This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 40th Annual German Conference on
Artificial Intelligence KI 2017 held in Dortmund Germany in September 2017. The 20 revised
full technical papers presented together with 16 short technical communications were carefully
reviewed and selected from 73 submissions. The conference cover a range of topics from e. g.
agents robotics cognitive sciences machine learning planning knowledge representation
reasoning and ontologies with numerous applications in areas like social media psychology
transportation systems and reflecting the richness and diversity of their field.
