CCNC05 DRM workshop - CFP

 30 September 2004.....Abstract submission deadline
 
 
CALL FOR PROPOSALS/PARTICIPATION
 
Workshop on Digital Rights Management Impact on Consumer Communications
6 January 2005, 9:00am to 12:30pm
http://www.ieee-ccnc.org/2005/workshop.html 
Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, NV, USA
 
Held in conjunction with CCNC 2005
(http://www.ieee-ccnc.org/index2.html) and the Consumer Electronics Show
(CES)
 
Consumers and consumer electronics are increasingly using the Internet
for distribution of digital goods, including digital versions of books,
articles, music, and images. The ease with which digital goods can be
copied and redistributed makes the Internet well suited for unauthorized
copying, modification and redistribution. The rapid adoption of new
technologies such as high-bandwidth connections, wireless networks, and
peer-to-peer networks is accelerating this process. 
This half-day workshop on Digital Rights Management Impact on Consumer
Communications addresses problems faced by rights holders (who seek to
protect their intellectual property rights) and by end consumers (who
seek to protect their privacy and to preserve access they now enjoy in
traditional media under). 
Digital Rights Management (DRM) systems are intended to protect the
rights of content owners in scenarios in which the participants have
conflicting goals and are not fully trusted. This adversarial situation
introduces interesting new twists on classical problems studied in
cryptology and security research, such as key management and access
control. Furthermore, novel security mechanisms can enable new business
models and applications. Recent research has also proposed new
primitives for DRM, such as hash functions that make it possible to
identify content in an adversarial setting. 
The workshop will contain some invited presentations and presentations
accepted by open submission. The format will be a series of
presentations held in a panel/forum type of environment to encourage
interaction and discussion of topics and issues. 
The workshop seeks workshop proposal submissions (consisting of an
extended abstract) on all theoretical and practical aspects of DRM, as
well as experimental studies of fielded systems on topics including, but
not limited to, those shown below:




*	DRM protocols
*	architectures for DRM systems 
*	interoperability
*	auditing 
*	business models for online content distribution 
*	copyright-law issues, including but not limited to fair use 
*	digital policy management 
*	information ownership 
*	privacy and anonymity 
*	risk management 
*	robust identification of digital content 
*	security issues, including but not limited to authorization,
encryption, tamper resistance, and watermarking 
*	threat and vulnerability assessment 
*	usability aspects of DRM systems 
*	web services 
*	CAPEX, OPEX, TCO examples/ estimations/models
 



 


Guidelines for Submission

Interested participants should submit a one-page extended abstract
describing their proposed topic. This abstract should define the
specific problem being addressed, describe the novelty of the solution
to the problem and/or the issues surrounding the problem. The abstract
should be used as the basis for a 20-30 minute Workshop presentation
which will be made available online.  No formal paper is required,
however, participants are required to develop and submit presentations.

1.       Submit an electronic copy of the abstract in a .pdf or .ps
format by selecting CCNC'05 at the EDAS paper submission site
(http://edas.info <http://edas.info/>  ).
2.       A separate cover sheet should show the title of the abstract,
the author(s) name(s) and affiliation(s), and the address (including
e-mail, telephone, and fax) to which the correspondence should be sent.

 


Important Dates

30 September 2004.....Abstract submission
31 October 2004..... Author Notification
30 November 2004.....Copy of Presentation due
6 January 2005......Workshop
 
Chair:
Wenjun Zeng, University of Missouri

 


Technical Program Committee:

Leonardo Chiariglione, Digital Media Project
Rajit Gadh, UCLA
Lindsey Holman, Panasonic
Deepa Kundur, Texas A&M University
Madjid Merabti, University of Liverpool
Marc Waldman, Manhattan College
Heather Yu, Panasonic  
Bin Zhu, Microsoft Research Asia
 

Participation

Go to http://www.ieee-ccnc.org/workshop.html  for
registration/participation information