PRICAI 2016: Trends in Artificial Intelligence

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th Pacific Rim Conference on Artificial Intelligence, PRICAI 2016, held in Phuket, Thailand, in August 2016.The 53 regular papers and 15 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 161 submissions. Pricai covers a wide range of topics such as AI foundations; applications of AI; semantic web; information retrieval; constraint satisfaction; multimodal interaction; knowledge representation; social networks; ad-hoc networks; algorithms; software architecture; machine learning; and smart modeling and simulation.