[EIS] Call for Papers: WEIS 2009, London, 24-25 June 2009: Submission Deadline 28 Feb

[David Pym]

The Eighth Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS 2009)

University College London, England
24-25 June 2009

http://weis09.infosecon.net


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 strategies 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.


Important dates and links

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

Papers to be submitted online by 23:59 GMT on Saturday, 28 February, 
2009, preferably in PDF format. The Submission site (iChair) may be found at

       http://weis09.infosecon.net <http://weis09.infosecon.net/>

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.

We look forward to receiving your submissions and to seeing you in London.

Yvo Desmedt
Christos Ioannidis
David Pym
Angela Sasse






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