This year, CISDA will be held in Athens, Greece from December 6-9 under the umbrella of the Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI 2016). Athens is a city full of arts, philosophy and historical attractions. SSCI is a flagship annual international conference on Computational Intelligence sponsored by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, promoting all aspects of theory, algorithm design, applications and related emerging techniques . As a tradition, IEEE SSCI 2016 will co-locate a large number of exciting symposia , each dedicated to a special topic within or related to Computational Intelligence, thereby providing a unique platform for promoting cross-fertilization and collaboration. SSCI 2016 will be featured by cross-symposia tutorials, keynote speeches, panel discussions, PhD consortiums, oral presentations and poster sessions. Student grants, best paper awards and student best paper awards will be given.