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
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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
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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
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Researchers and practitioner from academia, industry, and government
Submission guidelines
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-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
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15 October 2011 : Paper Submission
01 February 2012 : Notification of Acceptance
01 April 2012 : Revisions Due
01 May 2012 : Final Notification of Acceptance

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

Keivan Kianmehr
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Western Ontario
kkianmeh [at] uwo [dot] ca

Mehmet Tan
Department of Computer Engineering
Tobb University, Ankara Turkey
mtan[at] etu [dot] edu [dot] tr

Jia Zeng
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston Texas
jzeng [at] bcm [dot] edu