[AISWorld] An Invitation Letter for Encyclopedia of Business Analytics and Optimization (Round One)

[John Wang]

****Apologies if you receive more than one copy of this email from multiple
sources****

I would like to cordially invite you to consider contributing your
expertise to a forthcoming book entitled *Encyclopedia of **Business
Analytics and Optimization*.  As Editor, I am actively searching for
quality material that would be of interest to our audience. This is a
wonderful opportunity since contributing authors are generally viewed by
others as experts in the sub-field(s) of their chapter content. In
addition, you are more than welcome to forward this message to any
scholar(s) who might be interested in participating in this project.

“*It’s a revolution*,” says Gary King, director of Harvard’s Institute for
Quantitative Social Science. “We’re really just getting under way. But the
march of quantification, made possible by enormous new sources of data,
will sweep through academia, business and government. There is no area that
is going to be untouched.” (“The Age of Big Data” by Steve Lohr,
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/12/sunday-review/big-datas-impact-in-the-world.html?pagewanted=all
).

Yes, we are facing and witnessing a new age, which is highly data-driven
(“Big Data”). Data is the driver and motivator of business analytics research
and practice. These developments pose huge challenges, present new
opportunities, and demonstrate the importance and role of business
analytics in responding to and aiding in this new economy. Business
Analytics consists of four overlapping areas: Data Mining, Business Process
Optimization, Applied Business Statistics, and Business
Intelligence/Information systems. Business Analytics focuses on developing
new insights and understanding into business performance as a result of
different methods and techniques. This has been increasingly recognized by
organizations for their potential value and is considered a new path
towards transforming insights into action.

The *Encyclopedia of **Business Analytics and Optimization** *will provide
the latest in comprehensive coverage and up-to-date definitions of the most
important issues, concepts, trends and technologies in business analytics
and optimization. This publication will be distributed widely among
academic and professional institutions and will be instrumental in
providing managers, executives, researchers, scholars, students and
professionals’ access to the latest knowledge related to business analytics
and optimization. Contributions to this important publication will be made
by scholars throughout the world with notable research portfolios and
expertise.

Should you accept this invitation, you may email your proposal to me at
journalswang at gmail.com and/or prof.johnwang at gmail.com as soon as possible,
but no later than* June 15, 2012*. Your brief proposal should include: your
name, affiliation, selected topic title, classification (A: Data Mining; B:
Business Process Optimization; C: Applied Business Statistics; D: Business
Intelligence/Information systems; E: Other), and brief description of the
proposed article. You will be notified about the status of your proposal in
due course.  Should your proposal be accepted, you will have two months to
submit your chapter (3,000-5,000 words) upon which it will be sent for a
double-blind peer review. The book is scheduled to be published by IGI
Global, in early 2014. For more details regarding this publication, please
visit -

http://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/740

https://sites.google.com/site/encyclopediaofbusanaopt/

Please note there is no processing fee either for reviewing process or for
publication. Publisher will provide contributors to the encyclopedia with a
free copy of their published manuscript along with a copy of the cover page
of the publication. In addition, Publisher will provide each contributor to
the encyclopedia a 40% discount offer if they decide to purchase the entire
encyclopedia.

If you have any concerns or questions about this book, I will be glad to
discuss these with you. Please contact me at my email address mentioned
above.
*Important Dates*

Proposals Due:
 June 15, 2012 (Round One)

August 15, 2012 (Round Two)

October 15, 2012 (Round Three)

December 15, 2012 (Round Four)

Acceptance of Proposals Sent:                    Ongoing

Full Articles Due:                                            Two months
after proposals are accepted**

Reviews Completed and Returned:              Ongoing**

Revisions Due:                                                Ongoing (with
last article deadline on *February 15, 2013*)**

Tentative Publication:                                     Early 2014

* *

Further details and updates to the CFP can be found at -
https://sites.google.com/site/encyclopediaofbusanaopt/

Please contact me at any time with questions you may have by e-mailing
prof.johnwang at gmail.com


Best wishes,

John Wang, Professor, Montclair State University, USA

*Advisory Board:*

TBA

* *

*Possible List of Topics/Categories*

We are accepting article proposals within the following fields of research
for this exhaustive publication.  Please feel free to suggest other areas
related to your expertise, even if they are not specifically necessarily
listed below.* *

·         Behavioral sciences

·         Big Data applications

·         Big Data management

·         Big Data mining and analytics

·         Big Data processing tools

·         Big Data sharing

·         Big Data systems and tools

·         Big Data theory

·         Big Data visualization

·         Business forecasting

·         Business intelligence

·         Business mathematics

·         Business transformation

·         Collections analytics

·         Complementarity problems

·         Computational and numerical experiments

·         Computer simulations

·         Constrained programming

·         Control theory

·         Convex programming

·         Customer relationship management

·         Decision making in social setting

·         Decision making under uncertainty

·         Decision making with multimedia

·         Decision sciences

·         Decision theory

·         Digital analytics

·         Digital market design and operation

·         Distributed and federated datasets

·         Distributed file systems for Big Data

·         Dynamic programming

·         Electronic commerce

·         Ethical decision making

·         Financial Services analytics

·         Fractional programming

·         Fraud analytics

·         Fuzzy information processing

·         Fuzzy optimization

·         Game theory

·         Global optimization

·         Group decision making and software

·         Heuristic programming

·         Informatics

·         Information technology

·         Intelligent agents technologies

·         Intelligent organizations

·         Large data stream processing on cloud

·         Large incremental datasets on cloud

·         Large scale optimization

·         Linear programming

·         Marketing analytics

·         Mathematical optimization

·         Mathematics of decision sciences

·         Metaheuristic algorithms

·         Methods of decision making

·         Modeling of service, industrial, and environmental processes

·         Multi-objective programming

·         Multiple criteria decision making

·         Multiple source data processing and integration

·         Network and social-graph analysis

·         Network modeling and theory

·         New algorithmic approaches to Big Data

·         Nonlinear dynamic systems

·         Nonlinear programming

·         Nonsmooth programming

·         Numerical analysis & methods

·         Operational intelligence

·         Optimization

·         Parametric programming

·         Performance measurement

·         Perspectives of decision making

·         Political decision making

·         Predictive analytics**

·         Pricing analytics

·         Privacy preserving on cloud

·         Public decision making

·         Retail sales analytics

·         Revenue management

·         Risk & credit analytics

·         Robust decision making

·         Scenario and sensitivity analysis

·         Security & privacy in Big Data

·         Sequential decision making

·         Social media analytics

·         Soft, natural, and bio-inspired computing

·         Statistical decision

·         Statistical simulations and techniques

·         Stochastic programming

·         Styles of decision making

·         Supply Chain analytics

·         System analysis & theory

·         Targeted marketing

·         Text analytics

·         Theoretical development of Big Data

·         Transportation analytics

·         Volume, velocity and variety of Big Data on cloud

·         Web-based decision making

·         You name it
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