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The 2nd International Workshop on 

                          Electronic Voting 2006

                         August, 2nd to 4th 2006
     Bregenz, Austria at Lake Constance ad joint to Switzerland and Germany

                        Under the auspices of the 
       Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Mr. Terry DAVIS 

Co-organized by
                       Council of Europe (CoE)

                ESF: European Science Foundation (ESF)
         within the project TED: Towards Electronic Democracy

             International Federation of Integrated Processing
      Working Group 8.5 Information Systems in Public Administration

       Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration


This workshop is the international meeting point for e-voting experts from
all over Europe and beyond to hold an interdisciplinary and open discussion
of all issues electronic voting involves. It is the continuation of the
successful 2004 E-Voting workshop in the same location. It also serves as
the academic review conference for the 2004 Recommendations on electronic
voting of the Council of Europe, preparing the Council of Europe's own
biennial review, and guarantees hereby heightened visibility for
presentations and papers.


Aim
---

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

- Discuss all forms of electronic voting (including but not limited to
polling station, kiosk or remote voting by electronic means)
- Formulate the interdisciplinary issues involved (technology, law, 
politics
and society) in designing and implementing e-voting. 
- Present new ways of solving the voting paradigm of unequivocal
identification of the voter and full anonymity of the vote.
- Report on implementations, their legal, organisational and technical
framework, the project experience made, and future plans. 
- Analyse the interrelationship with and the effects of e-voting on,
democratic institutions and processes as well as voter behaviour.
- Conduct a social and political analysis of the effects of electronic
voting.
- Report on practical experience in implementing and conducting elections
with electronic voting parts.
- Discuss security requirements and testing in accordance to international
security standards i.e. Common Criteria or ITSEC.
- Evaluate electronic voting, the effects of it and how to evaluate
experiments. 

The idea of this workshop is to discuss the development in this field in a
3-day workshop that deals with the topics from a theoretical view as well 
as
practical case studies.


Venue
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The workshop "Electronic Voting" will be held in the beautiful Renaissance
castle of Hofen at Lochau/Bregenz on the shores of Lake Constance in
Austria. Sufficient space will be given to informal communications. An
optional cultural program after the workshop is available by visiting the
Bregenz Opera Festival at the lake (see www.bregenzerfestspiele.com). 


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
www.e-voting.cc/2006, which serves as an online-system for the whole review
process. 


Deadlines
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Draft of the paper....................24th February 2006 
Notification of acceptance .......... 3rd April 2006
Receipt of the final paper............28th April 2006


Accommodation
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Accommodation is available at the workshop location either in the castle
itself and in hotels in walking distance. 

Fee
---

Before 28th April 2006 ...... 175 EUR / student fee......100 EUR
After 28th April 2006.........275 EUR / student fee .....175 EUR

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

If a registration is cancelled before June 30, 2006, 50 percent of the
registration fee will be 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 GI Lecture Notes Series. 


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

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

Funding
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Limited funding is available to PhD students on application basis. Please
apply by 30th of June to [log in to unmask] with the following content: title
and a short (1 page) abstract of your phd and why you want to take part in
the workshop.


International Programme Committee
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F. Bannister, Ireland
N. Braun, Switzerland
T. Buchsbaum, Austria
T. Cresswell, USA
R. Grimm, Germany
M. Janssen, The Netherlands
S. French, United Kingdom
R. Krimmer, Austria
H. Nurmi, Finland
W. Polasek, Switzerland
A. Prosser, Austria
D. Rios, Spain
F. Ruggeri, Italy
D. Tokaji, USA
M. Volkamer, Germany
M. Wimmer, Germany


General Enquiries
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Robert Krimmer
The Electronic Voting 2006 Workshop
Liechtensteinstrasse 143/3
A-1090 Vienna, Austria

Phone: +43/664/2055990
Fax: +43/1/3193955
E-Mail: [log in to unmask]
Web: www.e-voting.cc/2006