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Publications

Books / Edited Volumes

  1. Jens Grossklags and Bart Preneel (2017) Financial Cryptography and Data Security, Lecture Notes in Computer Science LNCS 9603, Springer Verlag. Publisher Site
  2. Jens Grossklags and Jean Walrand (2012) Decision and Game Theory for Security, Lecture Notes in Computer Science LNCS 7638, Springer Verlag. Publisher Site

Journal and Magazine Articles

  1. Chen, M., Bogner, K., & Grossklags, J. (2025) A Comparative Analysis of Two Data-Driven Mechanisms for Behavioral Change: Nudging and the Chinese Social Credit System. Digital Society, 4, Article No. 17. Publisher Version (Open Access)
  2. Syrmoudis, E., Luzsa, R., Ehrlich, Y., Agidigbi, D., Kirsch, K., Rudolf, D., Schlaeger, D., Weber, J., & Grossklags, J. (2024) Unlocking Personal Data from Online Services: User Studies on Data Export Experiences and Data Transfer Scenarios. Human-Computer Interaction, forthcoming/early access. Publisher Version (Open Access)
  3. Li, Z., Zhu, D., & Grossklags, J. (2025) Safe Reinforcement Learning via Episodic Control. IEEE Access, 13, 35270-35280. Publisher Version (Open Access)
  4. Loefflad, C., Chen, M., & Grossklags, J. (2024) Reputational Discrimination and Fairness in China's Social Credit System. Digital Government: Research and Practice, 5(4), Article No. 40. Publisher Version (Open Access)
  5. Jiang, X., Zhou, X., & Grossklags, J. (2024) Distributed Synthetic Time-Series Data Generation with Local Differentially Private Federated Learning. IEEE Access, 12, 157067-157082. Publisher Version (Open Access)
  6. Hohendanner, M., Ullstein, C., Socher, G., & Grossklags, J. (2024) “Good and Scary at the Same Time” – Exploring Citizens' Perceptions of a Prospective Metaverse. IEEE Pervasive Computing, 23(1), 27-36. Publisher Version (Open Access)
  7. Hohendanner, M., Ullstein, C., Miyamoto, D., Fukuwatari Huffman, E., Socher, G., Grossklags, J., & Osawa, H. (2024) Metaverse Perspectives from Japan: A Participatory Speculative Design Case Study. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 8(CSCW2), Article No. 400. Author Version Publisher Version (Open Access)
  8. Pecher, J., Syrmoudis, E., & Grossklags, J. (2024) Service Selection and Switching Decisions: User Behavior in High-Interoperability Environments. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 11, Article No. 1585. Publisher Version (Open Access)
  9. Zhu, D., Chen, J., Zhou, X., Shang, W., Hassan, A., & Grossklags, J. (2024) Vulnerabilities of Data Protection in Vertical Federated Learning Training and Countermeasures. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 19, 3674-3689. Publisher Version (Open Access)
  10. Merlevede, J., Johnson, B., Grossklags, J., & Holvoet, T. (2023) Generalized Hyperbolic Discounting in Security Games of Timing. Games, 14(6), Article No. 74. Publisher Version (Open Access)
  11. Chen, M., Bogner, K., Becheva, J., & Grossklags, J. (2023) On the Transparency of the Credit Reporting System in China. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 10, Article No. 678. Publisher Version (Open Access)
  12. Sasse, J., & Grossklags, J. (2023) Breaking the Silence: Investigating Which Types of Moderation Reduce Negative Effects of Sexist Social Media Content. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 7(CSCW2), Article No. 327. Author Version Publisher Version (Open Access)
  13. Kuo, T., Hernani, A., & Grossklags, J. (2023) The Unsung Heroes of Facebook Groups Moderation: A Case Study of Moderation Practices and Tools. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 7(CSCW1), Article No. 97. Publisher Version (Open Access)
  14. Kranz, J., Kuebler-Wachendorff, S., Syrmoudis, E., Grossklags, J., Mager, S., Luzsa, R., & Mayr, S. (2023) Data Portability. Business & Information Systems Engineering, 65(5), 597-607. Publisher Version (Open Access)
  15. Jiang, X., Zhang, Y., Zhou, X., and Grossklags, J. (2023) Distributed GAN-Based Privacy-Preserving Publication of Vertically-Partitioned Data. Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, 2023(2), 236–250. Publisher Version (Open Access)
  16. Chen, M., & Grossklags, J. (2022) Social Control in the Digital Transformation of Society: A Case Study of the Chinese Social Credit System. Social Sciences, 11(6), Article No. 229. Publisher Version (Open Access)
  17. Fischer, F., & Grossklags, J. (2022) Nudging Software Developers Toward Secure Code. IEEE Security and Privacy, 20(2), 76-79. Publisher Version (Open Access)
  18. Krause, T., Chen, M., Wassermann, L., Fischer, D. and Grossklags, J. (2022). China's Corporate Credit Reporting System: A Comparison with the United States and Germany. Regulation & Governance, 17(3), 755-771. Publisher Version (Open Access)
  19. Pósa, T., & Grossklags, J. (2022) Work Experience as a Factor in Cyber-Security Risk Awareness: A Survey Study with University Students. Journal of Cybersecurity and Privacy, 2(3), 490-515. Publisher Version (Open Access)
  20. Rupp, E., Syrmoudis, E., & Grossklags, J. (2022) Leave No Data Behind – Empirical Insights into Data Erasure from Online Services. Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, 2022(3), 437-455. Publisher Version (Open Access)
  21. Bombik, P., Wenzel, T., Grossklags, J., & Patil, S. (2022) A Multi-Region Investigation of Use and Perceptions of Smart Home Devices. Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, 2022(3), 6-32. Publisher Version (Open Access)
  22. Jiang, X., Zhou, X., & Grossklags, J. (2022) SignDS-FL: Local Differentially Private Federated Learning with Sign-based Dimension Selection. ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, 13(5), Article No. 74. Publisher Version (Open Access)
  23. Jiang, X., Zhou, X., & Grossklags, J. (2022) Comprehensive Analysis of Privacy Leakage in Vertical Federated Learning During Prediction. Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, 2022(2), 263-281. Publisher Version (Open Access)
  24. Jiang, X., Zhou, X., & Grossklags, J. (2022) Privacy-preserving High-dimensional Data Collection with Federated Generative Autoencoder. Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, 2022(1), 481-500. Publisher Version (Open Access)
  25. Marsch, M., Grossklags, J., & Patil, S. (2021) Won't You Think of Others? Interdependent Privacy in Smartphone App Permissions. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 5(CSCW2), Article No. 437. Publisher Version (Open Access)
  26. Muntean, P., Monperrus, M., Sun, H., Grossklags, J., & Eckert, C. (2021) IntRepair: Informed Repairing of Integer Overflows. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 47(10), 2225-2241. Author Version Author version (arXiv) Publisher Version
  27. Kuebler-Wachendorff, S., Luzsa, R., Kranz, J., Mager, S., Syrmoudis, E., Mayr, S., & Grossklags, J. (2021) The Right to Data Portability: Conception, Status Quo, and Future Directions. Informatik Spektrum, 44, 264–272. Publisher Version (Open Access)
  28. Syrmoudis, E., Mager, S., Kuebler-Wachendorff, S., Pizzinini, P., Grossklags, J., & Kranz, J. (2021) Data Portability between Online Services: An Empirical Analysis on the Effectiveness of GDPR Art. 20. Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, 2021(3), 351-372. Publisher Version (Open Access)
