<div dir="ltr"><div>CALL FOR PAPERS</div><div>________________________________________________________________________________</div><div><br></div><div>The 15th Annual Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS 2016)</div><div>University of California, Berkeley, June 13-14, 2016</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>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, examined human behavior surrounding security decision-making, identified market failures surrounding Internet security, quantified risks of personal data</div><div>disclosure, and assessed investments in cyber-defense. WEIS 2016 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.</div><div><br></div><div>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:</div><div><br></div><div>- Optimal investment in information security</div><div>- Models and analysis of online crime (including botnets, phishing, and spam)</div><div>- Risk management and cyber-insurance</div><div>- Security standards and regulation</div><div>- Cyber-security and privacy policy</div><div>- Security and privacy models and metrics</div><div>- Economics of privacy and anonymity</div><div>- Behavioral security and privacy</div><div>- Vulnerability discovery, disclosure, and patching</div><div>- Cyber-defense strategy and game theory</div><div>- Incentives for information sharing and cooperation</div><div>- Incentives for and against pervasive monitoring threats</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Manuscripts should represent significant and novel research contributions. Due to its interdisciplinary nature, 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.</div><div><br></div><div>Selected papers will be invited for publication in a special issue of the Journal of Cybersecurity, a new, interdisciplinary, open access journal published by Oxford University Press.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks to our sponsors, a number of student travel grants are also available.</div><div><br></div><div>For further information please email <a href="mailto:weis2016@easychair.org">weis2016@easychair.org</a> or visit: </div><div><a href="http://weis2016.econinfosec.org/">http://weis2016.econinfosec.org/</a> </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>####</div><div><br></div><div>IMPORTANT DATES</div><div><br></div><div> Submission deadline 26 February 2016</div><div> Acceptance notification 11 April 2016</div><div> Final papers 9 May 2016</div><div> Conference dates 13-14 June 2016</div><div><br></div><div>#### </div><div><br></div><div>PROGRAM CHAIR</div><div><br></div><div>Serge Egelman, University of California, Berkeley / ICSI</div><div><br></div><div>PROGRAM COMMITEE</div><div><br></div><div>Alessandro Acquisti, Carnegie Mellon University</div><div>Ross Anderson, Cambridge University</div><div>Terrence August, University of California, San Diego</div><div>Rainer Böhme, University of Innsbruck</div><div>Huseyin Cavusoglu, University of Texas at Dallas</div><div>Nicolas Christin, Carnegie Mellon University</div><div>John Chuang, University of California, Berkeley</div><div>Richard Clayton, University of Cambridge</div><div>Michael Collins, RedJack</div><div>George Danezis, University College London</div><div>Benjamin Edelman, Harvard University</div><div>Benjamin Edwards, University of New Mexico</div><div>Michel van Eeten, Delft University of Technology</div><div>Stephanie Forrest, University of New Mexico</div><div>Allan Friedman</div><div>Neil Gandal, Tel Aviv University</div><div>Nathan Good, Good Research</div><div>Jens Grossklags, Pennsylvania State University</div><div>Marian Harbach, ICSI</div><div>Cormac Herley, Microsoft Research</div><div>M. Eric Johnson, Vanderbilt University</div><div>Shriram Krishnamurthi, Brown University</div><div>Pedro Leon, Stanford University</div><div>Nektarios Leontiadis, Facebook</div><div>Martin Loeb, University of Maryland</div><div>Jonathan Mayer, Stanford University</div><div>Damon McCoy, New York University</div><div>Sarah Meiklejohn, University College London</div><div>Tyler Moore, University of Tulsa</div><div>Milton Mueller, Georgia Tech</div><div>Arvind Narayanan, Princeton University</div><div>Vern Paxson, University of California, Berkeley / ICSI</div><div>Wolter Pieters, Delft University of Technology</div><div>David Pym, University College London</div><div>Brent Rowe, RTI International</div><div>Stuart Schechter, Microsoft Research</div><div>Bruce Schneier, Resilient Systems</div><div>Richard Sullivan, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City</div><div>Rahul Telang, Carnegie Mellon University</div><div>Kurt Thomas, Google</div><div>Catherine Tucker, MIT</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">/*<br>Serge Egelman, Ph.D.<div>Research Scientist</div><div><br></div><div>International Computer Science Institute (ICSI)</div><div>and</div><div>Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS)</div><div>University of California, Berkeley</div><div><br>*/<br></div></div></div>
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