The 2020 2nd International Symposium on Big Data and Artificial Intelligence was held in Johannesburg, South Africa, from October 15 - 16, 2020. It was organized by IETI, IDSAI, the University of Johannesburg (South Africa) and JRFM, with joint support from the Real Estate and Economics Research Lab of Hong Kong Shue Yan University, the Sustainable Real Estate Research Center of Hong Kong Shue Yan University, Shandong University of Finance and Economics (Mainland China), Guilin University of Technology (Mainland China), IAOE (Austria), the Department of Sport and Physical Education of Hong Kong Baptist University, Rattanakosin International College of Creative Entrepreneurship of Rajamangala University of Technology Rattanakosin (Thailand), Algebra University College (Croatia), and the Center for Financial and Monetary Research of Romanian Academy (Romania), University Giustino Fortunato (Italy).
ISBDAI is there to discuss the challenges and possible solutions to these important issues. The conference focused on Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Cloud Computing, Big Data, the Internet of Things and the Mobile Web. The participants and speakers were from many countries and universities, including Mainland China, Hong Kong, Thailand, Romania, Italy, Singapore, Austria, Croatia, Australia, UK, Congo King, Portugal and Cyprus.
The conference received a record 505 submissions, with 115 papers accepted for presentation. Positive recommendations of at least two reviewers were considered by the conference committees for acceptance of manuscripts. The Editors express a special gratitude to all the Committee Members and ACM-ICPS, who worked so speedily, efficiently, and professionally in support of the conference.
Finally, on behalf of the Organizing Committee, we would like to thank all the authors, speakers, and participants for contributing to the success of ISBDAI 2020.