  29. Merlevede, J., Johnson, B., Grossklags, J., & Holvoet, T. (2021) Exponential Discounting in Security Games of Timing. Journal of Cybersecurity, 7(1). Publisher Version (Open Access)
  30. Engelmann, S., Grossklags, J., & Herzog, L. (2020) Should Users Participate in Governing Social Media? Philosophical and Technical Considerations of Democratic Social Media. First Monday, 25(12). Publisher Version (Open Access)
  31. Chen, M., & Grossklags, J. (2020) An Analysis of the Current State of the Consumer Credit Reporting System in China. Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, 2020(4), 89-110. Acceptance rate = 23.0%. Publisher Version (Open Access) Presentation (Video)
  32. Weidman, J., & Grossklags, J. (2020) Assessing the Current State of Information Security Policies in Academic Organizations. Information and Computer Security, 28(3), 423-444. Publisher Version
  33. Weidman, J., Aurite, W., & Grossklags, J. (2019) On Sharing Intentions, and Personal and Interdependent Privacy Considerations for Genetic Data: A Vignette Study. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, 16(4), 1349-1361. Publisher Version
  34. Reitter, D., & Grossklags, J. (2019) The Positive Impact of Task Familiarity, Risk Propensity and Need for Cognition on Observed Timing Decisions in a Security Game. Games, 10(4), Article No. 49. Publisher Version (Open Access)
  35. Esmaeilyfard, R., Hendessi, F., Manshaei, M.H. & Grossklags, J. (2019) A Game-theoretic Model for Users' Participation in Ephemeral Social Vehicular Networks. International Journal of Communication Systems, 32(12), Article No. e3998. Publisher Version
  36. Laszka, A., Johnson, B., & Grossklags, J. (2018) On the Assessment of Systematic Risk in Networked Systems. ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, 18(4), Article No. 48. Author Version Publisher Version
  37. Chronopoulos, M., Panaousis, E., & Grossklags, J. (2018) An Options Approach to Cybersecurity Investment. IEEE Access, 6(1), 12175-12186. Publisher Version (Open Access)   
  38. Guan, L., Farhang, S., Pu, Y., Guo, P., Grossklags, J., & Liu, P. (2018) VaultIME: Regaining User Control for Password Managers through Auto-correction. EAI Endorsed Transactions on Security and Safety, 4(14), Article No. e4. Publisher Version (Open Access)
  39. Zhao, M., Laszka, A., & Grossklags, J. (2017) Devising Effective Policies for Bug-Bounty Platforms and Security Vulnerability Discovery. Journal of Information Policy, 7, 372-418. Publisher Version (Open Access)
  40. Maillart, T., Zhao, M., Grossklags, J., & Chuang, J. (2017) Given Enough Eyeballs, All Bugs Are Shallow? Revisiting Eric Raymond with Bug Bounty Programs. Journal of Cybersecurity, 3(2), 81–90. Publisher Version (Open Access)
  41. Pu, Y. & Grossklags, J. (2016) Towards a Model on the Factors Influencing Social App Users' Valuation of Interdependent Privacy. Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, 2016(2), 61-81. Acceptance rate = 23.6%. Publisher Version (Open Access)
  42. Lazar, J., Abascal, J., Barbosa, S., Barksdale, J., Friedman, B., Grossklags, J. et al. (2016) Human–Computer Interaction and International Public Policymaking: A Framework for Understanding and Taking Future Actions. Foundations and Trends in Human–Computer Interaction, 9(2), 69-149. Public Repository Publisher Version
  43. Johnson, B., Schöttle, P., Laszka, A., Grossklags, J., & Böhme, R. (2015) Adaptive Steganography and Steganalysis with Fixed-Size Embedding. Springer Transactions on Data Hiding and Multimedia Security, 10, 69-91. Author Version Publisher Version
  44. Laszka, A., Johnson, B., Schöttle, P., Grossklags, J., & Böhme, R. (2014) Secure Team Composition to Thwart Insider Threats and Cyberespionage. ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, 14(2-3), Article No. 19. Author Version Publisher Version
  45. Nochenson, A., Grossklags, J., & Heimann, L. (2014) How Loss Profiles Reveal Behavioral Biases in Interdependent Security Decisions. International Journal of Internet Technology and Secured Transactions, 5(2), 105-116. Publisher Version
  46. Acquisti, A., & Grossklags, J. (2012) An Online Survey Experiment on Ambiguity and Privacy. Communications & Strategies, 88(4), 19-39. Publisher Version (Open Access)
  47. Bridges, F., Appel, L., & Grossklags, J. (2012) Young Adults' Online Participation Behaviors: An Exploratory Study of Web 2.0 Use for Political Engagement. Information Polity, 17(2), 163-176. Author Version Publisher Version
  48. Turow, J., Hoofnagle, C., Mulligan, D., Good, N., & Grossklags, J. (2008) The Federal Trade Commission and Consumer Privacy in the Coming Decade. I/S: A Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society, 3(3), 723-749. Publisher Version Open Access
  49. Good, N., Grossklags, J., Thaw, D., Perzanowski, A., Mulligan, D., & Konstan, J. (2006) User Choices and Regret: Understanding Users' Decision Process about Consensually Acquired Spyware. I/S: A Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society, 2(2), 283-344. Publisher Version Open Access
  50. Grossklags, J., & Schmidt, C. (2006) Software Agents and Market (In) Efficiency - A Human Trader Experiment. IEEE Transactions on System, Man, and Cybernetics: Part C, Special Issue on Game-theoretic Analysis & Simulation of Negotiation Agents, IEEE SMC, 36(1), 56-67. Author Version Publisher Version
  51. Acquisti, A., & Grossklags, J. (2005) Privacy and Rationality in Individual Decision Making. IEEE Security and Privacy, 3(1), 26-33. Author Version Publisher Version
  52. Ghose, A., Grossklags, J., & Chuang, J. (2003) Resilient Data-Centric Storage in Wireless Sensor Networks. IEEE Distributed Systems Online, 4(11). Author Version DBLP Record

Conference and Workshop Articles

  1. von Tschirschnitz, M., Peukert, L., Buhl, M., & Grossklags, J. (2025) Rediscovering Method Confusion in Proposed Security Fixes for Bluetooth. In Proceedings of the 32nd Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 20 pages. Acceptance rate = 16.1% (1311 valid submissions, 211 accepted papers). Publisher Version (Open Access)
  2. Zhu, D., Chen, D., Wu, X., Geng, J., Li, Z., Grossklags, J., & Ma, L. (2024) PrivAuditor: Benchmarking Data Protection Vulnerabilities in LLM Adaptation Techniques. Proceedings of the Thirty-Eighth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Datasets and Benchmarks Track. Spotlight Paper. Publisher Version (Open Access; Open Review)
  3. Syrmoudis, E., Mager, S., & Grossklags, J. (2024) A Longitudinal Analysis of Corporate Data Portability Practices Across Industries. Proceedings of the 40th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), 207–223. Acceptance rate = 21.8% (381 valid submissions, 83 accepted papers). Publisher Version Author Version
  4. Loefflad, C., Chen, M., & Grossklags, J. (2024) Social Scoring Systems for Behavioral Regulation: An Experiment on the Role of Transparency in Determining Perceptions and Behaviors. Proceedings of the 7th AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES), pp. 891-904. Acceptance rate = 31.8%. Publisher Version (Open Access) Supplementary File
  5. Ullstein, C., Pfeiffer, J., Hohendanner, M., & Grossklags, J. (2024) Mapping the Stakeholder Debate on Facial Recognition Technologies: Review and Stakeholder Workshop. Companion Publication of the 2024 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW), pp. 429-436. Publisher Version (Open Access)
