[DFSci] Call for Papers - NeFX 2010

[Clay Shields]

Call For Papers
NeFX 2010
http://nefx.cs.georgetown.edu/
Practitioners in digital forensics face many challenges and problems,  
be they from law enforcement, the intelligence or government  
community, or private practice. Criminal activity, system intrusions,  
and computer misuse are endemic in today's networked world. Today's  
state-of-art digital forensic technology on correlating large amount  
of often distributed digital evidence, crime scene reconstruction, and  
eventually mapping them to physical criminal scenario can only be best  
described as ad hoc and fragmented. We have also seen that most  
criminal investigations have involved crime scenes that co-exist in  
both cyberspace and physical worlds. There is an urgent need to move  
the capabilities and foundation of digital forensics from an ad hoc  
basis to one of science.

Digital forensics is an inherently complex cross-disciplinary field  
that deals with complicated and potentially inconsistent issues/goals  
cutting across technical, legal, and law enforcement domains. The ACM  
Northeast Digital Forensics Exchange (NeFX), sponsored in part by the  
National Science Foundation and the Army Research Office, is designed  
to foster collaboration on digital forensics and information assurance  
between federal and state law enforcement, academia, and industry. Our  
goal is to bring together leading practitioners and academics in order  
to yield partnerships that advance research on digital forensic  
science through mutual sharing of the problems of practice and  
research. All topic areas related to digital forensics are of interest  
and in scope.

Topics include, but are not limited to:

	• Imaging/Monitoring
	• Network Forensics
	• Small-scale and Mobile Device Forensics
	• Data Processing and Analytics
	• Software Forensics and Malware Analysis
	• File Carving and File System Analysis
	• Anti-forensics Techniques
	• Digital Forensics (from signal processing perspective)
	• Evidence Modeling and Principles
	• Live and Memory Analysis
	• Multimedia Forensics
	• Database, Web, and Cloud Computing System Forensics
	• Digital Evidence Storage and Preservation
	• Forensic tool Validation: Methodologies and Principles
	• Cyber-crime Strategy Analysis & Modeling
	• Advanced search, analysis, and presentation of digital evidence
	• Courtroom expert witness and case presentation
	• Case studies
	• Legal and Sociological Issues
	• Intelligence Issues in Forensics

Important Dates
Submission Deadline (paper, panel, and tutorial): June 1, 2010
(any time zone)
Author notification: July 26, 2010
Final paper due: August 16, 2010


Who should attend:
	• Investigators and prosecutors who would like to share their  
experience with academics and explore solutions to the technical  
network problems they face when doing digital forensics.
	• Academics and researchers who would like enhanced contact with  
practitioners to inform research agendas.
	• Industry practitioners and tool developers who wish to have  
stronger links to researchers and law enforcement.
	• Governmental Forensics Practitioners who conduct forensics  
operations for intelligence, counter-intelligence, or federal law  
enforcement.
	• Graduate students interested in digital forensics.