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.
