This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 39th Annual German Conference on
Artificial Intelligence KI 2016 in conjunction with the Österreichische Gesellschaft für
Artificial Intelligence ÖGAI held in Klagenfurt Austria in September 2016. The 8 revised
full technical papers presented together with 12 technical communications and 16 extended
abstracts were carefully reviewed and selected from 44 submissions. The conference provides the
opportunity to present a wider range of results and ideas that are of interest to the KI
audience including reports about recent own publications position papers and previews of
ongoing work.