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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:30.6pt;
margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:30.6pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>WEIS 2008
– Workshop on the Economics of Information Security<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:30.6pt;
margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:30.6pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>June
25-27, 2008 in Hanover, New Hampshire<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:30.6pt;text-indent:30.6pt'><b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a
href="http://weis2008.econinfosec.org">http://weis2008.econinfosec.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:30.6pt;
margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:30.6pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Hosted by
the Center for Digital Strategies at Dartmouth College's Tuck School of
Business, in partnership with the Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection
(I3P), which is managed by Dartmouth College.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:30.6pt;
margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:30.6pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:30.6pt;
margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:30.6pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>CALL FOR
PAPERS</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-right:30.6pt;
mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:30.6pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Information security requires not
only technology, but a clear understanding of risks, decision-making behaviors
and metrics for evaluating business and policy options. 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?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-right:30.6pt;
mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:30.6pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>While organizations and
individuals face new and evolving technical challenges, we know that 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. The application of economic analysis to
these problems has proven to be an exciting and fruitful area of research. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-right:30.6pt;
mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:30.6pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>The 2008 Workshop on the
Economics of Information Security invites original research papers focused on
the economics of information security and the economics of privacy. 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:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-right:30.6pt;
mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:30.6pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>- Optimal investment in
information security<br>
- Privacy, confidentiality and anonymity <br>
- Cybertrust and reputation systems <br>
- Intellectual property protection<br>
- Information access and provisioning<br>
- Risk management and cyberinsurance <br>
- Security standards and regulation <br>
- Behavioral security and privacy <br>
- Cyberterrorism policy <br>
- Organizational security and metrics<br>
- Psychology of risk and security<br>
- Phishing, spam, and cybercrime<br>
- Vulnerability discovery, disclosure, and patching <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:24.0pt;margin-right:30.6pt;
margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:30.6pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Important dates<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-right:30.6pt;
mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:30.6pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Submissions due: March 1, 2008<br>
Notification of acceptance: April 10, 2008<br>
Workshop: June 25-27, 2008<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-right:30.6pt;
mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:30.6pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Papers should be submitted online
by 11:59 EST on Saturday, March 1, 2008, preferably in PDF format.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-right:30.6pt;
mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:30.6pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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