This book constitutes the proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Similarity Search
and Applications SISAP 2015 held in Glasgow UK in October 2015. The 19 full papers 12
short and 9 demo and poster papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and
selected from 68 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: improving
similarity search methods and techniques metrics and evaluation applications and specific
domains implementation and engineering solutions posters demo papers.
