J. Dinesh Peter is Program Coordinator for the Department of Computer Sciences Technology at Karunya University, and author of more than 25 academic articles/chapters/conference papers. He has been active in government and industry as the developer of new technologies including Digital Image Processing, Virtual Reality Technology, Medical Image Processing, Computer Vision, and Optimization. He has been Guest Editor of a special issue of the Elsevier journal Computers and Electrical Engineering, and Guest Editor of special issues of the Journal of Cloud Computing and Journal of Big Data Intelligence. Dr. Peter received his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from National Institute of Technology Calicut, India. Amir Hossein Alavi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and holds courtesy appointments in the Department of Bioengineering and Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, at the University of Pittsburgh, United States. His multidisciplinary scientific studies are organized around three research thrusts: 1) mechanics and electronics of multifunctional materials and structures, 2) embedded self-powered sensing systems, and 3) data-driven characterization, design and discovery of engineering systems.Bahman Javadi is a Senior Lecturer in Networking and Cloud Computing at the Western Sydney University, Australia. Prior to this appointment, he was a Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne, Australia. From 2008 to 2010, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the INRIA Rhone-Alpes, France. He received his MS and PhD degrees in Computer Engineering from the Amirkabir University of Technology in 2001 and 2007, respectively. He has been a Research Scholar at the School of Engineering and Information Technology, Deakin University, Australia during his PhD course. He is co-founder of the Failure Trace Archive, which serves as a public repository of failure traces and algorithms for distributed systems. He has published more than 90 research papers and received numerous Best Paper Awards at IEEE/ACM conferences for his papers. He served as a program committee of many international conferences and workshops. His research interests include Cloud computing, performance evaluation of large scale distributed computing systems, and reliability and fault tolerance. He is a member of ACM and senior member of IEEE. Steven L. Ferandes is a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alabama at Birmingham, and author of more than 35 academic articles/chapters/conference papers. He has been active in industry as the developer of new technologies including Socket Development for Validation of Standard Cll Automation Tool Used in Test Chip Design, Automation Framework for Web Services, Automation Framework for Mobile Applications (Android, iOS, Windows), Python programming for Computer Vision, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning. Dr. Fernandes received his Ph.D. in Computer Vision and Machine Learning from Karunya University, Coimbatore, India.

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• SECTION I: Cognitive Computing Theory, Architectures and ApproachesSECTION II: Cognitive Computing and Artificial IntelligenceSECTION III: Complex Analytics and Machine Learning for Cognitive ComputingSECTION IV: Design of a Symbiotic Agent for Recognizing Real Space in Ubiquitous EnvironmentsSECTION V: Intelligent Adaptation and the Nature of Software ChangesSECTION VI: The Reactive-Causal Cognitive Agent ArchitectureSECTION VII: Cognitive Computing for Internet of ThingsSECTION VIII: Google’s DeepMind and Other AI ProgramsSECTION IX: Cognitive Computing Applications in Surveillance Tracking SystemsSECTION X: Cognitive Computing in Big Data Applications

J. Dinesh Peter is Program Coordinator for the Department of Computer Sciences Technology at Karunya University, and author of more than 25 academic articles/chapters/conference papers. He has been active in government and industry as the developer of new technologies including Digital Image Processing, Virtual Reality Technology, Medical Image Processing, Computer Vision, and Optimization. He has been Guest Editor of a special issue of the Elsevier journal Computers and Electrical Engineering, and Guest Editor of special issues of the Journal of Cloud Computing and Journal of Big Data Intelligence. Dr. Peter received his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from National Institute of Technology Calicut, India. Amir Hossein Alavi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and holds courtesy appointments in the Department of Bioengineering and Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, at the University of Pittsburgh, United States. His multidisciplinary scientific studies are organized around three research thrusts: 1) mechanics and electronics of multifunctional materials and structures, 2) embedded self-powered sensing systems, and 3) data-driven characterization, design and discovery of engineering systems.Bahman Javadi is a Senior Lecturer in Networking and Cloud Computing at the Western Sydney University, Australia. Prior to this appointment, he was a Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne, Australia. From 2008 to 2010, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the INRIA Rhone-Alpes, France. He received his MS and PhD degrees in Computer Engineering from the Amirkabir University of Technology in 2001 and 2007, respectively. He has been a Research Scholar at the School of Engineering and Information Technology, Deakin University, Australia during his PhD course. He is co-founder of the Failure Trace Archive, which serves as a public repository of failure traces and algorithms for distributed systems. He has published more than 90 research papers and received numerous Best Paper Awards at IEEE/ACM conferences for his papers. He served as a program committee of many international conferences and workshops. His research interests include Cloud computing, performance evaluation of large scale distributed computing systems, and reliability and fault tolerance. He is a member of ACM and senior member of IEEE. Steven L. Ferandes is a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alabama at Birmingham, and author of more than 35 academic articles/chapters/conference papers. He has been active in industry as the developer of new technologies including Socket Development for Validation of Standard Cll Automation Tool Used in Test Chip Design, Automation Framework for Web Services, Automation Framework for Mobile Applications (Android, iOS, Windows), Python programming for Computer Vision, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning. Dr. Fernandes received his Ph.D. in Computer Vision and Machine Learning from Karunya University, Coimbatore, India.

