WEIS 2008 CFP

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

WEIS 2008 - Workshop on the Economics of Information Security

June 25-27, 2008 in Hanover, New Hampshire

http://weis2008.econinfosec.org


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.


CALL FOR PAPERS

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?

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.

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:

- Optimal investment in information security
- Privacy, confidentiality and anonymity
- Cybertrust and reputation systems
- Intellectual property protection
- Information access and provisioning
- Risk management and cyberinsurance
- Security standards and regulation
- Behavioral security and privacy
- Cyberterrorism policy
- Organizational security and metrics
- Psychology of risk and security
- Phishing, spam, and cybercrime
- Vulnerability discovery, disclosure, and patching

Important dates

Submissions due: March 1, 2008
Notification of acceptance: April 10, 2008
Workshop: June 25-27, 2008

Papers should be submitted online by 11:59 EST on Saturday, March 1, 2008,
preferably in PDF format.

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.

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Alessandro Acquisti
Heinz School, Carnegie Mellon University
(P) 412 268 9853
(F) 412 268 5339
http://www.heinz.cmu.edu/~acquisti/
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