This two volume set (CCIS 623 and 634) constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference of Young Computer Scientists, Engineers and Educators, ICYCSEE 2016, held in Harbin, China, in August 2016. The 91 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 338 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on Research Track (Part I) and Education Track, Industry Track, and Demo Track (Part II) and cover a wide range of topics related to social computing, social media, social network analysis, social modeling, social recommendation, machine learning, data mining.

This two volume set (CCIS 623 and 634) constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference of Young Computer Scientists, Engineers and Educators, ICYCSEE 2016, held in Harbin, China, in August 2016. The 91 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 338 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on Research Track (Part I) and Education Track, Industry Track, and Demo Track (Part II) and cover a wide range of topics related to social computing, social media, social network analysis, social modeling, social recommendation, machine learning, data mining.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First National Conference on Big Data Technology and Applications, BDTA 2015, held in Harbin, China, in December 2015. The 26 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers address issues such as the storage technology of Big Data; analysis of Big Data and data mining; visualization of Big Data; the parallel computing framework under Big Data; the architecture and basic theory of Big Data; collection and preprocessing of Big Data; innovative applications in some areas, such as internet of things and cloud computing.

This two volume set (CCIS 1628 and 1629) constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference of Pioneering Computer Scientists, Engineers and Educators, ICPCSEE 2022 held in Chengdu, China, in August, 2022. The 65 full papers and 26 short papers presented in these two volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 261 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on: Big Data Mining and Knowledge Management; Machine Learning for Data Science; Multimedia Data Management and Analysis.

This two volume set (CCIS 1628 and 1629) constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference of Pioneering Computer Scientists, Engineers and Educators, ICPCSEE 2022 held in Chengdu, China, in August, 2022. The 65 full papers and 26 short papers presented in these two volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 261 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on: Big Data Management and Applications; Data Security and Privacy; Applications of Data Science; Infrastructure for Data Science; Education Track; Regulatory Technology in Finance.

This two volume set (CCIS 727 and 728) constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference of Pioneering Computer Scientists, Engineers and Educators, ICPCSEE 2017 (originally ICYCSEE) held in Changsha, China, in September 2017. The 112 revised full papers presented in these two volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 987 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics related to Basic Theory and Techniques for Data Science including Mathematical Issues in Data Science, Computational Theory for Data Science, Big Data Management and Applications, Data Quality and Data Preparation, Evaluation and Measurement in Data Science, Data Visualization, Big Data Mining and Knowledge Management, Infrastructure for Data Science, Machine Learning for Data Science, Data Security and Privacy, Applications of Data Science, Case Study of Data Science, Multimedia Data Management and Analysis, Data-driven Scientific Research, Data-driven Bioinformatics, D ata-driven Healthcare, Data-driven Management, Data-driven eGovernment, Data-driven Smart City/Planet, Data Marketing and Economics, Social Media and Recommendation Systems, Data-driven Security, Data-driven Business Model Innovation, Social and/or organizational impacts of Data Science.