Delegates and friends, we are very pleased to extend to you the sincerest of welcomes to this, the 10th International Conference on Knowledge Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems at the Bournemouth International Centre in Bournemouth, UK, brought to you by KES International. This is a special KES conference, as it is the 10th in the series, and as such, it represents an occasion for celebration and an opportunity for reflection. The first KES conference was held in 1997 and was organised by the KES conference founder, Lakhmi Jain. In 1997, 1998 and 1999 the KES conferences were held in Adelaide, Australia. In 2000 the conference moved out of Australia to be held in Brighton, UK; in 2001 it was in Osaka, Japan; in 2002, Crema near Milan, Italy; in 2003, Oxford, UK; in 2004, Wellington, New Zealand; and in 2005, Melbourne, Australia. The next two conferences are planned to be in Italy and Croatia. Delegate numbers have grown from about 100 in 1997, to a regular figure in excess of 500. The conference attracts delegates from many different countries, in Europe, Australasia, the Pacific Rim, Asia and the Americas, and may truly be said to be ‘International’. Formed in 2001, KES International has developed into a worldwide organisation that provides a professional community for researchers in the discipline of knowledge-based and intelligent engineering and information systems, and through this, opportunities for publication, networking and interaction.
The three volume set LNAI 4251, LNAI 4252, and LNAI 4253 constitute the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems, KES 2006, held in Bournemouth, UK, in October 2006. The 480 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from about 1400 submissions. The papers present a wealth of original research results from the field of intelligent information processing in the broadest sense. The second volume is organized in topical sections on computational intelligence for signal and image processing, soft data analysis, immunity-based systems: immunoinformatics, ambient intelligence, algorithms, methods and applications, communicative intelligence 2006, knowledge-based systems for e-business, knowledge-based interface systems, nature inspired data mining, intelligent agents and their applications, AI for decision making, intelligent data processing in process systems and plants, skill acquisition and ubiquitous human computer interaction, and, IATA - intelligent agent technology and applications.
The topics also include: computational intelligence approaches and methods for security engineering, hybrid information technology using computational intelligence, logic based intelligent information systems, knowledge-based mult-criteria decision support, neural information processing for data mining, sharing of learning knowledge in an information age, intelligent information management in a knowledge-based society, knowledge/software engineering aspects of intelligent systems applications, and intelligent databases in the virtual information community.
