Preface

The 2007 International Conference Proceedings on Intelligent Systems and Knowledge Engineering (ISKE2007) contain 284 final accepted papers from 797 online submissions for ISEKE2007. ISKE2007 is the 2nd in a series of conferences on Intelligent Systems and Knowledge Engineering. It follows the successful ISKE2006 in Shanghai, and is held at Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, P.R. China, Oct 15-16, 2007. All submitted papers went through a rigorous review process with an acceptance ratio of 36 %.

ISKE2007 is a multidisciplinary meeting encompassing four keynote presentations and 23 technical sessions that aim at covering state-of-the-art research and development in all aspects related to intelligent systems and knowledge engineering with its missions:

  • Discussing research on intelligent systems for solving problems in knowledge engineering.
  • Bridging the gap between computational intelligence and knowledge systems via joint research between P.R. China and international research institutes and universities.
  • Encouraging interdisciplinary research and bringing multi-discipline researchers together on intelligent systems for knowledge engineering and related fields.

All papers contributed to the proceedings reflect advances on intelligent systems for knowledge engineering in the following areas:

      • AI and expert systems
      • Artificial immune systems
      • Bio-informatics
      • Chaos theory
      • Cognitive science
      • Data mining
      • DNA computing
      • E-service intelligence
      • Evidence theory
      • Fuzzy set theory
      • Genetic algorithms
      • Hybrid methods
      • Intelligent control
      • Intelligent decision-making
      • Intelligent information processing
      • Intelligent recognition
      • Intelligent robotics
      • Interactive computational models
      • Machine learning
      • Many-valued logics
      • Neural networks
      • Probabilistic computing
      • Rough set theory
      • Support vector machine
      • Swarm intelligence
      • Uncertainty reasoning
      • Other related theories and applications

We wish to express our gratitude to Professors Ronald R. Yager, Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier, Witold Pedrycz, and Da Ruan to present keynote papers at ISKE2007; to all of our local and international program committee members and peer reviewers who devoted their time in the review process and provided valuable feedback for the authors, and to all the authors who submitted valuable papers to ISKE2007 and all conference attendees who supported to ISKE2007.

ISKE2007 could never have been successful without the support and assistance of Drs. Xiaoping Qiu, Zhiyang Chang, Shuiting Wu, Kaijun Xu, Xiaobing Li, Rui Yang, Li Yang, Li Zou, Lijun Bai, Cuihong Wang, et al. We also wish to thank the help of Mr. Weilun Ding for his design of the conference website.

The financial sponsorships from National Natural Science Foundation of China, Southwest Jiaotong University, Xihua University, Southwest University for Nationalities, Sichuan Normal University, Fujian Chamber of Commerce in Sichuan are gratefully acknowledged.

Finally, we wish to express our thanks to Mr. Zeger Karssen at Atlantis Press, Paris for his support and cooperation.

 

October 2007 
                                          Tianrui Li, Yang Xu, Da Ruan