  6. Hartinger, K., Syrmoudis, E., Wolfram, A., Frank, M., & Grossklags, J. (2024) Nuisance Letters? E-Mail Newsletters, Privacy, and the Market for Data. Proceedings of the Thirtieth Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), Article No. 8. Publisher Version Author Version
  7. Ullstein, C., Engelmann, S., Papakyriakopoulos, O., Ikkatai, Y., Arnez Jordan, N., Caleno, R., Mboya, B., Higuma, S., Hartwig, T., Yokoyama, H., & Grossklags, J. (2024) Attitudes Toward Facial Analysis AI: A Cross-National Study Comparing Argentina, Kenya, Japan, and the USA. Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (ACM FAccT), pp. 2273-2301. Acceptance rate = 24.1% (725 submissions, 175 accepted full papers). Publisher Version (Open Access) Author Version
  8. Loefflad, C., & Grossklags, J. (2024) How the Types of Consequences in Social Scoring Systems Shape People's Perceptions and Behavioral Reactions. Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (ACM FAccT), pp. 1515-1530. Acceptance rate = 24.1% (725 submissions, 175 accepted full papers) Publisher Version (Open Access)
  9. Ullstein, C., Hohendanner, M., & Grossklags, J. (2024) Mapping Policymakers' and Laypeople's Perceptions of genAI and FPT in the Context of the EU AI Act. Proceedings of the 3rd European Workshop on Algorithmic Fairness (EWAF). Publisher Version (Open Access)
  10. Zhu, D., Chen, D., Li, Q., Chen, Z., Ma, L., Grossklags, J., & Fritz, M. (2024) PoLLMgraph: Unraveling Hallucinations in Large Language Models via State Transition Dynamics. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2024, pp. 4737–4751. Publisher Version (Open Access) Author Version (arXiv)
  11. Loefflad, C., Chen, M., & Grossklags, J. (2023) Factors Influencing Perceived Legitimacy of Social Scoring Systems: Subjective Privacy Harms and the Moderating Role of Transparency. Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS). Complete Research Paper. Publisher Version Author Version. Supplementary File. Nominee - Best Paper Award (complete and short papers; 1380 submissions; 387 accepted papers).
  12. Fischer, F., Hoebenreich, J., & Grossklags, J. (2023) The Effectiveness of Security Interventions on GitHub. Proceedings of the 30th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), pp. 2426-2440. Author Version (arXiv) Publisher Version (Open Access)
  13. Franzen, F., Wilhelmer, A., & Grossklags, J. (2023) RandCompile: Removing Forensic Gadgets from the Linux Kernel to Combat its Analysis. Proceedings of the 39th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), pp. 677-690. Publisher Version (Open Access)
  14. Hohendanner, M., Ullstein, C., Buchmeier, Y., & Grossklags, J. (2023) Exploring the Reflective Space of AI Narratives through Speculative Design in Japan and Germany. Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Conference on Information Technology for Social Good (GoodIT), pp. 351-362. Publisher Version (Open Access)
  15. Akgul, O., Eghtesad, T., Elazari, A., Gnawali, O., Grossklags, J., Mazurek, M., Votipka, D., & Laszka, A. (2023) Bug Hunters’ Perspectives on the Challenges and Benefits of the Bug Bounty Ecosystem. Proceedings of the 32nd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security), pp. 2275-2291. Author Version Publisher Version (Open Access) Distinguished Paper Award
  16. Atefi, S., Sivagnanam, A., Ayman, A., Grossklags, J., & Laszka, A. (2023) The Benefits of Vulnerability Discovery and Bug Bounty Programs: Case Studies of Chromium and Firefox. Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference (WWW), pp. 2209-2219. Acceptance rate = 19.2%. Author Version Publisher Version
  17. Ullstein, C., Engelmann, S., Papakyriakopoulos, O., & Grossklags, J. (2023) A Reflection on How Cross-Cultural Perspectives on the Ethics of Facial Analysis AI Can Inform EU Policymaking. Proceedings of the 2nd European Workshop on Algorithmic Fairness (EWAF). Publisher Version (Open Access)
  18. Chen, M. & Grossklags, J. (2023) E-government HCI in China: How Does the Government Communicate a New Regulation System to the Public? Proceedings of the 7th Asian CHI Symposium 2023 (co-located with ACM CHI Conference), pp. 7-14. Publisher Version (Open Access)
  19. Ullstein, C., Engelmann, S., Papakyriakopoulos, O., Hohendanner, M., & Grossklags, J. (2022) AI-competent Individuals and Laypeople Tend to Oppose Facial Analysis AI. Proceedings of the Second ACM Conference on Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization (EAAMO), Article No. 9. Author Version Publisher Version (Open Access)
  20. Franzen, F., Holl, T., Andreas, M., Kirsch, J., & Grossklags, J. (2022) Katana: Robust, Automated, Binary-Only Forensic Analysis of Linux Memory Snapshots. Proceedings of the 25th International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID), pp. 214–231. Acceptance rate = 25.2%. Author Version Publisher Version (Open Access)
  21. Luzsa, R., Mayr, S., Syrmoudis, E., Grossklags, J., Kübler-Wachendorff, S., & Kranz, J. (2022) Online Service Switching Intentions and Attitudes towards Data Portability – The Role of Technology-related Attitudes and Privacy. Proceedings of Mensch und Computer (MuC), pp. 1-13. Publisher Version (Open Access)
  22. Kasper, D., & Grossklags, J. (2022) A Hierarchical Macroeconomic Copula Model for Cyber Damages Based on Current Cyber Insurance Prices. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Science of Cyber Security (SciSec), pp. 772-483. Publisher Version
  23. Engelmann, S., Scheibe, V., Battaglia, F., & Grossklags, J. (2022) Social Media Profiling Continues to Partake in the Development of Formalistic Self-concepts. Social Media Users Think so, Too. Proceedings of the 5th AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES), pp. 238–252. Author Version Publisher Version (Open Access)
  24. Chen, M., Engelmann, S., & Grossklags, J. (2022) Ordinary People as Moral Heroes and Foes: Digital Role Model Narratives Propagate Social Norms in China's Social Credit System. Proceedings of the 5th AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES), pp. 181–191. Publisher Version (Open Access)
  25. Engelmann, S., Ullstein, C., Papakyriakopoulos, O., & Grossklags, J. (2022) What People Think AI Should Infer from Faces. Proceedings of the 5th ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (ACM FAccT), pp. 128–141. Acceptance rate = 25.2%. Author Version Appendix Publisher Version (Open Access)
  26. Kang, N., Kuo, T., & Grossklags, J. (2022) Closing Pandora’s Box on Naver: Toward Ending Cyber Harassment. Proceedings of the 16th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), pp. 465-476. Acceptance rate = 20% (full technical papers). Publisher Version (Open Access)
  27. Fischer, F., Stachelscheid, Y., & Grossklags, J. (2021) The Effect of Google Search on Software Security. Proceedings of the 28th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), pp. 3070-3084. Acceptance rate = 22.3%. Author Version Publisher Version (Open Access)
  28. Zhu, D., Chen, J., Shang, W., Zhou, X., Grossklags, J., & Hassan, A. (2021) DeepMemory: Model-based Memorization Analysis of Deep Neural Language Models. Proceedings of the 36th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE), pp. 1003-1015. Acceptance rate = 18.6%. Author Version Publisher Site (Open Access)
