This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference entitled
Beyond Databases Architectures and Structures BDAS 2018 held in Poznan Poland in September
2018 during the IFIP World Computer Congress. It consists of 38 carefully reviewed papers
selected from 102 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections namely big data
and cloud computing architectures structures and algorithms for efficient data processing
artificial intelligence data mining and knowledge discovery text mining natural language
processing ontologies and semantic web image analysis and multimedia mining.
