Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following:

Tools and Techniques for Analyzing Data

• Web-based intelligence monitoring, mining, and analysis

• Computer support for cybercrime investigations and digital forensics

• Visualization techniques for intelligence analysis and investigation

• Cybercrime detection and analysis

• Authorship profiling and identification

• Privacy, security, and civil liberties issues

• Detection and analysis of information operations and disinformation

• Data analytics for darknet marketplaces

• Social network analysis for intelligence analysis and investigations

Infrastructure Protection & Emergency Response

• Cyber-infrastructure design and protection

• Intrusion detection

• Bio-terrorism tracking, alerting, and analysis

• Transportation and communication infrastructure protection

• Border/transportation safety

• Emergency response and management

• Disaster prevention, detection, and management

Terrorism Informatics

• Terrorism related analytical methodologies and software tools

• Terrorism knowledge portals and databases

• Social network analysis (radicalization, recruitment, conducting operations)

• Lone wolf terrorism

• Countering terrorism

Data Science for Computational Criminology

• Models for forecasting crime and measuring impact

• Models for crime pattern recognition

• Comprehensible/transparent models for crime analysis

• Data representation and fusion

• Methods for gang, volume, and special crime analysis

• Handling class-imbalance and biased samples for crime analysis

• Applications of intelligent decision support within law enforcement

Decisioning and Interaction

• Visualisation and visual analytics systems

• Interactive and computational decision support

• Analytical reasoning systems

• Resilience in intelligence analysis

• investigative and analytic decision making

• Legal, privacy and ethical factors in intelligence analysis

Internet of Things and Security

• Resilience and security in IoT applications

• Privacy and integrity aspects related to IoT

• Detection, prevention, response and mitigation of cyber threats to IoT

• Threat models and IoT

Border Control

• Authentication

• Risk assessment of travelers

• Modeling of border control processes

• Surveillance and situational awareness

• Technology impact, acceptance, and integration