Intelligence and security informatics (ISI) is an interdisciplinary field involving academic researchers in information technology, social and behavioral sciences, computer science, law, and public policy, as well as industry consultants, practitioners, security managers, and chief information security officers who support physical and cyber security missions at the individual, organizational, national, and international levels. Over the past two decades, the IEEE ISI Conference has evolved from its traditional orientation towards the intelligence and security domain to a more integrated alignment of multiple domains, including technology, humans, organizations, and security, aiming to advance our understanding of the interrelationships between these different components, and by integrating recent advances from different domains.

The ISI 2025 conference invites academic researchers in the field of ISI and related areas, as well as IT, security, and analytics professionals, and industry consultants and practitioners in the field, to submit papers and workshop proposals. Research relevant to artificial intelligence security, LLM security, and human behavior in security contexts is strongly encouraged .

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. Each manuscript must clearly articulate their data (e.g., key metadata, statistical properties, etc.), analytical procedures (e.g., representations, algorithm details, etc.), and evaluation set up and results (e.g., performance metrics, statistical tests, case studies, etc.). Making data, code, and processes publicly available to facilitate scientific reproducibility is not required, but is strongly encouraged.

Papers must be appropriately anonymized to enable double-blind review. Author names and affiliations must not be included in the PDF submission. Authors can cite and refer to their own prior work, but must do so in the third person, as if it was written by someone else. If citing previous work in the third person is not possible, please anonymize the reference and notify the Program Chairs.

We accept three types of paper submissions on proposed tracks and related topics: long paper (maximum of 6 pages), short paper (maximum of 3 pages), and poster (1 page). The submission format is PDF that follows IEEE publication format (see the template at IEEE – Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings). Papers should be submitted through the EasyChair submission and review system. Each accepted paper must be presented at the conference. At least one author of each accepted paper must register the conference 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.

List of Topics

• 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

Important Dates

Submission Open: February 1, 2025

Submission Deadline:  March 15, 2025, 11:59PM EST

Acceptance Notification: May 1, 2025

Final Paper Deadline: May 15, 2025

Early registration deadline: June 1, 2025

Conference dates: July 12 – 14, 2025