This book constitutes the proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Foundations of
Information and Knowledge Systems FoIKS 2016 held in Linz Austria in March 2016. The 14
revised full papers presented papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 23 submissions.
The papers address various topics such as reasoning about beliefs uncertainty incompleteness
and inconsistency inference and problem solving querying and pattern mining dealing with
knowledge logics and complexity.