This open access book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference
on String Processing and Information Retrieval ICOST 2020 held in Hammamet Tunisia in June
2020.* The 17 full papers and 23 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed
and selected from 49 submissions. They cover topics such as: IoT and AI solutions for e-health
biomedical and health informatics behavior and activity monitoring behavior and activity
monitoring and wellbeing technology. *This conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19
pandemic.
