Advances in Soft Computing – MICAI 2026, Part II

This book constitutes the proceedings of several workshops which were held in conjunction with the Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MICAI 2026, held in Chihuahua, Mexico, during November 2–6, 2026.

The 43 revised full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 85 submissions. They stem from the following seven workshops:

• HIS 2026: Hybrid Intelligent Systems
• AHDAS 2026: Workshop on Automated Heuristic Design and Algorithm Selection
• AI-RWA 2026: From AI Research to Real-World Adoption 
• EDUCATION 2026, Beyond Automation: Rethinking Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
• BEMOSYS 2026: Beyond the Model: ML Systems, Federated Learning, and MLOps
• WIMSP 2026: Workshop on Intelligent Medical Imaging and Signal Processing
• ECSI 2026: Workshop on Evolutionary Computation and Swarm Intelligence

The two-volume set, LNAI 17149 and 17150, constitutes the proceedings of the 25th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MICAI 2026, held in Chihuahua, Mexico, during November 2-6, 2026.

The 78 full papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 253 submissions. The papers presented in these two volumes are organized in the following topical sections:

Part I - Applied Machine Learning; Natural Language Processing; and Neural Networks;

Part II - Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Systems; and Computational Intelligence and AI Applications.

The two-volume set, CCIS 3204 and 3205, constitutes the posters presented at the 25th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MICAI 2026, held in Chihuahua, Mexico, during November 2–6, 2026.

The 50 full papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 253 submissions. The papers presented in these two volumes are organized in the following topical sections:

Part I - Computer Vision and Machine Learning Applications

Part II -  Engineering Applications of AI

The two-volume set, CCIS 3204 and 3205, constitutes the posters presented at the 25th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MICAI 2026, held in Chihuahua, Mexico, during November 2–6, 2026.

The 50 full papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 253 submissions. The papers presented in these two volumes are organized in the following topical sections:

