[EGOV LIST] Final CFP E-Vote-ID 2023

[Peter Browne Rønne]

[Apologies for cross and multiple postings]

Two weeks to the main submission deadline!

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FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS

E-Vote-ID 2023

Eight International Joint Conference on Electronic Voting
Luxembourg, 3-6 October 2023
www.e-vote-id.org

(Main Submission Date: 15 May 2023)

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WWW: https://www.e-vote-id.org/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EVoteID/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/EVoteID
Hashtag: #EVoteID2023

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This is the eighth edition of the leading international event for
e-voting experts from all over the world, taking place in Luxembourg
in October 2023.
One of E-Vote-ID’s major objectives is to provide a forum for
interdisciplinary and open discussion of all issues related to
electronic voting (including, but not limited to, polling stations,
kiosks, ballot scanners, and Internet voting). In the first seven
editions, over 240 presentations were discussed, gathering more than
900 participants. The format of the conference is a three-day physical
meeting. No parallel sessions will be held and sufficient space will
be given for informal communication.

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General Chairs:
Volkamer, Melanie (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)
Duenas-Cid, David (Gdansk University of Technology, Poland)
Rønne, Peter (CNRS, France)

Local Chair:
Ryan, Peter Y. A. (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)

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The aim of the conference is to bring together e-voting specialists
working in academia, politics, government, and industry in order to
discuss various aspects of all forms of electronic voting. To address
the interdisciplinary character of the conference, the conference has
four tracks and a PhD colloquium:

Track 1: Security, Usability and Technical Issues
Chairs: Volkamer, Melanie (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)
and Budurushi, Jurlind (Qatar University, Qatar)

- (Remote) Electronic voting protocols and systems: design and analysis;
- New types of voter identification and authentication;
- Ballot secrecy, receipt-freeness, and coercion resistance;
- End-to-end verifiability;
- Risk limiting audits;
- Requirements and formal modelling;
- Evaluation and certification, including international security standards;
- Risk assessment
- Voter authentication
- Human aspects of security mechanisms in electronic voting and in
particular of verifiability mechanisms;
- Or any other security and Human-Computer Interface (HCI) issues
relevant to (remote) electronic voting.

It is important for the review process that the methodology in place
is clearly described. Furthermore, it is essential that the
limitations are clearly mentioned and discussed: Limitations can be
that a formal proof exists only for parts of the system or for some
properties, or that a mathematical proof is missing for the proposed
protocol. In the context of user studies, e.g., limitations regarding
the sample, the external or internal validity should be mentioned and
discussed.

Track 2: Governance Issues
Chairs: Spycher, Iuliia (University of Bern, Switzerland) and
Rodriguez, Adrià (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain)

This track is intended to cover all non-technical issues that occur
during the digital transformation of elections including, but not
limited to the following:

- Legal, political and social issues of electronic voting
implementations, ideally employing case study methodology;
- Interrelationship with, and the effects of, electronic voting on
democratic institutions and processes;
- Cultural impact of electronic voting on institutions, behaviour, and
attitudes of the Digital Era;
- Administrative, legal, political and social issues of electronic voting;
- Electronic voting legislation;
- Public administrations and the implementation of electronic voting;
- Understandability, transparency, and trust issues in electronic voting;
- Data protection issues;
- Public interests vs. PPP (public private partnerships).

Track 3: Election and Practical Experiences
Chairs: Martin-Rozumilowicz, Beata (Independent Electoral Expert,
United Kingdom) and Hofer, Thomas (Objectif Securité, Switzerland)

- Review developments in the area of applied electronic voting;
- Report on experiences with electronic voting or the preparation
thereof (including reports on development and implementation, case
law, court decisions, legislative steps, public and political debates,
election outcomes, etc.);
These experiences and practical reports need not contain original
research, but must be an accurate, complete, and, where applicable,
evidence-based account of the technology or system used.

