FOSINT-SI 2021 Call for Papers

Open source intelligence for cyber situational awareness related to concepts, models and methods for cyber threat intelligence in tactical, operational and strategic levels are central to the scope of this event. Cyberattacks are becoming increasingly complex and routine threats emerging from an evolving threat landscape. Security breaches frequently compromise sensitive information, exposing personal identities, intellectual property or financial assets. Things will get a lot worse when advanced attacks target public infrastructure on which we all depend. Besides temporal disruption of critical services, sophisticated attacks can cause physical damage to vital systems like the electric grid or intelligent transportation systems.
Criminal networks and terrorist groups often operate globally, hiding their illicit activities by taking advantage of information and communications technology. Digital communication enables global communities that are hard to track. Open source intelligence can be a powerful tool for combating crime by linking global and local crime patterns to help understand how criminal activities are connected across crime spaces and emerging trends such as the inevitable shift of conventional organized crime to the cyber arena.
Cyber threat information can be drawn from countless sources from the dark and surface web such as hacker forums, darknet markets, internet relay chats, and social media. This situation calls for radical advances in using cutting-edge data mining, machine learning and predictive analytics combined with social network analysis and natural language processing to detect, disrupt and neutralize cyber and physical threats. We invite submissions of original research papers describing solutions and systems for all aspects of open source intelligence and security informatics. Topics of interest include but are not limited to cyber threat intelligence, cybercrime analysis, web intelligence and security, big crime data mining algorithms and open source situational awareness.

Important Dates

Full paper submission deadline August 22, 2021 11:59 PM American Samoa Zone (UTC-11)
Notification of acceptance September 20, 2021 11:59 PM American Samoa Zone (UTC-11)
Camera-ready papers due October 10, 2021 11:59 PM American Samoa Zone (UTC-11)
Conference events November, 08-11 2021

Submission

We welcome all submissions reporting original and unpublished research written in English and pertaining to the topics mentioned in the Call For Paper page. Three categories of submissions will be accepted: full papers up to 8 pages, short communications up to 4 pages, and abstracts up to 2 pages, all in IEEE two-column format. Submissions should include the title, authors, affiliation, e-mail address, tel/fax numbers, abstract, and postal address on the first page. Papers should be submitted online using the symposium Online Submission System. Paper submission implies one of the authors must register and attend the symposium to present the paper. FOSINT-SI 2021 participants will also enjoy free access to the full program of ASONAM 2021 and all the accompanying symposia and workshops.

Publication

Papers will be thoroughly reviewed by experts in the field and will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. Further, authors should certify that their submissions contain substantially new and previously unpublished research. Accepted and presented papers will be included in the FOSINT-SI 2021 Conference Proceedings and forwarded for inclusion in IEEE Computer Society Digital Library (CSDL), IEEE Xplore and the ACM Digital Library. The conference proceedings will be submitted for EI indexing through INSPEC by IEEE. The proceedings will be also covered by several other indexes, including DBLP, SCOPUS, etc. A selection of high-quality research papers from FOSINT-SI 2021 will be invited to submit an extended version for an edited book in the Lecture Notes in Social Networks (LNSN) series published by Springer.

Organization

Steering Chair

Reda Alhajj, University of Calgary, Canada

General Chair

Paulo Shakarian, Arizona State University, USA

Program Chairs

Uwe Glässer, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Francesca Spezzano, Boise State University, USA
Mohammad Tayebi, Simon Fraser University, Canada

Program Committee

Doina Caragea, Kansas State University, USA
Alysson Bessani, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Andrew Park, Thompson Rivers University, Canada
Eric Nunes, Arizona State University, USA
Gerardo Simari, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentine
Greg Newby, Compute Canada, Canada
Hasan Davulcu, Arizona State University, USA
Joel Brynielsson, KTH Royal Institute of Technology,Sweden
Jonathan White, University of Arkansas, USA
Mehmet Gunes, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA
Nathan Clarke, University of Plymouth, UK
Nitin Agarwal, University of Arkansas at Little Rock,USA
Rafael Muñoz, University of Alicante, Spain
Richard Frank, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Rushed Kanawati, Université Paris 13, France
Sagar Samtani, University of South Florida, USA
Stefanos Vrochidis, Information Technologies Institute, Greece
Vahid Behzadan, University of New Haven, USA

Program Coordinator

Amir Shahir, Simon Fraser University, Canada