This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference of the
Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence AI*IA 2016 held in Genova Italy in November
December 2016. The 39 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 53
submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on optimization and evolutionary
algorithms classification pattern recognition and computer vision multi-agent systems
machine learning semantic web and description logics natural language processing planning
and scheduling and formal verification.