Security Informatics

Editor-in-Chief: Hsinchun Chen

Printable Call for Papers
The new journal, forthcoming from Springer, plans its inaugural issue for 2011.

SPRINGER Security Informatics will publish peer-reviewed articles in areas relevant to ISI research, from the perspectives of Information Technology/ Informatics and related policy considerations. Paper selection will focus on articles that present innovative research ideas and results, report significant application case studies, provide tutorial surveys, and raise awareness of pressing research and application challenges. The publication will be offered as one of Springer's Open Access journals; more information about Open Access is forthcoming.

Editorial Aims and Scope

Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI) is defined as the “development of advanced information technologies, systems, algorithms, and databases for international, national and homeland security related applications, through an integrated technological, organizational, and policy-based approach” (Chen 2006). The Springer Intelligence and Security Informatics (SPRINGER ISI) journal will publish peer-reviewed articles in areas relevant to ISI research, from the perspectives of Information Technology/ Informatics and related policy considerations. Paper selection will focus on articles that present innovative research ideas and results, report significant application case studies, provide tutorial surveys, and raise awareness of pressing research and application challenges. Topics for SPRINGER ISI include the following:

A. Intelligence Information Sharing and Data/Text/Web Mining

Intelligence-related knowledge discovery
Agents and collaborative systems for intelligence sharing
Information sharing policy and governance
Privacy and security
Computational criminology
Port and cargo security
Cyber warfare
Multilingual intelligence gathering and analysis
Criminal/intelligence data mining and network analysis
Criminal/intelligence information sharing and visualization
Spatio-temporal crime and intelligence data analysis
Deception and intent detection
Civil liberties issues

B. Infrastructure Protection and Emergency Response

Transportation and communication infrastructure protection
Cyberinfrastructure design and protection
Disaster prevention, detection, and management
Emergency response and management
Border/transportation security systems design and analysis
Cybercrime monitoring, prevention and analysis
Bio-agent surveillance and analysis
Catastrophic terrorism (bio-agents, WMDs) tracking, alerting, and analysis
Assisting citizens' responses to catastrophic terrorism events

C. Terrorism Informatics

Terrorism risk assessment and economic analysis
Social and psychological impact of terrorism
Eco-terrorism, Agro-terrorism, Bio-terrorism
Terrorism related analytical methodologies and software tools
Terrorism knowledge portals and databases
Terrorist incident chronology databases
Terrorism root cause analysis
Terrorist/Extremist network analysis (radicalization, recruitment, conducting operations), visualization, and simulation
Forecasting and countering terrorism
Measuring the effectiveness of counter-terrorism campaigns

D. Information Security and Enterprise Risk Management

Information security management standards
Information systems security policies
Behavior issues in information systems security
Fraud detection
Cyber crime, botnets, and social impacts
Corporate going concerns and risks
Accounting and IT auditing
Corporate governance and monitoring
Board activism and influence
Corporate sentiment surveillance
Market influence analytics and media intelligence
Consumer-generated media and social media analytics

SPRINGER Security Informatics is intended to serve as a bridge between security researchers and practitioners, including both related government agencies and the growing IT-related security industry. The journal provides an excellent opportunity to reach out to an international audience of security- related academic researchers, industry practitioners, and government IT managers and policy makers.

Editorial Guidelines:

SPRINGER Security Informatics encourages submissions that have not been published previously or submitted simultaneously. The journal will accept submissions of original research that are innovative and high-impact. It will also publish occasional special issues of original research in emerging topic areas.

Submissions that meet the following requirements are encouraged:

Intelligence and security informatics relevance: Submissions need to be relevant to the development of advanced information technologies, systems, algorithms, and databases for international, national and homeland security related applications, through an integrated technological, organizational, and policy-based approach. Innovative, emerging, and real-world applications in ISI are welcome.
Scientific rigor and contribution: Submissions need to demonstrate academic rigor and contribution to the discipline. Papers need to provide comprehensive literature reviews, analysis, and critique of the relevant field of study. Research questions and hypotheses need to be clearly stated and research design and methodology well articulated. Research testbeds, experiments, and evaluation metrics need to be carefully designed and executed. Managerial and organizational relevance of the research also needs to be presented.
Societal relevance and impact: We encourage submissions that are relevant and high-impact, especially for the benefit of local/national/international/global security in the physical world and/or cyberspace.
Innovation and novelty: Submissions need to demonstrate novelty in applications, designs, methodologies, algorithms, or theories. Research needs to be carefully compared with the best previously reported methods or approaches.

