Publications

JOURNAL OF PRIVACY TECHNOLOGY
For additional information visit http://www.jopt.org

The Journal of Privacy Technology (JOPT) is a new refereed online journal founded and published by the Center for Privacy Technology 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.

For additional information visit http://www.jopt.org .