(PDF-Version, 54 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 including theoretical 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 reviewed and selected for acceptance 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 a 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 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.

The best "Student" Paper will be awarded by the conference committee.

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 December 21st, 2008. These papers will be blind peer reviewed by at least two reviewers. Authors of accepted papers will be notified by February 22nd, 2009.
• Authors wishing to submit other papers should submit at least 300-word abstract by no later than December 14th, 2008 for selection by the program committee. A first selection process will be performed to check whether the proposed papers fit to the EICAR conference policy and topics. A pre-notification will occur no later than December 21st, 2008. Authors of selected papers will be notified by January 31st, 2009.

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 http://papers.eicar.org 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. Papers in LaTeX format are particularly welcome.
• Non-academic abstracts should be submitted as plain text via the web-based form that will be available on http://papers.eicar.org

Final camera ready papers (accepted in RTF, DOC or preferably LaTeX format) in both paper categories must be submitted by March 22nd, 2009. The EICAR conference uses simplified APA5 format for papers published in the proceedings (description, MS-Word (.DOT), RTF and LaTeX templates are available at http://papers.eicar.org.

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.

Student tutorial Sunday
On Sunday May 10th, 2009, tutorials with technical and/or practical contents devoted to the main topic of the conference (Anti-malware evaluation) will be organized. They are primarily open to students but depending on the number of registrations, anyone can attend.

Tentative Invited Talks
Professor Fred Cohen has kindly accepted to give the opening keynote talk. His talk will be entitled "Computer Virology: 25 years from now".