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• SECTION I: Cognitive Computing Theory, Architectures and ApproachesSECTION II: Cognitive Computing and Artificial IntelligenceSECTION III: Complex Analytics and Machine Learning for Cognitive ComputingSECTION IV: Design of a Symbiotic Agent for Recognizing Real Space in Ubiquitous EnvironmentsSECTION V: Intelligent Adaptation and the Nature of Software ChangesSECTION VI: The Reactive-Causal Cognitive Agent ArchitectureSECTION VII: Cognitive Computing for Internet of ThingsSECTION VIII: Google’s DeepMind and Other AI ProgramsSECTION IX: Cognitive Computing Applications in Surveillance Tracking SystemsSECTION X: Cognitive Computing in Big Data Applications

J. Dinesh Peter is Program Coordinator for the Department of Computer Sciences Technology at Karunya University, and author of more than 25 academic articles/chapters/conference papers. He has been active in government and industry as the developer of new technologies including Digital Image Processing, Virtual Reality Technology, Medical Image Processing, Computer Vision, and Optimization. He has been Guest Editor of a special issue of the Elsevier journal Computers and Electrical Engineering, and Guest Editor of special issues of the Journal of Cloud Computing and Journal of Big Data Intelligence. Dr. Peter received his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from National Institute of Technology Calicut, India. Amir Hossein Alavi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and holds courtesy appointments in the Department of Bioengineering and Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, at the University of Pittsburgh, United States. His multidisciplinary scientific studies are organized around three research thrusts: 1) mechanics and electronics of multifunctional materials and structures, 2) embedded self-powered sensing systems, and 3) data-driven characterization, design and discovery of engineering systems.Bahman Javadi is a Senior Lecturer in Networking and Cloud Computing at the Western Sydney University, Australia. Prior to this appointment, he was a Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne, Australia. From 2008 to 2010, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the INRIA Rhone-Alpes, France. He received his MS and PhD degrees in Computer Engineering from the Amirkabir University of Technology in 2001 and 2007, respectively. He has been a Research Scholar at the School of Engineering and Information Technology, Deakin University, Australia during his PhD course. He is co-founder of the Failure Trace Archive, which serves as a public repository of failure traces and algorithms for distributed systems. He has published more than 90 research papers and received numerous Best Paper Awards at IEEE/ACM conferences for his papers. He served as a program committee of many international conferences and workshops. His research interests include Cloud computing, performance evaluation of large scale distributed computing systems, and reliability and fault tolerance. He is a member of ACM and senior member of IEEE. Steven L. Ferandes is a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alabama at Birmingham, and author of more than 35 academic articles/chapters/conference papers. He has been active in industry as the developer of new technologies including Socket Development for Validation of Standard Cll Automation Tool Used in Test Chip Design, Automation Framework for Web Services, Automation Framework for Mobile Applications (Android, iOS, Windows), Python programming for Computer Vision, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning. Dr. Fernandes received his Ph.D. in Computer Vision and Machine Learning from Karunya University, Coimbatore, India.

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• SECTION I: Cognitive Computing Theory, Architectures and ApproachesSECTION II: Cognitive Computing and Artificial IntelligenceSECTION III: Complex Analytics and Machine Learning for Cognitive ComputingSECTION IV: Design of a Symbiotic Agent for Recognizing Real Space in Ubiquitous EnvironmentsSECTION V: Intelligent Adaptation and the Nature of Software ChangesSECTION VI: The Reactive-Causal Cognitive Agent ArchitectureSECTION VII: Cognitive Computing for Internet of ThingsSECTION VIII: Google’s DeepMind and Other AI ProgramsSECTION IX: Cognitive Computing Applications in Surveillance Tracking SystemsSECTION X: Cognitive Computing in Big Data Applications