5th International Workshop on Computational Forensics Information

************************************************************** 5th International Workshop on Computational Forensics iwcf12.arsforensica.org in conjunction with 2012 International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Tsukuba, Japan www.icpr2012.org The workshop will be the 5th in the sequel of four earlier workshops in Manchester (UK), Washington D.C. (USA), The Hague (Netherlands), and Tokyo (Japan) respectively. Important Dates: July 6th, 2012 Full papers due August 10th, 2012 Acceptance notice August 24th, 2012 Final manuscripts due Forensic and criminal analysis is becoming increasingly data intensive and widely distributed. Especially for electronic data it is common practice to seize all data carriers that are believed to contain relevant evidence material. For example, in criminal cases against large companies, intelligence work on money laundering and terror finance, the content of all servers, personal computers, mobile phones, PDAs, printers, copiers, backups and so on are collected. All these relevant devices and their digital content have to be dealt with together with truckloads of paper documents and data from other sources. It all amounts to many terabytes of data. In addition, crime investigators and intelligence analysts urgently demand the possibility to enrich the collected evidence with information from other/open sources, e.g., data available on the Internet. This year the workshop will emphasize challenges in applying pattern recognition and artificial intelligence methodologies to digital evidence in mobile devices and distributed, networked computing, i.e., cloud enviorments. Though the workshop will also address a broad spectrum of forensic disciplines that deal with ultra-large scale investigations and big data processing, e.g., in pathology, biology, drugs, text, speech, image and video analysis. For example, research might allow to handle and to increase the performance in large-scale investigations; automatic search through terabytes of electronic data storage within closed systems and open Internet; enable cross-media search and data integration for accessing diverse sources of information; yield to more objective evidence analysis and final decision making; enable extracting profiles of perpetrators maps of crimes; visualization of criminal and terroristic associations and their relationships. Paper Submissions: Papers should be original and contain contributions of theoretical, experimental or unique application nature. Manuscripts have to be prepared in English in accordance with the Springer LNCS format guidelines. The maximum number of pages is 12. Electronic submissions received via the workshop site until July 6th, 2012, will be evaluated for originality, significance, clarity, and soundness by at least three independent experts. Acceptance will be notified to the author until August 10, 2012. Detailed information is available at the following site: iwcf12.aforensica.org Workshop Co-Chairs: Katrin Franke, Gjovik University College, Norway Mario Koeppen, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan Andre Arnes, Gjovik University College, Norway Program Committee: Lashon B. Booker, The MITRE Corporation, USA Thomas Breuel, Technical University of Kaiserslautern, Germany Darren Bilby, Google Inc, Switzerland Joseph Campbell, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Oscar Cord?n, European Centre for Soft Computing, Spain Patrick De Smet, FOD Justitie, Belgium Andrzej Drygajlo, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland Cinthia Freitas, Pontifical Catholic University of Parana, Brazil Rune Erlend Fl?isbonn, Kripos, Norway Simson Garfinkel, Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, USA Zeno Geradts, Netherlands Forensic Institute, The Netherlands Pavel Gladyshev, University College Dublin, Ireland Peter Gill, University of Strathclyde, UK Robert Hayes, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK Lawrence Hornak, West Virginia University, USA Anil K. Jain, Michigan State University, USA Tahar Kechadi, University College Dublin, Ireland Didier Meuwly, Netherlands Forensic Institute, The Netherlands Brent Ostrum, Canada Border Services Agency, Canada Olivier Ribaux, Universit? de Lausanne, Switzerland Marcus K. Rogers, Purdue University , USA Hiroshi Sako, Hosei University, Japan Christopher J. Solomon, University of Kent, UK Sargur N. Srihari, University at Buffalo, USA Inger Maria Sunde, Norwegian Police University College, Norway Chew Lim Tan, National University of Singapore, Singapore Joost van Beusekom, German Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany Dirk Vandermeulen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Cor J. Veenman, Netherlands Forensic Institute, The Netherlands Thomas Walmann, ?kokrim, Norway Takashi Watanabe, Hitachi Ltd., Japan Eli Winjum, Norwegian Defence Research Establishment, Norway Marcel Worring, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands ... Tentative as of February 6th, 2012 ...