Call for Papers: IEEE International Scientific Conference on Informatics (ISI 2025)

The 2025 IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI 2025) will be held on July 12-13, 2025, in Hong Kong, China.

Intelligence and security informatics (ISI) is an interdisciplinary field that bridges academic researchers and industry professionals in areas such as information technology, social and behavioral sciences, computer science, law, and public policy. The conference aims to advance the understanding of the interrelationships between technology, humans, organizations, and security.

Topics of Interest

The conference invites submissions on a wide range of topics, including but not limited to:

Artificial Intelligence Security

• Adversarial example methods and applications
• Robustness defense research and model enhancement mechanisms
• Malicious attack detection and mitigation research
• Transferability of machine learning applications
• Privacy-preserving machine learning application development
• Decentralized data processing and distributed security protocols
• Fairness evaluation metrics for artificial intelligence applications
• Artificial intelligence applications in cybersecurity scenarios
• Intrusion detection using machine learning methods
• Artificial intelligence bias identification
• Governance of generative artificial intelligence misuse
• Legal responsibility of artificial intelligence systems
• Domain-specific artificial intelligence security
• Human-AI interaction security

LLM Security

• Adversarial prompt research on LLM
• Data privacy protection methods for LLM
• Bias detection metrics for LLM
• Fairness analysis methods for LLM
• Transparency in LLM-based decision making
• Ethical implications of LLM development
• Privacy leakage from training datasets for LLM construction
• Content Moderation of LLM against harmful or inappropriate outputs
• Security of fine-tuning LLM in domain-specific scenarios
• Misuse of LLM in security-critical applications
• Human-LLM interaction risks

Security Analytics and Threat Intelligence

• Threat pattern models and modeling tools
• Real-time situational awareness
• Intrusion and cybersecurity threat detection and analysis
• Cyber-physical-social system security and incident management
• Computing and networking infrastructure protection
• Crime analysis and prevention
• Forecasting threats and measuring the impact of threats
• Surveillance and intelligence through unconventional means
• Information security management standards
• Information systems security policies
• Mobile and cloud computing security
• Big data analytics for cybersecurity
• Machine learning for cybersecurity
• Transportation intelligence and security
• Artificial intelligence for cybersecurity
• LLM for cybersecurity

Resilient Cyber Infrastructure Design and Protection

• Data science and analytics in security informatics
• Data representation and fusion for security informatics
• Criminal/intelligence information extraction
• Data sharing and information visualization for security informatics
• Web-based intelligence monitoring and analysis
• Spatial-temporal data analysis for crime analysis and security informatics
• Criminal/intelligence machine learning and data mining
• Cyber attack and/or bio-terrorism tracking, alerting, and analysis
• Digital forensics and computational criminology
• Financial and accounting fraud analysis
• Consumer-generated content and security-related social media analytics
• Security-related social network analysis (radicalization, fund-raising, recruitment, conducting operations)
• Authorship analysis and identification
• Security-related analytical methodologies and software tools

Human Behavior and Factors in Security Applications

• Behavior issues in information systems security
• HCI and user interfaces of relevance to intelligence and security
• Social impacts of crime, cybercrime, and/or terrorism
• Board activism and influence
• Measuring the effectiveness of security interventions
• Citizen and employee education and training
• Understanding user behavior such as compliance, susceptibility, and accountability
• Security risks related to user behaviors/interactions with information systems
• Human behavior modeling, representation, and prediction for security applications

Organizational, National, and International Security Applications

• Best practices in security protection
• Information sharing policy and governance
• Privacy, security, and civil liberties issues
• Emergency response and management
• Disaster prevention, detection, and management
• Protection of transportation and communications infrastructure
• Communication and decision support for research and rescue
• Assisting citizens’ responses to cyber attacks, terrorism, and catastrophic events
• Accounting and IT auditing and fraud detection
• Corporate governance and monitoring
• Election fraud and political use and abuse
• Machine learning for the developing world
• Artificial Intelligence methods and applications for humanitarian efforts

Submission Guidelines

• All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference.
• Manuscripts should clearly articulate data, analytical procedures, and evaluation setup and results.
• Making data, code, and processes publicly available is encouraged but not required.
• The expected length of the manuscript is 6 pages. A page charge applies for exceeding this limit, with a maximum of 2 additional pages allowed at extra cost per page.
• Submissions must be in PDF format, following IEEE publication format. Use the template available at IEEE – Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings.
• Papers should be submitted through the Papercept submission and review system: https://its.papercept.net/conferences/scripts/start.pl. Find ISI 2025 in the conference list.
• To upload the final manuscript, at least one author must register for the conference.
• Each accepted paper must be presented at the conference.
• At least one author of each accepted paper must register as an IEEE member before the early registration deadline.
• Accepted papers will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore, subject to meeting IEEE Xplore’s scope and quality requirements.

Important Dates

• Submission Open: February 1, 2025
• Submission Deadline: March 31, 2025, 11:59 PM (Pacific Time)
• Acceptance Notification: May 1, 2025
• Final Paper Deadline: May 31, 2025
• Early Registration Deadline: May 31, 2025
• Conference Dates: July 12-13, 2025