The development of computer science is now so rapid that we, the readers, in-creasingly receive technology news about new solutions and applications which very often straddle the border between the real and the virtual worlds. Computer science is also the area in which cognitive science is witnessing a renaissance, be-cause its combination with technical sciences has given birth to a broad scientific discipline called cognitive informatics. And it is this discipline which has become the main theme of this monograph, which is also to serve as a kind of guide to cognitive informatics problems.

This book is the result of work on systems for the cognitive analysis and inter-pretation of various data. The purpose of such an analytical approach is to show that for an in-depth analysis of data, the layers of semantics contained in these sets must be taken into account. The interdisciplinary nature of the solutions proposed means that the subject of cognitive systems forming part of cognitive informatics becomes a new challenge for the research and application work carried out.

The authors of this monograph hope that it will guide Readers on an interesting and accurate journey through the intricacies of information and cognitive science.

Inhalt
Beginnings of cognitive science.- Fundamentals of cognitive informatics.- Cognitive information systems.- Intelligent cognitive data analysis systems of the UBMSS type as an example of cognitive categorisation systems.- UBIAS intelligent cognitive systems for visual data analysis.- E-UBIAS cognitive systems for image and biometric data analysis.- Cognitive systems and artificial brains.- Summary.