo Xu
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-016-9411-y/

Sequentially Supervised Long Short-Term Memory for Gesture Recognition
Peisong Wang, Qiang Song, Hua Han, Jian Cheng
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-016-9388-6/

Towards a Biologically Inspired Soft Switching Approach for Cloud Resource
Provisioning
Amjad Ullah, Jingpeng Li, Amir Hussain, Erfu Yang
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-016-9391-y/

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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/journ
al/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/ 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/

The full listing of Vol. 7, No.6 / December 2015, can be viewed here:
http://link.springer.com/journal/12559/7/6/  This 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 Vol. 8, No.1 / February 2016, can be viewed here:
http://link.springer.com/journal/12559/8/1/  This comprises an invited
paper by Ron Sun et al. titled: "Emotion: A Unified Mechanistic
Interpretation from a Cognitive Architecture" (this is available for free
download here: http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs12559-015-
9374-4.pdf). This is followed by eight regular papers.

The full listing of Vol. 8, No. 2 / April 2016, can be viewed here:
http://link.springer.com/journal/12559/8/2/ This comprises two invited
papers, the first by Yew-Soon Ong et al. (titled: Evolutionary
Multitasking: A Computer Science View of Cognitive Multitasking) and the
second by Zidong Wang et al. (titled: A Novel Switching Delayed PSO
Algorithm for Estimating Unknown Parameters of Lateral Flow Immunoassay).
These are followed by 10 regular papers, and finally a Special Issue
titled: "Cognitively-Inspired Computing for Gerontechnology" (comprising
five manuscripts, with the Guest Editorial available for free download
here: http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs12559-016-9392-x.pdf).

The full listing of Vol. 8, No.3 / June 2016, can be viewed here:
http://link.springer.com/journal/12559/8/3/ This Issue comprises two Open
Access invited papers, the first by Hussein Abbass et al. (titled: "Trusted
Autonomy and Cognitive Cyber Symbiosis: Open Challenges", available for
free download from: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-
015-9365-5), and the second by Kevin Warwick et al. (titled: "Passing the
Turing Test Does Not Mean the End of Humanity", available for free download
from: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-015-9372-6). These
are followed by 10 regular papers.

The full listing of Vol. 8 No.4 / Aug 2016 can be viewed here:
http://link.springer.com/journal/12559/8/4/ This Issue comprises an OPEN
ACCESS invited paper, by Yiyu Yao (titled: Three-Way Decisions and
Cognitive Computing, available for free download from:
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-016-9397-5?view=classic ).
This is followed by 16 regular papers.

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