This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 29th Australasian Joint Conference on
Artificial Intelligence AI 2016 held in Hobart TAS Australia in December 2016. The 40 full
papers and 18 short papers presented together with 8 invited short papers were carefully
reviewed and selected from 121 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on
agents and multiagent systems AI applications and innovations big data constraint
satisfaction search and optimisation knowledge representation and reasoning machine learning
and data mining social intelligence and text mining and NLP. The proceedings also contains 2
contributions of the AI 2016 doctoral consortium and 6 contributions of the SMA 2016.
