IEEE HST '12 Call for Papers, Posters & Tutorials

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The twelfth annual IEEE Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security (HST ’12), will be held 13 - 15 November in Greater Boston, Massachusetts. This conference brings together innovators from leading academic, industry, business, Homeland Security Centers of Excellence, and government programs to provide a forum to discuss ideas, concepts, and experimental results.

• Cyber Security,
• Attack and Disaster Preparation, Recovery, and Response,
• Land and Maritime Border Security,
• Biometrics & Forensics.

We are currently seeking technical paper, poster and tutorial session submissions in each of the areas noted above. Submissions should focus on technologies with applications available for implementation within five years. All areas will cover the following common topics:

• Strategy and threat characterization, CONOPs, risk analysis,
• Modeling, simulation, experimentation, and training, and
• Testbeds, standards and evaluations.

Track-specific topics are shown below.

Attack and Disaster Preparation, Recovery and Response

Targets include: Small events (10s-100s of victims), large events (1,000s-10,000), catastrophic events (>100,000s)

• Predictive techniques for pre-placing supplies, and locating and tasking first responders
• Situational Awareness / Situational Understanding, Information Management and Data Visualization
• Information Sharing, Decision Making and Integrated/Interoperable Decision Support Systems
• Decontamination and restoration strategies, approaches, and sensors following WMD events
• Preparedness, Risk, and Resilience measurement and performance tracking

Borders and Maritime Security

Targets include: Individuals, facilities and monuments, airports and airspace, seaports and maritime, transportation infrastructure, land borders and ports of entry

• Radiation and nuclear threat characterization, risk assessment, sensors and detectors
• Nuclear forensics
• Personnel screening
• Container/Compartment/Vehicle screening (Detection, monitoring and tracking)
• Ground surveillance
• Port (land, sea and air) surveillance
• Automated target recognition and identification

Cyber Security

Targets include: Federal networks and computers and control systems

• Secure, resilient systems and networks
• Mission Assurance
• Command, control, and interoperability
• Situational awareness (enterprise-level, regional, global)
• Information sharing, privacy-aware security, data anonymization
• Network recovery and reconstitution
• Supply chain monitoring and defense
• Process control system security
• IP telecommunications security, wireless security
• Global-scale identity management
• Cyber security economic modeling, security metrics
• Attack modeling and characterization
• Cyber security incident response

Biometrics & Forensics

Targets include: People and assets.

BIOMETRICS

• Biometrics recognition based on DNA, voice, fingerprint, iris, face, handwriting, gait, and other modalities
• Statistical estimation of stability and distinctiveness
• Datasets, corpora, and evaluation
• Multimodal biometrics
• New biometrics and novel sensing technologies
• Legacy biometric systems
• Robust biometrics with respect to standoff, environmental conditions, and channel impairments
• Analysis of biometric applications

FORENSICS

• Evaluation of the scientific basis, validity, and reliability, and uncertainty of forensic analyses under realistic case scenarios
• Statistical estimation and reporting
• Human observer bias and sources of human error with forensic sciences
• Tools and protocols (automated and manual) for forensic examinations, methods, and practices
• Nationwide and international biometric data interoperability

Call for Tutorials

We seek tutorials in related areas. Tutorials may be 90 minutes or 3 hours long. Submissions should include the title, a brief description of the topic for the tutorial and intended audience, the intended length, and a short biography of the presenter(s). Send submissions to tutorials@ieee-hst.org.

Call for Business Program Topics

We are looking for suggestions for topics to be discussed in the business program. Examples might be ‘Doing Business with State and Local Government Entities’, ‘A Review of the DHS SBIR/BAA Process’. Send suggestions to businessprogram@ieee-hst.org.

Call for Sponsors and Exhibitors

A limited number of sponsorships and exhibit packages are available. To learn more, contact: sponsorship@ieee-hst.org.

For more information on the conference email: information@ieee-hst.org.

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