(PDF-Version, 42 KB) The conference committee is seeking submissions of papers for oral presentation at the conference in two major categories:

• Peer reviewed papers – these papers will be selected on basis of blind peer review by members of the program committee and other independent reviewers (where necessary). Case studies, research in progress and full research papers will be considered for the inclusion in the conference program. There is no definitive word limit for the submissions; however, it is anticipated that submissions will be between 3500 and 5500 words. The program committee will not accept research proposals for submission to the conference.
• Other papers – these papers will not be peer reviewed, however due to the considerable interest in the conference in the previous years, these papers will also be selected by the program committee. This category covers corporate papers, best practices, new technologies, policy issues etc and the conference committee are eager to obtain submissions from industry, government and other sectors for this category. However, marketing papers will not be accepted for the conference.

The conference committee can accept only limited number of papers in each category and the acceptance ratio in the past few years was about 30-40% of submitted papers only. All accepted papers will be published in electronic form on the Conference CD-ROM and peer reviewed papers only will be published in the printed version of the EICAR Conference Proceedings (book with ISBN). The best papers will be published in a special issue of the Journal in Computer Virology, a research journal published by Springer Verlag.

Final camera ready papers (accepted in RTF, DOC and PDF format) in both paper categories must be submitted by 16 March 2007. The EICAR conference uses simplified APA5 format for papers published in the proceedings (description, MS-Word (.DOT) and RTF templates are available at http://eicar.org/conference/presenters.htm).

Deadlines and forms of submission:

• Authors wishing to submit papers for peer review category and acceptance for the conference should submit full papers by no later than 20 January 2008. These papers will be blind peer reviewed by at least two reviewers. Authors of accepted papers will be notified by 20 February 2008.
• Authors wishing to submit other papers should submit a 300-word abstract by no later than 20 December 2007 for selection by the program committee. Authors of selected papers will be notified by 10 January 2008.

All submissions will be handled electronically and the review/acceptance process will be conducted anonymously by the conference committee:

• Academic papers should be submitted via on-line submission and review system available at Link in portable document format (PDF), rich text format (RTF) or Microsoft Word 97 or newer format (DOC). All information enabling the identification of authors must be removed from the submissions.
• Non-academic abstracts should be submitted as plain text via the web-based form that will be available on Link.

Final camera ready papers (accepted in RTF, DOC and PDF format) in both paper categories must be submitted by 23 March 2008. The EICAR conference uses simplified APA5 format for papers published in the proceedings (description, MS-Word (.DOT) and RTF templates are available at http://eicar.org/conference/presenters.htm).

Conference Fee Waiver
The conference fee will be waived for one presenter for each accepted paper.

EICAR Students Fund
Limited conference attendance incentives (e.g. subsidised rate for accommodation at the conference venue) may be offered from the newly founded EICAR Students Fund for student papers. Eligibility for funds is subject to EICAR Board resolution upon recommendation from the Program Chair based on individual written request.