  29. Muntean, P., Viehoever, R., Lin, Z., Tan, G., Grossklags, J., & Eckert, C. (2021) iTOP: Automating Counterfeit Object-Oriented Programming Attacks. Proceedings of the 24th International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID), pp. 162-176. Acceptance rate = 23.9%. Author Version Publisher Version
  30. Sivagnanam, A., Atefi, S., Ayman, A., Grossklags, J., & Laszka, A. (2021) On the Benefits of Bug Bounty Programs: A Study of Chromium Vulnerabilities. Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS). Publisher Version (Open Access)
  31. Chen, M., Bogner, K., Becheva, J., & Grossklags, J. (2021) The Transparency of the Chinese Social Credit System from the Perspective of German Organizations. Proceedings of the 29th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS). Complete research paper. Acceptance rate = 31.1% (complete research papers; 502 submissions; 156 accepted papers). Author Version Publisher Site
  32. von Tschirschnitz, M., Peuckert, L., Franzen, F., & Grossklags, J. (2021) Method Confusion Attack on Bluetooth Pairing. Proceedings of the 42nd IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), pp. 213-228. Acceptance rate = 12.2%. Author Version Publisher Version
  33. Engelmann, S., Chen, M., Dang, L., & Grossklags, J. (2021) Blacklists and Redlists in the Chinese Social Credit System: Diversity, Flexibility, and Comprehensiveness. Proceedings of the 4th AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES), pp. 78–88. Acceptance rate (full paper; oral presentation) = 9.6%. Author Version Publisher Version (Open Access)
  34. Muntean, P., Neumayer, M., Lin, Z., Tan, G., Grossklags, J., & Eckert, C. (2020) ρFEM: Efficient Backward-edge Protection Using Reversed Forward-edge Mappings. Proceedings of the 36th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC). Acceptance rate = 23.2%. Author Version Publisher Version
  35. Sutanrikulu, A., Czajkowska, S., & Grossklags, J. (2020) Analysis of Darknet Market Activity as a Country-Specific, Socio-Economic and Technological Phenomenon. Proceedings of the 2020 APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (eCrime). Author Version Publisher Version
  36. Weidman, J., Bilogrevic, I., & Grossklags, J. (2020) Nothing Standard About It: An Analysis of Minimum Security Standards in Organizations. Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Security, Privacy, Organizations, and Systems Engineering (SPOSE), pp. 263-282. Author Version Publisher Version
  37. Sundararaj, A., Knittl, S., & Grossklags, J. (2020) Challenges in IT Security Processes and Solution Approaches with Process Mining. Proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on Security and Trust Management (STM), pp. 123-138. Author Version Publisher Version
  38. Hudock, A., Weidman, J., & Grossklags, J. (2020) Security Onboarding: An Interview Study on Security Training for Temporary Employees. Proceedings of Mensch und Computer (MuC), pp. 183-194. Author Version Publisher Version
  39. Akgul, O., Eghtesad, T., Elazari, A., Gnawali, O., Grossklags, J., Votipka, D., & Laszka, A. (2020) The Hackers’ Viewpoint: Exploring Challenges and Benefits of Bug-Bounty Programs. Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Security Information Workers (WSIW); 16th Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security. Author Version
  40. Freudenreich, J., Weidman, J., & Grossklags, J. (2020) Responding to KRACK: Wi-Fi Security Awareness in Private Households. Proceedings of the Fourteenth IFIP International Symposium on Human Aspects of Information Security & Assurance (HAISA), pp. 233-243. Author Version Publisher Version
  41. Farhang, S., Kirdan, M., Laszka, A., & Grossklags, J. (2020) An Empirical Study of Android Security Bulletins in Different Vendors. Proceedings of the Web Conference (WWW), pp. 3063-3069. Author Version Publisher Version GitHub Data
  42. Muntean, P., Neumayer, M., Lin, Z., Tan, G., Grossklags, J., & Eckert, C. (2019) Analyzing Control Flow Integrity with LLVM-CFI. Proceedings of the 35th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), pp. 584-597. Acceptance rate = 22.6%. Author Version Publisher Version (Public Access)
  43. Billmann, M., Grossklags, J., Böhm, M., & Krcmar, H. (2019) The Differences in Data Sensitivity Perceptions Among Private and Workplace Health Apps: A Delphi Study. Proceedings of the 9th International Digital Public Health Conference (DPH), pp. 21-30. Author Version Publisher Version
  44. Bidgoli, M., Knijnenburg, B., Grossklags, J., & Wardman, B. (2019) Report Now. Report Effectively. Conceptualizing the Industry Practice for Cybercrime Reporting. Proceedings of the 2019 APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (eCrime). Author Version Publisher Version
  45. Merlevede, J., Johnson, B., Grossklags, J., & Holvoet, T. (2019) Time-Dependent Strategies in Games of Timing. Proceedings of the Tenth Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security (GameSec), pp. 310-330. Author Version Publisher Version
  46. Fischer, F., Xiao, H., Kao, C., Stachelscheid, Y., Johnson, B., Raza, D., Furley, P., Buckley, N., Böttinger, K., Muntean, P., & Grossklags, J. (2019) Stack Overflow Considered Helpful! Deep Learning Security Nudges Towards Stronger Cryptography. Proceedings of the 28th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security), pp. 339-356. Acceptance rate = 16.2%. Author Version Publisher Version (Open Access) GitHub Data
  47. Petracca, G., Sun, Y., Reineh, A., McDaniel, P., Grossklags, J., & Jaeger, T. (2019) EnTrust: Regulating Sensor Access by Cooperating Programs via Delegation Graphs. Proceedings of the 28th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security), pp. 567-584. Acceptance rate = 16.2%. Author Version Publisher Version (Open Access)
  48. Weidman, J., & Grossklags, J. (2019) The Acceptable State: An Analysis of the Current State of Acceptable Use Policies in Academic Institutions. Proceedings of the 27th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS). Complete research paper. Author Version Publisher Version
  49. Engelmann, S., & Grossklags, J. (2019) Setting the Stage: Towards Principles for Reasonable Image Inferences. Workshop on Fairness in User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (FairUMAP), 27th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP), pp. 301-307. Author Version Publisher Version
  50. Merlevede, J., Johnson, B., Grossklags, J., & Holvoet, T. (2019) Exponential Discounting in Security Games of Timing. Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS). Author Version
  51. Farhang, S., Kirdan, M., Laszka, A., & Grossklags, J. (2019) Hey Google, What Exactly Do Your Security Patches Tell Us? A Large-Scale Empirical Study on Android Patched Vulnerabilities. Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS). Author Version
  52. Chen, M., Fischer, F., Meng, N., Wang, X., & Grossklags, J. (2019) How Reliable is the Crowdsourced Knowledge of Security Implementation? Proceedings of the 41st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), pp. 536-547. Acceptance rate = 20.6%. Author Version Publisher Version
  53. Nasr, M., Farhang, S., Houmansadr, A., & Grossklags, J. (2019) Enemy At the Gateways: Censorship-Resilient Proxy Distribution Using Game Theory. Proceedings of the 26th Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS). Acceptance rate = 17.1%. Author Version Publisher Version (Open Access)
