The LNCS journal Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems focuses on data management, knowledge discovery, and knowledge processing, which are core and hot topics in computer science.

This volume, the 34th issue of Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems, constitutes a special issue consisting of seven papers on the subject of Consistency and Inconsistency in Data-Centric Applications.

This volume, the 35th issue of Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems, contains five fully-revised selected regular papers focusing on data quality, social-data artifacts, data privacy, predictive models, and e-health. privacy-preserving querying on privately encrypted data in the cloud;