The 2013 International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Knowledge Engineering (ISKE2013) is the eighth in a series of ISKE conferences. ISKE2013 follows the successful ISKE2006 in Shanghai (China), ISKE2007 in Chengdu (China), ISKE2008 in Xiamen (China), ISKE2009 in Hasselt (Belgium), ISKE2010 in Hangzhou (China), ISKE2011 in Shanghai (China), ISKE2012 in Beijing (China), and will be held on Nov. 20-23, 2013 in Shenzhen (China). This conference is sponsored by Shenzhen University, and technically co-sponsored by Southwest Jiaotong University, University of Technology, Sydney. ISKE 2013 emphasizes current practice, experience and promising new ideas in the broad area of intelligent systems and knowledge engineering. ISKE2013 accepts submissions that have not been published or submitted in any form elsewhere. Besides technical/research papers, submissions reporting on industrial case studies are also welcome. Paper Submission Prospective authors are encouraged to submit full papers for review in PDF-format. Only original papers that have not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere will be considered, written in English, Please submit your papers using the online submission system in: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iske2013.