An application-oriented review of CogInfoCom: The state-of-the-art and future perspectives

Abstract

Cognitive Infocommunications (CogInfoCom) is an emerging discipline that investigates synergies between infocommunications and the cognitive sciences, with the goal of creating engineering applications in which systems with various levels of cognitive capability are enabled to work together more effectively. While infocommunications deals with the error-free encoding, transmission and decoding of raw data, CogInfoCom aims to transmit information at a higher, conceptual level in a way that appeals to the receiver's cognitive capabilities. Thus, CogInfoCom may have implications for a wide variety of fields in the future, including virtual reality, 3D Internet and Internet of Things. In this paper, we provide a brief, application-oriented overview of the existing background of CogInfoCom, and outline future perspectives for the field.