International School of Information Management
University of Mysore


Workshop on Intelligence & Security Informatics
June 17-19, 2010, Mysore


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The International School of Information Management (ISiM), University of Mysore is organizing a workshop on Intelligence & Security Informatics during June 17-19, 2010 at Mysore.

Program Overview :

Day 1   17 June 2010  Inaugural Address: Cue See model and organizational security by Dr. Matthew Frank Barney, Head – Leadership Development, Infosys Technologies Ltd., Mysore

                                    Inaugural Key Note: Intelligence and Security Informatics by Dr. Hsinchun Chen, Professor and IEEE Fellow, Eller  School of MIS, University of Arizona, USA

Tutorial 1 :
Dark Network Analysis by Prof. Hsinchun Chen.

Day 2   18 June 2010  Tutorial 2 :
                                    Competitive Intelligence and Business Strategies by Dr. R.N. Prasad, Senior Lead Principal, Education and Research, Infosys Technologies, Ltd., Mysore

Day 3 19 June 2010    Tutorial 3 :
                                    Machine Learning Techniques for Crime Data Analysis by Dr. Michael Chau, Assistant Professor, The University of Hong Kong.


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Registration Details:

Registration Fee (Corporate) : INR 4000 
Registration Fee (Academic) : INR 2000
Registration Fee (Students)    : INR 1000 

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Workshop Details
Context and relevance:

Combating terrorism has occupied centre-stage across governments, security agencies, policy makers, academia, industry and society at large for obvious and understandable reasons. In the academic and industry circles, past decade has witnessed significant interest in security-related research in a wide range of applications spanning across national and international security, economic and societal security, and including personal and community security. Academic disciplines especially centered on Information Technologies   such as information and computer sciences, information systems, human-computer studies, technology adoption, and policy studies have made rapid progress in developing and evaluating customized frameworks, methodologies, techniques, and systems to meet specific information processing and knowledge management challenges of “security” and “Intelligence”.  An emerging field of cross-disciplinary study, called the Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI), encompassing these efforts through an integrated technological, organizational, and policy-based approach has evolved. This multidiscipline is shaped by research and applications in fields from data/text/web mining to knowledge management to cognitive science to social psychology. The emergent field also has spawned professional societies and conferences, to build a professional community -

This emergent field has good prospects for and demands best of the young minds to expand and strengthen the domain and help contribute to the end goal of Secure and Smart society. The Workshop would help achieve this goal.

The Summer School on ISI 2010 will provide a learning platform for students and professionals, who focus on ISI research. We believe that this summer school will enrich the understanding of the emerging domain of ISI.

The Workshop will have three Tutorials:

Tutorial 1:
Intelligence and Security Informatics and Dark Network Analysis by Prof. Hsinchun Chen and IEEE Fellow, Eller School of MIS, University of Arizona, USA
Topic covered include -
•   Intelligence and Security Informatics(ISI): Framework and Case Studies
o   Developing the science of ISI
o   Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI): Challenges and Opportunities
o   Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining  (KDD) research framework and techniques
o   Critical mission areas
o   Information Sharing and Data/Text Mining
o   Intelligence-related knowledge discovery
o   Criminal data mining and network analysis
o   Web-based intelligence monitoring and analysis
o   Deception and intent detection
o   Cyber-crime detection and analysis
o   Authorship analysis and identification
o   Agents and collaborative systems for intelligence sharing
o   HCI and user interfaces of relevance to intelligence and security
•   Dark Network  Analysis
o   Connections
o   Web site spidering
o   Forum spidering
o   Video spidering
o   Analysis and Visualization:
o   Link and content analysis
o   Web metrics analysis
o   Authorship analysis
o   Sentiment analysis
o   Video coding and analysis

Tutorial 2:
Competitive Intelligence and Business Strategies by Dr. R. N. Prasad, Senior Lead Principal, Education and Research, Infosys Technologies, Mysore
Topics covered include:
o   Principles and Practice of CI
o   Market threats, changes and new opportunities and trends.
o   CI categories: Strategic, tactical, adhoc and continuous.
o   CI Vs. BI
o   CI tools
o   Metrics and best practices
o   Web Analytics and methods

Tutorial 3:
Machine Learning Techniques for Crime Data Analysis by Dr. Michael Chau, Assistant Professor, The University of Hong Kong
Topics covered include:
•   Introduction to Machine Learning
•   Types of Learning
•   Machine Learning Techniques
o   Decision Trees
o   Probabilistic Models
o   Neural Networks
•   Applications in Crime Data Analysis
•   Network Analysis and Visualization
•   Textual Analysis
•   Hands on with WEKA

Faculty:

1.   Dr. Hsinchun Chen, Professor and IEEE Fellow, Eller School of MIS, University of Arizona, USA.
2.   Dr. R. N. Prasad, Senior Lead Principal, Education and Research, Infosys Technologies Ltd, Mysore & his Team.
3.   Dr. Michael Chau ,Assistant Professor, The University of Hong Kong.


Workshop Organized by:

International School of Information Management (ISiM), University of Mysore, Mysore

Workshop Chair:
•   Shalini R. Urs
Executive Director and Professor
International School of Information Management, University of Mysore
URL: http://www.isim.ac.in/shalinirurs.htm
Workshop Sponsor:

Microsoft Research, Bangalore 

Workshop Venue:

International School of Information Management, (ISiM)
Manasagangotri,
University of Mysore,
Mysore- 570006

Contact Details:

Mr. Lohith
International School of Information Management
University of Mysore, Manasagangotri
Mysore – 570 006
Tel: +91-821-2514699; +91-821-2411417
Mob: +91-9886772356,
Fax: +91-821-2519209,
Email: <removed>





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