Dear Colleagues: (with advance apologies for any cross-postings)

We are delighted to announce the publication of Volume 7, No.2 / April 2015 Issue, of Springer's Cognitive Computation journal - www.springer.com/12559

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Important News: Increased Impact Factor & Six bi-monthly Journal Issues from 2015!
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As you will know, Cognitive Computation was selected for coverage in Thomson Reuter’s products and services in 2011. Beginning with V.1 (1) 2009, this publication is now indexed and abstracted in: ♦ Science Citation Index Expanded (also known as SciSearch®) ♦ Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition ♦ Current Contents®/Engineering Computing and Technology ♦ Neuroscience Citation Index®

Cognitive Computation received its first Impact Factor (IF) of 1.0 in 2011.

The IF for 2013/2014 increased to 1.1 (with a first 5 year IF of 1.387)
(Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Reports® 2013)
Many congratulations to the editors, reviewers and authors!

Want to be part of the growing success? Visit the journal homepage (http://springer.com/12559) for instructions on submitting your research.

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Quarterly to Bi-monthly Issues, from 2015!!
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Due to continuously growing number of high quality submissions, the number of Issues has increased from four (quarterly Issues) to six (bi-monthly Issues) each year, starting Feb 2015!
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The April 2015 Issue comprises a Special Issue on "Sentic Computing", Guest Edited by: E. Cambria and A. Hussain. The Guest Editorial titled: "Sentic Computing" is available (for free download) here:  http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-015-9325-0

The full listing of published articles (Table of Contents) for this April 2015 Issue can be viewed here (and also at the end of this message, followed by an overview of the previous Issues/Archive listings): http://link.springer.com/journal/12559/7/2/

You may also be interested in the last Special Issue of 2014 (Vol. 6, No.4 / Dec 2014) on "Modeling emotion, behaviour and context in socially believable robots and ICT interfaces", Guest Edited by: Anna Esposito, Leopoldina Fortunati, and Giuseppe Lugano. The Guest Editorial is available (for free download) here: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-014-9309-5 and the full listing of 24 articles can be found here: http://link.springer.com/journal/12559/6/4/page/1 This exciting Special Issue was the outcome of a strategic trans-disciplinary Workshop organized by EU COST (http://www.cost.eu/), on ‘‘The future concept and reality of social robotics: challenges, perception and applications. Role of social robotics in current and future society,’’ held in Brussels (Belgium).

A list of the journal's most downloaded articles (which can always be read for FREE) can be found here:
http://www.springer.com/biomed/neuroscience/journal/12559?hideChart=1#realtime

Other 'Online First' published articles not yet in a print issue can be viewed here:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/121361/?Content+Status=Accepted

All previous Volumes and Issues of the journal can be viewed here: http://link.springer.com/journal/volumesAndIssues/12559

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Reminder: Cognitive Computation "LinkedIn" Group:
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To further strengthen the bonds amongst the interdisciplinary audience of Cognitive Computation, we have set-up a "Cognitive Computation LinkedIn group", which has nearly 800 members already! We warmly invite you to join us at: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3155048

For further information on the journal and to sign up for electronic "Table of Contents alerts" please visit the Cognitive Computation homepage: http://www.springer.com/12559 or follow us on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/CognComput  for the latest On-line First Issues.

For any questions with regards to LinkedIn and/or Twitter, please contact Springer's Publishing Editor: Marleen Moore: Marleen.Moore@springer.com

Finally, we would like to invite you to submit short or regular papers describing original research or timely review of important areas - our aim is to peer review all papers within approximately six-eight weeks of receipt.