Part I - Computer Vision and Machine Learning Applications

Part II -  Engineering Applications of AI

.- Machine learning and pattern recognition.
.- Facial Paralysis Detection through Optimized Dynamic Ensembles using Evolutionary Hyper-Heuristics.
.- A Predictive Model Based on Convolutional Neural Networks for Optimizing Rainwater Harvesting in Mexico City.
.- A Validation Topos: A Sheaf-Theoretic Framework for AI Reliability and Creative Inference.
.- Class-Level Error Analysis and Systematic Evaluation of CNN-Based Models for French Mispronunciation Detection.
.- ADaPTS: An Adaptive Temporal Partitioning Method for Robust Evaluation of LSTM Models in Stable and Chaotic Time Series.
.- Data-Driven Sizing Optimization in E-Commerce: A Two-Stage Re-Ranking System with LLM-Derived Semantic Features.
.- Experimental Evaluation of a Naive Bayes–Based Routing Scheme Integrated into an SDN Controller.
.- Evaluating Gender Bias in Medical Diagnosis: A Comparative Study Using Machine Learning Models.
.- AI-Powered Data Hub Prototype for Querying Women’s Violence Indicators in Mexico.
.- From Observation to Actuation: A Systematic Review and Cybernetic Architecture for Proactive Music-Based A!ective Regulation.
.- Retail Location Optimization: A Data-Driven Approach Using GIS and Mathematical Programming.
.- Emotion Recognition in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder Using YOLO.
.- Hybrid System for Recognizing Andean Music Genres for Young People in Lima Based on Deep Learning.
.- Evaluation of Inertial and Physiological Signal Fusion for Human Activity Recognition.
.- Vision-Based Autonomous UAV Navigation: A Sim2Real Approach Using Virtual Reality and YOLO11n-cls.
.- Classification of types of violence using the MEMLA platform.
.- Automatic Section Extraction from Academic Theses using Hybrid OCR Post-processing and Multilingual NLP.
.- XAI-based ChatBot for data processing and classification.
.- CIPA: A Multi-Domain Statistical Framework for Characterizing Imbalanced Datasets and Computing a Di”culty Score.
.- Predictive Analysis of University Dropout Patterns using Logistic Regression.
.- Nahuatl word recognition using a Neuro-Fuzzy model based on FRCE: implementation and benchmarking.
.- Classification of Abnormal Patterns in Human Gait Using Random Forests and Inertial Measurement Units.
.- Hierarchical subclass decomposition for improved pattern classification.
.- Uncovering Discriminative Mobile Game Data for ADHD Classification: A Comparative Analysis.
.- Gender classification of Latin American Spanish voices using Recurrent Neural Networks.
.- Depthwise-Separable-Convolution-based Autoencoder for ECG signal classification.
.- From Robust Iris Segmentation to Discriminative Embeddings: A Practical Pipeline with SAM2, Rubber Sheet, and Triplet Learning.
.- PillAdvisor: An LLM-Centered Conversational AI System for Medication Identification and Safety.
.- Decentralized Gradient Verification in Federated Learning via Recursive zk-SNARKs.
.- Determinants of the Mexico 2024 Vote: Digital Divide and Social Programs with Interpretable AI.
.- Object Detection based on Hardness Properties using an Ultrasonic Approach.
.- Artificial Vision and Robotics.
.- Optimization of a Fuzzy Logic Controller for Human-Following Mobile Robots Using Genetic Algorithms.
.- Extending Retinal Vasculometry Pipelines with 3D Geometric Modeling for Biomarker-Driven Analysis of Fundus Images.
.- Visual Context Feature Mapping: A Deterministic Framework for Morphological Transformation Context in Neural Tracking Pipelines.
.- Trajectory Optimization under Power Constraints and Obstacle Avoidance for an Omnidirectional Mobile Robot Using Analytic Behaviors.
.- Reconstruction of Red Laser Projections from Binary Masks:Comparative Study of Mathematical, CNN and Swin Transformer
Approaches.
.- Estimating Posture in Newborns Using Deep Learning for Neurodevelopmental Assessment.
.- A Computer Vision and Neuro-Fuzzy Approach for Upper Limb Rehabilitation in Children with Cerebral Palsy.
.- Automatic real-time classification of peach quality using a Convolutional Neural Network.
.- Lettuce Fresh Weight Prediction Using Deep Learning with 3D Morphological Variables.
.- Comparative Evaluation of the D* Lite Algorithm for Collision-Free Path Planning with Reduced Computational Cost in Multi-Agent
Mobile Robotic Systems.
.- Instance Segmentation of Green Sea Turtle Nests in Aerial Imagery Using Mask R-CNN.
.- Overcoming Texture Complexity in Textile Quality Control: A YOLOv11-Seg Approach for Alpaca Fiber Felt Balls.
.- Deep Reinforcement Learning for Bipedal Locomotion Using PPO and Parallel Training in Isaac Sim.
.- Computational Intelligence and Data Mining.
.- Comparative Study of Phonocardiogram Classification Using Time-Frequency Transforms and Convolutional Neural Networks.
.- Formal Verification of Robust IoT Systems.
.- Metaheuristic and Machine Learning Combined Approach for Code Smell Detection in Object-Oriented Java Projects: An Empirical Study.
.- Genetic Algorithm Search for Stable Vacua in Type IIB String Theory: A Computational Approach.
.- Clustering-Based Identification of Metabolic Subgroups in Type 2 Diabetes Using Liver Transcriptomic Data.
.- Empirical Evaluation of AttentionMGT-DTA.
.- Adaptive Topological Immunization: A Cost-Aware Deep Reinforcement Learning Framework for Epidemic Containment.
.- Intelligent Public Lighting Using Fuzzy Inference and Internet of Things.
.- Do Genomic Language Models Learn siRNA Design Rules? A Zero-Shot Evaluation of Evo on E. coli Coding Sequences.
.- Data-Driven Service Request Prioritization: A Comparative Study Using MCDM and Expert-Based Heuristics.
.- A Knowledge-Based System for Detecting Regulatory Swans in Municipal Water Risk Assessment.
.- Design of Mamdani Interval Type-2 Fuzzy System to stabilize a D.C. speed motor using Bee Colony Optimiza-tion Algorithm.
.- Human Expertise in Multi-Agent AI Orchestration and the Irreducible Human Layer.
.- Electoral Coalitions and Candidate Nomination: Evidence of Selection Rather Than Causal E!ects.
.- UTROMx: an Urban Transport Routes Ontology for Mexican City Studie Case.
.- A Decomposition-Based Evolutionary Approach for Association Rule Mining in Climate and Energy Systems.
.- Compact Association Rule Mining Using Glowworm Swarm Optimization.

