Call for Papers and Presentations
Financial Cryptography '04
http://ifca.ai/fc04/CFP.htm
9-12 February 2004
Key West, Florida, USA
Sponsored by the International Financial Cryptography Association
Original papers and presentations on all aspects of financial-data
security and secure digital commerce are solicited for submission to
the Eight Annual Conference on Financial Cryptography (FC '04). FC '04
will bring together researchers and practitioners in the financial,
legal, cryptologic, and data-security fields to foster cooperation and
exchange of ideas. In addition to novel scientific research as in
previous years, the program for FC '04 will include sessions on
digital finance and economics and on secure financial systems and
digital-cash architectures. For the systems and finance sessions,
submissions must have a visible bearing on financial-security issues,
but need not be exclusively concerned with cryptography or
security. Possible topics for submission to the various sessions
include:
Anonymity
Digital-Rights Management
Payment Systems
Auctions
Financial Regulation and Reporting
Risk Management
Audit and Auditability
Future of Monetary Systems
Scalability
Authentication and Identification
Identity Management
Secure Banking
Back-Office Security
Information Economics
Reputation Systems
Certification and Authorization
Infrastructure Design
RFID-Based Payment Systems
Commercial Transactions and
Legal and Regulatory Issues
Risk Management
Contracts
Microfinance
Secure Banking
Digital cash (with or without
Micropayments
Smart Cards
Anonymity)
Peer-to-Peer Systems
Trust Management
Digital Incentive Systems
Privacy
Underground-Market Economics
Research Sessions: Submissions accepted to the research portion of the
conference will be published in full in the conference proceedings (up
to 15 pages in total).
Systems and Finance Sessions: For the systems and finance portions of
the conference, the primary emphasis is on presentation. For accepted
submissions in these sessions, a one-page abstract will be published
in the conference proceedings.
Submissions to the systems portion of the conference may include
architectural descriptions and/or accounts of industry or technical
experience with implementations of secure digital commerce
systems. Presentations may concern commercial systems, academic
prototypes, or open-source projects for any of the topics listed
above. Where appropriate, software and hardware demonstrations are
encouraged as part of the presentations in these sessions.
Contributions to the systems and the finance sessions of the
conference need not necessarily include novel contributions in the
realm of scientific research, nor must they concern financial
cryptography or security exclusively. They must, however, reflect
careful thought and effort and provide valuable, up-to-date experience
that is relevant to practitioners in the fields of financial
cryptography and security. Submissions to these sessions may consist
of a short summary of work of one to six (1-6) pages in length.
Instructions for Authors: Complete papers (or complete extended
abstracts) must be received by 23h59 GMT on 1 September 2003. All
papers must be submitted electronically. (In exceptional
circumstances, paper submissions can be accepted, but special
arrangements must be made with the program chair prior to 1 August
2003.) Papers must be in either standard PostScript or PDF format, and
should be submitted electronically according to the instructions prior
to the deadline. Submissions in formats other than PostScript or PDF,
including word processor source formats such as MS Word or LaTeX, will
be rejected.
Submissions to the research portion of the conference
may include at most fifteen (15) single-spaced standard pages in
length. Submissions to the systems and finance portions of the
conference must be short summaries of work consisting of at most six
(6) single-spaced standard pages in length. (As indicated above, for
accepted submissions in these latter sessions, a corresponding
one-page abstract will be published in the conference proceedings.)
Author names and affiliations on submissions must be explicit. In
other words, submitted papers should not be anonymized. Submissions
must include on the first page the title of the paper, the names and
affiliations of all author, a brief abstract, a list of topical
keywords, and a conference-session category (research, finance, or
implementation). Papers must describe original work. For the research
portion of the conference, submission of previously published material
and simultaneous submission of papers to other conferences or
workshops with proceedings is not permitted. Authors of research
papers found to be doubly submitted risk having all their submissions
withdrawn from consideration as well as other appropriate sanctions.
The conference proceedings containing all accepted submissions will be
published in the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science
(LNCS) series after the conference. A pre-proceedings containing
preliminary versions of the papers will be distributed at the
conference. For accepted submissions, at least one author must attend
the conference and present. In addition, authors of accepted
submissions must prepare the pre-proceedings and final proceedings
version - a full paper or one-page abstract, as appropriate -- and
sign an IFCA copyright form. Questions about paper or panel
submissions should be directed to the program chair.
Important Dates:
Conference 9-12 February 2004
Submission deadline 1 September 2003 23h59 GMT
Author notification 15 November 2003
Pre-proceedings version due 15 December 2003
Proceedings version due 15 March 2004
General Chair: Hinde ten Berge
Program Chair: Ari Juels, RSA Laboratories
Program Committee:
Masayuki Abe (NTT Laboratories, Japan)
Tatsuaki Okamoto (NTT Laboratories, Japan)
David Birch (Consult Hyperion, U.K.)
Benny Pinkas (Hewlett Packard, USA)
Roger Dingledine (The Free Haven Project, USA)
Nicole Pohl (Franklin and Marshall College, USA)
Niels Ferguson (MacFergus, The Netherlands)
David Pointcheval (CNRS-Ecole Normale Sup rieure, France)
Thomas Frey (Davinci Institute, USA)
Bart Preneel (K.U. Leuven, Belgium)
Philippe Golle (Stanford University, USA)
Avi Rubin (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
Marc Joye (Gemplus, France)
Adam Shostack (Informed Security, Canada)
Kwangjo Kim (ICU, Korea)
Vitaly Shmatikov (SRI International, USA)
Arjen Lenstra (Citicorp, USA and Technische Univ. Eindhoven, The Netherlands)
Sean Smith (Dartmouth College, USA)
Helger Lipmaa (Helsinki Univ. of Tech., Finland)
Rebecca Wright (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA)
Dahlia Malkhi (Hebrew Univ., Israel)
Moti Yung (Columbia University, USA)
David Naccache (Gemplus, France)
(Others to be announced.)