We are pleased to announce that the KES 2026 conference will take place in the city of Dublin, Ireland, organised by KES International. The conference will consist of keynote talks, oral and poster presentations, invited sessions and workshops, on the applications and theory of intelligent systems and related areas.

The conference proceedings will be published in Elsevier's Procedia Computer Science open access journal, available in ScienceDirect and submitted to be indexed/abstracted in CPCi (ISI conferences and part of Web of Science), Engineering Index, and Scopus. The conference is ranked 'B in the CORE conference ranking system'.

The conference encompasses a broad spectrum of intelligent systems related subjects. The following list provides examples of applicable topics; however, the list is not meant to exclude other applicable areas.

1. Generic Topics of Interest

Automated Design and Configuration of Sensory Systems, Self-x principles in Intelligent Engineering Systems, Knowledge-Based Systems, Expert Systems, Cognitive Systems, Neural Networks, Artificial Immune Systems, Fuzzy Techniques and Systems, Genetic Algorithms and Evolutionary Computing, Hybrid Intelligent Systems, Multi-Agent Systems, Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Data Analysis and Pattern Recognition, Machine Learning, Bayesian Networks, Knowledge Representation and Management, Computational neuroscience, Planning, Spatial & Temporal Reasoning, Knowledge Acquisition, Semantic-Based Systems.

2. Intelligent Applications

Multi-Sensor Information Systems, Dimensionality Reduction and Interactive Multivariate Data Visualization/Analysis, Organisation Memories, Industrial Control, Monitoring and Planning, Intelligent Web-based Systems, Fault Diagnosis, Robotics, Image Processing, Machine & Computer Vision, Medical & Diagnostic Systems, Financial & Stock Market Monitoring and Prediction, Speech Processing and Synthesis, Natural Language Processing, Environmental Monitoring, Power Electronics & Drives, High Voltage Systems, Engine Control and Vehicle Applications, Signal and Time Series Processing, Wavelets.

3. Emergent Intelligent Technologies

Pervasive Computing, Intelligent Web Personalization, Ubiquitous Computing, Context-aware and Affective (Emotional) Computing, Mobile Computing and Systems, Business Intelligence Systems, Human-centered Computing, Intelligent User Interfaces, Cognitive Networks, User profiling, Evolvable Hardware, DNA Computing, Immunocomputing, Artificial Life, Bioinformatics, Micro array Data Analysis, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, E-commerce/E-business and E-learning, Semantic Web, Intelligent Web Mining & Applications, Virtual Reality & Multi-Media Intelligent Information Systems, Blind Source Separation, Machine & Computer Visionm,Virtual Reality & Multi- Media Intelligent Information Systems, Image classifiers, Semantic Visualization, Semantic abstraction of the PLC/PLM, Machine learning, Image feature extraction, multimedia retrieval, multimedia annotation. Semantic annotation of images and videos, parallel computing and GPU, Semantic enhanced mockups and simulation models.