Connectionists: Increased Impact Factor (2015/16) and Table of Contents Alert: Cognitive Computation journal (Springer Nature): Vol.8, No.4 / Aug 2016 Issue
Dr Amir Hussain
ahu at cs.stir.ac.uk
Sun Sep 11 19:33:08 EDT 2016
Dear Colleagues: (with advance apologies for any cross-postings)
We are delighted to announce the publication of Volume 8, No.4 / Aug 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
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The August 2016 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.
The full listing of published articles (Table of Contents) for this August
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/12559/8/4/
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Professor Amir Hussain, PhD (Editor-in-Chief: Cognitive Computation)
E-mail: ahu at cs.stir.ac.uk (University of Stirling, Scotland, UK)
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Table of Contents Alert -- Cognitive Computation Vol 8 No 4, August 2016
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Invited Paper (Open Access)
*Three-Way Decisions and Cognitive Computing*
<http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-016-9397-5>
Yiyu Yao
Regular Papers:
*Learning the Semantics of Notational Systems with a Semiotic Cognitive
Automaton* <http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-015-9378-0>
Valerio Targon
*Detection and Extraction of Hot Topics on Chinese Microblogs*
<http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-015-9380-6>
Liang Yang, Hongfei Lin, *Yuan Lin*, *Shengbo Liu*
*Online Shopping Behavior Study Based on Multi-granularity Opinion Mining:
China Versus America
<http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-016-9384-x>*
Qingqing Zhou, Rui Xia, Chengzhi Zhang
*On Identifying Minimal Absent and Unique Words: An Efficient Scheme*
<http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-016-9385-9>
Aqil M. Azmi
<http://link.springer.com/search?facet-creator=%22Aqil+M.+Azmi%22>
*Multi-Objective Model Selection (MOMS)-based Semi-Supervised Framework for
Sentiment Analysis*
<http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-016-9386-8>
Farhan Hassan Khan, Usman Qamar, Saba Bashir
*A New Spatio-Temporal Saliency-Based Video Object Segmentation*
<http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-016-9387-7>
Zhengzheng Tu, Andrew Abel, Lei Zhang, Bin Luo, Amir Hussain
*Erratum to: A New Spatio-Temporal Saliency-Based Video Object Segmentation*
<http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-016-9412-x>
Zhengzheng Tu, Andrew Abel, Lei Zhang, Bin Luo, Amir Hussain
*A Neutrosophic Normal Cloud and Its Application in Decision-Making*
<http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-016-9394-8> Hong-yu Zhang, Pu
Ji, Jian-qiang Wang, Xiao-hong Chen
*A Likelihood-Based Qualitative Flexible Approach with Hesitant Fuzzy
Linguistic Information*
<http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-016-9400-1>
Zhang-peng Tian
<http://link.springer.com/search?facet-creator=%22Zhang-peng+Tian%22>, Jing
Wang <http://link.springer.com/search?facet-creator=%22Jing+Wang%22>,
Jian-qiang
Wang <http://link.springer.com/search?facet-creator=%22Jian-qiang+Wang%22>,
Hong-yu
Zhang <http://link.springer.com/search?facet-creator=%22Hong-yu+Zhang%22>
*Deep Belief Networks for Quantitative Analysis of a Gold
Immunochromatographic Strip*
<http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-016-9404-x>
Nianyin Zeng
<http://link.springer.com/search?facet-creator=%22Nianyin+Zeng%22>, Zidong
Wang <http://link.springer.com/search?facet-creator=%22Zidong+Wang%22>, Hong
Zhang <http://link.springer.com/search?facet-creator=%22Hong+Zhang%22>, Weibo
Liu <http://link.springer.com/search?facet-creator=%22Weibo+Liu%22>, Fuad
E. Alsaadi
<http://link.springer.com/search?facet-creator=%22Fuad+E.+Alsaadi%22>
