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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Agents and Data Mining Interaction, ADMI 2012, held in Valencia, Spain, in June 2012. The 16 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on agents for data mining, data mining for agents, and agent mining applications.

This book constitutes short papers, Doctoral Consortium and Workshops papers which were held in conjunction with the 28th European Conference on New Trends in Databases and Information Systems, ADBIS 2024, which took place in Bayonne, France, during August 28–31, 2024. The total of 28 full papers and 7 short papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 103 submissions. They were organized in the following topical sections: Doctoral Consortium; 5th Workshop on Intelligent Data - From Data to Knowledge (DOING 2024); 3rd Workshop on Knowledge Graphs Analysis on a Large Scale (K-GALS 2024); 6th Workshop on Modern Approaches in Data Engineering and Information System Design (MADEISD 2024); 3rd Workshop on Personalization and Recommender Systems (PERS 2024); Access methods and query processing; discovery and data analysis; Machine Learning; large language models; and tutorials.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Analysis of Images, Social Networks and Texts, AIST 2023, held in Yerevan, Armenia, during September 28-30, 2023. The 24 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 93 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: natural language processing; computer vision; data analysis and machine learning; network analysis; and theoretical machine learning and optimization. The book also contains one invited talk in full paper length.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Information, Communication and Computing Technology, ICICCT 2024, held in New Delhi, India, on May 11, 2024. The 13 full papers presented here were carefully reviewed and selected from 176 submissions. These papers have been categorized into the following topical sections: Intelligent systems and Pattern recognition.

This book constitutes the post-conference proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Data Analytics and Management in Data Intensive Domains, DAMDID/RCDL 2023, held in Moscow, Russia, during 24-27 October 2023. The 21 papers presented here were carefully reviewed and selected from 75 submissions. These papers are organized in the following topical sections: Data Models and Knowledge Graphs; Databases in Data Intensive Domains; Machine learning methods and applications; Data Analysis in Astronomy & Information extraction from text. Papers from keynote talks have also been included in this book.

​This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Recent Trends in Analysis of Images, Social Networks and Texts, AIST 2023, held in Yerevan, Armenia, during September 28–30, 2023. The 19 full papers 2 short papers and 1 demo paper included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 52 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Natural Language Processing; Computer Vision; Data Analysis and Machine Learning; Network Analysis; Theoretical Machine Learning and Optimization; and Demo Paper.

The two-volume proceedings constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Soft Computing and its Engineering Applications, icSoftComp 2023, held in Changa, Anand, India, in December 2023. The 42 full papers and 2 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 351 submissions. They are organized in topical sections as follows: Volume number 2020: Theory and Methods; Systems and ApplicationsVolume number 2031: Systems and Applications; Hybrid Techniques.

The two-volume proceedings constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Soft Computing and its Engineering Applications, icSoftComp 2023, held in Changa, Anand, India, in December 2023. The 42 full papers and 2 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 351 submissions. They are organized in topical sections as follows: Volume number 2020: Theory and Methods; Systems and ApplicationsVolume number 2031: Systems and Applications; Hybrid Techniques.

These two-volume set IFIP AICT 717 and 718 constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Data Science, ICCIDS 2024, held in Chennai, India, during February 21–23, 2024. The 63 full papers and 9 short papers were presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 259 submissions. The conference papers are organized in topical sections on: Part I - Applications of AI/ML in Natural Language Processing; and Applications of AI/ML in Image Processing. Part II - Applications of AI/ML in KDM, Cloud Computing & Security; Data Analytics; and Applications of ML.

These two-volume set IFIP AICT 717 and 718 constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Data Science, ICCIDS 2024, held in Chennai, India, during February 21–23, 2024. The 63 full papers and 9 short papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 259 submissions. The conference papers are organized in following topical sections: Part I: Applications of AI/ML in Natural Language Processing; and Applications of AI/ML in Image Processing. Part II: Applications of AI/ML in KDM, Cloud Computing & Security; Data Analytics; and Applications of ML.