Track 4: Posters and Demonstrations
Chair: Kirsten, Michael (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)
We invite Posters depicting new ideas or approaches you want to
discuss with the community or summarizing papers you have published on
other venues but you think are important for the E-Vote-ID community
to know and to discuss. A Short Paper (see section on paper submission
and proceedings) is requested. If it relates to already published
papers, we ask you to provide the information where to find the
original publication and whether you want the Short Paper being
included in the proceedings or not (due to potential copyright
restrictions of the main paper).
Further, we invite demonstrations of electronic voting systems or
parts thereof.  We request a Short Paper (2-4 pages) describing the
main properties (type of system local/remote; kind of elections the
system is intended for, e.g. legally binding elections to parliament,
non-political elections within associations etc; support for voters
with disabilities; which security properties are fulfilled (incl.
verifiability, voter privacy, etc.; how to receive further information
about the system, e.g. where the source code is published).

Track 5: PhD Colloquium
Chairs: Debant, Alexandre (CNRS, France) and Goodman, Nicole (Brock University)

The goal of the colloquium is to foster the understanding and academic
quality of PhD students' contributions in collaboration with senior
researchers in the field. Further the collaboration between PhD
students from various disciplines working on e-voting is supported. To
this end, the program allows plenty of space for discussion and
initiating collaboration based on presentations by attendees.
Each interested participant should ideally submit their research
proposal (or alternatively ideas for papers, open problems, or other
issues where feedback from colleagues would be helpful etc.) in the
form of an extended draft using the conference platform.
High-potential master students can also submit their work to the
colloquium.
The PhD Colloquium takes place on the day before the formal conference begins.

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Paper Submission Types

LNCS style is used for all submissions (see the Springer guidelines at
https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines,
including templates for LaTeX and Microsoft Word). All papers in the
conference will be open access.

Paper submissions can be in the following formats:
- Full papers need to contain original unpublished research. The
submission should be max 16 pages in LNCS format.
- Work-in-Progress submissions contain ongoing original research. The
submission should be max 20 pages in LNCS format or max 10,000 words.
Initial submissions are format-neutral. If submissions are accepted,
the authors are expected to provide a short summary of their key
contributions (max 4 pages in LNCS format). This submission route
enables authors to receive feedback on work in progress without
pre-empting publication in a different venue (e.g., an academic
journal).
- Short Papers are a maximum of 4 pages long in LNCS format all-in. In
Tracks 1 and 2, such papers have a smaller contribution than a full
paper. All accepted contributions in tracks 4 and 5 are published as
Short papers.

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Proceedings

The E-Vote-ID conference publishes two volumes of proceedings. One
volume is published with Springer LNCS proceedings and another one is
published with University of Tartu Press. Both proceedings are
published under open access licenses.

Selected Full papers from Track 1 (Security, Usability and Technical
Issues) and Track 2 (Governance Issues) are published in the Springer
LNCS proceedings. Short Papers from these tracks, as well as all
contributions accepted in Tracks 3 to 5 are published in University of
Tartu Press proceedings.

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Reviewing

All submissions will be subject to double-blind reviews. Submissions
must be anonymous (with no reference to the authors). Submissions are
to be made using the EasyChair conference system at
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=evoteid2023

During submission, please select the appropriate track or the PhD
colloquium. The track chairs reserve the right to re-assign papers to
other tracks in case of better fit based on reviewer feedback and in
coordination with other track chairs.

When submitting, you will be asked to declare the conflicts of
interest with the members of the Programme Committee in Easychair;
please follow the common sense for that (e.g. because they have been
co-authored a paper in the last three years, they have been in the
same project, there is or was a supervision relation, or because they
have the same affiliation). The members mentioned will not be involved
in the review process of your paper.

