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The Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS) is the leading forum for interdisciplinary scholarship on information security, 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, identified market failures dogging Internet security, and assessed investments in cyber-defense.

The ninth installment of WEIS will take place June 7–8 at Harvard. Submissions are due in one week, February 22, 2010. For more information, see the complete call for papers.

WEIS 2010 will build on past efforts using empirical and analytic tools to not only understand threats, but also strengthen security through novel evaluations of available solutions. How should information risk be modeled given the constraints of rare incidence and high interdependence? How do individuals’ and organizations’ perceptions of privacy and security color their decision making? How can we move towards a more secure information infrastructure and code base while accounting for the incentives of stakeholders?

If you have been working to answer questions such as these, then I encourage you to submit a paper.

HotPETs – the 2nd Hot Topics in Privacy Enhancing Technologies (co-located with PETS) will be held in Seattle, 5–7 August 2009.

HotPETs is the forum for new ideas on privacy, anonymity, censorship resistance, and related topics. Work-in-progress is welcomed, and the format of the workshop will be to encourage feedback and discussion. Submissions are especially encouraged on the human side of privacy: what do people believe about privacy? How does privacy work in existing institutions?

Papers (up to 15 pages) are due by 8 May 2009. Further information can be found in the call for papers.

I am on the program committee for the 9th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS 2009), to be held in Seattle, WA, USA, 5–7 August 2009. PETS is the leading venue for research on privacy and anonymity, offering an enjoyable environment and stimulating discussion. If you are working in this field, I can strongly recommend submitting a paper.

This year, we are particularly looking for submissions from topics other than anonymous communications, so if work from your field may be applied, or is otherwise related, to the topic of privacy, I’d encourage you to consider PETS as a potential venue.

The submission deadline for the main session is 2 March 2009. As with last year, we will also have a “HotPETS” event, for new and exciting work in the field which is still in a formative state. Submissions for HotPETS should be received by 8 May 2009.

Further information can be found in the call for papers.

I am on the program committee for the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (previously the PET Workshop), which this year will be held in Leuven, Belgium, 23–25 July 2008. PETS is one of the leading venues for research in privacy, so if you have any relevant research, I can thoroughly recommend submitting it here.

In addition to the main paper session, a new feature this year is HotPETS, which gives the opportunity for short presentations on new and exciting ideas that are potentially not yet mature enough for publication. As usual, proposals for panels are also invited.

The deadline for submissions is 19 February 2008 (except for HotPETS, which is 11 April 2008). More details can be found in the Call For Papers.

If you need an incentive for writing up some cool security stuff you did recently, note that the deadline for paper submissions to PerSec 2007 is in just over a week, 2006-09-24.

PerSec 2007 is the Fourth IEEE International Workshop on Pervasive Computing and Communication Security, to be held in conjunction with IEEE PerCom in March 2007 in New York City.

I am on the program committee for the Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES), held in Alexandria, VA, USA on October 30, 2006. It is co-located with ACM Computer and Communication Security (CCS).

WPES discusses the problems of privacy in the global interconnected societies and possible solutions. We are looking for submissions from academia and industry presenting novel research on all theoretical and practical aspects of electronic privacy, as well as experimental studies of fielded systems.

We encourage submissions from other communities such as law and business that present these communities’ perspectives on technological issues.

The deadline for submissions is June 2, 2006.

Further details can be found in the call for participation [PDF].