This volume constitutes the revised selected papers of several workshops which were held in conjunction with the 5th International Conference on Process Mining, ICPM 2023, held in Rome, Italy, in October 23–27, 2023.The 38 revised full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 85 submissions. The book also contains one invited talk. ICPM 2023 presented the following six workshops:– 4th International Workshop on Event Data and Behavioral Analytics (EdbA)– 4th International Workshop on Leveraging Machine Learning in Process Mining (ML4PM)– 6th International Workshop on Process-Oriented Data Science for Healthcare (PODS4H)– 8th International Workshop on Process Querying, Manipulation, and Intelligence (PQMI)– 2nd International Workshop on Education Meets Process Mining (EduPM)– 2nd International Workshop on Collaboration Mining for Distributed Systems (COMINDS).

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 18th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies, WEBIST 2022, which took place in Valletta, Malta, in October 2022. The 13 full revised papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 62 submissions. The selected papers contribute to the understanding of relevant current research trends in Web information systems and technologies, including deep learning, knowledge representation and reasoning, recommender systems, internet of things, Web intelligence and big data.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 28th China Conference on Information Retrieval, CCIR 2022, held in Chongqing, China, in September 2022. Information retrieval aims to meet the demand of human on the Internet to obtain information quickly and accurately. The 8 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers provide a wide range of research results in information retrieval area.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Doctoral Consortium and Workshops on New Trends in Database and Information Systems, ADBIS 2023, held in Barcelona, Spain, during September 4–7, 2023.The 29 full papers, 25 short papers and 7 doctoral consortium included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 148. They were organized in topical sections as follows: ADBIS Short Papers: Index Management & Data Reconstruction, ADBIS Short Papers: Query Processing, ADBIS Short Papers: Advanced Querying Techniques, ADBIS Short Papers: Fairness in Data Management, ADBIS Short Papers: Data Science, ADBIS Short Papers: Temporal Graph Management, ADBIS Short Papers: Consistent Data Management, ADBIS Short Papers: Data Integration, ADBIS Short Papers: Data Quality, ADBIS Short Papers: Metadata Management, Contributions from ADBIS 2023 Workshops and Doctoral Consortium, AIDMA: 1st Workshop on Advanced AI Techniques for Data Management, Analytics, DOING: 4th Workshop on Intelligent Data - From Data to Knowledge, K-Gals: 2nd Workshop on Knowledge Graphs Analysis on a Large Scale, MADEISD: 5th Workshop on Modern Approaches in Data Engineering, Information System Design, PeRS: 2nd Workshop on Personalization, Recommender Systems, Doctoral Consortium.

This book constitutes the post-conference proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Data Analytics and Management in Data Intensive Domains, DAMDID/RCDL 2021, held in Moscow, Russia, in October 2021•.The 16 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 61 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: problem solving infrastructures, experiment organization, and machine learning applications; data analysis in astronomy; data analysis in material and earth sciences; information extraction from text• The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Soft Computing and its Engineering Applications, icSoftComp 2021, held in Changa, India, in December 2021. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held online. The 29 full papers and 4 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 247 submissions. The papers present recent research on theory and applications in fuzzy computing, neuro computing, and evolutionary computing.

This book constitutes revised selected papers of the 10th International Conference on Analysis of Images, Social Networks and Texts, AIST 2021, held in Tbilisi, Georgia, in December 2021. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held in hybrid mode. The 17 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 118 submissions, out of which 92 were sent to peer review. The papers are organized in topical sections on ​natural language processing; computer vision; data analysis and machine learning; social network analysis; theoretical machine learning and optimisation.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 26th European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems, ADBIS 2022, held in Turin, Italy, in September 2022. The 29 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 90 submissions. The selected short papers are organized in the following sections: data understanding, modeling and visualization; fairness in data processing; data management pipeline, information and process retrieval; data access optimization; data pre-processing and cleaning; data science and machine learning. Further, papers from the following workshops and satellite events are provided in the volume: DOING: 3rd Workshop on Intelligent Data – From Data to Knowledge; K-GALS: 1st Workshop on Knowledge Graphs Analysis on a Large Scale; MADEISD: 4th Workshop on Modern Approaches in Data Engineering and Information System Design; MegaData: 2nd Workshop on Advanced Data Systems Management, Engineering, and Analytics; SWODCH: 2nd Workshop on Semantic Web and Ontology Design for Cultural Heritage; Doctoral Consortium.