.- Natural language processing.
.- Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis of Spanish Tech Product Reviews Using Pre-trained Transformers.
.- Naive Bayes for Entity Framing in Multilingual News: A Study on SemEval-2025 Task 10.
.- Multilingual Sentiment-Aware Text Summarization: A Reinforcement Learning Approach for Consistency Maintenance.
.- Spanish Fake News Classification with BERT: Impact of Sequence Length.
.- Analysis of emotions in Mazahua audio recordings.
.- APreprocessing Module for Information Extraction from Heterogeneous Documents.
.- Hybrid Architecture for Interactive Narrative: Integrating GOAP Planning and Generative Models in Multi-Agent Environments.
.- Genetic Algorithm Optimization of Soft Edit Distance Parameters for Identifying Confusable Medication Names.
.- Comparison model in Code-Switching detection in Large Language Models responses.
.- Classification of the Spanish Linguistic Complexity in Natural Language Questions for NL2SQL.
.- Using Classifiers for Question Answering: a Mexican Dataset Case Study.
.- Spatial dissonance of smart cities discourse, using Natural Language Processing and spatial autocorrelation in the state of Tlaxcala, Mexico.
.- Latent Steering of Emotional Evidence with Sparse Autoencoders in Language Models.
.- Systematic Evaluation of Algorithms and Textual Representations for the Detection of Trolling on Social Networks.
.- AI Expert Specializing in Intellectual Property and Technologies Applied to Household Appliances.
.- A Comparative Analysis of Lexical and Contextual Approaches for Emotion Classification in Spanish Text.
.- Evaluating a Hybrid Local Semantic Retrieval and RAG Architecture for Administrative Support in Higher Education: A Case Study.
.- Enhancing Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis: Leveraging Syntactic n-grams for Aspect and Opinion Term Extraction.
.- Partisan Lexical Polarization on X During the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election: An Interpretable Text-Mining Study.
.- A Comparison of BERT-based Representations for Multilingual Hate Speech Detection Against Immigrants and Women on Social Media.
.- A Preliminary Study on Spanish–Zapoteco Machine Translation using a Multi-Stage Fine-Tuning M2M100 Model in a Low-Resource Setting.
.- Presidential Discourse and Energy Markets: An NLP Analysis of Social Media Sentiment During the 2026 Iran Crisis.
.- Capacity-Bounded Compensation in Transformer Feed-Forward Network Pruning.
.- Spectral Robustness in Low-Resource Language Identification: A Comparative Deep Learning Study of Nahuatl and Mexican Spanish.
.- Classification of Adverse Events in Hypertensive Patients Using Textual Narratives Generated from Tabular Data.
.- Construction of a Large-Scale Biomedical Corpus for NLP-Based Clinical Evidence Retrieval Systems.
.- Automatic Language Identification of Indigenous Mexican Languages: A Transfer Learning Approach for Nahuatl and Totonaco.
.- TF-DEBOHID: A TF-IDF and Evolutionary Oversampling Approach for All-Inclusive Hotel Reviews Polarity Classification.
.- Evolutionary Ensemble for Hate Speech Identification and Classification in Spanish via Transformers.
.- A Modular Agentic LLM Pipeline for Hypothesis Extraction and Knowledge Graph Construction from Biomedical Literature.
.- Modeling Sentiment Intensity in Spanish: A Comparative Study of Classical, Deep Learning and Transformer Approaches.
.- Intelligent systems.
.- Trust-Calibrated Multi-Agent Collaboration in Enterprise AI Systems: Resilient Orchestration and the Trust-Vulnerability Paradox.
