This book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Multi-disciplinary Trends in Artificial Intelligence, MIWAI 2018, held in Hanoi, Vietnam, in November 2018.The 16 full papers presented together with 9 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 65 submissions. They are organized in the following topical sections: control, planning and scheduling, pattern recognition, knowledge mining, software applications, strategy games and others.
