This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference of the
Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence AI*IA 2017 held in Bari Italy in November
2017. The 37 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 91 submissions.
The papers are organized in topical sections on applications of AI natural language processing
knowledge representation and reasoning knowledge engineering ontologies and the semantic web
machinelearning philosophical foundations metacognitive modeling and ethics and planning and
scheduling.
