Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming our business, social and physical world. Machine Intelligence and computing artifacts infused with AI and cognition is increasingly becoming an integral part of our social and economic activities/processes, as well as cultural and business interactions. The cognitive machine intelligence (CogMI) is creating unprecedented opportunities for impactful scientific innovations and societal transformations by significantly augmenting the human ability for problem solving and rapid decision making in terms of speed, precision and variety, while fostering innovations in all our human endeavors from scientific discoveries, solving long standing healthcare problems, modeling highly interconnected and globally distributed systems, and so forth. As we enter the new social, physical and cyber world empowered by such cognitive machine intelligence, it is important to understand and explore the foundational characteristics of the algorithmic theory and processes behind the cognitive machine intelligence, the behavioral and cognitive enhancement of intelligent machines that promote a productive and creative partnership and collaboration between the humans and the machines so as to ensure an equitable, fair and transparent CogMI-enhanced society and cyber-physical-social worlds around us.

The goal of the IEEE Conference on Cognitive Machine Intelligence (IEEE CogMI) is to create a research and development forum on cognitive machine intelligence to foster research results on AI and ML with cognitive science and behavioral science. It promotes productive collaborations among experts from multiple disciplines, such as but not limited to: computer science, electronic and computer engineering, information science, economics, industrial engineering, psychology, social and behavioral sciences, biological and physical sciences, and ethics, law and policy. IEEE 2019 CogMI aims to be a premier, highly multidisciplinary forum to foster interaction and exchange of innovative ideas, and collaboration among researchers, practitioners, philosophers from academia, industry and government sectors who are interested in developing innovative AI/ML algorithms, applications and systems by integrating cognitive science and putting humans in the loop, promoting innovations in cognitive machine intelligence.

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