-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Call for Papers - Virtual Goolds & ODRL 2013 Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 14:21:39 +0100 From: Susanne Guth-Orlowski Susanne.Guth@gmx.net To: CFP-ODRL%Susanne.Guth@gmx.net
Dear all,
at link below, please find the call for paper for this year's Virtual Goods & ODRL Work Shop.
http://www.virtualgoods.org/2013/cfp.html
We have broadened the scope of the workshop and I think new services, such as UltraViolet and Amazon's new platform for "used" digital content, prove that our topics are hotter than ever.
We are looking forward to your submissions! Susanne
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The workshop invites papers to two approaches to a trusted and adaptive Web: top-down by policy-guided behavior and bottom-up by self-organized movements.
Policies help to protect and guide business and private activities in mobile systems and social networks. We invite papers about the representation of rules, rights and duties, their visualization, semantic representation, or enforcement in all critical areas of the real life in the connected world.
Self-organized movements have come up in recent time by user-driven content as well as by grassroots activities like Liquid Democracy, WikiLeaks and coordinated actions through social networks. We invite papers on p2p and m2m architectures, as well as on self-adaptive communities and their methodology, their experiences and their impact.
On the one hand the workshop addresses legal, ethical, and secure business and private activities in mobile systems and social networks. Rights include ownership rights and copyright (as usual with virtual goods). Security includes privacy, fairness, confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The specific policy view addresses policies as a way to describe behavior. It also addresses the development of languages to specify policies as artifacts (ODRL et al.). It addresses the challenges to present policies, to modify policies, to use policies for automated behavior, and to trust policies.
On the other hand, the workshop addresses new ways of cultural cooperation. The modern Web allows for safe bottom-up activities as a way to self-organization and self-adaptation. The balance of a self-organized bottom-up way of cooperation with a legal, ethical and safe culture is a specific challenge of the workshop. Moreover, we invite especially for a debate about a top-down approach by policies versus a bottom-up approach by self-organization.
2. WORKSHOP TOPICS
Policies: - Descriptions of aims and strategies - Specification of rules - Semantic policies for virtual goods and services - Policies for licensing, flow control, privacy, fairness (and, possibly, more) - Presentation, automation, visualization, protection, and evaluation of policies
Self-organized movements: - M2M, P2P - Self-adaptive consensus making - Liquid Democracy, eVoting - Methodology, experiences and impact of self-organization
And, of course, as usual for E-Content and Virtual Goods: - Digital goods, digital services - User-driven content, service-driven content - Societal and economic conditions and impact - Security and privacy in the context of content processing - Use of Linked Data and semantic descriptions for virtual products and services - Legal issues in semantically describing and offering virtual products and services
Impact factors to be investigated: - Technical solutions: mechanisms, artifacts and their application - Economic impact: cost, value, utility - Philosophical aspects: culture, moral, dignity - Legal aspects: compliance, adaptation, interworking of different legal spaces
Disciplines invited for contributions: - Computer science - Economy - Social sciences - Jurisdiction - Philosophy - Communication theory
3. PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
We expect full papers by April 22, 2013 Decision about acceptance by May 20 Camera ready papers due July 1 Authors are invited to submit original unpublished research as full papers (max. 15 pages). All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by members of the program committee for originality, significance, clarity and quality Authors should use the LNI format. For the camera-ready papers follow the author´s guidelines (www.gi.de/fileadmin/redaktion/Autorenrichtlinien/guidelines.pdf) and use the Word template (www.gi.de/fileadmin/redaktion/Autorenrichtlinien/LNI-word-vorlage-en.doc) or the LaTeX template (www.gi.de/fileadmin/redaktion/Autorenrichtlinien/LNI-LaTeX-Vorlage.zip). If you are used to the Springer LNCS format, you will find it easy to adapt Paper submission will be through the ConfTool of the mother conference “Informatik 2013” (https://www.conftool.pro/informatik2013/imprint.php), please register there, log in and upload your paper through “Your Submissions” and “Virtual Goods+ODRL”
4. PUBLICATION OF THE WORKSHOP PROCEEDINGS
Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the workshop with ISBN number under the label of the Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI). Printed book versions are available. In addition, the Virtual Goods workshop proceedings will be available online on the Virtual Goods Website http://www.virtualgoods.org/2013, as usual since our first workshop 2003