Book Series on
Methods and Applications in Data Mining

Call for Proposals

Vision:
The field of data mining is growing rapidly.  Many people from a wide variety of backgrounds would like to learn about data mining.  Thus, there is a need for a set of textbooks whose aim is to provide lucid, hands-on demonstrations of the growing variety of data mining methods and applications.  Our vision for the Wiley Series on Methods and Applications in Data Mining is to publish books that focus on actually doing data mining, in addition to research and theory.  

Potential Topics
The following represents a non-exhaustive listing of suggested topics for book proposals.  Feel free to suggest a topic of interest not listed here.

  • Analytical Customer Relationship Management

  • Data Visualization

  • Data Mining for Business

  • Machine Learning

  • Web Usage Mining

  • Data Mining for Market Researchers

  • Fraud Detection Using Data Mining Techniques

  • Biomarker Discovery

  • Case Studies in Data Mining

  • Data Mining for the Insurance Industry

  • Data Mining in Drug Discovery

  • Data Mining for Finance

  • Data Mining for Homeland Security

Published Titles in the Series
1.  Discovering Knowledge in Data: An Introduction to Data Mining, by Daniel Larose, 2005.
2.  Data Mining Methods and Models, by Daniel Larose, 2006.
3.  Data Mining the Web: Uncovering Patterns in Web Content, Structure, and Usage, by Zdravko Markov and Daniel Larose, 2007 

Titles in Press
4.  Data Mining for Genomics and Proteomics, by Darius Dziuda
5.  Practical Text Mining, by Roger Bilisoly
6.  An Introduction to Machine Learning with Support Vector Machines, by Lutz Hamel

Invitation
If writing a book along these lines appeals to you, why not drop an email to me, Series Editor Daniel Larose at larosed@ccsu.edu.  I will be happy to discuss your ideas.  We can then talk about next steps.  I look forward to working with you!

Series Editor
Daniel T. Larose, Ph.D.
Professor of Statistics and Data Mining
Director of Data Mining @CCSU
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Central Connecticut State University

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