.- Geocentrality: Quantifying the Territorial Focus of Scientific Discourse.
.- The genetic algorithm as a predictor of adaptive learning objects in algebra.
.- Green Police Patrol Routing Optimization in Crime Hotspots Across Metropolitan Lima: A MILP and Metaheuristic Approach.
.- Modeling intercity demand in northeastern Mexico using a gravity mode.
.- Implementation of Clean Architecture to Reduce Coupling in an Accessible Intelligent Robotics Programming Assistant.
.- Towards an HTN System for Assisting in Creative Planning and its Application to the Follow up of Characters in Dungeons and Dragons.
.- Genetic Algorithms as Robustness Sca!olding for Sub-1B Language Models in Adaptive Learning Path Generation.
.- Topological and spectral analysis of the academic timetabling problem under the API-Carpio methodology: Integration of recurrent neural
networks.
.- Distributed Cyberdemocracy: Ethical AI Governance and Trust-Building in Latin America.
.- An Intelligent Hybrid System for Autonomous Driving Based on Computer Vision and Embedded Systems.
.- Deep learning.
.- Structural and Spectral Analysis of Convolutional Neural Networks for Seismic Velocity Inversion.
.- Domain-Specific Transfer Learning for Skin Cancer Prediction: ImageNet vs. RadImageNet .
.- Multimodal Analysis of Dental Radiographs and Clinical Data for Cardiovascular Risk Stratification: A Review and Architecture Proposal.
.- An Interaction-Based Trainable Kolmogorov-Arnold Model.
.- Particle Swarm Optimization of SAM 2 Hyperparameters for Accurate Nanoparticle Counting.
.- A Computer Vision-Based Model for Mexican Sign Language Recognition.
.- Development of a Data Acquisition and Preprocessing Pipeline for Generating a Trimodal Dataset in CoppeliaSim, Focused on
Autonomous Parking in Non-conventional Environments.
.- Temperature forecast using multivariate analysis in some cities in Mexico.
.- TinyOmni-ES: Extending a Natively Multimodal Sub-1B Model with Audio Perception for Spanish Assistive Applications.
.- Physics-Informed Neural Networks for solving the wave equation in cylindrical coordinates (Bessel functions of the first kind).
.- Driver Assistance Through Emotion Detection Using Neural Networks on a Mobile Device.
.- Comparative Analysis of Deep Learning Architectures for Water Body Segmentation in Satellite Imagery.
.- A Hybrid Transformer-Di!usion Architecture for Multivariate Air Quality Data Imputation.
.- Impact Analysis of Convolutional Neural Network Quantization on Low-Cost Microcontrollers.
.- Accelerating Sea-Thru: A GPU-Based Parallel Implementation for High-Resolution Underwater Image Restoration.
.- Spatiotemporal clustering to evaluate the dynamics of post-glacial vegetation in high mountain environments: The case of Nevado de Toluca.
.- Facial recognition model based on prototypical neural networks for data-limited.

The 3-volume set CCIS 3095 - 3097 constitutes the proceedings of the 18th Mexican Congress on Artificial Intelligence, COMIA 2026, which took place in Cuernavaca, Mexico, during May 25 - 29, 2026.

The total of 183 papers included in the proceedings was carefully reviewed and selected from 312 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows:

Part 1 : Applications of Artificial Intelligence; Medical Applications.
Part 2 : Machine learning and pattern recognition; Artificial Vision and Robotics; Computational Intelligence and Data Mining.
Part 3 : Natural language processing; Intelligent systems; Deep learning.