2010 IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics

Topics: Areas of Interest

Submissions may include systems, methodology, testbed, modeling, evaluation, policy, and position papers. Research should be relevant to informatics, organization, and/or public policy in applications of counter-terrorism or protection of local/ national/ international/global security in the physical world and/or cyberspace. Topics include but are not limited to:

1. Information Sharing and Data/Text Mining

Intelligence-related knowledge discovery
Computer or cyber crime investigations and digital forensics
Criminal investigative criteria and standard of procedure on Computer crime
Criminal data mining and network analysis
Criminal/ intelligence information sharing and visualization
Web-based intelligence monitoring and analysis
Spatial-temporal data analysis/GIS for crime analysis and security informatics
Deception and intent detection
Cyber-crime detection and analysis
Authorship analysis and identification
Applications of digital library technologies in intelligence data processing, preservation, sharing, and analysis
Agents and collaborative systems for intelligence sharing
HCI and user interfaces of relevance to intelligence and security
Information sharing policy and governance
Privacy, security, and civil liberties issues
Intelligence-computerized community security and surveillance system

2. Infrastructure Protection and Emergency Responses

Cyber-infrastructure design and protection
Intrusion detection
Bio-terrorism tracking, alerting, and analysis
Bio-terrorism information infrastructure
Transportation and communication infrastructure protection
Border/transportation safety
Emergency response and management
Disaster prevention, detection, and management
Communication and decision support for search and rescue
Assisting citizens' responses to terrorism and catastrophic events
Computer forensics and crime lead discovery
Anti-fraud information technology

3. Terrorism Informatics

Terrorism related analytical methodologies and software tools
Terrorism knowledge portals and databases
Terrorist incident chronology databases
Terrorism root cause analysis
Social network analysis (radicalization, recruitment, conducting operations),
visualization, and simulation
Forecasting terrorism
Countering terrorism
Measuring the impact of terrorism on society
Measuring the effectiveness of counter-terrorism campaigns
Crime intelligence and cyberspace crime investigation
Immigration and security

4. Computational Criminology

Crime pattern recognition and modeling tools
Offender social network analysis (infrequent to frequent offenders)
Crime generators and crime attractors
Forecasting crime and the impact of crime
Drug, gang and special crime analysis and modeling tools
Data mining and data fusion of crime - urban databases
Dynamic information systems analysis for crime and place
Privacy and security in crime and justice system data
Spatial and temporal analysis and software tools
Law Enforcement decision support systems
Cybercrime