This volume contains the proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA '97). DASFAA '97 focused on advanced database technologies and their applications. The 55 papers in this volume cover a wide range of areas in the field of database systems and applications - including the rapidly emerging areas of the Internet, multimedia, and document database systems - and should be of great interest to all database system researchers and developers, and practitioners.

This volume contains the proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA '97). DASFAA '97 focused on advanced database technologies and their applications. The 55 papers in this volume cover a wide range of areas in the field of database systems and applications ? including the rapidly emerging areas of the Internet, multimedia, and document database systems ? and should be of great interest to all database system researchers and developers, and practitioners.

This two volume set LNCS 9642 and LNCS 9643 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2016, held in Dallas, TX, USA, in April 2016. The 61 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 183 submissions. The papers cover the following topics: crowdsourcing, data quality, entity identification, data mining and machine learning, recommendation, semantics computing and knowledge base, textual data, social networks, complex queries, similarity computing, graph databases, and miscellaneous, advanced applications.

This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA '94), held in Athens, Greece in September 1994. The 78 papers presented were selected from more than 300 submissions and give a comprehensive view of advanced applications of databases and expert systems. Among the topics covered are object-oriented, temporal, active, geographical, hypermedia and distributed databases, data management, cooperative office applications, object-oriented modelling, industrial applications, conceptual modelling, legal systems, evolving environments, knowledge engineering, information retrieval, advanced querying, medical systems, and CIM.

Knowledge discovery (KDD) and Data Mining (DM) is a new, multidisciplinary field focusing on the process of information discovery from large volumes of data. The field combines such areas as database concepts and theory, machine learning, pattern recognition, and artificial intelligence.