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Special Issue</span></b></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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<b>Dealing with Big Data: Lessons from Cognitive Computing</b></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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Introduction:<br>
<br>Big Data is growing almost at an exponential rate, as most of
the world's activities are becoming digital, along with an increase
in speed, complexity, uncertainty and the requirement to
realize concurrent time-limited tasks. Unlike traditional systems,
cognitive computing systems are not based on predetermined answers or
actions to perform a set of tasks; instead, they are trained using natural
and biologically-inspired approaches, including computational
intelligence and machine learning algorithms. Cognitive computing systems
interact with, learn naturally from people and data, and thus help
increase the <br>
productivity of what either humans or machines could do on their own.<br>
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This special issue aims at promoting inter-disciplinary
research, particularly in the complementary areas of cognitive
psychology, biology, computing science and engineering, for dealing with
Big Data challenges across these domains. A variety of signal and data
types exist in both engineering and biological systems, including
image, audio and other biological sources of information. The analysis
and use of these signals and data require high performance and intelligent computational
techniques, thereby making cognitive computing science an ideal candidate
to glue these disciplines together.<br>
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The special issue will be focusing mainly on i) Brain
Signal Processing ii) Bio-inspired systems iii) Big data analytics and <br>
applications, and iv) Bio-inspired visualization</span><span style="color:black;font-family:"Cambria","serif";font-size:12pt"></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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Topics include (but are not limited to):<br>
* Evidential reasoning<br>
* Molecular, biological, and genetic computation<br>
* Recent trends in brain-computer interface<br>
* Computational models for predicting human-mind states<br>
* Biologically inspired visualization techniques and applications<br>
* Big data analytics and applications such as in Medicine,
Healthcare and Social Media<br>
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Instructions for Authors:<br>
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All papers should follow the manuscript preparation requirements for the
Springer Cognitive Computation submissions, see <br>
</span><span style="color:black;font-family:"Cambria","serif";font-size:12pt"><a href="http://www.springer.com/12559." target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(25,106,212)">http://www.springer.com/12559. </span></a></span><span style="color:black;font-family:"Cambria","serif";font-size:12pt">The authors are
requested to submit their manuscripts via the online submission manuscript
system, available at </span><span style="color:black;font-family:"Cambria","serif";font-size:12pt"><a href="http://www.editorialmanager.com/cogn/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(25,106,212)">http://www.editorialmanager.com/cogn/. </span></a></span><span style="color:black;font-family:"Cambria","serif";font-size:12pt">During
submission, authors should explicitly choose the title of the special
issue in the Subject line.<br>
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Guest Editors:<br>
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Abdullah, A., Department of Information Technology, Faculty
of <br>
Computing & IT, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, KSA <br>
For further information, please contact at: (</span><span style="color:black;font-family:"Cambria","serif";font-size:12pt"><a href="mailto:aabdullah1@kau.edu.sa" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(25,106,212)">aabdullah1@kau.edu.sa</span></a></span><span style="color:black;font-family:"Cambria","serif";font-size:12pt">)<br>
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Hussain, A, Division of Computing Science and Maths, School of
Natural <br>
Sciences, University of Stirling, Scotland, UK (</span><span style="color:black;font-family:"Cambria","serif";font-size:12pt"><a href="mailto:ahu@stir.ac.uk" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(25,106,212)">ahu@stir.ac.uk</span></a></span><span style="color:black;font-family:"Cambria","serif";font-size:12pt">)<br>
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Khan, I. H., Department of Computer Science, Faculty of <br>
Computing & IT, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, KSA <br>
(</span><span style="color:black;font-family:"Cambria","serif";font-size:12pt"><a href="mailto:ihkhan@kau.edu.sa" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(25,106,212)">ihkhan@kau.edu.sa</span></a></span><span style="color:black;font-family:"Cambria","serif";font-size:12pt">)<br>
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Mahmud, M., Theoretical Neurobiology & Neuroengineering Lab, <br>
University of Antwerp, Belgium (</span><span style="color:black;font-family:"Cambria","serif";font-size:12pt"><a href="mailto:mufti@tnb.ua.ac.be" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(25,106,212)">mufti@tnb.ua.ac.be</span></a></span><span style="color:black;font-family:"Cambria","serif";font-size:12pt">)</span><span style="color:black;font-family:"Cambria","serif";font-size:12pt"></span></p>
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Submissions Deadline<br>
31 July 2014<br>
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First notification of acceptance<br>
15 Sep 2014<br>
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Submission of revised papers<br>
15 Nov 2014<br>
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Final notification to the authors<br>
31 Dec 2014<br>
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Submission of final/camera-ready papers<br>
31 Jan 2015<br>
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</font><font size="3"><span style="font-family:"Harlow Solid Italic"">Imtiaz Hussain Khan</span><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">, PhD</span></font></div><div style="text-align:left">
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<span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif""></span><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif""><font size="3">Faculty of Computing & IT</font></span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:left;line-height:normal">
<span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif""></span><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif""><font size="3">King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, KSA</font></span></div><p style="text-align:left">
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