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CFP: Workshop on the Economics of Information Security, 3-4 June 2019, Harvard University, Boston, MA

  • 1.  CFP: Workshop on the Economics of Information Security, 3-4 June 2019, Harvard University, Boston, MA

    Posted 02-10-2019 23:22
    The 18th Annual Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS 2019)
    https://weis2019.econinfosec.org

    Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, June 3-4, 2019

    Information security and privacy continue to grow in importance, as threats proliferate, privacy erodes, and attackers find new sources of value. Yet the security of information systems and the privacy offered by them depends on more than just technology. Each requires an understanding of the incentives and trade-offs inherent to the behavior of people and organizations. As society's dependence on information technology has deepened, policy-makers have taken notice. Now more than ever, careful research is needed to characterize accurately threats and countermeasures, in both the public and private sectors.

    The Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS) is the leading forum for interdisciplinary scholarship on information security and privacy, combining expertise from the fields of economics, social science, business, law, policy, and computer science. Prior workshops have explored the role of incentives between attackers and defenders of information systems, identified market failures surrounding Internet security, quantified risks of personal data disclosure, and assessed investments in cyber-defense. The 2019 workshop will build on past efforts using empirical and analytic tools not only to understand threats, but also to strengthen security and privacy through novel evaluations of available solutions.

    We encourage economists, computer scientists, legal scholars, business school researchers, security and privacy specialists, as well as industry experts to submit their research and participate by attending the workshop. Suggested topics include (but are not limited to) empirical and theoretical studies of:

    Optimal investment in information security
    Models and analysis of online crime (including botnets, ransomware, and underground markets)
    Cyber-risk quantification and cyber-insurance
    Security standards and regulation
    Vulnerability discovery, disclosure, and patching
    Incentives for information sharing and cooperation
    Cyber-security policy
    Economics of privacy and anonymity
    Behavioral security and privacy
    Incentives for and against pervasive monitoring threats
    Cyber-defense strategy


    SUBMISSION

    Submitted manuscripts should represent significant and novel research contributions. 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. This year, authors have the option to submit their manuscripts in anonymized form for double-blind review. Advisable rules of thumb include: using past WEIS accepted papers as templates and adhering to your community's publication standards.

    Please submit your papers via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=weis2019).

    Authors whose papers appear at the workshop may be invited to submit a revised version to a special issue of the Journal of Cybersecurity, an interdisciplinary open access journal published by Oxford University Press.  Revised papers will undergo an additional round of peer review after the workshop, and accepted papers will appear in the special issue. Please note that publication charges must be paid to facilitate open access, but a publishing fund is available to authors whose institutions cannot pay. For more information please see http://cybersecurity.oxfordjournals.org/for_authors/index.html.



    IMPORTANT DATES

        Submission deadline: February 15, 2019 (by midnight EST)
        Submission extended: February 23, 2019 (by midnight EST)
        Notification of acceptance: April 7, 2019
        Final papers due (revisions): May 10, 2019
        Workshop dates: June 3-4, 2019


    CONFERENCE CHAIRS

        Bruce Schneier, IBM Resilient
        Sam Ransbotham, Boston College

    PROGRAM COMMITTEE

        Alessandro Acquisti, Carnegie Mellon University
        Idris Adjerid, Virginia Tech
        Ross Anderson, Cambridge University
        Daniel Arce, UT Dallas
        Terrence August, UC San Diego
        Johannes Bauer, Michigan State University
        Jesse Bockstedt, Emory University
        Rainer Böhme, University of Innsbruck
        Laura Brandimarte, University of Arizona
        Jean Camp, Indiana University
        Jonathan Cave, RAND Europe
        Huseyin Cavusoglu, University of Texas at Dallas
        Nicolas Christin, Carnegie Mellon University
        Richard Clayton, University of Cambridge
        Ben Edelman, Harvard Business School
        Ben Edwards, IBM Research
        Serge Egelman, ICSI & UC Berkeley
        Neil Gandal, Tel Aviv University
        Dan Geer, In-Q-Tel
        Lawrence Gordon, University of Maryland
        Sol Greenspan, National Science Foundation
        Jens Grossklags, TU Munich
        Chad Heitzenrater, Air Force Research Laboratory
        Kai-Lung Hui, HKUST
        M. Eric Johnson, Vanderbilt University
        Kartik Kannnan, Purdue University
        Aron Laszka, Vanderbilt University
        Martin Loeb, University of Maryland
        Thomas Maillart, University of Geneva
        Fabio Massacci, University of Trento
        Kanta Matsuura, University of Tokyo
        Damon McCoy, New York University
        Sabyasachi Mitra, Georgia Tech
        Tyler Moore, University of Tulsa
        Frank Nagle, Harvard Business School
        Andrew Odlyzko, University of Minnesota
        Min-Seok Pang, Temple University
        Wolter Pieters, TU Delft
        Lorenzo Pupillo, CEPS
        David Pym, University College London
        Sasha Romanosky, RAND
        Rahul Telang, Carnegie Mellon University
        Catherine Tucker, MIT
        Marie Vasek, University of New Mexico
        Liad Wagman, Illinois Institute of Technology
        Julian Williams, Durham University
        Dmitry Zhdanov, Georgia State University



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    Sam Ransbotham
        Boston College
           Associate Professor of Information Systems
           sam.ransbotham@bc.edu
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