To Colleagues and Friends: CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS Proposal Submission Deadline: May 30, 2012 Full Chapter Submission Deadline: July 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: http://www.igi-global.com/authorseditors/authoreditorresources/callforbookch...) 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 May 30, 2012, 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 June 15, 2012 about the status of their proposals and sent case guidelines. Full cases are expected to be submitted by July 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: May 30, 2012: Proposal Submission Deadline June 15, 2012: Notification of Acceptance July 30, 2012: Full Chapter Submission August 30, 2012: Review Result Returned September 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: Prof. Hakikur Rahman University of Minho DSI, Azurem 4800-058 Guimaraes, Portugal. Tel.: +351 253 510 319 FAX: +351 253 510 300 GSM: +351 960193872 E-mail: email@hakik.org