AICF brings together researchers and practitioners working at the intersection of artificial intelligence and law enforcement investigation.
The workshop is part of the KI2026 workshops program, and will be held on August 11th in Bremen, Germany.
AICF addresses the growing role of AI methods in cyber investigations and digital forensics. The workshop provides a forum for scientific exchange on methods, tools, evaluation approaches, operational lessons, and legal or organizational implications of AI-supported forensic work.
The focus lies on robust, explainable, and operationally relevant approaches for acquiring, processing, analyzing, and interpreting digital evidence in modern cyber investigation contexts.
The workshop is aimed at researchers, law enforcement experts, forensic practitioners, public sector actors, and industry participants interested in AI-supported forensic workflows.
The workshop welcomes contributions on theoretical, applied, and interdisciplinary work, including but not limited to the following areas.
Machine learning, deep learning, foundation models, LLM-supported workflows, explainable AI, multimodal analysis, and automated reasoning in cyber forensics.
Digital evidence triage, artifact extraction, prioritization, clustering, anomaly detection, timeline reconstruction, and AI-assisted review of large data volumes.
Automated analysis of text, images, audio, and video, including messaging, platform traces, social media, and cross-device evidence correlation.
Cloud forensics, mobile device forensics, IoT and smart environment forensics, network traces, and operating-system or filesystem artifacts.
Benchmarking, datasets, reproducibility, tool evaluation, case-based studies, chain-of-custody issues, and integration into investigative practice.
Legal, ethical, organizational, and educational questions related to AI use in digital investigations and forensic decision support.
The event will take place in Room 1470 of the Mehrzweckhochhaus (MZH), Bibliothekstraße 5, 28359 Bremen. The language of the presentations will depend on the speakers. It will be either German or English.
09:00 to 09:05: Welcome
09:05 to 09:35: AI-Oriented Investigation in Hybrid Spaces: Technological Foundations, Regulatory Embedding, and Forensic Operationalisation Roman Povalej and Dominik Fleischer
09:35 to 10:10: Forensic Claude vs Claw Johannes Fähndrich, Lars Mechler and Fabian Ernst
10:10 to 10:45: Complementary AI-based analysis of gait and movement patterns in a forensic context Sabine Richter, Timea Bellmann and Dirk Labudde
10:45 to 11:15: Algorithmic Policing at a Crossroads: Bias, Accountability, and the Limits of Trust in AI-Enabled Law Enforcement Heiko Rittelmeier
11:15 to 11:50: AI-enabled crime as a challenge for digital forensics: Emerging artefacts, trace structures and analysis requirements Wilfried Honekamp
11.50 to 12.25: Explainable Forensic AI: A Neuro-Symbolic Approach to Case File Analysis Dirk Labudde and Thomas Villmann
12.25 to 12.30: Closing remarks
The workshop is already listed in the KI2026 workshops program.
16.04.2026
24.04.2026
16.07.2026
31.07.2026
11.08.2026
27.08.2026
Typical categories may include full papers, short papers, and position or work-in-progress contributions.
Abstract submission: Easychair/AICF2026.
Paper preparation:
CEUR-WS Policy on AI-Assisting Tools
Rules for papers in the proceedings
CTAN template OR Overleaf template
Paper submission: Easychair/AICF2026.
Accepted and presented contributions are intended for publication in CEUR Workshop Proceedings after the workshop, subject to the applicable CEUR requirements and editorial checks.
The workshop is organized by the Advisory Board Police Informatics.
Professor in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and Cybercrime (CC) at the Lower Saxony Police Academy. Another particular concern of his is to promote, strengthen and advance police informatics.
Scientist focused on artificial intelligence, NLU, and pragmatics. Head of the Applied Computer Science, Cybercrime, and Digital Traces department at the Baden-Württemberg Police University.
Prof. Dr. Wilfried Honekamp is a professor in police technology with focus on digitalization and head of the Police Technology Institute at the German Police University in Münster-Hiltrup. His teaching and research cover artificial intelligence in police work, cybercrime, forensic computer science, and police IT systems and procedures.
Prof. Labudde is head of the Forensics Department at the Faculty of Computer and Life Sciences at Mittweida University of Applied Sciences and of the FoSIL (Forensic Science Investigation Lab) research group.