<p>The five-volume set LNCS 14961, 14962, 14963, 14964 and 14965 constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Web and Big Data, APWeb-WAIM 2024, held in Jinhua, China, during August 30-September 1, 2024.</p>

<p>The 171 full papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 558 submissions.</p>

<p>The papers are organized in the following topical sections:<br>
Volume I:&nbsp;Natural language processing,&nbsp;Generative AI and LLM,&nbsp;Computer Vision and&nbsp;Recommender System.</p>

<p>Volume II:&nbsp;Recommender System,&nbsp;Knowledge Graph and Spatial and Temporal Data.</p>

<p>Volume III:&nbsp;Spatial and Temporal Data,&nbsp;Graph Neural Network,&nbsp;Graph Mining and&nbsp;Database System and Query Optimization.</p>

<p>Volume IV:&nbsp;Database System and Query Optimization,&nbsp;Federated and Privacy-Preserving Learning,&nbsp;Network, Blockchain and Edge computing,&nbsp;Anomaly Detection and Security</p>

<p>Volume V:&nbsp;Anomaly Detection and Security,&nbsp;Information Retrieval,&nbsp;Machine Learning,&nbsp;Demonstration Paper and&nbsp;Industry Paper.</p>