<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br class="">UPDATE: We have extended the paper submission deadline to March 4th, 2016 (next Friday).</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">________________________________________________________________________________</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">CALL FOR PAPERS (<a href="http://weis2016.econinfosec.org/call-for-papers/" target="_blank">http://weis2016.econinfosec.org/call-for-papers/</a>)</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">________________________________________________________________________________</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">The 15th Annual Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (<span class="">WEIS</span> 2016)</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">University of California, Berkeley, June 13-14, 2016</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">The Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (<span class="">WEIS</span>) 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 style="font-size:12.8px">disclosure, and assessed investments in cyber-defense. <span class="">WEIS</span> 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 style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">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 style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">- Optimal investment in information security</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">- Models and analysis of online crime (including botnets, phishing, and spam)</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">- Risk management and cyber-insurance</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">- Security standards and regulation</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">- Cyber-security and privacy policy</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">- Security and privacy models and metrics</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">- Economics of privacy and anonymity</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">- Behavioral security and privacy</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">- Vulnerability discovery, disclosure, and patching</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">- Cyber-defense strategy and game theory</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">- Incentives for information sharing and cooperation</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">- Incentives for and against pervasive monitoring threats</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Manuscripts should represent significant and novel research contributions. Due to its interdisciplinary nature, <span class="">WEIS</span> 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 style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">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 style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Thanks to our sponsors, a number of student travel grants are also available.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">For further information please email <a href="mailto:weis2016@easychair.org" target="_blank">weis2016@easychair.org</a> or visit:</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="http://weis2016.econinfosec.org/" target="_blank">http://weis2016.econinfosec.org/</a></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">####</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">IMPORTANT DATES</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"> Submission deadline 4 March 2016</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"> Acceptance notification 11 April 2016</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"> Final papers 9 May 2016</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"> Conference dates 13-14 June 2016</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">####</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">PROGRAM CHAIR</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Serge Egelman, University of California, Berkeley / ICSI</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">PROGRAM COMMITEE</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Alessandro Acquisti, Carnegie Mellon University</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Ross Anderson, Cambridge University</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Terrence August, University of California, San Diego</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Rainer Böhme, University of Innsbruck</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Huseyin Cavusoglu, University of Texas at Dallas</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Nicolas Christin, Carnegie Mellon University</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">John Chuang, University of California, Berkeley</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Richard Clayton, University of Cambridge</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Michael Collins, RedJack</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">George Danezis, University College London</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Benjamin Edelman, Harvard University</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Benjamin Edwards, University of New Mexico</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Michel van Eeten, Delft University of Technology</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Stephanie Forrest, University of New Mexico</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Allan Friedman</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Neil Gandal, Tel Aviv University</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Nathan Good, Good Research</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Jens Grossklags, Pennsylvania State University</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Marian Harbach, ICSI</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Cormac Herley, Microsoft Research</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">M. Eric Johnson, Vanderbilt University</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Shriram Krishnamurthi, Brown University</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Pedro Leon, Stanford University</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Nektarios Leontiadis, Facebook</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Martin Loeb, University of Maryland</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Jonathan Mayer, Stanford University</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Damon McCoy, New York University</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Sarah Meiklejohn, University College London</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Tyler Moore, University of Tulsa</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Milton Mueller, Georgia Tech</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Arvind Narayanan, Princeton University</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Vern Paxson, University of California, Berkeley / ICSI</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Wolter Pieters, Delft University of Technology</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">David Pym, University College London</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Brent Rowe, RTI International</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Stuart Schechter, Microsoft Research</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Bruce Schneier, Resilient Systems</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Richard Sullivan, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Rahul Telang, Carnegie Mellon University</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Kurt Thomas, Google</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Catherine Tucker, MIT</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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