[WM]: DRMTICS 2005 Early Call for Papers

[Nicholas Sheppard <nps@uow.edu.au>]

First International Conference on
Digital Rights Management: Technologies, Issues, Challenges and Systems Sydney, Australia Nov 3-5, 2005

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 right 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

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.

Conference Proceedings:

We plan to publish the proceedings in
Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) Series (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/index.html).

Program Co-Chairs:

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

Important Dates:

    Paper Submission Deadline:          July 1,2005
    Notification of Acceptance:         September 1, 2005
    Pre-Proceedings Papers Deadline:    October 1, 2005
    Conference Event:                   November 3-5, 2005
    Final Proceedings Version Deadline: December 9, 2005


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Nicholas Sheppard                                   | Ph: +61 2 4221 3788
Research Fellow                                     | Fax: +61 2 4221 4170
School of Information Technology & Computer Science | E-mail: nps@uow.edu.au
The University of Wollongong, Australia             | WWW: www.uow.edu.au/~nps


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