SPRINGER Security Informatics will publish papers that are carefully written and are readable by a broader audience instead of specialists doing research in a narrow area. Submissions need to be carefully edited to avoid mistakes and grammatical and typographic errors. Poorly written papers will be automatically rejected by the editor. Excessively long papers (more than 7,000 words) are discouraged. Most papers will be between 4,000 and 6,000 words. It is our goal to motivate the authors to bring out the essence of their research, to make their work easily understood by reviewers and readers, and to allow the journal to include more interesting papers in any given issue.

Papers appearing in SPRINGER Security Informatics are normally original research that has not been published elsewhere. Widely distributed refereed conference papers are considered publications, but technical papers are not. SPRINGER Security Informatics is an Open Access journal. Authors will retain their copyright under a Creative Commons License, which allow creators to communicate which rights they reserve, and which rights they waive for the benefit of recipients or other creators.

Emerging, relevant, high-impact ISI research is often time critical. The SPRINGER Security Informatics Editorial Board is committed to providing a professional and timely editorial process, as supported by the Springer online submission system [URL forthcoming]. In principle, a successful SPRINGER ISI submission can reach a final, full-accepted decision in 12 months or less, from the day of the initial submission.

Editor-in-Chief:

Hsinchun Chen

Hsinchun Chen is McClelland Professor of Management Information Systems at the University of Arizona. He received the B.S. degree from the National Chiao-Tung University in Taiwan, the MBA degree from SUNY Buffalo, and the Ph.D. degree in Information Systems from the New York University. Dr. Chen had served as a Scientific Counselor/Advisor of the National Library of Medicine (USA), Academia Sinica (Taiwan ), and National Library of China (China). Dr. Chen is a Fellow of IEEE and AAAS. He received the IEEE Computer Society 2006 Technical Achievement Award and the INFORMS Design Science Award in 2008. He has the h-index of 50. He is author/editor of 20 books, 25 book chapters, 210 SCI journal articles, and 140 refereed conference articles covering Web computing, search engines, digital library, intelligence analysis, biomedical informatics, data/text/web mining, and knowledge management. His recent books include: Infectious Disease Informatics (2010); Mapping Nanotechnology Knowledge and Innovation (2008), Digital Government: E- Government Research, Case Studies, and Implementation (2007); Intelligence and Security Informatics for International Security: Information Sharing and Data Mining (2006); and Medical Informatics: Knowledge Management and Data Mining in Biomedicine (2005), all published by Springer. Dr. Chen was ranked #8 in publication productivity in Information Systems (CAIS 2005) and #1 in Digital Library research (IP&M 2005) in two bibliometric studies. He is Editor in Chief (EIC) of the new ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems (ACM TMIS) and Springer Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI) Journal, and the Associate EIC of the IEEE Intelligent Systems. He serves on ten editorial boards including: ACM Transactions on Information Systems, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Decision Support Systems, and International Journal on Digital Library. He has been an advisor for major NSF, DOJ, NLM, DOD, DHS, and other international research programs in digital library, digital government, medical informatics, and national security research. Dr. Chen is founding director of Artificial Intelligence Lab and Hoffman E- Commerce Lab. The UA Artificial Intelligence Lab, which houses 20+ researchers, has received more than $30M in research funding from NSF, NIH, NLM, DOD, DOJ, CIA, DHS, and other agencies. Dr. Chen has also produced 25 Ph.D. students who are placed in major academic institutions around the world. The Hoffman E-Commerce Lab, which has been funded mostly by major IT industry partners, features one of the most advanced e-commerce hardware and software environments in the College of Management. Dr. Chen is conference co-chair of ACM/ IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) 2004 and has served as the conference/ program co-chair for the past eight International Conferences of Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL ), the premiere digital library meeting in Asia that he helped develop. Dr. Chen is also (founding) conference co-chair of the IEEE International Conferences on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI) 2003-present. The ISI conference, which has been sponsored by NSF, CIA, DHS, and NIJ, has become the premiere meeting for international and homeland security IT research. Dr. Chen’s COPLINK system, which has been quoted as a national model for public safety information sharing and analysis, has been adopted in more than 3500 law enforcement and intelligence agencies. The COPLINK research had been featured in the New York Times, Newsweek, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, and ABC News, among others. The COPLINK project was selected as a finalist by the prestigious International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP)/Motorola 2003 Weaver Seavey Award for Quality in Law Enforcement in 2003. COPLINK research has recently been expanded to border protection (BorderSafe), disease and bioagent surveillance (BioPortal), and terrorism informatics research (Dark Web), funded by NSF, DOD, CIA, and DHS. In collaboration with selected international terrorism research centers and intelligence agencies, the Dark Web project has generated one of the largest databases in the world about extremist/terrorist-generated Internet contents (web sites, forums, blogs, and multimedia documents). Dark Web research supports link analysis, content analysis, web metrics analysis, multimedia analysis, sentiment analysis, and authorship analysis of international terrorism contents. The project has received significant international press coverage, including: Associated Press, USA Today, The Economist, NSF Press, Washington Post, Fox News, BBC, PBS, Business Week, Discover magazine, WIRED magazine, Government Computing Week, Second German TV (ZDF), Toronto Star, and Arizona Daily Star, among others. Dr. Chen is also a successful entrepreneur. He is the founder of the Knowledge Computing Corporation (KCC), a university spin-off IT company and a market leader in law enforcement and intelligence information sharing and data mining. KCC was acquired by a major private equity firm for $40M in the summer of 2009 and merged with I2, the industry leader in crime analytics. Dr. Chen has also received numerous awards in information technology and knowledge management education and research including: AT&T Foundation Award, SAP Award, the Andersen Consulting Professor of the Year Award, the University of Arizona Technology Innovation Award, and the National Chiao-Tung University Distinguished Alumnus Award. He was also named Distinguished Alumnus by SUNY Buffalo. Dr. Chen had served as a keynote or invited speaker in major international security informatics, medical informatics, information systems, knowledge management, and digital library conferences and major international government meetings (NATO, UN, EU, FBI, CIA, DOD, DHS). He is a Distinguished/Honorary Professor of several major universities in Taiwan and China (including Chinese Academy of Sciences and Shanghai Jiao Tong University) and was named the Distinguished University Chair Professor of the National Taiwan University. Dr. Chen had recently served as the Program Chair of the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) 2009, held in Phoenix, Arizona.

