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.