João Dias - Böcker

This two-volume set LNAI 16121-16122 constitutes the proceedings of the 24th EPIA Conference on Progress in Artificial Intelligence, EPIA 2025, held in Faro, Portugal, during October 1–3, 2025.The 76 full papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 158 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows:Part I: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIM); AI for Architecture, Engineering and Conservation (AI4AEC); Knowledge Discovery and Business Intelligence (KDBI); Generative AI: Foundations and Applications (GenAI); Artificial Intelligence: Theory, Methods, and Applications (AITMA); Ethics and Responsibility in AI (ERAI).Part II: Artificial Intelligence for Industry and Societies (AI4IS); Artificial Intelligence and Law (AIL); Artificial Intelligence and IoT in Agriculture (AIoTA); Artificial Intelligence in Transportation Systems (AITS); Natural Language Processing, Text Mining and Applications (NLP-TeMA); Ambient Intelligence and Affective Environments (AmIA); AI and Creativity (AIC); Artificial Intelligence in Power and Energy Systems (AIPES); Fuzzy Data Analysis and Applications (FDA).

This two-volume set LNAI 16121-16122 constitutes the proceedings of the 24th EPIA Conference on Progress in Artificial Intelligence, EPIA 2025, held in Faro, Portugal, during October 1–3, 2025.The 76 full papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 158 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows:Part I: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIM); AI for Architecture, Engineering and Conservation (AI4AEC); Knowledge Discovery and Business Intelligence (KDBI); Generative AI: Foundations and Applications (GenAI); Artificial Intelligence: Theory, Methods, and Applications (AITMA); Ethics and Responsibility in AI (ERAI).Part II: Artificial Intelligence for Industry and Societies (AI4IS); Artificial Intelligence and Law (AIL); Artificial Intelligence and IoT in Agriculture (AIoTA); Artificial Intelligence in Transportation Systems (AITS); Natural Language Processing, Text Mining and Applications (NLP-TeMA); Ambient Intelligence and Affective Environments (AmIA); AI and Creativity (AIC); Artificial Intelligence in Power and Energy Systems (AIPES); Fuzzy Data Analysis and Applications (FDA).

Emotion modeling has been an active area of research for almost two decades now. In spite of the growing and diverse body of work in emotion modeling, designing and developing emotion models remains an art, with few standards and systematic guidelines available to guide the design process, and to validate the resulting models. This state-of-the-art volume includes extended versions of eight papers presented at two workshops: Standards in Emotion Modeling, SEM 2011, held in Leiden, The Netherlands, in August 2011, which focused on the challenges, progress and open questions regarding emotion modeling standards, and Emotional and Empathic Agents, EEA 2012, held in conjunction with AAMAS 2012, in Valencia, Spain, in June 2012, which focused on strategies for reducing the complexity of affective models and model re-use. The papers have been organized into two sections: generic models and frameworks, and evaluations of specific models. They represent a sampling of the current efforts toward the development of more systematic methods for emotion modeling, toward the development of standards in emotion model design and validation, and toward more pragmatic approaches to model development, including model component sharing and re-use. The topics range from efforts to define minimum functionalities for agent emotion models and provide tools for systematic comparisons of alternative approaches through approaches to integrating multiple processing levels within an agent architecture to papers exploring the best means of generating empathy and supportive behavior in virtual agents and attempts to address the requirements for realistic modeling of affective expressions across multiple types of social interaction (individual, group and cultural).