  54. Engelmann, S., Chen, M., Fischer F., & Kao, C., & Grossklags, J. (2019) Clear Sanctions, Vague Rewards: How China's Social Credit System Currently Defines “Good” and “Bad” Behavior. Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAT*), pp. 69-78. Acceptance rate = 24.1%. Author Version Publisher Version
  55. Farhang, S., Weidman, J., Kamani, M., Grossklags, J., & Liu, P. (2018) Take It or Leave It: A Survey Study on Operating System Upgrade Practices. Proceedings of the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), pp. 490-504. Acceptance rate = 20.1%. Author Version Publisher Version (Public Access)
  56. Laszka, A., Panaousis, E., & Grossklags, J. (2018) Cyber-Insurance as a Signaling Game: Self-Reporting and External Security Audits. Proceedings of the Ninth Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security (GameSec), pp. 508-520. Author Version Publisher Version
  57. Muntean, P., Wuerl, S., Grossklags, J., & Eckert, C. (2018) CastSan: Efficient Detection of Polymorphic C++ Object Type Confusions. Proceedings of the 23rd European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS), pp. 3-25. Acceptance rate = 19.8%. Author Version Publisher Version
  58. Muntean, P., Fischer, M., Tan, G., Lin, Z., Grossklags, J., & Eckert, C. (2018) τCFI: Type-Assisted Control Flow Integrity for x86-64 Binaries. Proceedings of the 21st International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID), pp. 423-444. Acceptance rate = 22.8%. Author Version Publisher Version
  59. Johnson, B., Laszka, A., Grossklags, J., & Moore, T. (2018) Economic Analyses of Security Investments on Cryptocurrency Exchanges. Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (BLOCKCHAIN), pp. 1253-1262. Accepted as regular paper. Acceptance rate = 15.3%. Author Version Author version (arXiv) Publisher Version
  60. Webster, G., Harris, R., Hanif, Z., Hembree, B., Grossklags, J., & Eckert, C. (2018) Sharing is Caring: Collaborative Analysis and Real-time Enquiry. Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Recent Advances on Blockchain and Its Applications (BlockchainApp), pp. 1402-1409. Author Version Publisher Site
  61. Engelmann, S., Grossklags, J., & Papakyriakopoulos, O. (2018) A Democracy called Facebook? Participation as a Privacy Strategy on Social Media. Proceedings of the Annual Privacy Forum 2018, pp. 91-108. Full paper. Author Version Publisher Version
  62. Weidman, J., & Grossklags, J. (2018) What's in Your Policy: An Analysis of the Current State of Information Security Policies in Academic Institutions. Proceedings of the 26th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS). Complete research paper. Author Version Publisher Version
  63. Farhang, S., Laszka, A., & Grossklags, J. (2018) An Economic Study of the Effect of Android Platform Fragmentation on Security Updates. Proceedings of the Twenty-Second International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC), pp. 119-137. Acceptance rate = 26.6%. Author Version (arXiv) Publisher Version
  64. Laszka, A., Zhao, M., Malbari, A. & Grossklags, J. (2018) The Rules of Engagement for Bug Bounty Programs. Proceedings of the Twenty-Second International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC), pp. 138-159. Acceptance rate = 26.6%. Author Version Publisher Version
  65. Weidman, J. & Grossklags, J. (2017) I Like It, but I Hate It: Employee Perceptions Towards an Institutional Transition to BYOD Second-Factor Authentication. Proceedings of the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), pp. 212-224. Acceptance rate = 19.7%. Author Version Publisher Version
  66. Laszka, A., Farhang, S., & Grossklags, J. (2017) On the Economics of Ransomware. Proceedings of the Eighth Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security (GameSec), pp. 397-417. Author Version Publisher Version
  67. Petracca, G., Reineh, A., Sun, Y., Grossklags, J., & Jaeger, T. (2017) AWare: Preventing Abuse of Privacy-Sensitive Sensors via Operation Bindings. Proceedings of the 26th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security), pp. 379-396. Acceptance rate = 16.3%. Publisher Version (Open Access)
  68. Farhang, S. & Grossklags, J. (2017) When to Invest in Security? Empirical Evidence and a Game-Theoretic Approach for Time-Based Security. Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS). Papers are available on the workshop website. Author Version
  69. Pu. Y. & Grossklags, J. (2017) Valuating Friends' Privacy: Does Anonymity of Sharing Personal Data Matter? Proceedings of the Thirteenth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS), pp. 339-355. Acceptance rate = 26.5%. Publisher Version (Open Access)
  70. Bidgoli, M. & Grossklags, J. (2017) “Hello. This is the IRS calling.”: A Case Study on Scams, Extortion, Impersonation, and Phone Spoofing. Proceedings of the 2017 APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (eCrime), pp. 57-69. Best Paper Honorable Mention Award. Author Version Publisher Version
  71. Guan, L., Farhang, S., Pu, Y., Guo, P., Grossklags, J., & Liu, P. (2017) VaultIME: Regaining User Control for Password Managers through Auto-correction. Proceedings of the International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Systems (SecureComm), pp. 673-686. Author Version Publisher Version
  72. Nochenson, A. & Grossklags, J. (2017) I Didn’t Want That! An Experiment on Interventions for Deceptive Post-Transaction Marketing. Workshop on Technology and Consumer Protection (ConPro). Papers are available on the workshop website. Publisher Version (Open Access)
  73. Pu, Y. & Grossklags, J. (2016) Sharing Is Caring, or Callous? Proceedings of the International Conference on Cryptology and Network Security (CANS), pp. 670-680. Author Version Publisher Version
  74. Farhang, S. & Grossklags, J. (2016) FlipLeakage: A Game-theoretic Approach to Protect Against Stealthy Attackers in the Presence of Information Leakage. Proceedings of the Seventh Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security (GameSec), pp. 195-214. Author Version Publisher Version
  75. Bidgoli, M., Knijnenburg, B., & Grossklags, J. (2016) When Cybercrimes Strike Undergraduates. Proceedings of the 2016 APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (eCrime), pp. 42-51. Best Paper Award. Author Version Publisher Version
  76. Zhao, M., Laszka, A., Maillart, T., & Grossklags, J. (2016) Crowdsourced Security Vulnerability Discovery: Modeling and Organizing Bug-Bounty Programs. HCOMP Workshop on Mathematical Foundations of Human Computation. Papers are available on the workshop website. Author Version
  77. Laszka, A., Zhao, M., & Grossklags, J. (2016) Banishing Misaligned Incentives for Validating Reports in Bug-Bounty Platforms. Proceedings of the 21th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS), pp. 161-178. Conference held September 26-30, 2016, in Heraklion, Greece. Author Version Publisher Version (Public Access)
  78. Maillart, T., Zhao, M., Grossklags, J., & Chuang, J. (2016) Given Enough Eyeballs, All Bugs Are Shallow? Revisiting Eric Raymond with Bug Bounty Programs. Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS). Papers are available on the workshop website. Updated version available as journal paper.
