[Med-privacy] *NEW* Journal of Privacy Technology

[latanya@privacy.cs.cmu.edu]

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JOURNAL OF PRIVACY TECHNOLOGY
For additional information visit http://www.jopt.org
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The Journal of Privacy Technology (JOPT) is a new refereed online
journal founded and published by the Privacy Technology Center
within the Institute for Software Research International, a division of
the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Journal is a forum for the publication of
original current research in privacy technology. It encourages the
submission of any material dealing primarily with the technological
aspects of privacy or with the privacy aspects of technology, which may
include analysis of the interaction between policy and technology or the
technological implications of legal decisions.

AIM AND SCOPE

The JOPT has a unique goal: to cross-fertilize research across the
various communities engaged in the construction of privacy technology.
JOPT is being launched at a time when several technical communities are
actively engaged in some form of privacy problems related to a specific
application domain. There is a serious lack of communication between the
communities and no community whose primary focus is to develop the
foundations of the science of privacy. While a lot of good and useful
research is underway, lessons learned in one community are often not
shared with other communities, causing researchers to re-invent or
ignore known results altogether. The JOPT addresses these needs, and by
doing so, fosters the growth of privacy technology in all its
constituent domain communities. The JOPT provides a mechanism for
researchers to share results across communities by: (1) publishing
generalizable findings in the JOPT; and, (2) applying generalized
findings learned from the JOPT to constituent domains. We expect
researchers to continue to publish domain-specific findings in community
publications thereby applying generalized knowledge (from the JOPT) to
specific application areas and completing the knowledge-sharing cycle.

We encourage the submission of papers on:

* privacy threats: algorithms, protocols, assessments
* privacy protection: algorithms, protocols, assessments
* applications to a domain
* analyses of a technology in a regulatory, business or social setting

Specific domain areas of interest include:

* bioinformatics
* biometrics
* computer security (as it relates to privacy)
* computer theory
* database security
* medical informatics
* policy specification and enforcement
* privacy-preserving data mining
* statistical disclosure control
* trustworthy computing
* ubiquitous computing and semantic web
* other areas, including economic, legal, and policy perspectives

The website http://www.jopt.org provides a more detailed list of
specific topics and areas of interest.


The JOPT publishes information on privacy technology in a variety of
venues. Paper styles accepted include: research, survey, tutorial,
review, and critique manuscripts, as well as letters to the editor,
conference notices, news highlights and articles.  The Journal is also
interested in reviews of research, tutorials, analyses of the impact of
law and policy developments on privacy technology and vice versa, and
unsolved problems in the field. All paper submissions are peer-reviewed
and will be indicated as such upon publication. The Journal may also
publish letters, short communications, and relevant news items without
formal peer review.

Publication of the JOPT is rolling in the sense that accepted
submissions are published immediately upon acceptance after peer and
editorial review. The Journal does not have separate volumes and issues
in the traditional sense. The University Libraries of Carnegie Mellon
University have undertaken to provide a permanent online archive for the
Journal with persistent URLs so that the entire contents of the Journal
will be available free of charge in perpetuity.  The Journal is
maintained online through http://www.jopt.org and is available free of
charge over the Internet. While it is possible that bound paper copies
of Journal content may be produced for a fee, all content will continue
to be offered online at no charge.

EDITORIAL STRUCTURE

The Journal is administered by three groups: the Editors (consisting of
the editor-in-chief and two managing editors) that handle the daily
operation and management, an Advisory Board that provides guidance, and
an Editorial Board who handle oversight of reviewing.  Board members
have been carefully selected and consist of the world's foremost experts
on the areas of interest to JOPT.

Editor-in-Chief: Michael Shamos, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Managing Editors
Ralph Gross, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Bradley Malin, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Advisory Board:
Hal Abelson, Massachussets Institute of Technology, USA
Rakesh Agrawal, IBM Almaden Research, USA
Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA
Dave Farber, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Joan Feigenbaum, Yale University, USA
Lance J. Hoffman, George Washington University, USA
Latanya Sweeney, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Bhavani Thuraisingham, MITRE Corporation, USA
Laura Zayatz, U.S. Census Bureau, USA

Editorial Board:
Russ B. Altman, Stanford University, USA
Josh Benaloh, Microsoft Research, USA
Kevin Bowyer, University of Notre Dame, USA
Christopher Clifton, Purdue University, USA
Lorrie Cranor, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Johannes Gehrke, Cornell University, USA
David Jensen, University of Massachusets, USA
Isaac Kohane, Harvard University, USA
Marc Langheinrich, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland
Teresa Lunt, PARC, USA
Lisa Nelson, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Lucila Ohno-Machado, Harvard University, USA
Benny Pinkas, HP Labs, USA
Drummond Reed, Cordance Corporation, USA
Avi Rubin, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Peter Ryan, University of Newcastle, United Kingdom
Andrew Senior, IBM Watson Research, USA

Vicenc Torra, Institut d'Investigacio en Intelligencia, Spain
Daniel Weitzner, Massachussets Institute of Technology, USA
Leon Willenborg, Statistics Netherlands, Netherlands
William Winkler, U.S. Census Bureau, USA

INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS

Manuscripts must be submitted in machine-readable Microsoft Word format
(.doc or .rtf), Postscript (.ps) or Portable Document Format (.pdf).
Both Word and Latex template files are available on the website


http://www.jopt.org.  Manuscripts should be emailed as attachments to
submissions@www.jopt.org <mailto:submissions@www.jopt.org>. The cover
page of the paper must identify the kind of manuscript being provided
and the key areas that are the subject of the paper.

A single author or point of contact must be designated by the
submitter(s) to receive further correspondence. When a paper is
received, its receipt is acknowledged. It is examined by the Editors for
general suitability and conformance to editorial policy and then passed
to one or more members of the Editorial Board, who referee the
submission and/or pass it on to other suitable reviewers. The reviews
are anonymous; that is, the identity of the reviewers is not known to
the Editors.When at least three favorable reviews have been received,
the submission is ripe for consideration by the Editors. When a
submission is accepted, the author(s) are notified and publication
occurs immediately after final editing of the manuscript for
typographical errors, correct citations, and the like. Normally,
submissions are acted upon within 60 days.

The author(s) retain any copyright in submitted material. The Journal
receives only a non-exclusive License, for the term of any copyright, to
reproduce, distribute, perform, index, archive and display publicly any
works submitted, either online, in print or in any other form. The
Journal neither receives nor pays any fee for submitted articles,
regardless of whether they are eventually published. By submitting an
article, the author(s) certify (1) that they have the right to submit
the article for publication and to grant the above License to the
Journal; and (2) except as may be noted in writing accompanying the
submission, that the article has not been published or submitted for
publication elsewhere. In general, the Journal will accept suitable
papers that may have appeared previously as technical reports or in
other non-archival forms, but will not publish articles that have been
published in archival journals.

Tenure Qualification. Because the research papers in the Journal will be
subjected to thorough peer review, it is expected that the online nature
of publication will positively reflect on the quality of its papers in
the eyes of tenure and promotion review committees. Toward this goal,
the Institute for Software Research International, a division of the
School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, regards
publication in the Journal as the equivalent of publication in a print
journal.