The First and Second International Conference (SCDS2015, SCDS2016) were successfully held in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia. Subsequently, SCDS2017 was successfully hosted by Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia. Chulalongkorn University successfully hosted SCDS2018 from 15-16 August 2018.

The 5th International Conference on Soft Computing in Data Science 2019 (SCDS2019) will be hosted by Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan from 28-29 August 2019. The theme of the conference is ‘Science in Analytics: Harnessing Data and Simplifying Solutions’. SCDS2019 have invited renowned international and local keynote speakers who are academia or practitioners to share their knowledge and experience in the area in the applications of soft computing in various disciplines. This conference aims to provide a platform for researchers and practitioners to share their research work and to create rigorous international research collaborations.

SCDS2019 targets participants from universities, government agencies and industries with the ultimate aim of bridging the gap between academia and the industry. Research collaborations between the academia and industry can lead to the advancement of useful analytics and computing applications for providing real time insights and solutions.

All accepted and registered papers of SCDS2019 will be published in the renowned series of "Communications in Computer and Information Science series" by Springer Verlag.



The SCDS2015, SCDS2016, SCDS2017 and SCDS2018 proceedings were published in the Communications in Computer and Information Science series which is abstracted (indexed) by DBLP, EI, Scopus and were submitted for the inclusion in ISI Proceedings. Authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit extended paper to:

• Fast Track Submission of Selected Papers to Applied Soft Computing, Elsevier. (IF=3.541)
• Pertanika Journal of Science and Technology (with additional publication charge of RM750). http://pertanika.upm.edu.my/JST.php
• Malaysian Journal of Computing (https://mjoc.uitm.edu.my)[ISSN: 2231-7474]
• Indonesian Journal of Computing and Cybernetics (https://journal.ugm.ac.id/ijcss)