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.
