Editorial of Special Issue on Advances of AI Theories and Applications (SETN 2016)

A. Bikakis, N. Bassiliades, D. Vrakas, Editorial of Special Issue on Advances of AI Theories and Applications (SETN 2016), International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools, 27 (4), pp. 1802002, 3 pages, 2018.

Artificial Intelligence, Constraint Programming, Search, Optimization, Machine Learning, Data Mining, Natural Language Processing

We are honored and pleased to open this special issue of the International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools (IJAIT) that includes extended versions of the best papers presented at the 9th Hellenic Conference on Artificial Intelligence (SETN 2016) that was held on 18–20 May 2016, in Thessaloniki, Greece. SETN 2016 received 68 submissions from 16 different countries in and on several different topic areas. Out of them the nine best papers that scored the highest scores and received the best comments from the PC members were invited to submit a substantially extended version to this special issue. Finally, after two peer-review rounds, seven papers were selected to be included in this special issue that focus on four Artificial Intelligence sub-areas, namely Constraint Programming, Search/Optimization,Machine Learning/Data Mining and Natural Language Processing. The special issue brings to the reader new results, applications and tools at the above areas.