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the Fifth IFIP TC 12 International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Data Science, ICCIDS 2022, held virtually, in March 2022. The 28 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 96 submissions. The papers cover topics such as computational intelligence for text analysis; computational intelligence for image and video analysis; blockchain and data science.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Emerging Technologies in Computer Engineering, ICETCE 2021, held in Jaipur, India, in February 2022.The 40 revised full papers along with 20 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 235 submissions. The papers are organized according to the following topical headings: ​cognitive computing; Internet of Things (IoT); machine learning and applications; soft computing; data science and big data analytics; blockchain and cyber security.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 17th International Meeting on Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, CIBB 2021, which was held virtually during November 15–17, 2021. The 19 papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 26 submissions, and they focus on bioinformatics, computational biology, health informatics, cheminformatics, biotechnology, biostatistics, and biomedical imaging.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Analysis of Images, Social Networks and Texts, AIST 2021, held in Tbilisi, Georgia, during December 16–18, 2021. The 20 full papers and 5 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 118 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Invited papers; natural language processing; computer vision; data analysis and machine learning; social network analysis; and theoretical machine learning and optimization.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 27th Argentine Congress on Computer Science, CACIC 2021, held in Salta, Argentina in October 2021. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held in a virtual mode. The 18 full papers and 3 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 130 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: intelligent agents and systems; distributed and parallel processing; computer technology applied to education; graphic computation, images and visualization; software engineering; databases and data mining; hardware architectures, networks, and operating systems; innovation in software systems; signal processing and real-time systems; computer security; and digital governance and smart cities.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International ICT Innovations Conference, ICT Innovations 2021, held as virtual event in September 2021.The 15 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 58 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on deep learning and AI; NLP and social network analysis; theoretical foundations and information security; e-services; sensor systems, IoT.

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the Fourth IFIP TC 12 International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Data Science, ICCIDS 2021, held in Chennai, India, in March 2021. The 20 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 75 submissions. The papers cover topics such as computational intelligence for text analysis; computational intelligence for image and video analysis; blockchain and data science.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 9th International Conference on Analysis of Images, Social Networks and Texts, AIST 2020, held during October 15-16, 2020. The conference was planned to take place in Moscow, Russia, but changed to an online format due to the COVID-19 pandemic.The 27 full papers and 4 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 108 qualified submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections as follows: invited papers; natural language processing; computer vision; social network analysis; data analysis and machine learning; theoretical machine learning and optimization; and process mining.

This book constitutes selected and revised papers of the First International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Sustainable Computing for Smart City, AIS2C2 2021, held in Greater Noida, India, in March 2021. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held online. The 17 full papers and 3 short papers included were thoroughly reviewed and selected from 204 submissions. They are organized in the following topical sections: ​sentimental and emotions analysis for smart cities; smart specialization strategies for smart cities; security in smart cities; advances applications for future smart cities; healthcare in smart cities; machine learning applications in smart cities.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th China Conference on Knowledge Graph and Semantic Computing, CCKS 2020, held in Nanchang, China, in November 2020. The 26 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 173 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on ​knowledge extraction: lexical and entity; knowledge extraction: relation; knowledge extraction: event; knowledge applications: question answering, dialogue, decision support, and recommendation.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 5th Workshop on Mining Data for Financial Applications, MIDAS 2020, held in conjunction with ECML PKDD 2020, in Ghent, Belgium, in September 2020.•The 8 full and 3 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 15 submissions. They deal with challenges, potentialities, and applications of leveraging data-mining tasks regarding problems in the financial domain. •The workshop was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. “Information Extraction from the GDELT Database to Analyse EU Sovereign Bond Markets” and “Exploring the Predictive Power of News and Neural Machine Learning Models for Economic Forecasting” are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

This book constitutes selected and revised papers from the First Mediterranean Forum - Data Science Conference, MeFDATA 2020, held in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, in October 2020. The 11 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from the 26 qualified submissions. The papers are organized in the topical sections on human behaviour and pandemic; applications in medicine; industrial applications; natural language processing.

This book includes revised selected papers from the International Workshops on AI Approaches to the Complexity of Legal Systems, AICOL-XI@JURIX2018, held in Groningen, The Netherlands, on December 12, 2018; AICOL-XII@JURIX 2020, held in Brno, Czechia, on December 9, 2020; XAILA@JURIX 2020, held in in Brno, Czechia, on December 9, 2020.•The 17 full and 4 short papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected form 39 submissions. They represent a comprehensive picture of the state of the art in legal informatics. The papers are logically organized in 5 blocks: ​Knowledge Representation; Logic, rules, and reasoning; Explainable AI in Law and Ethics; Law as Web of linked Data and the Rule of Law; Data protection and Privacy Modelling and Reasoning.•Due to the Covid-19 pandemic AICOL-XII@JURIX 2020 and XAILA@JURIX 2020 were held virtually.

