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Call for Papers
Fourth Workshop on the Economics of Information Security http://www.infosecon.net/workshop/
June 2-3, 2005 Harvard University Cambridge, MA 02138
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Original Research Papers on all aspects of the Economics of Information Security are solicited for submission to the Fourth Workshop on the Economics of Information Security. Topics of interest include liability and other legal incentives, game theoretic models, economics of digital rights management, security in open source and free software, cyber-insurance, disaster recovery, trusted computing, reputation economics, network effects in security and privacy, security in grid computing, return on security investment, security and privacy in pervasive computing, risk management, risk perception, economics of trust, virus models, vulnerabilities and incentives, economics of malicious code, identity including PKI, access control, economics of electronic voting security, and economic perspectives on spam.
We invite talks emphasizing economic theory, mathematical modeling, or legal theory. Past notable work used the tools of economics to offer insights into computer security; offered mathematical models of computer security and economics; detailed potential regulatory solutions to computer security; or clarified the challenges of improving security as implemented in practice.
Important Dates: Submissions due - Extended to March 6 <------------------ Extended submission date Notification of acceptance - March 21 Final papers due - April 22 Workshop June 2-3, 2005
For formats and submission instruction please visit http://www.infosecon.net/workshop/
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Student registration scholarships (valued at $250) and two travel plus registration scholarships (valued at $1000) are available for students who have papers accepted at the workshop. Application instructions will be sent upon paper acceptance.
Policy and law students will be given preference for travel scholarships.
These scholarships are generously provided by IP3: the Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection, http://www.thei3p.org/
Please make your hotel reservations now, during June in Harvard Square there are few vacancies.
Workshop Chair: Jean Camp
Workshop Committee: Alessandro Acquisti (CMU) Ross Anderson (Cambridge) Huseyin Cavusoglu (Tulane) Larry Gordon (UMD) Marty Loeb (UMD) Andrew Odlyzko (U Minnesota) Stuart Schechter (MIT Lincoln Laboratories) Bruce Schneier (Counterpane) Rahul Telang (CMU) Hal Varian (UC Berkeley)
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