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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Data Management Technologies and Applications, DATA 2018, held in Porto, Portugal, in July 2018. The 9 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 69 submissions. The papers deal with the following topics: databases, big data, data mining, data management, data security, and other aspects of information systems and technology involving advanced applications of data.

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Constructing a Data Visualization Recommender System.- A Comprehensive Prediction Approach for Hardware Asset Management.- Linear vs. Symbolic Regression for Adaptive Parameter Setting in Manufacturing Process.- Graph Pattern Index for Neo4j Graph Databases.- Architectural Considerations for a Data Access Marketplace based Upon API Management.- FPGA vs. SIMD: Comparison for Main Memory-based Fast Column Scan.- Infectious Disease Prediction Modelling using Synthetic Optimization Approaches.- Concept Recognition with Convolutional Neural Networks to Optimize Keyphraze Extraction.- Deep Neural Trading: Comparative Study with Feed Forward, Recurrent and Autoencoder Networks.

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