APWG Announces Program Committee Appointments for eCrime 2022 Symposium

The 2022 Symposium on Electronic Crime Research is honored to announce the Program Committee for this year’s edition of the eCrime conference, now entering its 17th year as the world’s only peer-reviewed, publishing conference dedicated exclusively to cybercrime research.?

This year’s edition of the eCrime symposia is entering its 17th year as the world’s only peer-reviewed publishing conference dedicated exclusively to cybercrime research?        

The 2022 Program Committee draws eminences from industrial laboratories and academic research centers from around the world, lending the eCrime symposia a hybrid perspective that enriches submission reviews -- and directs researchers with important insights unavailable from purely academic research conference.

The APWG Directors and eCrime 2022 managing chairs extend our thanks for the Program Committee members who've stepped up to lend their expertise and insights in the evaluation of this year's research paper submissions.

Managing Chairs Laurin Weissinger, Publications Chair (Yale University); Guy-Vincent Jourdan, General Chair (University of Ottawa); and Moury Bidgoli, Publications Chair (Accenture)

Members for this year’s Program Committee are as follows.

Adam Oest - PayPal

Eric Jardine - Chainalytics

Agusti Solanas - Universitat Rovira i Virgili?/ APWG.EU

Constantinos Patsakis - University of Pireaus

Suryadipta Majumdar - Concordia University

Alice Hutchings - University of Cambridge

Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis - Technical University of Denmark

Jan-Willem Bullee - University of Twente

Periwinkle Doerfler - Meta

Max Aliapoulios - Meta

Furkan Alaca - Queen’s University

éireann Leverett - Waratah Analytics

Arghya Mukherjee - The University of Tulsa

Daniel Thomas - University of Strathclyde

Federico Maggi - Trend Micro

Guy Jourdan - University of Ottawa

Laurin Weissinger - Yale University

Luca Allodi - Eindhoven University of Technology

Marianne Junger - University of Twente

Markus Jakobsson - ZapFraud

Moury Bidgoli - Accenture

Peter Cassidy - APWG

Platon Kotzias - NortonLifeLock Research Group

Rebekah Overdorf - The University of Lausanne (UNIL)

Sergio Pastrana - Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

Timothy Barron - Yale University

Zhibo Zun - Drexel University

Paria Shirani - University of Ottawa

Benoit Dupont - University of Montreal

Penny Lane - Visa

The Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (APWG eCrime) examines the economic foundations, behavioral elements, and other keystone aspects that animate and fuel the burgeoning global, multi-billion-dollar cybercrime plexus at its 17th annual symposium on Nov 30-Dec 2.

The symposium is currently scheduled as a virtual event held online – though APWG reserves the possibility of a live event or hybrid program with improving conditions regarding CV19 infection rates and mutations.

The selected peer-reviewed papers will be included in the conference’s presentations along with numerous panels and talks from other correspondent researchers selected from industrial and academic research centers affiliated with the APWG.

IMPORTANT DATES:

Submission: September 9

Notification: October 21

Camera ready: November 18

Conference: Nov 30-Dec 2

Students requiring discounts should contact symposium managers at?[email protected]

The symposium’s proceedings are in?English.

Please contact the APWG eCrime program team for details via email at?[email protected] .

CALL FOR RESEARCH PAPERS

eCrime 2022 consists of a 3 day program composed of keynote presentations, technical and practical sessions, and interactive panels. An overarching goal of these meetings is bringing together academic researchers, industry security practitioners, and law enforcement to discuss and exchange ideas, experiences and lessons learnt combating cybercrime.

SUBMISSION TOPICS INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO:

? Detecting and/or mitigating eCrime (e.g. online fraud, malware, phishing, ransomware, etc.)

? Measuring and modeling of eCrime

? Economics of online crime

? eCrime delivery strategies and countermeasures (e.g. spam, mobile apps, social engineering, etc.)

? Security assessments of mobile devices

? Public Policy and Law for online crime

Accepted papers will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore subject to meeting IEEE Xplore’s scope and quality requirements. In addition, cash awards will be given for the best paper overall and the best student co-authored paper. In 2022, the conference will be held online.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS

The APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research has adopted the IEEE publication format. Submissions should be in English, in PDF format with all fonts embedded, formatted using the IEEE conference template, found here: https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html

Submissions should be anonymised, excluding author names, affiliations and acknowledgments. Authors’ own work should be referred to in the third person. Submissions should not exceed 12 letter-sized pages, not counting the bibliography and appendices. Papers should begin with a title, abstract, and an introduction that clearly summarizes the contributions of the paper at a level appropriate for a non-specialist reader.?

Papers should contain a scholarly exposition of ideas, techniques, and results, including motivation, relevance to practical applications, and a clear comparison with related work. Committee members are not required to read appendices, and papers should be intelligible without them.?

Submitted papers risk being rejected without consideration of their merits if they do not follow all the above guidelines. Submissions must not substantially duplicate work that was published elsewhere, or work that any of the authors has submitted in parallel to any other conference or workshop that has proceedings.

Accepted papers will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore subject to meeting IEEE Xplore’s scope and quality requirements.

Authors will be asked to indicate whether their submissions should be considered for the best student paper award; any paper co-authored by a full-time student is eligible for this award.

Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be presented at the conference (we note online presentations will be possible this year).

For paper submissions in 2022 please register an account then use the New Submission option at?https://ecrime2022.hotcrp.com/

About the Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (APWG eCrime)

The Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (APWG eCrime) was founded in 2006 as the eCrime Researchers Summit, conceived by APWG Secretary General Peter Cassidy as a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary venue to present basic and applied research into electronic crime and engaging every aspect of its evolution – as well as spotlighting technologies and techniques for cybercrime detection, response, forensics and prevention.

Since then, what had been initially a technology focused conference has incrementally expanded its focus to cover behavioral, social, economic, and legal / policy dimensions as well as technical aspects of cybercrime, following the interests of our correspondent investigators, the symposium’s managers as well as the APWG’s own directors and steering committee members.

Scores upon scores of papers exploring these dimensions of cybercrime at APWG eCrime have been published by the IEEE <APWG | eCrime Research Papers > as well as by Taylor & Francis and the Association of Computing Machinery (in the very earliest years of the symposium).

With its multi-disciplinary approach, APWG eCrime every year brings together the most heterogeneous community of counter-eCrime researchers and industrial stakeholders to confer over the latest research, and to foster collaborations between the leading investigators in this still nascent field of cybercrime studies.

APWG and the managing chairs of eCrime 2022 give their thanks to KnowBe4, CSC, Human Security and Hitachi Systems for standing as Platinum sponsors for this year's eCrime symposium.

Do know that while Platinum sponsorships for the eCrime 2022 symposium have all been sold, there are still a number of sponsorship packages available to APWG members and correspondents at the Gold and Silver levels.

For questions about sponsorship of eCrime 2022, Please contact the APWG eCrime program team for details via email at?[email protected] .