The first International Conference on Big Data and Cyber-Security Intelligence Yehia TAHER Head of the steering committee DAVID Lab. Université de Versailles et Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines Versailles - France Preface how firms drive business value from their data and analytics capabilities. The enterprise software ecosystem is largely driven by cutting edge technologies such as The advancement of technologies has sensors, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Social brought detrimental consequence as well. Media. These technologies are leading to a They significantly increased cyber risks. With massive digital transformation within public the growth of sensors and their wider service organizations and industrial solution adoption, the cyber space has become more landscape. Hundreds of organizations vulnerable to attacks by the adversaries. The ranging from small to medium scale are social medial platforms, blogs are turning adopting this critical transformation within into a place for terrorists to create terrorism and across their ecosystem. One of the networks. critical consequences of such extreme The International Conference on Big Data digitalization is a gigantic growth of data – and Cybersecurity Intelligence which has led the world to a data tsunami. (BDCSIntell’2018) is a pioneering conference And, it has given rise to the notion of Big held at Lebanese University in Beirut, Data which has created an ample of Lebanon during December 13-15, 2018. The opportunities for various industries conference aims at promoting research and including Banks, Telecommunication, public innovation in cutting edge technologies service organizations, healthcare etc. Big mainly Big Data, AI, IoT, Social Media Data has empowered industries to perform Analytics that is leading future digital deep and wide analysis of their market, transition. It also in General Data Protection customer, strategies, products, and service Regulations (GDPR), Cybersecurity and etc. It has become the de facto technology Cyber Terrorism. To that end, used in producing a 360-degree view of BDCSIntell’2018 brought together organizations and decision making. researchers, engineers, practitioners However, the convergence of Big Data and interested in Big Data, AI, Cybersecurity, and Artificial Intelligence is currently the most General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR). critical phenomenon since these two technologies will augment intelligence and BDCSIntell’2018 announced two main areas. will lead the next generation digital Big Data and Cybersecurity that covered a transformation. The convergence of big data wide range of topics including Data Quality, with Artificial Intelligence has been Big Data Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, emerging as the single most important Models of Cyber Terrorism, GDPR, etc. In development that is shaping the future of addition, it invited experts from industries including banking, telecommunication, dedication, BDCSIntell will continue its effort energy, oil, and gas, and healthcare to in advancing the field of Big Data and submit on use cases. BDCSIntell’2018 invited Cybersecurity. to submit paper falls within in three tracks: research and industry track, demo track, and Yehia TAHER poster track. The length of the paper was December 2018 limited to 8 pages for full papers, 6 pages for short papers and 4 pages for demo papers. The conference featured keynote speech, panel discussion, and all the tracks. This volume presents the accepted papers of BDCSIntell’2018. The conference received submissions from European and North American countries and also from MENA and LAVENT regions. In the first edition, BDCSIntell’2018 received 41 papers. After a careful review of each paper, with the help of 35 experts worldwide, 16 papers were finally selected together with 3 invited papers to be published and presented in this book. Each paper was reviewed by at least two independent experts who evaluated the originality and quality of the paper. We would like express our gratitude all individuals, organizations, institutions that supported BDCSIntell’2018. We specially thank to our honorable sponsors for their invaluable contribution and cooperation to this conference. We also thank to our PC members. This high-quality program would not have been possible without the expertise and dedication of our PC members. We also want to express our thanks to the Organizing Committee for their dedication in helping to organize the conference. We owe a special thanks to steering committee members, the general chairs, program chairs, track chairs, finance chairs, publicity chairs, and Web chairs. Finally, we thank all authors of research and industry papers, and those who presented their results, for contributing to this successful conference. With their work and