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: Industry, Manufacturing and Fault Diagnosis; Security, Privacy and Trustworthy AI; Reinforcement and Multi-Agent Learning; Machine Learning Methods and Evaluation; Adaptive Learning and Contrastive/Energy-Based Methods; Fuzzy Systems, Optimization and Emerging Applications.