SNAST2020: Social Network Analysis Surveillance Technologies 2020 Hotel NH Den Haag The Hague, Netherlands, December 7-10, 2020 |
Conference website | http://www.snast.org |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=snast2020 |
Submission deadline | August 31, 2020 |
In conjunction with the 2020 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM)
Technology penetrates every aspect of personal life with the use of Internet of Things devices that can be used by operators and decision makers in a central location (operations room) or while being on the mobile (agents in action). While desktop based applications can be used to monitor but also process and analyse surveillance data coming from a variety of sources, mobile-based platforms can also be used, including smart phones, smart watches and in general Internet of Things devices, petabytes of data are continually collected not only by governments but also by companies with different pretext. Governments especially after the 9/11 have started running intensive surveillance programs intending to identify potential terrorist threats, while companies are using data collected either through devices or sensors attached to their products in order to understand their customers and their behaviours.
The contemporary refugee crisis, due to conflicts in various areas all over the world, has boosted the need of governments for increased surveillance in borders, in social media as well inside the camps, especially for radicalization and extremism. At the same time, new types of “lone-wolf” terrorist acts have appeared in various countries all over the world making the governmental services unable to predict which will be the next target. In addition, the recent data acquisition scandal involving a major social networking platform for political purposes, reveals the extend of surveillance applicability in all the aspects of human life. As a result, there is an increased need for novel methods of surveillance that can be adapted to the new military and civilian conditions, while also respecting the privacy of individuals.
The workshop is expected to address the aforementioned issues and will aim at presenting novel research in the area of military, civilian and especially in cyber surveillance by experts around the world. The areas of focus will cover a broad range of surveillance techniques in the service of defense organizations applied in social media via social networking platforms, the internet, and in general in cyber space (cyber surveillance). The topics will also cover other novel methods utilized in the everyday life of citizens, such as, but not limited to, video and image analysis based human recognition that can be used in social network analysis. Finally, the workshop will cover another very important aspect of surveillance in social media, namely, the ethical and privacy issues as these are evolving in the light of globalization and terrorism and how these affect citizens and governments.
Submission Guidelines
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:
- Full papers manuscripts must be in English with a maximum length of 8 pages or short paper 4 pages (using the IEEE two-column template).
- Submissions should be in PDF and include the title, author(s), affiliation(s), e-mail address(es) and abstract on the first page.
- Workshop papers will be submitted through EasyChair Conference System by following this link: SUBMIT
- If you don't already have an EasyChair account it will be required to create one before submitting a paper.
Committees
Program Chairs
- Panagiotis Karampelas - Hellenic Air Force Academy (Greece)
- Thirimachos Bourlai - West Virginia University (USA)
Program Committee
- Vasileios Anastopoulos - University of Piraeus (Greece)
- Neeru Narang - Accenture (USA)
- Konstantinos Xylogiannopoulos - University of Calgary (Canada)
- Nikolaos Kanellopoulos - Hellenic Army Academy (Greece)
- Natalia Schmid - West Virginia University (USA)
- Yanfang (Fanny) Ye - Case Western Reserve University (USA)
- Ioanna Lekea - Hellenic Air Force Academy (Greece)
- Massimo Tistarelli - University of Sassari (Italy)
Previous Workshops
- SNAST 2019, Vancouver, Canada, August 27
- SNAST 2018, Barcelona, Spain, August 28
- SNAST 2017, Sydney, Australia, July 31
- SNAST 2016, San Francisco, California, USA, August 18
Contact
All questions about submissions should be directed to either email address below:
- panagiotis.karampelas@hafa.haf.gr
- ThBourlai@mail.wvu.edu