Final Call for Papers: DFRWS EU 2016 Conference

Already in its third edition, the DFRWS EU 2016 conference will be held in Lausanne, Switzerland from March 30th to April 1st, 2016. The DFRWS is dedicated to the advancement of digital forensics research through open sharing of knowledge and ideas. Ever since it organized the first open workshop in 2001, the DFRWS continues to bring leading researchers, developers, practitioners, and educators from around the world together in an informal collaborative environment. DFRWS conferences publicize and discuss high quality research outcomes selected in a thorough peer review process.

DFRWS EU 2016 invites original contributions as research papers, presentation proposals, panel proposals, tutorial/workshop proposals, and demo or poster proposals on the following topics:

• "Big data" approaches to forensics, including data collection, data mining, and large scale visualization
• Addressing forensic challenges of Systems-on-a-chip
• Anti-forensics and anti-anti-forensics
• Bridging the gap between analog and digital traces/evidence/investigators
• Case studies and trend reports
• Data hiding and discovery
• Data recovery and reconstruction
• Database forensics
• Digital evidence and the law
• Digital evidence storage and preservation
• Event reconstruction methods and tools
• Impact of digital forensics on forensic science
• Incident response and live analysis
• Interpersonal communications and social network analysis
• Malware and targeted attacks: analysis, attribution
• Memory analysis and snapshot acquisition
• Mobile and embedded device forensics
• Multimedia analysis
• Network and distributed system forensics
• Non-traditional forensic scenarios and approaches (e.g. vehicles, control systems, and SCADA)
• Storage forensics, including file system and Flash
• Tool testing and development
• Triage, Prioritization, Automation: Efficiently processing large amounts of data in digital forensics
• Typology of digital traces
• Virtualized environment forensics, with specific attention to the cloud and virtual machine introspection

Submissions are due October 5, 2015. More information is available in the official Call for Papers.