International Conference on Advances in Big Data, Computing and Data Communication Systems (ICABCD 2018) is a premier conference in the soft computing and communication systems ICABCD 2018 is to be held in Durban, South Africa, during 6 7 August 2018 The conference aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners from all over the world working on soft computing, big data technologies, data communication systems and computer security on a common platform so that they can present and discuss emerging ideas and trends in these highly challenging research fields.