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Journal Special Issue

Authors of selected papers for Track 2 (Governance Issues) and Track 3
(Election and Practical Experiences) will be invited to submit
significantly extended versions of the papers published in the
conference proceedings to a special issue in the e-Journal of
eDemocracy and Open Government
(https://www.jedem.org/index.php/jedem). The journal is open-access
and indexed at Scopus and publishes theoretical, practical and
empirical research in the categories Research Papers, Invited Papers,
Project Descriptions and Reflections.

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Venue

E-Vote-ID 2023 will take place in Neumünster Abbey, Luxembourg
https://www.neimenster.lu/en/event-management/
and will be hosted by the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security,
Reliability and Trust, and University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg.

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Steering Board

The Steering Board of the conference is composed of the track chairs
that served in the previous two editions. It is renewed every year.
The mission of the steering board is to support the current general
and track chairs with the promotion of the conference and to assist
with conflicts of interest emerging as a result of current chairs
submitting papers to the conference.

The current members of the Steering Board are:
Micha Germann, Nicole Goodman, Robert Krimmer, Oksana Kulyk, Mihkel
Solvak, Oliver Spycher, and Vanessa Teague.

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Key Dates for Submissions

Track 1 (Security, Usability and Technical Issues) and
Track 2 (Governance Issues):
15 May 2023– 23:59 (Hawaiian time, hard deadline, no extension) -
Deadline for submission of papers. (It will be possible to resubmit
until 18 May 2023, but no new paper will be accepted after 15 May).
23 June 2023 - Notification of Acceptance.
23 July 2023 - Deadline for Camera-ready Paper Submissions.

Track 3 (Election and Practical Experiences) and
Track 5 (PhD Colloquium)
10 July 2023– 23:59 (Hawaiian time, hard deadline, no extension) -
Deadline for submission of papers. (It will be possible to resubmit
until 13 July 2023, but no new paper will be accepted after 10 July).
14 August 2023 - Notification of Acceptance.
15 September 2023 - Deadline for Camera-ready Paper Submissions.

Track 4 (Poster and Demo Session)
15 September 2023 – Submission deadline

See more: https://e-vote-id.org/important-dates-2023/

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Submission Link
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=evoteid2023

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Programme Committee

General Chairs
Volkamer, Melanie (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)
Duenas-Cid, David (Gdansk University of Technology, Poland)
Rønne, Peter (CNRS, France)

Local Chair:
Ryan, Peter Y. A. (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)


Track Chairs

Track 1: Security, Usability and Technical Issues
Volkamer, Melanie (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)
Budurushi, Jurlind (Qatar University, Qatar)

Track 2: Governance Issues
Spycher, Iuliia (Univeristy of Bern, Switzerland)
Rodriguez, Adrià (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain)

Track 3: Election and Practical Experiences
Hofer, Thomas (Objectif Securité, Switzerland)
Martin-Rozumilowicz, Beata (Independent Electoral Expert, United Kingdom)

Track 4: Posters and Demonstrations
Kirsten, Michael (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)

Track 5: PhD Colloquium
Debant, Alexandre (CNRS, France)
Goodman, Nicole (Brock University)

Outreach Chair
Loeber, Leontine (University of East Anglia, Netherlands)

