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The
past two years have seen significant
interest and progress made in national
security research in the areas of
information technologies, organizational
studies, and security-related public
policy. Similar to medical and biological
research that faces significant
information overload and yet also
tremendous opportunities for new
innovation, law enforcement, criminal
analysis, and intelligence communities
are facing the same challenge. We
believe, similar to “medical
informatics” and “bioinformatics,”
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 for national
security related applications, through
an integrated technological, organizational,
and policy based approach.
The
first Symposium on Intelligence
and Security Informatics (ISI-2003)
was held in June 2003 in Tucson,
Arizona. (Information regarding
ISI-2003 can be found here)
Jointly hosted by the University
of Arizona and the Tucson Police
Department, this successful
symposium provided a stimulating
intellectual forum of discussions
among previously disparate communities:
academic researchers (in information
technologies, computer science,
public policy, and social studies),
local, state, and federal law
enforcement and intelligence
experts, and information technology
industry consultants and practitioners.
The two-day symposium program
included 5 keynote speakers,
14 invited speakers, 34 regular
papers, and 30 posters, and
attracted more than 140 attendees.
The symposium proceedings were
published in Springer Lecture
Notes in Computer Science as
volume 2665.
Building on the momentum of ISI-2003,
we held The Second Symposium on
Intelligence and Security Informatics
(ISI-2004) in June 2004 in Tucson,
Arizona. ISI-2004 followed the tradition
of ISI-2003 in bringing together
technical and policy researchers
from a variety of fields and in
providing a highly interactive forum
to facilitate communication and
community building between government
funding agencies, academia, and
practitioners. From a technical
perspective, the papers accepted
at ISI-2004 are of high quality
and from diverse disciplines. Using
ISI-2003 papers as a benchmark,
there is a clear indication of tangible
research progress made in many fronts
both in depth and in coverage. In
addition, several new research topics
of significant practical relevance
(e.g., trust management, information
assurance, disease informatics)
have emerged.
ISI-2004
is part of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference
on Digital Libraries 2004 (JCDL)
workshop series. The one and a half
day program included one
plenary panel discussion session
focusing on the perspectives and
future research directions of the
government funding agencies, two
invited panel sessions (one on terrorism
research, the other on knowledge
discovery and dissemination), 41
regular papers, six posters, and
three panel discussion papers.
The
symposium proceedings is published
by Springer-Verlag as volume 3073
of its Lecture Notes in Computer
Science series. |
