Abstract
The papers in this issue are a selection of the papers presented at the 16th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems (KES2012) held on 10, 11 & 12 September 2012, in San Sebastian, Spain. The main bias for the selection of the papers has been the use of ontologies for knowledge modeling and their applications. There have been contributions ranging in all aspects of ontology processing, construction and application which shows the vitality of this field, one of the most ready to advance in computer science.