Welcome Message from DSE Managing Editor

Welcome to theData Science andEngineering (DSE) journal, an academic platform for sharing your achievements in data science and related research with scientists and engineers across the world. In recent years, the Chinese database community, represented by the China Computer Federation (CCF) Technical Committee on Databases (TCDB), has contributed a substantial number of publications to top conferences, including VLDB, SIGMOD, ICDE, WWW, and KDD. At the same time, collaboration between Chinese institutions and international partners in organizing international conferences and performing joint research has increased considerably. These are dramatic changes compared with the database research activities of the early years of this century. Similar trends have been observed within other technical committees of CCF, such as those focusing on the Internet, High-Performance Computing, and the Internet of Things. This progress in database research in China is continually being pushed forward by the worldwide development of the area of big data technologies and applications. Inspired by these exciting trends, we decided to develop a new journal so that scientists and engineers both inside and outside of China could share research results on the foundations and novel applications of big data technology. With this aim in mind, we formed