Beyond Databases, Architectures and Structures. Towards Efficient Solutions for Data Analysis and Knowledge Representation

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference entitled Beyond Databases, Architectures and Structures, BDAS 2017, held in Ustron, Poland, in May/June 2017.It consists of 44 carefully reviewed papers selected from 118 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections, namely big data and cloud computing; artificial intelligence, data mining and knowledge discovery; architectures, structures and algorithms for efficient data processing; text mining, natural language processing, ontologies and semantic web; bioinformatics and biological data analysis; industrial applications; data mining tools, optimization and compression.