Dear Colleagues, We are organizing an opportunity for scientists of cognitive and informatics sciences coming from Europe, Americas, Asia and Africa to meet in Budapest, Hungary under the IEEE International Conference on the interdiscipline of cognitive infocommunications (CogInfoCom). The basic definition of CogInfoCom can be downloaded from http://www.coginfocom.hu/ but you may also read the short definition below. We think that it is very important to narrow the present gap between cognitive and informatics sciences and we would be honored if you could share your scientific achievements and results with us. For this reason we are cordially inviting you to contribute to this event and would like to ask if you have open dates between 2-5 December, 2013. Please find the brief introduction of the event in the attached draft CFP while you may also get a broader overview via the official home-site of the event at http://coginfocom.hu/conference/CogInfoCom13 . /Last year’s conference was successful: 165 presentations and 23 demos were held from 331 authors of 100 institutions from 28 countries, while several special issues of prestigious international scientific journals are developed based on inputs of the conference./ For more details on the topic please read its brief definition and motivation below. Looking forward to reading your proposals and ideas with best wishes, Peter BARANYI, DSc. Head of Cognitive Informatics Research Group / 3DICC Laboratory MTA SZTAKI 1111 Budapest Kende utca 13-17. VI. em. 611 Tel.: 279-6111 Fax: 279-6218 Honlap: www.sztaki.hu Brief definition: Cognitive infocommunications (CogInfoCom) investigates the link between the research areas ofinfocommunications and the 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 Motivation behind CogInfoCom: Humans and the infocommunications network (ICT in the broader sense) surrounding them are merging together at various levels, ranging from low-level connectivity at the cellular and electrotechnical level, all the way to the highest level of sensing collective behaviors such as mass movements, mass habits etc. As a result, humans (more generally, living beings) and infocommunications will soon coexist as an entangled web, resulting in an augmentation of natural cognitive capabilities. This process of merging is occurring today, and is expected to gain further impact in the near future. In analogy, this fact necessitates a merging process between the scientific fields related to natural cognitive systems and the scientific and technological fields related to infocommunications (and ICT).