[AISWorld] Springer Security Informatics Special Issue on Formal Concept Analysis

[Kaza, Siddharth]

Call for Papers: Special Issue on Formal Concept Analysis in Intelligence and Security Informatics
Journal: Security Informatics (Springer), Editor-in-Chief: Hsinchun Chen

Formal CFP: http://www.springer.com/cda/content/document/cda_downloaddocument/H9104_DF_SI_CFP_Global_A4%232_final.pdf?SGWID=0-0-45-1336556-0 

Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) emerged in the 1980's from attempts to restructure lattice theory in order to
promote better communication between lattice theorists and potential users of lattice theory. Since its early
years, Formal Concept Analysis has developed into a research field in its own right with a thriving theoretical
community and a rapidly expanding range of applications in information and knowledge processing including
visualization, data analysis (mining) and knowledge management.

Modern police organizations and intelligence services are confronted with an ever-increasing amount of
available information which can become a valuable source for tracking down criminal suspects. Important
challenges include the integration of heterogeneous data sources and visualizing this information such that a
human expert can gain insight in the data. This special issue focuses on theoretical extensions and applications
of Formal Concept Analysis in the Intelligence and Security Informatics domain.

In particular we welcome high quality submissions on the following topics:
 - Methods using FCA for analyzing internet data for security purposes: mining internet forums, blogs,
emails, chat conversations, image collections, video collections, social network data, etc.
- Applications of FCA in the fields of terrorism, human trafficking, organized crime, money laundering, etc.
- Techniques dealing with scalability issues of FCA, integrating FCA with other data visualization methods,
novel concept selection metrics etc. with applications in the security domain.

Manuscript submission due: October 15, 2012
First round of reviews: December 24, 2012
Publication Date: 2013

Lead Guest Editor
Jonas Poelmans, KU Leuven and Harvard University, Jonas.poelmans at gmail.com

Guest Editor
Siddharth Kaza, Towson University, skaza at towson.edu