6th European Conference - Academic Conferences

Preface
These Proceedings are the work of researchers contributing to the 6th International Conference on
Information Warfare and Security (ICIW 2011), hosted this year by the George Washington University,
Washington DC, USA. The Conference Chair is Dr. Julie Ryan from the George Washington University,
Washington, DC, USA and I am again the Programme Chair.
The opening keynote address this year is given by Matthew A. Stern, General Dynamics Advanced
Information Systems, USA The second day will be opened by Mathew “Pete” Peterson from the Naval
Criminal Investigative Service, USA.
An important benefit of attending this conference is the ability to share ideas and meet the people who hold
them. The range of papers will ensure an interesting and enlightened discussion over the two day schedule.
The topics covered by the papers this year illustrate the depth of the information operations’ research area,
with the subject matter ranging from the highly technical to the more strategic visions of the use and
influence of information.
With an initial submission of 97 abstracts, after the double blind, peer review process there are 38 papers
published in these Conference Proceedings, including contributions from Austria, Bangladesh, Estonia,
Finland, India, Iran, Pakistan, Peru, Romania, South Africa, the Netherlands, United Arab Emirates, United
Kingdom and the United States.
I wish you a most enjoyable conference.
March 2011
Leigh Armistead
Edith Cowan University
Programme Chair
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