International Workshop on Intelligent Technologies
for Counter Terrorism
and Security
(IT-CoTeS)
Aim and scope
Political
violence and acts have created disruptions in the global economy. The
short-term impact had been felt in almost all aspects of the economy
particularly the tourism, airline industries and financial markets. The
current focus against political violence and terrorism will affect both
the pace and trajectory of new technology trends, as more Government
efforts are focused on developing new technologies. This
International workshop is intended to bring together academics and
security/counterterrorism practitioners/developers to present the
latest intelligent technologies to combat terrorism and to protect
critical infrastructures, people and society.
The workshop provides a
venue to
present early work
in the relevant areas. Workshop seems papers applying various
Intelligent Technologies and the topic of interests are as follows:
- Crinimal network analysis
- Link analysis and network mining
- Dynamics of networks and analysis
- Web mining applied to blogs and Web communities
- Text mining applied to blogs and Web communities
- Network visualization technologies
- Quantification of threats and risks
- Performance evaluation measures
- Privacy and trust issues
- Network complexity analysis / reduction
- Disaster management systems
- Critical infrastructure protection
- Surveillance and Reconnaissance infrastructure
Submission information
A full paper (6 pages,
A4 size) for oral presentation should be formatted following the IEEE
format. Formating instructions : Word and LaTeX. The proceedings will
be published by IEEE. Selected papers will be published in a special
issue of JIAS.
Important Dates:
Extended deadline for
submission of full papers: April 30, 2010
Acceptance
notification: May 30, 2010
Final camera-ready
papers due: June 15, 2010
Workshop Co-Chairs
(Organizers)
Ajith
Abraham
Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs)
P.O. Box 2259
Auburn, Washington 98071, USA
http://www.softcomputing.net
Email:
ajith.abraham@ieee.org
Amy Neustein
Linguistic Technology Systems
1055 River Road, Suite 1013
Edgewater, NJ 07020, USA
http://www.lingtechsys.com/
email: amy.neustein@verizon.net
Vaclav
Snasel
Department of Computer
Science,
VSB-Technical University
of Ostrava,
Czech Republic
http://www.cs.vsb.cz/snasel
Email:
vaclav.snasel@vsb.cz
Khalid
Saeed
Akademia
Górniczo-Hutnicza w Krakowie
Al. Mickiewicza 30, D-10
Kraków, Poland
http://home.agh.edu.pl/~saeed/index.php?from=pb
Email: khalids@wp.pl
Hameed
Al-Qaheri
Department of
Quantitative Methods and Information Systems
College of Business
Administration,
Kuwait University, Kuwait
Email:
alqaheri@cba.edu.kw
The workshop is an integral
part of the IAS
2010, which takes place from August 23-25, 2010, and
no separate registration is required.