  79. Bidgoli, M. & Grossklags, J. (2016) End User Cybercrime Reporting: What We Know and What We Can Do to Improve It. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Cybercrime and Computer Forensics (ICCCF). (6 pages). Conference held June 12-14, 2016, in Vancouver, Canada. Author Version Publisher Version
  80. Pu, Y. & Grossklags, J. (2015) Using Conjoint Analysis to Investigate the Value of Interdependent Privacy in Social App Adoption Scenarios. Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2015). Conference held December 12-16, 2015, in Fort Worth, TX. Author Version Publisher Version
  81. Johnson, B., Laszka, A., & Grossklags, J. (2015). Games of Timing for Security in Dynamic Environments. Proceedings of the Sixth Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security (GameSec). (17 pages). Conference held November 4-5, 2015, in London, UK. Author Version Publisher Version
  82. Zhao, M., Grossklags, J., & Liu, P. (2015). An Empirical Study of Web Vulnerability Discovery Ecosystems. Proceedings of the 22nd ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), pp. 1105-1117. Acceptance rate = 19.8%. Conference held October 12-16, 2015, in Denver, CO. Publisher Version (Public Access)
  83. Chessa, M., Grossklags, J., & Loiseau, P. (2015). A Game-Theoretic Study on Non-Monetary Incentives in Data Analytics Projects with Privacy Implications. Proceedings of the 28th IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium (CSF), pp. 90-104. Conference held July 13-17, 2015, in Verona, Italy. Publisher Version
  84. Laszka, A., & Grossklags, J. (2015) Should Cyber-Insurance Providers Invest in Software Security? Proceedings of the 20th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS), pp. 483-502. Acceptance rate < 20%. Conference held January 21–25, 2015, in Vienna, Austria. Author Version Publisher Version (Public Access)
  85. Chessa, M., Grossklags, J., & Loiseau, P. (2015). A Short Paper on the Incentives to Share Private Information for Population Estimates. Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC), pp. 427-436. Acceptance rate = 32.3%. Conference held January 26–30, 2015, in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Publisher Version
  86. Johnson, B., Laszka, A., & Grossklags, J. (2015). When Bitcoin Mining Pools Run Dry: A Game-Theoretic Analysis of the Long-Term Impact of Attacks Between Mining Pools. Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security, 2nd Workshop on Bitcoin Research. (pp. 15 pages). Conference and workshop held January 26–30, 2015, in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Author Version Publisher Version
  87. Zhao, M., Grossklags, J., & Chen, K. (2014). An Exploratory Study of White Hat Behaviors in a Web Vulnerability Disclosure Program. Proceedings of the 21st ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security; CCS Workshop on Security Information Workers, pp. 51-58. Workshop held November 7, 2014, in Scottsdale, AZ. Publisher Version
  88. Pu, Y., & Grossklags, J. (2014). An Economic Model and Simulation Results of App Adoption Decisions on Networks with Interdependent Privacy Consequences. Proceedings of the Fifth Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security (GameSec), pp. 246-265. Conference held November 6-7, 2014, Los Angeles, CA. Author Version Publisher Version
  89. Grossklags, J. & Reitter, D. (2014). How Task Familiarity and Cognitive Predispositions Impact Behavior in a Security Game of Timing. Proceedings of the 27th IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium (CSF), pp. 111-122. Acceptance rate = 34.9%. Conference held July 19-22, 2014, in Vienna, Austria. Author Version Publisher Version
  90. Laszka, A., Johnson, B., & Grossklags, J. (2014). The Complexity of Estimating Systematic Risk in Networks. Proceedings of the 27th IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium (CSF), pp. 325-336. Acceptance rate = 34.9%. Conference held July 19-22, 2014, in Vienna, Austria. Author Version Publisher Version
  91. Grossklags, J. & Barradale, N. (2014). Social Status and the Demand for Security and Privacy. Proceedings of the 14th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS), pp. 83-101. Acceptance rate = 18.6%. Conference held July 16-18, 2014, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Author Version Publisher Version
  92. Nochenson, A. & Grossklags, J. (2014). An Online Experiment on Consumers' Susceptibility to Fall for Post-Transaction Marketing Scams. Proceedings of the 22nd European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2014). (15 pages). Acceptance rate = 34.3%. Conference held June 9-11, 2014, in Tel Aviv, Israel. Author Version Publisher Version
  93. Xu, H., Wang, N., Wisniewski, P., & Grossklags, J. (2014). Default and Context: Investigating Facebook Users’ Privacy Perceptions and Behaviors of Installing Third-Party Apps. Workshop on the Future of Privacy Notice and Choice (FOPNAC). Workshop held June 27, 2014, in Pittsburgh, PA. Position paper. Papers are available on the workshop website. Author Version Archived Version (Internet Archive; Open Access) Archived Workshop Site (Internet Archive)
  94. Laszka, A., Johnson, B., & Grossklags, J. (2014). How Many Down? Toward Understanding System-wide Network Risk. Proceedings of the 9th ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security (AsiaCCS), pp. 495-500. Acceptance rate = 20.0%. Conference held June 4-6, 2014, in Kyoto, Japan. Publisher Version
  95. Laszka, A., Johnson, B., Grossklags, J., & Felegyhazi, M. (2014). Estimating Systematic Risk in Real-World Networks. Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC), pp. 417-435. Acceptance rate = 13.8% (for full papers). Conference held March 3-7, 2014, in Christ Church, Barbados. Publisher Version
  96. Johnson, B., Laszka, A., Grossklags, J., Vasek, M., & Moore, T. (2014). Game-Theoretic Analysis of DDoS Attacks Against Bitcoin Mining Pools. Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security, 1st Workshop on Bitcoin Research, pp. 72-86. Conference held March 3-7, 2014, in Christ Church, Barbados. Publisher Version
  97. Wang, N., Wisniewski, P., Xu, H., & Grossklags, J. (2014). Designing the Default Privacy Settings for Facebook Applications. Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW), Poster Papers, pp. 249-252. Conference held July 11-14, 2013, in Baltimore, Maryland. Publisher Version
  98. Laszka, A., Johnson, B., & Grossklags, J. (2013). Mitigating Covert Compromises: A Game-Theoretic Model of Targeted and Non-Targeted Covert Attacks. Proceedings of the 9th Conference on Web and Internet Economics (WINE), pp. 319-332. Acceptance rate = 24.0%. Conference held December 11 - 14, 2013, in Cambridge, MA. Author Version (and Technical Appendix) Publisher Version
  99. Böhme, R., & Grossklags, J. (2013). Trading Agent Kills Market Information: Evidence from Online Social Lending. Proceedings of the 9th Conference on Web and Internet Economics (WINE), pp. 68-81. Acceptance rate = 24.0%. Conference held December 11 - 14, 2013, in Cambridge, MA. Author Version Publisher Version
  100. Nochenson, A., Grossklags, J., & Lambert, K. (2013). Conducting an Internet Measurement Project in an Interdisciplinary Class Context: A Case Study. Proceedings of the 6th International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation, pp. 6938-6947. Conference held November 18 - 20, 2013, in Seville, Spain. Author Version Publisher Version
  101. Laszka, A., Johnson, B., & Grossklags, J. (2013). Mitigation of Targeted and Non-Targeted Covert Attacks as a Timing Game. Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security (GameSec), pp. 175-191. Conference held November 11-12, 2013, in Fort Worth, TX. Author Version Publisher Version
  102. Johnson, B., Schöttle, P., Laszka, A., Grossklags, J., & Böhme, R. (2013). Bitspotting: Detecting Optimal Adaptive Steganography. Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Digital-Forensics and Watermarking, pp. 3-18. Workshop held October 1 - 4, 2013, in Auckland, New Zealand. Author Version Publisher Version
  103. Schöttle, P., Johnson, B., Laszka, A., Grossklags, J., & Böhme, R. (2013). A Game-Theoretic Analysis of Content-Adaptive Steganography with Independent Embedding. Proceedings of the 21st European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO). Conference held September 9 - 13, 2013, in Marrakech, Marocco. Author Version Publisher Version
  104. Laszka, A., Johnson, B., Schöttle, P., Grossklags, J., & Böhme, R. (2013). Managing the Weakest Link: A Game-Theoretic Approach for the Mitigation of Insider Threats. Proceedings of the 18th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS), pp. 273-290. Acceptance rate = 17.8%. Conference held September 9 - 13, 2013, in Egham, UK. Author Version Publisher Version
  105. Reitter, D., Grossklags, J., & Nochenson, A. (2013). Risk-Seeking in a Continuous Game of Timing. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (ICCM), pp. 397-403. Conference held July 11-14, 2013, in Ottawa, Canada. Author Version Publisher Version
  106. Nochenson, A., & Grossklags, J. (2013). A Behavioral Investigation of the FlipIt Game. Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS). (18 pages). Workshop held June 11-12, 2013, in Washington, D.C. Author Version Open Access
  107. Wang, N., Grossklags, J., & Xu, H. (2013). An Online Experiment of Privacy Authorization Dialogues for Social Applications. Proceedings of the 16th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2013), pp. 261-272. Acceptance rate 35.6%. Conference held May 20-23, in San Antonio, TX. Author Version Publisher Version
  108. Xu, H., Wang, N., & Grossklags, J. (2013). Translating IUIPC into Design: The Case of Third-Party Applications on Facebook. Workshop on Measuring Networked Social Privacy: Qualitative & Quantitative Approaches, at the 16th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW). Author Version Publisher Version (Open Access)
  109. Xu, H., Grossklags, J., & Wang, N. (2012). Privacy-by-ReDesign: Alleviating Privacy Concerns for Third-Party Applications. Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS). Acceptance rate = 29.2%. Conference held December 16 - 19, 2012, in Orlando, Florida. Author Version Publisher Version
  110. Vratonjic, N., Manshaei, M., Grossklags, J., & Hubaux, J.-P. (2012). Ad-blocking Games: Monetizing Online Content Under the Threat of Ad Avoidance. Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS). Papers are available on the workshop website.
