SLAECE at ICIW 2009

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Call for Papers, SLAECE 2009 ==========

The second event on "Social and Legal Aspects Under Emerging Computing Environments", SLAECE 2009, will be held within the The Fourth International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services, ICIW 2009, in Venice, Italy, on May 24-28.

General site: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/ICIW09.html

Submission details: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/ICIW09.html

SLAECE 2009 Proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press and on-line via IEEE XPlore Digital Library together with ICIW 2009. IEEE will index the papers with major indexes. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions to one of the IARIA Journals.

Submissions ---

Submission deadline: December 20, 2008

Subjects -- Topics of legal and social aspects of information systems include but are not limited to:

Principles, theories, and challenges of legal and social aspects Strategies, modeling, and requirements engineering of legal and social aspects Architectures, implementations, and deployment consideration of legal and social aspects Cyber threats, emerging risks, systemic concerns, and emergency preparedness Social computing and lifestyle computing Service marketing and customer relationship management Market structures and emerging business models Emerging legal issues due to new computing environment File / information sharing networks and user behavior Knowledge modeling, management, and application Negotiation and contracting as well as contract monitoring and enforcement E-democracy, e-policy, and governance Legal and social ontologies Privacy and copyright in collaborative environments and social networks Intellectual property rights Trust, security, and privacy Counterfeit forensic Identity management and access control Security and privacy in location-based services

We welcome technical papers presenting research, practical results and case studies, position papers addressing the pros and cons of specific proposals, such as those being discussed in the standard fora or in industry consortia, survey papers addressing the key problems and solutions on any of the topics of interest, short papers on work in progress, and panel proposals.

The topics can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, standards, implementations, running experiments and applications. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited topic areas.

Industrial presentations and legal case studies are not subject to these constraints. We expect short and long presentations that express industrial/legal position and status.

Topics -- The age of information and communication has revolutionized the way companies do business, especially in providing competitive and innovative services. Business processes not only integrates departments and subsidiaries of enterprises but also are extended across organizations and to interact with governments.

On the other hand, wireless technologies and peer-to-peer networks enable ubiquitous access to services and information systems with scalability. This results in the removal of barriers of market expansion and new business opportunities as well as threats. In this new global and ubiquitous environment, it is of increasing importance to consider legal and social aspects in business activities and information systems that will provide some level of certainty.

There is a broad spectrum of vertical domains where legal and social issues influence the design and development of information systems, such as web personalization and protection of users privacy in service provision, intellectual property rights protection when designing and implementing virtual works and multiplayer digital games, copyright protection in collaborative environments, automation of contracting and contract monitoring on the web, protection of privacy in location-based computing, etc.

The purpose of this conference is to bring together computer science researchers, engineers, policy makers and practitioners working at the state of the art on information and related fields such as legal domain, social sciences, and marketing. This event will also outline the major challenges and future perspectives on incorporating legal and social aspects at the design, deployment, evaluation of information systems under emerging computing environments, such as, but not limited to, (i) service-oriented architecture (SOA) and service computing, (ii) Mobile, pervasive, and ubiquitous computing, (iii) Web security and privacy, (iv) Semantic Web and Semantic Web Services, (v) Agent and autonomous computing, (vi) Grid computing, (vi) Virtual communities, or (vii) Inter-, intra-organizational integration.

Topics of legal and social aspects of information systems include but are not limited to:

Principles, theories, and challenges of legal and social aspects Strategies, modeling, and requirements engineering of legal and social aspects Architectures, implementations, and deployment consideration of legal and social aspects Cyber threats, emerging risks, systemic concerns, and emergency preparedness Social computing and lifestyle computing Service marketing and customer relationship management Market structures and emerging business models Emerging legal issues due to new computing environment File / information sharing networks and user behavior Knowledge modeling, management, and application Negotiation and contracting as well as contract monitoring and enforcement E-democracy, e-policy, and governance Legal and social ontologies Privacy and copyright in collaborative environments and social networks Intellectual property rights Trust, security, and privacy Counterfeit forensic Identity management and access control Security and privacy in location-based services

Committee

SLAECE Chairs Dickson K.W. Chiu, Dickson Computer Systems, Hong Kong Eleanna Kafeza, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece Irena Kafeza, Kafeza Law Office, Greece Hideyasu Sasaki, Ritsumeikan University - Kyoto, Japan / New York State Bar, NY, USA

Committee members Grigore Albeanu, Spiru Haret University - Bucharest, Romania / Danish Technical University, The Netherlands Dickson K.W. Chiu, Dickson Computer Systems, Hong Kong Luis Borges Gouveia, Universidade Fernando Pessoa - Porto, Portugal Christophe Gravier, University Jean Monnet -Saint-Etienne, France Edward Hung, Honk Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Eleanna Kafeza, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece Irene Kafeza, Kafeza Law Office, Greece Thomas Y Kwok, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Ho-fung Leung, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Huiye Ma, Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica - Amsterdam, The Netherlands Ulrich Norbisrath, University of Tartu, Estonia Hideyasu Sasaki, Ritsumeikan University - Kyoto, Japan / New York State Bar, NY, USA Konstantina Zerva, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain

Looking for your contributions,

SLAECE Chairs: Dickson K.W. Chiu, Dickson Computer Systems, Hong Kong Eleanna Kafeza, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece Irena Kafeza, Kafeza Law Office, Greece Hideyasu Sasaki, Ritsumeikan University - Kyoto, Japan / New York State Bar, NY, USA

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