International Symposium on
Foundations of Open Source Intelligence and Security Informatics
FOSINT-SI 2021
In conjunction with ASONAM 2021
The Hague, Netherlands, November 08-11, 2021 (Virtual)
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.
| 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 |
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.
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.