CALL FOR PAPERS

The IFIP Working Group 11.9 on Digital Forensics (www.ifip119.org) is an active international community of scientists, engineers and practitioners dedicated to advancing the state of the art of research and practice in the emerging field of digital forensics. The Fourth Annual IFIP WG 11.9 International Conference on Digital Forensics will provide a forum for presenting original, unpublished research results and innovative ideas related to the extraction, analysis and preservation of all forms of electronic evidence. Papers and panel proposals are solicited. All submissions will be refereed by a program committee comprising members of the Working Group. Papers and panel submissions will be selected based on their technical merit and relevance to IFIP WG 11.9. The conference will be limited to approximately seventy participants to facilitate interactions between researchers and intense discussions of critical research issues. Keynote presentations, revised papers and details of panel discussions will be published as an edited volume – the fourth in the series entitled Research Advances in Digital Forensics (Springer) in the summer of 2008. Revised and/or extended versions of selected papers from the conference will be published in special issues of one or more international journals.

Technical papers are solicited in all areas related to the theory and practice of digital forensics. Areas of special interest include, but are not limited to:

• Theories, techniques and tools for extracting, analyzing and preserving digital evidence
• Network forensics
• Portable electronic device forensics
• Digital forensic processes and workflow models
• Digital forensic case studies
• Legal, ethical and policy issues related to digital forensics

Technical Papers: All technical paper submissions (in .pdf format) should be emailed to the program co-chair (indrajit[at]cs.colostate.edu). Manuscripts should be in English and not longer than 20 pages (typed double-spaced format in a 12-point font) or equivalent. Each submission should have a cover page with the titles, names and addresses (including e-mail addresses) of authors, an abstract of approximately 200 words, and a list of keywords.

Panels: Proposals for panels (in .pdf format) should be emailed to the program co-chair (sujeet[at]utulsa.edu). Panel proposals should include a one-page description of the topic, along with the name and address (including email address) of the organizer, and a list of proposed panelists.

Conference Deadlines
Paper/Panel Submission: September 15, 2007
Notification of Acceptance: November 1, 2007

General Chair: Ryoichi Sasaki (Tokyo Denki University, Japan)
Program Chairs: Indrajit Ray (Colorado State University, USA); Sujeet Shenoi (University of Tulsa, USA)
IFIP WG 11.9 Chair: Indrajit Ray (Colorado State University, USA)
IFIP WG 11.9 Vice Chair: Mark Pollitt (University of Central Florida, USA)
IFIP WG 11.9 Website: www.ifip119.org