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Cognitive Systems -- Natural Language Dialog with a Tutor System for Mathematical Proofs -- On the Effectiveness of Visualizations in a Theory of Computing Course -- Some Cognitive Aspects of a Turing Test for Children -- Challenges in Search and Usage of Multi-media Learning Objects -- An Intelligent Platform for Information Retrieval -- P-Terse: A Peer-to-Peer Based Text Retrieval and Search System -- Identifying Semantic Relations Between Named Entities from Chinese Texts -- Research on English-Chinese Bi-directional Cross-Language Information Retrieval -- Analyzing Image Texture from Blobs Perspective -- Access to Content -- Content-Based Image and Video Indexing and Retrieval -- Shape Recognition with Coarse-to-Fine Point Correspondence Under Image Deformations -- Towards Efficient Ranked Query Processing in Peer-to-Peer Networks.

This special issue collects a subset of the papers presented at the Joint Chinese- German Workshop on Cognitive Systems, held March 7-11, 2005, at Fudan U- versity,inShanghai,the city that neversleepsandchangesdaily.Justas itis not easy to keeptrack of Shanghai’s growthand modernisation,it is hardto keep up with research on the new transdiscipline of cognitive systems, which is emerging from computer science, the neurosciences, computational linguistics, neurolo- cal networks and the new philosophy of mind. The workshop served to present the current state of the art in these ?elds and brought together researchersfrom Fudan University and Jiao Tong University, both in Shanghai, China, and from Saarland University, Germany. The WorkshoponCognitiveSystems was the lastin a seriesof events to mark the longstanding collaboration between the three universities, which includes numerous joint projects, exchange of researchers and research visits, as well as formal joint cooperation agreements, treatises and joint Ph.D. and student exchangeprogrammesinthe ?elds ofcomputer science,arti?cialintelligence and in computational linguistics. Well before 1995 there were several exchange visits between Ruqian Lu and J¨ org Siekmann to Shanghai, Beijing and Saarbru ¨cken/Kaiserslautern. In 1995, formalcooperationstartedwith a visit to Shanghai by Jorg ¨ Siekmann, Xiaorong Huang and Hans Uszkoreit. The visit resulted in the joint project Applied C- nese Natural Language Generation on the automatic generation of Chinese, - glish and German languages for weather reports and for stock exchange news.