Intelligence and Security Informatics

Hsinchun Chen is McClelland Professor of Management Information Systems (MIS) at the Eller College of the University of Arizona and Andersen Consulting Professor of the Year (1999). He is the author of 15 books and more than 200 articles covering knowledge management, digital library, homeland security, Web computing, and biomedical informatics in leading information technology publications. He serves on ten editorial boards, including: Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, ACM Transactions on Information Systems, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, International Journal of Digital Library, and Decision Support Systems. He has served as a Scientific Advisor/Counselor of the National Library of Medicine (USA), Academia Sinica (Taiwan), and National Library of China (China). Dr. Chen founded The University of Arizona Artificial Intelligence Lab in 1990. The group is distinguished for its applied and high-impact AI research. Since 1990, Dr. Chen has received more than $20M in research funding from various government agencies and major corporations. He has been a PI of the NSF Digital Library Initiative Program and the NIH NLM s Biomedical Informatics Program. His group has developed advanced medical digital library and data and text mining techniques for gene pathway and disease informatics analysis and visualization since 1995. Dr. Chen s nanotechnology patent analysis works, funded by NSF, have been published in the Journal of Nanoparticle Research. His research findings were used in the President s Council of Advisors in Science and Technology s report on "The National Nanotechnology Initiative at Five Years: Assessment and Recommendations of the National Nanotechnology Advisory Panel." Dr. Chen s work also has been recognized by major US corporations and been awarded numerous industry awards for his contribution to IT education and research, including: ATT Foundation Award in Science and Engineering and SAP Award in Research/Applications. Dr. Chen has been heavily involved in fostering digital library, medical informatics, knowledge management, and intelligence informatics research and education in the US and internationally. He has been a PI for more than 20 NSF and NIH research grants since 1990. Dr. Chen is conference chair of ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) 2004 and has served as the conference general chair or international program committee chair for the past six International Conferences of Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL), 1998-2005. He has been instrumental in fostering the ICADL activities in Asia. Dr. Chen is the founder and also conference co-chair of the IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI), 2003-2006. The ISI conference has become the premiere meeting for international, national, and homeland security IT research. Dr. Chen is an IEEE fellow.

Intelligence and security informatics (ISI) can be broadly defined as the study of the development and use of advanced information technologies and systems for national and international security-related applications. The First and Second Symposiums on ISI were held in Tucson, Arizona, in 2003 and 2004, respectively. In 2005, the IEEE International Conference on ISI was held in Atlanta, Georgia. These ISI conferences brought together academic researchers, law enforcement and intelligence experts, information technology consultants and practitioners to discuss their research and practice related to various ISI topics including ISI data management, data and text mining for ISI applications, terrorism informatics, deception detection, terrorist and criminal social network analysis, crime analysis, monitoring and surveillance, policy studies and evaluation, and information assurance, among others. We continued these stream of ISI conferences by organizing the Workshop on Intelligence and Security Informatics (WISI 2006) in conjunction with the Pacific Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2006). WISI 2006 provided a stimulating forum for ISI researchers in Pacific Asia and other regions of the world to exchange ideas and report research progress. WISI 2006 was hosted by the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the University of Arizona, the Nanyang Technological University, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The one-day program included one keynote speech, four refereed paper sessions, two invited sessions and a poster reception.

Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Workshop on Intelligence and Security Informatics, WISI 2006

Keynote Speech.- Data Mining for Security Applications.- Web and Text Mining for Terrorism Informatics.- Unraveling International Terrorist Groups' Exploitation of the Web: Technical Sophistication, Media Richness, and Web Interactivity.- Multi-lingual Detection of Terrorist Content on the Web.- INEXT: An Investigative Search Tool for Knowledge Extraction.- Cybercrime Analysis.- Cybercrime in Taiwan - An Analysis of Suspect Records.- Analysis of Computer Crime Characteristics in Taiwan.- A Cross Datasets Referring Outlier Detection Model Applied to Suspicious Financial Transaction Discrimination.- Network Security.- Detecting Novel Network Attacks with a Data Field.- Improving Authentication Accuracy of Unfamiliar Passwords with Pauses and Cues for Keystroke Dynamics-Based Authentication.- Illegal Intrusion Detection Based on Hidden Information Database.- Defender Personality Traits.- Crime Data Mining.- Mining Criminal Databases to Finding Investigation Clues-By Example of Stolen Automobiles Database.- Country Corruption Analysis with Self Organizing Maps and Support Vector Machines.- Temporal Representation in Spike Detection of Sparse Personal Identity Streams.- Mining Positive Associations of Urban Criminal Activities Using Hierarchical Crime Hot Spots.- VCCM Mining: Mining Virtual Community Core Members Based on Gene Expression Programming.- Posters.- Integration of a Cryptographic File System and Access Control.- Applications of Homomorphic Functions to Software Obfuscation.- Security Model for Informational Privacy.- A Viable System for Tracing Illegal Users of Video.- Privacy and Security Enhanced Offline Oblivious Transfer for Massive Data Distribution.- The Effectiveness of Artificial Rhythms and Cues in Keystroke Dynamics Based User Authentication.-Cascade Damage Estimation Model for Internet Attacks.- A New Secure Key Exchange Protocol Between STB and Smart Card in DTV Broadcasting.- A Fuzzy Anomaly Detection System.- Hidden Markov Model Based Intrusion Detection.- One-Class Strategies for Security Information Detection.- Design of an Emergency Prediction and Prevention Platform for Societal Security Decision Support Using Neural Networks.- A Novel Identity Authentication Technique Without Trustworthy Third-Party Based on Fingerprint Verification.- Cyberspace Community Analysis and Simulation Using Complex Dynamic Social Networks.- Analysis of Infectious Disease Data Based on Evolutionary Computation.- Rule+Exception Learning-Based Class Specification and Labeling in Intelligence and Security Analysis.- A Computational Framework for Decision Analysis and Support in ISI: Artificial Societies, Computational Experiments, and Parallel Systems.