<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">Call for Papers: Special Journal Issue on Cognitive and Neural Aspects in Robotics with Applications 2012 (CNAR'12), Journal of </font><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; ">Robotics </span></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">URL: http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jr/si/720903/cfp/</font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">It is our pleasure to announce a new call for papers for the third special issue on cognitive and neural aspects of robotics with </font><span style="font-family:
'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; ">applications for the Journal of Robotics. The call for papers on cognitive and neural sciences related to robotic systems was a </span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; ">successful challenge. </span></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">Robotics has been widely applied for various fields such as automation and other control and engineering systems. Recent developments </font><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; ">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 </span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; ">robotics applications for human-friendly medical and welfare systems.
Cognitive and learning aspects for such robots are, however, </span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; ">still underdeveloped compared to highly controlled mechanisms of recent robotic systems. </span></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">Like the previous calls for papers of CNAR, the main challenges of this new call for papers for the special issue are cognitive </font><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; ">aspects of robotics, especially the neural and fuzzy basis of human intelligence and the fundamental model of human cognitive and </span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; ">motor functions from the brain sciences point of view. We welcome research papers focused on special and newest hardware
and </span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; ">biocomputing implementations that enhance cognitive capabilities in the field of robotics. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; ">We invite authors to submit original research articles as well as review articles that will cross-fertilize the fields of cognitive </span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; ">sciences and robotics. </span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; ">Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:</span></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">-- Cognitive aspects of
robotics </font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">-- Neural network and fuzzy basis for robotic intelligence </font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">-- Current applications and future prospects of cognitive sciences for robotics </font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">-- Human–robot perceptions and interactions </font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">-- Biocomputing for cognitive computation for robotics </font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">-- New algorithms of computational intelligence for robotics </font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">-- New hardware implementations of cognitive algorithms in robotics </font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">-- Robotics for assisting
physical and mental disability </font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">-- Cognitive algorithms in robotics to support biomedical applications </font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">Before submission authors should carefully read over the journal's author guidelines, which are located at </font><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; ">http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jr/guidelines/ </span></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal manuscript tracking system at </font><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; ">http://mts.hindawi.com/ according to the following timetable: </span></div><div><font
face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">Important Dates </font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">Manuscript Due July 20, 2011 </font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">First Round of Reviews October 12, 2012 </font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">Publication Date December 7, 2012 </font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">Web page: http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jr/si/720903/cfp/</font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times,
serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">Lead Guest Editor </font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">-- Madan M. Gupta, FIEEE, FIFSA, FSPIE, Intelligent Systems Research Laboratory, College of Engineering, University of Saskatchewan, </font><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; ">Saskatoon, SK, Canada S7N 5A9 </span></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">Guest Editors </font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">-- Noriyasu Homma, Research Division on Advanced Information Technology, Cyberscience Center, Tohoku University, Sendai
980-8579, </font><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; ">Japan </span></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">-- Zeng-Guang Hou, Laboratory of Complex Systems and Intelligence Science, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, </font><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; ">Beijing 100080, China </span></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">-- Ivo Bukovsky, Division of Automatic Control and Engineering Informatics, Department of Instrumentation and Control Engineering, </font><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; ">Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, 166 07 Prague 6, Czech Republic </span></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">-- Ashu M. G. Solo, FBCS, Maverick Technologies America Inc., Suite
808, 1220 North Market Street, Wilmington, DE 19801, U.S.A. </font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">-- Ki-Young Song, Intelligent Systems Research Laboratory, College of Engineering, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada </font><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; ">S7N 5A9</span></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">URL: http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jr/si/720903/cfp/</font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york',
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