The papers in this volume are the referred Applications papers presented at ES 2002, the Twenty-second SGES international Conference on Knowledge Based Systems and Applied Artificial Intelligence, to be held in Cambridge during December 2002.

Best Application Paper.- Knowledge-based Systems for Marking Professional IT Skills Examinations.- Session 1: Commercial Optimisation.- Dynamic Planner: A Decision Support Tool for Resource Planning.- A Knowledge Based Genetic Algorithm Approach to Automating Cartographic Generalisation.- GA-based Heuristic Algorithms for Bandwidth-delay-constrained Least-cost Multicast Routing.- Session 2: Engineering.- Knowledge-based Diagnosis in a Fuel Tank Production Plant.- A Software Tool-set for the Application of Model-based Diagnosis in Power Engineering.- A Multi-Agent Intelligent Interpretation System for Power System Disturbance Diagnosis.- Recognising Visual Patterns to Communicate Gas Turbine Time-Series Data.- Session 3: Public Services.- Extracting Relational Facts for Indexing and Retrieval of Crime-Scene Photographs.- Evaluation of a Fuzzy Case-based Reasoning System for Students’ Comprehension of Historical Text.- A Computational Environment for Building Intelligent Medical Diagnosis Based Systems.- A Uniform Human Knowledge Interface to the Multi-Domain Knowledge Bases in the National Knowledge Infrastructure.- Session 4: Environment.- CBR Based System for Forecasting Red Tides.- Segmenting Time Series for Weather Forecasting.- Intelligent Data Analysis for Conservation: Experiments with Rhino Horn Fingerprint Identification.- Session 5: Business & Knowledge Management.- Perceptions of the Business Knowledge Resource.- Text-Mining: Application Development Challenges.- Managing e-Market Negotiation in Context with a Multiagent System.- Author Index.