Social Network Analysis Surveillance Technologies 2016

Call for Papers

The contemporary refugee crisis, due to conflicts in various areas all over the world, has boosted the need of the governments for increased surveillance in borders, in social media as well inside the camps especially for radicalization and extremism. As a result, there is an increased need for novel surveillance related technologies that can be adapted to the new military and civilian conditions as these have been developed worldwide. There are numerous examples of surveillance-based technologies that have penetrated various aspects of our personal life, such as smart devices, which can be used by operators and decision makers either in a central location or while being on the mobile (by agents in action). While desktop based applications can monitor, process and analyze surveillance data coming from a variety of sources, mobile-based platforms can also be used. These include smart phones, smart watches and in general smart devices, able to continuously collect petabytes of data, not only by governments but also by companies with different pretext.

This workshop is expected to bring forward the aforementioned issues. It will aim at presenting novel research developed by experts around the world in the areas of military, civilian and cyber surveillance. The workshop will be focused in discussing the advances in surveillance technologies, such as social media, internet, and cyber space methodological approaches and applications. The latest advances in the field, including, the presentation of novel research methods that are in the service of defense organizations, focusing on usage of social networking platforms, social network analysis and cyber surveillance is also expected to be covered. Other technologies that affect the everyday life of citizens will also be covered, such as video or image analysis as well as human recognition when using portable imaging sensors. Finally, the workshop will cover another very important aspect of surveillance, namely, the ethics and privacy in social networks and how they affect citizens and governments, as they continuously evolve in the light of globalization and international terrorism.

Topics

  • Techniques and tools for social network surveillance
  • Deanonymization and data inferring techniques
  • Digital forensics analysis
  • Visualization techniques for surveillance
  • Mobile-based surveillance applications (human identification etc.)
  • Sentiment surveillance
  • Early warning systems for terrorism, radicalization and extremism
  • Ethics and privacy in social networks
  • Internet surveillance systems
  • Intelligent networks of sensors
  • Disaster detection and prevention
  • Disease control through social network surveillance

2016
August 18

San Francisco, California
USA


9 Papers


Speakers

Organization

Workshop Chairs

Panagiotis Karampelas

Hellenic Air Force Academy (Greece)

 

Thirimachos Bourlai

West Virginia University (USA)

 

Program Committee

Joel Brynielsson

KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden)

Gianfranco Doretto

West Virginia University (USA)

Stephanie Schuckers

Clarkson University (USA)

Yanfang Ye

West Virginia University (USA)

 

Elena Camossi

CMRE NATO (Italy)

Ioannis Kakadiaris

University of Houston (USA)

Rafael Tena

Disney Research (USA)

 

Antwan Clark

Johns Hopkins University (USA)

Ioanna Lekea

Hellenic Air Force Academy (Greece)

Moi Hoon Yap

Manchester Metropolitan University (UK)

Important Dates

May 31, 2016 June 5, 2016

Paper submission due

June 20, 2016 June 27, 2016

Notification to authors

July 6, 2016 July 15, 2016

New camera ready due

Submit Your Paper

Full paper manuscripts must be in English with a maximum length of 8 pages or short paper 4 pages (using the IEEE two-column template). Submissions should be in PDF and include the title, author(s), affiliation(s), e-mail address(es) and abstract on the first page. Workshop papers will be submitted through EasyChair Conference System by clicking the Submit button below. If you don't already have an EasyChair account it will be required to create one before submitting a paper.

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Accepted and presented papers will be published in the ASONAM 2016 Conference Proceedings and forwarded for inclusion in IEEE Computer Society Digital Library (CSDL), IEEE Xplore and the ACM Digital Library. The conference proceedings will be submitted for EI indexing through INSPEC by IEEE.

Camera ready submission

The best papers accepted for publication in the proceedings will be invited to submit an extended version for the Surveillance in Action book edited by the Workshop chair's in the Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications book series by Springer, subject to additional peer reviewing.

Registration

Registration for the Workshop will be done through the registration page of the main conference.

Program

The program of the workshop has been published.

Academic Sponsor

Industrial Sponsor

Conference Venue

Sir Francis Drake Hotel (Union Square)
San Francisco
California
USA
website: http://www.sirfrancisdrake.com/union-square-hotels/