AI-PLE 2021 - The 1st International Workshop on AI-enabled Policing and Law Enforcement (IEEE EDOC Conference) October 25-26 2021, Gold Coast, Australia

Business processes are central to the operation of public and private enterprises. Today, the advancement in Service Oriented Computing, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Data Science has the potential to transform business processes in fundamental ways; by assisting knowledge workers in communicating analysis findings, supporting pieces of evidence and to make decisions.The 1st International Workshop on AI-enabled Policing and Law Enforcement (AI-PLE) will be held as one of the workshops of the 25th International IEEE EDOC Conference. The AI-PLE workshop aims at providing a forum for researchers and professionals interested in Artificial Intelligence (AI) enabled Processes and Services in Law Enforcement; and in understanding, envisioning and discussing the opportunities and challenges of intelligent Process Automation, Process Data Analytics and providing Cognitive Assistants for knowledge workers in Law Enforcement. Recognizing the broad scope of the potential areas of interest, the workshop is organized into FOUR themes, as follows:

Call For Papers

Theme 1: Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Policing and Law Enforcement

• Intelligent Knowledge Lakes
• Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing
• Intelligent Knowledge Representation
• Intelligent user experience
• Intelligent Crowdsourcing
• Cognitive Processes

Theme 2: BigData Analytics in Policing and Law Enforcement

• Process Data Lakes and Knowledge Lakes
• Process Data Science
• Data-Driven Processes
• Knowledge-Intensive Processes
• Process Data Engineering
• Process Data Organizations
• Process Data Curation
• Process Data Mining
• Process Data Analytics
• Process Data Visualization
• Process Data Summarization
• Storytelling with Process Data

Theme 3: Smart Entities in Policing and Law Enforcement

• Internet of Things (IoT)
• Sensor Technology and Data Analytics
• Machine-to-Machine and Human-to-Machine Communication
• Advanced Automation and Robotics (including collaborative robots)

Theme 4: Security, Privacy, and Forensics in Policing and Law Enforcement

• Security in social networks
• Security in cloud/pervasive computing
• Security-aware facial recognition
• Emerging applications of reinforcement learning for securing
• Privacy/security in Database, Web-based applications and services
• Privacy and trust
• Privacy-preserving biometrics
• Anti-forensics and analytics
• Bigdata/Cloud forensics
• Legal, Social, and Ethical Aspects of AI and Law technology, including:
  • Artificial Intelligence: Legal, ethical, and policy issues
  • Conceptual or model-based legal information retrieval
  • Data mining applied to the legal domain
  • E-government, e-democracy and e-justice
  • Executable models of legislation
  • Formal and computational models of legal reasoning
  • Intelligent support systems for the legal domain
  • Technical and legal aspects of smart contracts (blockchain technology in the legal domain)

Paper Submission Instructions

• Position papers:    10-page limit, describing a position statement on issues related to the topics of the workshop. Position papers would lead to interesting discussions by raising key questions, controversial points of view, challenges, and ideas to address the identified issues.
• Research papers:  10-page limit, describing original and novel research work, including research results and evaluations. The papers may present the ongoing research, novel ideas with preliminary results, advances of the state of the art, analysis of the current results in the state of the art or state of the practice, or experience in implementing the theories.
• Industry Papers:  10-page limit, This track will be an opportunity for people associated with industry and academia to present their novel ideas while attracting funding and/or further expand collaborations. An important criterion for papers to be submitted to the Industry Track is a clear industrial association, either in the form of an extensive evaluation of research results in industrial use cases or active participation of industry representatives as co-authors.
• Papers should should follow the IEEE Proceedings Formatting Guidelines and be submitted in PDF format. Submissions must be in English and must not exceed the above mentioned limit pages (including abstract, figures and references). Each paper must be submitted on or before the provided deadlines. Each paper will be reviewed by at least three reviewers.
• All papers must be submitted electronically, as PDF file, to the Workshop Submission System: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aiple2021

Important Dates

• Paper Abstract Deadline: 10 August 2021
• Paper Submission Deadline: 16 August 2021
• Paper Notification 13 September 2021
• Camera-ready (and Registration) Deadline: 27 September 2021
• Workshop: October 25-26

Award and Support Program

• Best Paper Award: $500AUD
• Workshop Registration Fee Waiver: We will waive the Workshop Registration Fee for all accepted papers, thanks to our sponsors.

Workshop Sponsors

         Australian Federal Police (AFP) and AIP Research Centre at Macquarie University, Australia

Workshop Organizers

• Chairs:
  • Dr. Amin Beheshti, Macquarie University, Australia
  • Superintendent Frank Schiliro, Australian Federal Police (AFP), Australia
• Steering Committee:
  • Mr Phillip Bradley, former Commissioner of the NSW Crime Commission, Australia
  • Mr Nick Cowdery, former Director of Public Prosecutions, Australia
  • Dr Neil Brittliff, Microsoft, Australia
  • Scientia Prof. Boualem Benatallah, UNSW Sydney, Australia
  • Prof. Niloufer Selvadurai, Macquarie University, Australia
• Publicity Chair:
  • Dr Nour Moustafa, UNSW Canberra, Australia
• Proceedings Chair:
  • Dr Helia Farhood, Macquarie University, Australia
• Web Chair:
  • Dr Shaung Wang, Macquarie University, Australia

Program Committee

• Michael Sheng, Macquarie University, Australia
• Uwe Aickelin, University of Melbourne, Australia
• Aditya Ghose, University of Wollongong, Australia
• Salil Kanhere, UNSW Sydney, Australia
• Karl Roberts, WHO and Western Sydney University, Australia
• Fabio Casati, Servicenow, USA
• Hakim Hacid, Zayed University, UAE
• Anup Kalia, IBM Research, USA
• Daniel Ghezelbash, Macquarie University, Australia
• Mehdi Elahi, University of Bergen, Norway
• Azadeh Ghari Neiat, Deakin University, Australia
• Qiang Qu, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, China
• Rita Matulionyte, Macquarie University, Australia
• Hannah Harris, Macquarie University, Australia
• Zoran Iliev, Australian Forensic Services, Australia
• Hamid Karimi-Rouzbahani, Unversity of Cambridge, UK
• Adel Serhani, UAE University, UAE
• Mehrdad Zakershahrak, Arizona State University, USA
• Paul Black, Federation University, Australia
• Francois Charoy, Inria/Université de Lorraine, France
• Marcos Baez, University of Trento, Italy