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Overview

Rainer Böhme is affiliated with the University of Innsbruck in Austria and has contributed extensively to research in computer science, with a particular focus on information systems, artificial intelligence, and computer vision. Their work spans into interdisciplinary areas including sociology, political science, and finance.

The scientist's recent publications cover various topics such as decentralized cryptocurrency exchanges, synthetic visual perception, privacy preference signals, and cyber insurance economics. Among notable papers are:

  • The Rise of Decentralized Cryptocurrency Exchanges: Evaluating the Role of Airdrops and Governance Tokens, 2023, Journal of Corporate Finance
  • More Real Than Real: A Study on Human Visual Perception of Synthetic Faces [Applications Corner], 2021, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine
  • The Rise of Decentralized Cryptocurrency Exchanges: Evaluating the Role of Airdrops and Governance Tokens, 2021, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Privacy Preference Signals: Past, Present and Future, 2021, Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies
  • Economics of incident response panels in cyber insurance, 2024, Computers & Security

Böhme's frequent collaborators include Daniel Woods, Pietro Saggese, Alessandro Belmonte, Nicola Dimitri, and Angelo Facchini. These collaborations reflect a breadth of research connections across the field of computer science.

The primary publication venues for Böhme's research encompass both preprint and peer-reviewed journals, including:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Computers & Security
  • Communications of the ACM
  • IEEE Security & Privacy

The scientist's research focuses on several main topics, detailing both theoretical and applied aspects within computer science:

  • Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
  • Privacy, Security, and Data Protection
  • Cybercrime and Law Enforcement Studies
  • Digital Media Forensic Detection
  • Advanced Malware Detection Techniques
  • Financial Markets and Investment Strategies
  • Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data

Best Publications

  • Bitcoin: economics, technology, and governance

    Rainer Böhme;Nicolas Christin;Benjamin Edelman;Tyler Moore

  • The 'Dresden Image Database' for benchmarking digital image forensics

    Thomas Gloe;Rainer Böhme

  • Measuring the Cost of Cybercrime

    Ross Anderson;Chris Barton;Rainer Böhme;Richard Clayton

  • An inquiry into money laundering tools in the Bitcoin ecosystem

    Malte Moser;Rainer Bohme;Dominic Breuker

  • The Challenges of Personal Data Markets and Privacy

    Sarah Spiekermann;Alessandro Acquisti;Rainer Böhme;Kai Lung Hui

  • Moving steganography and steganalysis from the laboratory into the real world

    Andrew D. Ker;Patrick Bas;Rainer Böhme;Rémi Cogranne

  • Modeling Cyber-Insurance: Towards A Unifying Framework

    Rainer Böhme;Galina Schwartz

  • Can we trust digital image forensics

    Thomas Gloe;Matthias Kirchner;Antje Winkler;Rainer Böhme

  • Perceived Benefit and Risk as Multidimensional Determinants of Bitcoin Use: A Quantitative Exploratory Study

    Svetlana Abramova;Rainer Böhme

  • Hiding Traces of Resampling in Digital Images

    M. Kirchner;R. Bohme

  • Revisiting weighted stego-image steganalysis

    Andrew D. Ker;Rainer Böhme

  • Models and Measures for Correlation in Cyber-Insurance

    Rainer Böhme;Gaurav Kataria

  • Trained to accept?: a field experiment on consent dialogs

    Rainer Böhme;Stefan Köpsell

  • Exploiting preserved statistics for steganalysis

    Rainer Böhme;Andreas Westfeld

  • Counter-Forensics: Attacking Image Forensics

    Rainer Böhme;Matthias Kirchner

  • Trends, Tips, Tolls: A Longitudinal Study of Bitcoin Transaction Fees

    Malte Möser;Rainer Böhme

  • Multiple Purposes, Multiple Problems: A User Study of Consent Dialogs after GDPR

    Dominique Machuletz;Rainer Böhme

  • Advanced Statistical Steganalysis

    Rainer Böhme

  • Security metrics and security investment models

    Rainer Böhme

  • Security Economics and European Policy.

    Ross J. Anderson;Rainer Böhme;Richard Clayton;Tyler Moore

  • Breaking Cauchy Model-Based JPEG Steganography with First Order Statistics

    Rainer Böhme;Andreas Westfeld

Frequent Co-Authors

Tyler Moore
Tyler Moore University of Tulsa
Jens Grossklags
Jens Grossklags Technical University of Munich
Alessandro Acquisti
Alessandro Acquisti Carnegie Mellon University
Felix C. Freiling
Felix C. Freiling University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Ross Anderson
Ross Anderson University of Cambridge
Wouter Joosen
Wouter Joosen KU Leuven
George Danezis
George Danezis University College London
Nicolas Christin
Nicolas Christin Carnegie Mellon University
Stefan Savage
Stefan Savage University of California, San Diego
Thorsten Holz
Thorsten Holz Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy

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