[ecoop-info] ICST - Second Call for Papers - 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

Sponsored by ICST, CreateNet and the University of Adelaide.

Please note that deadlines for paper submission have been extended!

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Technical papers describing original, previously unpublished research, not currently under review by another conference or journal, are solicited.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:  Please note that deadlines have been extended.
Expressions of interest would be appreciated by August 17th 2007
Workshop Proposal Deadline:  August 17th 2007
Paper Registration Deadline:  September 28th, 2007
Notification of acceptance:  November 16th, 2007
Final paper submission and authors' registration:  December 3rd, 2007
Conference Dates:  January 21-24, 2007

GENERAL CHAIR
Matthew Sorell
Lecturer
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
University of Adelaide SA 5005
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, Peter Ramsey, Matthew Roughan, University of Adelaide, Australia
Jeno Bartalos, ICST

PUBLICITY CHAIR
Gale Spring, RMIT University, Australia

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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