e-Forensics 2010

CALL FOR PAPERS

Updated 2010-8-9.
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SCOPE

Our society has entered an era where commerce activities, business transactions and government services have been, and more and more of them will be, conducted and offered over open networks such as Internet, which has led to new opportunities for criminals and new challenges for law enforcement. For instance, Voice over IP raises significant challenges for call intercept and route tracing;information systems are becoming overwhelmingly large and the challenge of information source identification requires new sophisticated tools; consumer multimedia devices, are increasingly becoming the tools to create potentially illegal content. At the same time, the scientific gathering and investigation of evidence at a crime scene push towards a variety of fascinating digital techniques.

As a matter of fact, electronic telecommunications, information technology, consumer devices and sophisticated software are creating new opportunities for both criminals and forensic investigators, thus this conference aims to bring together the research contributions in the development of tools and techniques which assist in the investigation of potentially illegal activity associated with electronic communication and electronic devices, and investigative practice and requirements for presentation of evidence in court are to be considered as the underlying themes. This might include discovery, analysis, handling and storage of digital evidence; meeting the legal burden of proof; and the establishment of the forensic chain of evidence.

Technical papers describing original, previously unpublished research, not currently under review by another conference or journal, are solicited.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

Digital evidence gathering, storage and handling protocols
Records tracing and data mining
Fraud management in commercial transactions
Device forensics
Techniques for addressing identity theft
Data carving
Content filtering
Geo-location techniques for cellular, ad-hoc, wireless and IP network communications
Distributed data association across massive, disparate database systems
Multimedia source identification
Image tamper identification
Image association and recognition
Motion analysis
Voice analysis
VoIP call tracing and intercept
Watermarking and applications
Cryptographic techniques in digital forensics

General papers on IT security will be considered where there is a clear application to the underlying topic of forensic investigation

PANELS / WORKSHOPS / TUTORIALS

Proposals for panels/workshops/tutorials are solicited. Potential organizers are welcome to submit a proposal to the Technical Program Committee Chair or General Chair. Deadline for workshop proposal is 1^st February, 2010 and the Notification of Acceptance of Workshop Proposals is 6^th February, 2010.(This process has already been finished.)

PUBLICATION

All accepted papers will be included in the printed and electronic E-Forensics 2010 Conference Proceedings to be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes of ICST (LNICST) Series and reviewed for indexing by various indexing services such as EI, ISI, DBLP, SCI Google Scholar, INSPEC/COMPENDEX, SCOPUS, EBSCO and ScitopiaEI. Selected papers will be recommended for publication on SCI-Indexed journals including Journal of Computer Science and Technology (JCST), China Communications, and Science in China.

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Paper submission will be handled electronically. Authors should prepare an Adobe Acrobat PDF version of their full paper. All submitted papers will be subject to a rigorous peer-review. Papers must be formatted using Springer LNICST Authors' Kit and submitted only through the ASSYST conference management system. Please visit the Submission page for detailed submission requirements and procedures.

Papers must not exceed the limit of 15 pages including text, figures and references. The font size must be at least 10 points.

IMPORTANT DATES

Deadline for Submission: 25^th May, 2010
Notification of Acceptance: 30^th June, 2010
Camera version deadline: 31^st August, 2010

STEERING COMMITTEE CHAIR

Imrich Chlamtac CREATE-NET, Italy

GENERAL CHAIRS

Dawu Gu Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Hui Li Xidian University, China

TECHNICAL PROGRAM CHAIRS

Xuejia Lai Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Xuejia Lai (Chair) Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Barry Blundell South Australia Police, Australia
Roberto Caldelli University of Florence, Italy
Kefei Chen Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Thomas Chen Swansea University, UK
Liping Ding Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Jordi Forne Technical University of Catalonia, Spain
Zeno Geradts The Netherlands Forensic Institute, Netherlands
Pavel Gladyshev University College Dublin, Ireland
Raymond Hsieh California University of Pennsylvania, USA
Jiwu Huang Sun Yat-Sen University, China
Bo Jin The 3rd Research Institute of Ministry of Public Security, China
Tai-hoon Kim Hannam University, Korea
Richard Leary Forensic Pathway, UK
Hui Li Xidian University, China
Xuelong Li University of London, UK
Jeng-Shyang Pan National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, Taiwan
Damien Sauveron University of Limoges, France,
Peter Stephenson Norwich University, USA
Javier Garcia Villalba Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
Jun Wang China Information Technology Security Evaluation Center, China,
Yongquan Wang East China University of Political Science and Law, China
Che-Yen Wen Central Police University, Taiwan
Svein Y. Willassen Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Weiqi Yan Queen's University Belfast, UK
Jianying Zhou Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore