Preface: Cognitive Informatics, Cognitive Computing, and Their Denotational Mathematical Foundations (II)

Cognitive Informatics is a cutting-edge and multidisciplinary research area that tackles the fundamental problems shared by modern informatics, computing, software engineering, AI, cybernetics, cognitive science, neuropsychology, medical science, systems science, philosophy, linguistics, economics, management science, and life sciences. This editorial introduces the emerging field of cognitive informatics and its applications in cognitive computing, abstract intelligence, computational mathematics, and computational intelligence. The themes and structure of this special issue on cognitive informatics are described, and then, focuses of the selected papers in Part II of this special issue are highlighted. ∗Address for correspondence: Visiting Professor, Dept. of Comp. Sc., Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-9010, USA Also works: Theoretical and Empirical Software Engineering, Research Centre (TESERC), International Center for Cognitive Informatics (ICfCI), Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 1N4 ii Y. Wang et al. / Cognitive Informatics and Cognitive Computing