This open access book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference
on String Processing and Information Retrieval ICOST 2022 held in Paris France in June
2022. The 15 full papers and 10 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed
and selected from 33 submissions. They cover topics such as design development deployment
and evaluation of AI for health smart urban environments assistive technologies chronic
disease management and coaching and health telematics systems.