This book constitutes thoroughly reviewed and selected short papers presented at the 25th East-European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems, ADBIS 2021, as well as papers presented at doctoral consortium and ADBIS 2021 workshops. Due to the COVID-19 the conference and satellite events were held in hybrid mode. The 11 full papers and 18 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 97 total submissions. This volume presents the papers that have been accepted for the following satellite events: Workshop on Intelligent Data - From Data to Knowledge, DOING 2021; International Symposium on Data-Driven Process Discovery and Analysis, SIMPDA 2021; Workshop on Modern Approaches in Data Engineering and Information System Design, MADEISD 2021; Workshop on Advances in Data Systems Management, Engineering, and Analytics, MegaData 2021; Workshop on Computational Aspects of Network Science, CAoNS 2021; Doctoral Consortium.

This book constitutes the revised selected papers of the 13th International Workshop on Information Search, Integration and Personalization, ISIP 2019, held in Heraklion, Greece, in May 2019.The volume presents 11 revised full papers, which were carefully reviewed and selected from 16 papers submitted to these post-conference proceedings. The papers are organized in topical sections on linked data; data analytics; data integration; data mining applications.

This book constitutes revised papers from the five workshops which were held during June 2020 at the 23rd International Conference on Business Information Systems, BIS 2020. The conference was planned to take place in Colorado Springs, CO, USA. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic it changed to a virtual format. There was a total of 54 submissions to all workshops of which 26 papers were accepted for publication. The workshops included in this volume are: BITA 2020: 11th Workshop on Business and IT Alignment BSCT 2020: 3rd Workshop on Blockchain and Smart Contract Technologies DigEX 2020: 2nd International Workshop on transforming the Digital Customer Experience iCRM 2020: 5th International Workshop on Intelligent Data Analysis in Integrated Social CRM QOD 2020: 3rd Workshop on Quality of Open Data

This book constitutes thoroughly reviewed, revised and selected papers from the 5th International Conference on Human Centered Computing, HCC 2019, held in Čačak, Serbia, in August 2019. The 48 full and 23 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 133 submissions. The papers focus on deep learning and its applications on a variety of real-life problems, ranging from image/video analysis, to human-computer interaction, and to logistics and supply chain management.

This book contains selected papers presented at the 14th IFIP WG 9.2, 9.6/11.7, 11.6/SIG 9.2.2 International Summer School on Privacy and Identity Management, held in Windisch, Switzerland, in August 2019. The 22 full papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 31 submissions. Also included are reviewed papers summarizing the results of workshops and tutorials that were held at the Summer School as well as papers contributed by several of the invited speakers. The papers combine interdisciplinary approaches to bring together a host of perspectives, which are reflected in the topical sections: language and privacy; law, ethics and AI; biometrics and privacy; tools supporting data protection compliance; privacy classification and security assessment; privacy enhancing technologies in specific contexts. The chapters'What Does Your Gaze Reveal About You? On the Privacy Implications of Eye Tracking'and'Privacy Implications of Voice and Speech Analysis - Information Disclosure by Inference'are open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com.

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the Third IFIP TC 12 International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Data Science, ICCIDS 2020, held in Chennai, India, in February 2020.The 19 revised full papers and 8 revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 94 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: computational intelligence for text analysis; computational intelligence for image and video analysis; and data science.

This book constitutes the post-conference proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Data Analytics and Management in Data Intensive Domains, DAMDID/RCDL 2019, held in Kazan, Russia, in October 2019.The 11 revised full papers presented together with four invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 52 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: advanced data analysis methods; data infrastructures and integrated information systems; models, ontologies and applications; data analysis in astronomy; information extraction from text; distributed computing; data science for education.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Analysis of Images, Social Networks and Texts, AIST 2019, held in Kazan, Russia, in July 2019.The 24 full papers and 10 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 134 submissions (of which 21 papers were rejected without being reviewed). The papers are organized in topical sections on general topics of data analysis; natural language processing; social network analysis; analysis of images and video; optimization problems on graphs and network structures; analysis of dynamic behaviour through event data.

