Publication Chair 26th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems 2022 (ISMIS 2022)

This volume contains the papers selected for presentation at the 26th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems (ISMIS 2022), which was held in Rende, Italy, during 3–5 October, 2022. The Symposium was organized by ICARCNR, the Department of Computer Engineering, Modeling, Electronics and Systems Engineering (DIMES) at the University of Calabria, Computer Science Department at University of Bari “Aldo Moro” and DIETI Department at University of Naples “Federico II”. ISMIS is a conference series that started in 1986. Held twice every three years, it provides an international forum for exchanging scientific, research, and technological achievements in building intelligent systems. In particular, major areas selected for ISMIS 2022 include health informatics, social media analysis, recommendation systems, natural language processing, explainable AI, intelligent systems, classification and clustering, and complex data analysis. This year, we also organized a special session on “Industrial Applications”. After the pandemic, this is the first edition that the Symposium is held in person, although the hybrid mode is still kept for obvious precautionary reasons. We decided promote in-person participation, in order to renew the usual level of interactions and fruitful exchange of ideas that has always characterized the Symposium in the past. ISMIS 2022 received 71 submissions that were carefully reviewed by three or more Program Committee members or external reviewers. Papers submitted to the special session on “Industrial Applications” were subject to the same reviewing procedure as those submitted to the regular session. After a rigorous reviewing process, 31 regular papers, 11 short papers and 4 industrial papers were accepted for presentation at the conference and publication in the ISMIS 2022 proceedings volume. It is truly a pleasure to thank all people who helped this volume come into being and made ISMIS 2022 a successful and exciting event. In particular, we would like to express our appreciation for the work of the ISMIS 2022 Program Committee members and external reviewers who helped assure the high standard of accepted papers.We would like to thank all authors of ISMIS 2022, without whose high-quality contributions it would not have been possible to organize the conference. We are grateful to the organizers of the special session on “Industrial Applications” at ISMIS 2022: Luciano Caroprese and Fabio Fumarola. The invited talks for ISMIS 2022 were “Adaptive Machine Learning for Data Streams” by Albert Bifet from the University of Waikato and the Institut Polytechnique de Paris, and “Interactive Machine Learning” by Andrea Passerini from the University of Trento. Abstracts of the two invited talks are included in these proceedings. We wish to express our thanks to the invited speakers for accepting our invitation to give the talks. We are thankful to Ronan Nugent and Anna Kramer of Springer Nature for their work on the proceedings and for supporting the ISMIS 2022 Best Paper and Best Student Paper awards. Finally, we would like to thank our platinum sponsor Relatech S.p.A. (https://www.relatech.com), and gold sponsors Revelis S.r.l. (https://www.revelis.eu), Polo ICT (https://poloinnovazioneict.org), Pixeltek (https://www.pxltk.com) and DevSkill (https://www.devskill.school) for their valuable support. We believe that the proceedings of ISMIS 2022 will become a valuable source of reference for your ongoing and future research activities.