WPES 2011 - Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES)

The need for privacy-aware policies, regulations, and techniques has been widely recognized. This workshop discusses the problems of privacy in the global interconnected societies and possible solutions. The 2011 Workshop, held in conjunction with the ACM CCS conference, is the tenth in a yearly forum for papers on all the different aspects of privacy in today's electronic society.

The workshop seeks submissions from academia and industry presenting novel research on all theoretical and practical aspects of electronic privacy, as well as experimental studies of fielded systems. We encourage submissions from other communities such as law and business that present these communities' perspectives on technological issues. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

anonymity, pseudonymity, and unlinkability

data correlation and leakage attacks

data security and privacy

electronic communication privacy

economics of privacy

information dissemination control

personally identifiable information

privacy-aware access control

privacy and anonymity in the Web

privacy in cloud and grid systems

privacy and confidentiality management

privacy and data mining

privacy in the digital business

privacy in the electronic records

privacy enhancing technologies

privacy in health care and public administration

privacy and human rights

privacy metrics

privacy in mobile systems

privacy in outsourced scenarios

privacy policies

privacy vs. security

privacy in social networks

privacy threats

privacy and virtual identity

public records and personal privacy

user profiling

wireless privacy

Paper Submissions

Submitted papers must not substantially overlap papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Regular submissions should be at most 10 pages in the ACM double-column format, excluding well-marked appendices, and at most 12 pages total. Committee members are not required to read the appendices, and so the paper should be intelligible without them. Submissions are not required to be anonymized. The workshop will also consider short submissions of up to 4 pages for results that are preliminary or that simply require few pages to describe. Authors of regular submitted papers will indicate at the time of submission whether they would like their paper to also be considered for publication as a short paper (4 proceedings pages).

Submissions are to be made to the submission web site at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wpes11. You will be requested to upload the file of your paper (in PDF format only). Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits. Papers must be received by the deadline of July 2, 2011 to be considered. Notification of acceptance or rejection will be sent to authors by August 10, 2011. The camera ready must be prepared by August 25, 2011 (firm). Proceedings of the workshop will be published by ACM on a CD, available to the workshop attendees. Papers will be included in the ACM Digital Library, with a specific ISBN. Each accepted paper must be presented by an author, who will have to be registered by the early-bird registration deadline.