Data Science, as a highly interdisciplinary field, is playing a more and more critical and central role in the development of cyberspace and various applications. Data science in cyberspace is an integral part of competitive intelligence, a newly emerging field that encompasses a number of activities, such as data mining and data analysis. Data science in cyberspace inspires novel techniques and theories drawn from many areas, such as mathematics, statistics, information theory, computer science, and social science, and involves many specific domains, such as signal processing, probability models, machine learning, statistical learning, data mining, database, data engineering, pattern recognition and learning, visualization, predictive analytics, uncertainty modeling, data warehousing, data compression, computer programming, and high performance computing.

 The IEEE International Conference on Data Science in Cyberspace (ICDSC) will bring together researchers and practitioners in the field of data science. ICDSC 2016 invites submissions on a wide spectrum of topics, including but not limited to the following areas:

1. Data Science
2. Big Data
3. Data Intensive Applications in Cyberspace
4. Data Intensive Systems
5. Social Networks and Social Media
6. Data Mining, Knowledge Discovery and Machine Learning

 All submissions should be in English. All submissions must be prepared in the IEEE camera-ready format and submitted through the CMT system. Only submissions in PDF format are accepted. Research paper submissions are limited to 10 pages. A paper submitted to ICDSC 2016 cannot be under review for any other conference or journal during the entire period that it is considered for ICDSC 2016, and must be substantially different from any previously published work. Submissions are reviewed in a single-blind manner. All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings.
 We are looking forward to seeing you in Changsha, China.