International Conference on Cognitive Computing (ICCC 2021)
http://theCognitiveComputing.org/2021 , December 10 - 14, 2021

Theme: Cognitive Services for Digital Transformation

The International Conference on Cognitive Computing combines technical aspects of cognitive computing with service computing, focusing on all of cognition, computation, and business to understand and engineer effective value-creation. ICCC aims to cover all acts or processes of knowing, perceiving, judging, reasoning, and associating based on computing platforms and algorithms. ICCC calls the entire services computing community to work toward realizing "Sensing Intelligence as a Service". Part of the SCF 2018, ICCC 2018 was successfully held on June 25 - June 30, 2018, Seattle, USA. Part of the SCF 2019, ICCC 2019 was successfully held on June 25 - 30, 2019, San Diego, USA. Part of the SCF 2020, ICCC 2020 was successfully held on September 18 - 20, 2020 over the Internet. In 2021, we will celebrate our 2021 version of gathering, to strive to advance the largest international professional forum on cognitive services.

ICCC 2021 is a member of Services Conference Federation (SCF). SCF 2021 will have the following 10 collocated service-oriented sister conferences: 2021 International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2021), 2021 International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD 2021), 2021 International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2021), 2021 International Conference on Big Data (BigData 2021), 2021 International Conference on AI & Mobile Services (AIMS 2021), and 2021 World Congress on Services (SERVICES 2021), 2021 International Conference on Internet of Things (ICIOT 2021), 2021 International conference on Cognitive Computing (ICCC 2021), 2021 International Conference on Edge Computing (EDGE 2021), and 2021 International Conference on Blockchain (ICBC 2021).

As the founding member of the Services Conference Federation (SCF), the first International Conference on Web Services (ICWS) was held in June 2003 in Las Vegas, USA. Meanwhile, the First International Conference on Web Services - Europe 2003 (ICWS-Europe 2003) was held in Germany in October 2003. ICWS-Europe'03 is an extended event of the 2003 International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2003) in Europe. In 2004, ICWS-Europe was changed to the European Conference on Web Services (ECOWS), which was held at Erfurt, Germany.

Sponsored by Services Society and Springer, SCF 2018 and SCF 2019 were held successfully in Seattle and San Diego, USA. SCF 2020 was held successfully online and in Shenzhen, China. To celebrate its 19-year-old birthday, SCF 2021 will be held on December 10 - 14, 2021.

The Proceedings of ICCC 2021 will be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) by Springer International Publishing AG. Currently the Abstracting and Indexing services covered by Springer’s data feeds for LNCS proceedings include ISI Conference Proceedings Citation Index (included in Web of Science), Engineering Index EI (Compendex and Inspec databases), DBLP, Google Scholar, IO-Port, MathSciNet, Scopus, and ZBlMath. The Best Paper Awards will be sponsored by Springer, which is a leading global scientific, technical and medical portfolio, providing researchers in academia, scientific institutions and corporate R&D departments with quality content through innovative information, products and services.

Extended versions of selected papers will be invited for special issues in the Services Transactions on Internet of Things (STIOT), Services Transactions on Big Data (STBD), Services Transactions on Services Computing (STSC), Services Transactions on Cloud Computing (STCC), International Journal of Web Services Research (JWSR), and International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management (IJBPIM). JWSR is indexed by SCI and EI [Link].

ICCC 2021 organizing committee invites you to participate in 2021 edition of ICCC, to be held on December 10 - 14, 2021.

The technical program of ICCC 2021 will include a Research Track, an Application Track, and a Short Paper Track. The ICCC 2021 tracks seeks original, UNPUBLISHED research papers reporting substantive new work in various aspects of cognitive computing technologies and applications. Research Track papers MUST clearly indicate their contributions to the field of cognitive computing technologies, applications and solutions. All papers MUST properly cite related work in the field, such as those published in the proceedings of ICWS, SCC, CLOUD, AIMS, SERVICES, BigData, ICIOT, ICBC, EDGE, APSCC, ECOWS, and related journals including STBD, JWSR, STSC, STCC, STIOT and IJBPIM (see Literature Recommendations page).

ICCC 2021 covers state-of-the-art technologies and best practices of cognitive computing, as well as emerging standards and research topics which would define the future of cognitive computing. Cognitive Computing is a sensing-driven-computing (SDC) scheme that explores and integrates intelligence from all types of senses in various scenarios and solution contexts. It is well beyond traditional human being's senses, which have four major senses (sight, smell, hearing, and taste) located in specific parts of the body, as well as a sense of touch located all over a body.

From process perspective, the key sensing elements of Cognitive Intelligence As A Service includes but not limited to producing, extracting, understanding, perceiving, responding, deciding, inferencing, correlating, propagating, billing, exchanging, trading, replicating, destroying, repairing sensing intelligences in scientific and business applications.

