This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 2008 Pacific Rim
Knowledge Acquisition Workshop PKAW 2008 held in Hanoi Vietnam in December 2008 as part of
10th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence PRICAI 2008. The 20
revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 57 submissions and went
through two rounds of reviewing and improvement. The papers are organized in topical sections
on machine learning and data mining incremental knowledge acquisition web-based techniques
and applications as well as domain specific knowledge acquisition methods and applications.
