Informatics research has emerged as a key scientific discipline and applications domain in support of homeland security's mission of interdiction, preparedness and response to terrorist acts. Security informatics is a rapidly growing multidisciplinary area that crosscuts numerous disciplines, including computer science, information technology, engineering, public policy, medicine (medical informatics), biology (bioinformatics), social and behavioral studies, and modeling and analysis. The combination of intelligence and security informatics strives to make the most of integrating advanced information technologies and algorithms to support homeland security policies, organizations and operations both domestically and internationally. A key theme of this meeting is port security, where the term "port" is used in its broad sense, namely, as a point of entry/exit for secure flows of people and cargo. This conference aims to support the development and growth of a homeland-security epistemic community by providing a forum and podium for diverse communities with interest in homeland security: academia, government (local, state, federal law enforcement, intelligence experts, etc.) and industry (consultants and practitioners etc.). As such, this conference solicits contributions on both the science and practice of intelligence and security informatics. The conference proceedings are planned to be published as an IEEE publication
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