WEIS 2017 CALL for PAPERS - FEB 28, 2017 DEADLINE
Date: Feb 02, 2017
The 16th annual workshop on the economics of information security (WEIS 2017), will be held in La Jolla, California on the campus of the University of California San Diego on June 26-27, 2017.
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, phishing, and spam)
* Risk management and cyber-insurance
* Security standards and regulation
* Cyber-security policy
* Security models and metrics
* Economics of privacy and anonymity
* Behavioral security and privacy
* Vulnerability discovery, disclosure, and patching
* Cyber-defense strategy and game theory
* Incentives for information sharing and cooperation
* Incentives for and against pervasive monitoring threats
Please see the complete call for papers on the workshop website: http://weis2017.econinfosec.org
Important Dates:
* Submission deadline: February 28, 2017
* Notification of acceptance: April 17, 2017
* Final papers due (revisions): May 22, 2017
* Workshop dates: June 26-27, 2017
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The 16th annual workshop on the economics of information security (WEIS 2017), will be held in La Jolla, California on the campus of the University of California San Diego on June 26-27, 2017.
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, phishing, and spam)
* Risk management and cyber-insurance
* Security standards and regulation
* Cyber-security policy
* Security models and metrics
* Economics of privacy and anonymity
* Behavioral security and privacy
* Vulnerability discovery, disclosure, and patching
* Cyber-defense strategy and game theory
* Incentives for information sharing and cooperation
* Incentives for and against pervasive monitoring threats
Please see the complete call for papers on the workshop website: http://weis2017.econinfosec.org
Important Dates:
* Submission deadline: February 28, 2017
* Notification of acceptance: April 17, 2017
* Final papers due (revisions): May 22, 2017
* Workshop dates: June 26-27, 2017