: The theme of this issue of IJCINI is on cognitive mechanisms of autonomic computing and laws of human cooperative work organization. This editorial addresses key notions of this issue on the cognitive mechanisms of autonomic computing and machine cognition. It presents the structure and coverage of this issue and highlights the latest advances in cognitive informatics in general and in articles included in this issue in particular. PAPER 1: On Laws of Work Organization in Human Cooperation” Yingxu Wang, University of Calgary, Canada : From the perspective of cognitive informatics (CI), this paper proposes internal relations between distance and orientation knowledge of extended objects, and presents a formal representation of spatial knowledge. The connection relation is taken as primitive. Notions of near extension regions and the nearer predicate are developed. Distance relations between extended objects are understood as degrees of the near extension from one object to the other...