This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Hybrid Artificial Intelligent Systems, HAIS 2017, held in La Rioja, Spain, in June 2017.
The 60 full papers published in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 130 submissions. They are organized in the following topical sections: data mining, knowledge discovery and big data; bioinspired models and evolutionary computing; learning algorithms; visual analysis and advanced data processing techniques; data mining applications; and hybrid intelligent applications.