This book contains the revised and extended versions of selected papers from the 9th
International Conference ICAART 2017 held in Porto Portugal in February 24-26 2017.The 11
full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 158 initial submissions. The papers are
organized in two tracks. The first focuses on agents multi-agent systems software platforms
distributed problem solving and distributed AI in general. The second track focuses mainly on
artificial intelligence knowledge representation planning learning scheduling perception
reactive AI systems evolutionary computing and other topics related to intelligent systems
and computer intelligence.