Track 1: Security, Usability and Technical Issues
Programme Committee
Araujo, Roberto (Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA))
Beckert, Bernhard (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
Benaloh, Josh (Microsoft)
Bernhard, Matthew (Voting Works)
Blom, Michelle (The University of Melbourne)
Clark, Jeremy (Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering)
Collazos, César (Universidad del Cauca)
Cortier, Veronique (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Loria)
Dragan, Catalin (University of Surrey)
Essex, Aleksander (University of Western Ontario)
Ford, Bryan (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne)
Galindo, David (Crypto in Motion)
Gibson, J Paul (Mines Telecom)
Giustolisi, Rosario (IT University of Copenhagen)
Gjøsteen, Kristian (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
Gore, Rajeev (The Australian National University)
Grimm, Ruediger (University of Koblenz)
Haenni, Rolf (Bern University of Applied Sciences)
Haines, Thomas (Queensland University of Technology)
Hao, Feng (The University of Warwick)
Jacobs, Bart (Radboud University)
Jamroga, Wojciech (Polish Academy of Sciences)
Kirsten, Michael (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT))
Koenig, Reto (Bern University of Applied Sciences)
Kulyk, Oksana (IT University of Copenhagen)
Küsters, Ralf (University of Stuttgart)
Mayer, Andreas (Hochschule Heilbronn)
Mueller, Johannes (University of Luxembourg)
Neumann, Stephan (Landesbank Saar)
Pereira, Olivier (Université catholique de Louvain)
Reisert, Pascal (University of Stuttgart)
Renaud, Karen (University of Strathclyde)
Roseman, Stefan (Federal Office for Information Security)
Ruescas, David (Sequent)
Ryan, Peter Y. A. (University of Luxembourg)
Ryan, Mark (University of Birmingham)
Schneider, Steve (University of Surrey)
Schoenmakers, Berry (Eindhoven University of Technology)
Schuermann, Carsten (IT University of Copenhagen)
Silde, Tjerand (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
Stark, Philip (University of California at Berkeley)
Syta, Ewa (Yale University)
Teague, Vanessa (Thinking Cybersecurity)
Truderung, Tomasz (Polyas)
Vukcevic, Damjan (The University of Melbourne)
Wen, Roland (The University of New South Wales)
Willemson, Jan (Cybernetica)
Zagorski, Filip (University of Wroclaw)

Track 2: Governance Issues
Programme Committee
Aranyossy, Marta (Corvinus University of Budapest)
Barrat i Esteve, Jordi (eVoting Legal Lab)
Dandoy, Régis (Universidad San Francisco de Quito)
Darnolf, Staffan  (International Foundation for Electoral Systems)
Eenmaa, Helen  (University of Tartu)
Fernández Riveira, Rosa María (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
Germann, Micha (University of Bath)
Goodman, Nicole (Brock University)
Kersting, Norbert (University of Munster)
Loeber, Leontine (University of East Anglia)
Musial-Karg, Magdalena (Adam Mickiewicz University)
Nemeslaki, Andras (Budapest University of Technology and Economics)
Nurmi, Hannu (University of Turku)
Pammett, Jon (Carleton University)
Peña-López, Ismael (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)
Plescia, Carolina (University of Vienna)
Sandri, Giulia (European School of Political and Social Sciences)
Sasvari, Peter (National University of Public Service)
Serdült, Uwe (Ritsumeikan University)
Smith, Rodney (The University of Sydney)
Solvak, Mikhel (University of Tartu)
Trumm, Siim (University of Nottingham)
Vinkel, Priit (E-governance Academy)
von Nostitz, Felix-Christopher (Université Catholique de Lille)

Track 3: Election and Practical Experiences
Programme Committee
Bismark, David (Votato)
Bull, Christian (The Norwegian Ministry of Local Government and
Regional Development)
Caarls, Susanne (Election Consultant)
Catozzi, Gianpiero (UNDP)
Chanussot, Thomas (IFES)
Chaudhary, Tarun (IFES)
Egger, Philipp (Staatskanzlei Kanton St.Gallen)
Franklin, Joshua (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
Leclère, Olivier (State of Geneva)
Loeber, Leontine (University of East Anglia)
Macias, Ryan (RSM election solutions)
Maurer, Ardita (Zentrum für Demokratie Aarau/Zurich University)
McDermott, Ronan (mcdis)
Misev, Vladimir (OSCE/ODIHR)
Past, Liisa (Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications for Estonia)
Petrov, Goran (OSCE/ODIHR)
Plante, Stéphanie (University of Ottawa)
Spycher, Oliver (Swiss Federal Chancellery)
Vollan, Kåre (Quality AS)
Wenda, Gregor (BMI)
Wolf, Peter (IDEA)
Yard, Michael (IFES)