Creating a link between a number of natural science and life science disciplines, the emerging field of cognitive informatics presents a transdisciplinary approach to the internal information processing mechanisms and processes of the brain and natural intelligence.

Novel Approaches in Cognitive Informatics and Natural Intelligence penetrates the academic field to offer the latest advancements in cognitive informatics and natural intelligence. This book covers the five areas of cognitive informatics, natural intelligence, autonomic computing, knowledge science, and relevant development, to provide researchers, academicians, students, and practitioners with a ready reference to the latest findings.

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The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

Adaptive neural network
Attention mechanism
Autonomic computing
Cognitive computational knowledge representation theory
Cognitive Informatics
Cognitive Modeling
Cognitive process of decision making
Cognitive processes of human perception
Extended objects
Finite state machines
Fixpoint semantics
Formal inferences
Granule network
Human information interaction
Interactive classification
Knowledge science
Language, logic, and the brain
Memorization process
Natural Intelligence
Neo-symbiosis
Selective sparse coding model
Spatial Knowledge
Trajectory planning

Reviews & Statements

The basic characteristic of the human brain is information processing. Informatics is the science of information that studies the nature of information, it's processing, and ways of transformation between information, matter and energy.

– Yingxu Wang, University of Calgary, Canada

Studies the natural intelligence and internal information processing mechanisms of the brain, as well as the processes involved in perception and cognition.

– Book News Inc. (March 2009)

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Editor/Author Biographies

Yingxu Wang is professor of cognitive informatics, brain science, software science, and denotational mathematics, President of International Institute of Cognitive Informatics and Cognitive Computing (ICIC, www.ucalgary.ca). He is a Fellow of ICIC, a Fellow of WIF (UK), a P.Eng of Canada, and a Senior Member of IEEE and ACM. He was visiting professor (on sabbatical leave) at Oxford University (1995), Stanford University (2008), UC Berkeley (2008), and MIT (2012), respectively. He received a PhD in Computer Science from the Nottingham Trent University in 1998 and has been a full professor since 1994. He is the founder and steering committee chair of the annual IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics and Cognitive Computing (ICCI*CC) since 2002. He is founding Editor-in-Chief of Int. Journal of Cognitive Informatics & Natural Intelligence, founding Editor-in-Chief of Int. Journal of Software Science & Computational Intelligence, Associate Editor of IEEE Trans. on SMC - Systems, and Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Advanced Mathematics & Applications.

Dr. Wang is the initiator of a few cutting-edge research fields such as cognitive informatics, denotational mathematics (concept algebra, process algebra, system algebra, semantic algebra, inference algebra, big data algebra, fuzzy truth algebra, and fuzzy probability algebra, visual semantic algebra, granular algebra), abstract intelligence (?I), mathematical models of the brain, cognitive computing, cognitive learning engines, cognitive knowledge base theory, and basic studies across contemporary disciplines of intelligence science, robotics, knowledge science, computer science, information science, brain science, system science, software science, data science, neuroinformatics, cognitive linguistics, and computational intelligence. He has published 400+ peer reviewed papers and 29 books in aforementioned transdisciplinary fields. He has presented 28 invited keynote speeches in international conferences. He has served as general chairs or program chairs for more than 20 international conferences. He is the recipient of dozens international awards on academic leadership, outstanding contributions, best papers, and teaching in the last three decades. He is the most popular scholar of top publications at University of Calgary in 2014 and 2015 according to RG worldwide stats.

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Editorial Advisory Board

Editor-in-Chief

Yingxu Wang, University of Calgary, Canada

Associate Editors

John Bickle, University Of Cincinnati, USA

Christine Chan, University of Regina, Canada

Witold Kinsner, University of Manitoba, Canada

Editorial Review Board

James Anderson, Brown University, USA

Motoei Azuma, Waseda University, Japan

Franck Barbier, University of Pau, France

Brian H. Bland, University of Calgary, Canada

Antony Bryant, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK

Keith Chan, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

Michael R.W. Dawson, University of Alberta, Canada

Lee Flax, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

Juan Garbajosa, Technical University of Madrid, Spain

Frank L. Greitzer, Pacific Northwest National Lab, USA

Brian Henderson-Sellers, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

Yaochu Jin, Honda Research Institute, Europe, Germany

Roger K. Moore, University of Sheffield, UK

Bernard Moulin, University of Laval, Canada

Dilip Patel, South Bank University, London, UK

Shushma Patel, South Bank University, London, UK

Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta, Canada

Vaclav Rajlich, Wayne State University, USA

Fernando Rubio, University Complutense de Madrid, Spain

Gunther Ruhe, University of Calgary, Canada

Abu Sesay, University of Calgary, Canada

Zhongzhi Shi, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

I-Fan Shen, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Philip Sheu, University of California, Irvine, USA

Kenji Sugawara, Chiba University, Japan

Jeffrey Tsai, University of Illinois in Chicago, USA

Athanasios Vasilakos, University of Thessaly, Greece

Guoyin Wang, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecoms, China

Yingxu Wang, University of Calgary, Canada

Yiyu Yao, University of Regina, Canada

Du Zhang, California State University, USA

Yixin Zhong, Beijing University of Post & Telecoms, China

Mengchu Zhou, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA

Xiaolin Zhou, Peking University, China