Sample Publications
Books and Proceedings
Y. Wang, N. Howard, K. Plataniotis, B. Widrow, and L.A. Zadeh eds. (2016), Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics and Cognitive Computing (ICCI*CC'16), Stanford University, CA., IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA., Aug.
N. Ge, J. Lu, Y. Wang, N. Howard, P. Chen, X. Tao, B. Zhang, and L.A. Zadeh eds. (2015), Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics and Cognitive Computing (ICCI*CC'15), London, UK, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA., July.
S. Patel, Y. Wang, D. Patel, W. Kinsner, and L.A. Zadeh eds. (2014), Proceedings of the 13th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics and Cognitive Computing (ICCI*CC'14), London, UK, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA., August.
Y. Wang and P. Borne eds. (2014), Proceedings of the 2014 International Conference on Neural Networks and Fuzzy Systems (ICNF-FS’14), Venice, Italy, March.
D.F. Hsu, Y. Wang, A.R. Rao, D. Zhang, W. Kinsner, W. Pedrycz, R.C. Berwick, and L.A. Zadeh eds. (2013), Proceedings of the 12th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics and Cognitive Computing (ICCI*CC'13), New York, USA, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA., July.
Y. Wang, ed. (2013), Cognitive Informatics for Revealing Human Cognition: Knowledge Manipulations in Natural Intelligence, ISR Series in Advances of Cognitive Informatics and Natural Intelligence, Vol. 5, Information Science References, NY, USA, Jan.
Y. Wang, ed. (2013), Advances in Abstract Intelligence and Soft Computing, ISR Series in Advances of Software Science and Computational Intelligence, Vol. 3, Information Science References, NY, USA, Jan.
K. Sugawara, Y. Wang, F. Hattori, S. Fujita, T. Nishida, W. Kinsner and L.A. Zadeh eds. (2012), Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics and Cognitive Computing (ICCI*CC'12), Kyoto, Japan, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA., August.
Y. Wang, ed. (2012), Breakthroughs in Software Science and Computational Intelligence, ISR Series in Advances of Software Science and Computational Intelligence, Vol. 2, Information Science References, NY, USA, March.
Y. Wang, ed. (2012), Software and Intelligent Sciences: New Transdisciplinary Findings, ISR Series in Advances of Software Science and Computational Intelligence, Vol. 1, Information Science References, NY, USA, March.
Y. Wang, ed. (2012), Developments in Natural Intelligence Research and Knowledge Engineering, ISR Series in Advances of Cognitive Informatics and Natural Intelligence, Vol. 4, Information Science References, NY, USA, March.
Y. Wang, A. Celikyilmaz, W. Kinsner, W. Pedrycz, H. Leung, and L.A. Zadeh eds. (2011), Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics and Cognitive Computing (ICCI*CC'11), Banff, Canada, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA., August.
Y. Wang, ed. (2011), Transdisciplinary Advancements in Cognitive Mechanisms and Human Information Processing, ISR Series in Advances of Cognitive Informatics and Natural Intelligence, Vol. 3, Information Science References, NY, USA, July.
F. Sun, Y. Wang, J. Lu, B. Zhang, W. Kinsner, and L.A. Zadeh eds. (2010), Proceedings of the 9th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics (ICCI'10), Tsinghua University, Beijing, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA., July.
Y. Wang, D. Zhang and W. Kinsner eds. (2010), Advances in Cognitive Informatics and Cognitive Computing, Studies in Computational Intelligence, SCI323, Springer, Dec.
Y. Wang, ed. (2009), Discoveries and Breakthroughs in Cognitive Informatics and Natural Intelligence, ISR Series in Advances of Cognitive Informatics and Natural Intelligence, Vol. 2, Information Science References, NY, USA, Nov.
G. Baciu, Y. Wang, Y. Yao, K. Chan, W. Kinsner, and L.A. Zadeh eds. (2009), Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics (ICCI'09), Hong Kong, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA., June.
Y. Wang, ed. (2008), Novel Approaches to Cognitive Informatics and Natural Intelligence, ISR Series in Advances of Cognitive Informatics and Natural Intelligence, Vol. 1, Information Science References, NY, USA, Nov.
Y. Wang, D. Zhang, J-C. Latombe and W. Kinsner eds. (2008), Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics (ICCI'08), Stanford University, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA., August.