We also welcome relevant high quality proposals for Special Issues - four are already planned for 2015-16 (for CFPs, see:
http://www.springer.com/biomed/neuroscience/journal/12559?detailsPage=press )

With our very best wishes to all aspiring readers and authors of Cognitive Computation,

Professor Amir Hussain, PhD (Editor-in-Chief: Cognitive Computation)
E-mail: ahu@cs.stir.ac.uk (University of Stirling, Scotland, UK)

Professor Igor Aleksander, PhD (Honorary Editor-in-Chief: Cognitive Computation) (Imperial College, London, UK)
http://www.springer.com/12559

Also consider your work for related Book Series:
SpringerBriefs on Cognitive Computation: http://www.springer.com/series/10374

NEW: Springer Series on Socio-Affective Computing:
http://www.springer.com/series/13199

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­­­­­­­­­­­Table of Contents Alert -- Cognitive Computation Vol 7 No 2, April 2015

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Special Issue on Sentic Computing
Issue Editors: E. Cambria, A. Hussain

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Sentic Computing

Erik Cambria, Amir Hussain

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-015-9325-0

 

Propagating and Aggregating Fuzzy Polarities for Concept-Level Sentiment Analysis
Mauro Dragoni, Andrea G. B. Tettamanzi,  Célia da Costa Pereira
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-014-9308-6


Resonance Elicits Diffusion: Modeling Subjectivity for Retweeting Behavior Analysis
Songxian Xie, Jintao Tang, Ting Wang
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-014-9293-9


Sentilo: Frame-Based Sentiment Analysis
Diego Reforgiato Recupero
, Valentina Presutti, Sergio Consoli, Aldo Gangemi, Andrea Giovanni Nuzzolese
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-014-9302-z

 

Word Embedding Composition for Data Imbalances in Sentiment and Emotion Classification
Ruifeng Xu, Tao Chen, Yunqing Xia, Qin Lu, Bin Liu, Xuan Wang
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-015-9319-y


AspNet: Aspect Extraction by Bootstrapping Generalization and Propagation Using an Aspect Network
Yunqing Xia, Erik Cambria, Amir Hussain
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-014-9305-9


Twitter Sentiment Analysis for Large-Scale Data: An Unsupervised Approach

Rafeeque Pandarachalil, Selvaraju Sendhilkumar, G. S. Mahalakshmi http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-014-9310-z

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Previous Issues/Archive: Overview:
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All previous Volumes and Issues can be viewed here:
http://link.springer.com/journal/volumesAndIssues/12559

Alternatively, the full listing of the Inaugural Vol. 1, No. 1 / March
2009, can be viewed here (which included invited authoritative reviews
by leading researchers in their areas - including keynote papers from
London University's John Taylor, Igor Aleksander and Stanford
University's James McClelland, and invited papers from Ron Sun, Pentti
Haikonen, Geoff Underwood, Kevin Gurney, Claudius Gross, Anil Seth and
Tom Ziemke):
http://www.springerlink.com/content/1866-9956/1/1/

The full listing of Vol. 1, No. 2 / June 2009, can be viewed here
(which included invited reviews and original research contributions
from leading researchers, including Rodney Douglas, Giacomo Indiveri,
Jurgen Schmidhuber, Thomas Wennekers, Pentti Kanerva and Friedemann
Pulvermuller):
http://www.springerlink.com/content/1866-9956/1/2/

The full listing of Vol.1, No. 3 / Sep 2009, can be viewed here:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/1866-9956/1/3/

The full listing of Vol. 1, No. 4 / Dec 2009, can be viewed here:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/1866-9956/1/4/

The full listing of Vol.2, No. 1 / March 2010, can be viewed here:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/1866-9956/2/1/

The full listing of Vol.2, No. 2 / June 2010, can be viewed here:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/1866-9956/2/2/

The full listing of Vol.2, No. 3 / Aug 2010, can be viewed here:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/1866-9956/2/3/

The full listing of Vol.2, No. 4 / Dec 2010, can be viewed here:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/1866-9956/2/4/

The full listing of Vol.3, No.1 / Mar 2011 (Special Issue on:
Saliency, Attention, Active Visual Search and Picture Scanning, edited
by John Taylor and Vassilis Cutsuridis), can be viewed here:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/1866-9956/3/1/
The Guest Editorial can be viewed here:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/hu2245056415633l/

