The document summarizes details about the CogInfoCom 2014 conference held in Vietri sul Mare, Italy from November 5-7, 2014. It lists the chairpersons and supporting institutions. It provides statistics that 287 authors attended from various countries in Europe, Asia, North and South America, and the Middle East. The document defines cognitive infocommunications and lists topics that were welcome at the conference, including cognitive sciences, human-computer interaction, and emerging topics like socio-cognitive ICT and cognitive biases in CogInfoCom systems.

1. Vietri sul Mare, Italy 5-7 November, 2014
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2. Chair
s
Anna Esposito, UNINA2/IIASS, Italy
Wei Deng Solvang, NUC, Norway
Carlo Francesco Morabito, UNIRC, Italy
Bjorn Solvang, NUC, Norway
Gabor Vattay, ELTE, Hungary
Péter Baranyi, MTA SZTAKI and BME, Hungary

3. International
Organisation
Maria Koutsombogera, ILSP - ATHENA R.C.,
Greece
Harris Papageorgiou, ILSP - ATHENA R.C., Greece
Special thank to LangTERRA project
3000 EUR support

4. Institutions
MTA SZTAKI
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Institute for Computer Science and Control
3D Internet based Control and Communications
Laboratory
Hungary
UNINA2
Second University of Naples
Italy
IIASS
The International Institute for Advanced
Scientific Studies
Italy
BME
Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Dept. of Telecommunications and Media Informatics
Hungary
SZE
Széchenyi István University
Hungary

5. Statistic
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Authors: 287
- China
- Argentina
- Canada
- Croatia
- Japan
- Jordan
- Mexico
- New Zealand
- Pakistan
- Palestine
- USA
- Europa (Italy, Norway, Check R.,
Finland, Slovakia, France,
Hungary)

6. Definition of CogInfoCom
Cognitive infocommunications (CogInfoCom) investigates the link
between the research areas of infocommunications and cognitive
sciences, as well as the various engineering applications which
have emerged as the synergic combination of these sciences. The
primary goal of CogInfoCom is to provide a systematic view of how
cognitive processes can co-evolve with infocommunications devices
so that the capabilities of the human brain may not only be
extended through these devices, irrespective of geographical
distance, but may also interact with the capabilities of any artificially
cognitive system.
This merging and extension of cognitive capabilities is targeted
towards engineering applications in which artificial and/or natural
cognitive systems are enabled to work together more effectively.
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7. Definition of CogInfoCom

8. Topics welcome in
CogInfoCom
Cognitive sciences
Cognitive robotics
Cognitive linguistics
ISpace research
Affective computing
Future internet
Body area network
Teleoperation
Vehicle informatics
Etho-robotics
Social networks
Augmented cognition (AugCog)
Human-computer and Human-robot interaction
Interaction capabilities of CogInfoCom systems
Cognitive informatics and media
Interactive systems engineering
Media Informatics
Multimodal interaction
Real and virtual avatars
Brain-computer interface
Virtual Reality Technologies and Scientific
Visualization
Ethology-inspired engineering
3D visualization and interaction

9. Emerging topics in
CogInfoCom
Socio-cognitive ICT - Prof. Hassan Charaf
including any approach that uses or influences collective knowledge through sensing and
actuation of Internet activities and streams (see Tracks 4 & 5). Application-oriented papers
focusing on smartphone based approaches are highly welcome.
Cognitive biases in CogInfoCom - Prof. Peter Foldesi
how biases in human perception and high-level reasoning can be put to use in CogInfoCom
systems.
Mathability - Prof. Attila Gilanyi
modeling and understanding mathematical capabilitiesof merged human-ICT systems. Mathability
is a branch of CogInfoCom that investigates any combination of artificial and natural cognitive
capabilities relevant to mathematics, including a wide spectrum of areas ranging from low-level
arithmetic operations to high-level symbolic reasoning. Investigations on mathability extend to the
question of how artificial mathematical capabilities can be quantified. Further, an important goal of
mathability is to develop a set of methodologies using which human mathematical capabilities can
be emulated and enhanced.
Speechability
all areas contributing to cognitive linguistics and speech technologies
CogInfoCom channels - Prof. Adam Csapo
based on e.g. sensory substitution, sensorimotor extension and high-level mapping between
conceptual information and sensory data. CogInfoCom channels are sets of sensory signals that
provide users with feedback information in a structured and interpretable way. CogInfoCom
channels can support a large variety of communication types, including sensor-bridging,
representation-sharing and representation-bridging.

10. Emerging topics in
CogInfoCom
Interaction capabilities of CogInfoCom systems
including e.g.
- physiological interfaces including aspects of BCI, BAN, etc.
- modality-oriented CogInfoCom including all aspects of human-and-"X" interaction
- augmented content management and cognition based on e.g. 3D visualization, immersive
augmented/virtual interaction, virtual avatars, etc.
Cognitive control theory (CoCo) - Prof. Jozsef Tar
is an interdisciplinary branch of engineering, mathematics, informatics, control theory and the
cognitive/social sciences. CoCo deals with the dynamics of individual and/or collective cognitive
phenomena. The theories and methodologies of CoCo give control theoretical interpretations of such
dynamics in order to explain and control cognitive phenomena, as well as to apply them in system
control design, without necessarily distinguishing between biological and artificial aspects. It is
important to note that the definition of CoCo engenders systems which function in ways similar to
cognitive phenomena, as well as systems which focus on the control of cognitive phenomena. An
important aspect of CoCo is that it deals with the dynamics of both individual and collective cognitive
phenomena. This means that not only the perception and reasoning of individual living systems are
under focus, but also the collective tendencies and behaviors of systems comprised of a large number
of living systems.
CogInfoCom aided Industrial Applications - Prof. Bjorn Solvang
including e.g. production engineering, production management and relevant industrial
applications
Embodied and enactive cognitive systems
Based on e.g. cognitive robotics and autonomous mental development.

11. THE NEXT GENERATION OF COGINFOCOM
CONFERENCES
3D augmented
conference
VirCA
Association for CogInfoCom
CICA

12. We wish you fruitful conference
Postmodern Industrial
Informatics
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