Cognitive Systems Joint Chinese-German Workshop, Shanghai, China

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Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science

4429

Ruqian Lu Jörg H. Siekmann Carsten Ullrich (Eds.)

Cognitive Systems Joint Chinese-German Workshop Shanghai, China, March 7-11, 2005 Revised Selected Papers

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Series Editors Jaime G. Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Jörg Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Volume Editors Ruqian Lu Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Mathematics Beijing, China E-mail: [email protected] Jörg H. Siekmann Universität des Saarlandes and German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany E-mail: [email protected] Carsten Ullrich German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3, 66123 Saarbücken, Germany E-mail: [email protected]

Library of Congress Control Number: 2007921307

CR Subject Classification (1998): I.2, H.4, H.3, J.1, H.5, K.6, K.4 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 7 – Artificial Intelligence ISSN ISBN-10 ISBN-13

0302-9743 3-540-70933-9 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York 978-3-540-70933-6 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York

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Preface

This special issue collects a subset of the papers presented at the Joint ChineseGerman Workshop on Cognitive Systems, held March 7-11, 2005, at Fudan University, in Shanghai, the city that never sleeps and changes daily. Just as it is not easy to keep track of Shanghai’s growth and modernisation, it is hard to keep up with research on the new transdiscipline of cognitive systems, which is emerging from computer science, the neurosciences, computational linguistics, neurological networks and the new philosophy of mind. The workshop served to present the current state of the art in these fields and brought together researchers from Fudan University and Jiao Tong University, both in Shanghai, China, and from Saarland University, Germany. The Workshop on Cognitive Systems was the last in a series of events to mark the longstanding collaboration between the three universities, which includes numerous joint projects, exchange of researchers and research visits, as well as formal joint cooperation agreements, treatises and joint Ph.D. and student exchange programmes in the fields of comput