IEEE Eighth International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science, May 28-30 2014, Marrakesh, Morocco The IEEE eighth International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS) goal is to bring together scientists, researchers, engineers and practitioners from a wide range of information science fields and provide opportunities for knowledge sharing and dissemination. At RCIS’2014, among other regular topics a special attention will be given to Social Network Analysis (SNA). While presenting research findings and state-of-art solutions, you are especially invited to share experiences on new research challenges. High quality papers in all information science areas are solicited. Original papers exploring research challenges will receive especially careful interest from reviewers. Papers that have already been accepted or are currently under review for other conferences or journals will not be considered for publications at RCIS 2014.