Fuzzy and Neuro-Fuzzy Systems -- Intersection Search for a Fuzzy Petri Net-Based Knowledge Representation Scheme -- Parametric Uncertainty of Linear Discrete-Time Systems Described by Fuzzy Numbers -- A Flexible Neuro-Fuzzy Autoregressive Technique for Non-linear Time Series Forecasting -- Agent Systems -- Multiagent Security Evaluation Framework for Service Oriented Architecture Systems -- Describing Evolutions of Multi-Agent Systems -- Functionality and Performance Issues in an Agent–Based Software Deployment Framework -- A Consensus-Based Integration Method for Security Rules -- Knowledge Based and Expert Systems -- Emotion Judgment Based on Relationship between Speaker and Sentential Actor -- A Knowledge Based Formal Language for Securing Information Systems -- Multi Criteria Decision Making in Fuzzy Description Logics: A First Step -- A Hybrid System Combining Description Logics and Rules for Inventive Design -- Domain Modeling Based on Engineering Standards -- A Knowledge Based System for Minimum Rectangle Nesting -- Other/Misc. Generic Intelligent Systems Topics -- Evolutionary Algorithm for Solving Congestion Problem in Computer Networks -- Automatic Speech-Lip Synchronization System for 3D Animation -- Development of an Effective Travel Time Prediction Method Using Modified Moving Average Approach -- Differential Evolution and Genetic Algorithms for the Linear Ordering Problem -- Determining Optimal Crop Rotations by Using Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithms -- Intelligent Vision and Image Processing -- Object Recognition by Permanence of Ratios Based Fusion and Gaussian Bayes Decision -- A New Wavelet–Fractal Image Compression Method -- Urban Vehicle Tracking Using a Combined 3D Model Detector and Classifier -- UBIAS – Type Cognitive Systems for Medical Pattern Interpretation -- A New Selective Confidence Measure–Based Approach for Stereo Matching -- Image Content Analysis for Cardiac 3D Visualizations -- Knowledge Management, Ontologies and Data Mining -- Illogical Adjective Phrase Detection for Computer Conversation -- A Non-sequential Representation of Sequential Data for Churn Prediction -- Dialectics-Based Knowledge Acquisition – A Case Study -- Automatic Extraction of Hyponymy-Hypernymy Lexical Relations between Nouns from a Spanish Dictionary -- AVEDA: Statistical Tests for Finding Interesting Visualisations -- Degree of Association between Documents Using Association Mechanism -- Parallel Method for Mining High Utility Itemsets from Vertically Partitioned Distributed Databases -- An Ontology-Based Autonomic System for Improving Data Warehouse Performances -- Semantic Enhancement of the Course Curriculum Design Process -- Using the Mesh Thesaurus to Index a Medical Article: Combination of Content, Structure and Semantics -- Web Intelligence, Text and Multimedia Mining and Retrieval -- Building Decision Trees to Identify the Intent of a User Query -- Ontology-Based Concept Indexing of Images -- Design and Implementation of a Methodology for Identifying Website Keyobjects -- NLP Contribution to the Semantic Web: Linking the Term to the Concept -- An Intelligent Automatic Hoax Detection System -- Web User Session Reconstruction with Back Button Browsing -- Other Advanced Knowledge-Based Systems (I) -- Fast Time Delay Neural Networks for Detecting DNA Coding Regions -- Consistency-Based Feature Selection -- Asynchronous Situated Coevolution and Embryonic Reproduction as a Means to Autonomously Coordinate Robot Teams -- Keynote Speaker Plenary Presentation -- Learning Automata Based Intelligent Tutorial-like System -- Modeling and Simulating Empires: Toward a Game World Generator -- User-Centric and Intelligent Service Composition in Ubiquitous Computing Environments.

The two-volume set LNAI 5711 and LNAI 5712 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Sysetms, KES 2009, held in Santiago de Chile in September 2009. The 153 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The topics covered are: fuzzy and neuro-fuzzy systems, agent systems, knowledge based and expert systems, miscelleanous generic intelligent systems topics, intelligent vision and image processing, knowledge management, ontologies and data mining, web intelligence, text and multimedia mining and retrieval, other advanced knowledge-based systems, innovations in chance discovery, advanced knowledge-based systems, multi-agent negotiation and coordination, innovations in intelligent systems, intelligent technology approach to management engineering, data mining and service science for innovation, knowledge-based systems for e-business, video surveillance, social networks, advanced engineering design techniques for adaptive systems, knowledge technology in learning support, advanced information system for supporting personal activity, design of intelligent society, knowledge-based interface systems, knowledge-based multi-criteria decision support, soft computing techniques and their applications, immunity-based systems. The book also includes three keynote speaker plenary presentations.