Toward Cognitive Informatics and Cognitive Computers: A Report on IEEE ICCI'06

Abstract

Cognitive informatics (CI) is a cutting-edge and multidisciplinary research area that tackles the fundamental problems shared by modern informatics, computation, software engineering, AI, cybernetics, cognitive science, neuro-psychology, medical science, systems science, philosophy, linguistics, economics, management science, and life sciences [Wang, 2002]. CI can be viewed as a trans-disciplinary enquiry of cognitive and information sciences that investigates into the internal information processing mechanisms and processes of the brain and natural intelligence, and their engineering applications [Wang, 2003, 2007a; Wang and Kinsner, 2006]. It is a trans-disciplinary study of the internal information processing mechanisms and processes of the natural intelligence – human brains and minds – and their engineering applications