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Call for Papers
6th International Workshop for Technical, Economic and Legal Aspects
of Business Models for Virtual Goods
incorporating the 4th International ODRL Workshop
Oct 16 - 18 2008 in Poznan, Poland.
http://www.VirtualGoods.org/2008
Virtual Goods + ODRL 2008 is organized by the IFIP Working Group
6.11 Communication Systems in Electronic Commerce
and with the support of the German GI Working Group E-Commerce.
1. SHORT DESCRIPTION
What it is about
With the rise of new digital music portals, the development
of copyright laws world-wide and the increasing success of
alternative models, the discussion on digital rights management
is even more intense than ever before. Digital content, e.g.,
MP3 music, flash films, or electronic books, is coming up more
and more in the Internet, and doubts that technical protection
alone will suffice are increasing. Existing technical approaches
to digital rights protection are proprietary and mutual
incompatible, they establish 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 technology
which supports a balance of interests 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 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.
2. TOPICS LIST
Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to, the following aspects:
- New business models
- Solution architectures
- Peer-to-Peer systems
- Digital rights management: technical solutions, user acceptance
- Content protection (watermarking, encryption, signatures)
- ODRL Rights Expression Language
- ODRL Profiles and Applications
- Web 2.0
- Impact on grid networks
- Impact on mobile and wireless communication
- Fraud management
- Security and privacy
- Economic role of the actors
- Impact on the society
- E-culture participation
3. PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
- We expect camera-ready papers by August 22, 2008
- Camera-ready papers should be in Word format (.doc)
- Word users may use this new word template
- Tex users are kindly asked to imitate the word template. They may ask for support by the PC chairs
Submit your paper to:
grimm at uni-koblenz.de and
hundacker at uni-koblenz.de and
cellary at kti.ae.poznan.pl
4. Conference Proceedings and Publishing in the Web
Accepted papers will be printed in a Conference Proceedings Volume
published by the Poznan University of Economics Publishing House and
distributed among participants during the conference.
Abstracts of presentation will be published in the Web at http://www.virtualgoods.org/2008
5. CHAIRS:
GENERAL CHAIRS:
Wojciech Cellary
Information Technology
The Poznan University of Economics
cellary(at)kti.ae.poznan.pl
Jürgen Nützel
Informatics - Digital Rights Management
4FriendsOnly.com Internet Technologies AG, Ilmenau
jn(at)4fo.de
PC CHAIRS:
Rüdiger Grimm
IT Risk management
University Koblenz-Landau
grimm(at)uni-koblenz.de
Susanne Guth
Vodafone Düsseldorf
susanne(at)odrl.net
6. Invited speakers:
Renato Iannella (renato(at)nicta.com.au) on the "Policy-Aware Web"
Leonardo Chiariglione (info(at)chiariglione.org) on the Digital Media Project
Kazimierz Krzysztofek Emerging web native world and the institutional time lag
7. Program Committee
Borka J. Blazic, University and Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, SLO
Nathaniel Borenstein, IBM Lotus Division, Ann Arbor MI, USA
Karlheinz Brandenburg, Technical University Ilmenau, DE
Wojciech Cellary, The Poznan University of Economics, PL (General chair)
Jana Dittmann, Uni Magdeburg, DE
Ed Gerck, Safevote Inc., San Rafael, CA, USA
Ruediger Grimm, University of Koblenz, DE (PC chair)
Susanne Guth, Vodafone, DE (PC chair)
Berthold Hass, University in Koblenz, DE
Thomas Hess, University Munich, DE
Renato Iannella, National ICT Australia (NICTA), AU
Peter Kropf, Université de Neuchâtel, CH, and Université de Montréal, CAN
Kazimierz Krzysztofek, Warsaw Foundation Pro Cultura, PL
Deepa Kundur, Texas A&M University, USA
Kia Ng, University Leeds, UK
Juergen Nuetzel, 4FriendsOnly.com AG, Ilmenau, DE (General co-chair)
Günther Pernul, Uni Regensburg, DE
Frank Stoll, UBS, Zürich, CH
Herwig Unger, Fernuniversitaet Hagen, DE
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8. IMPORTANT DATES
June 1, 2008 |
Full papers submitted |
July 15, 2008 |
Notification of acceptance |
September 1, 2008 |
Print-ready papers due |
September 15, 2008 |
Deadline for registration |
October 1, 2008 |
Web-ready presentations due |
October 16 - 18, 2008 |
Workshop in Poznan |
November 15, 2008 |
rewritten articles due ready for final book |
Spring, 2009 |
Final Book available |
Text only:
http://www.virtualgoods.org/2008/VG2008_CfP.txt
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