Y. Wang (2007), Software Engineering Foundations: A Software Science Perspective, CRC - Auerbach Publications, NY, USA, 1,488pp.
D. Zhang, Y. Wang, and W. Kinsner eds. (2007), Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics (ICCI'07), Lake Tahoe, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA., August.
Y. Yao, Z. Shi, Y. Wang, and W. Kinsner eds. (2006), Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics (ICCI'06), Beijing, China, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA., July.
W. Kinsner, D. Zhang, Y, Wang and J. Tsai eds. (2005), Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics (ICCI'05), Irvine, California, USA, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA., July.
C. Chan, W. Kinsner, Y, Wang and D. Miller eds. (2004), Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics (ICCI'04), IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA., July, Victoria, Canada.
Y. Wang, W. Kinsner and M. Smith eds. (2004), Proceedings of the 2004 Canadian Conference on Computer and Software Engineering Education (C3SEE'04), Univ. of Calgary Press, Calgary.
S. Patel, D. Patel and Y. Wang, eds. (2003), Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics (ICCI'03), IEEE Computer Society Press, London, UK, July.
Y. Wang, R.H. Johnston, and M.R. Smith, eds. (2002), Proceedings of the 1st IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics (ICCI'02), IEEE Computer Society Press, Calgary, Canada, July.
Y. Wang, S. Patel, and R. H. Johnston, eds. (2001), Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Object-Oriented Information Systems (OOIS’01), Springer, London, August.
Y. Wang and G. King (2000), Software Engineering Processes: Principles and Applications, CRC Press, USA, 752pp.
Recent Papers
Y. Wang, F. Karray, O. Kaynak, S. Kwong, H. Leung, K.N. Plataniotis, M. Hou, I.J. Rudas, E. Tunstel, L. Trajkovic, and J. Kacprzyk (2021), Perspectives on the Philosophical, Cognitive and Mathematical Foundations of Symbiotic Autonomous Systems (SAS), Philosophical Transactions of Royal Society (A), 379(x):1-16, Oxford, UK.
Y. Wang, M. Hou, K.N. Plataniotis, S. Kwong, H. Leung, E. Tunstel, I.J. Rudas, and L. Trajkovic (2021), Towards a Theoretical Framework of Autonomous Systems Underpinned by Intelligence and Systems Sciences, IEEE/CAS Journal of Automatica Sinica, 8(1), 52-63.
A. Mohammadi, Y. Wang, N. Enshaei, P. Afshar, F. Naderkhani, A. Oikonomou, M.J. Rafiee, H.C.R. Oliveira, S. Yanushkevich, and K.N. Plataniotis (2021), Diagnosis/Prognosis of COVID-19 Images: Challenges, Opportunities, and Applications, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, accepted.
Y. Wang, S. Kwong, H. Leung, J. Lu, M.H. Smith, L. Trajkovic, E. Tunstel, K.N. Plataniotis, G. Yen, and W. Kinsner (2020), Brain-Inspired Systems: A Transdisciplinary Exploration on Cognitive Cybernetics, Humanity, and Systems Science towards AI, IEEE System, Man and Cybernetics Magazine, 6(1), pp. 6-13.
Y. Wang and J. Jin (2019), On Big Data Algebra (BDA): A Formal Analytic Methodology for Big Data Science and Engineering, Science & Technology Review, 38(3), pp. 35-46.
Y. Wang and E. Tunstel (2019), Emergence of Abstract Sciences and Transdisciplinary Advances in Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, IEEE System, Man and Cybernetics Magazine, 5(2), pp.12-19.
M.L. Garilova, Y. Wang, F. Ahmed, and P.P. Paul (2018), KINECT Sensor Gesture and Activity Recognition, IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine, 7(1), 88-94.
Y. Wang, V. Raskin, J. Rayz, G. Baciu, A. Ayesh, F. Mizoguchi, S. Tsumoto, D. Patel, N. Howard (2018), Cognitive Computing: Methodologies for Neural Computing and Semantic Computing in Brain-Inspired Systems, International Journal of Software Science and Computational Intelligence, 10(1), 1-14.
Y. Wang, L.A. Zadeh, Bernard Widrow, Newton Howard, Françoise Beaufays, George Baciu, D. Frank Hsu, Guiming Luo, Fumio Mizoguchi, Shushma Patel, Victor Raskin, Shusaku Tsumoto, Wei Wei, and Du Zhang (2017), Abstract Intelligence: Embodying and Enabling Cognitive Systems by Mathematical Engineering, International Journal of Cognitive Informatics and Natural Intelligence, 11(1), 1-15.
