2012 - Information Reuse and Integration In Academia And Industry By Springer Verlag

Call for Book Chapters
Title : Information Reuse and Integration In Academia And Industry
By Springer Verlag
Editors: Tansel Özyer, Keivan Kianmehr, Mehmet Tan, Jia Zeng

Motivation

Over the past decades, huge volumes of data have been produced and
stored, large number of software systems have been developed and
successfully utilized, various products have been manufactured. Not
all these developments could have been achieved without the investment
of money, time, effort, and other resources. Over time, new data
sources evolve and data integration continue to be an essential and
vital requirement. Further, systems and products should be revised to
adapt new technologies and to satisfy new needs. Instead of building
from scratch, researchers in the academia and industry have realized
the benefits of and concentrated on building new software systems by
reusing some of the components that already exist and have been well
tested. This trend avoids reinventing the wheel, however, comes at the
cost of finding out the best set of existing components to be utilized
and how they should be integrated together and with the new non-
existing components which are to be developed from scratch. These are
nontrivial tasks and have led to challenging research problems in the
academia and industry. All these issues will be addressed in this
book, which is intended to be a unique resource for researchers,
developers and practitioners. The book will cover the latest
developments and discoveries related to information reuse and
integration in the academia and in the industry.

Scope

The scope of the book will be information reuse and integration in
academia and industry including both software and manufacturing
industries. The aim of the book is to maximize the reuse of
information, tools and services by creating simple, rich, and reusable
knowledge representations, to explore strategies for integrating this
knowledge into legacy systems. A homogeneous set of papers will be
selected by considering the following major topics.
Topics of the main areas to be considered:
Large-scale data and system integration
Component-based design and reuse
Unifying data models (uml, xml, etc.) and ontologies
Database integration
Structured/semi-structured data
Middleware & web services
Reuse in software engineering
Data mining and knowledge discovery
Sensory and information fusion
Reuse in modeling & simulation
Automation, integration and reuse across various applications
Information security & privacy
Survivable systems & infrastructures
Ai & decision support systems
Heuristic optimization and search
Knowledge acquisition and management
Fuzzy and neural systems
Soft computing
Evolutionary computing
Case-based reasoning
Natural language understanding
Knowledge management and e-government
Command & control systems (c4isr)
Human-machine information systems
Space and robotic systems
Biomedical & healthcare systems
Homeland security & critical infrastructure protection
Manufacturing systems & business process engineering
Multimedia systems
Service-oriented architecture
Autonomous agents in web-based systems
Information integration in grid computing environments
Information integration in mobile computing environments
Information integration in ubiquitous computing environments
Systems of systems
Semantic web and emerging applications
Information reuse, integration and sharing in collaborative
environments
Social network analysis
Web 2.0
Knowledge engineering
Intrusion detection and surveillance analysis
Ubiquitous systems
Ambient intelligence
Context aware systems

Target audience

Researchers and practitioner from academia, industry, and government
Submission guidelines

-Papers reporting original and unpublished research results pertaining
to the above topics are solicited.
-Submitted papers will follow an academic peer review process. Full
Paper manuscripts must be in English by 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 can submit your manuscript to: https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/ACAIN2012/

Tentative deadlines

15 October 2011 : Paper Submission
01 February 2012 : Notification of Acceptance
01 April 2012 : Revisions Due
01 May 2012 : Final Notification of Acceptance

Editors


Tansel Özyer

Department of Computer Engineering

Tobb University, Ankara Turkey

ozyer-AT-etu.edu.tr

Keivan Kianmehr

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,

University of Western Ontario

kkianmeh-AT-uwo.ca

Mehmet Tan

Department of Computer Engineering

Tobb University, Ankara Turkey

mtan-AT-etu.edu.tr

Jia Zeng

Baylor College of Medicine

Houston Texas

jzeng-AT-bcm.edu