The topics of interest for BigComp2014 include (but are not limited to): - Techniques and models for big data - Algorithms and systems for big data - Machine learning and AI for big data - Databases and data mining for big data - Graph mining and opinion mining - Web search and information retrieval - Bioinformatics data management - Infrastructure and platform for smart computing - Models and tools for smart computing - Mobile smartphone applications - Big data analytics and social media - Parallel and distributed computing for big data - Hardware/software infrastructure for big data - Security and privacy for big data - Image/multimedia data management - Cloud and grid computing - Mobile communication and networks - Smart devices and hardware - Smart location-based services - Mobile software and data science - Big data and smart computing Applications