The 8th International Conference on Data Science and Computational Intelligence (DSCI-2026) is especially dedicated to the celebration of the 69th anniversary of Artificial Intelligence. Aiming at creating computers and computer software capacity of intelligent behaviour, many amusing achievements throughout the past 68 years' journey have been made, including the recent AlphaGo, a.k.a, the Deep Reinforcement Learning, an intelligent computer program that beat Lee Sedol, a 9-dan professional player in a five-game match of Go. Such a task was considered as an impossible mission in only a decade ago. As we enter the big data era, Web Intelligence has extended and made use of Artificial Intelligence for new products, services and frameworks that are empowered by the World Wide Web.

DSCI-2026 aims to identify the challenging problems faced by the development of innovative knowledge and information systems, and to shape future research directions through the publication of high quality, theoretical and applied research outcomes. DSCI-2026 is going to highlight the advances in frontiers and applications of general areas such as big data, artificial intelligence, social computing, data mining, information retrieval, and machine learning. DSCI is uniquely placed to deliver fresh perspectives on data science.

DSCI-2026 will be hosted in Exeter, the capital city of Devon and provides the county with a central base for education, medicine, religion, commerce and culture. The city is also home to the magnificent Exeter Cathedral, which dates back to Norman times. Exeter is also ideally placed to base a trip to branch out visiting places such as the famous Dartmoor National Park and the unspoilt beaches of the North and South Devon coastlines.

Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers to DSCI-2026. All accepted papers will be submitted to IEEE Xplore and will be submitted for indexing by Engineering Index (EI). The authors of selected best papers will be invited post conference to extend their contributions for special issues of prestigious journals to be planned in conjunction with the conference.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Track 1: Data Science Theory, Algorithms and Architectures

• Foundations of Data Science
• Programming Techniques
• Analytics and Metrics
• Representation Formats
• Cloud Computing Techniques
• Mobile and Pervasive Computing
• Data Management
• Data Quality
• Social Computing
• Social Network Analysis
• Protection, Integrity and Privacy
• Distributed Data Mining
• Visualization

• Web Intelligence
• Humanities
• Stock Market Analysis
• Scalable Cloud Data Management
• Privacy and Security
• Geosciences
• Manufacturing and Supply Chains
• Earth Science
• Biomedical Informatics
• High dimensional data
• Social Networks
• B2B Marketing and Sales
• Healthcare
• Sustainable development
• Advanced Manufacturing

• Artificial Neural Networks and Learning methods
• Deep Learning
• Knowledge based systems
• Uncertainty management
• Global optimization methods
• Intelligent Control Systems
• Intelligent Internet Systems
• Intelligent Software Systems
• Parallel Computation
• Pattern Recognition
• Systems Modelling
• Web Mining

• Parallel and distributed data mining algorithms
• Data streams mining
• Time-series data mining
• Graph mining
• Spatial data mining
• Text video, multimedia data mining
• Web mining
• Pre-processing techniques
• Visualization
• Security and information hiding in data mining
• Data mining applications

All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference submission website ( https://hpcn.exeter.ac.uk/dsci/) with PDF format. The materials presented in the papers should not be published or under submission elsewhere. Each paper is limited to 8 pages (or 10 pages with over length charge) including figures and references using IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscripts style (two columns, single-spaced, 10 fonts).

Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings can be found at:
https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html

Once accepted, the paper will be included into the conference proceedings published by Conference Publishing Services (submitted for indexing by EI). At least one of the authors of any accepted paper is requested to register the paper at the conference.