With the increase of digitalization and the pervasiveness of information systems, a crime scene is no longer what it used to be with its mix of a location, people, evidence, changes in time, and their virtual counterpart. Including the mainstream use of smart-homes, -infrastructure, -factories, or -cities, investigations and forensic evidence are no longer bound by physics. Evidence can be copied, transferred, and appear in corners of the world, where no-one was looking before. This workshop has the goal of firstly fostering novel, creative, and applied Ideas on how to extract data from information sources, analyze that data, and apply the outcome into a criminal investigation. A second goal is to form a community, interested in appalling their scientific results of computer science, data analytics, and machine learning to cyber forensics..

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:

• Abstract submission (800-1000 characters): 08.03.2023
• Notification of abstract acceptance: 24.03.2023
• Submission deadline (full papers max. 10 pages, short papers max. 4 pages): 02.06.2023
• Notification of paper acceptance: 16.06.2023
• Camera ready due: 07.07.2023

List of Topics

Topics of interest comprise, but are not limited to:

• eDiscovery

• Digital evidence search and seizure

• Legal aspect of digital investigations

• Automated Life forensics

• Data science in digital investigations

• Criminal profiling

• Machine Learning in digital investigations

• Cloud forensics

• Forensic evidence collection in Smart- Homes and IoT

• Further education concepts

• OS Artifacts

• Forensics in File Systems

• Automated Extraction and Analysis of digital communications (text, pictures, video, audio)

Committees

Program Committee

• Prof. Dr. Wilfried Honekamp
• Prof. Dr. Johannes Fähndrich
• Prof. a. d. PA Roman Povalej
• Heiko Rittelmeier, M. Sc.
• Silvio Berne, M. A.
• Prof. Dr. Dirk Labudde

Organizing committee

• Prof. Dr. Wilfried Honekamp

Publication

DF2023 proceedings will be published in Lecture Note in Informatics

Venue

The conference will be held in Berlin on 29. September 2023 10:00-17:00

Contact

All questions about submissions should be e-mailed to wh@polizeiinformatik.de. See https://informatik2023.polizeiinformatik.de/ for further information.