WEIS 2025 The 24th Annual Workshop on the Economics of Information
Security, Tokyo, Japan, Jun 23-25, 2025. (Submission Due 31 January
2025)
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WEIS 2025
The 24th Annual Workshop on
the Economics of Information Security
http://kmlabcw.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/weis/2025/index.html
Call for Papers
The Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS) is the
leading forum for interdisciplinary scholarship on information
security and privacy, combining expertise from the fields of
economics, social science, business, law, policy, and computer
science.
The workshop accepts papers covering both theoretical and empirical
studies of the interrelationship between information security (broadly
construed, particularly to include privacy, cybercriminality and
cyber-warfare) and economics (including financial incentives,
behavioural economics, cyberinsurance). Market failures,
market-induced technical failures, and cost analyses of investment in
cybersecurity versus falling victim to cybercrime, have all been
covered in past workshops.
Topics of Interest
We encourage participation by submission of paper and attendance by
economists, computer scientists, legal scholars, business researchers
(from academia and elsewhere), and security and privacy researchers
from academia and industry to submit research on relevant topics,
including but not limited to:
- Cyber risk management
o Vulnerability discovery, disclosure, and patching
o Incentives for and against pervasive monitoring threats
o Cyber-risk quantification
o Cyber-insurance
- Economics and governance of privacy
o Economics of privacy and anonymity
o Behavioural economics of privacy
o Data protection risks: legal, reputational, financial
- Cybercrime
o Models and analysis of online crime (e.g. botnets,
ransomware, and underground markets)
o Analysis of costs of cybercrime and impacts of counter-measures
- Cybersecurity policy
o Security standards and regulation
o Incentives for information sharing and cooperation
o Cyber-defence strategy
o Geopolitical and international relations aspects of
cybersecurity, including cyberterrorism
Submission Rules
Due to the interdisciplinary nature of the workshop no detailed
formatting guidelines are set for submission. Authors may use whatever
academic formats are usual in their field, but should keep in mind the
interdisciplinary nature of the audience and try to write in a way
that is accessible to those from outside their field. However,
submissions should be in PDF to improve technical readability. The
workshop is for the presentation of novel conceptualisations or
results in the field. Although the conference does not produce a
refereed proceedings, papers should not be currently under review for
or already accepted for publication in a refereed conference or
journal during the workshop review period. The goal of the workshop is
to provide a forum for discussion and feedback before work is
published formally, rather than for the presentation of otherwise
completed and published work.
Reviews will be conducted in a double anonymous manner (neither
authors nor reviewers know the other's identity) to try to ensure a
fair reviewing process (see
https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2018/6/228027-effectiveness-of-anonymization-in-double-blind-review/abstract).
The submission itself should not contain the names or affiliations of
the authors (those details will be held on the submission site but not
accessible to reviewers, only the PC chairs). References to previous
work by the authors should be cited in the third person, and only
where it is impossible to otherwise anonymise the current authors
should references themselves be anonymised.
Authors may continue to present and discuss their work while it is
under review, but should not deliberately seek to de-anonymise their
submission by seeking out Program Committee members. See the
Workshops' Reviewer Ethics guidelines for more details.
Submission System: EasyChair (Link TBC)
Dates:
Submission Deadline: 31st January 2025
Notification of Acceptance: 14th March 2025
Final version of papers due: 16th May 2025
(for inclusion in informal proceedings as a form of open access files
at the WEIS2025 webpage)
Workshop dates: 23-25 June 2025
Additional Information
Date and Place
Location: The Workshop will be held at Institute of Industrial Science
in Komaba Research Campus of the University of Tokyo, Japan.
The workshop will open with a welcome reception on the evening of 23rd
June with a full program on 24th and 25th June
People
The conference general chair is Prof. Kanta Matsuura of the University of Tokyo
The program co-chairs are:
Dr. Andrew A. Adams of Meiji University and
Prof. Lei Zhou of University of Maryland.
Program Committee
TBA
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