This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 31st International Conference
on Industrial Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems IEA AIE 2018
held in Montreal QC Canada in June 2018. The 53 full papers and 33 short papers presented
were carefully reviewed and selected from 146 submissions. They are organized in the following
topical sections: constraint solving and optimization data mining and knowledge discovery
evolutionary computation expert systems and robotics knowledge representation machine
learning meta-heuristics multi-agent systems natural language processing neural networks
planning scheduling and spatial reasoning rough sets Internet of Things (IoT) ubiquitous
computing and big data data science privacy and security inelligent systems approaches in
information extraction and artificial intelligence law and justice.