The full listing of Vol.3, No.2 / June 2011 can be viewed here:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/1866-9956/3/2/

The full listing of Vol. 3, No. 3 / Sep 2011 (Special Issue on:
Cognitive Behavioural Systems, Guest Edited by: Anna Esposito,
Alessandro Vinciarelli, Simon Haykin, Amir Hussain and Marcos
Faundez-Zanuy), can be viewed here:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/1866-9956/3/3/
The Guest Editorial for the special issue can be viewed here:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/h4718567520t2h84/

The full listing of Vol. 3, No. 4 / Dec 2011 can be viewed here:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/1866-9956/3/4/

The full listing of Vol. 4, No.1 / Mar 2012 can be viewed here:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/1866-9956/4/1/

The full listing of Vol. 4, No.2 / June 2012 can be viewed here:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/1866-9956/4/2/

The full listing of Vol. 4, No.3 / Sep 2012 (Special Issue on:
Computational Creativity, Intelligence and Autonomy, Edited by: J.
Mark Bishop and Yasemin J. Erden) can be viewed here:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/1866-9956/4/3/

The full listing of Vol. 4, No.4 / Dec 2012 (Special Issue titled:
"Cognitive & Emotional Information Processing", Edited by: Stefano
Squartini, Björn Schuller and Amir Hussain, which is followed by a
number of regular papers), can be viewed here:
http://link.springer.com/journal/12559/4/4/page/1

The full listing of Vol. 5, No.1 / March 2013  Special Issue titled:
Computational Intelligence and Applications Guest Editors: Zhigang
Zeng & Haibo He, which is followed by a number of regular papers), can
be viewed here:
http://link.springer.com/journal/12559/5/1/page/1

The full listing of Vol. 5, No.2 / June 2013  Special Issue titled:
Advances on Brain Inspired Computing, Guest Editors: Stefano
Squartini, Sanqing Hu & Qingshan Liu, which is followed by a number of
regular papers), can be viewed here:
http://link.springer.com/journal/12559/5/2/page/1

The full listing of Vol. 5, No.3 / Sep 2013 Special Issue titled: In
Memory of John G Taylor: A Polymath Scholar, Guest Editors: Vassilis
Cutsuridis & Amir Hussain, which is followed by a number of regular
papers), can be viewed here:
http://link.springer.com/journal/12559/5/3/page/1

The full listing of Vol. 5, No.4 / Dec 2013, which includes regular
papers (including an invited paper by Professor Ron Sun, Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute, USA, titled: Moral Judgment, Human Motivation,
and Neural Networks), and a Special Issue titled: Advanced Cognitive
Systems Based on Nonlinear Analysis. Guest Editors: Carlos M. Travieso
and Jesús B. Alonso, can be viewed here:
http://link.springer.com/journal/12559/5/4/page/1

The full listing of Vol. 6, No.1 / Mar 2014, can be viewed here:
http://link.springer.com/journal/12559/6/1/page/1

The full listing of Vol. 6, No.2 / June 2014, can be viewed here:
http://link.springer.com/journal/12559/6/2/page/1

The full listing of Vol. 6, No.3 / Sep 2014, can be viewed here:
http://link.springer.com/journal/12559/6/3/page/1

The full listing of Vol. 6, No.4 / Dec 2014 (Special Issue on Modeling emotion, behaviour and context in socially believable robots and ICT interfaces, Guest Editors: Anna Esposito, Leopoldina Fortunati, and Giuseppe Lugano) can be viewed here: http://link.springer.com/journal/12559/6/4/page/1

The full listing of Vol. 7, No.1 / Feb 2015 can be viewed here: http://link.springer.com/journal/12559/7/1/  (with the first six papers part of a Special Issue on "Neural Signal Processing", Guest Edited by: Jordi Sole´-Casals, Francois-Benoit Vialatte, Justin Dauwels. The Guest Editorial titled: "Alternative Techniques of Neural Signal Processing in Neuroengineering" is available (for free download) here: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-015-9317-0)



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