Data Science is an area of extensive research as new applications are emerging from Industry with requirements for real time data analysis of data streams that arrive with high speed, high data volume and in a variety of data formats. Terabytes, even petabytes of data are generated each day in diverse formats such as structured data, plain text data, imaging data, audio and video data. The IEEE International Workshop on Data Science (IWDS) aims at providing a forum for presentation of the latest research results, new technology developments, and new applications in the areas of Data Analytics, Data Mining, Machine Learning, Stream Data Processing, and Data Warehousing.

From 2013 to 2015, it has been annually held in Pakistan, Thailand, and Korea. The fourth IEEE International Workshop on Data Sciecne (IWDS 2016) will be held on October 22, 2016 in conjunction with the ICDIM 2016 Conference that will take place from September 19 - 21, 2016 in Porto, Portugal.