Anomaly and Fault Detection -- One-Class Reconstruction Methods for Categorizing DoS Attacks on CoAP -- Application of anomaly detection models to malware detection in the presence of concept drift -- Identification of anomalies in urban sound data with Autoencoders -- Revisiting Histogram Based Outlier Scores: Strengths and Weaknesses -- Data Mining and Decision Support Systems -- Model performance prediction: a Meta-Learning approach for concept drift detection -- Reinforcing Assessment Processes Using Proactive Case-Based Reasoning Mechanisms -- Meta-Learning for hyperparameters tuning in CNNs for Chest Images -- A Fuzzy Logic Ensemble Approach to Concept Drift Detection -- Multi-Task Gradient Boosting -- Exploratory Study of Data Sampling Methods for Imbalanced Legal Text Classification -- Exploring delay reduction on Edge Computing architectures from a Heuristic approach -- Probability Density Function for Clustering Validation -- Comprehensive analysis of different techniques for data augmentation and proposal of new variants of BOSME & GAN -- Multidimensional Models Supported by Document-Oriented Databases -- Financial Distress Prediction in an Imbalanced Data Stream Environment -- Improving the Quality of Quantum Services Generation Process: Controlling Errors and Noise -- Comparison of deep reinforcement learning path-following system based on road geometry and an adaptive cruise control for autonomous vehicles -- Deep Learning -- A New Hybrid CNN-LSTM for Wind Power Forecasting in Ethiopia -- Companion Classification Losses for Regression Problems -- Analysis of transformer model applications -- Real-time Workflow Scheduling in Cloud with Recursive Neural Network and List Scheduling -- Robust Losses in Deep Regression -- Structure Learning in Deep Multi-Task Models -- Validating by Deep Learning an Efficient Method for Genomic Sequence Analysis: Genomic Spectrograms -- Sentiment Analysis for Vietnamese - Based Hybrid Deep Learning Models -- Optimizing LIME explanations using REVEL Metrics -- Assessing the Impact of Noise on Quantum Neural Networks: An Experimental Analysis -- Varroa mite detection using deep learning techniques -- Evolutionary Computation and Optimization -- Enhancing Evolutionary Optimization Performance under Byzantine Fault Conditions -- A hybrid based genetic algorithm for solving the clustered generalized traveling salesman problem -- Feature Ranking for Feature Sorting and Feature Selection with Optimisation -- Efficient Simulation of Pollutant Dispersion using Machine Learning -- Hybrid Intelligent Parsimony Search in Small High-dimensional Datasets -- An integer linear programming model for team formation in the classroom with constraints -- Improved Evolutionary Approach for Tuning Topic Models with Additive Regularization -- Time ofArrival error characterization for precise indoor localization of Autonomous Ground Vehicles -- Feature Selection based on a Decision Tree Genetic Algorithm -- Exact and Heuristic Lexicographic Methods for the Fuzzy Traveling Salesman Problem -- A Novel Genetic Algorithm with Specialized Genetic Operators for Clustering -- The Analysis of Hybrid Brain Storm Optimisation Approaches in Feature Selection -- HAIS Applications -- Supporting Emotion Recognition in Human-Robot Interactions: An Experimental Italian Textual Dataset -- Hybrid Intelligent Control for Maximum Power Point Tracking of a Floating Wind Turbine -- Statistical Dialog Tracking and Management for Task-oriented Conversational Systems -- A Causally Explainable Deep Learning Model with Modular Bayesian Network for Predicting Electric Energy Demand -- Using Large Language Models for Interpreting Autonomous Robots Behaviors -- Comparative analysis of intelligent techniques for categorization of the operational status of LiFePo4 batteries -- To Enhance Full-Text Biomedical Document Classification through Semantic Enrichment -- Predicting innovative cities using spatio-temporal activity patterns -- Daily accumulative photovoltaic energy prediction using hybrid intelligent model -- Comparison of geospatial trajectory clustering and feature trajectory clustering for public transportation trip data -- Image and Speech Signal Processing -- Adapting YOLOv8 as a vision-based animal detection system to facilitate herding -- Image classification understanding with Model Inspector tool -- Study on Synthetic Video Generation of Embryo Development -- Image reconstruction using Cellular Automata and Neural Networks -- Agents and Multiagents -- Monte-Carlo Tree Search for Multi-Agent Pathfinding: Preliminary Results -- The Problem of Concept Learning and Goals of Reasoning in Large Language Models -- Multi-AgentSystem for Multimodal Machine Learning Object Detection -- Biomedical Applicatons -- Convolutional Neural Networks for Diabetic Retinopathy Grading from iPhone Fundus Images -- Risk factors and survival after premature hospital readmission in frail subjects with delirium -- Generalizing an Improved GrowCut Algorithm for Mammography Lesion Detection -- Coherence of COVID-19 mortality of Spain versus western European countries -- A Feature Selection and Association Rule Approach to Identify Genes Associated with Metastasis and Low Survival in Sarcoma -- Analysis of Frequency Bands in Electroencephalograms for Automatic Detection of Photoparoxysmal Responses -- Textural and shape features for lesion classification in mammogram analysis -- Intent Recognition using Recurrent Neural Networks on Vital Sign Data: A Machine Learning Approach.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Hybrid Artificial Intelligent Systems, HAIS 2023, held in Salamanca, Spain, during September 5-7, 2023. The 65 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 120 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Anomaly and Fault Detection, Data Mining and Decision Support Systems, Deep Learning, Evolutionary Computation and Optimization, HAIS Applications, Image and Speech Signal Processing, Agents and Multiagents, Biomedical Applicatons.