This book constitutes thoroughly refereed short papers of the 24th European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems, ADBIS 2020, held in August 2020. ADBIS 2020 was to be held in Lyon, France, however due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held in online format.The 18 presented short research papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 69 submissions. The papers are organized in the following sections: data access and database performance; machine learning; data processing; semantic web; data analytics.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th ECML PKDD Workshop on Advanced Analytics and Learning on Temporal Data, AALTD 2019, held in Ghent, Belgium, in September 2020. The 15 full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 29 submissions. The selected papers are devoted to topics such as Temporal Data Clustering; Classification of Univariate and Multivariate Time Series; Early Classification of Temporal Data; Deep Learning and Learning Representations for Temporal Data; Modeling Temporal Dependencies; Advanced Forecasting and Prediction Models; Space-Temporal Statistical Analysis; Functional Data Analysis Methods; Temporal Data Streams; Interpretable Time-Series Analysis Methods; Dimensionality Reduction, Sparsity, Algorithmic Complexity and Big Data Challenge; and Bio-Informatics, Medical, Energy Consumption, Temporal Data.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Information, Communication and Computing Technology, ICICCT 2023, held in New Delhi, India, during May 27, 2023.The 14 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 60 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: global platform for researchers, scientists and practitioners from both academia and industry to present their research and development activities in all the aspects of Pattern Recognition and computational Intelligence techniques.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th China Conference on Knowledge Graph and Semantic Computing: Knowledge Graph Empowers Artificial General Intelligence, CCKS 2023, held in Shenyang, China, during August 24–27, 2023. The 28 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 106 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: ​knowledge representation and knowledge graph reasoning; knowledge acquisition and knowledge base construction; knowledge integration and knowledge graph management; natural language understanding and semantic computing; knowledge graph applications; knowledge graph open resources; and evaluations.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 6th IFIP TC 12 International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Data Science, ICCIDS 2023, which took place in Kalavakkam, India, in February 2023.The 24 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 134 submissions. The major theme of the conference was intended to be computation intelligence and knowledge management. Various emerging areas like IoT, cyber security and data science need computation intelligence to align with the cutting-edge research. Machine learning delivers insights hidden in data for rapid, automated responses and improved decision making. Machine learning for IoT can be used to project future trends, detect anomalies, and augment intelligence by ingesting image, video, and audio.

This book constitutes revised and selected papers from the Second International Congress on High-Performance Computing and Big Data Analysis, TopHPC 2019, held in Tehran, Iran, in April 2019.The 37 full papers and 2 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 103 submissions. The papers in the volume are organized acording to the following topical headings: deep learning; big data analytics; Internet of Things.- data mining, neural network and genetic algorithms; performance issuesand quantum computing.

This book contains a selection of the best papers of the 30th Benelux Conference on Artificial Intelligence, BNAIC 2018, held in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands, in November 2018. The 9 full papers and 3 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 31 submissions. They address various aspects of artificial intelligence such as natural language processing, agent technology, game theory, problem solving, machine learning, human-agent interaction, AI and education, and data analysis.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed short papers, workshops and doctoral consortium papers of the 23rd European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems, ADBIS 2019, held in Bled, Slovenia, in September 2019.The 19 short research papers and the 5 doctoral consortium papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 103 submissions, and the 31 workshop papers were selected out of 67 submitted papers. The papers are organized in the following sections: Short Papers; Workshops Papers; Doctoral Consortium Papers; and cover a wide spectrum of topics related to database and information systems technologies for advanced applications.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Data Management Technologies and Applications, DATA 2018, held in Porto, Portugal, in July 2018. The 9 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 69 submissions. The papers deal with the following topics: databases, big data, data mining, data management, data security, and other aspects of information systems and technology involving advanced applications of data.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Data Analytics and Management in Data Intensive Domains, DAMDID/RCDL 2018, held in Moscow, Russia, in October 2018.The 9 revised full papers presented together with three invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 54 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: FAIR data infrastructures, interoperability and reuse; knowledge representation; data models; data analysis in astronomy; text search and processing; distributed computing; information extraction from text.

This book constitutes the post-conference proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Analysis of Images, Social Networks and Texts, AIST 2019, held in Kazan, Russia, in July 2019. The 27 full and 8 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 134 submissions (of which 21 papers were automatically rejected without being reviewed). The papers are organized in topical sections on general topics of data analysis; natural language processing; social network analysis; analysis of images and video; optimization problems on graphs and network structures; and analysis of dynamic behavior through event data.