TRUST 2010

Call for Papers (Socio-economic Strand)

Building on the success of Trust 2009 (held at Oxford, UK) and Trust 2008 (Villach, Austria), this conference focuses on trusted and trustworthy computing, both from the technical and socio-economic perspectives. The conference itself will have two main strands, one devoted to technical aspects and one devoted to the socio-economic aspects of trusted computing. This call for papers is for contributions to the socio-economic strand - a separate call is issued for contributions to the technical strand of the conference.

The conference solicits original papers on any social and economic aspect of the design, application, and usage of trusted computing. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Usability and user perceptions of trustworthy systems and risks
• Effects of trustworthy systems upon user, corporate, and governmental behavior
• The adequacy of guarantees provided by trustworthy systems for systems critically dependent upon trust, such as elections and government oversight
• The impact of trustworthy systems upon digital forensics, police investigations and court proceedings
• Economic drivers for trustworthy systems
• Group and organizational behavior within trustworthy systems
• The impact of trustworthy systems upon user autonomy, social capital, and power relationships
• Cross-cultural definitions of trustworthiness
• Can systems be truly "trustworthy" without any capacity for moral reasoning?
• Trustworthy systems and precursors of trust such as honesty, benevolence, value similarity, or competence
• Trustworthiness, regret and forgiveness
• Trustworthy systems as enhancements or constraints on government power
• The role of independence from vested interests as a driver of trust
• Game theoretical approaches to modeling or designing trustworthy systems
• Experimental economics studies of trustworthiness
• The interplay between privacy, privacy enhancing technologies and trustworthiness
• Regulatory vs peer-produced trustworthiness, including reputation systems
• Global governance initiatives to manage trust
• Critiques of trustworthy systems

We plan to publish the proceedings of Trust 2010 in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science series, and to have them available at the conference.

Authors are requested to submit papers in anonymised form, of length at most 15 pages (excluding references and appendices), using at least a 10pt font, and in pdf format.

Program Chair (Socio-economic Strand)

Alessandro Acquisti, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Program Committee (Socio-economic Strand)

Andrew A. Adams, Reading University, UK
Ian Brown, University of Oxford, UK
Johann Cas, Austrian Academy of Science
Lorrie Faith Cranor, Carnegie-Mellon University, USA
Tamara Dinev, Florida Atlantic University, USA
Peter Gutmann, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Tristan Henderson, St Andrews University, UK
Adam Joinson, Bath University, UK
Eleni Kosta, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Meryem Marzouki, French National Scientific Research Center (CNRS)
Tyler Moore, Harvard University, USA
Deirdre Mulligan, UC Berkely, USA
Anne-Marie Oostveen, Oxford University, UK
Andrew Patrick, Carleton University, Canada
Angela Sasse, University College London, UK
Jonathan Zittrain, Harvard University, USA

Important Dates:

Submission due: 24 February 2010 11:59pm CET (Extended Deadline)
Notification: 22 March 2010
Camera ready: 5 April 2010
Conference: 21-23 June 2010