The scope includes the knowledge and data engineering aspects of computer science, artificial intelligence, electrical engineering, computer engineering, and other appropriate fields. This Transactions provides an international and interdisciplinary forum to communicate results of new developments in knowledge and data engineering and the feasibility studies of these ideas in hardware and software. Specific areas to be covered are as follows: Fields and Areas of Knowledge and Data Engineering: (a) Knowledge and data engineering aspects of knowledge based and expert systems, (b) Artificial Intelligence techniques relating to knowledge and data management, (c) Knowledge and data engineering tools and techniques, (d) Distributed knowledge base and database processing, (e) Real-time knowledge bases and databases, (f) Architectures for knowledge and data based systems, (g) Data management methodologies, (h) Database design and modeling, (i) Query, design, and implementation languages, (j) Integrity, security, and fault tolerance, (k) Distributed database control, (l) Statistical databases, (m) System integration and modeling of these systems, (n) Algorithms for these systems, (o) Performance evaluation of these algorithms, (p) Data communications aspects of these systems, and (q) Applications of these systems.

范圍包括計算機科學、人工智能、電氣工程、計算機工程和其他適當領域的知識和數據工程方面。這項交易提供了一個國際性和跨學科的論壇，以交流知識和數據工程的新發展成果以及這些想法在硬件和軟件方面的可行性研究。具體領域包括：知識和數據工程領域和領域：（a）基于知識和專家系統的知識和數據工程方面，（b）與知識和數據管理相關的人工智能技術，（c）知識和數據工程工具和技術，（d）分布式知識庫和數據庫處理，（e）實時知識庫和數據庫，（f）知識和基于數據系統的體系結構，（g）數據管理方法，（h）數據庫設計和建模，（i）查詢、設計和實現語言，（j）完整性、安全性和容錯性，（k）分布式數據庫控制，（l）統計數據庫，（m）這些系統的系統集成和建模，（n）這些系統的算法，（o）這些算法的性能評估，（p）這些系統的數據通信方面，以及（q）這些系統的應用。