Intelligence and Security Informatics

Since the tragic events of September 11, 2001, academics have been called on for possible contributions to research relating to national (and possibly internat- nal) security. As one of the original founding mandates of the National Science Foundation, mid- to long-term national security research in the areas of inf- mation technologies, organizational studies, and security-related public policy is critically needed. In a way similar to how medical and biological research has faced signi?cant information overload and yet also tremendous opportunities for new inno- tion, law enforcement, criminal analysis, and intelligence communities are facing the same challenge. We believe, similar to "medical informatics" and "bioinf- matics," that there is a pressing need to develop the science of "intelligence and security informatics" - the study of the use and development of advanced information technologies, systems, algorithms and databases for national se- rity related applications,through an integrated technological,organizational,and policy-based approach. We believe active "intelligence and security informatics" research will help improve knowledge discovery and dissemination and enhance information s- ring and collaboration across law enforcement communities and among aca- mics, local, state, and federal agencies, and industry. Many existing computer and information science techniques need to be reexamined and adapted for - tional security applications. New insights from this unique domain could result in signi?cant breakthroughs in new data mining, visualization, knowledge - nagement, and information security techniques and systems.

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Full Papers.- Using Support Vector Machines for Terrorism Information Extraction.- Criminal Incident Data Association Using the OLAP Technology.- Names: A New Frontier in Text Mining.- Web-Based Intelligence Reports System.- Authorship Analysis in Cybercrime Investigation.- Behavior Profiling of Email.- Detecting Deception through Linguistic Analysis.- A Longitudinal Analysis of Language Behavior of Deception in E-mail.- Evacuation Planning: A Capacity Constrained Routing Approach.- Locating Hidden Groups in Communication Networks Using Hidden Markov Models.- Automatic Construction of Cross-Lingual Networks of Concepts from the Hong Kong SAR Police Department.- Decision Based Spatial Analysis of Crime.- CrimeLink Explorer: Using Domain Knowledge to Facilitate Automated Crime Association Analysis.- A Spatio Temporal Visualizer for Law Enforcement.- Tracking Hidden Groups Using Communications.- Examining Technology Acceptance by Individual Law Enforcement Officers: An Exploratory Study.- "Atrium" - A Knowledge Model for Modern Security Forces in the Information and Terrorism Age.- Untangling Criminal Networks: A Case Study.- Addressing the Homeland Security Problem: A Collaborative Decision-Making Framework.- Collaborative Workflow Management for Interagency Crime Analysis.- COPLINK Agent: An Architecture for Information Monitoring and Sharing in Law Enforcement.- Active Database Systems for Monitoring and Surveillance.- Integrated "Mixed" Networks Security Monitoring - A Proposed Framework.- Bioterrorism Surveillance with Real-Time Data Warehousing.- Short Papers.- Privacy Sensitive Distributed Data Mining from Multi-party Data.- ProGenIE: Biographical Descriptions for Intelligence Analysis.- Scalable Knowledge Extraction from Legacy Sources with SEEK.- "TalkPrinting": Improving Speaker Recognition by Modeling Stylistic Features.- Emergent Semantics from Users' Browsing Paths.- Designing Agent99 Trainer: A Learner-Centered, Web-Based Training System for Deception Detection.- Training Professionals to Detect Deception.- An E-mail Monitoring System for Detecting Outflow of Confidential Documents.- Intelligence and Security Informatics: An Information Economics Perspective.- An International Perspective on Fighting Cybercrime.- Extended Abstracts for Posters.- Hiding Traversal of Tree Structured Data from Untrusted Data Stores.- Criminal Record Matching Based on the Vector Space Model.- Database Support for Exploring Criminal Networks.- Hiding Data and Code Security for Application Hosting Infrastructure.- Secure Information Sharing and Information Retrieval Infrastructure with GridIR.- Semantic Hacking and Intelligence and Security Informatics.