VIII Workshop on Computational Forensics (WFC)

NEW: EXTENDED DEADLINE TO JULY 17

The popularization of the Internet and the proliferation of electronic data processing and communication devices have made technology an ever-increasing part of people's lives. At the same time it opens a virtually infinite spectrum of possibilities for interaction and collaboration, it also creates opportunities for committing different types of crimes. The field of computer forensics is concerned with collecting, extracting, preserving, and analyzing digital evidence to support investigative and audit procedures. Some of the challenges faced by the field are technological, legal and social barriers, as well as the need to provide professionals with the skills required to work in this area.

The VIII Workshop on Computational Forensics (WFC) is a forum that promotes discussions and presentations of technical papers on the state of the art of computer forensics technologies. In addition, the workshop also aims to identify research challenges and foster the integration of researchers and professionals interested in computer forensics.

Topics of Interest

Authors are invited to submit original works related to computer forensics. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

  • Advance Persistent Threat (APT) campaign analysis
  • Anti-forensics and anti-anti-forensics
  • Big Data approaches to forensics, including collection, data mining, and visualization
  • Bolware analysis
  • Case studies and trend reports
  • Crime monitoring and detection tools
  • Data hiding and discovery (steganography and steganalysis)
  • Data recovery and reconstruction
  • Database forensics
  • Digital crime
  • Digital evidence and the law
  • Digital evidence storage and preservation
  • Event reconstruction methods and tools
  • ICS/SCADA forensics
  • Internet-of-Things (IoT) forensics (IP cameras, smart TVs, videogames)
  • Interpersonal communications and social network analysis
  • Large-scale investigations
  • Malware forensics and attribution
  • Memory forensics
  • Mobile and embedded device forensics
  • Multimedia forensics
  • Network and distributed systems forensics
  • Point-of-Sale (PoS) malware analysis
  • Pornography and child pornography detection
  • Real-time incident response and analysis
  • Storage forensics
  • Tool testing and development
  • Traffic analysis, traceback and attribution
  • Virtualized environment forensics (virtual machines and cloud computing)

Instructions for Authors

The workshop will include the presentation of papers accepted for publication and invited lectures. Papers can be submitted in two categories:

  • Full papers: A complete article describes in up to 10 pages (including figures, tables, references, appendices and attachments) a research work that has been developed to the point of producing original and relevant results, properly validated and analyzed.
  • Short papers: A short paper describes in 4 to 6 pages (including figures, tables, references, appendices and attachments) a research work in progress, a computational tool or practical experiments. In the case of tools or experiments, the abstract should contain at least the following information: description and motivation of the problem addressed by the tool; the solution's architecture and description of the main features; the tool's URL; tool documentation's URL and description of a possible demonstration.

Papers must be written in English or Portuguese and must be submitted through SBC's JEMS system. They shall be exclusively in PDF format. Authors must follow SBC's formatting instructions.

All submissions will be evaluated by a body of reviewers in a double-blind manner (without any identification of authors, reviewers or institutions). Accepted papers will be presented at the workshop and published in the proceedings. At least one author must be registered per paper, and the paper presentation is required in order for it to be included in the proceedings.

A committee will select the best papers of all the full papers presented in the workshop.

Submissions must be anonymized, and authors are required to remove their names, obvious references, and other revealing information prior to submission.

Important Dates

Submission deadline: 06/24/2019 (EXTENDED AND FIRM 07/10/2019 07/17/2019)
Notification of decision: 07/22/2019 (EXTENDED AND FIRM 07/31/2019 08/07/2019)
Authors' registration and camera-ready version: 07/29/2019 (EXTENDED AND FIRM 08/05/2019 08/12/2019)

Program Committee

André Grégio (UFPR)
Dino Amaral (BB)
Díbio Borges (UnB)
Flávio Vidal (UnB)
João Paulo Claudino de Sousa (PCDF)
Laerte Peota (BB)
Lucila Bento (Inmetro)
Rafael Timóteo de Sousa (UnB)
Raphael Carlos Santos Machado (Inmetro)
Robson de Oliveira Albuquerque (UnB)

Organizing Committee

VIII WFC Chairs:
Davidson Boccardo (Clavis Segurança da Informação)
João Gondim (UnB)

SBSeg 2019 Chairs:
Routo Terada (IME-USP)
Daniel Macêdo Batista (IME-USP)

sbseg2019@ime.usp.br

SBSeg 2019 is an initiative by the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC).