Affiliations: Visiting Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, Stanford
University, Stanford, CA 94305-9010, USA. yingxuw@stanford.edu;
yingxu@ucalgary.ca | Dept. of Computer Science, California State University,
Sacramento, CA 95819-6021, USA. zhangd@ecs.csus.edu | Dept. of Medical Informatics, School of Medicine,
Shimane University, Enya-cho Izumo City, Shimane 693-8501, Japan.
tsumoto@computer.org
Note: [] Address for correspondence: Visiting Professor, Dept. of Comp.
Sc., Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-9010, USA
Abstract: Cognitive Informatics is a cutting-edge and multidisciplinary
research area that tackles the fundamental problems shared by modern
informatics, computing, software engineering, AI, cybernetics, cognitive
science, neuropsychology, medical science, systems science, philosophy,
linguistics, economics, management science, and life sciences. This editorial
introduces the emerging field of cognitive informatics and its applications in
cognitive computing, abstract intelligence, computational mathematics, and
computational intelligence. The themes and structure of this special issue on
cognitive informatics are described, and then, focuses of the selected papers
in Part II of this special issue are highlighted.
