The proceeding is a collection of research papers presented at the International Conference on Data Engineering 2013 (DaEng-2013), a conference dedicated to address the challenges in the areas of database, information retrieval, data mining and knowledge management, thereby presenting a consolidated view to the interested researchers in the aforesaid fields. The goal of this conference was to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to focus on advanced on data engineering concepts and establishing new collaborations in these areas. The topics of interest are as follows but are not limited to:
• Database theory
• Data management
• Data mining and warehousing
• Data privacy & security
• Information retrieval, integration and visualization
• Information system
• Knowledge discovery in databases
• Mobile, grid and cloud computing
• Knowledge-based
• Knowledge management
• Web data, services and intelligence
Tutut Herawan is a lecturer at Department of Mathematics Education, Universitas Ahmad Dahlan, Indonesia. He has published more than 120 papers in various international journals and conference proceedings. He has served as an editorial board member and reviewer for several international journals such as KBS Elsevier, InfSci Elsevier, EJOR Elsevier, AML Elsevier and guest editor for several special issues such as TELKOMNIKA journal, IJIRR IGI Global and IJMISSP Inderscience. He has served as a program committee member and co-organizer for numerous international conferences/workshops including Soft Computing and Data Engineering (SCDE 2010-2011 at Korea, SCDE 2012 at Brazil), ADMTA 2012 Vietnam, DTA 2011-2012 at Korea, DICTAP 2012 at Thailand, ICDIPC 2012 at Lithuania, DEIS 2012 at Czech Republic, NDT 2012 at Bahrain, ICoCSIM 2012 at Indonesia, ICSDE'2013 at Malaysia, ICSECS 2013 at Malaysia, SCKDD 2013 at Vietnam and many more. His research area includes Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Decision Support in Information System, Rough and Soft Set theory.
Mustafa Mat Deris a professor of computer science in the Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, UTHM, Malaysia. He has appointed as editorial board member for Journal of Next Generation Information Technology, JNIT, Korea and Encyclopedia on Mobile Computing and Commerce, Idea Group, USA, Guest editor of International Journal of BioMedical Soft Computing and Human Science for Special Issue on "Soft Computing Methodologies and Its Applications" a reviewer of several international journals such as IEEE Transaction on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Databases, Journal of Future Generation on Computer Systems, Journal of Knowledge-Based Systems, Elsevier, Journal of Cluster Computing, Kluwer and Journal of Computer Mathematics, Taylor & Francis, UK. He has served as a program committee member and co-organizer for numerous internationalconferences/workshops including Grid and Peer-to-Peer Computing, (GP2P 2005, 2006), Autonomic Distributed Data and Storage Systems Management (ADSM 2005, 2006, 2007) and Grid Pervasive Computing Security, organizer for workshops on Rough and Soft Sets Theories and Applications (RSAA 2010), Fukuoka, Japan, and Soft Computing and Data Engineering (SCDE 2010, 2011, Korea, SCDE 2012, Brazil). He is the recipient of "ICT Excellent Teacher" award 2006, from Malaysian National Computing Confederation (MNCC). His research interests include distributed databases, data grid, data mining and soft computing.
Jemal H. Abawajy is a professor at School of Information Technology at Deakin University. He is currently the Director of the Networked and System Security research Group. He has published more than 150 articles in refereed journals and conferences as well as a number of technical reports. He is on the editorial board of several international journals and edited several international journals and conference proceedings. He has also been a member of the organizing committee for over 60 international conferences and workshops serving in various capacities including best paper award chair, general co-chair, publication chair, vice-chair and program committee. He is actively involved in funded research in building secure, efficient and reliable infrastructures for large-scale distributed systems. Towards this vision, he is working in several areas including: pervasive and networked systems (mobile, wireless network, sensor networks, grid, cluster and P2P), e-science and e-business technologies and applications and performance analysis and evaluation.
