Vietnam Journal of Computer Science (VJCS) starts the fourth year of its activities. During the first 3 years (2014–2016), VJCS published 3 volumes with 12 issues including 69 high quality papers selected in the rigorous peer-review process. All these issues have been published in schedule time. The journal has also strong internationality.

Regarding the statistics, as of 8 Nov. 2016, we have received in total 484 papers, from which 84 papers have been accepted, 378 rejected and 22 papers are under review. According to Google Scholar, up to now papers published in VJCS have been cited 258 times. This statistics shows that VJCS has established the first step to be an international and prestigious journal in the field of Computer Science.

VJCS is now indexed in Google Scholar, ACM Digital Library, Computer and Information Systems Abstracts, DBLP, DOAJ, OCLC, Summon by ProQuest. VJCS papers are published in both forms of open access and print. We are trying our best to keep the regularity, internationality and the quality of selected papers for the journal to be able to have such important indexes such as Scopus or SCI-E as early as possible.

On behalf of VJCS community and the Sponsor, Nguyen Tat Thanh University, we cordially thank Alfred Hofmann, Ronan Nugent and the Editorial Office from Springer for their kind supports for VJCS. Special thanks go to the members of Advisory Board, Associate Editors, Editorial Board members and Editorial Reviewer Board members for helping us in the paper selection process, journal promotion and for all advices and efforts in building VJCS to be a considerate and significant journal for the field Computer Science. Finally, we sincerely thank all authors for their valuable contributions to VJCS.

Taking this opportunities we would like to take this opportunity to wish you a Happy and Prosperous New Year!

Ngoc-Thanh Nguyen, Editor-in-Chief Manh-Hung Nguyen, President of Nguyen Tat Thanh University Dac-Hien Cao, Assistant Editor