The 2014 International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Knowledge Engineering (ISKE2014) is the ninth in a series of ISKE conferences. ISKE2014 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) , ISKE2013 in Shenzhen (China), and will be held on Aug. 17-20, 2014 in Brazil (Brazil) as a joint conference with the 11th International FLINS Conference on Decision Making and Soft Computing (FLINS 2014). This conference is sponsored by Federal University of Paraíba, Brazil, and technically co-sponsored by Southwest Jiaotong University, China, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. ISKE 2014 emphasizes current practice, experience and promising new ideas in the broad area of intelligent systems and knowledge engineering. ISKE2014 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. Accepted papers will be published as a book by World Scientific and submitted for indexing to EI and ISTP. Some selected papers will be published in the well-known international journals (SCI or EI indexed).