Apologies for multiple posting ------------------------------ PRIVACY IN STATISTICAL DATABASES 2008 (PSD 2008) ================================================ FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS Istanbul, Turkey, Sep. 24-26, 2008 http://unescoprivacychair.urv.cat/psd2008 1. AIMS AND GOALS ----------------- Privacy in statistical databases is about finding tradeoffs to the tension between the increasing societal and economical demand for accurate information and the legal and ethical obligation to protect the privacy of individuals and enterprises which are the respondents providing the statistical data. The motivation for respondent privacy is one of survival for statistical databases: statistical agencies or survey institutes cannot expect to collect accurate information from individual or corporate respondents unless these feel the privacy of their responses is guaranteed. Beyond respondent privacy, there are two additional privacy dimensions to be considered: privacy for the data owners (organizations owning or gathering the database, who wouldn't like to share the data they have collected at great expense) and privacy for the users (those who submit queries to the database and would like their analyses to stay private). "Privacy in Statistical Databases 2008" (PSD 2008) is a conference sponsored and organized by the UNESCO Chair in Data Privacy (http://unescoprivacychair.urv.cat) and the CONSOLIDER ARES project (http://crises-deim.urv.cat/ares), with proceedings published by Springer-Verlag in Lecture Notes in Computer Science. It purpose is to gather world-wide, high-level research in statistical database privacy. PSD 2008 is a successor to PSD 2006 (Rome, Dec. 13-15, 2006, http://crises-deim.urv.cat/psd2006) and PSD 2004 (Barcelona, June 9-11, 2004, http://crises-deim.urv.cat/psd2004), both with proceedings published by Springer in LNCS 4302 and LNCS 3050, respectively. Those three PSD conferences follow a tradition of high-quality technical conferences on SDC which started with "Statistical Data Protection-SDP'98", held in Lisbon in 1998 and with proceedings published by OPOCE, and continued with the AMRADS project SDC Workshop, held in Luxemburg in 2001 and with proceedings published in Springer LNCS vol. 2316. Like the aforementioned preceding conferences, PSD 2008 originates in Europe, but wishes to stay a worldwide event in database privacy and SDC. Thus, contributions and attendees from overseas are welcome. 2. ORGANIZATION --------------- PROGRAM COMMITTEE John Abowd (Cornell University, USA) Elisa Bertino (CERIAS, Purdue University, USA) Jordi Castro (Polytechnical University of Catalonia) Lawrence Cox (Nat. Center for Health Statistics, USA) Josep Domingo-Ferrer (Rovira i Virgili University, Catalonia) Mark Elliot (Manchester University, UK) Elena Ferrari (University of Insubria, Italy) Stephen Fienberg (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Luisa Franconi (ISTAT, Italy) Sarah Giessing (Destatis, Germany) Anco Hundepool (Statistics Netherlands) Ramayya Krishnan (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Julia Lane (NORC/University of Chicago, USA) Jane Longhurst (Office for National Statistics, UK) Bradley Malin (Vanderbilt University, USA) Josep M. Mateo-Sanz (Rovira i Virgili University, Catalonia) Krish Muralidhar (University of Kentucky, USA) Silvia Polettini (University of Naples, Italy) Yosef Rinott (Hebrew University, Israel) Gerd Ronning (University of Tuebingen, Germany) Juan Jose Salazar (University of La Laguna, Spain) Maria Joao Santos (EUROSTAT) Yucel Saygin (Sabanci University, Turkey) Eric Schulte-Nordholt (Statistics Netherlands) Francesc Sebe (Rovira i Virgili University, Catalonia) Natalie Shlomo (University of Southampton, UK) Julian Stander (University of Plymouth, UK) Vicenc Torra (IIIA-CSIC, Catalonia) William E. Winkler (Census Bureau, USA) Laura Zayatz (Census Bureau, USA) PROGRAM CHAIR Josep Domingo-Ferrer (UNESCO Chair in Data Privacy, Rovira i Virgili University, Catalonia) GENERAL CHAIR Yucel Saygin (Sabanci University, Turkey) ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE Jordi Castella-Roca (Rovira i Virgili University, Catalonia) Aysegul Cayci (Sabanci University, Turkey) Ercument Cicek (Sabanci University, Turkey) Aras Sami Kubilay (Sabanci University, Turkey) Jesus Manjon (Rovira i Virgili, Catalonia) Antoni