Editorial Vietnam J Comput Sci (2016) 3:1 DOI 10.1007/s40595-016-0057-1 EDITORIAL Editorial Ngoc-Thanh Nguyen1 Published online: 26 January 2016 © The Author(s) 2016. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com 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 the B Ngoc-Thanh Nguyen Ngoc-Thanh.Nguyen@pwr.edu.pl 1 Department of Information Systems, Faculty of Computer Science and Management, Wroclaw University of Technology, Str. Wyb. Wyspianskiego 27, 50-370 Wrocław, Poland 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, RonanNugentandtheEditorialOfficefromSpringerfortheir kind supports for VJCS. Special thanks go to the members of AdvisoryBoard,AssociateEditors,EditorialBoardmembers 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 significantjournalforthefieldComputerScience.Finally,we sincerely thank all authors for their valuable contributions to VJCS. Taking this opportunities we would like to take this oppor- tunity 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 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecomm ons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. 123 http://crossmark.crossref.org/dialog/?doi=10.1007/s40595-016-0057-1&domain=pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Editorial