The three volume set LNAI 4251, LNAI 4252, and LNAI 4253 constitute the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems, KES 2006, held in Bournemouth, UK, in October 2006.

The 480 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from about 1400 submissions. The papers present a wealth of original research results from the field of intelligent information processing in the broadest sense.

The third volume contains papers on chance discovery, context aware evolvable and adaptable systems and their applications, advanced groupware and network services, computational methods for intelligent neuro-fuzzy applications, intelligent information processing for remote sensing, evolutionary and self-organising sensors, actuators and processing hardware, human intelligent technology, connectionist models and their applications, intelligent and cognitive communication systems, innovations in intelligent agents and applications, intelligent pattern recognition and classification in astrophysical and medical images, intelligent multimedia solutions and security in the next generation mobile information systems (IMSS), engineered applications of semantic Web - SWEA, intelligent techniques in the stock market, soft computing techniques and their applications, human computer intelligent systems, recommender agents and adaptive Web-based systems, intelligent data analysis for complex environments, creativity support systems, artificial intelligence applications in power electronics, soft computing approaches to management engineering, knowledge processing in intelligent and cognitive communicative systems - KPICCS 2006, intelligent and secure digital content management, business knowledge modelling and maintenance, innovations in intelligent systems and their applications, intelligent agents and their applications, as well as signal processing techniques for knowledge extraction and information fusion.