Liebe Leserinnen und Leser!

Anbei finden sie den Call for Papers für die Tagung "e-Voting in Europe" von 7.-9. Juli 2004 in Bregenz/Vorarlberg, die von der European Science Foundation, der OCG und der Forschunsgruppe e-Voting.at organisiert wird. Nähere Details finden sie unten und im Anhang oder auf http://e-voting.at/main.php?ID=80. Die Konferenzwebsite ist http://e-voting.at/ted.

Wichtige Termine:

Draft of the paper....................15th February 2004 Notification of acceptance .......... 15th March 2004 Receipt of the final paper............23rd April 2004

Frohe Weihnachten und einen guten Rutsch wünschen

Alexander Prosser Robert Krimmer

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The ESF TED Workshop on

Electronic Voting in Europe

Technology, Law and Politics

Jointly Organized by

Working Group "e-Democracy" of the Austrian Computer Society (OCG)

and

Institute of Information Processing and Information Economics University of Economics and Business Administration, Vienna (WU Vienna)

Supported by

ESF: European Science Foundation (ESF)

within the project

TED: Towards Electronic Democracy

Internet-based Complex Decision Support

Aim ---

The aim of this ESF Workshop is to bring together e-voting specialists working in academia, government and industry in order to

- Formulate the issues involved (technology, law and politics) in implementing e-voting. - Report on implementations, their legal, organisational and technical framework, the project experience made and future plans. - Analyse the effects of e-voting on our democratic system and voter behaviour.

Topics ------

The idea of this workshop is to discuss the development in this field in a 3-day workshop with 2 tracks that deal with the topics from a theoretical view as well as real-world case studies.

- Implementation issues of e-voting, whether technical or legal, preferably combined with their application in real or test elections. - Social and political analysis of the effects of electronic voting.

Venue -----

The workshop "Electronic Voting in Europe" will be held in Bregenz/Austria (Lake of Constance). There will be no parallel sessions and sufficient space will be given to informal communications.

Working language ----------------

The working language of the workshop will be English.

Contributed papers ------------------

The full paper submissions will be subject to a double-blind review. Electronic submissions shall be made through the platform provided at http://e-Voting.at/ted or by e-mail to e-voting@wu-wien.ac.at, which serves as an online-system for the whole review process.

Deadlines ---------

Draft of the paper....................15th February 2004 Notification of acceptance .......... 15th March 2004 Receipt of the final paper............23rd April 2004

Accommodation -------------

Participants are responsible for their accommodation. The organisers will reserve blocks of accommodations at the conference location.

Fee ---

Before 25th April 2004 ...... 150 EUR / student fee.......75 EUR After 25th April 2004.........200 EUR / student fee .....100 EUR

The registration fee covers participation in regular, poster and computer sessions, one set of preprints, welcome party, conference dinner and three lunches.

If you cancel your registration before May 31, 2004, you will obtain 50 percent of the registration fee refunded. No refund will be made after this date. The proceedings will be sent by mail in any case.

Publication -----------

All papers accepted for the Workshop will appear in the Workshop Proceedings. The Workshop proceedings are intended to appear as an edition in the Lecture Notes in Computer Sciences of the Springer-Verlag.

Best Paper Award ----------------

The IPC will award the best contribution presented at the Workshop.

Accommodation -------------

Accommodation for the participants of the Workshop is possible in the conference location hotels nearby the conference location.

International Programme Committee ---------------------------------

A. Prosser, Austria Chairman W. Polasek, Switzerland N. Braun, Switzerland J. Scholl, USA R. Traunmüller, Austria

National Organisation Committee -------------------------------

R. Krimmer Chairman R. Kofler Web

General Enquiries -----------------

Prof. Alexander Prosser The ESF TED e-voting workshop Institute of Information Business and Information Economics WU Vienna, Pappenheimgasse 35/5, A-1200 Vienna, Austria

Phone: +43/1/31336/5615, Fax: +43/1/31336/905622 E-Mail: e-Voting@wu-wien.ac.at Web: http://e-Voting.at/ted