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From: ec-mailing-owner@usenix.ORG Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 21:24:01 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: ec-mailing-request@usenix.ORG Subject: Call for Papers - 3rd USENIX Electronic Commerce Workshop Apparently-To: <treese@openmarket.com>
Dear Colleagues,
Electronic Commerce is a rapidly growing area with global economic implications. I'm excited to be able to say that we're putting together the Third USENIX Workshop on Electronic Commerce, and I invite your participation. This vital inter-disciplinary field thrives from a cross pollenation of ideas and techniques from many areas, and this workshop will be a great opportunity for you to present your findings as well as learn about other latest results.
So, mark your calendars! The workshop will take place from August 31 to September 3, 1998, and paper submissions are due by March 6, 1998. I hope to see you in Boston!
Bennet Yee Program Chair ec98chair@usenix.org =================================================================
Announcement and Call for Participation
3rd USENIX Workshop on Electronic Commerce August 31-September 3, 1998 Tremont Hotel, Boston, MA
Sponsored by USENIX, the Advanced Computing Systems Association
For more information about this conference, see the Electronic Commerce Website: http://www.usenix.org/events/ec98
IMPORTANT DATES Extended abstracts due: March 6, 1998 Notification to authors: April 17, 1998 Camera-ready final papers due: July 21, 1998
PROGRAM COMMITTEE Chair: Bennet S. Yee, UC San Diego
Ross Anderson, Cambridge University Nathaniel Borenstein, First Virtual Marc Donner, Morgan Stanley Niels Ferguson, Digicash Mark Manasse, Digital Equipment Corp. Cliff Neuman, University of Southern California Avi Rubin, AT&T Labs Win Treese, OpenMarket Hal Varian, U.C. Berkeley Doug Tygar, Carnegie Mellon University
OVERVIEW
The Third Workshop on Electronic Commerce will provide a major opportunity for researchers, experimenters, and practitioners in this rapidly self-defining field to exchange ideas and present the results of their work. It will set the technical agenda for work in electronic commerce by enabling workers to examine urgent questions, share their insights and discover connections with other work that might otherwise go unnoticed. To facilitate this, the conference will not be limited to technical problems and solutions, but will also consider their context: the economic and regulatory forces that influence the engineering choices we make, and the social and economic impact of network based trading systems.
TUTORIALS PROPOSALS WELCOME
One day of tutorials will precede the Workshop on August 31. USENIX's well-respected tutorials are intensive and provide immediately-useful information delivered by skilled instructors who are hands-on experts in their topic areas. Topics for the Electronic Commerce Workshop will include, but are not limited to, security and cryptography. If you are interested in presenting a tutorial, please contact:
Dan Klein, Coordinator Email: dvk@usenix.org Phone: 412.421.2332
WORKSHOP TOPICS
Two and one-half days of technical sessions will follow the tutorials. We welcome submissions for technical and position paper presentations, reports of work-in-progress, technology debates, and identification of new open problems. Birds-of-a-Feather sessions in the evenings and a keynote speaker will round out the program.
We seek papers that address a wide range of issues and ongoing developments, including, but not limited to:
Advertising Anonymous transactions Auditability Business issues Copy protection Credit/Debit/Cash models Cryptographic security Customer service Digital money EDI Electronic libraries Electronic wallets Email-enabled business Exception handling Identity verification Internet direct marketing Internet/WWW integration Key management Legal and policy issues Micro-transactions Negotiations Privacy Proposed systems Protocols Reliability Reports on existing systems Rights management Service guarantees Services vs. digital goods Settlement Smart-cards
Questions regarding a topic's relevance to the workshop may be addressed to the program chair via electronic mail to ec98chair@usenix.org. USENIX will publish Conference Proceedings which are provided free to technical session attendees; additional copies will be available for purchase from USENIX.
