This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th EPIA Conference on Artificial
Intelligence EPIA 2017 held in Porto Portugal in September 2017. The 69 revised full papers
and 2 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 177
submissions. The papers are organized in 16 tracks devoted to the following topics: agent-based
modelling for criminological research (ABM4Crime) artificial intelligence in cyber-physical
and distributed embedded systems (AICPDES) artificial intelligence in games (AIG) artificial
intelligence in medicine (AIM) artificial intelligence in power and energy systems (AIPES)
artificial intelligence in transportation systems (AITS) artificial life and evolutionary
algorithms (ALEA) ambient intelligence and affective environments (AmIA) business
applications of artificial intelligence (BAAI) intelligent robotics (IROBOT) knowledge
discovery and business intelligence (KDBI) knowledge representation and reasoning (KRR)
multi-agent systems: theory and applications (MASTA) software engineering for autonomous and
intelligent systems (SE4AIS) social simulation and modelling (SSM) and text mining and
applications (TeMA).
