[fc-announce] Financial Cryptography 2016 - deadline extension until October 11

Bart Preneel bart.preneel at esat.kuleuven.be
Thu Oct 1 00:22:12 CEST 2015



CALL FOR PAPERS - FC 2016 (http://fc16.ifca.ai/)

UPDATE: Please note the deadline extension to October 11, 2015 (11:59pm, UTC-11), 
based on numerous requests.

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The 20th International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC)
Accra Beach Hotel & Spa, Barbados - February 22-26, 2016
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FC 2016 is the 20th FC conference. A special anniversary program with invited
speakers is planned in addition to the technical paper program.

Financial Cryptography and Data Security is a major international forum for 
research, advanced development, education, exploration, and debate regarding 
information assurance, with a specific focus on financial, economic and commercial 
transaction security. Original works focusing on securing commercial transactions 
and systems are solicited; fundamental as well as applied real-world deployments 
on all aspects surrounding commerce security are of interest. Submissions need 
not be exclusively concerned with cryptography. Systems security, economic or 
behavioral perspectives, and interdisciplinary efforts are particularly encouraged.

TOPICS

Access Control
Anonymity and Privacy
Applied Cryptography
Auctions and Mechanisms
Authentication and Identification
Behavioral Aspects of Security and Privacy
Biometrics
Certification and Audits
Cloud Computing and Data Outsourcing Security
Commercial Cryptographic Applications
Contactless Payment and Ticketing Systems
Cryptographic Currencies
Digital Cash and Payment Systems
Digital Rights Management
Economics of Security and Privacy
Electronic Commerce Security
Electronic Crime and Underground Markets
Fraud Detection and Forensics
Game Theory for Security and Privacy
Identity Theft
Insider Threats
Legal and Regulatory Issues
Microfinance and Micropayments
Mobile Systems Security and Privacy 
Phishing and Social Engineering
Reputation Systems
Risk Assessment and Management
Secure Banking and Financial Services
Smart Contracts and Financial Instruments
Smartcards, Secure Tokens and Secure Hardware
Social Networks Security and Privacy
Trust Management
Usability and Security
Virtual Goods and Virtual Economies
Voting Systems
Web Security
Other related topics

Submissions are sought in the categories of full regular papers, short 
papers, panel proposals, and posters. Formatting and submission instructions
are available on the conference website.

FC 2016 will also host the following workshops:

BITCOIN'16: 3rd Workshop on Bitcoin and Blockchain Research
VOTING'16: 1st Workshop on Advances in Secure Electronic Voting Schemes
WAHC'16: 4th Workshop on Encrypted Computing and Applied Homomorphic Cryptography

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission - October 11, 2015 (Extended)
Workshop Paper Deadlines - TBD 
Poster and panel submission - December 4, 2015

Submissions are accepted until 11:59pm, UTC-11.

BEST PAPER AWARDS AND STUDENT TRAVEL GRANTS

Awards will be presented for the best overall paper, and outstanding paper(s) that 
address challenges in financial cryptography, and financial systems. Further, we
are pleased to announce the availability of enhanced financial support for students.

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ORGANIZATION - FC 2016

GENERAL CHAIR

Rafael Hirschfeld

ANNIVERSARY CHAIRS

Sven Dietrich
Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi

PROGRAM CHAIRS

Jens Grossklags - The Pennsylvania State University
Bart Preneel - KU Leuven

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Masayuki Abe - NTT Laboratories
Alessandro Acquisti - Carnegie Mellon University
Ross Anderson - Cambridge University
Elli Androulaki- IBM Research Zurich
N. Asokan - Aalto University
Paulo Barreto - University of Sao Paulo
Steven Bellovin - Columbia University
Daniel Bernstein - University of Illinois at Chicago
Rainer Boehme - University of Innsbruck
Alvaro Cardenas - University of Texas at Dallas
George Danezis - University College London
Serge Egelman - UC Berkeley
Seda Guerses - New York University
Thorsten Holz - Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum
Trent Jaeger - The Pennsylvania State University
Markus Jakobsson - Qualcomm
Benjamin Johnson - Carnegie Mellon University
Florian	Kerschbaum - SAP
Aggelos	Kiayias - National and Kapodistrian U. Athens
Bart Knijnenburg - Clemson University
Aron Laszka - UC Berkeley
Anja Lehmann - IBM Research Zurich
Arjen Lenstra - EPFL
Patrick	Loiseau - EURECOM
Catherine Meadows - Naval Research Laboratory 
Tyler Moore - University of Tulsa 
Steven	Murdoch - University College London
Tatsuaki Okamoto - NTT Laboratories
Kenneth Paterson - Royal Holloway, University of London
Roberto Perdisci - University of Georgia
Avi Rubin - Johns Hopkins University
Ahmad Sadeghi - TU Darmstadt
Rei Safavi-Naini - University of Calgary
Nigel Smart - University of Bristol
Jessica	Staddon- Google
Carmela	Troncoso - Gradiant
Nicholas Weaver - International Computer Science Institute
Xinyu Xing - The Pennsylvania State University
Moti Yung - Google & Columbia University

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