Call for Book Chapters

Title: Studies in  Mining Social Networks and Security Informatics by
Springer Verlag
Editors: Zeki Erdem, Tansel Ozyer, Suheil Khoury, Jon Rokne

Motivation
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Recent studies in social networks and security informatics gained
attraction from the industry and academia. Advances in information
technologhy rendered the use of almost every kind of data such as web,
health, social networking sites, bibliographic data, political,
homeland-related data as well as any other types of data intrinsically
having the network structure. The common feature of the data is that
it can be well represented with graph structure and can be mined to
accomplish given tasks by using data mining techniques including
artificial intelligence, machine learning, statistics, and stochastic
methods.

Scope
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General areas of interest to the book include information science and
mathematics, communication studies, business and organizational
studies, sociology, psychology, anthropology, applied linguistics,
homeland security studies, biology and medicine.

Topics
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More specialized topics within Social Network Analysis and Mining
include, but are not limited to:

Anomaly detection
Application of social network analysis and mining
Authorship analysis and identification for security informatics
Community discovery and analysis in large scale online and offline
social networks
Community discovery and analysis in social networks
Computational Criminology
Contextual social network analysis and mining
Crime data mining and network analysis
Criminal network visualization
Cybercrime/cyber terrorism and anaylsis
Dark Web
Detection of communities by document and text analysis
Detection of communities in the Web
Detection of patterns in the Web
Dynamics and evolution patterns of social networks
Graph algorithms for social network analysis
Graph matching
Graph Mining Techniques and Applications to Social Network Analysis
Group detection and discovery
Impact of social networks on recommendations systems
Social network construction
Link Analysis, prediction and Mining
Misuse detection in communities
Open source intelligence
Organized crime detection
Pattern Detection and Analysis
Political and economical impact of social network analysis
Preparing data for Web mining
Privacy issues in Security Informatics
Privacy issues in social networks
Recommendations for product purchase, and  information acquisition
Scalability of social networks
Spatio-temporal analysis on social networks
Spatio-temporal data mining for crime analysis and security
informatics
Terrorism Informatics
Terrorist threats prediction
Visual representation of dynamic social networks
Web mining

Submission guidelines
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- Papers reporting original and unpublished research results
pertaining to the above topics are solicited.
- Full paper submission deadline is January 08, 2012. These papers
will follow an academic review process.
- Full paper manuscripts must be in English with a maximum length of
25 pages preferred(using the LNCS template).
- Submissions should include the title, author(s), affiliation(s), e-
mail address(es), tel/fax numbers, abstract,
  and postal address(es) on the first page.
- You should submit your expanded paper using the easychair.org
- submission site: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=snsi2012.
- The attachment must be in PDF.

Tentative deadlines
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Submissions Due                 : 08 January 2011
Notification of Acceptance      : 23 February 2012
Revised version due             : 23 March 2012
Final Notification of Acceptance: 23 April 2012
Final camera-ready version      : 13 May 2012
Summer 2012                     : Publication Date (tentative)

Selection criteria
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Papers will be selected based on their originality, timeliness,
significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. Authors should
certify that their papers represent substantially new previously
unpublished work.

Editors
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    Zeki Erdem
    The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey
    BILGEM Information Technologies Institute
    Gebze, Kocaeli Turkey
    zeki [dot] erdem at bte [dot] tubitak [dot] gov [dot] tr

    Tansel Ozyer
    Department of Computer Engineering
    Tobb University, Ankara Turkey
    ozyer [at] etu [dot] edu [dot] tr

    Suheil Khoury
    American University of Sharjah
    Department of Mathematics and Statistics
    Sharjah, UAE
    skhoury [at] aus [dot] edu

    Jon Rokne
    Department of Computer Science
    University of Calgary
    Calgary, AB Canada
    rokne [at] ucalgary [dot] ca

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