The International Conference on Information Quality (ICIQ) attracts researchers and practitioners from the academic, public and private sectors. Originally held on the MIT Campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the 2014 conference will be hosted by the School of Management at Xi’an Jiaotong University (XJTU), Xi’an, China, where the Terra Cotta Warriors are there to guide for your safety and the school has been consistently ranked as one of the top management schools of China for a decade. The conference theme has been determined as “Big Data, Data Science & Data/Information Quality ”. Participants are encouraged to submit papers relevant to the Symposium theme and topics.