Proceedings of the 9th International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence Acronym: IJCCI 2017/IJCCI Event held on: November 1-3, 2017, in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal Editors: Christophe Sabourin 1 , Juan Julian Merelo 2 , Una-May O'Reilly 3 , Kurosh Madani 4 and Kevin Warwick 5 Affiliations: 1 IUT Sénart, University Paris-Est Creteil (UPEC), France , 2 University of Granada, Spain , 3 MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, United States , 4 University of Paris-EST Créteil (UPEC), France , 5 University of Reading and Coventry University, United Kingdom ISBN: 978-989-758-274-5