WHAT TO SUBMIT
Technical paper submissions and proposals for panels must be received by March 6, 1998. We welcome submissions of the following type:
1. Refereed Papers - Full papers or extended abstracts should be five to 20 pages, not counting references and figures.
2. Panel proposals - Proposals should be three to seven pages, together with a list of names of potential panelists. If accepted, the proposer must secure the participation of panelists, and prepare a three to seven page summary of panel issues for inclusion in the Proceedings. This summary can include position statements by panel participants.
3. Work-In-Progress Reports - Short, pithy, and fun, WIP reports introduce interesting new or ongoing work and should be 1 to 3 pages in length. If you have work you would like to share or a cool idea that is not quite ready to publish, a WIP is for you! We are particularly interested in presenting student work.
Each submission must include a cover letter stating the paper title and authors, along with the name of the person who will act as the contact to the program committee. Please include a surface mail address, daytime and evening phone number, email and fax numbers and, if available, a URL for each author. If all of the authors are students, please indicate that in the cover letter for award consideration (see "Awards" below).
USENIX workshops, like most conferences and journals, require that papers not be submitted simultaneously to more than one conference or publication and that submitted papers not be previously or subsequently published elsewhere. Submissions accompanied by non-disclosure agreement forms are not acceptable and will be returned to the author(s) unread. All submissions are held in the highest confidentiality prior to publication in the Proceedings, both as a matter of policy and in accord with the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976.
WHERE TO SUBMIT PROPOSALS
Please send submissions to the program committee via one of the following methods. All submissions will be acknowledged.
Preferred Method: email (Postscript or PDF formats only) to: ec98papers@usenix.org.
Files should be encoded for transport with uuencode or MIME base64 encoding. Authors should ensure that the PostScript is generic and portable so that their papers will print on a broad range of postscript printers, and should submit in sufficient time to allow us to contact the author about alternative delivery mechanisms in the event of network or other failure. If you send PostScript, remember the following:
1) Use only the most basic fonts (TimesRoman, Helvetica, Courier). Other fonts are not available with every printer or previewer.
2) PostScript that requires some special prolog to be loaded into the printer won't work for us. Please don't send it.
3) If you use a PC- or Macintosh-based word processor to generate your PostScript, print it on a generic PostScript printer before sending it, to make absolutely sure that the PostScript is portable.
4) If you are generating the PostScript from a program running under Windows, make sure that you establish the "portable" setting, not the "speed" setting for PostScript generation.
A good heuristic is to make sure that recent versions of Ghostview (e.g. Ghostview 1.5 using Ghostscript 3.33) can display your paper.
Alternate Method: 10 copies, via postal delivery to:
EC'98 Submissions USENIX Association 2560 Ninth Street, Suite 215 Berkeley, CA 94710
For detailed submission guidelines, send email to ec98authors@usenix.org, refer to the conference Web page at www.usenix.org/events/ec98/guidelines.html, or send email to the program chair at ec98chair@usenix.org. An electronic version of this Call for Papers is available at: www.usenix.org/events/ec98/.
BIRDS-OF-A-FEATHER SESSIONS (BoFs)
Do you have a topic that you'd like to discuss with others? Our Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions may be perfect for you. BoFs are very interactive and informal gatherings for attendees interested in a particular topic. Schedule your BoF in advance by telephoning the USENIX Conference Office at 714.588.8649 or sending email to: conference@usenix.org.
AWARDS
The program committee will offer awards of $500 for the best paper and the best student paper.
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Materials containing all details of the technical and tutorial programs, registration fees and forms and hotel information will be available in June, 1998. If you wish to receive the registration materials, please contact USENIX at:
USENIX Conference Office 22672 Lambert Street, Suite 613 Lake Forest, CA 92630 Phone: 714 588 8649 Fax: 714 588 9706 Email: conference@usenix.org
ABOUT USENIX
USENIX is the Advanced Computing Systems Association. Since 1975 USENIX has brought together the community of engineers, system administrators, and technicians working on the cutting edge of the computing world. For more information about USENIX:
URL: http://www.usenix.org Email: office@usenix.org Fax: 510.548.5738 Phone: 510.528.8649
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