CCA 2017 - 1st IEEE International Workshop on Cognitive Computing and Its Applications

Cognitive computing is a new transformational technology and a new innovative approach for solving some of the challenging issues that we encounter in practice. Cognitive computing systems and applications learn to perform better from their interactions with us and with their environment, reason with purpose, and interact with humans and other smart systems naturally. Examples of services enabled by cognitive computing that we already interact with are Apple Siri, IBM Watson, Microsoft Cortana, Google Go, and Amazon Echo. We are now seeing a significant further innovation in the development and application of cognitive computing across almost every industry. Cognitive computing is poised for several helpful applications in areas such as research and discovery, decision support and advisory, customer engagement, customer experience management, helathcare, the Internet of Things (IoT), and cyber security. Companies are seriously examining how they can benefit from applying cognitive computing in their organizations in key areas of importance.
This workshop will provide an interactive forum for discussion on recent and ongoing developments, key issues and challenges, and practices related to cognitive computing. It will also provide a platform to demonstrate applications and software tools and present case studies and application experience. Researchers and practitioners all over the world, from academia, industry and government, are invited to participate in the workshop.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:
Cognitive computing systems - technologies, algorithms, and approaches
Cognitive computing applications in enterprise, business, healthcare, education, cyber security, risk management, and in other areas
Cognitive systems and intelligent virtual assistants
Cognitive computing and the Internet of Things
Autonomous systems and processes
The impact on human computer interfaces
The impact on the workforce
Knowledge capture, access, and resuse with cognitive systems
Commerce applications for cognitive agent technologies
Cloud-centric cognitive computing
Cognitive computing implications for service innovations
Case studies
Issues and challenges facing adoption of cognitive computing
Submissions
We solicit articles/presentations from researchers, practitioners, and consultants that discuss several aspects of cognitive computing.
Papers should be no more than 6 pages. The format of submitted workshop papers should follow the guidelines for the IEEE conference proceedings. Paper templates and examples are available under Author Instructions on the COMPSAC website. Simultaneous submission to other publication venues is not permitted except as highlighted at COMPSAC C1J2 & J1C2 schemes for journal publication.