DRMTICS 2005 Submissions now open

From: Nicholas Sheppard (nps_at_uow.edu.au)
Date: 07/05/05 

Date: 5 Jul 2005 13:20:29 GMT

Hi all.

Apologies for the delay in getting the submission server running but it is
now in operation and you have two weeks to submit your papers to the First
International Conference on Digital Rights Management: Technology, Issues
Challenges and Systems.

The details are in the call-for-papers below.

                   First International Conference on
  Digital Rights Management: Technologies, Issues, Challenges and Systems
                          Sydney, Australia
                      31 October - 2 November 2005
                 http://www.titr.uow.edu.au/DRMTICS2005

This new conference series (abbreviated: DRMTICS, pronounced: "dramatics")
seeks submissions from academia and industry describing novel research
results that cover theoretical and practical advancements in all areas of
DRM systems. The conference will serve as a broad multi-disciplinary forum
for all DRM related issues. Of particular interest this year are rights
expression languages, processes and methods for DRM applications, together
with social, legal, usability, and business aspects of such systems.
Alternative economic and incentive based models, their analysis,
implementation and case studies are highly encouraged.

Topics include but are not limited to:

  * DRM systems and architecture
  * ODRL, XrML and other rights expression languages
  * Usage monitoring and metering
  * Business and charging models for content distribution
  * Economic aspects of content distribution
  * Code obfuscation and software protection
  * Usability aspects of DRM systems
  * Concrete software patent cases
  * DRM law and policy issues
  * Fair use and copyright law issues
  * Content sharing and mobility
  * Privacy enhanced content distribution
  * Peer-to-peer systems for content distribution
  * MPEG-21, OMA and other standard activities for DRM
  * Security technologies (including, but not limited to, authorisation,
      encryption, tamper resistance and controlled access)
  * Watermarking, fingerprinting and content identification
  * Broadcast encryption and traitor tracing
  * Implementations and case studies of DRM systems
  * Web services for content distribution
  * Access control systems for digital rights management
  * Interoperability and accessibility
  * Electronic publication and digital libraries
  * Issues in distributed computer games

Programme Co-Chairs

Rei Safavi-Naini, University of Wollongong, Australia
Moti Yung, RSA Laboratories and Columbia University, USA

General Co-Chairs

Wanqing Li, University of Wollongong, Australia
Nicholas Sheppard, University of Wollongong, Australia

Important Dates:

Paper Submission Deadline: 15 July 2005
Notification of Acceptance: 5 September 2005
Pre-Proceedings Papers Deadline: 1 October 2005
Conference Event: 31 October - 2 November 2005
Final Proceedings Version Deadline: 9 December 2005

Programme Committee

Feng Bao, Institute for Infocom Research, Singapore
Stefan Bechtold, Max Planck Institute for Collective Goods, Germany
Jong Uk Choi, MarkAny, Korea
Christian S. Collberg, University of Arizona, USA
Ingemar Cox, University of London, England
Ezzy Dabbish, Motorola Labs, USA
Jana Dittmann, University of Magdeburg, Germany
Yevgeniy Dodis, New York University, USA
Brian Fitzgerald, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Susanne Guth, ODRL Initiative
Greg Heileman, University of New Mexico, USA
HweeHwa Pang, Singapore Management University, Singapore
Hideki Imai, University of Tokyo, Japan
Sushil Jajodia, George Mason University, USA
Ton Kalker, HP Labs, USA
Stefan Katzenbeisser, Technical University of Muenchen, Germany
Aggelos Kiayias, University of Connecticut, USA
Kwangjo Kim, Information and Communication University, Korea
Kaoru Kurosawa, Ibaraki University, Japan
Jeff Lotspiech, IBM Almaden, USA
Stefan Nusser, IBM Almaden, USA
Josef Pieprzyk, Macquarie University, Australia
Bin Zhu, Microsoft Research Asia, China

Instructions for Authors

Submissions must not substantially duplicate any published work that has
appeared in a journal or conference proceedings. Parallel submissions of
papers to journals, conferences or workshops that have proceedings will be
a reason for automatic rejection.

Submission Format

The paper must be anonymous, with no author names, affiliations,
acknowledgements, or obvious references. It should begin with a title, a
short abstract, and a list of keywords. The length of the paper should not
exceed 12 pages excluding bibliography and appendices, and 20 pages total
using at least 11-point fonts and with reasonable margins. The
introduction should summarise the contributions of the paper at a level
appropriate for a non-specialist reader. Committee members are not
required to read appendices; the paper should be intelligible without
them. Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without
consideration of their merits.

Electronic Submission

For a detailed description of the electronic submission procedure please
visit http://www.titr.uow.edu.au/DRMTICS2005/submission/. Electronic
submissions must conform to this procedure and be received by 15 July
2005, 23:00 IST (Indian Standard Time). Other means of submission will not
be honoured.

Conference Proceedings

The conference proceedings will be published in Springer-Verlag's Lecture
Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) Series
(http://www.springeronline.com/lncs).

Support

In co-operation with IACR (http://www.iacr.org) 

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Research Fellow                          | Fax: +61 2 4221 4170
School of Info. Tech. & Comp. Sci.       | E-mail: nps@uow.edu.au
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