“…The IEEE series of International Conferences on Cognitive Informatics and Cognitive Computing (ICCI*CC) has been established since 2002 (Wang, 2002a;Wang et al, 2002). The inaugural ICCI event in 2002 was held at University of Calgary, Canada (ICCI'02) (Wang et al, 2002), followed by the events in London, UK (ICCI'03) (Patel et al, 2003); Victoria, Canada (ICCI'04) (Chan et al, 2004); Irvine, USA (ICCI'05) (Kinsner et al, 2005); Beijing, China (ICCI'06) (Yao et al, 2006); Lake Tahoe, USA (ICCI'07) (Zhang et al, 2007); Stanford University, USA (ICCI'08) (Wang et al, 2008); Hong Kong (ICCI'09) (Baciu et al, 2009); Tsinghua University, Beijing (ICCI'10) (Sun et al, 2010); Banff, Canada (ICCI*CC'11) (Wang et al, 2011a); Kyoto, Japan (ICCI*CC'12) (Sugawara et al, 2012); and New York, USA (ICCI*CC'13) (Hsu et al, 2013). Since its inception, the ICCI*CC series has been growing steadily in its size, scope, and depth.…”