Martinez-Balleste (Rovira i Virgili University, Catalonia) Gloria Pujol (Rovira i Virgili University, Catalonia) 3. TOPICS OF INTEREST --------------------- Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - New SDC methods for tabular data - New SDC methods for microdata - Best SDC practices for tabular data - Best SDC practices for microdata - Balancing data quality and data confidentiality in SDC - Onsite access centers - Remote access facilities - SDC software - Estimating disclosure risk in SDC - Record linkage methods - Real-life disclosure scenarios in EU-member states and abroad - Privacy preserving data mining (both cryptographic and non-cryptographic) - Private information retrieval - Privacy in web-based e-commerce - Privacy in healthcare - Privacy in official and corporate statistics 4. SUBMISSIONS -------------- Full papers containing either original technical contributions or high-quality surveys on the above topics or on related topics are sought. A submission should be clearly marked either as an original paper or a survey. Submissions should contain a cover letter indicating: 1) whether the submission is a survey or an original contribution; 2) the title of the submission; 3) keywords classifying the paper topic; 4) the names and affiliations of authors; 5) the e-mail, telephone and facsimile numbers of the contact author. The submission itself should be sent as an attached PDF file. Submission and their cover letters should be sent to psd2008@urv.cat Camera-ready versions of accepted papers should be prepared using the LaTeX2e style or the Word template of Springer Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science. For LaTeX2e, a macro package llncs.zip and an example file typeinst.zip can be downloaded from http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,10735,5-164-2-72376-0,00.html For Microsoft Word, a template word.zip can be downloaded from the same page above. We encourage authors to use the above formats already for their submissions. LENGTH OF SUBMISSIONS. Using the above format with 11 point font, the paper should be at most 12 pages excluding bibliography and appendices, and at most 16 pages total. Committee members are not required to read appendices; the paper should be intelligible without them. Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits. 5. PROCEEDINGS AND JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE ---------------------------------------- Among PSD 2008 accepted papers, a selection will be made based on quality and coverage and the selected papers will be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series by Springer. This follows the tradition of PSD 2006 (LNCS 4302), PSD 2004 (LNCS 3050) and the AMRADS Workshop on SDC (LNCS 2316). The remaining accepted papers will be published in a CD with an ISBN. It is possible to submit a paper directly for the CD, which benefits from a later submission deadline (see CD-only dates below). The form of publication of an accepted paper will be clearly specified in the acceptance message. Both the LNCS volume and the CD will be *available at the conference*. IMPORTANT: Among papers in the LNCS proceedings, a second selection of 4-5 papers will be made by the Program and General Chairs, also aimed at topic coverage and quality. The authors of these 4-5 papers will be invited to prepare a substantially extended version for a special issue on "Privacy in Databases" of the "Data and Knowledge Engineering" journal (listed in ISI JCR). 5. IMPORTANT DATES ------------------ Submission deadline: May 25, 2008 Acceptance notification: June 27, 2008 Proceedings version due: July 11, 2008 Conference: Sep. 24-26, 2008. CD-only submission deadline: July 15, 2008 CD-only acceptance notification: July 31, 2008 CD-only proceedings version due: Aug. 10, 2008 6. VENUE AND TRAVEL ------------------- The conference will take place in Richmond Hotel, Istanbul. http://www.richmondistanbulhotel.com/ Travel and accomodation information will be posted at http://unescoprivacychair.urv.cat/psd2008 A number of travel grants will be made available by the UNESCO Chair in Data Privacy, especially for authors and delegates from transition countries. Information on grants will be posted in the conference web site. 7. REGISTRATION --------------- Registration information will be posted at http://unescoprivacychair.urv.cat/psd2008