This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 8th Russian Summer School on Information Retrieval, RuSSIR 2014, held in Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia, in August 2014.

The volume includes 6 tutorial papers, summarizing lectures given at the event, and 8 revised papers from the school participants.The papers focus on various aspects of information retrieval.

The book covers current developments in the field of expert applications and security, which employ advances of next-generation communication and computational technology to shape real-world applications. multimedia applications in forensics, security and intelligence;