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Pacific Asia Workshop on Intelligence and Security Informatics
***** PAISI 2011 *****

(to be held in conjunction with IEEE ISI 2011)

Workshop Website: http://www.business.hku.hk/paisi/2011/

July 9, 2011, Beijing, China
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Important Dates
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Submission due: March 1, 2011
Notification of acceptance: April 15, 2011
Camera-ready copy due: April 22, 2011

Workshop Scope
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Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI) is concerned with the
study of the development and use of advanced information technologies
and systems for national, international, and societal security-related
applications. The annual IEEE International Conference series on ISI
was started in 2003. In 2006, the Workshop on ISI was started in
Singapore in conjunction with PAKDD, with most contributors and
participants from the Pacific Asian region. The 2nd PAISI was then
held in Chengdu in 2007, the 3rd PAISI was held in conjunction with
IEEE ISI in Taipei in 2008, and the 4th and 5th PAISI were held in
conjunction with PAKDD in Bangkok in 2009 and Hyderabad in 2010,
respectively. This year, PAISI 2011 will once again be held with IEEE
ISI and will provide a stimulating forum for ISI researchers in
Pacific Asia and other regions of the world to exchange ideas and
report research progress. The workshop is particularly seeking papers
reporting ISI studies that are specific to the Pacific Asian region,
e.g., studies focusing on regional data sets and case studies, Asian
language processing, and cultural factors.

Paper Submission/Areas of Interest
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Submissions may include systems, methodology, testbed, modeling,
evaluation, and policy papers. Topics include but are not limited to:

I. Information Sharing and Data/Text Mining
- Intelligence-related knowledge discovery
- Criminal data mining and network analysis
- Criminal/intelligence information sharing and visualization
- Web-based intelligence monitoring and analysis
- Spatio-temporal data analysis/GIS for crime analysis and security
informatics
- Cyber-crime detection and analysis
- Authorship analysis and identification
- Privacy and civil liberties issues
- Text processing and mining for Pacific Asian Languages

II. Infrastructure Protection and Emergency Responses
- Public/animal health and bioterrorism information infrastructure
- Transportation and communication infrastructure protection
- Cyber-infrastructure design and protection
- Intrusion detection
- Border/transportation safety
- Emergency response and management
- Disaster prevention, detection, and management
- Communication and decision support for search and rescue

III. Terrorism Informatics
- Terrorism related analytical methodologies and software tools
- Terrorism knowledge portals and databases
- Social network analysis (radicalization, recruitment, conducting
operations), visualization, and simulation
- Forecasting terrorism
- Countering terrorism
- Measuring the impact of terrorism on society

IV. Enterprise Risk Management and Information Systems Security
- Information systems security policies
- Behavior issues in information systems security
- Fraud detection
- Cyber crime and social impacts
- Corporate going concerns and risks
- Accounting and IT auditing
- Corporate governance and monitoring
- Board activism and influence
- Corporate sentiment surveillance
- Market influence analytics and media intelligence
- Consumer-generated media and social media analytics

Long (12-page) and short (6-page) papers in English may be submitted
electronically via the online submission site
(http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=paisi2011). Submission
file formats are PDF, Microsoft Word, or LaTeX. We are in the process
of making arrangements with Springer to publish accepted PAISI 2011
papers in its Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series, same
as all past PAISI proceedings including PAISI 2007 to 2010 and
WISI 2006. Required LNCS Microsoft Word/LaTeX templates can be found
on the workshop website.

Hosts and Major Sponsors
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The University of Arizona
The Chinese Academy of Sciences
The University of Hong Kong

Workshop Organizing Co-chairs
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Hsinchun Chen, The University of Arizona
Michael Chau, The University of Hong Kong
Daniel Zeng, The Chinese Academy of Sciences and The University of
Arizona
Wenji Mao, The Chinese Academy of Sciences

Program Co-chairs
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G. Alan Wang, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Xiaolong Zheng, The Chinese Academy of Sciences