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CALL FOR PAPERS
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eCrime 2022

17th annual symposium on Nov 30-Dec 2

https://apwg.org/event/ecrime2022/

Nov 30 - Dec 2, 2022

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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.


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IMPORTANT DATES
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Submission Deadline: September 23 11:59 PM Anywhere on Earth (AoE)

Notification: October 21, 2022

Camera Ready: November 18, 2022

Conference: Nov 30-Dec 2, 2022

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SYMPOSIUM HISTORY
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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.

Students requiring discounts should contact symposium managers at apwg_events@apwg.com

The symposium’s proceedings are in English.

Please contact the APWG eCrime program team for details via email at apwg_events@apwg.org.

APWG Members can register for no charge using a coupon code during the registration process.
The coupon code will be distributed via the members discussion list.


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TOPICS OF INTEREST
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Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

* Detecting and/or mitigating eCrime (e.g., online fraud, malware, phishing, ransomware, etc.)
* AMeasuring 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 b
e held online.

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INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS
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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: http://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/

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PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Adam Oest PayPal
Eric Jardine Chainalytics
Ebrima Ceesay Capitol One
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 Huawei AI4Sec Research Team
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