[EGOV LIST] CFP E-Vote-ID 2024

[Peter Browne Rønne]

[Apologies for cross and multiple postings]

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CALL FOR PAPERS

E-Vote-ID 2024

Ninth International Joint Conference on Electronic Voting
Tarragona, 2-4 October 2024
www.e-vote-id.org

(Main Submission Date: 15 May 2024)

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WWW: https://e-vote-id.org/ and https://www.e-vote-id2024.org/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EVoteID/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/EVoteID
Hashtag: #EVoteID2024

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This is the ninth edition of the leading international event for
e-voting experts from all over the world, taking place in Tarragona in
October 2024.

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 eight
editions, over 270 presentations were discussed, gathering more than
1200 participants. The format of the conference is an in-place
three-day 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 (Kozminski University, Poland)
Rønne, Peter (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)

Local Chairs:
Castellà, Jordi (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Catalonia) and
Barrat, Jordi (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Catalonia)

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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: Budurushi, Jurlind (DHBW Karlsruhe, Germany) and Blom,
Michelle (The University of Melbourne, Australia)

- (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, UK)
and Spycher, Oliver (Swiss Federal Chancellery, 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.
Further, we invite demonstrations of electronic voting systems or
parts thereof. We request a Short Paper describing the main properties
(type of system local/remote; kind of elections the system is intended
for, e.g. legally binding elections to parliament, nonpolitical
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 Passanti, Cecilia
(Université Paris Cité, France)

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).
- Systematization of Knowledge (SoK) Papers. This year we also
introduce the SoK paper category. These papers evaluate, systematize,
and contextualize existing knowledge. The papers will be reviewed
according to the same standards as other research papers, but the
emphasis will be on value to the community rather than novel research
contributions.
- 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.

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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 GI. 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 whereas some submissions will be selected for the GI
proceedings. Short Papers from these tracks, as well as all
contributions accepted in Tracks 3 are published in GI 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=evoteid2024

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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Venue

E-Vote-ID 2024 will take place in Tarragona, in the south of
Catalonia, and will be hosted by Universitat Rovira i Virgili.

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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 continuously renewed
with former chairs. 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
aresult of current chairs submitting papers to the conference.

The current members of the Steering Board are:
Micha Germann, Nicole Goodman, Thomas Hofer, Robert Krimmer, Oksana
Kulyk, Peter Y.A. Ryan, Mihkel Solvak, 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 2024– 23:59 (AoE, hard deadline, no extension) - Deadline for
submission of papers. (It will be possible to resubmit until 18 May
2024, but no new paper will be accepted after 15 May).
23 June 2024 - Notification of Acceptance.
23 July 2024 - Deadline for Camera-ready Paper Submissions.

Track 3 (Election and Practical Experiences) and
Track 5 (PhD Colloquium)
10 July 2024– 23:59 (AoE, hard deadline, no extension) - Deadline for
submission of papers. (It will be possible to resubmit until 13 July
2024, but no new paper will be accepted after 10 July).
14 August 2024 - Notification of Acceptance.
15 September 2024 - Deadline for Camera-ready Paper Submissions.

Track 4 (Poster and Demo Session)
15 September 2024 – Submission deadline


Submission Link
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=evoteid2024