This book constitutes the proceedings of the 26th International Symposium on Foundations of Intelligent Systems, ISMIS 2022, held in Cosenza, Italy, in October 2022.
The 31 regular papers, 11 short papers and 4 industrial papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 71 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Social Media and Recommendation; Natural Language Processing; Explainability; Intelligent Systems; Classification and Clustering; Complex Data; Medical Applications; Industrial Applications.