Dear Reader, it is our pleasure to present to you Position Papers of the 2016 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS), which took place in Gdańsk, Poland, on September 11-14, 2016. This is the forth year when position papers have been introduced as a separate category of contributions. They represent emerging research papers and challenge papers. The former present preliminary research results from work-in-progress based on sound scientific approach but presenting work not completely validated as yet. The latter propose and describe research challenges in theory or practice of computer science and information systems.

FedCSIS 2016 was Chaired by prof. Krzysztof Goczyła, while Zenon Filipiak acted as the Chair of the Organizing Committee. This year, FedCSIS was organized by the Polish Information Processing Society (Mazovia Chapter), Systems Research Institute Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw Univesity of Technology, Wrocław University of Economics, and Gdańsk University of Technology. It was organized in technical cooperation with: IEEE Region 8, IEEE SMC Technical Committee on Computational Collective Intelligence, IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Intelligent Informatics, IEEE Poland Section, Computer Society Chapter Poland, Gdańsk Computer Society Chapter Poland, Polish Chapter of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing, Łódź ACM Chapter, European Alliance for Innovation (EAI), Committee of Computer Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Polish Operational and Systems Research Society, Mazovia Cluster ICT Poland and Eastern Cluster ICT Poland. Furthermore, the 11th International Symposium Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Applications (AAIA'16) was organized in technical cooperation with: International Fuzzy Systems Association, European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology, International Rough Set Society and Polish Neural Networks Society.

FedCSIS 2016 consisted of the following events (conferences, symposia, workshops, special sessions). These events were grouped into FedCSIS conference areas, of various degree of integration. Specifically, those listed in italics and without indication of the year 2016 signify "abstract areas" with no direct paper submissions (i.e. paper submissions only within enclosed events).

• AAIA'16 – 11th International Symposium Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Applications
  • AIMaVIG'16 – 2nd International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Machine Vision and Graphics
  • AIMA'16 – 6th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Medical Applications
  • AIRIM'16 – 1st International Workshop on AI aspects of Reasoning, Information, and Memory
  • ASIR'16 – 6th International Workshop on Advances in Semantic Information Retrieval
  • DSTUI'16 – 6th International Workshop on Dealing with Spatial and Temporal Uncertainty and Imprecision
  • LTA'16 – 1st International Workshop on Language Technologies and Applications
  • WCO'16 – 9th International Workshop on Computational Optimization
• CSS - Computer Science & Systems
  • AIPC'16 – 1st International Workshop on Advances in Image Processing and Colorization
  • CANA'16 – 9th Computer Aspects of Numerical Algorithms
  • CPORA'16 – 1st Workshop on Constraint Programming and Operation Research Applications
  • IWCPS'16 – 3rd International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems
  • MMAP'16 – 9th International Symposium on Multimedia Applications and Processing
  • WSC'16 – 8th Workshop on Scalable Computing
• ECRM – Education, Curricula & Research Methods
  • IEES'16 – 1st International E-education Symposium - Education of the Future
  • DS-RAIT'16 – 3rd Doctoral Symposium on Recent Advances in Information Technology
• iNetSApp'16 – 4th International Conference on Innovative Network Systems and Applications
  • EAIS'16 – 3rd Workshop on Emerging Aspects in Information Security
  • SoFAST-WS'16 – 5th International Symposium on Frontiers in Network Applications, Network Systems and Web Services
  • WSN'16 – 5th International Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks
• IT4MBS – Information Technology for Management, Business & Society
  • ABICT'16 – 7th International Workshop on Advances in Business ICT
  • AITM'16 – 14th Conference on Advanced Information Technologies for Management
  • ISM'16 – 11th Conference on Information Systems Management
  • KAM'16 – 22nd Conference on Knowledge Acquisition and Management
  • UHH'16 – 2nd International Workshop on Ubiquitous Home Healthcare
• JAWS – Joint Agent-oriented Workshops in Synergy
  • MAS&S'16 – 10th International Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems and Simulations
  • SEN-MAS'16 – 4th International Workshop on Smart Energy Networks & Multi-Agent Systems
• SSD&A – Software Systems Development & Applications
  • BTMSPA'16 – 1st Symposium on Balancing Traditional and Modern Software Process Approaches
  • MDASD'16 – 4th Workshop on Model Driven Approaches in System Development
  • MIDI'16 – 4th Conference on Multimedia, Interaction, Design and Innovation
  • SEW-36 – The 36th IEEE Software Engineering Workshop

Furthermore, an AAIA’16 Data Mining Competition, focused on “Predicting Dangerous Seismic Events in Active Coal Mines” has been organized. Its results constitute a separate section in these proceedings. Awards for the winners of the contest were sponsored by: Research and Development Center EMAG and the Mazovia Chapter of the Polish Information Processing Society.

Each event constituting FedCSIS had its own Organizing and Program Committee. We would like to express our warmest gratitude to the members of all of them for their hard work attracting and later refereeing 512 submissions.

FedCSIS 2016 was organized under the auspices of dr. Jarosław Gowin, Minister of Science and Higher Educa- tion, Anna Streżyńska, Minister of Digital Affairs, Paweł Adamowicz, Mayor of the City of Gdańsk, Wojciech Szczurek Mayor of the City of Gdynia, and prof. Henryk Krawczyk, Rector of the Gdańsk University of Technology.

Finally, FedCSIS 2016 was sponsored by the Ministry of Science and Higher Eduction and Intel.

Maria Ganzha, Co-Chair of the FedCSIS Conference Series, Systems Research Institute Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, and Warsaw University of Technology, Poland.

Leszek Maciaszek, Co-Chair of the FedCSIS Conference Series, Wrocław University of Economics, Wrocław, Poland and Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.

Marcin Paprzycki, Co-Chair of the FedCSIS Conference Series, Systems Research Institute Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw and Management Academy, Warsaw, Poland.

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