Innovative Trends in Personalized Software Engineering and Information Systems The Case of Intelligent and Adaptive E-learning Systems

Knowledge-based systems refer to computer programs that reason and use a knowledge base to solve complex problems and are an area of high interest by researchers. The attempt of these systems to represent knowledge explicitly allowing the emergence of new knowledge as well as the ever-increasing need of software to become even more individualized and adaptive to users’ needs and preferences can illustrate the motivation of the authors to explore this area.