[Air-L] CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS (Second Round)

[Hakikur Rahman]

CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS (Second Round)
Proposal Submission Deadline: June 30, 2012
Full Chapter Submission Deadline: September 30, 2012
Ethical Data Mining Applications for Socio-Economic Development
A book edited by Dr. Hakikur Rahman and Dr. 
Isabel Ramos, University of Minho, Portugal

To be published by IGI Global: http://www.igi-global.com

(Call for the chapter:
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Introduction
Data mining is the process of discovering 
significant, valuable and interesting structures 
and relationships in large and complex volumes of 
data, especially in data-enriched areas like 
finance, insurance, marketing, technology, 
science, engineering, research, environmental and 
biomedical sciences, and in many other 
socio-economic domains. In the socio-economic 
aspect of a society, data mining applications 
essentially act as effective instruments for 
providing support to health care facilities, 
electronics-based commerce, supermarket 
purchases, stock trades, insurance claims 
conducted on-line, or measuring socio-economic 
pattern of a society. This way, a wealth of 
information can be amassed about not only on 
clients´ habits and their preferences, but also 
about the behavior pattern, purchase pattern, 
sales pattern, stock pattern and even profit 
forecast. However, practitioners often seek 
personal information not directly from the 
participants themselves, but from other collected 
sources, and this may lead to unreliability about 
the source with privacy protection, and raises 
ethical concern. Social and ethical matters are 
nowadays concerns to the society, of which people 
are the only elements. Furthermore, in the days 
of technology innovations, computers are being 
manipulated with programs to act more like 
people, and eventually several social and ethical 
matters come into focus related to computer 
programming, or artificial intelligence. Hence, 
learning about ethical issues on data mining 
applications is an important area of research interest.

Overall Objective of the Book
The ethical conduct of research is becoming an 
important element of modern scientific research. 
In these days, computer science and its 
technological remnants touch nearly every aspect 
of human life, and computer scientists must 
conduct and report their research in an ethical 
manner. The book will provide an overview on 
ethical issues in research for development of 
ICTs, and socio-economic development aspects. 
This book will also collate scientific 
developments with ethical issues, develop 
theories in relation to researches with ethical 
impediments, examine potential ethical dilemmas 
in this discipline, synthesize experimental cases 
to develop models as success cases and discuss 
how ethical concerns may be addressed to tackle 
these situations. Finally, the book looks to make 
an in-depth study on other areas of ethical 
concern and future development of a common 
acceptable code for ethical computer science research.

Target Audience
As an emerging subject, the target audiences are 
expected to be from the scientists, researchers, 
and practitioners working in the field of data 
mining, data warehousing, database management and 
information systems technologies. Furthermore, 
the audience will include among various 
stakeholders, like academics, research 
institutes, and individuals those are interested 
in this field, and most of all among the huge 
audience in the public sector comprising 
government agencies, ministries, education 
institutions, health service providers, financial 
service providers, social service providers and 
other types of government, commercial and not-for-profit agencies.

Recommended topics for chapters include, but are not limited to, the following:
•       primary data, methods and procedures to 
create compilations of accurate reporting with ethical issues;
•       primary data that are based on human 
observation to be treated for prompt recording and accurate presentation;
•       preservation of record for future use and intelligent decision making;
•       recording sufficient detail of data to 
preserve the record of factors that might turn out to be significant;
•       develop methods that minimizes doubt 
about the time of the occurrence or the time at which it was recorded;
•       data record that should be kept 
reasonably free from risk of damage or ethical concerns;
•       necessary research materials that should 
be made available to others who attempt to replicate similar research works;
•       creation, maintenance and preservation of 
large amount of data, content and record;
•       preserving the confidentiality of 
sensitive information about human subjects, if any, in the data record; and
•       preservation of research data for a 
reasonable number of years after the appearance 
of final reports or publications resulting from the research.
•       More broadly, topics may follow these issues:
-       web-based publication and dissemination of data,
-       development of natural language database 
search aids for the humanities,
-       development of social science geographical information systems,
-       data mining and social science data exploration and description,
-       creation of an open source digital 
library system for quantitative data for easier dissemination,
-       establishment of a federation of 
geographically distributed interoperable anthropology databases,
-       establishment of a large international 
consortia of data sets supporting storage and 
dissemination of social science data, or
-       establishment of localized databases as 
per local demand in local languages.

Submission Procedure
Researchers and practitioners are invited to 
submit on or before June 30, 2012 (second round), 
a 2-3 page proposal clearly explaining the 
mission and concerns of his or her proposed 
chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be 
notified by July 15, 2012 about the status of 
their proposals and sent case guidelines. Full 
chapters are expected to be submitted by 
September 30, 2012. All submitted cases will be 
reviewed on a double-blind review basis. 
Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project.

Publisher
This book is scheduled to be published by IGI 
Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of 
the “Information Science Reference” (formerly 
Idea Group Reference), “Medical Information 
Science Reference,” and “IGI Publishing” 
imprints. For additional information regarding 
the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com. 
This publication is anticipated to be released in 2013.

Important Dates:
June 30, 2012:          Proposal Submission Deadline (Second round)
July 15, 2012:          Notification of Acceptance
September 30, 2012:     Full Chapter Submission
October 30, 2012:       Review Result Returned
November 30, 2012:      Final Chapter Submission

Editorial Advisory Board Members:
Ali Serhan Koyuncugil, University of Baskent, Turkey
Ángela-Jo Medina, Financial Literacy Coalition of Central Texas, USA
Derya Altunbas, Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Turkey
Kam Hou Vat, University of Macau, Macau
Georgios Lappas, Technological Educational Institute, Greece.

Inquiries and Submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document) to:
Hakikur Rahman
Post Doc Researcher
University of Minho
Dept of Information System, Azurem Campus
4800-058 Guimaraes, Portugal.
(Adjunct Prof., BSMRAU, Bangladesh)
Tel.: +351 253 510 319 • FAX: +351 253 510 300 • GSM: +351 960193872
E-mail: email at hakik.org