Call for papers

Second international conference on E-voting and Identity
7-8 September 2009, Luxembourg
Submission deadline: March 25th, 2009

Motivation and Scope

Electronic voting is a very active research area covering a broad range of issues, from computer security and cryptographic issues to human psychology and legal issues. The aim of VoteID 2009 is to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry and governmental institutions, all working on e-voting systems. The scope covers all aspects of electronic voting systems, including, but not limited to:

design and evaluation of e-voting systems
voting theories incl. social choice theory
security requirements and formal analysis of e-voting systems
the role of identification in e-voting
the role of identity management systems for e-voting
cryptographic voting schemes
further methods for reconciling voter identification with vote anonymity
usability and accessibility issues
deployment and lifecycle concerns for e-voting systems
implementation issues and trade-offs
interdisciplinary issues in e-voting and identification

The proceedings of VoteID 2007 appeared as volume 4896 in Springer LNCS. The proceedings of VoteID 2009 will be published in LNCS as well.

Submission Guidelines

Authors are invited to submit papers describing original work. Submissions must not substantially duplicate work that any of the authors has published elsewhere or has submitted in parallel to any other conference or workshop with proceedings. Submissions should be anonymous, with no author names, affiliations, acknowledgement or obvious references. Each submission should have a contact author who should provide full contact information (email, phone, fax, mailing address). At least one author of each accepted paper will be required to present the work at the conference.

Papers must be formatted in LaTex, using the Springer LNCS LaTex style, and submitted as PDF files. Please check at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/ for style and formatting guidelines. The length of the submitted paper should not exceed 15 pages, excluding the bibliography and appendices, using the Springer LNCS style.

Please submit your paper via the EasyChair submission page.

Important Dates

submission deadline: ~~March 8th~~March 25th, 2009 (firm).
notification: May 15th, 2009.
camera-ready version: June 15th, 2009.
event: 7-8 September 2009.

Organization

General chair:
- Hugo Jonker (University of Luxembourg)
Program chairs:
- Peter Ryan (University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne)
- Berry Schoenmakers (Eindhoven University of Technology)
Program Committee:
- Mike Alvarez (Caltech, USA)
- Josh Benaloh (Microsoft Research, USA)
- Ian Brown (University of Oxford, UK)
- David Chaum (USA)
- Michael Clarkson (Cornell University, USA)
- Lorrie Faith Cranor (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
- Peter Emerson (de Borda Institute, Ireland)
- Jeroen van de Graaf (Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto, Brasil)
- Dimitris Gritzalis (University of the Aegean, Greece)
- Bart Jacobs (Radboud University, Netherlands)
- Hugo Jonker (University of Luxembourg)
- Steve Kremer (LSV ENS Cachan, France)
- Robert Krimmer (evoting.cc, Austria)
- Olivier Pereira (Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
- Andreas Pfitzmann (Technical University of Dresden, Germany)
- Josef Pieprzyk (Macquarie University, Australia)
- Bart Preneel (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
- Mark Ryan (University of Birmingham, UK)
- Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi (University of Bochum, Germany)
- Ronald Rivest (MIT, USA)
- Kazue Sako (NEC, Japan)
- Ted Selker (MIT, USA)
- Jacques Traore (France Telecom, France)
- Melanie Volkamer (Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany)
- Dan Wallach (Rice University, USA)
Local Organization:
- Baptiste Alcalde (University of Luxembourg, LU)
- Ragga Eyjolfsdottir (University of Luxembourg, LU)