Editorial Board:

Antonio Badia, Univ. of Louisville, USA
Michael Chau, Univ. of Hong Kong, China
Tsai-Jyh Joyce Chen, National Chengchi Univ., Taiwan
Chris Demchak, Univ. of Arizona, USA
Glenn Dietrich, The Univ. of Texas-San Antonio, USA
Boaz Ganor, Interdisciplinary center Herzliya, Israel
Uwe Glässer, Simon Fraser Univ., Canada
Mark Goldberg, Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst., USA
David Hicks, Aalborg Univ. Esbjerg, Denmark
Paul J. Hu, Univ. of Utah, USA
Tony Hu, Drexel Univ., USA
Paul Kantor, Rutgers Univ., USA
Sidd Kaza, Towson Univ., USA
Latifur Khan, Univ. of Texas at Dallas, USA
Juha Knuuttila, Laurea Univ. of Applied Sci., Finland
Ickjai Lee, James Cook Univ., Australia
Ee Peng Lim, Singapore Management Univ., Singapore
Sharad Mehrotra, Univ. of California, Irvine, USA
Nasrullah Memon, Univ. of S. Denmark, Denmark
William Pottenger, Rutgers Univ., USA
H. Raghav Rao, Univ. at Buffalo, USA
Edna Reid
Johnny Ryan, Institute of Intl. & European Affairs, Ireland
Antonio Sanfilippo, Pacific Northwest Natl. Lab., USA
Paul Thompson, Dartmouth College, USA
Shalini Urs, Univ. of Mysore, India
Jau-Hwang Wang, Central Police Univ., Taiwan
Jennifer Xu, Bentley Univ., USA
Lina Zhou, Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA

Advisory Board Members

Don Brown, Univ. of Virginia, USA
Judee Burgoon, Univ. of Arizona, USA
Shu-Hsing Li, National Taiwan; Univ., Taiwan
Jay F. Nunamaker, Jr., Univ. of Arizona, USA
David Skillicorn, Queen’s University, Canada
Bhavani Thuraisingham, Univ. of Texas at Dallas, USA
Feiyue Wang, Univ. of Arizona, USA & Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Patricia Brantingham, Simon Fraser University, Canada

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