Call for Papers : 2009 eCrime Researchers Summit

[RL Vaughn <rl_vaughn () BAYLOR EDU>]

Call for Papers : 2009 eCrime Researchers Summit

APWG, in cooperation with the IEEE-SA, is inviting papers and research from electronic crime researchers for the fourth
annual eCrime Researchers Summit (eCRS), the world’s only peer-reviewed research conference dedicated to electronic
crime research, scheduled to be held in Tacoma, WA on October 20 and 21 this year.

Research papers are invited within a wide variety topic spaces joined by a common theme of the criminological aspects of
electronic security, including phishing, rogue anti-virus programs, crimeware, click-fraud, botnets, delivery
techniques, detection avoidance, user interface design as well as forensic subjects such as electronic evidence 
handling.

The complete call-for-papers announcement can be viewed at: http://www.ecrimeresearch.org/2009/cfp.html

The first submissions deadline is 25 May, for full paper abstract registration, followed by the full paper submission
deadline on 1 June 2009.  Papers that are accepted for presentation will appear in the IEEE Digital Library as
Conference Proceedings. Cash awards from the APWG will be given for the best paper overall and the best student
co-authored paper. A limited number of cash travel awards will also be made to student authors of papers and posters
through the APWG eCrime-Fighter Scholarship Program, funded each year by APWG industry and NGO members and research
partners.

The Anti-Phishing Working Group eCrime Researchers Summit is a comprehensive venue for the presentation of the
state-of-the-art basic and applied research into electronic crime, engaging every aspect of its development (technical,
behavioral, social and legal) as well as technologies and techniques for its detection, related forensics and its
prevention.

Those interested in further information can contact me off list.


Randal Vaughn
eCRS General Chair
Professor MIS MIS-ISEC
Baylor University