Call for Papers: Third International Workshop on Computational Forensics

[Cor J. Veenman]

CALL FOR PAPERS

Third International Workshop on Computational Forensics

Netherlands Forensic Institute, The Hague, The Netherlands
[August 13-14, 2009]

Main event of the IAPR Technical Committee on Computational Forensics
[IAPR TC6-CompFor]

http://iwcf09.arsforensica.org

Submission Deadline: April 24, 2009
Proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag in the LNCS series.

Computational Forensics is the research field in the joint arena of
computer science and forensics. Research in this area is dedicated
to the development and validation of computational applications for
forensic problems and to the support of various forensic processes
from investigation to evidence evaluation.

The workshop addresses a broad spectrum of forensic disciplines that
apply computational methods as statistical pattern recognition, modeling
and simulation. These disciplines include pathology, biology,
drugs, ballistics, and anthroplogy among others. Subjects of study range
from tool marks, shoeprints, questioned documents, physiological and
behavioral patterns, to the reconstruction of crime scenes and body parts.

IWCF'09 invites authors to submit their original and unpublished work
from all these areas of computational forensics.

SPECIAL SESSIONS
This year at IWCF09, a number of topics have been selected that have our
special interest. Five specialists each organise a special session
focussed on the computational and forensic aspects of their respective
field of expertise:

o Sensor Forensics
chaired by Edward Delp, Purdue University, USA
o 3-D Modeling for Forensic Reconstruction
chaired by Dirk Vandermeulen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
o Forensic DNA Analysis
chaired by Peter Gill, Strathclyde University, Schotland
o Forensic Biometrics
chaired by Didier Meuwly, Netherlands Forensic Institute, The Netherlands
o Forensic Document Analysis
chaired byYoshinori Akao, National Research Institute of Police
Science, Japan

TOPICS
Besides the subjects covered by the special sessions, topics of interest for
submission include, but are not limited to, computational methods for
the following forensic disciplines:
Anthropology, Ballistics, Biology, Fiber Analysis, Fire Debris,
Pathology, Physiological and Behavioral Patterns, Prints, Questioned
Documents, Ridge Skin Impressions, Tire Impressions, Tool marks, Trace,
Shoeprints, Vehicles.

PAPER SUBMISSION
Papers should be original and contain contributions of theoretical,
experimental or application nature, or be unique experience reports.
Manuscripts have to be prepared in accordance with the Springer LNCS
format guidlines. The maximum number of pages is 12. Electronic
submissions received via the workshop site until April 24, 2009 will be
evaluated for originality, significance, clarity, and soundness by at
least three independent experts.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
o Yoshinori Akao, National Research Institute of Police Science,
Japan
o Faouzi Alaya Cheikh, Gjøvik University College, Norway
o Lashon B. Booker, The MITRE Corporation, USA
o Thomas M. Breuel, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
o Joseph P. Campbell, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA
o Oscar Cordón, European Centre for Soft Computing, Spain
o Edward J. Delp, Purdue University, USA
o Patrick De Smet, FOD Justitie, Belgium
o Andrzej Drygajlo, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne,
Switzerland
o Robert P.W. Duin, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
o Cinthia Freitas, Pontifical Catholic University of Parana, Brazil
o Simson L. Garfinkel, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, USA
o Peter Gill, Strathclyde University, Scotland
o Lawrence Hornak, West Virginia University, USA
o Anil K. Jain, Michigan State University, USA
o Mario Köppen, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
o Deborah Leben, US Secret Service, USA
o Didier Meuwly, Netherlands Forensic Institute, The Netherlands
o Milan Milosavljevic', University of Belgrade, Serbia
o Slobodan Petrovic', Gjøvik University College, Norway
o Olivier Ribaux, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
o Hiroshi Sako, Hitachi Central Research Laboratory, Japan
o Reva Schwartz, US Secret Service, USA
o Andrew Senior, Google Inc., USA
o Sargur N. Srihari, University at Buffalo, USA
o Chew Lim Tan, National University of Singapore, Singapore
o Dirk Vandermeulen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
o Marcel Worring, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
o Andrè Årnes, Oracle Norge AS, Norway

WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS
Katrin Franke, Gjøvik University College, Norway
Zeno Geradts, Netherlands Forensic Institute, Netherlands
Cor J. Veenman, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands