European Intelligence & Security Informatics Conference 2011

The following is the CfP for the European Intelligence & Security Informatics Conference 2011, which is due to take place in Athens, Greece, from 12 - 14 September 2011.

It's largely a computer science event, but interesting for all that, particularly for those interested in doing any kind of large N research on terrorism and the Net and/or adopting IT tools for their research. The hardest part, if one isn't a computer scientist and plan on submitting a paper, is the requirement that one use LaTeX templates for same!

Lisa and I presented our paper Jihadi video and auto-radicalisation: Evidence from an exploratory YouTube study at the first EISIC conference in Esbjerg, Denmark, in December 2008.

Anyway, the CfP for EISIC 2011 is as follows:

Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI) research is an interdisciplinary research field involving academic researchers in information technologies, computer science, public policy, bioinformatics, medical informatics, 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 was started in 2003, and the first seven meetings were held in Tucson, AZ (2003 and 2004); Atlanta, GA (2005); San Diego, CA (2006); New Brunswick, NJ (2007); Taipei, Taiwan (2008); Dallas, TX (2009) and British Columbia, Canada (2010). Pacific Asian ISI (PAISI) conferences have been held since 2007 in Chengdu, China (2007); Taipei, Taiwan (2008); Bangkok, Thailand (2009); and Hyderabad India (2010).

The goal of EISIC 2011 is to gather people from previously disparate communities to provide a stimulating forum for exchange of ideas and results. We invite academic researchers (in information technologies, computer science, public policy, and social and behavioral studies), law enforcement and intelligence experts, as well as information technology companies, industry consultants and practitioners in the fields involved. EISIC 2011 will be held in Athens, Greece.

Submissions may include systems, methodology, testbeds, modeling, evaluation, policy, and position papers. Research should be relevant to informatics, organization, and/or public policy in applications of counterterrorism or protection of local/ national/ international/global security in the physical world and/or cyberspace. EISIC 2011 will be organized in four main streams focusing on

■Information Sharing and Data/Text Mining

■Infrastructure Protection and Emergency Responses

■Terrorism Informatics

■Computational Criminology


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

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 (8,000 words, 8 pages max.) and short (4000 words, 4 pages max.) papers in English must be submitted electronically via the conference Web site. The authors who wish to present a poster and/or demo may submit a 1‐page extended abstract, which, if selected, will appear in Proceedings.

For more info. navigate to http://www.eisic.eu/.