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Nick,
Can you give more context? - Springer is one of the sponsors of the website you suggest:
http://www.springeropen.com/
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Subject: Re: [SOCNET] Call for Book Chapters--Studies in Mining Social Networks and Security Informatics
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I call on all academics not to play into this. There are better ways to get your research known--and now with the deluge of social software we are making better ways all the time. It always seemed to me that a fundamental principle of academia was the sharing of knowledge openly.
Don't support this company anymore! See http://openaccessweek.org/
I know I don't have a lot of weight on this list, but I think if I can make some of you question this then I will have done some good in the world.
On Sun, 20 Nov 2011 06:52:30 +0200, Tansel Özyer wrote:
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> Call for Book Chapters--Studies in Mining Social Networks and
> Security Informatics by Springer Verlag
>
> Editors: Zeki Erdem, Tansel Özyer,Suheil Khoury, Jon Rokne
>
> Recent studies in social networks and security informatics gained
> attraction from the industry and academia. Advances in information
> technologhy rendered the use of almost every kind of data such as web,
> health, social networking sites, bibliographic data, political,
> homeland-related data as well as any other types of data intrinsically
> having the network structure. The common feature of the data is that
> it can be well represented with graph structure and can be mined to
> accomplish given tasks by using data mining techniques including
> artificial intelligence, machine learning, statistics, and stochastic
> methods.
>
> General areas of interest to the book include information science and
> mathematics, communication studies, business and organizational
> studies, sociology, psychology, anthropology, applied linguistics,
> homeland security studies, biology and medicine.
>
> More specialized topics within Social Network Analysis and Mining
> include, but are not limited to:
>
> [snipped]
>
>
> Tentative deadlines
> Papers reporting original and unpublished research results pertaining
> to the above topics are solicited. Full paper submission deadline is
> January 08, 2012. These papers will follow an academic review process.
> Full paper manuscripts must be in English with a maximum length of 25
> pages preferred(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
> should submit your expanded paper using the easychair.org submission
> site: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=snsi2012. The
> attachment must be in PDF.
>
> Submissions Due: 08 January 2011
> Notification of Acceptance: 23 February 2012 Revised version due: 23
> March 2012 Final Notification of Acceptance: 23 April 2012 Final
> camera-ready version: 13 May 2012
> Summer 2012 : Publication Date (tentative)
>
> Papers will be selected based on their originality, timeliness,
> significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. Authors should
> certify that their papers represent substantially new previously
> unpublished work.
In response to this, I can only quote Scott Aaronson
(http://www.scottaaronson.com/writings/journal.html):
"I have an ingenious idea for a company. My company will be in the business of selling computer games. But, unlike other computer game companies, mine will never have to hire a single programmer, game designer, or graphic artist. Instead I'll simply find people who know how to make games, and ask them to donate their games to me. Naturally, anyone generous enough to donate a game will immediately relinquish all further rights to it. From then on, I alone will be the copyright-holder, distributor, and collector of royalties. This is not to say, however, that I'll provide no "value-added." My company will be the one that packages the games in 25-cent cardboard boxes, then resells the boxes for up to $300 apiece. "
Tansel, I realize you're just doing your job and just trying to get by, but I can't abide it. I don't mean this as an affront to you, I mean it as an affront to the way research is carried out these days.
-Nick Guenther
4A Computational Mathematics
University of Waterloo
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