It is our great pleasure to present to you the first issue of Volume 3 of Vietnam Journal of Computer Science (VJCS). This issue starts the third year of VJCS activities. During the first 2 years (2014–2015), VJCS published 8 issues including 45 high quality papers selected in the rigorous peer-review process. All these issues have been published in schedule time, thus the regularity is well guaranteed. The published papers come from many countries over the world, thus the journal has strong internationality.

Some words about the statistics. As of 31 Dec. 2015, we have received in total 348 papers, from which 53 papers have been accepted, 283 rejected and 16 papers are under review. According to Google Scholar, up to now papers published in VJCS have been cited 117 times and the number is quickly increasing. 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 by Google Scholar, Computer and Information Systems Abstracts, DBLP, OCLC and Summon by ProQuest. VJCS papers are published in both forms of open access and print. We are trying our best to keep theregularity, 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