Special issue: Extended papers selected from KES-2006

KES-2006, the tenth KES International Conference in Knowledge Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems, was held in Bournemouth, England from October 9 to 11 2006. This special issue of the KES Journal comprises the extended version of the six best papers selected by the conference programme committee. The KES International organization is aimed at facilitating and supporting research into the applications of intelligent systems, the tools and techniques of artificially intelligent computer systems. KES has organized an annual conference since 1996, which now regularly attracts about 500 delegates. KES International has established two Best Paper Awards for the best papers presented in KES2006 this year. The Best Research Paper Award recognizes an outstanding research paper in general for intelligent systems; the Best Student Paper Award recognizes and encourages an outstanding research paper produced by a student author. The Awards are selected by the Conference Award Panel. The Best Paper Award was attributed to the paper entitled “Design and Evaluation of a Rough Set-Based Anomaly Detection Scheme Considering Weighted Feature Values” by Ihn-Han Bae, Hwa-Ju Lee and Kyung-Sook Lee. The Best Student Paper Award was presented to “Adapting Robot Kinematics for Human-Arm Motion Recognition” by Chee Seng Chan, Honghai Liu and David Brown. Detailed