The annual FOCI workshop is having an open CfP. I attached it below. The workshop invites technical as well as policy submissions so I hope it is of interest to this mailing list.
Cheers, Philipp --- We are pleased to announce that the Call for Papers for the 4th USENIX Workshop on Free and Open Communications on the Internet (FOCI '14) is now available. Please read through the complete CFP for additional details and submission instructions. https://www.usenix.org/conference/foci14/call-for-papers FOCI '14 seeks to bring together researchers and practitioners working on means to study, detect, or circumvent practices that inhibit free and open communications on the Internet. We encourage submission of new, interesting work on a wide variety of topics of interest, including but not limited to the following areas: * Evaluation or analysis of existing anti-censorship systems * Comparisons of existing tools that might be used to detect tampering, blocking, or violations of net neutrality * Studies and findings on real-world censorship or tampering from field deployments or other methods, such as the topics or content censored by states or the extent to which ISPs are degrading certain types of content or service * Techniques for measuring the prevalence and operation of deployed censorship systems * Metrics and benchmarks for content tampering or performance degradation * Detection, measuring, and analysis of the censorship of search results * Design of network protocols and topologies that resist tampering or blocking * Techniques to counter mass surveillance or its effects * The role of private corporations in spreading or enabling surveillance and censorship * Capabilities of deep packet inspection (DPI) and robust mechanisms to circumvent DPI * Capabilities and constraints of censorship technologies * Analysis of the economic impact of censorship * Usability in censorship-resistant systems * Effects of censorship on individuals, society, business, or political processes FOCI favors interesting and new ideas and early results. We envision that work presented at FOCI will ultimately lead to more mature publications at relevant, high-quality conferences. Papers will be selected primarily based on originality, significance, and technical merit, with additional consideration given to their potential to foster productive discussion at the workshop. Submissions are due by May 13, 2014. FOCI '14 is co-located with the 23rd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security '14), which takes place August 20-22, 2014. https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity14 We look forward to receiving your submissions! Jed Crandall, University of New Mexico Vern Paxson, University of California, Berkeley, and International Computer Science Institute FOCI '14 Program Co-Chairs [email protected] --------------------------------- Call for Papers 4th USENIX Workshop on Free and Open Communications on the Internet August 18, 2014 San Diego, CA https://www.usenix.org/conference/foci14/call-for-papers Co-located with the 23rd USENIX Security Symposium Submissions due: Tuesday, May 13, 2014, 11:59 p.m. PDT --------------------------------- -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at [email protected].
