The 1^st IEEE INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON COMPUTER FORENSICS IN SOFTWARE ENGINEERING (CFSE’ 2009)

GOAL  OF THE WORKSHOP

Computer forensics has been an emerging research area for IT-related professionals, researchers, and practitioners since the turn of the century. However, the majority of the research has focused on  “after the fact” issues, namely how to collect and analyze digital evidence in an existing software/hardware environment.  In this workshop, we will study the “built-in” issues, namely how to build software applications for t critical infrastructures that better serve the purpose of computer forensics. Software forensics that analyzes crime-ware code and behavior is also included.

THEME AND SCOPE OF THE WORKSHOP

The theme of the workshop is to harmonize humans, computers, and software in a legal-activity-enforced cyber environment.  We need to build forensics into software so that evidence of cybercrime can be collected more efficiently, cyber attacks on critical infrastructures can be prevented more effectively, and anonymity and privacy can be preserved more confidently.

In addition to the study of “after the fact” issues on collection, examination, and analysis of digital evidence, paying attention to computer forensics issues to an early stage of software development has become an urgent need as our society relies more and more on the Internet. In this workshop, we will turn our focus to the foundations of cyberspace to investigate “built-in” issues, such as how to build a software environment that better serves the purpose of computer forensics. We will explore how initially to make cyberspace more friendly in a later forensic search.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Anti-Plagiarism Technology
• Anti-Software Forensics
• Code Authorship Analysis or Code-theft Detection
• Complier Forensics
• Computer Forensics in Software Engineering Education
• Cyber Crime Simulation
• Electronic Voting Forensics
• Forensic Programming and Software Development
• Formal Methods in Forensic Computing
• Google Forensic Computing
• Legal Issues in Computing
• Next Generation of Forensic Software
• Social Networking Forensics
• Software Application Forensics (Medical, Financial, Governmental, etc.)
• Software Forensics
• Software Profiling
• Source Code Forensic Recovering
• System Software Forensics (Operating Systems, Browsers, Email systems, etc.)
• Ubiquitous/Cloud/Grid  Forensic Computing
• Web Services/XML Forensics

Selected CFSE 2009 authors will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for publication in the Special Issue on Computer Forensics in Software Engineering: The Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law (pending).

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Christophe Cerin, University Paris 13, France

Fred Cohen, California Sciences Institute, USA

Taisook Han, Korea Advanced Institute of Science Technology, South Korea

Mariusz Jakubowski, Microsoft Research, USA

Satoshi Kai, Hitachi, Japan

Angelos Keromytis, Columbia University, USA

Ernst Kotze, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, South Africa

Kai Qian, Southern Polytechnic State University, USA

Bradley Rubin, University of St. Thomas, USA

Anoop Singhai, NIST, USA

Jill Slay, University of South Australia, Australia

Hiroki Takakura, Kyoto University, Japan

Benjamin Turnbull,University of South Australia, Australia

Tetsutero Uehara, Kyoto University, Japan

Paul Wagner, University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire, USA

Shiuh-Jeng Wang, Central Police University, Taiwan

Rongsheng Xu, Chinese Academy of Science, China

IMPORTANT DATES

March 30, 2009

Workshop paper submission due (Extended)

April 10, 2009

Decision notification (electronic)

April 30, 2009

All final manuscript and author pre-registration due

PAPER SUBMISSION

Papers must be submitted electronically via the CFSE 2009 Submission Page (to be set up soon). Please follow the instructions posted on the web site. The format of submitted papers should follow the guidelines for IEEE conference proceedings, i.e., 8.5" x 11", two-column format (PDF, DOC); layout guide (PDF, DOC). The paper should not exceed 4000 words or 6 pages in IEEE paper format including all figures, tables, and references. For any problem, please contact Dr. Jigang Liu at Jigang.Liu@hw8.ecs.kyoto-u.ac.jp

All papers will be reviewed by the program committee according to originality, significance, correctness, presentation and relevance.

Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings of the 33rd IEEE Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2009) by IEEE Computer Society Press, indexed through INSPEC and Elsevier's Engineering Information Index (EI Index), and automatically included in the IEEE Digital Library. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper must register as a full participant of the conference to have the paper published in the proceedings. 

Each accepted paper must be presented in person by one of itsauthors.

Workshop Co-Chairs