This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on
Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems KES 2012 held in San
Sebastian Spain in September 2012. The 20 revised full papers presented were carefully
reviewed and selected from 130 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on
bioinspired and machine learning methods machine learning applications semantics and ontology
based techniques and lattice computing and games.
