Virtual Goods - Call for Papers

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Call for Papers

3rd International Workshop for
Technical, Economic and Legal Aspects of Business Models for
Virtual Goods

30 November - 2 December 2005 on AXMEDIS 2005 in Florence, Italy.

http://VirtualGoods.tu-ilmenau.de
Virtual Goods 2005 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"). Existing approaches to digital rights management (DRM) are proprietary and mutual incompatible, they establish small closed user groups. It is time for a change.

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 technology which supports a balance of interest between creators, providers and consumers of digital goods. Current technology does not give satisfactory 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 would like to assess carefully existing DRM technologies and business models. In particular we are looking for alternative models and their technological and legal impacts. We expressly welcome research contributions from different fields, including computer sciences, economics, business and law.

Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to, the following aspects (new!!):

business models for virtual goods
incentive and community management for virtual goods
economic and legal aspects of virtual goods

Paper Submission Guidelines (new !!)

Papers should be in Portable Document Format (.pdf).
Papers should be written in English.
Detailed information will found on the AXMEDIS pages: http://www.axmedis.org/axmedis2005/call4papers.html

The suggested style for the submission can be recovered from the following example:

$download TXT$

Submit your paper to:juergen.nuetzel(at)tu-ilmenau.de

Publishing (new !!)

Accepted papers will published within the "industrial part" of the AXMEDIS conference proceedings.

Technical Commitee

General chair:

Rüdiger Grimm

Multimedia Applications
Technical University Ilmenau
ruediger.grimm(at)tu-ilmenau.de

Program chair:

Jürgen Nützel

Multimedia Applications
Technical University Ilmenau
juergen.nuetzel(at)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

Important Dates (New !!!)

July 20th, 2005	Full papers submitted
August 20th, 2005	Notification of acceptance
September 2nd, 2005	Camera-ready papers due
November 30th - December 2nd, 2005	Workshop in Florence

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