[fc-announce] CFP EXTENDED DEADLINE (Oct 16): Financial Cryptography 2007, Feb 12-15, 2007, Tobago

[Sven Dietrich]

Dear Colleague,

    by popular request, the deadline has been extended to Oct 16, 2006. Please 
inform your students and colleagues of this new deadline and encourage them to 
submit given this extra time.

Regards,

Sven
-- 
Sven Dietrich - fc07chair at cert.org
Program Chair, Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2007
http://fc07.ifca.ai/

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Final Call for Papers

FC'07: Financial Cryptography and Data Security
http://fc07.ifca.ai/

Eleventh International Conference
February 12-15, 2007
Lowlands, Scarborough, Trinidad and Tobago

Submissions Due Date (EXTENDED): October 16, 2006, 11:59pm, EDT (UTC-4)

Program Chair: 	Sven Dietrich (Carnegie Mellon University)
General Chair: 	Rafael Hirschfeld (Unipay)

At its 11th year edition, Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC'07) is a 
well established and major international forum for research, advanced 
development, education, exploration, and debate regarding security in the 
context of finance and commerce. We will continue last year's augmentation of 
the conference title and expansion of our scope to cover all aspects of 
securing transactions and systems. These aspects include a range of technical 
areas such as: cryptography, payment systems, secure transaction architectures, 
software systems and tools, fraud prevention, secure IT infrastructure, and 
analysis methodologies. Our focus will also encompass financial, legal, 
business, and policy aspects. Material both on theoretical (fundamental) 
aspects of securing systems,and on secure applications and real-world 
deployments will be considered.

The conference goal is to bring together top cryptographers, data-security 
specialists, and computer scientists with economists, bankers, implementers, 
and policy makers. Intimate and colorful by tradition, the FC'07 program will 
feature invited talks, academic presentations, technical demonstrations, and 
panel discussions.

This conference is organized annually by the International Financial 
Cryptography Association (IFCA).

Original papers, surveys, and presentations on all aspects of financial and 
commerce security are invited. Submissions must have a strong and visible 
bearing on financial and commerce security issues, but can be interdisciplinary 
in nature and need not be exclusively concerned with cryptography or security. 
Possible topics for submission to the various sessions include, but are not 
limited to:

Anonymity and Privacy
Auctions
Audit and Auditability
Authentication and Identification, including Biometrics
Certification and Authorization
Commercial Cryptographic Applications
Commercial Transactions and Contracts
Digital Cash and Payment Systems
Digital Incentive and Loyalty Systems
Digital Rights Management
Financial Regulation and Reporting
Fraud Detection
Game Theoretic Approaches to Security
Identity Theft, Phishing and Social Engineering
Infrastructure Design
Legal and Regulatory Issues
Microfinance and Micropayments
Monitoring, Management and Operations
Reputation Systems
RFID-Based and Contactless Payment Systems
Risk Assessment and Management
Secure Banking and Financial Web Services
Securing Emerging Computational Paradigms
Security and Risk Perceptions and Judgments
Security Economics
Smart Cards and Secure Tokens
Trust Management
Trustability and Trustworthiness
Underground-Market Economics
Virtual Economies
Voting system security

For those interested, last year's proceedings are available from Springer.

Submission Instructions

Submission Categories

FC'07 is inviting submissions in four categories: (1) research papers, (2) 
systems and applications presentations, (3) panel sessions, (4) surveys. For 
all accepted submissions, at least one author must attend the conference and 
present the work.

Research Papers

Research papers should describe novel scientific contributions to the field, 
and they will be subject to rigorous peer review. Accepted submissions will be 
included in the conference proceedings to be published in the Springer-Verlag 
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series after the conference, so the 
submissions must be formatted in the standard LNCS format (15 page limit).

Systems and Application Presentations

Submissions in this category should describe novel or successful systems with 
an emphasis on secure digital commerce applications. Presentations may concern 
commercial systems, academic prototypes, or open-source projects for any of the 
topics listed above. Where appropriate, software or hardware demonstrations are 
encouraged as part of the presentations in these sessions. Submissions in this 
category should consist of a short summary of the work (1-6 pages in length) to 
be reviewed by the Program Committee, along with a short biography of the 
presenters. Accepted submissions will be presented at the conference (25 
minutes per presentation), and a one-page abstract will be published in the 
conference proceedings.

Panel Sessions

Proposals for panel sessions are also solicited, and should include a brief 
description of the panel as well as prospective participants. Accepted panel 
sessions will be presented at the conference, and each participant will 
contribute a one-page abstract to be published in the conference proceedings.

Surveys

A limited number of surveys presentations may also be included in the program. 
We encourage submissions that summarize the current state of the art on any 
well-defined subset of the above listed submission topics. A limited 
description of visions on future directions of research in these topics would 
also be appreciated. Survey submissions can be significantly shorter than 
research paper submissions.

Preparation Instructions

Submissions to the research papers, systems/application presentation 
categories, and surveys must be received by the due date. Papers must be 
formatted in standard PostScript or PDF format. Submissions in other formats 
will be rejected. All papers must be submitted electronically according to the 
instructions and forms found on this web site and at the submission site.

Authors should provide names and affiliations at submission time, and have the 
option of including or not names and affiliations in their submitted papers, 
that must include on their first page the title of the paper, a brief abstract, 
and a list of topical keywords. Accepted submissions will be included in the 
conference proceedings to be published in the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in 
Computer Science (LNCS) series after the conference, so the submissions must be 
formatted in the standard LNCS format (15 page limit). Authors of accepted 
submissions will be required to complete and sign an IFCA copyright form. A 
pre-proceedings volume containing preliminary versions of the papers will be 
distributed at the conference.

Questions about all conference submissions should be directed to the Program 
Chair at fc07chair at cert.org.

Paper Submission

Authors should only submit work that does not substantially overlap with work 
that is currently submitted or has been accepted for publication to a 
conference with proceedings or a journal.

To submit your paper, use our online submission service..

The Rump Session

FC'07 will also include the popular "rump session" held on one of the evenings 
in an informal, social atmosphere. The rump session is a program of short (5-7 
minute), informal presentations on works in progress, off-the-cuff ideas, and 
any other matters pertinent to the conference. Any conference attendee is 
welcome to submit a presentation to the Rump Session Chair (to be announced). 
This submission should consist of a talk title, the name of the presenter, and, 
if desired, a very brief abstract. Submissions may be sent via e-mail, or 
submitted in person through the Monday of the conference.

Associated Workshop

There will be a Usability Workshop held in conjunction with FC 2007.

Program Committee

Alessandro Acquisti, Carnegie Mellon University
Jon Callas, PGP Corporation
Yvo Desmedt, University College London
Giovanni di Crescenzo, Telcordia Technologies
Roger Dingledine, The Free Haven Project
Bernhard Esslinger, Deutsche Bank
Philippe Golle, PARC
Klaus Kursawe, Philips Research Eindhoven
Arjen Lenstra, EPFL
Patrick McDaniel, Penn State University
Tatsuaki Okamoto, NTT
Kazue Sako, NEC
Radu Sion, SUNY Stony Brook
Stuart Stubblebine, Stubblebine Consulting
Paul Syverson, NRL
Mike Szydlo, RSA
Jonathan Trostle, ASK Consulting and Research
Moti Yung, RSA & Columbia University
Yuliang Zheng, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Important Dates:

Paper Submission (EXTENDED):   	October 16, 2006

Notification: 	  	        December 11, 2006
Pre-Proceedings: 	  	January 11, 2007
Conference dates: 	  	February 12-15, 2007
Post Proceedings: 	  	April 10, 2007