[Tccc] CfP: First International Workshop on Digital Forensics - IWDF 2011 [3]

Krzysztof Szczypiorski ksz
Wed May 11 18:37:34 EDT 2011


Third Call for Papers

First International Workshop on Digital Forensics - IWDF 2011
November 4-6, 2011
Shanghai, China
co-located with
3rd International Conference on Multimedia Information Networking and 
Security (MINES 2011)

IWDF website: http://iwdf.org

Today world's societies are becoming more and more dependent on open 
networks such as the Internet - where commercial activities, business 
transactions and government services are realized. This has led to the 
fast development of new cyber threats and numerous information security 
issues which are exploited by cyber criminals. The inability to provide 
trusted secure services in contemporary computer network technologies 
has a tremendous socio-economic impact on global enterprises as well as 
individuals.

Moreover, the frequently occurring international frauds impose the 
necessity to conduct the investigation of facts spanning across multiple 
international borders. Such examination is often subject to different 
jurisdictions and legal systems. A good illustration of the above being 
the Internet, which has made it easier to perpetrate traditional crimes. 
It has acted as an alternate avenue for the criminals to conduct their 
activities, and launch attacks with relative anonymity. The increased 
complexity of the communications and the networking infrastructure is 
making investigation of the crimes difficult. Traces of illegal digital 
activities are often buried in large volumes of data, which are hard to 
inspect with the aim of detecting offences and collecting evidence. 
Nowadays, the digital crime scene functions like any other network, with 
dedicated administrators functioning as the first responders.

This poses new challenges for law enforcement policies and forces the 
computer societies to utilize digital forensics to combat the increasing 
number of cybercrimes. Forensic professionals must be fully prepared in 
order to be able to provide court admissible evidence. To make these 
goals achievable, forensic techniques should keep pace with new 
technologies.

Digital forensics is a recently-emerged research area, and it has 
attracted the attention of computer professionals, law enforcement 
experts, and practitioners. It is a multidisciplinary area that includes 
multiple fields i.e.: law, computer science, finance, networking, data 
mining, and criminal justice. Despite this increased interest, this 
field still faces diverse challenges, most commonly related to 
efficiency of the digital evidence processing and the resulting forensic 
procedures.

The aim of this workshop is to bring together the research 
accomplishments provided by the researchers from academia and the 
industry. The other goal is to show the latest research results in the 
field of digital forensics and to present the development of tools and 
techniques which assist the investigation process of potentially illegal 
cyber activity. We encourage prospective authors to submit related 
distinguished research papers on the subject of both: theoretical 
approaches and practical case reviews.

Topics of interests include, but are not limited to:
   - Digital forensics tools and applications
   - Digital forensics case studies and best practices
   - Formal standards, procedures and methods in digital forensics
   - Privacy issues in digital forensics
   - Localization of digital forensic techniques
   - Computer and network forensics
   - Network traffic analysis, traceback and attribution
   - Incident response, investigation and evidence handling
   - Integrity of digital evidence and live investigations
   - Identification, authentication and collection of digital evidenc
   - Cyber crime related investigations
   - Anti-forensic techniques and methods
   - Watermarking and intellectual property theft
   - Analysis techniques for digital forensics and information assurance 
research
   - Social networking forensics
   - Steganography/steganalysis and covert/subliminal channels in 
digital forensics
   - New methods for detecting and eliminating network steganography
   - Political and business issues related to digital forensics and 
anti-forensic techniques and methods

Chairs

Krzysztof Szczypiorski, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland (e-mail: 
ksz{at}tele.pw.edu.pl)
Wojciech Mazurczyk, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland (e-mail: 
wmazurczyk{at}tele.pw.edu.pl)
Shiguo Lian, France Telecom R&D (Orange Labs) Beijing, China (e-mail: 
shiguo.lian{at}ieee.org)

Papers will be accepted based on peer review and should contain 
original, high quality work. All papers must be written in English. A 
paper should not exceed 5 pages (two columns IEEE format), including 
figures and references with 10-12 point font. All information for paper 
formatting may be found on the IEEE Authors Kit (Paper Formatting).

Submission page same system as for MINES2011. Note: please select the 
track - "IWDF 2011 Workshop" when you submit your paper.
The papers will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press, available 
in the conference, and indexed by EI Compendex and ISTP.
All published papers will be included in the IEEE Xplore database.

The extended versions of high-quality papers selected from the workshop 
will be published in a special issue of Computer Journal (Oxford 
Journals, Oxford University Press, ISSN 0010-4620).

Dates
Manuscript Due: June 15, 2011
Acceptance Notification: June 30, 2011
Final manuscript due: July 10, 2011
Registration and full payment due: July 20, 2011



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