This book constitutes the proceedings of the 16th Russian Conference on Artificial Intelligence
RCAI 2018 Moscow Russia in September 2018. The 22 full papers presented along with 4 short
papers in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 75 submissions. The conference
deals with a wide range of topics including data mining and knowledge discovery text mining
reasoning decision making natural language processing vision intelligent robotics
multi-agent systems machine learning ontology engineering.