This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference entitled Beyond Databases, Architectures and Structures, BDAS 2018, held in Poznan, Poland, in September 2018, during the IFIP World Computer Congress.It consists of 38 carefully reviewed papers selected from 102 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections, namely big data and cloud computing; architectures, structures and algorithms for efficient data processing; artificial intelligence, data mining and knowledge discovery; text mining, natural language processing, ontologies and semantic web; image analysis and multimedia mining.

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.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference entitled Beyond Databases, Architectures and Structures, BDAS 2016, held in Ustron, Poland, in May/June 2016. It consists of 57 carefully reviewed papers selected from 152 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections, namely artificial intelligence, data mining and knowledge discovery; architectures, structures and algorithms for efficient data processing; data warehousing and OLAP; natural language processing, ontologies and semantic Web; bioinformatics and biomedical data analysis; data processing tools; novel applications of database systems.

Recent developments in computer science enable algorithms previously perceived as too time-consuming to now be efficiently used for applications in bioinformatics and life sciences. This work focuses on proteins and their structures, protein structure similarity searching at main representation levels and various techniques that can be used to accelerate similarity searches. Divided into four parts, the first part provides a formal model of 3D protein structures for functional genomics, comparative bioinformatics and molecular modeling. The second part focuses on the use of multithreading for efficient approximate searching on protein secondary structures. The third and fourth parts concentrate on finding 3D protein structure similarities with the support of GPUs and cloud computing. Parts three and four both describe the acceleration of different methods. The text will be of interest to researchers and software developers working in the field of structural bioinformatics and biomedical databases.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Conference Beyond Databases, Architectures, and Structures, BDAS 2014, held in Ustron, Poland, in May 2014. This book consists of 56 carefully revised selected papers that are assigned to 11 thematic groups: query languages, transactions and query optimization; data warehousing and big data; ontologies and semantic web; computational intelligence and data mining; collective intelligence, scheduling, and parallel processing; bioinformatics and biological data analysis; image analysis and multimedia mining; security of database systems; spatial data analysis; applications of database systems; Web and XML in database systems.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference entitled Beyond Databases, Architectures and Structures, BDAS 2019, held in Ustron, Poland, in May 2019. It consists of 26 carefully reviewed papers selected from 69 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections, namely big data and cloud computing; architectures, structures and algorithms for efficient data processing and analysis; artificial intelligence, data mining and knowledge discovery; image analysis and multimedia mining; bioinformatics and biomedical data analysis; industrial applications; networks and security.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference entitled Beyond Databases, Architectures and Structures, BDAS 2015, held in Ustron, Poland, in May 2015. This book consists of 53 carefully revised selected papers that are assigned to 8 thematic groups: database architectures and performance; data integration, storage and data warehousing; ontologies and semantic web; artificial intelligence, data mining and knowledge discovery; image analysis and multimedia mining; spatial data analysis; database systems development; application of database systems.