Author Description

Information and Knowledge Engineering is a compendium of articles and papers that were presented at IKE '13, an international conference that serves researchers, scholars, professionals, students, and academicians. Selected topics include: * Knowledge Engineering and Management + Knowledge Acquisition * Databases, Information Retrieval and Search * Decision Support Systems * Mining of Data Rich Sources * Data and Information Mining + Forecasting Methods * Novel Methodologies and Applications * Information Retrieval, Learning Methods, and Social Networks * Data Mining, Opinion Management, Software Quality Issues, Bioinformatics, and Applications