There are some initial thoughts about cognitive computing. For example, as defined on wikipedia, "Cognitive computing (CC) describes technology platforms that, broadly speaking, are based on the scientific disciplines of Artificial Intelligence and Signal Processing. These platforms encompass machine learning, reasoning, natural language processing, speech and vision, human-computer interaction, dialog and narrative generation and more."

Topics of interest to include, but are not limited to, the following:

- Cognitive Sensing
- Cognitive Touch
- Cognitive Models
- Sensing Intelligence
- Internet of Touch
- Internet of Brain
- Cognitive Memory
- Cogntive Hardware
- Cognitive Platforms
- Cognitive Solutions
- Cognitive 5G
- Cognitive Cloud
- Cognitive Metaverse

All submitted manuscripts will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 program committee members. Accepted and presented papers from all ICCC tracks will appear in the conference proceedings. Submitted Research Track and Application Track manuscripts will be limited to 15 (LNCS Proceedings style) pages and REQUIRED to be formatted using the LNCS Proceedings template ( WORD , Latex ). Submitted Short Paper track manuscripts will be limited to 8 (LNCS Proceedings style) pages. The authors can extend a maximum of 2 pages for each paper but will have to pay extra fees for each extra page. Unformatted papers and papers beyond the maximum page limit may not be reviewed. Electronic submission of manuscripts (in PDF or Word format) is required. Detailed instructions for electronic paper preparation and submission, panel proposals, tutorial proposals, workshop proposals, and review process can be found at conference site.

The Proceedings of ICCC 2021 will be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) by Springer International Publishing AG. For all 10 collocated conferences of SCF 2021, the content of this proceedings volume will be made freely accessible to anyone in the Springer’s digital library after four years upon publication.

At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register to the conference and present the paper. One Best Paper award and one Best Student Paper award will be granted at ICCC 2021. The Best Paper Awards will be sponsored by Services Society and Springer, which is a leading global scientific, technical and medical portfolio, providing researchers in academia, scientific institutions and corporate R&D departments with quality content through innovative information, products and services. The first author of the best student paper must be a full-time student.

Manuscripts submitted to the Research Track focusing on applications or solutions may be recommended to the Application Track or other tracks for further consideration if the session slots are available.

ICCC 2021 Submission

ICCC 2021 Research Track:
https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=28209&track=105691

ICCC 2021 Application and Industry Track:
https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=28209&track=105690

ICCC 2021 Short Paper Track:
https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=28209&track=105692

ICCC 2021 Special Track:
https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=28209&track=108703

For other co-located conferences, you can find detailed submission instructions and links from the Submission page.

Research Track/Application Track/Short Paper Track/Special Track:

Services Conference Federation (SCF 2021)

General Chairs
Dr. Wu Chou, Vice President-Artificial Intelligence & Software at Essenlix Corporation
Prof. Calton Pu, Georgia Tech (Co-Chair)
Prof. Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, Swinburne University of Technology

Program Chair
Dr. Liang-Jie Zhang, Kingdee International Software Group Co., Ltd
Dr. Ali Arsanjani, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

CFO
Dr. Min Luo, Georgia Tech

Industry Track Chairs
Dr. Awel Dico, Senior Manager - Enterprise Architecture at Etihad Airways
Dr. Rajesh Subramanyan, Director Engineering Siemens Healthcare
Mr. Siva Kantamneni, Principal / Partner at Deloitte Consulting

Industry Exhibit and International Affairs Chair
Dr. Zhixiong Chen, Mercy College

Operations Committee
Dr. Jing Zeng, China Gridcom Co., Ltd
Dr. Yishuang Ning, Tsinghua University
Dr. Sheng He, Tsinghua University

Steering Committee
Prof. Calton Pu, Georgia Tech (Co-Chair)
Dr. Liang-Jie Zhang, Kingdee International Software Group Co., Ltd (Co-Chair)

ICCC 2021 Program Committee

General Chairs
TBD

Program Chairs
Prof. Ruifeng Xu, Harbin Institute of Technology
Prof. Cheng Cai, Northwest A&F University

ICCC 2021 Program Committee
Dr. Luca Cagliero, Politecnico di Torino
Mr. M. Emre Gursoy, Koc University
Dr. Meng Han, Kennesaw State University
Dr. Nagarajan Kandasamy
Prof. Carson Leung, University of Manitoba
Prof. Supratik Mukhopadhyay, Louisiana State University
Dr. Roberto Natella, Federico II University of Naples
Dr. Rui André Oliveira, University of Lisbon

If you have any questions or queries on ICCC 2021, please send email to iccc AT ServicesSociety DOT org.