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Call for Papers
2nd International Workshop for
Technology, Economy, Social and Legal Aspects of
Virtual Goods,
May 27 - 29 2004 in Ilmenau, Germany.
http://VirtualGoods.tu-ilmenau.de
Virtual Goods 2004 is organized by the GI Working Group E-Commerce and
in parallel with 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 text
documents (the "Napster/Kazaa phenomenon").There are even future
scenarios where no high-level music will be produced any more. Exisiting
approaches to solve the problem are proprietary and mutual incompatible,
they establish small closed user groups. Moreover, they overestimate the
technical chances to transfer usage rules of physical goods to the
digital world by control of end-user devices.
Any business model of virtual goods must include not only the virtual
objects and their technical control functions, but also the human actors
and their personal and economic interest. What is needed is a simple and
safe technololgy which supports a balance of interests between creators,
providers and consumers of digital goods. Current technology does not
give satsifactory answers.
The goal of this conference is to bring together experts from scientific
and practical fields, researchers from different disciplines,
developers, and users interested in electronic commerce of virtual
goods. We will assess current methodologies and 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 systems
- New business models
- Solution architectures
- Legal aspects
- Inter-cultural aspects
- Security and privacy
- Content protection
- Watermarking
- Cryptographic mechanisms
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/2004/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(at)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/2004/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(at)tu-ilmenau.de
Program chair:
Jürgen Nützel
Computer Architectures
Technical University Ilmenau
juergen.nuetzel(at)tu-ilmenau.de
Local chair:
Thomas Böhme
Institute of Mathematics
Technical University Ilmenau
thomas.boehme(at)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
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
Christian Neubauer, Fraunhofer IIS Erlangen, 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
Extented to March 16, 2004 |
Full papers submitted |
April 5, 2004 |
Notification of acceptance |
April 20, 2004 |
Deadline for registration |
May 1, 2004 |
Web-ready papers due |
May 1, 2004 |
Deadline for payment |
May 27 - 29, 2004 |
Workshop in Ilmenau |
Short form:
http://virtualgoods.tu-ilmenau.de/2004/cfp_short.txt
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