§16§The four-volume set LNAI 6881-LNAI 6884 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems, KES 2011, held in Kaiserslautern, Germany, in September 2011. Part 1: The total of 244 high-quality papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The 61 papers of Part 1 are organized in topical sections on artificial neural networks, connectionists systems and evolutionary computation, machine learning and classical AI, agent, multi-agentsystems, knowledge based and expert systems, intelligent vision, image processing and signal processing, knowledge management, ontologies, and data mining. §01§Prof. Dr. Andreas Dengel ist Wissenschaftlicher Direktor am Deutschen Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI) in Kaiserslautern, Professor für Informatik an der Technischen Universität Kaiserslautern und Honorarprofessor am Dept. of Computer Science and Intelligent Systems der Graduate School of Engineering an der Osaka Prefecture University und arbeitet mit seiner Gruppe seit vielen Jahren auf dem Gebiet Semantischer Technologien.
