ISI 2012 - IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI )

Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI) research is an interdisciplinary research field involving academic researchers in information technologies, computer science, public policy, bioinformatics, and social and behavior studies as well as local, state, and federal law enforcement and intelligence experts, and information technology industry consultants and practitioners to support counterterrorism and homeland security missions of anticipation, interdiction, prevention, preparedness and response to terrorist acts. The annual IEEE International ISI Conference series (http://www.isiconference.org/) was started in 2003, and the first nine meetings were held in Tucson, AZ (twice); Atlanta, GA; San Diego, CA; New Brunswick, NJ; Taipei, Taiwan; Dallas, TX; Vancouver, Canada; and Beijing, China. Proceedings of these ISI meetings and workshops have been published by the IEEE Press and in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.
ISI 2012 will be organized in four main streams focusing on
Information Sharing and Data/Text Mining,
Infrastructure Protection and Emergency Responses,
Terrorism Informatics, and
Enterprise Risk Management and Information Systems Security
Submissions may include systems, methodology, testbed, modeling, evaluation, and policy papers. Research should be relevant to informatics, organization, or public policy in applications of counter-terrorism or protection of local/ national/international security in the physical world or cyberspace. Topics include but are not limited to:
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
Forecasting crime and the impact of crime
Criminal/intelligence information sharing and visualization
Crime pattern recognition and modeling tools
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
Infrastructure Protection and Emergency Responses
Cyber-Physical-Social system security and incident management
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
Law Enforcement decision support systems
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
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
Enterprise Risk Management and Information Systems Security
Information security management standards
Information systems security policies
Behavior issues in information systems security
Fraud detection
Cyber crime and social impacts
Corporate going concerns and risks
Accounting and IT auditing
Corporate governance and monitoring
Board activism and influence
Corporate sentiment surveillance
Market influence analytics and media intelligence
Consumer-generated media and social media analytics
Paper submission instructions and template information can soon be found on the Submissions page at http://isi.borders.arizona.edu/
WORKSHOPS
In conjunction with ISI 2012, several workshops will be held on June 11, 2012. The currently committed ones include (1) the Border Security Workshop, (2) the Immigration Studies Workshop, and (3) the International Workshop on Social Computing (SoCo). Workshop proposals are welcome.
IMPORTANT DATES
paper submission due date for ISI 2012: February 15, 2012
Notification of acceptance: March 15, 2012
The due date for Tutorial/ Workshop proposals: February 27, 2012
PAPER SUBMISSION
Submission file formats are PDF and Microsoft Word. Required Word/LaTeX templates (IEEE two-column format) can be found at the conference Web site. Long (6,000 words, 6 pages max.) and short (3000 words, 3 pages max.) papers in English must be submitted electronically via the conference Web site. The accepted papers from ISI 2012 and its affiliated workshops will be published by the IEEE Press in a formal Proceedings. IEEE ISI Proceedings are EI-indexed. Authors who wish to present a poster and/or demo may submit a 1-page extended abstract, which, if selected, will appear in Proceedings. The selected IEEE ISI 2012 best papers will be invited for contribution to the new Springer Security Informatics journal.
Proposals for tutorials and special-topic workshops in any areas of Intelligence and Security Informatics research and practice are welcome. Such events will be an integral part of the ISI-2012 conference program. Proposals in PDF or Microsoft Word not exceeding 3 pages should be emailed to the conference organizing committee at zeng-AT-email.arizona.edu by February 27, 2012 and contain the following information.
Title of tutorial/workshop
Preferred duration (half day vs. full day)
Brief bios of proposed instructor(s)/organizer(s)
Objectives to be achieved
Scope of topics to be covered
Target audience and evidence of interest (for tutorials)
Target audience and the list of potential presenters/contributors (for workshops)