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Call for Papers
7th International Workshop for Technical, Economic and Legal Aspects
of Business Models for Virtual Goods
incorporating the 5th International ODRL Workshop
Nancy, 22 Sep 2009, France.
in co-location with IFIP I3E, 23-25 Sep 2009
and with ODRL group meeting 21 Sep 2009
http://www.VirtualGoods.org/2009
Virtual Goods + ODRL 2009 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 of virtual goods
- Peer-to-peer distribution systems
- Web service infrastructures of securing virtual goods
- Digital rights management: technical solutions, user acceptance
- Content protection (watermarking, encryption, signatures)
- Rights and policy expression languages, esp. but not only ODRL
- ODRL profiles and applications
- Rights expression/policy models
- Policy aware Web
- Interoperability within rights expression/policy languages
- Economic models of pure virtual environments (Second Life, etc)
- Underground markets: malware, copyright infringement, etc.
- Digital libraries
- Forensics of digital rights
- Economic role of the actors
- Impact on the society
- E-culture participation
- Social networks
- Social commerce
3. PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
- We expect full papers by April 30, 2009
- 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:
Alapan.Arnab(at)t-systems.co.za and
jn(at)4fo.de
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/2009
5. CHAIRS:
General Co-Chairs:
Wojciech Cellary
Information Technology
The Poznan University of Economics
cellary(at)kti.ae.poznan.pl
Rüdiger Grimm
IT Risk management
University Koblenz-Landau
grimm(at)uni-koblenz.de
Program Committee Co-Chairs:
Alapan Arnab
T-Systems, South Africa
Alapan.Arnab(at)t-systems.co.za
Jürgen Nützel
Informatics - Digital Rights Management
4FriendsOnly.com Internet Technologies AG, Ilmenau
jn(at)4fo.de
Local Organization Chair:
Gérôme Canals
Nancy University, France
gerome.canals(at)loria.fr
Steering Committee:
Rüdiger Grimm and
Jürgen Nützel
(with respect to Virtual Goods long-term:
responsible for continuity of Virtual Goods workshops beyond 2009)
6. Program Committee
Alapan Arnab, T-Systems, South Africa (PC co-chair)
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 co-chair)
Jana Dittmann, Uni Magdeburg, DE
Ed Gerck, Safevote Inc., San Rafael, CA, USA
Ruediger Grimm, University of Koblenz, DE (General co-chair)
Susanne Guth, Vodafone, DE
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, and Warsaw School of Social Psychology, PL
Deepa Kundur, Texas A&M University, USA
Kia Ng, University Leeds, UK
Juergen Nuetzel, 4FriendsOnly.com AG, Ilmenau, DE (PC co-chair)
Günther Pernul, Uni Regensburg, DE
Frank Stoll, UBS, Zürich, CH
Herwig Unger, Fernuniversitaet Hagen, DE
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7. IMPORTANT DATES
Extended to May 14, 2009 |
Full papers submitted |
June 30, 2009 |
Notification of acceptance |
July 15, 2009 |
Print-ready papers due |
September 14, 2009 |
Web-ready presentations due |
September 22, 2009 |
Workshop in Nancy |
September 22, 2009 |
Final Book available at workshop |
Text only:
http://www.virtualgoods.org/2009/VG2009_CfP.txt
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