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This volume contains a number of selected and extended contributions to ICTERI 2016, the 12^th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in Education, Research, and Industrial Applications: Integration, Harmonization, and Knowledge Transfer.

The conference was held in Kiev, Ukraine, on June 21-24, 2016, with a focus on research advances in ICT, business/academic applications of ICT, and design and deployment of ICT Infrastructures.

ICTERI 2016 continued the tradition of hosting co-located events, this year by offering three workshops and a PhD Mentors Panel. The workshops addressed (1) long-standing research aspects of reliability modeling and assessment, (2) cross-disciplinary issues in the use of Information Technology in economics and finance, and (3) new uses of information technology for life-long learning. The Ph.D. Mentors Panel provided the opportunity to Ph.D. candidates to listen to and discuss promising topics for research offered by several renowned experts.

As in previous years, the ICTERI 2016 proceedings have been published as CEUR-WS volume (http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1614/), containing 62 papers selected from a total of 122 submissions. Out of those papers, the best 18 have been identified and selected by the PC and Workshop chairs to be submitted in substantially extended and revised versions for a post-proceedings volume. Out of these, 16 were resubmitted. Again, these papers have been reviewed by at least two experts regarding scientific and technical quality, anticipated reader interest, and coverage of the conference scope. Finally, the post-proceedings committee selected the ten most mature and interesting papers for publication after some further revision. The acceptance rate thus is 8.2% regarding the overall number of ICTERI 2016 submissions.

The papers of this volume focus on architecture, augmented reality, case-based reasoning, multi-state systems, cloud computing, scalable parallelism, artificial neural networks, malicious code and intrusion detection, deterministic and stochastic models, didactic models in practice, research-based education and mobile learning environments, and teaching strategies.