[EIS] WEIS 2009, UCL, June 24-25, 2009: Preliminary Call for Papers

[David Pym]

WEIS 2009: The 8th Workshop on the Economics of Information Security

24-25 June, 2009
UCL,  London, UK

http://weis09.infosecon.net

Preliminary Call for Papers:

The 2009 Workshop on the Economics of Information Security invites
original research papers focused on any aspect of the economics of
information security, including the economics of privacy. We encourage
economists, computer scientists, psychologists, business and
management 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:

 - Models and optimality of investment in information security
 - Privacy, confidentiality, and anonymity
 - Cyber-trust and reputation systems
 - Interdependent supply-chain security
 - Intellectual property protection
 - Information access and provisioning
 - Risk management and cyber-insurance
 - Security standards and regulation
 - Behavioral security and privacy
 - Cyber-terrorism policy
 - Organizational security and metrics
 - Psychological, social, and systemic aspects of risk and security
 - Phishing, spam, and cybercrime
 - Vulnerability discovery, disclosure, and patching.

This year we should particularly like to encourage papers taking a
whole-systems view of information security, encompassing people,
technology, and economics.


Keynote Speakers:

 - Robert Coles (Merrill Lynch, UK)
 - Hal Varian (Google, USA)
 - Martin Sadler (HP Labs, UK)
 - Bruce Schneier (BT Counterpane, USA)

Important Dates:

Submissions due: 28 February 2009
Notification of acceptance: 10 April, 2009
Workshop: 24-25 June 2009

Papers should be submitted online by 23:59 GMT on Saturday 28
February 2009, preferably in PDF format.

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.

Conference Co-chairs:

- David Pym (HP Labs, Bristol and University of Bath, UK
  david.pym at hp.com)
- M. Angela Sasse (University College London, UK,
  a.sasse at cs.ucl.ac.uk)

Programme Committee:

Co-Chairs:

Yvo Desmedt (University College London, UK)
Christos Ioannidis (University of Bath, UK)

Alessandro Acquisti (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Ross Anderson (University of Cambridge, UK)
Rainer Boehme (Technische Universitaet Dresden, Germany)
Jean Camp (Indiana University, USA)
Huseyin Cavusoglu (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
Nicolas Courtois (University College London, UK)
Neil Gandal (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Larry Gordon (University of Maryland, USA)
Eric Johnson (Dartmouth College, USA)
Marty Loeb (University of Maryland, USA)
Tyler Moore (Harvard University, USA)
Andrew Odlyzko (University of Minnesota, USA)
Andy Ozment (Office of the Secretary of Defense, USA)
David Pym (HP Labs Bristol & University of Bath, UK)
M. Angela Sasse (University College London, UK)
Stuart Schechter (Microsoft Research, USA)
Bruce Schneier (BT Counterpane, USA)
Rahul Telang (Carnegie-Mellon University, USA)
Catherine Tucker (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)

We look forward to seeing you in London.

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