Preface

摘要

IScIDE 2013, the International Conference on Intelligence Science and Big Data Engineering, took place in Beijing, China, July 31 to August 2, 2013. As one of the annual events organized by the Chinese Golden Triangle ISIS (Information Science and Intelligence Science) Forum, this meeting was scheduled as the fourth of a series of annual meetings promoting the academic exchange of research on various areas of intelligence science and big data engineering in China and abroad. After three years of successful workshops, featuring over 300 submissions per meeting, an approximately 30% acceptance rate, and an oral presentation rate of about 5%, this meeting was formally changed to a conference. In response to the call for papers, a total of 390 papers were submitted from 13 countries and regions, of which 111 were accepted (giving an acceptance rate of about 28.5%), including 17 oral papers and 30 spotlight papers. We would like to thank all the reviewers for spending their precious time on reviewing papers and for providing valuable comments that aided significantly in the paper selection process.