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EVT/WOTE '11 Call for Papers
2011 Electronic Voting Technology Workshop/
Workshop on Trustworthy
Elections (EVT/WOTE '11)
August 8–9, 2011
San Francisco, CA
Sponsored by USENIX: The Advanced Computing Systems Association;
ACCURATE: A Center for Correct, Usable, Reliable, Auditable, and
Transparent Elections; and IAVoSS: The International Association
for Voting System Sciences
EVT/WOTE '11 will be co-located with the 20th USENIX Security
Symposium (USENIX Security '11), which will take place August 8–12, 2011.
Important Dates
- Submissions due: April 20, 2011, 11:59 p.m. PDT Deadline Approaching!
- Notification of acceptance: May 29, 2011
- Final paper files due: June 26, 2011
Workshop Organizers
Program Co-Chairs
Hovav Shacham, University of California, San Diego
Vanessa Teague, University of Melbourne
Program Committee
Ben Adida, Harvard University
Josh Benaloh, Microsoft Research
Stephen Checkoway, University of California, San Diego
Jeremy Clark, University of Waterloo
J. Alex Halderman, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Joseph Lorenzo Hall, University of California, Berkeley, and Princeton University
Nadia Heninger, Princeton University
Candice Hoke, C|M|Law, Cleveland State University
Sharon Laskowski, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Tal Moran, Harvard University
Olivier Pereira, Université catholique de Louvain
Eric Rescorla, RTFM, Inc.
Kazue Sako, NEC Corporation
Melanie Volkamer, Technische Universität Darmstadt
Poorvi L. Vora, The George Washington University
David Wagner, University of California, Berkeley
Douglas Wikström, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
Zhe Xia, University of Surrey
Overview
In many countries, most votes are counted and transported
electronically, but there are numerous practical and policy
implications of introducing electronic machines into the voting
process. Both voting technology and its regulations are very much in
flux, with open concerns including accuracy, reliability, robustness,
security, transparency, equality, privacy, usability, and
accessibility.
USENIX, ACCURATE, and IAVoSS are sponsoring the 2011 Electronic Voting
Technology Workshop/Workshop on Trustworthy Elections (EVT/WOTE
'11). EVT/WOTE brings together researchers from a variety of
disciplines, ranging from computer science and human-computer
interaction experts through political scientists, legal experts,
election administrators, and voting equipment vendors. EVT/WOTE seeks
to publish original research on important problems in all aspects of
electronic voting.
EVT/WOTE ’11 will be a two-day event, Monday, August 8, and
Tuesday, August 9, 2011, co-located with the 20th USENIX Security
Symposium in San Francisco. In addition to paper presentations, the
workshop may include panel discussions with substantial time devoted
to questions and answers. The workshop papers 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. There will be an award for the best paper.
Workshop Topics
Papers should contain original research in any area related to
electronic voting technologies and verifiable elections. Example
applications include but are not limited to:
- Ballot-box electronic voting systems
- Remote electronic voting systems
- Voter registration systems
- Procedures for ballot auditing
- Cryptographic (or non-cryptographic) verifiable election
schemes
Example topics include but are not limited to:
- Attacks on existing systems
- Designs of new systems
- Formal or informal security or requirements analysis
- Examination of usability and accessibility issues
- Research on relevant regulations, standards, or laws
Case studies of real-world systems are encouraged, as long as their design and/or analysis suffice to constitute original research.
Submissions will be judged on originality, relevance, correctness, and
clarity.
Submission Instructions
Papers must be received by 11:59 p.m. Pacific time on Wednesday, April 20,
2011. This is a hard deadline—no extensions will be given. All
submissions will be electronic. Submissions should be finished,
complete papers (not work in progress) and must be in PDF format. Submit papers using
the Web form.
Paper submissions should be at most 12 typeset pages,
excluding bibliography and well-marked appendices.
Submissions should be in two-column format, using 10 point Times
Roman type on 12 point leading, in a text block of 6.5" by
9". There is no limit on the length of appendices, but
reviewers are not required to read them. Once accepted, papers must fit in 16 pages—including bibliography and any
appendices—in the same format. If you wish, you may make use of
this LaTeX file and style file when preparing your paper for submission, but note that the
authors' names and affiliations should not be included per the anonymization policy that follows.
Paper submissions must be anonymized: author names and author
affiliations must be removed; acknowledgements and other clear markers
of affiliation (e.g., "we used data from XXX University") should be
removed or rewritten; self-citations should be rewritten to be neutral
(e.g., "In previous work, Smith showed . . .").
Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple venues,
submission of previously published work, or plagiarism constitutes
dishonesty or fraud. USENIX, like other scientific and technical
conferences and journals, prohibits these practices and may take
action against authors who have committed them. See
the USENIX Conference Submissions Policy for details.
Authors uncertain whether their submission meets USENIX's
guidelines should contact the program chairs,
evtwote11chairs@usenix.org,
or the USENIX office,
submissionspolicy@usenix.org.
Papers accompanied by nondisclosure agreement forms will not be considered. Accepted submissions will be treated as confidential prior to publication on the USENIX EVT/WOTE '11 Web site; rejected submissions will be permanently treated as confidential.
Authors will be notified of acceptance by Sunday, May 29, 2011.
Revised final versions of accepted papers must be received by
11:59 p.m. Pacific time on Sunday, June 26, 2011. Each accepted
submission may be assigned a member of the program committee to act as
its shepherd through the preparation of the final paper. The assigned
member will act as a conduit for feedback from the committee to the
authors.
All papers will be available online to registered attendees before the
workshop. If your accepted paper should not be published prior to the
event, please
notify production@usenix.org.
The papers will be available online to everyone beginning on the first
day of the workshop, August 8, 2011.
Questions about submissions may be sent to the program co-chairs
at evtwote11chairs@usenix.org.
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