Connectionists: (Increased ISI Impact Factor & now PubMed indexed!) Table of Contents: Cognitive Computation journal (Springer Nature)-Vol.8, No.6/Dec 2016 & Vol.8, No.1/Feb 2017 Issues

Mon Feb 27 19:53:50 EST 2017

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

We are delighted to announce the publication of Volume 8, No.6 / Dec 2016
and Volume 9, No.1 / Feb 2017 Issues, of (Springer Nature's) Cognitive
Computation journal - www.springer.com/12559

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Important News: Increased ISI SCI Impact Factor, Six bi-monthly Journal
Issues (since 2015) & Now indexed in PubMed (since 2016)
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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 ♦ PubMed (since 2016) ♦ 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 December 2016 and February 2017 Issues each comprise a selection of 10
papers. The full listings of published articles (Table of Contents) for
these Issues 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/12559/8/6/ and http://link.springer.com/
journal/12559/9/1/

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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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 nearly 900 members already! We warmly invite you to join
us at: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3155048

For further information on the journal and to sign up for electronic "Table
of Contents alerts" please visit the Cognitive Computation homepage:
http://www.springer.com/12559 or follow us on Twitter at:
http://twitter.com/CognComput  for the latest On-line First Issues.

For any questions with regards to LinkedIn and/or Twitter, please contact
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 weeks of receipt.

We also welcome relevant high quality multi-disciplinary proposals for
Special Issues - three are already planned for 2016/17! (including an
exciting forthcoming one, titled: "Advances in Biologically Inspired
Reservoir Computing" : http://static.springer.com/sgw/documents/1570471/
application/pdf/Advances+in+Biologically+Inspired+Reservoir+Computing.pdf -
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)
http://www.springer.com/12559

NEW: Open Access Springer Nature/BioMed Central (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

NEW: Book Series:
Cognitive Computation Trends
http://www.springer.com/series/15648

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Table of Contents -- Cognitive Computation Vol 8 No 6, December 2016

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*A Biologically Inspired Framework for Visual Information Processing and an
Application on Modeling Bottom-Up Visual Attention*
Ala Aboudib, Vincent Gripon, Gilles Coppin
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-016-9430-8

*Contour Detection in Colour Images Using a Neurophysiologically Inspired
Model*
Qi Wang, M. W. Spratling
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-016-9432-6

*Multi-criteria Group Decision-Making Based on Interval Neutrosophic
Uncertain Linguistic Variables and Choquet Integral*
Peide Liu, Guolin Tang
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-016-9428-2

*A Computational Approach of the French Flag Model to Connect Growth and
Specification in Developmental Biology*
Maria Teresa Signes Pont, Higinio Mora Mora, Juan Manuel García Chamizo
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-016-9426-4

*Weight Uncertainty in Boltzmann Machine*
Jian Zhang, Shifei Ding, Nan Zhang, Yu Xue
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-016-9429-1

*Towards GPU-Based Common-Sense Reasoning: Using Fast Subgraph Matching*
Ha-Nguyen Tran, Erik Cambria, Amir Hussain
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-016-9418-4

*Probabilistic Belief Embedding for Large-Scale Knowledge Population*
Miao Fan, Qiang Zhou, Andrew Abel, Thomas Fang Zheng, Ralph Grishman
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-016-9425-5

*Bifurcation Analysis of Two-Neuron Networks with Discrete and Distributed
Delays*
Changjin Xu, Qiming Zhang, Yusen Wu
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-016-9422-8

*Group Decision Making with Dual Hesitant Fuzzy Preference Relations*
Na Zhao, Zeshui Xu, Fengjun Liu
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-016-9419-3

*An Extended Outranking Approach to Rough Stochastic Multi-criteria
Decision-Making Problems*
Jian-qiang Wang, Jin-jue Kuang, Jing Wang, Hong-yu Zhang
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-016-9417-5

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Table of Contents -- Cognitive Computation Vol 9 No 1, February 2017

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*Anatomy of the Mind: a Quick Overview*
Ron Sun
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-016-9444-2

*On Global Smooth Path Planning for Mobile Robots using a Novel Multimodal
Delayed PSO Algorithm*
Baoye Song, Zidong Wang, Lei Zou
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-016-9442-4

*Semi-supervised Learning for Affective Common-Sense Reasoning*
Luca Oneto, Federica Bisio, Erik Cambria, Davide Anguit
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-016-9433-5

*A Digital Communication Analysis of Gene Expression of Proteins in
Biological Systems: A Layered Network Model View*
Yesenia Cevallos, Lorena Molina, Alex Santillán, Floriano De Rango, Ahmad
Rushdi, Jesús B. Alonso
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-016-9434-4

*H-MRST: A Novel Framework For Supporting Probability Degree Range Query
Using Extreme Learning Machine*
Bin Wang, Rui Zhu, Shiying Luo, Xiaochun Yang, Guoren Wang
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-016-9435-3

*Distance and Aggregation-Based Methodologies for Hesitant Fuzzy Decision
Making*
B. Farhadinia, Zeshui Xu
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-016-9436-2

*Learning Tone Mapping Function for Dehazing*
Xuhang Lian, Yanwei Pang, Yuqing He, Xuelong Li, Aiping Yang
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-016-9437-1

*A Semi-Supervised Predictive Sparse Decomposition Based on Task-Driven
Dictionary Learning*
Le Lv, Dongbin Zhao, Qingqiong Deng
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-016-9438-0

*Semi-supervised Echo State Networks for Audio Classification*
Simone Scardapane, Aurelio Uncini
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-016-9439-z

*Human Brain Function in Path Planning: a Task Study*
Yeganeh M. Marghi, Farzad Towhidkhah, Shahriar Gharibzadeh
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-016-9443-3

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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%2Fs12559-015-93
74-4.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.

The full listing of Vol. 8 No. 5 / Oct 2016 can be viewed here:
http://link.springer.com/journal/12559/8/5/
This 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

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