The 16th Asia Pacific International Conference on Information Science and Technology (APIC-IST 2021) will be held on June 20-22, 2021, in Busan, South Korea. APIC-IST has advanced since its inception, making significant contributions to the areas of CT, BT, and IT alongside parallel industrialization policy. The upcoming APIC-IST 2021 will potentially bring together emerging issues on computing environments, web applications, and their new supporting technologies to be shared by a diverse group of industry professionals and academic researchers with a common interest. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Additionally, expanded and revised versions of a short list of the papers presented at the conference will be selected for publication in a special issue of several international journals indexed by SCIE, SCOPUS, and ISI-Web of Science. Topics

• KSII TIIS: KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (indexed by SCIE)
• JICS: Journal of Internet Computing and Services (indexed by KCI)