The book guides the smart computing community toward future directions in cognitive research and demonstrates how these advances can be applied to next-generation smart systems. It further identifies applications that demonstrate innovative ways of utilizing cognition-based smart computing for solving various real-world problems.

¿ Presents cognitive modeling in machine consciousness and human cognition.
¿ Covers artificial intelligence (AI) and its applications in machine self-learning, human-computer interaction, natural language (NL) processing, cognitive models, and architectures.
¿ Discusses machine learning (ML) and cognitive computing for mobile communications, and wireless networks.
¿ Explains the foundation, framework, and applications of cognition based smart computing in a single volume.
¿ Showcases key issues and challenges in the emerging area of cognitive computation and promotes an interdisciplinary understanding of the diversity in the adaptation of cognition in smart computing.

The text is primarily written for senior undergraduates, graduate students, and academic researchers in the fields of electrical engineering, electronics and communications engineering, computer science and engineering, and information technology.