  111. Johnson, B., Chuang, J., Grossklags, J., & Christin, N. (2012). Metrics for Measuring ISP Badness: The Case of Spam. Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC), pp. 89-97. Acceptance rate = 26.1%. Conference held February 27 - March 2, 2012, in Kralendijk, Bonaire. Author Version Publisher Version
  112. Wang, N., Xu, H., & Grossklags, J. (2011). Third-Party Apps on Facebook: Privacy and the Illusion of Control. Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Computer Human Interaction for Management of Information Technology (CHIMIT). (10 pages). Conference held December 4-5, 2011, in Boston, MA. Author Version Publisher Version
  113. Johnson, B., Böhme, R., & Grossklags, J. (2011). Security Games with Market Insurance. Proceedings of the Second Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security (GameSec), pp. 117-130. Conference held November 14-15, 2011, in College Park, MD. Author Version Publisher Version
  114. Böhme, R., & Grossklags, J. (2011). The Security Cost of Cheap User Interaction. Proceedings of the Fourteenth New Security Paradigms Workshop (NSPW), pp. 67-82. Acceptance rate = 38%. Workshop held September 12-15, 2011, in Marin County, CA. Publisher Version
  115. Böhme, R., & Grossklags, J. (2011). Vanishing Signals: Trading Agent Kills Market Information (Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Online Social Lending). Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on the Economics of Networks, Systems and Computation (NetEcon). Acceptance rate = 35%. Workshop held June 6, 2011, in San Jose, CA. Publisher Version (Extended Abstract)
  116. Grossklags, J., Appel, L., & Bridges, F. (2011). Young Adults and Online Political Participation: Search Strategies and the Role of Social Media. Proceedings of the 12th International Digital Government Research Conference (dg.o 2011), pp. 302-306. Conference held June 12-15, 2011, in College Park, MD. Author Version Publisher Version
  117. Johnson, B., Grossklags, J., Christin, N., & Chuang, J. (2011). Nash Equilibria for Weakest Target Security Games with Heterogeneous Agents. Proceedings of the 2nd International ICST Conference on Game Theory for Networks (GameNets), pp. 444-458. Conference held April 16-18, 2011, in Shanghai, China. Author Version Publisher Version
  118. Christin, N., Egelman, S., Vidas, T., & Grossklags, J. (2011). It's All About the Benjamins: An Empirical Study on Incentivizing Users to Ignore Security Advice. Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conferencce on Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC), pp. 16-30. Acceptance rate = 20%. Conference held February 28 - March 4, 2011, in Rodney Bay, St. Lucia. Author Version Publisher Version
  119. Johnson, B., Grossklags, J., Christin, N., & Chuang, J. (2010). Uncertainty in Interdependent Security Games. Proceedings of the 1st Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security (GameSec), pp. 234-244. Acceptance rate = 33.0%. Conference held November 22-23, 2010, in Berlin, Germany. Author Version Publisher Version
  120. Johnson, B., Grossklags, J., Christin, N., & Chuang, J. (2010). Are Security Experts Useful? Bayesian Nash Equilibria for Network Security Games with Limited Information. Proceedings of the 15th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS), pp. 588-606. Paper acceptance rate: 20.8%. Conference held September 20-22, 2010, in Athens, Greece. Author Version Publisher Version
  121. Grossklags, J., Radosavac, S., Cardenas, A., & Chuang, J. (2010). Nudge: Intermediaries' Role in Interdependent Network Security. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Trust and Trustworthy Computing (TRUST 2010), pp. 323-336. Conference held June 21-23, 2010, in Berlin, Germany. Publisher Version [Complementary poster paper at SAC 2010: Publisher Version]
  122. Grossklags, J., Johnson, B., & Christin, N. (2010). When Information Improves Information Security. Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC), pp. 416-423. Acceptance rate = 26.1%. Conference held January 25-28, 2010, in Tenerife, Spain. Author Version (Extended) Publisher Version
  123. Grossklags, J., Johnson, B., & Christin, N. (2009). The Price of Uncertainty in Security Games. Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS). Workshop held June 24-25, 2009, in London, UK. Author Version
  124. Grossklags, J., & Johnson, B. (2009). Uncertainty in the Weakest-link Security Game. Proceedings of the International Conference on Game Theory for Networks (GameNets), pp. 673-682. Conference held May 13-15, 2009, in Istanbul, Turkey. Author Version Publisher Version
  125. Fultz, N., & Grossklags, J. (2009). Blue versus Red: Towards a Model of Distributed Security Attacks. Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC), pp. 167-183. Acceptance rate = 22%. Conference held February 23 - 26, 2009, in Christ Church, Barbados. Author Version Publisher Version
  126. Grossklags, J., Christin, N., & Chuang, J. (2008). Security and Insurance Management in Networks with Heterogeneous Agents. Proceedings of the 9th ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC), pp. 160-169. Acceptance rate = 19%. Conference held July 8 - 12, 2008, in Chicago, IL. Author Version Publisher Version
  127. Grossklags, J., Christin, N., & Chuang, J. (2008). Predicted and Observed User Behavior in the Weakest-Link Security Game. Proceedings of the 2008 USENIX Workshop on Usability, Psychology, and Security (UPSEC'08). (6 pages). Conference held April 14, 2008, in San Francisco, CA. Author Version Publisher Version
  128. Grossklags, J., Christin, N., & Chuang, J. (2008). Secure or Insure? A Game-Theoretic Analysis of Information Security Games. Proceedings of the 17th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), pp. 209-218. Acceptance Rate = 11% (for full papers). Conference held April 21 - 25, 2008, in Beijing, China. Author Version Publisher Version
  129. Grossklags, J. (2007). Experimental Economics and Experimental Computer Science: A Survey. Proceedings of the Workshop on Experimental Computer Science (ExpCS'07). (11 pages). Workshop held June 13-14. 2007, in San Diego, CA. Author Version Publisher Version
  130. Grossklags, J., & Acquisti, A. (2007). When 25 Cents is Too Much: An Experiment on Willingness-To-Sell and Willingness-To-Protect Personal Information. Sixth Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS). (22 pages). Conference held June 7- 8, 2007, in Pittsburgh, PA. Papers are available on the workshop website. Author Version
  131. Good, N., Grossklags, J., Mulligan, D., & Konstan, J. (2007). Noticing Notice: A Large-Scale Experiment on the Timing of Software License Agreements. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), pp. 607-616. Acceptance Rate = 25%. Conference held April 28 - May 3, 2007, in San Jose, CA. Author Version Publisher Version
  132. Grossklags, J., & Good, N. (2007). Empirical Studies on Software Notices to Inform Policy Makers and Usability Designers. Proceedings of the Workshop on Usable Security (USEC), pp. 341-355. Published in Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), No. 4886, Springer Verlag. Conference held February 15-16, 2007, in Scarborough, Trinidad/Tobago. Publisher Version
  133. Good, N., Dhamija, R., Grossklags, J., Aronovitz, S., Thaw, D., Mulligan, D., & Konstan, J. (2005). Stopping Spyware at the Gate: A User Study of Privacy, Notice and Spyware. Proceedings of the Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS), pp. 43-52. Acceptance Rate = 26%. Conference held July 6-8, 2005, in Pittsburgh, PA. Author Version Publisher Version
  134. Acquisti, A., & Grossklags, J. (2005). Uncertainty, Ambiguity and Privacy. Workshop Economics and Information Security (WEIS). Workshop held June 2-3, 2005, in Boston, MA. Papers are available on the workshop website.
