[Om-announce] Deadline in 4 weeks 🗳 Election Infrastructure Security (EIS 2022)

[Massimiliano Albanese]

Call for Papers
1st International Workshop on Election Infrastructure Security (EIS 2022)
September 30, 2022

Website: https://csis.gmu.edu/EIS-2022/

In conjunction with the 27th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2022)
September 26-30, 2022, Copenhagen, Denmark

Fair and secure elections are the bedrock of democracy. In today’s world, voting and elections rely on a complex infrastructure comprising voter registration databases, several types of electronic devices (voting machines, optical scanners, etc.), protocols to securely transmit data from polling places to central processing facilities, various software applications to count, tabulate and analyze votes, and physical facilities to securely store ballots and voting equipment. People’s confidence in the result of elections is heavily dependent on a nation’s ability to secure such complex infrastructure and guarantee the integrity and confidentiality of the vote.

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Administration (CISA), a United States agency charged with securing the nation’s cyber and physical infrastructure, classifies election infrastructure as “critical infrastructure”. In fact, election infrastructure and processes are subject to attack by malicious actors just like any other critical infrastructure (e.g., energy systems, transportation systems, and financial systems). Recent events have shown how attacks against voting systems and election infrastructure, disinformation and misinformation campaigns, and claims of election fraud, whether founded or not, can affect people’s confidence in the integrity of the system and alienate voters. As threats evolve and become more sophisticated, the research community is called to find novel approaches and techniques to ensure the security of voting systems and election infrastructure and the confidentiality and integrity of the vote.

This workshop aims at providing researchers and practitioners in different areas of security (network security, cryptography, etc.), networking, hardware architectures, software engineering, system engineering, machine learning, and natural language processing with an interdisciplinary forum to present, discuss, and exchange ideas that address the challenges of current and next-generation Election Infrastructure systems. The workshop seeks submissions from academia, government, and industry presenting novel research results in all practical and theoretical aspects of Election Infrastructure Security.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  *   Voter registration databases
  *   Voting machines
  *   Vote counting machines
  *   Electronic poll books
  *   Physical security of voting equipment
  *   Access control
  *   Security standards
  *   Disinformation & misinformation campaigns

Important Dates

Paper submission due: June 30, 2022

Notification to authors: July 30, 2022

Camera ready due: August 10, 2022

Program Committee Chairs

  *   Massimiliano Albanese, George Mason University, USA
  *   Jack Davidson, University of Virginia, USA

Steering Committee

  *   Massimiliano Albanese, George Mason University, USA
  *   Josh Benaloh, Microsoft Research, USA
  *   Jack Davidson, University of Virginia, USA
  *   Karen Hoyt-Stewart, Virginia Department of Elections, USA
  *   Chris Krebs, Krebs Stamos Group

Proceedings Chair

  *   Vincenzo Moscato, University of Naples, Italy

Publicity Chair

  *   Giancarlo Sperlì, University of Naples, Italy

Technical Program Committee

  *   Josh Benaloh, Microsoft Research, USA
  *   Matt Bernhard, VotingWorks, USA
  *   Aleks Essex, Western University, Canada
  *   Oksana Kulyk, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
  *   Daniel P. Lopresti, Lehigh University, USA
  *   Peter Ryan, University of Luxemburg, Luxemburg
  *   Carsten Schürmann, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
  *   Philip B. Stark, University of California, Berkeley, USA
  *   Vanessa Teague, Australian National University, USA
  *   Melanie Volkamer, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

Submission

Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Contributions are not required to be anonymized, and are to be made to the submission web site at http://www.easychair.org<https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=eis2022>. Only PDF files will be accepted.

The workshop proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. Submissions must be prepared in LaTeX (recommended) or Microsoft Word using the LNCS template<https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines>. Full papers must be between 12 and 16 pages in length, and and short papers must be between 6 and 11 pages. Authors are encouraged to include their ORCIDs<http://www.orcid.org/>.

Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits. Papers must be received by the deadline of June 30, 2022 to be considered. Notification of acceptance or rejection will be sent to authors by July 30, 2022. Camera ready papers must be submitted by August 10, 2022. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that one of the authors will register and present the paper at the workshop.

Massimiliano Albanese, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Information Sciences and Technology
Associate Director, Center for Secure Information Systems
Research Hall, Suite 417
George Mason University
Fairfax, VA 22030, USA
Phone: (703) 993-1629
Fax: (703) 993-4776
Email: malbanes at gmu.edu<mailto:malbanes at gmu.edu>
Web: http://csis.gmu.edu/albanese/
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/massimilianoalbanese

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