Editorial

摘要

Intelligent techniques derived from knowledge engineering and related methodologies are useful for developing autonomous systems that are able to improve the quality of our life. These techniques normally possess humanlike attributes such as learning, generalisation, and self-organisation, and attempt to achieve humanlike performances in tackling a variety of real-world problems. In this special issue, extended papers from the KES2008 conference as well as from other submissions that highlight a number of innovative intelligent techniques and their applications to solving problems encountered in our daily life are presented. A summary of each paper is as follows.