Senders: Paul Kantor and Michael Lesk
Date: *Extended deadline - March 30th*. ISIPS Extended Abstracts
Call for Papers:

Interdisciplinary Studies in Information Privacy and Security Workshop-Conference
2008 to be held on May 12, 2008 at the Hyatt in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

URL: http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/ci/isips/WebPage%20ISIPS20Practice/index.html

*Call for Papers*

There is an inherent tension between the need to gather intelligence necessary to
protect the security of persons and nations, and the privacy rights of persons and
organizations. The Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Information Privacy and
Security was established to explore this interplay. The second international
workshop and conference on these topics will be held on May 12 in New Brunswick, New
Jersey. The conference is sponsored by the ISIPS, and by the Center for Dynamic Data
Analysis (DyDAn).

Following our 2007 conference model, the conference will feature parallel tracks on
technical issues and social, ethical and legal issues related to privacy and
security. Proposals for papers, panels or posters are welcome from practitioners in
the field of security, academic researchers in fields of security and privacy, and
others interested in investigating this area.
New to this year's workshop will be an exploration of the interaction between
privacy rights and the gathering of data for commercial purposes or to facilitate
the growth of online communities such as U2 and Facebook.

Principal themes:

*To what extent can we protect privacy while still maintaining homeland security?
*What are the conflicts? What are the solutions?
*What is the role of commercial entities?
*What are the impacts of voluntary disclosure of personal information?

As distinct from organizations focused on increasing the security AND privacy of
electronic information, this conference is focused on the trade-off implied in:
"Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety
deserve neither" (attributed to Benjamin Franklin, letter from the Pennsylvania
Assembly, 1755).

For example, we seek papers that discuss the (homeland) security value of different
data mining efforts and the risk to individuals of those same efforts. Or, papers
that address the difficulty of translating the obvious difference between the
security of a letter, and that of a postcard, into the digital world.

The conference proceedings will be published in the prestigious series Lecture Notes
in Computer Science (LNCS) published by Springer.
[http://www.springer.com/computer?SGWID=0-146-0-0-0]

Submissions may address practice, theory, system, methodology, evaluation,
technology, testbed or policy. Well-reasoned position papers will also be
considered. Research papers must be relevant to the management of information for
purposes of protecting the general security of citizens OR to the issues involved in
protecting information that persons or corporations may wish to hold private (or, of
course, the interface between these issues). Practice papers should reflect real
experience or real needs.
Topics include but are not limited to areas noted below.

Extended Abstracts of no more than 5 pages (6,000 words in English) may be submitted
by Sunday, March 30th, 2008 at:

http://www.softconf.com/start/ISIPS2008/

I. General Paper Topics include:

Privacy protecting data-mining
Anonymous sharing of information
Electronic whistle blowing
Voluntary disclosure of personal information for commercial purposes Protection of
the privacy of users of online document management systems Systems for analyzing
encrypted data Methods for detecting and tracking terrorist activity Filtering and
categorization of message streams Adaptive systems that detect significant changes
in data streams Social aspects of information sharing behavior National and
international legal standards for privacy protection Roles and responsibilities of
information utilities in security and privacy

II. Mining of data for terror threats
-Identifying unusual patterns of action
-Coping with changing threats
-Identifying social networks of agents or actors -Real-time tracking and detection
of threats for rapid response -Intrusion, detection and protection -Deception and
intent detection in people streaming past a point -Web-based intelligence monitoring
and analysis -Agents and collaborative systems for intelligence sharing -Processing,
sharing, and analysis -Social network analysis (radicalization, recruitment,
operations), visualization and simulation

III. Privacy protection and disclosure
-Personal patterns of information disclosure -Practical effectiveness of data
anonymization techniques -Information disclosure for commercial advantage (shopper
ID) -Position tracking and monitoring -Position aware collaboration via mobile
phones

IV. The tension between security and the privacy of information -University
responsibilities with regard to student risks and threats -Government responsibility
to protect privacy of citizens -Analysis of government efforts to monitor
communication -Terrorism forecasting and root-cause analysis -Measuring terrorism's
impact on society -Information sharing policy and governance

Program Committee:
Yaakov Amidror, Lander Institute, Israel
Yigal Arens, USC/ISI
Antonio Badia, University of Louisville
Arthur Becker, ITIC
Michael Blair, RDEC
Endre Boros, RUTCOR, Rutgers University
Yigal Carmon, MEMRI
Gordon Cormack, University of Waterloo
George Cybenko, Dartmouth University
Hsinchun Chen, University of Arizona
Dennis Egan, Telcordia
Yuval Elovici, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories at Ben-Gurion University, Israel
Stephen Fienberg, Carnegie Mellon
Uwe Glaesser, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Mark Goldberg, RPI
Vladimir Golubev, Computer Crime Research Center, Ukraine
David Grossman, IIT
Jim Horning, SPARTA Inc.
Leslie Kennedy, Rutgers School of Criminal Justice
Joseph Kielman, DHS
Moshe Koppel, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Ivan Koychev, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Don Kraft, Louisiana State University
Carl Landwehr, University of Maryland
Mark Levene, Birkbeck University of London
Janusz Luks, Grupa GROM, Poland
Richard Mammone, ECE, Rutgers University
Naftaly Minsky, Rutgers University
*Rafail Ostrovsky, UCLA
Gerhard Paass, Fraunhofer Institute, Germany
Warren Powell, Princeton University
Fred Roberts, DIMACS, Rutgers University
Antonio Sanfilippo, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Bracha Shapira, Information Systems Engineering, Ben-Gurion University, Israel
Andrew Silke, University of East London
Joshua Sinai, The Analysis Corp.
David Skillicorn, Queen's University, Canada
Eugene Spafford, Purdue University
Gary Strong, Johns Hopkins
Rebecca Wright, Rutgers, DIMACS.
*Stefan Wrobel, Fraunhofer Institute, Germany
Daniel Zeng, University of Arizona

*Invited but not confirmed