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8th IEEE International Workshop on Digital Rights Management
Impact on Consumer Communications (DRM 2012)

Call for Workshop Papers

Submission Deadline: September 19, 2011 (EXTENDED)

Satellite Workshop of
9th IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference

(IEEE CCNC 2012)

Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
January 14, 2011
http://www.ieee-ccnc.org/
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CALL FOR PAPERS

Consumers and consumer electronics are increasingly using the Internet
for distribution of digital goods, including digital versions of books,
articles, music, video, games, software, images and 3D content. The
growing popularity of tablets, e-readers and smartphones is introducing
new publishing approaches and business models. Digital distribution is
now a mature area, but the balance between the protection of content,
and flexibility and security for consumers remains a challenge.

Organizations are also increasingly concerned with information
protection and control within and beyond the corporate perimeter for
reasons including traceability, compliance, accountability and
persistent management of intangible assets. The ease with which digital
goods can be copied and redistributed makes the Internet well suited for
unauthorized copying, modification and redistribution. The increasing
use of cloud-based storage, along with the rapid adoption of new
technologies such as high-bandwidth connections, wireless networks,
peer-to-peer networks and surface computing is accelerating this
process.

This one-day workshop on Digital Rights Management addresses problems
faced by all stakeholders in this ecosystem including rights owners –
who seek to protect their intellectual property rights and develop
innovative business models – and end users – who seek to protect their
privacy, enjoy a good user experience and preserve access they benefit
from using traditional media.

Digital Rights Management (DRM) systems are intended to protect the
rights of content owners in scenarios in which the participants often
have conflicting goals and interests. 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 and innovative designs
can enable new business models and applications.

The workshop format will be highly interactive, based on a series of
presentations held in a panel/forum type of environment to encourage
discussion of topics and issues.

The workshop seeks submissions (consisting of a paper) on all
theoretical and practical aspects of DRM, as well as experimental
studies of fielded systems on topics including, but not limited to, the
following.

* DRM protocols
* Architectures for DRM systems
* Protection in evolving content areas (3D data, software
distribution, social networking data)
* Interoperability
* Auditing
* Micropayment and content remuneration
* New business models for online content distribution
* Copyright-law issues, including but not limited to fair use
* Rights expression languages
* Digital policy management
* Information ownership
* Privacy and anonymity
* Risk management
* New DRM approaches and models
* Robust identification of digital content
* Security issues (authorization, encryption, tamper resistance,
watermarking)
* Threat and vulnerability assessment
* Usability aspects of DRM systems (user acceptance, experience,
awareness)
* Societal and public policy issues
* Implementations and case studies


SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Submitted papers must represent original material that is not currently
under review in any other conference or journal, and has not been
previously published. The paper should be used as the basis for a 20-30
minute workshop presentation.

Manuscripts should be written in English conforming to the IEEE standard
conference format (8.5" x 11", Two-Column) and not exceed 5 pages in
length. Submission of papers should be regarded as a commitment such
that, if accepted, at least one author of the paper will register and
attend the conference; otherwise it will be removed from the IEEE
Digital Library after the conference.

Papers should be submitted in .pdf format via the EDAS paper submission
website (http://edas.info/N11005).


IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submission: September 19, 2011 (extended)
Author Notification: September 30, 2011
Camera-Ready Copy: October 17, 2011
Workshop Date: January 14, 2012


WEBSITE

More information can be found on the main workshop pages of the CCNC
website:

* http://www.ieee-ccnc.org/


WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS

* Dr Xin Wang, Huawei Technologies, USA
xin.huawei.wang@huawei.com
* Dr Jean-Henry Morin, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Jean-Henry.Morin@unige.ch
* Dr David Llewellyn-Jones, Liverpool John Moores University, UK
D.Llewellyn-Jones@ljmu.ac.uk

TECHNICAL PROGRAMME COMMITTEE (TBC)

Patricia Akester, University of Cambridge
Leonardo Chiariglione, Digital Media Project
Jaime Delgado, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Eric Diehl, Technicolor
Steven Furnell, University of Plymouth
Glyn Jones, Thales Research and Technology
Mario Kolberg, University of Stirling
Shiguo Lian, France Telecom R&D Beijing
Madjid Merabti, Liverpool John Moores University
Mukesh C. Motwani, University of Nevada, Reno
Rakhi C. Motwani, Image Process Technology, Inc.
Milan Petkovic, Philips Research
Sud Sudirman, Liverpool John Moores University
Marc Waldman, Manhattan College
Adrian Waller, Thales Research and Technology
Heather Yu, Huawei Technologies (USA)
Anat Zeelim-Hovav, Korea University, Korea
Ning Zhang, University of Manchester
Bo Zhou, Beijing Founder Apabi Technology Ltd.
Bin Zhu, Microsoft Research Asia