Big Data Analytics and Knowledge Discovery

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Big Data Analytics and Knowledge Discovery, DaWaK 2024, which too place in Naples, Italy, during August 26-28, 2024. The 16 full and 20 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 83 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Modeling and design; entity matching and similarity; classification; machine learning methods and applications; time series; data repositories;optimization; and data quality and applications.