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The Third Annual Workshop on Economics and Information Security
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 11:25:27 -0500
> > The Third Annual Workshop on > Economics and Information Security > (WEIS04) > May 13-14, 2004 > University of Minnesota > http://www.dtc.umn.edu/weis2004 > > Submissions due: March 1, 2004 > > How much should we spend to secure our computer systems? Can we > determine a.which investments will provide the best protection? > How will > we know when we've reached our goals? Can market forces ensure that > firms will act to improve security? Can incentives align the goals of > employees with the security goals of their employers? > > While security technologies have benefited from decades of study, > there has been a dearth of research into decision making > tools required > to choose among these technologies and employ them properly. The > growing importance of information security and the failings of > technology-centric approaches have made security economics an > area ripe > for new research. There is much work to be done both in applying > existing economic tools to today's security questions and in > pioneering > new economic approaches to address problems unique to the study of > security. > > The Third Annual Workshop on Economics and Information > Security (WEIS04) > is a successor to the two pioneering workshops on this > subject, held in > 2002 at UC Berkeley and in 2003 at Univ. Maryland. > Information about them > is available at URLs given at end. > > We encourage economists, computer scientists, security specialists, > business school faculty, and industry experts to submit > original research > to the 2004 conference. We would especially like to > encourage collaborative > research from authors in multiple fields. Among past and > suggested topics are: > > Game theoretic security models Analysis of security > solutions market > Security investment optimization Threat modeling > Information sharing Risk management > Algorithmic mechanism design Security metrics > DRM and customer lock-in Security loss estimation > Economics of privacy Cyberterrorism > Behavioral security economics Economics of pseudonyms > Reputation systems Case studies > > There will be no printed proceedings of this workshop, but > as with the > preceding workshops, authors of accepted papers will be > encouraged to post > their papers and presentation decks on the conference site. > There may later be > a printed volume of selected papers from the workshop, > similar to the volume > based on the first two workshops that is in preparation. > > Submissions should not exceed approximately 8,000 words > (i.e., about 12 single > spaced pages in a standard 11 point font). They must be > submitted by March 1, > 2004. Position papers of significantly shorter length are > also welcome. > Notification of acceptance for the program will be sent by > April 1, 2004. > Submissions should be sent, preferably in PDF format, to > weissub () dtc umn edu. > For general information about the conference, check the website: > http://www.dtc.umn.edu/weis2004/ or email weisinfo () dtc umn edu. > > Program Committee: > > Alessandro Acquisti, Heinz School, Carnegie Mellon University > Ross Anderson, Computer Laboratory, Cambridge University > Jean Camp, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University > Li Gong, Sun Microsystems > Larry Gordon, Smith School of Business, University of Maryland > Marty Loeb, Smith School of Business, University of Maryland > Andrew Odlyzko (co-chair), Digital Technology Center, > University of > Minnesota > Stuart Schechter, Division of Engineering and Applied > Sciences, Harvard > Bruce Schneier (co-chair), Counterpane Internet Security > Doug Tygar, Computer Science and Information Management, > UC Berkeley > Hal Varian, School of Information Management and Systems > and Economics > Dept., UC Berkeley ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as interesting-people () lists elistx com To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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