Program of the Workshop 2024

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Introduction and Scope

Following the positive feedback and great interest over the last five years, we are delighted to announce the 7th International Workshop on Big Data Analytic for Cybercrime Investigation and Prevention, co-located with IEEE Big Data 2024 conference Washington, DC, USA on December 15-18, 2024

The big data paradigm has become an inevitable aspect of today's digital forensics investigations. Acquiring a forensic copy of seized data mediums already takes several hours due to the increasing storage size. In addition are several other time-consuming laboratory analysis steps required, such as evidence identification, corresponding data preprocessing, analysis, linkage, and final reporting. These steps have to be repeated for every physical device examined in the criminal case. Conventional digital forensics data preprocessing and analysis methods struggle when handling the contemporary variety, variability, volume and velocity of case data. Thus, proactive approaches have to be developed and integrated in daily law enforcement operations; for timely detection and prevention of the illegal activities in a data-intensive environments. Thus, there is a need for advanced big data analytics to aid in cyber crime investigations, which requires novel approaches for automated analysis. This workshop is organized to bring together recent development in big data analysis to aid in current challenges in cybercrime investigations.

Research Topics of Interest

The topics of the workshop are as following, but not limited to:

Algorithm areas

- Machine Learning-aided analysis

- Graph-based detection

- Topic modelling

- Improvements of existing methods

- Decision Support Systems

Data

- Novel datasets

- New data formats

- Digital Forensics data simulation

- Anonymised case data

- New data formats and taxonomies

Infrastructure

- Secure collaborative platforms

- Distributed storage and processing

- Technologies for data streams

- Hardware / software architectures for large-scale data

Application areas

- Cyber Threats Intelligence

- Network Forensics Readiness

- Malware Analysis & Detection

- Emails mining & Authorship Identification

- Social Network Mining

- Events correlations

- Access Logs analysis

- Mobile Forensics

- Fraud Detection

- Database Forensics

- IoT Forensics

- Blockchain technologies

- Industrial systems

Important dates

Sep 15, 2024: Due date for full workshop paper submissions

Oct 15, 2024: Notification of paper acceptance to authors

Nov 1, 2024: Latest due date for camera-ready of accepted papers

Dec 15-18, 2024: Workshops and conference

Program Chairs

  • Andrii Shalaginov

    SmartSecLab, Kristiania University College
    andrii.shalaginov@kristiania.no

  • Guru Prasad Bhandari

    SmartSecLab, Kristiania University College
    GuruPrasad.Bhandari@kristiania.no


  • Asif Iqbal

    Hitachi Energy, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
    asif@asifiqbal.se

  • Igor Kotsiuba

    Durham University Business School
    igor.kotsiuba@durham.ac.uk

Technical Program Committee

Ajit Kumar (Soongsil University)

Aleksandar Jevremovic (Singidunum University)

Bing Zhou (Sam Houston State University)

Cristian Bucur (Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal)

Gebremariam Assres (Kristiania University College)

Junaid Arshad (Birmingham City University)

Inna Skarga-Bandurova (Pukhov Institute for Modelling in Energy Engineering)

Lester Allan Lasrado (Kristiania University College)

Marko Krstic (Regulatory Agency for Electronic Communications and Postal Service)

Olaf M. Maennel (Tallinn University of Technology)

Piotr A. Kowalski (AGH University of Science and Technology)

Raffaele Olivieri (Cyber Security Manager)

Shih-Chieh Su (‎Amazon)

Thippa Reddy G (Vellore Institute Of Technology)

Vasileios Mavroeidis (University of Oslo)

Vinayakumar Ravi (Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University)

Vinti Agarwal (Birla Institute of Technology & Science)

Keynote Speakers

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Paper Submission

The authors are invited to submit: full-length papers (up to 10 pages IEEE 2-column format), short papers (4-6 pages IEEE 2-column format) or abstract papers (up to 4 page IEEE 2-column format) through the online submission system. Page count includes references, figures and tables.

Paper Submission Page

Papers should be formatted to IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscript Formatting Guidelines:

https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html

Publication

The authors of accepted papers must guarantee their presence at the conference for the papers to be published in the conference proceedings. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference in order to include the paper in the proceedings.

Book

Selected papers will be nominated for submission to the book: