Similarity search and applications

This volume contains the papers presented at the 8th International Conference on Similarity Search and Applications (SISAP 2015) held in Glasgow, Scotland, UK, during October 12-14, 2015. The International Conference on Similarity Search and Applications (SISAP) is an annual forum for researchers and application developers in the area of similarity data management. It focuses on technological problems shared by many application domains, such as data mining, information retrieval, computer vision, pattern recognition, computational biology, geography, biometrics, machine learning, and many others that need similarity searching as a necessary supporting service.