Award -- Broad Learning System Based on Fusion Features -- Multi-Brain Collaborative Target Detection Based on RAP -- Lidar-Inertial SLAM Method for Accurate and Robust Mapping -- Interictal EEG Based Prediction of ACTH Efficacy in Infantile Epileptic Spasms -- CCA-MTFCN: A Robotic Pushing-Grasping Collaborative Method Based on Deep Reinforcement learning -- 6-DoF Grasp Planning on Point Cloud for Human-to-Robot Handover Task -- Leg Detection for Socially Assistive Robots: Differentiating Multiple Targets using LiDAR -- Image Compressed Sensing Reconstruction via Deep Image Prior With Feature Space and Texture Information -- Multi-objective Optimization Energy Management Strategy for Fuel Cell Hybrid Electric Vehicles During Vehicle Following -- Pointwise-Measurement-Based Event-Triggered Synchronization of Reaction-Diffusion Neural Networks -- An Improved Image Super-Resolution Algorithm forPercutaneous Endoscopic Lumbar Discectomy -- Algorithm & Control -- KGRL: A Method of Reinforcement Learning Based on Knowledge Guidance -- Terminal Sliding Mode Control of DC-DC Buck Converter Based on Disturbance Observer -- Distributed Dynamic Process Monitoring Based on Maximum Correlation and Maximum Difference -- Simplification of Extended Finite State Machines: A Matrix-based Approach -- Lane Change Decision Control of Autonomous Vehicle Based on A3C Algorithm -- Image Encryption Algorithm Based on Quantum Chaotic Mapping and Wavelet Transform -- Physics-Informed Neural Network Surrogate Modeling Approach of Active/passive Flow Control for Drag Reduction -- Model Following Adaptive Control of Links for the Complex Dynamical Network via the State Observer -- Gaussian Process based Stochastic Model Predictive Control of Linear System with Bounded Additive Uncertainty -- Observer-Based Nonsingular Terminal Sliding Mode Guidance Lawwith Fixed-Time Convergence -- Application -- FAANet: Feature-Augmented Attention Network for Surface Defect Detection of Metal Workpieces -- A Novel TCM Prescription Recommendation Algorithm Based on Deep Crossing Neural Network -- Robust Real-time Optimized LiDAR Odometry with Loop Closure Detection -- Machine Anomalous Sound Detection Based on Feature Fusion and Gaussian Mixture Model -- PSO-BP Neural Network-based Optimization of Automobile Rear Longitudinal Beam Stamping Process Parameters -- End-to-end Automatic Parking Based on Proximal Policy Optimization Algorithm in Carla -- A Deep Reinforcement Learning-based Energy Management Optimization for Fuel Cell Hybrid Electric Vehicle Considering Recent Experience -- State of Charge Estimation of Lithium-ion Battery Based on Multi-modal Information Interaction and Fusion -- Sperm Recognition and Viability Classification Based on Artificial Intelligence -- GANs-Based Model Extraction for Black-box Backdoor Attack.

The two-volume set CCIS 1918 and 1919 constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Cognitive Systems and Information Processing, ICCSIP 2023, held in Luoyang, China, during August 10-12, 2023. The 52 full papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 136 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: Volume I : Award; Algorithm & Control; and Application. Volume II: Robotics & Bioinformatics; and Vision.