Proceedings of the 1st International APPIS Conference 2018. The deployment of intelligent systems to tackle complex processes is now commonplace in many fields from medicine and agriculture to industry and tourism.This book presents scientific contributions from the 1st International Conference on Applications of Intelligent Systems APPIS 2018 held at the Museo Elder in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, from 10 to 12 January 2018. The aim of APPIS 2018 was to bring together scientists working on the development of intelligent computer systems and methods for machine learning, artificial intelligence, pattern