The IEEE International Conferences on Intelligence and Security Informatics 2007

May 23 - 24, 2007
Hyatt Hotel, New Brunswick, NJ

Organizers:

Paul Kantor, Rutgers University, kantor@scils.rutgers.edu

Benjamin Melamed, Rutgers University, melamed@rbs.rutgers.edu

Gheorghe Muresan, Rutgers University, muresan@scils.rutgers.edu

Fred Roberts, Rutgers University, froberts@dimacs.rutgers.edu

• Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
• DIMACS-CAIT Laboratory for Port Security
• Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS)
• Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Information Privacy and Security

• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
  

Call for Participation:

Submissions in related research areas may include system, methodology, evaluation, technology, testbed, policy, and position papers. Research should be relevant to both informatics and homeland security. Topics include but are not limited to:

• I. Port Security and infrastructure Protection
  • Containerized cargo inspection technology
  • Contraband detection and identification technologies
  • Analysis and modeling of container and inspection operations
  • Deception and intent detection in people flows
  • Intrusion detection
  • Transportation and communication infrastructure protection
  • Cyberinfrastructure design and protection

• II. Peparedness / Response to High-Consequence Events
  • Web-based intelligence monitoring and analysis
  • Spatio-temporal data analysis/GIS for security informatics
  • Bio-terrorism tracking, alerting, and analysis
  • Bio-terrorism information infrastructure
  • 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
  • Economic impacts of security events and alerts on global supply chains

• III. Terrorism-Related Intelligence and Informatics
  • Intelligence-related data mining and knowledge discovery
  • Terrorism related analytical methodologies, software tools, visualization ,knowledge portals and databases
  • Agents and collaborative systems for intelligence sharing
  • Applications of digital library technologies to intelligence processing, sharing, and analysis
  • Terrorism root cause analysis
  • Social network analysis (radicalization, recruitment, operations), visualization, and simulation
  • Forecasting terrorism
  • Measuring counter-terrorism campaign effectiveness
  • Measuring terrorism impact on society
  • Privacy, security, and civil liberties issues
  • Authorship analysis and identification
  • Information sharing policy and governance

Long (6,000 words) and short (3,000) papers (in English) may be submitted electronically. Required Microsoft Word/LaTeX templates are at the conference Web site. Submission file formats are PDF and Microsoft Word. Authors wishing to present a poster and/or demo may submit a 500 word abstract, which will appear in the Proceedings.

Meet the Author Sessions. Authors of accepted papers are strongly encouraged to also discuss their findings in a "meet the author" poster/demo session. Authors of selected papers may be asked to submit extended versions of their work to a special issue on Intelligence & Security Informatics: IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics; IEEE Intelligent Systems; and IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems.

Important Dates

• Submission of full paper: December 15, 2006
• Submission of short paper: December 15, 2006
• Submission of poster/demo abstract: December 15, 2006
• Notification of acceptance: February 10, 2007
• Camera-ready copy due: February 28, 2007

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