What, where and when:

On 1–3 March 2023, will take place in Cádiz (Spain) the 9th WG & 7th MC Meetings as closing  of the COST Action CA17124 after EU funding period (from 2018 to 2023).

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Description

Ninth Working Group Meeting and MC7. During this activity, the ninth and last Working Group Meeting and the seven and last Management Committee will be held. The working groups leaders will present the current status of each working group. During the first morning the Working Groups 1-5 will work in parallel in their particular goals. During the afternoon and the second day, we will plan sequential meeting from WG1 to WG8, in which the result of the parallel sessions will be presented and the new goals will be discussed. During the third day different talks will be given introducing the last advances and collaborations among the participants in the Action. Moreover, new synergies will be created among the participants of the Action. The steps to continue with the Network once the funding from COST finishes will also be fixed. MC7 will be held during the fourth day, following the official agenda. The attendees will presents the results obtained from the application of mathematical, AI and AR tools to different synthetic datasets and selected challenges. Diverse synergies will be created among the participants of the Action in order to consider and solve the proposed problems and datasets.

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Outputs

Present the last advances in the Action. Assess the current status of the Action and the fulfill of the goals of the Action. Study and propose to the Action the steps to continue with the Network once the funding from COST finishes. Approve the required decisions. Minutes of the meeting.

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Grant Period Goal(s) it will address

O1. Raise awareness among researchers in AI and Automated Reasoning of the main issues and problems in the daily work of digital forensics scientists and the technical, legal and criminological aspects they involve. O2. Identify a list of realistically applicable AI and Automated Reasoning techniques, focusing on Computational Logic for verifiability and justifiability reasons (essential in a legal environment). O3. Promote R&D activities for integrating such techniques and defining new methods and tools. O4. Foster and coordinate related R&D activities of the partners. O5. Collect and organise anonymised data extracted from real cases provided by the Digital Forensics Action partners, and devise suitable benchmarks concerning the solution of such cases. O6. Put into practice the new methods developed in the Action on the collected data, thus providing a foundation for future practical tools. O7. Increase awareness among Digital Forensics experts of new methods and techniques and their applicability. O8. Assist Digital Forensics experts in the practical experimentation of the new methods. O9. Disseminate the Action results to stakeholders, not only Government Agencies and Institutions but also private companies working in the Digital Forensics field. O10. Implement training schemes for the parties that are potentially involved. CH. Create a network to explore the potential of the application of Mathematics, Artificial Intelligence and Automated Reasoning to Digital Forensics, and to establish synergies between these fields through the development of new theoretical frameworks, methodologies and tools to support Law Enforcement by evidence analysis and problem solving during digital investigations.

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Program of the 9th WG & 7th MC Meetings :

• WGM9- 9th Working Group meeting: on March 1 to  3.
• MCM7-  7th Management Committee meeting on March 3 .
• AgendaWGMCa Diz2022 V2 02

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Press Release

Spanish version : https://www.uca.es/noticia/la-red-europea-digforasp

English version: Press Release 9thWG Cádiz

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Venue and location :

Venue: Hotel Occidental Cádiz.

Location: Avenida de Andalucía, 89, 11009 Cádiz. https://goo.gl/maps/1hs9wUyQ167LRbNG9

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Accomodation :

We offer two posible alternatives for the accommodation in Cádiz, I detail the data:

HOTEL OCCIDENTAL CÁDIZ

*Rates include breakfast and VAT. 

*This prices are fixed until January 24 (included).

Cancelation policy:

• Up to 31 days before arrival: 20% of expenses
• 30 to 16 days before arrival: 50% of expenses
• 15 to 8 days before arrival: 75%
• 7 days before arrival: 100%

Booking

Please write a message to uca@btravel.com for booking the bedrooms. You can write in the subject: 9thWGM DigForASP.

Location

https://goo.gl/maps/nJm5NJFdwpYD78gQ9

 

HOTEL PLAYA VICTORIA CÁDIZ

*Rates include buffet breakfast and VAT. 

Cancelation policy:

• Before February 22, free cancellation
• From February 22 to 25 it would be 50% of the stay in cacellation fees
• From February 25 to 28 ot would be 100% cancellation fees

Booking

Write a message to María Jiménez<comercialplayavictoria@palafoxhoteles.com> for booking the bedrooms. You should include in the subject: 9thWGM DigForASP.

Location

https://goo.gl/maps/zD3pTKaQR5bjHudu6

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Invitation process:

IMPORTANT! Each participant must send the ticket of the flight, train or has justified the travel by car before January 13th, 2023. If a participant accepts and do not send a travel justification the invitation sent will be cancelled.

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Abstract Workshop DigForASP:

It is open the Call for Abstracts for the Abstract Workshop DigForASP, which will be held in Cádiz.

The abstracts must be send through the link: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=9thwgm ()

The accepted papers will have the opportunity of submitting extended versions of their contributions to the Special Issue DigForASP at  Forensic Science International: Digital Investigation (https://www.journals.elsevier.com/forensic-science-international-digital-investigation). This journal has an impact factor of 1.805 in the Journal Citation Report (JCR) and we expect this impact will increase in future revisions. The submission will be reviewed once they will be submitted.