Virtual Worlds: Trust, Security, Rule of Law (TrustVWs 2009)

Venice, 9 December 2009

http://www.usercentricmedia.org/workshops/trustvws2009/

The workshop is in conjunction with

First International Conference on User Centric Media - UCMedia 2009

Technical program

09:30-10:20 Keynote speaker Gerald Spindler (University of Göttingen)
On Legal Issues in Virtual Worlds

10:20-10:50 Kai Erenli (Fachhochschule des bfi Wien)
Virtual Persons + Virtual Goods = Real Problems

10:50-11:10 Coffee break

11:10-11:40 Kristina Lapin (Vilnius University)
A Comparison of Three Virtual World Platforms for the Purposes of Learning Support in VirtualLife

11:40-12:10 Vytautas Čyras (Vilnius University)
Transforming Legal Rules into Online Virtual World Rules: A Case Study in the VirtualLife Platform

Abstract

The workshop focuses on legally ruled collaboration in virtual worlds (VWs) in the light of security and trust. Virtual worlds are treated not as a game but as an extension of the real world. The approaches discussed can be viewed from different perspectives – informatics, law and legal informatics. The rule of law, a legal principle, is extended to virtual worlds. Most virtual worlds, e.g. Second Life, are of client-server architecture. Therefore certain disputes can be solved by administrators. The workshop aims at peer-to-peer virtual world platforms. The issues targeted at user-centric media community consist of personalisation, real-time, 3D, chat and social context. Special attention is given to future Internet perspectives, in particular, technological, legal and content related perspectives.

The objectives of the workshop are to encompass research advances and to create a community of researchers around the described issues of virtual worlds.

Topics of interest (include but are not limited to)

• virtual world security;
• public key infrastructure; time stamping
• use cases; user needs
• P2P networks
• trust models; trust management systems
• avatar reputation models
• setting rules and laws; legal issues
• democracy; voting
• online dispute resolution
• virtual world engines; scripting
• educational scenarios; learning support

Targeted communities of interests

• informatics, computing
• legal informatics
• jurists

Invited speaker

Prof. Dr. Gerald Spindler, Chair of Civil Law, Commercial and Economic Law, Comparative Law, Multimedia and Telecommunication Law at the University of Göttingen, Germany, http://www.lehrstuhl-spindler.uni-goettingen.de

Title: "On legal issues in virtual worlds"

Important dates

• Paper submission: CLOSED (27 September 2009)

Submission

Workshop papers should be electronically submitted through the ASSYST system using, see also http://www.usercentricmedia.org/submission.shtml (up to 6 pages, LNICST format).

All publishable workshop papers should follow the Guide for Authors of the main conference.

Publications

Publication of workshop papers (up to 6 pages) is planned in Lecture Notes of ICST by Springer, same publication as UCMedia 2009 conference proceedings.

CD proceedings will be distributed during the conference days and will be published by Springer LNICST.

(Note: all publishable workshop papers will be published on the UCMedia 2009 Website. A number of the best papers of the conference including workshops will be published in "ACM Springer Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET) Journal Special Issue on Mobility and User-Centric Media".)

Programme committee

• Vytautas Čyras - Vilnius University, Lithuania (chair)
• Peeter Laud - Cybernetica, Estonia
• Gerald Spindler - University of Göttingen, Germany
• Francesco Zuliani - Nergal, Italy
  

Workshop organizers

• Vytautas Čyras - Vilnius University, Lithuania, vytautas.cyras(at)mif.vu.lt, http://www.mif.vu.lt/~cyras/
• Marianna Panebarco - Panebarco & C., Italy, marianna(at)panebarco.it

Organizing is partially supported by EU DG InfSo FP7-ICT-2007-1 project VirtualLife (Secure, Trusted and Legally Ruled Collaboration Environment in Virtual Life), http://www.ict-virtuallife.eu/. VirtualLife project is a member of User Centric Media Cluster of FP7 ICT objective "Networked Media", http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/netmedia/concertation_en.html

Registration details: see www.usercentricmedia.org

Workshop flyer: flyer.pdf (200KB)

Last update: 2 December 2009.