Advances and Trends in Artificial Intelligence. Theory and Applications

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 39th International Conference on Industrial, Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems on Advances and Trends in Artificial Intelligence, IEA/AIE 2026, held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, July 6–8, 2026.The 99 full papers and 8 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 210 submissions. They focus on the following topical sections: Large Language Models and Prompting; Transformers and Representation Learning; Graph Neural Networks and Knowledge Representation; Generative Models and Diffusion.