[AISWorld] IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI) Call for Papers

[Anna Squicciarini]

CALL FOR PAPERS
 
The 16th IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI)
November 9-11, 2018, Miami, Florida, USA
 
http://isi18.azurewebsites.net/
 
Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI) research is an interdisciplinary research field involving academic researchers in information technologies, computer science, public policy, bioinformatics, computational social science, social computing, medical informatics, and social and behavioural 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’s missions of anticipation, interdiction, prevention, preparedness and response to terrorist acts.
The annual IEEE International Conference on ISI (IEEE ISI) was started in 2003 in Tucson, Arizona. Since then, the conference has been hosted in Atlanta, San Diego, New Brunswick, Taipei, Dallas, Vancouver, Beijing, Seattle, Washington DC, the Hague, Baltimore, Tucson, and Beijing. Over the past 15 years, the IEEE ISI Conference has evolved from its traditional orientation of intelligence and security domain towards a more integrated alignment of multiple domains, including technology, humans, organization, and security. The scientific community has increasingly recognized the need to address intelligence and security threats by understanding the interrelationships between these different components, and by integrating recent advances from different domains. This year, the IEEE ISI conference will be held in Miami, Florida, USA.
CONFERENCE TOPICS
We invite academic researchers in the field of Intelligence and Security Informatics and related areas as well as law enforcement and intelligence experts, and industry consultants and practitioners in the field to submit papers and workshop proposals.
 
ISI 2018 Submissions may include systems, methodology, test-bed, modelling, evaluation, and policy papers.  Research should be relevant to informatics, organization, public policy, or human behaviour in applications of counter-terrorism or protection of local/ national/ international security in the physical world and/or cyberspace.  
ISI 2018 TOPICS INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO:
 
Security Analytics and Threat Intelligence
Threat pattern models and modelling tools
Real-time situational awareness
Intrusion and cybersecurity threat detection and analysis
Cyber-physical-social  system security and incident management
Computing and networking infrastructure protection
Crime analysis and prevention
Forecasting threats and measuring the impact of threats
Surveillance and intelligence through unconventional means
Information security management standards
Information systems security policies
Mobile and cloud computing security
Big data analytics for cybersecurity
Machine learning for cybersecurity 
Artificial Intelligence for cybersecurity 
Resilient cyber infrastructure design and protection

Data Science and Analytics in Security Informatics
Data representation and fusion for security informatics
Criminal/intelligence information extraction
Data sharing and information visualization for security informatics
Web-based intelligence monitoring and analysis
Spatial-temporal data analysis for crime analysis and security informatics
Criminal/intelligence machine learning and data mining
Bio-terrorism tracking, alerting, and analysis
Digital forensics and computational criminology
Financial and accounting  fraud analysis
Consumer-generated content and security-related social media analytics
Security-related social network analysis (radicalization, fund-raising, recruitment, conducting  operations)
Authorship analysis and identification
Terrorism related analytical methodologies and software tools
Human Behaviour and Factors in Security Applications
Behaviour issues in information systems security
HCI and user interfaces of relevance to intelligence and security
Social impacts of crime and terrorism
Board activism and influence
Measuring the effectiveness of counter-terrorism campaigns
Citizen education and training
Understanding user behaviour in that has potential security risks
Security risks about user behaviour in information systems
Human behaviour modelling, representation and prediction for security applications
Organizational, National, and International Issues in Counter-terrorism and other Security Applications
Best practices in counter-terrorism or security protection
Information sharing policy and governance
Privacy, security, and civil liberties issues
Emergency response and management
Disaster prevention, detection, and management
Protection of  transportation and communications infrastructure
Communication and decision support for research and rescue
Assisting citizens' responses to terrorism and catastrophic events
Border security
Accounting and IT auditing
Corporate governance and monitoring
Election fraud and political use and abuse
SUBMISSION FORMAT AND PUBLICATION
We accept three types of paper submissions on the topics of the proposed tracks and related topics: long paper (max. 6 pages), short paper (max. 3 pages), and poster (1 page). Submission format is PDF.  Consult the IEEE publications page at http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html for information on formatting. Papers will be submitted through the EasyChair portal and review system. The submission Web page for IEEE ISI 2018: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=isi2018

The accepted papers from ISI 2018 and its affiliated workshops will be published by the IEEE Press in formal Proceedings. IEEE ISI Proceedings are EI-indexed.
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 Anna Cinzia Squicciarini,
 Associate Professor
 College of Information Sciences and Technology
 The Pennsylvania State University
 asquicciarini.ist.psu.edu