Knowledge-Based Systems is an international, interdisciplinary and applications-oriented journal. This journal focuses on systems that use knowledge-based (KB) techniques to support human decision-making, learning and action; emphases the practical significance of such KB-systems; its computer development and usage; covers the implementation of such KB-systems: design process, models and methods, software tools, decision-support mechanisms, user interactions, organizational issues, knowledge acquisition and representation, and system architectures. 
This journal's current leading topics are but not limited to:
• Big data techniques and methodologies, data-driven information systems, and knowledge acquisition 
• Cognitive interaction and intelligent human interfaces 
• Recommender systems and E-service personalization 
• Intelligent decision support systems, prediction systems and warning systems 
• Computational and artificial intelligence based systems and uncertain information processes 
• Swarm intelligence and evolutionary computing 
• Knowledge engineering, machine learning-based systems and web semantics 
The journal also welcomes papers describing novel applications of knowledge based systems in any human endeavor: ranging from financial technology to engineering to health science or any other domain impacted by Artificial Intelligence technologies and its associated techniques and systems. 

Original high-quality research
review papers
Short communications

Editors in Chief
Professor Hamido Fujita
Iwate Prefectural University Faculty of Software and Information Science, 020-0193, Iwate, Japan Email Professor Hamido Fujita
Professor Jie Lu
University of Technology Sydney, Center for AI, Faculty of Engineering and IT, P.O. Box123, Broadway, Ultimo, Sydney, NSW 2007, New South Wales, Australia Email Professor Jie Lu
Founding Editor
Professor E.A. Edmonds
De Montfort University, Leicester, United Kingdom
Specialist Editor
Professor E. Herrera-Viedma
University of Granada Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Granada, Spain
Editorial Advisory Board
Professor U. R. Acharya
Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Singapore, Singapore
Professor D. Benyon
Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Professor E. Bonjour
University of Lorraine, Nancy, France
Professor E. Cambria
Nanyang Technological University School of Computer Engineering, Singapore, Singapore
Professor S.M. Chen
National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan
Professor F. Chiclana
De Montfort University, Leicester, United Kingdom
Dr. W.-P. Ding
Nantong University, Nantong, China
Dr. M. Dyer
University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States
Dr. M. Eisenberg
University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, United States
Professor G. Fischer
University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, United States
Professor J.S. Gero
University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
Professor F. Herrera
University of Granada Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Granada, Spain
Professor C. Kahraman
Istanbul Technical University, İstanbul, Turkey
Professor T. Li
Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China
Dr. H. Lieberman
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Dr. C.A. Miller
Smart Information Flow Technologies, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Dr. D. Riecken
IBM Thomas J Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York, United States
Professor A. Selamat
University of Technology Malaysia School of Computing, Johor Bahru, Malaysia
Dr. K. Taylor
Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Dr. L.G. Terveen
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Dr. E. Tsui
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Professor E. Tyugu
Tallinn University of Technology, Institute of Cybernetics, Tallinn, Estonia
Professor T. Wu
Shanghai Jiao Tong University - Fahua Campus, Shanghai, China
Professor Z. S. Xu
Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
Professor Y. Yao
University of Regina Department of Computer Science, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada