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Call for Papers
International Workshop for
Technology, Economy, Social and Legal Aspects of
Virtual Goods,
May 22 - 24 2003 in Ilmenau, Germany.
http://VirtualGoods.tu-ilmenau.de
Sponsorship by the GI Working Group ECOM
Sponsorship by IFIP Working Group 6.11 Communication Systems in Electronic Commerce
What it is about
The protection of intellectual property rights (IPR) in the Internet is difficult,
because it is simple and cheap to copy, transfer and consume digital content, e.g.,
MP3 music, Flash films, or electronic articles. Napster (meanwhile out of market
after domination by BMG with no success), Gnutella and Freenet demonstrate how easy
the Internet can be used to circumvent the authorized content providers. There are
even future scenarios where no high-level music products will exist any more.
Exisiting approaches to solve the problem are proprietary and mutual incompatible,
they establish small closed user groups. Moreover, they haven´t overcome a
fundamental conflict between content providers and consumers. Content providers try
to restrict the usage of their products by their customers in order to prevent
unlicensed distribution. On the other hand, customers ignore these restrictions and
share files for free. Content providers and customers treat one another as enemies
with conflicting interests. Current technology does not give satsifactory answers.
We are convinced that any business model of virtual goods must include not only the
virtual objects, but also the human actors and their personal and economic interest.
The goal of this conference is to bring together experts from scientific and practical fields, researchers from different disciplines, developers, and users all
interested in electronic commerce of virtual goods and to assess current methodologies and to bring forward new research directions.
We expressly welcome research contributions from different fields, including computer sciences, economics, business, law, human sciences and other relevant disciplines.
Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to, the following aspects:
- Digital rights management
- Peer-to-Peer systems
- Payment for virtual goods
- New business models for virtual goods
- Solution architectures
- Legal aspects
- Inter-cultural aspects
- Security and privacy
- Content protection
- Watermarking
- Cryptographic mechanisms
- Virtual phenomena, e.g., presence, id, storage...
- Semantic content, e.g. recognition, plagiarism, identification
Paper Submission Guidelines
- Papers should be in Portable Document Format (.pdf).
- Papers should be written in English and typed in at least 1-1/2 line spacing in a font no smaller than 11-point.
- All material on each page must be printable within a rectangle of 18 x 23.5 cm (7" x 9.25") in a single column format.
- The total number of pages should not exceed 12 pages.
- The cover page or first page of each paper should include:
- title
- link to http://VirtualGoods.tu-ilmenau.de/2003/name_of_paper.pdf
- author name(s)
- affiliation(s) and e-mail address(es)
- abstract
- Personal vitae of the author(s) can be attached at the end of the paper as an option.
- All paper submissions need to be sent to juergen.nuetzel@tu-ilmenau.de.
Publishing in the Web
Accepted papers will published exclusively in Web.
The papers will be found under the following address http://VirtualGoods.tu-ilmenau.de/2003/name_of_paper.pdf.
The cover page or first page of each paper should include this link.
The copyright remains with the authors without restriction. However, for
any other publication a reference (link) to Virtual Goods Workshop is required.
Technical Commitee
General chair:
Rüdiger Grimm
Multimedia Applications
Technical University Ilmenau
ruediger.grimm@tu-ilmenau.de
Program chair:
Jürgen Nützel
Computer Architectures
Technical University Ilmenau
juergen.nuetzel@tu-ilmenau.de
Local chair:
Thomas Böhme
Institute of Mathematics
Technical University Ilmenau
thomas.boehme@mathematik.tu-ilmenau.de
Program Committee
Juergen Nuetzel, Technical University Ilmenau, DE (chair)
Nathaniel Borenstein, IBM Lotus Division, Ann Arbor MI, USA
Borka J. Blazic, University and Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, SLO
Karlheinz Brandenburg, Technical University Ilmenau, DE
David W Chadwick, University of Salford, Manchester, UK
Ee-Chien Chang, National University of Singapore, SG
Jana Dittmann, Uni Magdeburg, DE
Sandro Etalle, University of Twente, NL
Ed Gerck, Safevote Inc., San Rafael, CA, USA
Daniel J. Greenwood, MIT, Boston MA, USA
Paul Judge, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Peter Kropf, Université de Montréal, CAN
Dirk Kuhlmann, Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK
Deepa Kundur, University of Toronto, CAN
Victor Larios-Rosillo, Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico
Ulrike Lechner, Uni Bremen, DE
Paolo Nesi, University of Florence, IT
Günther Pernul, Uni Regensburg, DE
Ted Selker, MIT, Boston, MA, USA
Einar Stefferud, Internet Visionary, Huntington Beach, CA, USA
Frank Stoll, UBS, Zürich, CH
Volker Tschammer, Fraunhofer Fokus and Chairman of IFIP WG 6.11, Berlin, DE
Herwig Unger, Uni Rostock, DE
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Important Dates
Extended to March 10, 2003 |
Full papers submitted |
April 5, 2003 |
Notification of acceptance |
April 20, 2003 |
Deadline for registration |
May 1, 2003 |
Web-ready papers due |
May 1, 2003 |
Deadline for payment |
May 22 - 24, 2003 |
Workshop in Ilmenau |
Short form:
http://virtualgoods.tu-ilmenau.de/2003/cfp_short.txt
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