Topics: Areas of Interest

Submissions are now closed. Submission topics for this conference included systems, methodology, testbed, modeling, evaluation, policy, and position papers. Research presented could be relevant to informatics, organization, and/or public policy in applications of counter-terrorism or protection of local/ national/ international security in the physical world and/or cyberspace. Topics included but were not limited to the following:

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
• 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