Guest Editors:
Jie Lu (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia, jielu@it.uts.edu.au)
Da Ruan (Belgian Nuclear Research Centre, Belgium, druan@sckcen.be)
Guangquan Zhang (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia,  zhangg@it.uts.edu.au))

This special issue aims at offering an updated overview of the research field in line with decision support and warning systems integrated with computational intelligent techniques. It is dedicated to the 8th International FLINS Conference on Computational Intelligence in Decision and Control, Madrid, Spain, Sept. 21-24, 2008 (http://www.mat.ucm.es/congresos/flins2008/). A limited number of high quality submissions outside of FLINS08, but within the scope of the special issue are also welcome. A strict review procedure will be organized for all submissions to the special issue based on the following criteria:
1. Quality and originality in theory and methodology of decision support and warning systems integrated with intelligent techniques
2. Software tool and real-world application oriented exhibiting originality with reasonable theory involved

Possible topics in the special issue:
· Intelligent decision support systems
· Knowledge based decision analysis models and methods
· Knowledge based early warning systems
· Machine learning based prediction models and methodologies in warning systems
· Applications of intelligent technologies in decision and policy making
· Applications of intelligent technologies in emergency management systems
· Applications of intelligent technologies in various warning systems

Submission Guidelines
All papers must be submitted through the webpage of Knowledge Based Systems http://ees.elsevier.com/knosys/. To ensure that your manuscripts are correctly identified for inclusion into the special issue we are editing, it is important that you select “Special Issue FLINS 8” when you reach the "Article Type" step in the submission process.

Important Dates
Submission of extended papers: Dec.15, 2008
Notification of review results: Feb.15, 2009
Submission of revised papers: April 15, 2009
Notification of final review results: May 15, 2009

To download the pdf versioned  "call for papers", please click here