This open access book surveys the progress in addressing selected challenges related to the
growth of big data in combination with increasingly complicated hardware. It emerged from a
research program established by the German Research Foundation (DFG) as priority program SPP
1736 on Algorithmics for Big Data where researchers from theoretical computer science worked
together with application experts in order to tackle problems in domains such as networking
genomics research and information retrieval. Such domains are unthinkable without substantial
hardware and software support and these systems acquire process exchange and store data at
an exponential rate. The chapters of this volume summarize the results of projects realized
within the program and survey-related work. This is an open access book.
