Djamal Benslimane & Ernesto Damiani 
Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems XXXIX 
Special Issue on Database- and Expert-Systems Applications

This, the 39th issue of Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems, contains extended and revised versions of seven papers selected from the 37 contributions presented at the 28th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA 2017, held in Lyon, France, in August 2017. Topics covered include knowledge bases, clustering algorithms, parallel frequent itemset mining, model-driven engineering, virtual machines, recommendation systems, and federated SPARQL query processing.