International Journal of Digital Crime and Forensics

Official publication of the Information Resources Management Association

Editor-in-Chief: Chang-Tsun Li, University of Warwick, UK

Published: Quarterly both in Print and Electronic form (The first issue will appear in January 2009)
Click here for more information about IJDCF on the publisher's website

Editorial Review Board

• Patrick Wang, Northeastern University, USA
• Roland Wilson, University of Warwick, UK
• Xiaoqing Ding, Tsinghua University, China

• Bruno Crispo, University of Trento, Italy
• Katrin Franke, Gjovik University College, Norway
• Simson Garfingel, US Naval Postgraduate School and Harvard University, USA
• Zeno Geradts, The Netherlands Forensic Institute, The Netherlands
• Anthony TS Ho, University of Surrey, UK
• Hongxia Jin, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA
• Andrew Ker, University of Oxford, UK
• Richard Leary, Forensic Pathways, UK
• Der-Chyuan Lou, National Defense University, Taiwan
• Richard Mislan, Purdue University, USA
• Jill Slay, University of South Australia, Australia
• Matthew Sorell, University of Adelaide, Australia
• Marios Savvides, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• Peter Sommer, London School of Economics, UK
• Philip Turner, QinetiQ and Oxford Brookes University, UK
• S. Venkatesan, University of Texas, USA
• Che-Yen Wen, Central Police University, Taiwan

• Andre Aarnes, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
• Kostas Anagnostakis, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
• Leemon Baird, US Air Force Academy, USA
• Abhir Bhalerao, University of Warwick, UK
• Barry Blundell, South Australia Police, Australia
• Ahmed Bouridane, Queen's University Belfast, UK
• Roberto Caldelli, Universita' degli Studi Firenze, Italy
• Brian Carrier, Basis Technology, USA
• Francois Cayre, Domaine Universitaire & Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, France
• Carole Chaski, Institute for Linguistic Evidence, USA
• Michael Cohen, Australian Federal Police, Australia
• Heather Dussault, SUNY Institute of Technology, USA
• Jordi Forne, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain
• Pavel Gladyshev, University College Dublin, Ireland
• Raymond Hsieh, California University of Pennsylvania, USA
• Jiwu Huang, Sun Yat-Sen University, China
• Huidong Jin, National ICT Australia, Australia
• Hae Yong Kim, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil
• Michiharu Kudo, IBM Tokyo Research Lab, Japan
• Henrik Legind Larsen, Aalborg University, Demark
• Yue Li, University of Warwick, UK
• Phil Nobles, Cranfield University, UK
• Jeng-Shyang Pan, National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, Taiwan
• Jong Hyuk Park, Kyungnam University, Korea
• Indrajit Ray, Colorado State University, USA
• Hans Georg Schaathun, University of Surrey, UK
• Qi Shi, Liverpool John Moores University, UK
• Christopher Smith, Southwest Research Institute and University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
• Gale Spring, RMIT University, Australia
• Martin Steinebach, Fraunhofer-Institute for Secure Information Technology, Germany
• Peter Stephenson, Norwich University, USA
• Xingming Sun, Hunan University, China
• Natasa Terzija, University of Manchester, UK
• Helen Trehame, University of Surrey, UK
• Hao-Kuan Tso, Taiwanese Military Academy, Taiwan
• Theodore Tryfonas, University of Glamorgan, UK
• Javier Garcia Villalba, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
• Li Wang, University of Warwick, UK
• Chia-Hung Wei, University of Warwick, UK
• Weiqi Yan, Queen's University Belfast, UK
• Christopher Yang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Jianying Zhou, Institute of Infocomm Research, Singapore
• Yan Zhu, Peking University, China

Mission

Prospective authors are invited to submit manuscripts for possible publication in the International Journal of Digital Crime and Forensics (IJDCF). The primary objective of IJDCF is to provide and foster a forum for advancing research and development of the theory and practice of digital crime prevention and forensics. It addresses a broad range of digital crime and forensics disciplines that use electronic devices and softwares for crime prevention and investigation. The journal strives to publish articles in a wide spectrum of topics that would inform a broad cross-sectional and multi-disciplinary readership ranging from the academic and professional research communities to industry consultants and practitioners, and seeks to publish a balanced mix of high quality theoretical or empirical research articles, case studies, book reviews, tutorials, editorials.

Coverage

• Digital signal processing techniques for crime investigations
• Cryptological techniques and tools for crime investigation
• Cryptological techniques and tools for crime investigation
• Watermarking for digital forensics
• Steganography and steganalysis
• Data carving and recovery
• Machine learning, data mining and information retrieval for crime prevention and forensics
• Computational approaches to digital crime preventions
• Digital evidence
• Crime scene imaging
• Identity theft and biometrics
• Digital document examination
• Small digital device forensics (cell phones, smart phone, PDAs, audio/video devices, cameras, flash drives, gaming devices, GPS devices, etc.)
• RFID technology, applications, security, privacy
• Network access control and intrusion detection
• Malicious codes
• Computer virology
• Information warfare
• Policy, standards, protocols, accreditation and certification, ethical issues related to digital crime and forensics
• Criminal investigative criteria and standard of procedure on computer crime
• Practical case studies and reports, legislative developments and limitations, law enforcement
• Terrorism related analytical methodologies and software tools
• Terrorism knowledge portals and databases
• Terrorist incident chronology databases

Paper Submission

Prospective authors should note that only original and previously unpublished manuscripts will be considered. Interested authors should consult the journal's GUIDELINES FOR MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS. All manuscript submissions will be forwarded to at least three members of the Editorial Review Board of the Journal for a double-blind peer review. Final decision regarding acceptance/revision/rejection will be based on the reviews received from the reviewers. All submissions must be forwarded electronically to ijdcf@dcs.warwick.ac.uk.

Publisher

The International Journal of Digital Crime and Forensics is published by IGI Global publisher of the IGI Publishing, Information Science Publishing, IRM Press, CyberTech Publishing, Idea Group Reference, and Medical Information Science Reference imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit http://www.igi-global.com.

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