Individual arrival (all day)

All day

Get-together reception in the hotel

19:30

Transportation from "Golden-Tulip" hotel to the University

8:15

Registration

8:30 - 9:00

Opening and Welcome (9:00 – 9:30)

Prof. Rivka Carmi – President of Ben-Gurion University

Prof. Moti Herskowitz - Vice President, Dean of R&D,
Ben-Gurion University

9:10 - 9:20

Conference Co-Chairs Prof. Paul Kantor and Dr. Bracah Shapira,

Welcome, focus of the conference, and logistical information for participants

9:20- 9:30

Inaugural Session    (9:30 – 11:00)

Terrorists' use of the Web: Status, Experience and Challenges

Israeli, Italian, Polish and Ukraine perspective

Chair : Prof. Paul Kantor – Conference Co-Chair

Rutgers University, USA

THE EFFECT OF THE INTERNET ON TERRORISTS

ABILITIES AND ACTS

Maj Gen. (res) Yaakov Amidror – Israel

9:30 - 9:50

WEB SECURITY AND LAW: EU LEGISLATION AND PENAL

PROCEDURE ISSUES

Maria Alvanou, ITSTIME - Catholic University of Milan

9:50 - 10:10

CURRENT ISSUES OF INTELLIGENCE TASKING AND

COORDINATION IN THE RAPIDLY CHANGING THREAT ENVIRONMENT

Janusz Luks, GROM Group, Polland

10:10 - 10:30

CYBER-CRIME AND CYBER-TERRORISM AS A NEW

SECURITY THREAT

       Vladomir Golubev, Computer Crime Research Center

(CCRC),  Ukraine

10:30 - 10:50

QUESTIONS AND DISCUSSIONS

10:50 - 11:10

Coffee Break

11:10 - 11:30

Session 2 (11:30 – 13:00)

Data Mining Methods for Web-Patrolling

Chair: Dr. Bracha Shapira – Conference  Co-chair

Ben- Gurion University

MINING USERS' NAVIGATION PATTERNS AND PREDICTING THEIR NEXT STEPS

Mark Levene, University of London, UK

11:30 - 11:50 

TEXT MINING FOR SECURITY AND FRAUD DETECTION         

Stefan Wrobel, Fraunhofer IAIS (Institute for Intelligent Analysis  and Information Systems) and Univ. of Bonn

11:50 - 12:10

MONITORING MESSAGE STREAMS FOR KEY INDICATORS.

Paul Kantor, Rutgers University, USA                

12:10 - 12:40

QUESTIONS AND DISCUSSIONS

12:40 - 13:00

Lunch

13:00 - 14:30

Session 3 (14:30- 16:00)

Machine Learning Applied to Web-Patrolling

Chair:   Dr. Yuval Elovici – Duetsche Telekom Laboratories at BGU

VISUAL RECOGNITION: HOW CAN WE LEARN

COMPLEX MODELS?

Joachim Buhmann, Institute of Computational Science – ETH – Zurich

14:30 - 14:50

APPROACHES FOR LEARNING CLASSIFIERS OF

DRIFFTING CONCEPTS                          

Ivan Koychev, University of Sophia, Bulgaria

14:50 - 15:10 

SEMANTIC ABSTRACTION AND INTEGRATION ACROSS

TEXT DOCUMENTS AND DATABASES

Dan Roth, University of Illinois, USA

15:10 - 15:40

15:40 - 16:00

Coffee Break

16:00 - 16:30

Session 4 (16:30- 17:15)

Learning from Experience - Systems Using Various Methods to Patrol the Web

Chair:   Dr. John Prange, Language Computer Corporation, USA

DEVELOPING & IMPLEMENTING LARGE-SCALE

WEB-HARVESTING INTELLIGENT TERROR AND SECURITY

IT SYSTEM - TECHNOLOGY,METHODOLOGY AND FIELD

EXPERIENCE

Uri Hanani, MindCite, Ltd., Istael

16:30 - 16:50

HOW TO PROTECT CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE FROM

CYBER-TERROR ATTACKS

Elovici Yuval, DT Laboratories at BGU

16:50 - 17:10

TECHNO-INTELLIGENCE SIGNATURE  ANALYSIS                      

Gadi Aviran, HTA Ltd.

