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EVT/WOTE '09 Call for Papers
2009 Electronic Voting Technology Workshop/
Workshop on Trustworthy
Elections (EVT/WOTE '09)
August 10–11, 2009
Montreal, Canada
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 '09 will be co-located with the 18th USENIX Security
Symposium (USENIX Security '09), August 10–14, 2009.
Important Dates
- Refereed paper submissions due: April 17, 2009, 11:59 p.m. PDT
- Notification of acceptance: May 26, 2009
- Final files due: June 23, 2009
Workshop Organizers
Program Co-Chairs
David Jefferson, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Joseph Lorenzo Hall, University of California, Berkeley/Princeton
University
Tal Moran, Harvard University
Program Committee
Ben Adida, Harvard University
Michael Alvarez, California Institute of Technology
Josh Benaloh, Microsoft Research
Aaron Burstein, University of California, Berkeley
Joseph Calandrino, Princeton University
Rosario Gennaro, IBM Research
Aggelos Kiayias, University of Connecticut
Mark Lindeman, Bard College
Andy Neff
Lawrence Norden, New York University
Whitney Quesenbery, WQUsability
Eric Rescorla, RTFM, Inc.
Ron Rivest, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Alon Rosen, Herzliya Interdisciplinary Center
Daniel Sandler, Rice University
Vanessa Teague, University of Melbourne
David Wagner, University of California, Berkeley
Ping Yee, Google
Overview
In the United States and many other 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.
This year, the organizers of the USENIX/ACCURATE Electronic Voting
Technology Workshop (EVT) have merged EVT with the IAVoSS Workshop on
Trustworthy Elections (WOTE) to create a joint two-day workshop
(EVT/WOTE '09). EVT/WOTE seeks to bring 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.
Soliciting New Material
In addition to the areas in which EVT has seen very strong submissions
in the past (below), we are especially interested in the following
types of contributions:
- Technical work from vendor engineers and developers
- Scholarly work concerning legal and policy challenges
- Work involving research with or about accessibility
- Assessments, proposals, and policy prescriptions involving
registration technologies (e-pollbooks, online registration)
- Papers based on direct experiences with recent elections, possibly
from election officials and their staff
Soliciting Standard Material
In general, we welcome papers on voting topics, including but not
limited to:
- Voter registration and pre-voting processes
- Vote collection
- Vote tabulation
- Election auditing
- Design, implementation, and evaluation of new voting technologies
and protocols
- Scientific evaluations of existing voting technologies
- System testing methodologies
- Deployment and lifecycle issues
- Threat mitigation
- Usability
- Accessibility
- Legal issues, including the ADA, HAVA, intellectual property, and
nondisclosure agreements on voting system evaluations
- Issues with and evolution of voting technology standards
- Election integrity
- Ballot integrity
- Ballot secrecy
- Voter anonymity
- Voter authentication
- Receipts and coercion resistance
- Anonymous channels
- Secure bulletin boards
- Threat models
- Formal security analysis
- Electoral systems
- Case studies of electronic voting experiments
- Privacy, verifiability, and transparency in e-voting
EVT/WOTE '09 will be a two-day event, Monday, August 10, and Tuesday,
August 11, 2009, co-located with the 18th USENIX Security Symposium in
Montreal, Canada. 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.
Refereed Paper Submission Instructions
All submissions must be in English and must include a title and the
authors' names and affiliations. Papers must not be anonymized. We
will consider both short position papers (up to eight [8] pages long)
and longer, conference-style submissions (up to a maximum of sixteen
[16] pages). Longer, conference-style papers, if rejected, will not be
reconsidered as shorter position papers. Papers should be formatted on 8.5" x 11" paper using 10 point type on 12 point leading ("single-spaced"), with the text block being no more than 6.5" wide by 9" deep. Submitted papers can be in either one-column or two-column format, at the
discretion of the author. However, authors of accepted papers will need to format their final papers in two columns. If you wish,
please make use of this LaTeX style file and sample LaTeX
file (see the corresponding PDF here) when preparing your paper for submission. The page limits do not include the bibliography
or any appendices. Appendices may be used for material that does not
fit in the main body of the paper (such as extended legal arguments or
technical proofs). Note that reviewers are not required to read the
appendices, so the papers should be intelligible without them. Papers
that exceed the main paper page limit may be summarily rejected.
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 17,
2009. This is a hard deadline; no extensions will be given. All
submissions to EVT/WOTE '09 must be electronic, in PDF format, via the Web submission form. As soon as you submit your paper, it will be visible to the members of the program committee. Authors are encouraged to follow the U.S.
National Science Foundation's guidelines for preparing PDF grant
submissions:
All submissions will be judged on originality, relevance, correctness,
and clarity. In addition to citing relevant published work, authors
should relate their submission to any other relevant submissions of
theirs in other venues that are under review at the same time as their
submission to the EVT/WOTE '09.
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, 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.
Note, however, that we expect that many papers accepted for EVT/WOTE
'09 will eventually be extended as full papers suitable for
presentation at future conferences or for future journal publications.
Authors uncertain whether their submission meets USENIX's guidelines
should contact the program co-chairs at
evtwote09chairs@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 '09 Web site; rejected submissions will be permanently treated as confidential.
Authors will be notified of acceptance decisions via email on or
before May 26, 2009. If you do not receive notification by that date,
contact the program co-chairs at evtwote09chairs@usenix.org. Each
accepted submission may be assigned a member of the program committee
to act as its shepherd during 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 prior to the workshop and will be available online to everyone starting on August 10. If your accepted paper should not be published prior to the event, please notify production@usenix.org.
Panel Discussions
Depending on the quantity and quality of paper submissions, the program chairs may set aside one or two sessions for panel discussions. Ideas for panel discussions, including a title, brief description, and list of individuals participating on the panel, should be sent to evtwote09chairs@usenix.org by the paper submission deadline.
System Demos
We intend to provide an opportunity to demo systems and prototypes
during the workshop. Please contact the program co-chairs at
evtwote09chairs@usenix.org.
Registration Materials
Complete program and registration information will be available in
June 2009 on the workshop Web site. If you would like to receive
the latest USENIX conference information, please join our mailing
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