The goal is to provide an annual forum for exchanging ideas, challenges, and research results on big data and smart computing which have recently drawn much attention from computer sicence and information technology as well as from social sciences and other disciplines. The topics of interest for this conference include the following: techniques, models and algorithms for big data; tools and systems for big data; machine learning and artificial intelligence for big data; data mining and data science; web search and information retrieval; infrastructure and platform for smart computing; big data analytics and social media; cloud and grid computing for big data; hardware/software infrastructure for big data; security and privacy for big data; mobile communication and networks; smart devices and hardware; smart location-based services; and big data applications, bioinformatics, multimedia, smartphones, etc.