ICAIL 2005 Workshop on
Data Mining, Information Extraction, and Evidentiary Reasoning
for Law Enforcement and Counter-Terrorism

Bologna, Italy, June 11, 2005

Call for Participation

Description

Large-scale data analysis plays an increasingly important role in law enforcement and counter-terrorism. Detection of many types of criminal behavior requires recognizing and drawing useful inferences from information embedded or implicit in huge quantities of data. Important aspects of data analysis include data mining (discovering relevant information in databases), information extraction (finding stereotypical patterns of information in free or semi-structured text), and evidentiary reasoning (drawing causal inferences from relevant information). Effective data analysis often requires Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques, such as natural language understanding, Bayesian inference, plan recognition, and machine learning. However, scaling these AI techniques to very large data sets presents many technical challenges.

The goal of this workshop will be to provide a forum for discussion of experiences with, best practices on, and general issues concerning intelligent, large-scale data analysis as applied to law enforcement and counter-terrorism. The workshop is intended to be interdisciplinary, attracting academic researchers in information technologies, computer science, public policy, and social studies; law enforcement and intelligence expert;, and information-technology industry consultants and practitioners.

Topics will include, but not be limited to, the following:

Participation Process

Potential participants who would like to present relevant work recently completed or in progress are invited to submit a short paper (4-6 pages), a full paper (8-10 pages), or an extended abstract (1-2 pages) that outlines your relevant research activities, publications, and goals for participation. Please email all submissions in PDF format to karl.branting@baesystems.com by 10 April 2005. All submissions will be reviewed by our committee, and acceptance notifications will be emailed by 5 May 2005. For additional information, please see http://www.karlbranting.net/icail2005workshopcfp.html The workshop proceedings wil be published by Gedit Edizioni.

Important Dates

10 April 2005: Deadline for paper and extended abstract submissions
5 May 2005: Accept/reject decisions on paper submissions
15 May 2005: Revised paper deadline

Organizing Committee

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