Cognitive Computing and Advances in Intelligent Systems

This issue brings together contributions that collectively illustrate the current trajectory of cognitive computing as both a scientific program and an engineering practice: building intelligent systems that do not merely optimize performance, but also model cognition, language, perception, decision-making, and uncertainty in ways that remain meaningful for human-centered domains and high-impact applications. Across six sections, the selected papers emphasize a shared direction: cognitively motivated representations, robust learning under constraints, responsible language technologies, mathematically grounded modeling, soft computing for uncertainty, and validated biomedical pipelines. Together, they provide a snapshot of advances that are technically concrete while also pointing to open challenges at the intersection of cognition and computation.