[WM]: DRMTICS 2005 Call for Papers

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

                   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 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

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)


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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.a= u
The University of Wollongong, Australia             | WWW: www.uow.edu.au/~nps



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