*A Novel Saliency Prediction Method Based on Fast Radial Symmetry Transform
and Its Generalization*
<http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-016-9406-8>
Jiayu Liang
<http://link.springer.com/search?facet-creator=%22Jiayu+Liang%22>, Shiu Yin
Yuen <http://link.springer.com/search?facet-creator=%22Shiu+Yin+Yuen%22>
*Toward Self-Referential Autonomous Learning of Object and Situation Models*
<http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-016-9407-7>
Florian Damerow
<http://link.springer.com/search?facet-creator=%22Florian+Damerow%22>, Andreas
Knoblauch
<http://link.springer.com/search?facet-creator=%22Andreas+Knoblauch%22>, Ursula
Körner
<http://link.springer.com/search?facet-creator=%22Ursula+K%C3%B6rner%22>,
Julian
Eggert <http://link.springer.com/search?facet-creator=%22Julian+Eggert%22>…
*Self-adaptive Extreme Learning Machine Optimized by Rough Set Theory and
Affinity Propagation Clustering*
<http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-016-9409-5>
Li Xu <http://link.springer.com/search?facet-creator=%22Li+Xu%22>, Shifei
Ding <http://link.springer.com/search?facet-creator=%22Shifei+Ding%22>,
Xinzheng
Xu <http://link.springer.com/search?facet-creator=%22Xinzheng+Xu%22>, Nan
Zhang <http://link.springer.com/search?facet-creator=%22Nan+Zhang%22>
*From Spin to Swindle: Identifying Falsification in Financial Text*
<http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-016-9413-9>
Saliha Minhas
<http://link.springer.com/search?facet-creator=%22Saliha+Minhas%22>, Amir
Hussain <http://link.springer.com/search?facet-creator=%22Amir+Hussain%22>
*An Analytical Study on Reasoning of Extreme Learning Machine for
Classification from Its Inductive Bias*
<http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-016-9414-8>
Pak Kin Wong
<http://link.springer.com/search?facet-creator=%22Pak+Kin+Wong%22>, Xiang
Hui Gao <http://link.springer.com/search?facet-creator=%22Xiang+Hui+Gao%22>,
Ka In Wong <http://link.springer.com/search?facet-creator=%22Ka+In+Wong%22>,
Chi Man Vong
<http://link.springer.com/search?facet-creator=%22Chi+Man+Vong%22>
*Multilingual Sentiment Analysis: State of the Art and Independent
Comparison of Techniques*
<http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-016-9415-7>
Kia Dashtipour
<http://link.springer.com/search?facet-creator=%22Kia+Dashtipour%22>, Soujanya
Poria <http://link.springer.com/search?facet-creator=%22Soujanya+Poria%22>,
Amir
Hussain <http://link.springer.com/search?facet-creator=%22Amir+Hussain%22>,
Erik
Cambria <http://link.springer.com/search?facet-creator=%22Erik+Cambria%22>…
*Erratum to: Multilingual Sentiment Analysis: State of the Art and
Independent Comparison of Techniques*
<http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-016-9421-9>
Kia Dashtipour
<http://link.springer.com/search?facet-creator=%22Kia+Dashtipour%22>, Soujanya
Poria <http://link.springer.com/search?facet-creator=%22Soujanya+Poria%22>,
Amir
Hussain <http://link.springer.com/search?facet-creator=%22Amir+Hussain%22>,
Erik
Cambria <http://link.springer.com/search?facet-creator=%22Erik+Cambria%22>…
*A Bio-inspired Parallel-Framework Based Multi-gene Genetic Programming
Approach to Denoise Biomedical Images*
<http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-016-9416-6>
Syed Gibran Javed
<http://link.springer.com/search?facet-creator=%22Syed+Gibran+Javed%22>, Abdul
Majid <http://link.springer.com/search?facet-creator=%22Abdul+Majid%22>, Safdar
Ali <http://link.springer.com/search?facet-creator=%22Safdar+Ali%22>, Nabeela
Kausar <http://link.springer.com/search?facet-creator=%22Nabeela+Kausar%22>
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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/ 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.
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