Leuven, Belgium - July 22-23, 2008

Held in conjunction with

8th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium

Leuven, Belgium

July 23 - 25, 2008

Call for Papers

Contributions

To contribute a presentation, please submit an extended abstract summarizing a technical contribution or a position paper summarizing your research to http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wote2008. Contributions will be selected by the expected interest in the topic and the potential for stimulating exchange of ideas among the participants. Submissions must be anonymous, with no author names, affiliations, acknowledgments, or obvious references. Contributions from WOTE 2008 Program Committee members are welcomed.

A submission must be a PDF file of at most 12 pages, in letter- or A4-format, using at least 11pt fonts and no non-standard character sets. Authors are encouraged to follow the U.S. National Science Foundation's guidelines for preparing PDF documents.

WOTE 2008 will not have formal proceedings. Accepted papers will be available online and informal paper proceedings will be distributed. Negotiations with a major academic publisher are underway to compile a volume of select extended abstracts from WOTE 2008 and prior WOTE meetings.

Acceptance of an extended abstract for presentation at WOTE does not preclude publication elsewhere. However, if your paper is submitted (or to be submitted) to another venue, you must mention it explicitly in your submission.

Important dates

All submissions must be received by 11:59pm GMT on April 18, 2008.

Notification of acceptance will be sent by May 16, 2008.

Final version due by June 20, 2008.

Topics include but are not limited to:

1. • Election integrity
   

2. • Ballot integrity
   

3. • Ballot secrecy
   

4. • Voter anonymity
   

5. • Voter authentication
   

6. • Receipts and coercion resistance
   

7. • Anonymous channels
   

8. • Secure bulletin boards
   

9. • Threat models
   

10. • Formal security analysis
    

11. • Registration systems
    

12. • Electoral systems
    

13. • Performance evaluation and rating
    

14. • Case studies of electronic voting experiments
    

15. • Usability of voting systems
    

16. • Accessibility of voting
    

17. • Effects of voting technology on voter behavior
    

18. • Privacy, verifiability, and transparency in e-voting
    

19. • The role of e-voting within e-democracy
    

20. • The relation between e-voting and models of democracy
    

21. • Philosophical, ethical, and legal aspects
    

22. • E-voting, human rights, and the digital divide
    

23. • History of voting technology
    

24. • Public acceptability
    

System Demos

We intend to provide an opportunity to demo systems and prototypes during the Workshop. Please contact Ben Adida and Olivier Pereira at wote2008@uclouvain.be.

WOTE 2008 chairs

1. • Ben Adida (Harvard, US)
   

2. • Olivier Pereira (UCL, BE)
   

WOTE 2008 local chair

1. • Claudia Diaz (KUL, BE)
   

Program Committee

1. • Ben Adida (Harvard, US)
   

2. • Ammar Alkassar (Sirrix, D)
   

3. • Josh Benaloh (Microsoft Research, US)
   

4. • Stephanie Delaune (Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan, FR)
   

5. • Jeroen van de Graaf (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, BR)
   

6. • James Heather (University of Surrey, UK)
   

7. • John Kelsey (NIST, US)
   

8. • Aggelos Kiayias (University of Connecticut, US)
   

9. • Joe Kiniry (University College Dublin, IE)
   

10. • Steve Kremer (Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan, FR)
    

11. • Robert Krimmer (E-Voting.CC, AT)
    

12. • Andy Neff (VoteHere, US)
    

13. • Olivier Pereira (UCL, BE)
    

14. • Yves Poullet (FUNDP, BE)
    

15. • Bart Preneel (K.U. Leuven, BE)
    

16. • Mark Ryan (University of Birmingham, UK)
    

17. • Peter Ryan (Newcastle University, UK)
    

18. • Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi (T.U. Bochum, D)
    

19. • Kazue Sako (NEC, JP)
    

20. • Berry Schoenmakers (Technical University of Eindhoven, NL)
    

21. • Jacques Traoré (France Telecom R&D, FR)
    

22. • Dan Wallach (Rice University, US)