The 2023 IEEE International Conference in Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI 2023)

October 2 – 3, 2023, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA

Intelligence and security informatics (ISI) is an interdisciplinary field involving academic researchers in information technology, social and behavioral sciences, computer science, law, and public policy, as well as industry consultants, practitioners, security managers, and chief information security officers who support physical and cyber security missions at the individual, organizational, national, and international levels. Over the past two decades, the IEEE ISI Conference has evolved from its traditional orientation towards the intelligence and security domain to a more integrated alignment of multiple domains, including technology, humans, organizations, and security, aiming to advance our understanding of the interrelationships between these different components, and by integrating recent advances from different domains.

The ISI 2023 conference invites academic researchers in the field of ISI and related areas, as well as IT, security, and analytics professionals, intelligence experts, and industry consultants and practitioners in the field, to submit papers and workshop proposals. Research should be relevant to informatics, organizations, public policy, or human behavior in applications of security or protection of local/national/international security in the physical world, cyber-physical systems, and/or cyberspace.

List of Potential Topics

Security Analytics and Threat Intelligence:
Threat pattern models and modeling tools
Real-time situational awareness
Intrusion and cybersecurity threat detection and analysis
Cyber-physical-social system security and incident management
Computing and networking infrastructure protection
Crime analysis and prevention
Forecasting threats and measuring the impact of threats
Surveillance and intelligence through unconventional means
Information security management standards
Information systems security policies
Mobile and cloud computing security
Big data analytics for cybersecurity
Machine learning for cybersecurity
Transportation intelligence and security
Artificial intelligence for cybersecurity

Resilient Cyber Infrastructure Design and Protection:
Data science and analytics in security informatics
Data representation and fusion for security informatics
Criminal/intelligence information extraction
Data sharing and information visualization for security informatics
Web-based intelligence monitoring and analysis
Spatial-temporal data analysis for crime analysis and security informatics
Criminal/intelligence machine learning and data mining
Cyber attack and/or bio-terrorism tracking, alerting, and analysis
Digital forensics and computational criminology
Financial and accounting fraud analysis
Consumer-generated content and security-related social media analytics
Security-related social network analysis (radicalization, fund-raising, recruitment, conducting operations)
Authorship analysis and identification
Security-related analytical methodologies and software tools

Human Behavior and Factors in Security Applications:
Behavior issues in information systems security
HCI and user interfaces of relevance to intelligence and security
Social impacts of crime, cybercrime, and/or terrorism
Board activism and influence
Measuring the effectiveness of security interventions
Citizen and employee education and training
Understanding user behavior such as compliance, susceptibility, and accountability
Security risks related to user behaviors/interactions with information systems
Human behavior modeling, representation, and prediction for security applications

Organizational, National, and International Security Applications:
Best practices in security protection
Information sharing policy and governance
Privacy, security, and civil liberties issues
Emergency response and management
Disaster prevention, detection, and management
Protection of transportation and communications infrastructure
Communication and decision support for research and rescue
Assisting citizens’ responses to cyber attacks, terrorism, and catastrophic events
Accounting and IT auditing and fraud detection
Corporate governance and monitoring
Election fraud and political use and abuse
Machine learning for the developing world
Artificial Intelligence methods and applications for humanitarian efforts

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. Each manuscript must clearly articulate their data (e.g., key metadata, statistical properties, etc.), analytical procedures (e.g., representations, algorithm details, etc.), and evaluation set up and results (e.g., performance metrics, statistical tests, case studies, etc.). Making data, code, and processes publicly available to facilitate scientific reproducibility is not required, but is strongly encouraged.

We accept three types of paper submissions on proposed tracks and related topics: long paper (maximum of 6 pages), short paper (maximum of 3 pages), and poster (1 page). The submission format is PDF that follows IEEE publication format (see the template at IEEE – Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings). Papers will be submitted through the EasyChair submission and review system. Each accepted paper must be presented at the conference. At least one author of each accepted paper must register the conference as an IEEE member before the early registration deadline. Accepted papers will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore subject to meeting IEEE Xplore’s scope and quality requirements.

Journal Special Issue

A number of papers selected from IEEE ISI 2023 will be invited for extension and submission to a special issue on Cybersecurity of ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems.

Important Dates

Submission Open: April 20, 2023
Submission Deadline: May 15, 2023, 11:59PM EST
Acceptance Notification: July 15, 2023
Final Paper Deadline: August 1, 2023
Early registration deadline: August 15, 2023
Conference dates: October 2 – 3, 2023
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