Call for Papers: Special Journal Issue on Cognitive and Neural Aspects in Robotics with Applications 2012 (CNAR'12), Journal of Robotics

[A. M. G. Solo]

Call for Papers: Special Journal Issue on Cognitive and Neural
Aspects in Robotics with Applications 2012 (CNAR'12), Journal of
Robotics

URL: http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jr/si/720903/cfp/

It is our pleasure to announce a new call for papers for the third
special issue on cognitive and neural aspects of robotics with
applications for the Journal of Robotics. The call for papers on
cognitive and neural sciences related to robotic systems was a
successful challenge.

Robotics has been widely applied for various fields such as automation
and other control and engineering systems. Recent developments of
humanoid and human-like robots are a milestone in the field of
robotics, and they can be a platform for breaking new ground of
robotics applications for human-friendly medical and welfare systems.
Cognitive and learning aspects for such robots are, however, still
underdeveloped compared to highly controlled mechanisms of recent
robotic systems.

Like the previous calls for papers of CNAR, the main challenges of
this new call for papers for the special issue are cognitive aspects
of robotics, especially the neural and fuzzy basis of human
intelligence and the fundamental model of human cognitive and motor
functions from the brain sciences point of view. We welcome research
papers focused on special and newest hardware and biocomputing
implementations that enhance cognitive capabilities in the field of
robotics.

We invite authors to submit original research articles as well as
review articles that will cross-fertilize the fields of cognitive
sciences and robotics. Potential topics include, but are not limited
to, the following:

-- Cognitive aspects of robotics
-- Neural network and fuzzy basis for robotic intelligence
-- Current applications and future prospects of cognitive sciences for
robotics
-- Human–robot perceptions and interactions
-- Biocomputing for cognitive computation for robotics
-- New algorithms of computational intelligence for robotics
-- New hardware implementations of cognitive algorithms in robotics
-- Robotics for assisting physical and mental disability
-- Cognitive algorithms in robotics to support biomedical
applications

Before submission authors should carefully read over the journal's
author guidelines, which are located at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jr/guidelines/
Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete
manuscript through the journal manuscript tracking system at
http://mts.hindawi.com/ according to the following timetable:

Important Dates

Manuscript Due July 20, 2011
First Round of Reviews October 12, 2012
Publication Date December 7, 2012

Web page: http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jr/si/720903/cfp/

Lead Guest Editor

-- Madan M. Gupta, FIEEE, FIFSA, FSPIE, Intelligent Systems Research
Laboratory, College of Engineering, University of Saskatchewan,
Saskatoon, SK, Canada S7N 5A9

Guest Editors

-- Noriyasu Homma, Research Division on Advanced Information
Technology, Cyberscience Center, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8579,
Japan
-- Zeng-Guang Hou, Laboratory of Complex Systems and Intelligence
Science, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing
100080, China
-- Ivo Bukovsky, Division of Automatic Control and Engineering
Informatics, Department of Instrumentation and Control Engineering,
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Czech Technical University in
Prague, 166 07 Prague 6, Czech Republic
-- A. M. G. Solo, FBCS, Solo Research Lab, Maverick Technologies
America Inc., Suite 808, 1220 North Market Street, Wilmington, DE
19801, U.S.A.
-- Ki-Young Song, Intelligent Systems Research Laboratory, College of
Engineering, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada S7N 5A9

URL: http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jr/si/720903/cfp/