The two-volume set LNAI 10632 and 10633 constitutes the proceedings of the 16th Mexican
International Conference on Artificial Intelligence MICAI 2017 held in Enseneda Mexico in
October 2017. The total of 60 papers presented in these two volumes was carefully reviewed and
selected from 203 submissions. The contributions were organized in the following topical
sections: Part I: neural networks evolutionary algorithms and optimization hybrid intelligent
systems and fuzzy logic and machine learning and data mining. Part II: natural language
processing and social networks intelligent tutoring systems and educational applications and
image processing and pattern recognition.