Y. Wang and M. Valipour (2016), Formal Properties and Mathematical Rules of Concept Algebra for Cognitive Machine Learning (I), Journal of Advanced Mathematics and Applications, 5(1), 53-68.
Y. Wang, M. Valipour, and O.A. Zatarain (2016), Quantitative Semantic Analysis and Comprehension by Cognitive Machine Learning, International Journal of Cognitive Informatics and Natural Intelligence, 10(3), 14-28.
Y. Wang (2016), On Probability Algebra: Classic Theory of Probability Revisited, WSEAS Trans. on Mathematics, 15, 550-565.
Y. Wang (2016), On Cognitive Foundations and Mathematical Theories of Knowledge Science, International Journal of Cognitive Informatics and Natural Intelligence, 10(2), 1-24.
Y. Wang (2015), Towards the Abstract System Theory of System Science for Cognitive and Intelligent Systems, Springer Journal of Complex and Intelligent Systems, June, 1(3), 1-22.
Y. Wang (2015), Concept Algebra: A Denotational Mathematics for Formal Knowledge Representation and Cognitive Robot Learning, Journal of Advanced Mathematics and Applications, 4(1), 62-87.
Y. Wang (2014), Software Science: On General Mathematical Models and Formal Properties of Software, Journal of Advanced Mathematics and Applications, 3(2), 130-147.
Y. Wang (2014), On a Novel Cognitive Knowledge Base (CKB) for Cognitive Robots and Machine Learning, International Journal of Software Science and Computational Intelligence, 6(2), 42-64.
Y. Wang (2013), On Semantic Algebra: A Denotational Mathematics for Cognitive Linguistics, Machine Learning, and Cognitive Computing, Journal of Advanced Mathematics and Applications, 2(2), 145-161
Y. Wang, W. Pedrycz, J. Lu, and G. Luo (2013), Denotational Mathematical Models of an Air Traffic Control System (ATCS-I): Structure Models of Architectures in RTPA, Journal of Advanced Mathematics and Applications, 2(1), 32-47. 82-110
Y. Wang and R.C. Berwick (2012), Towards a Formal Framework of Cognitive Linguistics, Journal of Advanced Mathematics and Applications, 1(2), 250-263.
Y. Wang (2012), In Search of Denotational Mathematics: Novel Mathematical Means for Contemporary Intelligence, Brain, and Knowledge Sciences, Journal of Advanced Mathematics and Applications, 1(1), 4-25.
Y. Wang (2011), Towards the Synergy of Cognitive Informatics, Neural Informatics, Brain Informatics, and Cognitive Computing, International Journal of Cognitive Informatics and Natural Intelligence, 5(1), 75-93.
Y. Wang (2010), Cognitive Robots: A Reference Model towards Intelligent Authentication, IEEE Robotics and Automation, 17(4), 54-62.
Y. Wang, G. Zeng, C.F. Ngolah, P.C.-Y. Sheu, C.P Choy and Y. Tian (2010), The Formal Design Models of a Real-Time Operating System (RTOS+): Static and Dynamic Behavior Models, International Journal of Software Science and Computational Intelligence, 2(3), 79-105.
Y. Wang (2009), On Abstract Intelligence: Toward a Unified Theory of Natural, Artificial, Machinable, and Computational Intelligence, International Journal of Software Science and Computational Intelligence, 1(1), 1-17.
Y. Wang, W. Kinsner, and D. Zhang (2009), Contemporary Cybernetics and its Faces of Cognitive Informatics and Computational Intelligence, IEEE Trans. on System, Man, and Cybernetics (Part B), 39(4), 823-833.
Y. Wang (2008), RTPA: A Denotational Mathematics for Manipulating Intelligent and Computational Behaviors, International Journal of Cognitive Informatics and Natural Intelligence, 2(2), April, 44-62.
Y. Wang, Y. Wang, S. Patel, and D. Patel (2006), A Layered Reference Model of the Brain (LRMB), IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (Part C), 36(2), March, 124-133.
Y. Wang (2003), On Cognitive Informatics, Brain and Mind: A Transdisciplinary Journal of Neuroscience and Neurophilosophy, 4(2), 151-167.