JOURNAL OF PRIVACY TECHNOLOGY Announcement and Continuing Call for Papers

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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ANNOUNCEMENT AND CONTINUING CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
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JOURNAL OF PRIVACY TECHNOLOGY
For additional information visit http://www.jopt.org
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The Journal of Privacy Technology (JOPT) is a new refereed online journal 
founded and published by the Center for Privacy Technology within the 
Institute for Software Research International, a division of the School of 
Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 
The Journal is a forum for the publication of original current research in 
privacy technology. It encourages the submission of any material dealing 
primarily with the technological aspects of privacy or with the privacy 
aspects of technology, which may include analysis of the interaction 
between policy and technology or the technological implications of legal 
decisions.


AIM AND SCOPE

The JOPT has a unique goal: to cross-fertilize research across the various 
communities engaged in the construction of privacy technology. JOPT is 
being launched at a time when several technical communities are actively 
engaged in some form of privacy problems related to a specific application 
domain. There is a serious lack of communication between the communities 
and no community whose primary focus is to develop the foundations of the 
science of privacy. While a lot of good and useful research is underway, 
lessons learned in one community are often not shared with other 
communities, causing researchers to re-invent or ignore known results 
altogether. The JOPT addresses these needs, and by doing so, fosters the 
growth of privacy technology in all its constituent domain communities. The 
JOPT provides a mechanism for researchers to share results across 
communities by: (1) publishing generalizable findings in the JOPT; and, (2) 
applying generalized findings learned from the JOPT to constituent domains. 
We expect researchers to continue to publish domain-specific findings in 
community publications thereby applying generalized knowledge (from the 
JOPT) to specific application areas and completing the knowledge-sharing cycle.

We encourage the submission of papers on:

* privacy threats: algorithms, protocols, assessments
* privacy protection: algorithms, protocols, assessments
* applications to a domain
* analyses of a technology in a regulatory, business or social setting

Specific domain areas of interest include:

* bioinformatics
* biometrics
* computer security (as it relates to privacy)
* computer theory
* database security
* medical informatics
* policy specification and enforcement
* privacy-preserving data mining
* statistical disclosure control
* trustworthy computing
* ubiquitous computing and semantic web
* other areas, including economic, legal, and policy perspectives

The website http://www.jopt.org provides a more detailed list of specific 
topics and areas of interest.

The JOPT publishes information on privacy technology in a variety of 
venues. Paper styles accepted include: research, survey, tutorial, review, 
and critique manuscripts, as well as letters to the editor, conference 
notices, news highlights and articles.  The Journal is also interested in 
reviews of research, tutorials, analyses of the impact of law and policy 
developments on privacy technology and vice versa, and unsolved problems in 
the field. All paper submissions are peer-reviewed and will be indicated as 
such upon publication. The Journal may also publish letters, short 
communications, and relevant news items without formal peer review.

Publication of the JOPT is rolling in the sense that accepted submissions 
are published immediately upon acceptance after peer and editorial review. 
The Journal does not have separate volumes and issues in the traditional 
sense. The University Libraries of Carnegie Mellon University have 
undertaken to provide a permanent online archive for the Journal with 
persistent URLs so that the entire contents of the Journal will be 
available free of charge in perpetuity.  The Journal is maintained online 
through http://www.jopt.org and is available free of charge over the 
Internet. While it is possible that bound paper copies of Journal content 
may be produced for a fee, all content will continue to be offered online 
at no charge.


EDITORIAL STRUCTURE

The Journal is administered by three groups: the Editors (consisting of the 
editor-in-chief and two managing editors) that handle the daily operation 
and management, an Advisory Board that provides guidance, and an Editorial 
Board who handle oversight of reviewing.  Board members have been carefully 
selected and consist of the world's foremost experts on the areas of 
interest to JOPT.

Editor-in-Chief: Michael Shamos, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Managing Editors
Ralph Gross, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Bradley Malin, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Advisory Board:
Hal Abelson, Massachussets Institute of Technology, USA
Rakesh Agrawal, IBM Almaden Research, USA
Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA
Dave Farber, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Joan Feigenbaum, Yale University, USA
Lance J. Hoffman, George Washington University, USA
Latanya Sweeney, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Bhavani Thuraisingham, MITRE Corporation, USA
Laura Zayatz, U.S. Census Bureau, USA

Editorial Board:
Russ B. Altman, Stanford University, USA
Josh Benaloh, Microsoft Research, USA
Kevin Bowyer, University of Notre Dame, USA
Christopher Clifton, Purdue University, USA
Lorrie Cranor, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Johannes Gehrke, Cornell University, USA
David Jensen, University of Massachusets, USA
Isaac Kohane, Harvard University, USA
Marc Langheinrich, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland
Teresa Lunt, PARC, USA
Lisa Nelson, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Lucila Ohno-Machado, Harvard University, USA
Benny Pinkas, HP Labs, USA
Drummond Reed, Cordance Corporation, USA
Avi Rubin, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Peter Ryan, University of Newcastle, United Kingdom
Andrew Senior, IBM Watson Research, USA
Vicenc Torra, Institut d'Investigacio en Intelligencia, Spain
Daniel Weitzner, Massachussets Institute of Technology, USA
Leon Willenborg, Statistics Netherlands, Netherlands
William Winkler, U.S. Census Bureau, USA


INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS

Manuscripts must be submitted in machine-readable Microsoft Word format 
(.doc or .rtf), Postscript (.ps) or Portable Document Format (.pdf). Both 
Word and Latex template files are available on the website 
http://www.jopt.org.  Manuscripts should be emailed as attachments to 
submissions () www jopt org <mailto:submissions () www jopt org>. The cover page 
of the paper must identify the kind of manuscript being provided and the 
key areas that are the subject of the paper.

A single author or point of contact must be designated by the submitter(s) 
to receive further correspondence. When a paper is received, its receipt is 
acknowledged. It is examined by the Editors for general suitability and 
conformance to editorial policy and then passed to one or more members of 
the Editorial Board, who referee the submission and/or pass it on to other 
suitable reviewers. The reviews are anonymous; that is, the identity of the 
reviewers is not known to the Editors.When at least three favorable reviews 
have been received, the submission is ripe for consideration by the 
Editors. When a submission is accepted, the author(s) are notified and 
publication occurs immediately after final editing of the manuscript for 
typographical errors, correct citations, and the like. Normally, 
submissions are acted upon within 60 days.

The author(s) retain any copyright in submitted material. The Journal 
receives only a non-exclusive License, for the term of any copyright, to 
reproduce, distribute, perform, index, archive and display publicly any 
works submitted, either online, in print or in any other form. The Journal 
neither receives nor pays any fee for submitted articles, regardless of 
whether they are eventually published. By submitting an article, the 
author(s) certify (1) that they have the right to submit the article for 
publication and to grant the above License to the Journal; and (2) except 
as may be noted in writing accompanying the submission, that the article 
has not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere. In general, 
the Journal will accept suitable papers that may have appeared previously 
as technical reports or in other non-archival forms, but will not publish 
articles that have been published in archival journals.

Tenure Qualification. Because the research papers in the Journal will be 
subjected to thorough peer review, it is expected that the online nature of 
publication will positively reflect on the quality of its papers in the 
eyes of tenure and promotion review committees. Toward this goal, the 
Institute for Software Research International, a division of the School of 
Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, regards publication in the 
Journal as the equivalent of publication in a print journal.

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