  135. Christin, N., Grossklags, J., & Chuang, J. (2004). Near Rationality and Competitive Equilibria in Networked Systems. Proceedings of the SIGCOMM Workshop on Practice and Theory of Incentives in Networked Systems (PINS), pp. 213-219. Acceptance Rate = 25%. Workshop held August 30 - September 3, 2004, in Portland, OR. Author Version Publisher Version (Public Access)
  136. Acquisti, A., & Grossklags, J. (2004). Privacy and Rationality: Preliminary Evidence from Pilot Data. Workshop Economics and Information Security (WEIS). Workshop held May 13-14, 2004, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Papers are available on the workshop website.
  137. Grossklags, J., & Schmidt, C. (2003). Artificial Software Agents on Thin Double Auction Markets: A Human Trader Experiment. Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE/WIC International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT), pp. 400-407. Acceptance Rate = 23%. Conference held October 13-17, 2003, in Halifax, Canada. Author Version Publisher Version
  138. Acquisti, A., & Grossklags, J. (2003). Losses, Gains, and Hyperbolic Discounting: An Experimental Approach to Information Security Attitudes and Behavior. Workshop Economics and Information Security (WEIS). Conference held May 29-30, 2003, in College Park, MD. Papers are available on the workshop website. Author Version
  139. Ghose, A., Grossklags, J., & Chuang, J. (2003). Resilient Data-Centric Storage in Wireless Ad-Hoc Sensor Networks. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM), sponsored by ACM SIGMOD, ACM SIGMOBILE and the Australian Computer Society/ACS, pp. 45-62. Best paper award (87 submissions). Acceptance rate = 24%. Conference held 21-24 January, 2003, in Melbourne, Australia. Author Version Publisher Version
  140. Spiekermann, S., Grossklags, J., & Berendt, B. (2001). E-privacy in 2nd Generation E-Commerce: Privacy Preferences Versus Actual Behavior. Proceedings of the Third ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC), pp. 38-47. Acceptance Rate < 20%. Conference held October 14-17, in Tampa, FL. Author Version Publisher Version
  141. Spiekermann, S., Grossklags, J., & Berendt, B. (2001). Stated Privacy Preferences versus Actual Behaviour in EC environments: A Reality Check. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference Wirtschaftsinformatik (Business Informatics) - 3rd Conference Information Systems in Finance (WI-IF 2001), pp. 129-148. Best Paper Award. Conference held September 19-21, 2001, in Augsburg, Germany. Author Version Publisher Version
  142. Grossklags, J., & Schmidt, C. (2000). Dumb Software Agents on Experimental Electronic Markets. Proceedings of Informatiktage 2000 (Fachwissenschaftlicher Informatik-Kongress). Conference held October 27-28, 2000, in Bad Schussenried, Germany. Author Version (Extended Working Paper)

Book Chapters

  1. Chen, M., Engelmann, S., & Grossklags, J. (2023) Social Credit System and Privacy. In: S. Trepte, P. Masur (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Privacy and Social Media, pp. 227-236, Routledge. Publisher Version (Open Access)
  2. Vratonjic, N., Manshaei, M., Grossklags, J., & Hubaux, J.-P. (2013) Ad-blocking Games: Monetizing Online Content Under the Threat of Ad Avoidance, In: R. Böhme (Ed.), The Economics of Information Security and Privacy, pp. 49-73. Springer Verlag. Author Version Publisher Version
  3. Grossklags, J., Johnson, B., & Christin, N. (2010). The Price of Uncertainty in Security Games. In: T. Moore, D. Pym, C. Ioannidis (Eds.), Economics of Information Security and Privacy, pp. 9-32. New York/Dordrecht/Heidelberg/London: Springer. Lead article. Publisher Version
  4. Christin, N., Chuang, J., & Grossklags, J. (2008). Economics-Informed Design of Content Delivery Networks. In: R. Buyya, A. Pathan, A. Vakali (Eds.), Content Delivery Networks: Principles and Paradigms, pp. 183-210. New York/Dordrecht/Heidelberg/London: Springer. Publisher Version
  5. Acquisti, A., & Grossklags, J. (2007). What Can Behavioral Economics Teach Us About Privacy? In: A. Acquisti, S. Gritzalis, C. Lambrinoudakis, S. Di Vimercati (Eds.), Digital Privacy: Theory, Technologies, and Practices, pp. 363-379. Boca Raton: Auerbach Publications. Publisher Version
  6. Good, N., Dhamija, R., Grossklags, J., Aronovitz, S., Thaw, D., Mulligan, D., & Konstan, J. (2007). Stopping Spyware at the Gate: A User Study of Privacy, Notice and Spyware. Spyware - An Insight, pp. 81-109. Andhra Pradesh: Icfai University Press. Reprint of conference publication.
  7. Acquisti, A., & Grossklags, J. (2005). Privacy and Rationality: Theory and Evidence. In: K. Strandburg, D. Raicu (Eds.), Privacy and Technologies of Identity: A Cross-Disciplinary Conversation, pp. 15-29. New York/Dordrecht/Heidelberg/London: Springer. Publisher Version
  8. Acquisti, A., & Grossklags, J. (2004). Privacy Attitudes and Privacy Behavior: Losses, Gains, and Hyperbolic Discounting. In: Jean Camp and Stephen Lewis (Eds.), The Economics of Information Security, pp. 165-178. Boston/Dordecht/London: Kluwer Academic Publishers. Publisher Version

Special Issues (Journals)

  1. Biczók, G., Huguenin, K., Humbert, M., and Grossklags, J. (2022) Managing Multi-Party, Interdependent Privacy Risk. Computers & Security, Vol. 115. Publisher Site
  2. Böhme, R., Clayton, R., Grossklags, J., Ligett, K., Loiseau, P., and Schwartz, G. (2018) Special Issue on the Economics of Security and Privacy. ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, Vol. 18, No. 4. Editors' Introduction
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