[AISWorld] [CFP] IEEE Intl. Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI) 2016

[Larson, Catherine A - (catheril)]

 IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI) 2016

       CALL FOR PAPERS

**  Conference Theme: Cybersecurity and Big Data **

27--30 September 2016
Tucson, AZ, USA
http://www.isi-conf.org/


** IMPORTANT DATES **

  * Deadline for paper submission: May 16, 2016
  * Deadline for workshop proposals: May 16, 2016
  * Notification of acceptance: July 1, 2016
  * Camera ready copies: July 10, 2016
  * Conference: September 27-30, 2016

INTRODUCTION

Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI) research is an interdisciplinary research field involving academic researchers in information technologies, computer science, public policy,bio- informatics, medical informatics, and social and behavior studies; local, state, and federal law enforcement and intelligence experts; and information technology industry consultants and practitioners. 
ISI supports counterterrorism and homeland security's missions of anticipation, prevention, preparedness and response to terrorist acts and other security events, in physical, cyber, enterprise, and societal spaces. In addition, safeguarding privacy and keeping data secure over the long-term is especially important to many sectors, including but not limited to medicine, banking, commerce, and government.

The annual IEEE International Conference Series on 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, and Baltimore. Over the past thirteen years, the IEEE ISI Conference has evolved and now integrates multiple domains, including technology, humans, organization, and security. 
IEEE ISI 2016 will return to the birthplace of this conference series, Tucson, Arizona. The conference theme will be Cybersecurity and Big Data.
In addition to the main academic conference, multiple satellite events centered around the cybersecurity theme will be organized as well.

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 fields to submit papers and workshop proposals.

ISI 2016 will be organized in four main tracks focusing on:
  * Cybersecurity Analytics and Threat Intelligence
  * Data Science and Analytics in Security Informatics
  * Human Behavior and Factors in the Security Applications
  * Organizational, National, and International Issues in
    Counter-terrorism and other Security Applications

Submissions may include systems, methodology, test-bed, modeling, evaluation, and policy papers. Research should be relevant to informatics, organization, public policy, or human behavior in applications of counter-terrorism or protection of local/ national/ international security in the physical world or cyberspace.  See specific topic suggestions below.


SUBMISSION FORMAT AND PUBLICATION

We accept three types of paper submissions on the topics of the proposed tracks and related topics: long paper (max. six pages), short paper (max. three pages), and poster (one page). Submission format is PDF.  See more information on the CFP page at http://www.isi-conf.org/

The accepted papers from ISI 2016 and its affiliated workshops will be published by the IEEE Press in formal Proceedings. IEEE ISI Proceedings are EI-indexed.


WORKSHOPS

Proposals in PDF or Microsoft Word not exceeding three pages should be emailed to the conference organizing committee at zeng at email.arizona.edu by May 16, 2016 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 the list of potential
    presenters/contributors


SUBMISSION TOPIC SUGGESTIONS

Topics include but are not limited to:

  * Cybersecurity Analytics and Threat Intelligence
      - Threat pattern models and modeling 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
      - Cybercrime 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
      - 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, recruitment, conducting operations)
      - Authorship analysis and identification
      - Terrorism related analytical methodologies and software tools

  * Human Behavior and Factors in Security Applications
      - Behavior issues in information systems security
      - HCI and user interfaces of relevance to intelligence and security
      - Social impacts of cybercrime and terrorism
      - Board activism and influence
      - Measuring the effectiveness of counter-terrorism campaigns
      - Citizen education and training
      - Understanding user behavior in that has potential security risks
      - Security risks about user behavior in information systems
      - Human behavior modeling, 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 search 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 SYSTEM OPENING SOON.  See http://www.isi-conf.org/ for more information and details.