This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference entitled Beyond Databases, Architectures and Structures, BDAS 2018, held in Pozna?, 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.