This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th Portuguese Conference on Artificial
Intelligence EPIA 2015 held in Coimbra Portugal in September 2015. The 45 revised full
papers presented together with 36 revised short papers were carefully reviewed and selected
from a total of 131 submissions. EPIA 2015 following the standard EPIA format covers a wide
range of AI topics as follows: ambient intelligence and affective environments artificial
Intelligence in medicine artificial intelligence in transportation systems artificial life
and evolutionary algorithms computational methods in bioinformatics and systems biology
general artificial intelligence intelligent information systems intelligent robotics
knowledge discovery and business intelligence multi-agent systems: theory and applications
social simulation and modelling text mining and applications.