17:10 - 17:30

Free time

17:30 - 19:30

Dinner at the hotel

19:30

Transportation from "Golden Tulip" hotel to the conference

8:30

Second Day Welcome

Conference Co-Chairs - logistical information

9:00 - 9:05

Session 5  (9:15 – 10:50)

Social, Political and Legal Aspects of Patrolling the Web

Chair: Dr. Roman Englert, DT Laboratories

9:05 - 9:35

THE ENEMY WITHIN – WHERE ARE ALL THE ISLAMIST/JIHADIST WEBSITES HOSTED, AND WHAT CAN BE DONE ABOUT IT?

Yigal Carmon, Memri

9:35 - 10:05

TERRORISTS' PHISHING AND THE BOUNDARY ISSUES

OF THE INTERNET

Charles A. Shoniregun, University of East London, UK 

10:05 - 10:30

QUESTIONS AND DISCUSSIONS

10:30 - 10:50

Coffee Break

10:50 - 11:20

Session 6 (11:20 – 13:00)

Intelligent methods for Web-Patrolling

Chair:   Dr. Mark Levene, University of London

TACKLING THE INTELLIGENCE ANALYSIS PYRAMID: WHAT CAN NATURAL LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING DO TO HELP?

John D. Prange, Language Computer Corporation,USA

11:20 - 11:50

ENTITY AND RELATION EXTRACTION IN TEXTS WITH

SEMI-SUPERVISED EXTENSIONS

Gerhard Paass, The Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis

and Information Systems, Germany

11:50 - 12:10

A CLUSTER-BASED MODEL FOR DETECTION OF ABNORMAL

GROUPS ON THE WEB

Bracha Shapira, Ben-Gurion University, Israel

12:10 - 12:30

VISUAL ANALYTICS: VISUAL EXPLORATION AND

ANALYSIS OF LARGE DATA SETS

Keim Daniel, University of Konstanz, Germany

12:30 - 12:50  

Lunch

13:10 - 14:40

Session 7 (14:40 – 15:50)

Pattern Recognition and Network Analysis for Terror Discovery

Chair:   Dan Roth , University on Illinois, USA

AUTHORSHIP ATTRIBUTION IN REALISTIC LAW

ENFORCEMENT SCENARIOS

Moshe Koppel, Bar-Ilan University

14:30 -14:50

DETECTING HIDING GROUPS IN COMMUNICATIONS

Mark Goldberg, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA

14:50 - 15:10

PATROLLING THE WEB WITH GENERAL_PURPOSE SEARCH

TECHNOLOGY AND GRAPH ANALYSIS

Nick Craswell , Microsoft research, UK

15:10 - 15:30 

DATA COMPRESSION MODELS FOR CLASSIFICATION AND

BEHAVIOR PREDICTION

Gordon Cormack, University of Waterloo, Canada

15:30 - 15:50

Coffee Break – Informal Discussion with authors about conference

Proceedings (Paul Kantor)

15:50 - 16:30

Concluding Session (16:30 – 17:30)

Concluding Panel : TECHNOLOGICAL, POLITICAL, AND SOCIAL

"ACTION_ITEMS" FOR COUNTER TERRORISM USING    

WEB-PATROLLING, FOR THE SHORT AND LONG TERM.

GUIDELINES RELATING TO RESEARCH AND

REGULATION OF THIS ISSUE.

Panel Leaders: Paul Kantor, Bracha Shapira, John Prange,

Andrew Silke, Alfonso Merlos, Janusz Luks, Nick Craswell

Closing Ceremonies 17:30-17:40

20:00 Dinner in "Sphinat Hamidbar" (Ship of the desert) -

a Bedouin tent