[EIS] Submission Deadline Reminder (March 1): The Sixth Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS 2007)

[Alessandro Acquisti]

  The Sixth Workshop on the Economics of Information Security
                         (WEIS 2007)

                    The Heinz School and CyLab
            Carnegie Mellon University
                       Pittsburgh (PA), USA
                          June 7-8, 2007

                 http://weis2007.econinfosec.org/


            S E C O N D   C A L L   F O R   P A P E R S


                  Submissions due: March 1, 2007


How much should we spend on security? What incentives really drive
privacy  decisions?  What  are  the  trade-offs  that individuals,
firms,  and  governments face when allocating resources to protect
data  assets?  Are  there  good ways to distribute risks and align
goals when securing information systems?

The  2007 Workshop on the Economics of Information Security builds
on the success of the previous five Workshops and invites original
research  papers on topics related to the economics of information
security  and  the  economics  of  privacy.  Security  and privacy
threats rarely have purely technical causes. Economic, behavioral,
and  legal  factors  often contribute as much as technology to the
dependability   of  information  and  information  systems.  Until
recently,  research  in  security and dependability focused almost
exclusively  on  technical  factors,  rather  than incentives. The
application  of economic analysis to these problems has now become
an exciting and fruitful area of research.

We  encourage  economists,  computer  scientists,  business school
researchers,  law  scholars,  security and privacy specialists, as
well  as  industry experts to submit their research and attend the
Workshop.  Suggested  topics  include  (but  are  not  limited to)
empirical and theoretical economic studies of:


- Optimal security investment
- Software and system dependability
- Privacy, confidentiality, and anonymity
- Vulnerabilities, patching, and disclosure
- DRM and trusted computing
- Trust and reputation systems
- Security models and metrics
- Behavioral security and privacy
- Information systems liability and insurance
- Information threat modeling and risk management
- Phishing and spam


**Important dates**

- Submissions due: March 1, 2007
- Notification of acceptance: April 10, 2007
- Workshop: June 7-8, 2007

Papers  should be submitted online by 11:59 EST on Thursday, March
1, 2007.

Submitted  manuscripts  should  represent  significant  and  novel
research  contributions.  Please  note  that  WEIS  has  no formal
formatting  guidelines.  Previous contributors spanned fields from
economics  and  psychology  to computer science and law, each with
different  norms  and  expectations  about  manuscript  length and
formatting.  Advisable  rules  of  thumb  include: using past WEIS
accepted  papers  as  templates  and  adhering to your community's
publication standards.

There  will  be  no printed proceedings for this Workshop. As with
the  preceding  Workshops,  accepted  papers will be posted on the
Workshop site.

For more information please email: weis-07 at andrew.cmu.edu or visit
http://weis2007.econinfosec.org/.


**Program committee**

Chairs
Alessandro Acquisti (Carnegie Mellon University)
Rahul Telang (Carnegie Mellon University)

Committee
Ross Anderson (Cambridge University)
Jean Camp (Indiana University)
Huseyin Cavusoglu (UT Dallas)
Neil Gandal (Tel Aviv University)
Anindya Ghose (New York University)
Larry Gordon (University of Maryland)
Jens Grossklags (UC Berkeley)
Eric Johnson (Dartmouth College)
Marty Loeb (University of Maryland)
Tyler Moore (Cambridge University)
Andrew Odlyzko (University of Minnesota)
Ivan Png (National University of Singapore)
Stuart Schechter (MIT Lincoln Laboratory)
Bruce Schneier (BT Counterpane)
Peter Swire (Ohio State University)
Curtis Taylor (Duke University)
Hal Varian (UC Berkeley)


**Hosts and sponsors**

WEIS  2007  is hosted by the Heinz School and by CyLab at Carnegie
Mellon  University.  WEIS  2007  is supported by the Heinz School,
CyLab, and the Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection
(I3P).


**Past workshops**

2002: Berkeley
(http://www2.sims.berkeley.edu/resources/affiliates/workshops/econsecurity/)
2003: Maryland (http://www.cpppe.umd.edu/rhsmith3/)
2004: Minnesota (http://www.dtc.umn.edu/weis2004/)
2005: Harvard (http://infosecon.net/workshop/index.php)
2006: Cambridge (http://weis2006.econinfosec.org/)