The Second Workshop on Electronic Commerce
November 18-20, 1996
Claremont Hotel & Resort
Oakland, CA
Sponsored by the USENIX Association
Co-Sponsored by Fisher Center for Information Technology Management, UC
Berkeley, and the School of Information Management and Systems, UC Berkeley
Important Date
Camera-ready final papers due: October 7, 1996
Program Chair: Doug Tygar
Preliminary Program Committee
Ross Anderson (Cambridge University)
Nathaniel Borenstein (First Virtual Holdings, Inc.)
Stefan Brands (CWI)
Dan Geer (Open Market, Inc.)
Mark Manasse (DEC Systems Research Center)
Clifford Neuman (University of Southern California)
Hal Varian (University of California, Berkeley)
Bennet Yee (University of California, San Diego)
Overview
The Second 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 results of their work. This meeting will set
the technical agenda for work in the area of Electronic Commerce
by examining urgent questions, discovering directions in which
answers might be pursued, and revealing cross-connections that
otherwise might go unnoticed.
Tutorials
The Workshop will begin with a day of tutorials. The tutorial
program will offer a selection of tutorials from among several
tracks on such topics as cryptography and security.
Workshop Topics
Two days of technical sessions will follow the tutorials.
Submissions are welcome 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 will 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 E-mail enabled business
EDI Electronic libraries
Electronic wallets Exception handling
Hardware-enabled commerce Identity verification
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
tygar@cs.cmu.edu. Proceedings of the workshop will be published
by USENIX and will be 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 July 16, 1996. We welcome submissions of the
following type:
(1) Refereed Papers - Full papers or extended abstracts should
be 5 to 20 pages, not counting references and figures.
(2) Panel proposals - Proposals should be 3 to 7 pages, together
with a list of names of potential panelists. If accepted, the
proposer must secure the participation of panelists, and the
proposer will be asked to prepare a 3 to 7 page summary of panel
issues for inclusion in the Proceedings. This summary can
include position statements by panel participants.
Please accompany each submission by 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, and, if
available, an email address and fax number for the contact
person. 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.
Awards
The program committee will offer awards of $500 for the best
paper and the best student paper.
Where to Submit
Please send submissions to the program committee via one of the
following methods. All submissions will be acknowledged.
Doug Tygar (program chair)
Computer Science Dept, CMU
5000 Forbes Ave
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3891
tygar@cs.cmu.edu
Fax: +1-412-268-5576
If you have questions on the format of submissions or about the
workshop, please telephone the USENIX Association office at +1
510 528-8649, or email to ec96authors@usenix.org or the program
chair (tygar@cs.cmu.edu).
An electronic version of this Call for Papers is available at WWW URL:
https://www.usenix.org.
Registration Information
Materials containing all details of the technical and tutorial
programs, registration fees and forms and hotel information will
be available in September 1996. If you wish to receive the
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