[agents] WEIS 2014

[David Pym]

CALL FOR PAPERS - WEIS 2014 (http://weis2014.econinfosec.org/)

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The 13th Annual Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS 2014)
The Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania, June 23-24, 2014
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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. WEIS 2014 
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 
- Risk management and cyber-insurance
- Security standards and regulation
- Cyber-security and privacy policy
- Cyber-defense strategy and game theory
- Security and privacy models and metrics
- Economics of privacy and anonymity
- Behavioral security and privacy
- Vulnerability discovery, disclosure, and patching
- Incentives for information sharing and cooperation
- Incentives  regarding pervasive monitoring threats

Submissions: 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. 

Travel Grants: Thanks to our generous sponsors, we expect to provide funding 
for student travel to WEIS. 

IMPORTANT DATES

Submissions Date	February 28, 2014
Acceptance Date		April 6, 2014
Final Papers		May 11, 2014
Workshop Dates		June 23-24, 2014


For further information please visit: http://weis2014.econinfosec.org/ . 

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ORGANIZATION 

GENERAL CHAIR and PROGRAM CHAIR

Jens Grossklags		The Pennsylvania State University

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Alessandro Acquisti 	Carnegie Mellon University    
Tansu Alpcan 		The University of Melbourne    
Ross Anderson 		Cambridge University    
Terrence August 	UC San Diego    
Rainer Böhme 		University of Münster   
Joseph Bonneau 		Google    
Laura Brandimarte 	Carnegie Mellon University    
Jean Camp 		Indiana University    
Jonathan Cave 		RAND Europe    
Nicolas Christin 	Carnegie Mellon University    
Ben Edelman 		Harvard Business School    
Serge Egelman 		UC Berkeley    
Allan Friedman 		Brookings Institution    
Neil Gandal 		Tel Aviv University    
Dan Geer 		In-Q-Tel    
Lawrence Gordon 	University of Maryland    
Christopher Griffin 	The Pennsylvania State University    
Nadia Heninger		University of Pennsylvania    
Cormac Herley 		Microsoft Research    
Thorsten Holz 		Ruhr-Universität Bochum   
Benjamin Johnson 	UC Berkeley    
Eric Johnson 		Vanderbilt University    
Aron Laszka 		Budapest Univ. of Technology and Economics    
Marc Lelarge 		INRIA-ENS    
Martin Loeb 		University of Maryland    
Kanta Matsuura 		The University of Tokyo    
Katerina Mitrokotsa 	Chalmers University of Technology    
Tyler Moore 		Southern Methodist University    
Arvind Narayanan 	Princeton University    
Andrew Odlyzko 		University of Minnesota    
David Pym 		University College London    
Brent Rowe 		RTI International    
Stuart Schechter 	Microsoft Research    
Bruce Schneier 		BT    
Galina Schwartz 	UC Berkeley    
Andrew Shostack 	Microsoft    
Richard Sullivan 	Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City    
Catherine Tucker 	MIT    
Michel Van Eeten 	Delft University of Technology    
Nicholas Weaver 	International Computer Science Institute   
Julian Williams 	University of Aberdeen