2007 USENIX/ACCURATE Electronic Voting Technology Workshop (EVT '07)
August 6, 2007
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Sponsored by USENIX: The Advanced Computing Systems Association, and ACCURATE: A Center for Correct, Usable, Reliable, Auditable, and Transparent Elections
EVT '07 will be co-located with the 16th USENIX Security Symposium (Security '07), August 6–10, 2007.
Important
Dates
Submissions due: Sunday, April 22, 2007, 11:59 p.m. PDT
Notification of acceptance: Friday, June 1, 2007
Final files due: Thursday, June 28, 2007
Workshop
Organizers
Program Chairs
Ray Martinez, Martinez Consulting Group
David Wagner, University of California, Berkeley
Program Committee
Ben Adida, Harvard University
Mike Alvarez, California Institute of Technology
Andrew Appel, Princeton University
Doug Jones, University of Iowa
Sharon Laskowski, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Dave Magelby, Brigham Young University
Margaret McGaley, National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Whitney Quesenbery, Whitney Interactive Design
Peter Ryan, Newcastle University
Dan Wallach, Rice University
Overview
In the United States and many other countries, most votes are counted and
transported electronically, but the practical and policy implications of
introducing electronic machines into the voting process are emerging in
this new area. Both voting technology and its regulations are very much
in flux, with open concerns including reliability, robustness, security,
human factors, transparency, equality, privacy, and accessibility.
The USENIX/ACCURATE Electronic Voting Technology (EVT) workshop seeks to
bring together researchers from a variety of disciplines, ranging from
computer science and human factors experts through political scientists,
legal experts, election administrators, and voting equipment vendors. EVT
seeks to publish original research on important problems, including
how the software and hardware in voting might be engineered to be more
robust against tampering or how it might be written to be more easily
and openly verified. Papers exploring "end-to-end" approaches that strive
to ensure that the integrity of the election is independent of software
and hardware are also encouraged. EVT also welcomes submissions on how
these systems might be engineered to be more usable by the broad voting
population. EVT also seeks discussion of how election regulations and
standards may evolve to support better election technologies. Additionally,
EVT encourages position papers on the practicality (or impracticality)
of the technological advances in electronic voting, particularly with
the limited budgets available to many elections administrators. EVT
will consider papers covering the gamut of technology as it is used in
elections, ranging from voter registration and vote collection through
tabulation and post-election auditing. We are interested in both future
technologies and systems widely used today around the world.
EVT '07 will be a one-day event, Monday, August 6, 2007, co-located with
the 16th USENIX Security Symposium in Boston, Massachusetts. In addition
to paper presentations, the workshop may include panel discussions with
substantial time devoted to questions and answers. The proceedings of
the workshop will be published electronically. Attendance at the workshop
will be open to the public, although talks and refereed paper presentations will be
by invitation only.
In particular, we welcome papers considering:
- Design and analysis of electronic voting schemes and protocols
- Deployment and lifecycle concerns
- Mitigating threats (including insider threats)
- Usability and accessibility (both for voters and for administrators)
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Legal issues, including how voting systems must comply with the ADA and
HAVA or the effect of intellectual property rights and nondisclosure
agreements on voting system testing, certification, and deployment
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The technology standards process and how it should evolve
Submission Instructions
All submissions must be in English and must include a title and the
authors' names and affiliations. We will accept both short position
papers (i.e., up to six [6] pages long) and longer, conference-style
submissions (up to a maximum of sixteen [16] pages). Please format papers
in two columns, single-spaced, using no smaller than 11 point Times
Roman type in a text block of 6.5" by 9".
Each submission should have a contact author who should provide full
contact information (email, phone, fax, mailing address). One author of
each accepted paper will be required to present the work at the workshop.
Authors are required to submit papers by 11:59 p.m. PDT, April 22, 2007. This is a hard deadline; no extensions will be given. All submissions to
EVT '07 must be electronic, in PDF format, via this Web form. Authors are
encouraged to follow the U.S. National Science Foundation's guidelines
for preparing PDF grant submissions:
Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple venues, submission
of previously published work, and plagiarism constitute dishonesty or
fraud. USENIX, like other scientific and technical conferences and
journals, prohibits these practices and may, on the recommendation
of a program chair, take action against authors who have committed
them. In some cases, program committees may share information about
submitted papers with other conference chairs and journal editors to
ensure the integrity of papers under consideration. If a violation of
these principles is found, sanctions may include, but are not limited
to, barring the authors from submitting to or participating in USENIX
conferences for a set period, contacting the authors' institutions,
and publicizing the details of the case.
Authors uncertain whether their submission meets USENIX's guidelines
should contact the program chair at evt07chairs@usenix.org or the USENIX
office, submissionspolicy@usenix.org.
Accepted material may not be published in other conferences or journals
for one year from the date of acceptance by USENIX. Papers accompanied
by nondisclosure agreement forms will not be read or reviewed. All
submissions will be held in confidence prior to publication of the
technical program, both as a matter of policy and in accordance with
the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976.
Authors will be notified of acceptance decisions via email by June 1. If
you do not receive notification by that date, contact the Program Chairs
at evt07chairs@usenix.org.
Registration Materials
Complete program and registration information will be available in
June 2007 on the workshop Web site. The information will be in
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