INTRODUCTION

Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI) research is an interdisciplinary research field involving academic researchers in information technologies, computer science, public policy, bioinformatics, medical informatics, and social and behavior studies as well as local, state, and federal law enforcement and intelligence experts, and information technology industry consultants and practitioners to support counterterrorism and homeland security’s missions of anticipation, interdiction, prevention, preparedness and response to terrorist acts.

CONFERENCE THEME & TOPICS

The conference theme is Security and Big Data. In addition to the main academic conference, multiple satellite events centered around the security and big data theme will be organized as well.

We invite academic researchers in the field of Intelligence and Security Informatics and related areas as well as law enforcement and intelligence experts, and industry consultants and practitioners in the field to submit papers and workshop proposals.

ISI 2017 will be organized in four main tracks focusing on:
o Security Analytics and Threat Intelligence
o Data Science and Analytics in Security Informatics
o Human Behavior and Factors in the Security Applications
o Organizational, National, and International Issues in Counter-terrorism and other Security Applications

Submissions may include systems, methodology, test-bed, modeling, evaluation, and policy papers. Research should be relevant to informatics, organization, public policy, or human behavior in applications of counter-terrorism or protection of local/ national/ international security in the physical world and/or cyberspace. Specific topics please see the conference webpage (www.isi-conf.org).

SUBMISSION FORMAT AND PUBLICATION

We accept three types of paper submissions on suggested topics of the proposed tracks and related topics: long paper (max. 6 pages), short paper (max. 3 pages), and poster (1 page). Submission format is PDF. Consult the IEEE publications page at, http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html for information on formatting. Papers will be submitted through the EasyChair submission and review system. The submission Web page for IEEE ISI 2017: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeeisi2017.

The accepted papers from ISI 2017 and its affiliated workshops will be published by the IEEE Press in formal Proceedings. IEEE ISI Proceedings are EI-indexed.

IMPORTANT DATES

Most submissions due: April 10, 2017
Acceptance: May 30, 2017
Camera ready copy: June 20, 2017
Authors register: June 20, 2017
Conference: July 22-24, 2017