Special Issue on Complex Cognition
Guest Editors:
Ute Schmid (University of Bamberg, Germany)
Marco Ragni (University of Freiburg, Germany)
Joachim Funke (University of Heidelberg, Germany)
Coty Gonzalez (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA)
Theme of the Special Issue
Dealing with complexity has become one of the great challenges for modern
information societies. To reason and decide, plan and act in complex domains
is no longer limited to highly specialized professionals in restricted
areas such as medical diagnosis, controlling technical processes, or serious
game playing. Complexity has reached everyday life and affects people in
such mundane activities as buying a train ticket, investing money, or
connecting a home desktop to the internet.
Interdisciplinary research on cognitive foundations and formal and
algorithmical approaches of cognitive systems can address this challenge by
providing insights in the mechanisms which can enable human and artificial
systems to decide, reason, plan and act in complex domains.
Research which contributes to the topic of complex cognition is done in the
context of cognitive architectures, automated planning and reasoning,
decision support, and assistance systems. The special issue addresses basic
mechanisms of complex cognitive systems as well as applications in arbitrary
complex domains. It is open but not restricted to work in
- reasoning in complex domains
- learning from problem solving experience
- planning and problem solving in dynamic environments
- automated decision making and cognitive assistance systems.
Call for Papers
Anybody with research contributions relevant to the topics given above is
invited to notify
the guest editors of his/her interest to submit a paper by sending a
tentative title, list of authors and a short abstract by November 30,
2009 to ute.schmid@uni-bamberg.de. Full papers are also submitted
by email
to ute.schmid@uni-bamberg.de (not to the editors directly). Submission
deadline is March 29, 2010. Submitted papers should contain original and
unpublished work and should not exceed 30 pages including tables and
figures. Manuscripts should be submitted electronically in PDF format in
accordance with the Elsevier guidelines. Please use the generic Elsevier
style elsart available from http://www.elsevier.com/latex to prepare the
Latex file. All submitted papers will be refereed in a single-blind review
process in terms of their originality, the methodological soundness, the
clearness of the presented results and conclusions and the relevancy of the
submission for the special issue.
Important Dates
| Abstract | 30th November, 2009 |
| Submission | 29th March, 2010 |
| Notification | 3rd May, 2010 |
| Camera Ready | 7th June, 2010 |
Board of Reviewers (to be completed)
Ruth Byrne (Trinity College Dublin, University of Dublin, Ireland)
Claus-Christian Carbon (University of Bamberg, Germany)
Nicholas Cassimatis (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA)
Christian Freksa (University of Bremen, Germany)
Ken Forbus (Northwestern University, USA)
Hector Geffner (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain)
Joachim Hertzberg (University of Osnabrueck, Germany)
Pascal Hitzler (Wright State University, USA)
Markus Knauff (University of Giessen, Germany)
Guenther Knoblich (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
Kai-Uwe Kühnberger (University of Osnabrück, Germany)
John Laird (University of Michigan, USA)
Pat Langley (Arizona State University, USA)
Christian Lebiere (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Bernhard Nebel (University of Freiburg, Germany)
Magda Osman (University College London, UK)
Christoph Schlieder (University of Bamberg, Germany)
Niels Taatgen (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)
Iris van Rooij (University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
Ute Schmid, Oct 29 2009