Virtual Goods - Call for Papers

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Call for Papers

4th International Workshop for
Technical, Economic and Legal Aspects of Business Models for
Virtual Goods

December 13 -15, 2006 on AXMEDIS 2006 in Leeds, England.

http://VirtualGoods.tu-ilmenau.de
Virtual Goods 2006 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
infrastructure services for virtual goods businesses

Paper Submission Guidelines

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/axmedis2006/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

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

Technical Commitee

Rüdiger Grimm
Universitaet Koblenz
grimm(at)uni-koblenz.de

Jürgen Nützel
Technische Universitaet Ilmenau and 4FriendsOnly.com InternetTechnologies AG
juergen.nuetzel(at)tu-ilmenau.de

Program Committee

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
Jana Dittmann, Uni Magdeburg, DE
Ed Gerck, Safevote Inc., San Rafael, CA, USA
Ruediger Grimm, University of Koblenz, DE (chair)
Paul Judge, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Peter Kropf, Université de Montréal, CAN
Deepa Kundur, University of Toronto, CAN
Victor Larios-Rosillo, Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico
Ulrike Lechner, Uni Bremen, DE
Paolo Nesi, University of Florence, IT
Juergen Nuetzel, Technical University Ilmenau, DE (chair)
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

Extended to August 12, 2006	Full papers submitted
August 25, 2006	Notification of acceptance
September 2, 2006	Camera-ready papers due
December 13 -15, 2006	Workshop in Leeds

Short form: http://virtualgoods.tu-ilmenau.de/2006/cfp_short.txt

News

03/20/2006 Virtual Goods joins the 2nd AXMEDIS Conference in Leeds.

07/23/2006 Deadline extended to August 12.

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