International Conference on Cognitive Computing (ICCC 2023)
http://theCognitiveComputing.org/2023 , December 17 - 18, 2023, Shenzhen, China

Theme: Cognitive Services for Metaverse Era

Important Notice:

The Services Conference Federation 2023 (Phase-II) Venue in Shenzhen:
Address: T3 Training Center Meeting Room, Xili Lake Talent Service Center, Floor 3, Building T3, Chongwen Park, Nanshan Zhiyuan, No. 3370 Liuxian Road, Nanshan, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
Address in Chinese: 广东省深圳市南山区留仙大道3370号南山智园崇文园区T3栋3层 西丽湖人才服务中心 T3培训中心会议室
Tel: +86 18926401500

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 and ICCC 2021 was successfully held over the Internet. ICCC 2022 was successfully held on December 10 - 14, 2022, Hawaii, USA. In 2023, we will celebrate our 2023 version of gathering, to strive to advance the largest international professional forum on cognitive services.

ICCC 2023 is a member of Services Conference Federation (SCF). SCF 2023 will have the following 10 collocated service-oriented sister conferences: 2023 International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2023), 2023 International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD 2023), 2023 International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2023), 2023 International Conference on Big Data (BigData 2023), 2023 International Conference on AI & Mobile Services (AIMS 2023), and 2023 International Conference on Metaverse (METAVERSE 2023), 2023 International Conference on Internet of Things (ICIOT 2023), 2023 International conference on Cognitive Computing (ICCC 2023), 2023 International Conference on Edge Computing (EDGE 2023), and 2023 International Conference on Blockchain (ICBC 2023).

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 and SCF 2021 was held successfully online and in Shenzhen, China. To celebrate its 20-year-old birthday, the first phase of SCF 2023 will be held on September 23 - 26, 2023, Honolulu Hawaii, USA and Satellite Sessions in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. SCF2023 Phase-II will be hosted by Services Society and Shenzhen Entrepreneurship & Innovation Federation (SEIF).

The Proceedings of ICCC 2023 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 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 related journals including IJWSR(SCI), Electronics (SCI IF=2.9),Sustainability (SCI and SSCI, IF=3.9), Remote Sensing (SCI, IF=5.0), Mathematics (SCI, IF=2.4), Journal of Cybersecurity and Privacy,STBD, STSC, STCC, STIOT and IJBPIM.

ICCC 2023 organizing committee invites you to participate in 2023 edition of ICCC, to be held on December 2 - 5, 2023, in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China.

The technical program of ICCC 2023 will include a Research Track, an Application Track, and a Short Paper Track. The ICCC 2023 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 2023 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 2023 will be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) by Springer International Publishing AG. For all 10 collocated conferences of SCF 2023, 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 2023. 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 2023 Submission

ICCC 2023 Research Track:
https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=30776&track=117369

ICCC 2023 Application and Industry Track:
https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=30776&track=117368

ICCC 2023 Short Paper Track:
https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=30776&track=117370

ICCC 2023 Special Track:
https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=30776&track=117371

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:

Early-birds paper submission due: May 14, 2023

Review comments to Early-birds paper submission: June 14, 2023

Regular paper submission due: July 10, 2023

Review comments to Regular paper submssion: July 25, 2023

Camera ready manuscripts due: August 1, 2023

Conference dates: September 23 - 26, 2023

Phase II — Early-birds paper submission due: September 14, 2023

Phase II — Review comments to Early-birds paper submission: September 30, 2023

Phase II — Regular paper submission due: October 8, 2023

Phase II — Review comments to Regular paper submission: October 20, 2023 November 5, 2023

Phase II—Special Track submission due: October 20, 2023 October 30, 2023

Phase II — Camera ready manuscripts due: October 25, 2023 November 10, 2023

Phase II — Conference dates: December 17 - 18, 2023

Hotel Information

The ICCC Venue in Shenzhen: TBD

ICCC 2023 Organizing Committee

General Chairs
Prof. Ruifeng Xu, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen

Program Chairs
Prof. Xiuqin Pan, Minzu University of China
Prof. Ting Jin, Hainan University

Operations Committee

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

ICCC 2023 Program Committee
Dr., Nagarajan Kandasamy
Prof., Supratik Mukhopadhyay, Louisiana State University
Prof. Yi Zhou, University of Science and Technology Beijing
Prof. Liuqing Chen, Zhejiang University
Prof. Yong Lu, Minzu University of China
Prof. Dong Wen, University of Science and Technology Beijing
Prof. Min Lu, Shenzhen University
Prof. Ye Liu, Institute of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Prof. Peng Xu, Northeast Normal University
Mr. M. Emre Gursoy, Koc University
Prof. Carson Leung, University of Manitoba
Dr. Jing Zeng, CHINA GRIDCOM, Co., Ltd.
Prof. Limin Su, Beijing Union University
Mr. Dwith Chenna, Magic Leap

Services Conference Federation (SCF 2023)

General Chairs 
Ali Arsanjani, Cloud Partner Engineering at Google
Wu Chou, Vice President-Artificial Intelligence & Software at Essenlix Corporation, USA

Coordinating Program Chair 
Liang-Jie Zhang, Shenzhen Entrepreneurship and Innovation Federation (SEIF), China

CFO and and International Affairs Chair
Min Luo, Georgia Tech, USA

Operation Committee 
Jing Zeng, China Gridcom Co.,LTD., China
Yishuang Ning, Tsinghua University, China
Sheng He, Tsinghua University, China

Steering Committee
Calton Pu, Georgia Tech, USA, (Co-Chair)
Liang-Jie Zhang, Shenzhen Entrepreneurship and Innovation Federation (SEIF), China (Co-Chair)

If you have any questions or queries on ICCC 2023, please send email to iccc AT ServicesSociety DOT org.