The DFRWS digital forensics conference brings together leading researchers, developers, practitioners, and educators interested in advancing the state of the art in digital forensics from around the world. As the most established forum in the field, DFRWS is the preferred place to present both cutting-edge research and perspectives on best practices for all aspects of digital forensics. As an independent organization, we promote open community discussions and disseminate the results of our work to the widest audience.

We invite original contributions as research papers, panel proposals, work-in-progress talks, tutorial and workshop proposals, and demo proposals. All papers are evaluated through a double-blind, peer-review process, and those accepted will be published in printed proceedings by Elsevier.

The 13th Annual DFRWS Conference is held in cooperation with the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and its Special Interest Group on Security, Audit and Control (SIGSAC). The conference will be held in Monterey, CA from August 4-7, 2013.

Topics of Interest

Memory analysis
Filesystem forensics
Incident response and live analysis
Network-based forensics
Traffic analysis, traceback and attribution
Event reconstruction methods and tools
Application analysis
Embedded and mobile device forensics
Large-scale investigations
Digital evidence storage and preservation
Data mining
Data hiding and discovery
Data recovery and reconstruction
Multimedia analysis
Database forensics
Tool testing and development
Digital evidence and the law
Anti-forensics and anti-anti-forensics
Case studies and trend reports
Malware forensics
Data visualization in forensic analysis
Forensics in distributed and virtual environments
Interpersonal communications and social network analysis
Non-traditional approaches to forensic analysis

The above list is only suggestive. We welcome new, original ideas from people in academia, industry, government, and law enforcement who are interested in sharing their results, knowledge, and experience. Authors are encouraged to demonstrate the applicability of their work to practical issues. Questions about submission topics can be sent via email to: dfrws2013-papers (at) dfrws (dot) org
Important Dates

Submission deadline: February 20, 2013 (any time zone). This is a firm deadline.
Author notification: April 9, 2013
Final draft and speaker registration: April 30, 2013
Conference dates: August 4-7, 2013