This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on
Similarity Search and Applications SISAP 2017 held in Munich Germany in October 2017. The
23 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 53 submissions. The papers
deal with issues surrounding the theory design analysis practice and application of
content-based and feature-based similarity search. They are organized in the following topical
sections: approximate similarity search improving similarity search methods and applications
distances for complex objects outlier detection indexing and applications and applications
and specific domains. The paper 'A New Perspective on the Tree Edit Distance' is published open
access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com.