[ecoop-info] ICST - CFP: e-Forensics 2008

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e-Forensics 2008:  
The 1st International Conference on Forensic Applications and Techniques 
in Telecommunications, Information and Multimedia

Adelaide, Australia, January 21-24, 2008
http://www.e-Forensics.eu

The birth of the Internet as a commercial entity and the development of 
increasingly sophisticated digital consumer technology has led to new 
opportunities for criminals and new challenges for law enforcement.  
Those same technologies also offer new tools for scientific investigation 
of evidence.

In telecommunications, Voice over IP raises significant challenges for 
call intercept and route tracing.  Information systems are becoming 
overwhelmingly large and the challenges of associating relevant 
information from one source with another require new sophisticated 
tools.  And consumer multimedia devices, especially video and still 
cameras, are increasingly becoming the tools of choice to create 
potentially illegal content.  At the same time, the scientific 
gathering and investigation of evidence at a crime scene is being pushed 
towards digital techniques, raising questions of the veracity and 
completeness of evidence.

PAPERS:  The aim of this conference is to bring together state of the 
art research contributions in the development of tools, protocols and 
techniques which assist in the investigation of potentially illegal activity 
associated with electronic communication and electronic devices.  
Investigative practice and requirements for presentation of evidence in 
court are to be considered key 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Technical papers describing original, previously unpublished research, not 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. 
Technical papers which clearly identify how the specific contributions 
fit to an overall working solution are particularly of interest. 

Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
* Voice over IP call tracing and intercept
* Records tracing and data mining
* Fraud management in commercial transactions
* Techniques for addressing identity theft
* Geo-location techniques for cellular, ad-hoc, wireless and IP network 
  communications
* Distributed data association across massive, disparate database systems
* Data carving
* Multimedia source identification
* Image tamper identification
* Image association and recognition
* Motion analysis
* Voice analysis
* Watermarking and applications
* Transaction tracking
* Digital evidence storage and handling protocols
General papers on electronic security will be considered where there 
is a clear application to the underlying topic of forensic investigation. 

THE LOCATION: Adelaide is the graceful capital city of South Australia. 
In January, the weather is warm (no need to bring any winter clothing) and 
the days long and spectacular. Adelaide is blessed with wonderful 
beaches and sightseeing, and Australia’s premium wine district the 
Barossa Valley is close by. During the conference, the world class cycling 
Tour Down Under will take place.

PAPER SUBMISSION: The conference language is English. Authors are 
invited to submit the full manuscript (4 to 6 pages including 
references) of their technical paper, for oral or poster presentation, 
in Adobe Acrobat PDF format using the web. All paper submissions 
will be handled electronically. Please visit the Submission page for 
detailed submission requirements and procedures. The papers must be 
submitted through the COCUS System, http://cocus.info. Final manuscripts are 
limited to six (6) A4 size pages including text, figures and references. 
The font size must be at least 10 point. 

The front page must contain the title of the paper, full name(s) and 
address(es) of the author(s) and the appropriate academic field(s).  
The complete mailing address(es), telephone number(s), FAX number(s) and 
email address(es) must be provided on a separate sheet.

In submitting a paper, the author(s) agree that, upon acceptance, 
they will prepare the final manuscript in time for inclusion in the published 
proceedings and will present the paper at the conference. The final 
manuscript will not be published without advance registration.

PUBLICATION: All submitted papers will be rigorously reviewed by 
the international technical program committee. All accepted papers will 
be included 
in the eFORENSICS 2008 Conference Proceedings and be made available in 
IEEE Xplore, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Digital Library 
and then be indexed by Engineering Information (EI). Selected 
papers will also be recommended to a special issue of a top journal.

WORKSHOPS: A number of workshops will be run in conjunction with the 
conference. The purpose of these workshops is to discuss work in 
progress and explore opportunities for new research. Proposals 
are invited for workshops, and should be at most four pages in length 
and submitted to Matthew Sorell (matthew.sorell AT adelaide.edu.au) 
by August 17, 2007.

IMPORTANT DATES: 
Paper Registration Deadline: July 20, 2007 
Workshop Proposal Deadline: August 17, 2007 
Notification of acceptance: August 17, 2007 
Final paper submission and authors' registration: November 23, 2007  
Conference Dates: January 21-24, 2008

GENERAL CHAIR
Matthew Sorell
Lecturer
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
University of Adelaide SA 5005
AUSTRALIA
Tel: +61 (0)8 8303 3226
Fax: +61 (0)8 8303 4360
Email: matthew.sorell AT adelaide.edu.au
http://www.adelaide.edu.au/directory/matthew.sorell

TECHNICAL PROGRAM CHAIR
Chang-Tsun Li
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7AL, UK
E-mail: ctli AT dcs.warwick.ac.uk
Home: http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~ctli 

STEERING COMMITTEE
Imrich Chlamtac (Chair), CREATE-NET, Italy
Matthew Sorell, University of Adelaide, Australia
Peter Ramsey, University of Adelaide, Australia
Matthew Roughan, University of Adelaide, Australia
Jeno Bartalos, ICST

PUBLICATION CHAIR
Lang White, University of Adelaide, Australia 

LOCAL CHAIR
Peter Ramsey, University of Adelaide, Australia 

FINANCE CHAIR
Karen Decker, ICST 

TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Rohit Agarwal, Digital Harbor Inc, USA
Barry Blundell, South Australian Police, Australia
Mike Brooks, University of Adelaide, Australia
Jessica Fridrich, SUNY Binghampton, USA
Tom Karygiannis, NIST, USA
Brian Lovell, University of Queensland, Australia
Gale Spring, RMIT University, Australia
Lang White, University of Adelaide, Australia
Angela Wong, University of Adelaide, Australia



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