Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems. 8th International Symposium - Editorial

This volume contains the articles that were presented at the 8th International Symposium on Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems (FoIKS 2014), which was held in Bordeaux, France, March 3-7, 2014. The FoIKS symposia provide a biennial forum for presenting and discussing theoretical and applied research on information and knowledge systems. The goal is to bring together researchers with an interest in this subject, share research experiences, promote collaboration, and identify new issues and directions for future research. FoIKS 2014 solicited original contributions on foundational aspects of information and knowledge systems. This included submissions that apply ideas, theories, or methods from specific disciplines to information and knowledge systems. Examples of such disciplines are discrete mathematics, logic and algebra, model theory, information theory, complexity theory, algorithmics and computation, statistics, and optimization.