CCMB 2015 - 2015 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence, Cognitive Algorithms, Mind, and Brain(IEEE CCMB'15)

Computational Intelligence (CI) has for many years drawn inspiration from the brain to produce data and signal processing techniques and systems which are capable of learning, evolving, adapting, self-organizing, communicating effectively with humans and machines and controlling complex systems. Brain-inspired methods are now widely used to process data produced by the brain with the aim of improving our understanding of how the brain functions and produces the remarkable intelligence exhibited by humans, which is yet elusive for computational systems.
Topics
This Symposium focuses on several core topics associated with cognitive algorithms, mind and brain, which are deemed to be of critical importance as we progress into the 21st century.
Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs): BCI technology enables communication from brain to computer. It would help to those who require alternative communicatory mechanisms because of neuromuscular deficiencies and speed up communicating with computers for everybody. There is a significant progress in translating speech to text, and extracting cognitive signals from EEG. Still the problem is not solved.
Computational models of brain and mind: Mathematical and neurocomputational models are contributing to the understanding of the brain-mind relations, psychological mechanisms, and unsolved mysteries. Cognitive algorithms based on these models significantly improve classical engineering solutions, and solve problems that could not be solved previously. These models can be helpful in therapy.
Cognitive Robotics: Developing robots for assistive devices and industrial applications is a key area of Computational Intelligence research. How the robot develops its own understanding of the world. Brain-inspired cognitive robotics become increasingly popular and lead to various breakthroughs in the field of autonomous systems designs and implementations.
Language and Cognition: Progress in many key areas of modeling the mind critically depends on understanding of interaction between language and cognition. Does language serve for communicating complete thoughts? Or do we think with words and phrases? If learning language and cognition depend on each other, why a child learns language early in life, but learning cognition takes much longer? We should build BCI and Cognitive Robots by taking advantage of human mechanisms of interacting language and cognition.
In general, we are interested in dynamic brain models and brain-inspired methods which help solving problems in psychology and cognitive science, integrate signals from different domains, help in recognition and prediction. Topics of interest include
Cognitive mathematical models and experimental predictions
Cortical dynamics, theory & experiments
Brain-computer interface
Autonomous robot control
Visual and audio perception
Language and cognition interaction
Brain rhythms and their cognitive relevance
Extracting cognitive events from EEG signals
Embodied cognition modeling
Models of cognitive dissonance and its functions in cognition
Neural Modeling Fields (NMF) and dynamic logic
Cognitive robotics
Perceptual processing
Evolutionary and multi-agent modeling
Psychological and neurological disorders
Emotional and cognitive algorithms
Models of higher abilities of the mind
Aesthetic and musical emotions and their function in cognition
Emotions of language prosody and their functions in cognition
Evolution of languages and cultures
Socio-cultural modeling
Organisers
Leonid I. Perlovsky
Harvard University and Air Force Research Laboratory, USA. Email:leonid-AT-seas.harvard.edu
Jose F Fontanari
University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Email:fontanari-AT-ifsc.usp.br
Angelo Cangelosi
Plymouth University, UK. Email:A.Cangelosi-AT-plymouth.ac.uk
Daniel Levine
University of Texas,USA. Email:levine-AT-uta.edu
Robert Kozma
The University of Memphis,USA. Email:rkozma-AT-memphis.edu
Programme Committee
Michel Cabanac, Canada
Ross Deming, USA
Jose Fontanari, Brazil
John Gan, Essex, UK
Nikola Kasabov, New Zeeland
Boris Kovalerchuk, USA
Gary Kuvich, USA
Roman Ilin, AFRL, USA
Nobuo Masataka, Japan
Alexander Mehler, Germany
Chin-Teng Lin, NCTU, Taiwan
Igor Ternovskiy, USA
Juergen Schmidhuber, Switzerland
Simon Streltsov, USA
Walter Weisse, Rhode Island, USA
Paul Werbos, USA
Donald C. Wunsch II, USA
Yair Neuman, Israel