EDITORIAL

摘要

This Special Issue presents extended versions of five papers that have been presentednto the 9th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications,nISDA 2009. This conference was organized at Pisa (Italy) from 30 Novembernto 2 December 2009 and brought together researchers, engineers, developers andnpractitioners from academia and industry working in all interdisciplinary areas ofncomputational intelligence and system engineering to share their experience, andnexchange and cross-fertilize their ideas. In this sense, ISDA 2009 served as a forumnfor the dissemination of state-of-the-art research, development, and implementationsnof intelligent systems, intelligent technologies and useful applications in thesentwo fields.