The Vietnam Journal of Computer Science is a peer-reviewed open access journal published with SpringerOpen. It is an archival journal serving the academic research community by publishing high-quality scientific articles that present methods, techniques, tools, implementations, and applications of research. In particular the journal welcomes articles that highlight advances in the use of computer science methods and technologies for solving tasks in management, industry, engineering, administration, and education, and also evaluations of existing intelligent systems and tools, emphasising comparative studies and user experiences. The journal covers all subdisciplines of computer science, with a particular emphasis on information systems and knowledge engineering; artificial intelligence, including machine learning and data mining; soft computing and computational intelligence; agents and multiagent systems; Web intelligence; and optimization.