The 2011 International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management provides a leading international forum for the sharing of views, ideas and original work among researchers, practitioners and developers to enlighten new insights into KSEM-related areas. The conference attracts numerous high quality, state-of-the-art research papers from all over the world. KSEM2011 to be held in Irvine, California, USA is the fifth in the conference series, following four successful events in Guilin, China (KSEM’06), Melbourne, Australia (KSEM’07), Vienna, Austria (KSEM’09) and Belfast, Northern Ireland (KSEM’10).

This conference is part of the following co-located conferences and workshops:
Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management (KSEM 2011)
Service-Oriented Computing and Applications (SOCA 2011)
Service-Oriented System Engineering (SOSE 2011)
Real-time Service-oriented Architectures and Applications (RTSOAA 2011)
Knowledge and Service Technology for Life, Environment, and Sustainability (KASTLES 2011)