**** Scientific Scope ****

The role of Intelligent Systems in the context of the Information Technologies is clearly established. This kind of approach allows the inclusion, in computational systems, of human intelligence related concepts, like reasoning, learning capability, evolution, adaptation, autonomy, social interaction, or pro-activity. Historically, this has been the focus of Artificial Intelligence research. Meanwhile, current world dynamics made those features a real necessity in a many diversity of systems, in different application domains: from recommendation systems to robotics, to data mining, natural language processing or interactive games. Technological development made possible full-featured intelligent systems development, making many of these an integral part of everyday life for the common citizen. Additionally, potential application in many different knowledge domains and sectors of the society is turning their development more interdisciplinary, with expected contributions in engineering, and computer science, but also in human and social sciences.

In the previous eight editions, this workshop has consolidated its goal of developing a forum dedicated to the reflection and discussion around intelligent systems conception and development, both from a theoretical and practical perspective. The intention is to gather people from the scientific community, industry, and society, to debate the state of art on models and architectures, as well as paradigms and frontiers that motivate intelligent systems development. Artificial Intelligence, human cognition models and computational theories, knowledge representation and engineering, information infrastructures, web distributed intelligent systems, are also themes to be explored in this workshop.

**** Topics of Interest ****

Topics of interest for this workshop include, but are not limited to, the following areas:

1. Artificial Intelligence
2. Agent Technologies and Multiagent Systems
3. Cognitive and Adaptive Robotics
4. Knowledge Based Systems
5. Machine Learning
6. Electronic Commerce
7. Semantic Web and Ontologies
8. Information Retrieval
9. Data mining and OLAP
10. Human-machine interaction
11. Mobile systems and ubiquitous computing
12. Expert Systems and Decision Support Systems
13. Data and Knowledge Engineering
14. Evolutionary Computation and other bio-inspired models
15. Natural Language Processing

**** Important Dates ****

Deadline for paper submission: April 15, 2017
Notification of paper acceptance: April 30, 2017
Deadline for final versions and conference registration: May 8, 2017
Conference dates: June 21-24, 2017

**** Paper Submission and Formatting Guidelines ****

We invite authors to submit unpublished work resulted from research that present original scientific result, methodological aspects, concepts and approaches in the field of ICT on Auditing. Submitted work must not be not under revision elsewhere. The submissions will be double-blind reviewed on a rolling basis to ensure a rapid decision. Therefore, authors should not include on submissions names and affiliations during the reviewing phase and avoid references in the text that can possibly identify authors.

Submissions must be of Full Paper (up to 6 pages). Papers must be written in one of the official conference languages (English, Spanish or Portuguese) and must follow the conference format guidelines. Format guidelines: http://www.cisti.eu/images/templates.zip . Although submissions shall be done using PDF file format, camera ready versions of the accepted papers must be delivered in MS Word format also. Submissions must be done using EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cistiworkshops2017 chosing the appropriate Workshop.

**** Publication ****

Regardless of the type of submission, Programme Committee and Organizing Committee may suggest papers to be accepted as full-paper (6 pages), short-paper (4 pages) or poster (2 pages). Workshops full papers will be published in the conference proceedings in specific Workshop chapters. Proceedings will be submitted for indexation by ISI Thomson, SCOPUS, INSPEC and Google Scholar.

Detailed and up-to-date information may be found at CISTI 2017 website http://cisti.eu/index.php/en/. Published full and short papers will be sent to EI, IEEE XPlore, INSPEC, ISI, SCOPUS and Google Scholar. Poster papers and company papers will be sent to EBSCO and EI. Authors of accepted papers must register for the workshop to have papers published in the proceedings. More information at CISTI 2017 website http://cisti.eu/index.php/en/ .

**** Organizing Committee ****

• João Balsa - Departamento de Informática, Faculdade de Ciências de Lisboa, Portugal
• Alberto Fernandez Gil - Centro para las Tecnologías Inteligentes de la Información y sus Aplicaciones (CETINIA) Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
• Rosaldo Rossetti, Departamento de Engenharia Informática, Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, Portugal

**** Provisional Program Committee ****

• Ana Paula Rocha, FEUP, Portugal
• António Castro, FEUP, Portugal
• António Coelho, FEUP, Portugal
• Carlos Carrascosa, U. Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
• Carlos Ángel Iglesias, U. Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
• Cesar Analide, U. Minho, Portugal
• Cristina Olaverri Monreal, Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria
• Eugénio Oliveira, FEUP, Portugal
• Filipa Taborda, U. Atlântica, Portugal
• Francisco Reinaldo, UTFPR-FB, Brazil
• Gustavo Arnold, Convergence Works, Brazil
• Holger Billhardt, U. Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
• João Leite, U. Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
• Luis Moniz, U. Lisboa, Portugal
• Luis Nunes, ISCTE, Portugal
• Luís Paulo Reis, U. Minho, Portugal
• Marin Lujak, U. Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
• Miguel Rebollo, U. Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
• Patrícia Tedesco, UFPE, Brazil
• Paulo Trigo, ISEL, Portugal
• Paulo Urbano, U. Lisboa, Portugal
• Ramón Hermoso, U. Zaragoza, Spain
• Roberto Centeno, UNED, Spain
• Sascha Ossowski, U. Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
• Vicente Julian, U. Politecnica de Valencia, Spain