Advanced Research on Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures

"This book is an essential reference source for the latest scholarly research on the biological elements of human cognition and examines the applications of consciousness within computing environments. Featuring exhaustive coverage on a broad range of innovative topics and perspectives, such as artificial intelligence, bio-robotics, and human-computer interaction"--

Jordi Vallverdú, Ph.D., M.Sci., B.Mus, B.Phil, is Tenure Professor at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain), where he teaches Philosophy and History of Science and Computing. His research is dedicated to the epistemological, cognitive and ethical aspects of Philosophy of Computing and Science and AI. He is Editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Synthetic Emotions (IJSE). He has written several books as author or editor: (2009) Handbook of Research on Synthetic Emotions and Sociable Robotics: New Applications in Affective Computing and Artificial Intelligence, (2010) Thinking Machines and the Philosophy of Computer Science: Concepts and Principles, (2012) Creating Synthetic Emotions Through Technological and Robotic Advancements, (2015) Bayesian vs. Frequentist Statistics.

Manuel Mazzara is a dedicated and flexible individual with commitment to research and passion for teamwork, tutoring and coaching. In 2006 he was an assistant professor in Software Engineering at the University of Bolzano. In 2007 he worked as a Project Manager at the Technical University of Vienna (Semantic Web and Discovery). From 2008 to 2012 Manuel encountered the most challenging and exciting situations of his life working with Newcastle University on the DEPLOY project. In 2012 Manuel also served as a Computer Scientist at UNU-IIST in Macao while still being with Newcastle as a Visiting Researcher. In 2013/14 he also worked on remote assistance and telemedicine domotics tools with Polytechnic of Milan and as a teaching fellow at the same university before joining Innopolis and ETH.

Dr. Max Talanov has experience in affective computing, computational neurobiology, brain simulations, machine cognition, natural language processing and probabilistic reasoning. Currently he has the position of Deputy director for science at the Information Technology and Information Systems institute (ITIS) of Kazan Federal University in Russia, where he runs cross-disciplinary projects in simulation of emotions, human-robot interface, bio-electronics, brain simulation framework, machine cognition and natural language processing. He has industrial experience as a software architect and team leader for 16 years in international projects in Fujitsu.

Salvatore Distefano is an Associate Professor at University of Messina and a Professor Fellow at Kazan Federal University. He authored and co-authored more than 140 scientific papers in international journals, conferences and books. Since 2001 he taught more than 30 courses on parallel and distributed systems, dependability and performance evaluation, and software engineering for undergraduate, graduate and PhD students, mentoring more than 50 students. His main research interests include non-Markovian modeling; dependability, performance and reliability evaluation; Quality of Service; Service Level Agreement; Parallel and Distributed Computing, Cloud, Autonomic, Volunteer, Crowd, Anthropic Oriented Computing; Big Data; Software and Service Engineering.

Robert Lowe is a Cognitive scientist (docent) whose research focus in on Affective and Emotion science and computational modelling topics on which he has over 50 peer-reviewed publications. He has taken part in a number of International projects including ICEA (EU FP6), RobotDoC (Marie Curie) and NeuralDynamics (EU FP7). He received his MSc in Computer Science and PhD at the University of Hertfordshire (UK) and his BSc degree in Psychology from the University of Reading (UK). Since then he has been a Senior Lecturer in Cognitive Science at the School of Informatics, University of Skövde (Sweden), and also works at the Department of Applied IT, University of Gothenburg (Sweden).