Expert Systems: The Journal of Knowledge Engineering publishes papers dealing with all aspects of knowledge engineering, including individual methods and techniques in knowledge acquisition and representation, and their application in the construction of systems – including expert systems – based thereon. Detailed scientific evaluation is an essential part of any paper.

As well as traditional application areas, such as Software and Requirements Engineering, Human-Computer Interaction, and Artificial Intelligence, we are aiming at the new and growing markets for these technologies, such as Business, Economy, Market Research, and Medical and Health Care. The shift towards this new focus will be marked by a series of special issues covering hot and emergent topics.

Editor-in-Chief
Jon G. Hall, The Open University, UK
Associate Editors
Chrissanthi Angeli, Technological Education Institute of Piraeus, Greece
Juan I. Arribas, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain
Paulo Cortez, University of Minho, Portugal
Atilla Elci, Aksaray University, Turkey
Jose Manuel Ferrandez, Universidad Politecnica de Cartagena, Spain
Daniel Neagu, University of Bradford, UK
Jose Garcia-Rodriguez, University of Alicante, Spain
Alireza Sadeghian, Ryerson University, Canada
Reza Farzipoor Saen, Islamic Azad University, Iran
Andrés Silva, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Desheng Wu, University of Toronto, Canada
Li Xu, Old Dominion University, USA
Ali R Ylidiz, Uludag University, Turkey
Liping Zhao, University of Manchester, UK
Editorial Board
Hojjat Adeli, The Ohio State University
James Alty, Loughborough University and Middlesex University, UK
Chandra S. Amaravadi, Western Illinois University, USA
David Benyon, Napier University, UK
Max Bramer, Portsmouth University, UK
Luis A. Casillas Santillan, University of Guadalajara, Mexico
David Clarke, University of Nottingham, UK
Karl Cox, UNSW / Enterprise Analysts Pty Ltd, Australia
Jerald L. Feinstein, The George Washington University, USA
John Fox, University of Oxford and University College London, UK
Vincenzo Gervasi, University of Pisa, Italy
Adrian Hopgood, Sheffield Business School, Sheffield Hallam University
Paul Lefrere, The Open University, UK
Peter McGeorge, University of Aberdeen, UK
Dan O'Leary, University of Southern California, USA
Mehmet Orgun, Macquarie University, Australia
Marian Petre, The Open University, UK
Lucia Rapanotti, The Open University, UK
Paolo Remagnino, Kingston University, UK
Gordon Rugg, Keele University, UK
I. B. Türksen, University of Toronto, Canada
Ning Xiong, Mälardalen University, Sweden
Jin Zhi, Chinese Academy of Science, China