|  | The Fourth International Conference on Advanced Cognitive Technologies and   Applications  COGNITIVE  2012July 22-27, 2012 - Nice, France
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     COGNITIVE Advisory Chairs
      Hermann Kaindl, TU-Wien, Austria
       Jaime Lloret Mauri, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain
       Sugata Sanyal, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research - Mumbai, India
       Petre Dini, Concordia University - Montreal, Canada / China Space Agency Center - Beijing, China
       Po-Hsun Cheng (鄭伯壎), National Kaohsiung Normal University, Taiwan
       Narayanan Kulathuramaiyer, UNIMAS, Malaysia
     COGNITIVE  2012 IndUstry/Research Chair
      Qin Xin, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway
     COGNITIVE 2012 Technical Program Committee
     Siby  Abraham, University of Mumbai, India
       Witold Abramowicz, Poznan University of Economics, Poland
Rajendra Akerkar, Western Norway Research Institute, Norway
Jesús  B. Alonso Hernández, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Giner Alor Hernández, Instituto Tecnológico de Orizaba - Veracruz,  México
Farah  Benamara, IRIT - Toulouse, France
Petr Berka, University of Economics - Prague, Czech Republic
Ateet Bhalla, NRI Institute of Information Science and Technology,   Bhopal, India
Mauro Birattari, IRIDIA,  Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Terry  Bossomaier, CRiCS/ Charles Sturt University, Australia
Rodrigi Calvo, University of Sao Paulo - São Carlos, Brazil
Yaser Chaaban, Leibniz University of Hanover, Germany
Po-Hsun Cheng, National Kaohsiung Normal University, Taiwan
Sunil Choenni, Ministry of Security & Justice & Rotterdam  University of Applied Sciences - Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Yuska  Paola Costa Aguiar, UFCG, Campina Grande, Brazil
Aba-Sah  Dadzie, The University of Sheffield, UK
Leonardo Dagui de  Oliveira, Escola Politécnica da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
Stamatia  Dasiopoulou, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece
Darryl N. Davis, University of Hull, UK
Tiansi Dong, University of Hagen, Germany 
Juan Luis Fernández  Martínez, Universidad de Oviedo, España
Simon Fong, University of Macau, Macau SAR
Tamas  (Tom) D. Gedeon, The Australian National University, Australia
Ewa Grabska, Jagiellonian University - Kraków, Poland
Evrim Ursavas Güldoğan, Yasar University-Izmir, Turkey
Maik Günther, SWM Versorgungs GmbH - Munich, Germany
Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis, University of Patras, Greece (Hellas)
Tzung-Pei Hong 洪宗貝, National University of Kaohsiung,  Taiwan
Kenneth Hopkinson, Air Force Institute of Technology - Dayton,  USA
Abdelr Koukam, Université  de Technologie de Belfort Montbéliard (UTBM), France
Narayanan  Kulathuramaiyer, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Malaysia
Jan Charles Lenk, OFFIS Institute for Information Technology-Oldenburg,  Germany
Yakim  Mihov, Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria
Claus Moebus, University of Oldenburg, Germany
Shin-ichi  Ohnishi, Hokkai-Gakuen University, Japan
Yiannis Papadopoulos, University of Hull, UK
Srikanta Patnaik, SOA University - Bhubaneswar, India
Dilip K. Prasad, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Mengyu Qiao, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology - Rapid  City, USA
J. Javier Rainer Granados, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid,  Spain
Paolo Remagnino, Kingston University - Surrey, UK
Kenneth Revett, British University in Egypt, Egypt
Andrea Roli, Università  di Bologna - Cesena, Italia
Fariba Sadri, Imperial College London, UK
Abdel-Badeeh M. Salem, Ain Shams University-Abbasia, Egypt
David  Sánchez, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain
Fermin  Segovia, University of Granada, Spain
Paulo Jorge Sequeira Gonçalves, Polytechnic Institute of Castelo  Branco, Portugal
Uma Shanker Tiwary, Indian Institute of Information Technology-Allahabad,  India
Shunji Shimizu, Tokyo University of Science - Suwa, Japan
Anupam  Shukla, ABV-IIITM - Gwalior, India
Tanveer J. Siddiqui, University of Allahabad, India
Sofia Stamou,Ionian University, Greece
Stanimir Stoyanov, Plovdiv University ‘Paisii Hilendarski’, Bulgaria
Mari  Carmen Suárez-Figueroa, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Spain
Kenji Suzuki, The University of Chicago, USA
Antonio J. Tallón-Ballesteros, University of Seville, Spain
Abdel-Rahman  Tawil, University of East London, UK
Ingo J. Timm, University of Trier, Germany
Bogdan  Trawinski , Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
Johann Uhrmann, Munich University of the German Armed Forces-Neubiberg,  Germany
Blesson Varghese, Dalhousie University, Canada
Shirshu  Varma, Indian Institute of Information Technology, India
Mario Verdicchio, Università di Bergamo-Dalmine, Italy
Maria Fatima Q. Vieira, Universidade Federal de Campina Grande (UFCG),   Brazil
Michal  Wozniak, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
Bin Zhou, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), USA