MLC 2013 - special issue on Computational Awareness - International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics

special issue on "Computational Awareness" in the
International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics (Springer).
The goal of computational awareness (CA) is to
realize awareness in computing machines. Awareness
is the ability to perceive, to feel, or to be conscious of
events, objects or sensory patterns. It may not lead
directly to full comprehension. Awareness often
implies vigilance in observing and alertness in
drawing inferences from what one experiences.
Compared with computational intelligence (CI), the
goal of CA is less ambitious. Nevertheless, CA could
be more important for solving practical problems. We
think awareness is the bridge between perception and
cognition. Without being aware, a system may never
become intelligent. Moreover, awareness could make
computation towards the goal of CA more efficient
by shedding of irrelevant possibilities.
In the last two decades, CA has been studied
mainly from an engineering perspective. To create
real aware systems, however, studying different
applications in an ad-hoc manner is not enough. We
need to study all kinds of CA related problems in a
unified framework, gain more insight about aware
systems and the mechanism of awareness existing in
different living beings. The goal of this special issue
is to provide an opportunity for researchers,
engineers, and scientists to publish their latest results
related to CA. The topics of interest include, but are
not limited to the following:
О Awareness mechanism and modeling
О Awareness ontology and semantics
О Neurocomputing
О Fuzzy logic and rough set
О Granular computing
О Agents and swarm intelligence
О Awareness for human
О Context awareness
О Situation awareness
О Intention awareness
О Emotion awareness
О Preference awareness
О Location awareness
О Position awareness
О Goal awareness
О Risk awareness
О Danger awareness
О Chance awareness
О Awareness for systems
О Context awareness
О Energy awareness
О Capability awareness
О Resource awareness
О Fault awareness
О Safety awareness
О User awareness
О Privacy awareness
Before submission authors should carefully read
the instruction to authors which is available at
http://www.springer.com/engineering/computational+
intelligence+and+complexity/journal/13042.
Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy
of their complete manuscript through the journal
Manuscript Tracking System at https://www.
editorialmanager.com/jmlc/. Important dates are
given in the following table:
Manuscript due Dec. 15, 2012
1st round of reviews Feb. 15, 2013
Revised manuscript due Mar. 30, 2013
2nd round of reviews June 30, 2013
Final manuscript due Aug. 15, 2013
Publication Date Oct. 2013
Guest Editors
Cheng-Hsiung Hsieh, Department of Computer
Science and Information Engineering, Chaoyang
University of Technology, Taiwan;
chhsieh-AT-cyut.edu.tw
Incheon Paik, School of Computer Science and
Engineering, The University of Aizu, Japan;
paikic-AT-u-aizu.ac.jp
Qiangfu Zhao, School of Computer Science and
Engineering, The University of Aizu, Japan;
qf-zhao-AT-u-aizu.ac.jp
For detail, please visit
(http://www.springer.com/engineering/computational+...).