ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review Special Issue on Computer Forensics

Computer forensics, an emerging discipline in computer science, originally dealt with the
recovery and analysis of data from computer systems, primarily for use in criminal
proceedings. It is increasingly recognised that even the strongest security measures may not
prevent successful attacks on computer systems, or prevent use of a system to perpetrate
illegal activities on another system. Therefore any computer system may eventually become
the subject of forensic analysis, after it was either used as the tool in perpetration of criminal
activity or as the victim of that activity. Additionally, volatile data is increasingly recognised as
having crucial importance as a supplement to the data on permanent storage (e.g. disk
devices) that has been the subject of conventional forensic analysis. Accordingly, new
generation computer forensics has progressed to the analysis of live (still executing) systems,
and memory forensics. Clearly these two areas are strongly influenced by the design and
implementation of the system's underlying operating system.

Computer forensics practitioners and researchers are invited to contribute to this special issue
of ACM OS Review by submitting papers presenting their original and unpublished work,
which focuses on the relationship between operating systems and computer forensics.

Submissions should ideally be about 10 pages (but strictly limited to 15 pages), and should be
formatted according to the standard ACM formatting rules
(see http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html).

The submission should consist of two separate files: a blind version of the paper with authors'
names and all other identifying information removed, and a header file with the paper title, full
details of all authors and full contact details of the corresponding author. Papers containing
identifying information will not be reviewed.

Please send your submission as a single zipped file containing both the header file and the
blind paper file in PDF format via e-mail directly to our guest editors:

Ewa Huebner e.huebner@scm.uws.edu.au or
Frans Henskens Frans.Henskens@newcastle.edu.au

All submissions will be acknowledged by return e-mail to the corresponding author.

Important dates:

Submission deadline: December 1, 2007
Author notification: January 31, 2008
Camera-ready submission deadline: February 15, 2008

ACM OSR Guest editors:

Ewa Huebner, University of Western Sydney, e.huebner@scm.uws.edu.au
Frans Henskens, University of Newcastle, Frans.Henskens@newcastle.edu.au

Review committee:

* Derek Bem, University of Western Sydney, Australia
* Ljiljana Brankovic, University of Newcastle, Australia
* Bill Caelli, International Information Security Consultants, Australia
* Brian Carrier, Basis Technology, USA
* Al Dearle, University of St Andrews, Scotland
* Dave Munro, University of Adelaide, Australia
* John Rosenberg, Deakin University, Australia
* Magda Szezynska, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland