Call for Papers: Workshop on Electronic Contracting

[Mark S. Miller]

(Btw, Alan Karp, Ian Grigg, and I are on the program committee. Once others 
have confirmed, the PC will be on the web page.)

 From http://tab.computer.org/tfec/cec04/cfpWEC.html :



The First IEEE International Workshop
on Electronic Contracting (WEC)

Real world commerce is largely built on a fabric of contracts. Considered 
abstractly, a contract is an agreed framework of rules used by separately 
interested parties to coordinate their plans in order to realize cooperative 
opportunities, while simultaneously limiting their risk from each other's 
misbehavior. Electronic commerce is encouraging the growth of contract-like 
mechanisms whose terms are partially machine understandable and enforceable.

The First IEEE International Workshop on Electronic Contracting (WEC) is the 
forum to discuss innovative ideas at the interface between business, legal, 
and formal notions of contracts. The target audiences will be researchers, 
scientists, software architects, contract lawyers, economists, and industry 
professionals who need to be acquainted with the state of the art 
technologies and the future trends in electronic contracting. The event will 
take place in San Diego, California, USA on July 6 2004. IEEE SIEC 2004 will 
be held in conjunction with The International Conference on Electronic 
Commerce (IEEE CEC 2004).

* Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following: 
* Contract languages and user interfaces 
* Computer aided contract design, construction, and composition 
* Computer aided approaches to contract negotiation 
* "Smart Contracts" 
* "Ricardian Contracts" 
* Electronic rights languages 
* Electronic rights management and transfer 
* Contracts and derived rights 
* Relationship of electronic and legal enforcement mechanisms 
* Electronic vs legal concepts of non-repudiation 
* The interface between automatable terms and human judgement 
* Kinds of recourse, including deterrence and rollback 
* Monitoring compliance 
* What is and is not electronically enforceable? 
* Trans-jurisdictional commerce & contracting 
* Shared dynamic ontologies for use in contracts 
* Dynamic authorization 
* Decentralized access control 
* Security and dynamism in Supply Chain Management 
* Extending "Types as Contracts" to mutual suspicion 
* Contracts as trusted intermediaries 
* Anonymous and pseudonymous contracting 
* Privacy vs reputation and recourse 
* Instant settlement and counter-party risk 

Submissions and Important Dates:

Full papers must not exceed 20 pages printed using at least 11-point type 
and single spacing. All papers should be in Adobe portable document format 
(PDF) format. The paper should have a cover page, which includes a 200-word 
abstract, a list of keywords, and author's e-mail address on a separate 
page. Authors should submit a full paper via electronic submission to 
boualem at cse.unsw.edu.au. All papers selected for this conference are 
peer-reviewed. The best papers presented in the conference will be selected 
for special issues of a related computer science journal. 

Submissions must be received no later than January 10, 2004. 
Authors will be notified of their submissions status by March 2, 2004 
Camera-Ready versions must be received by April 2, 2004 

Organizing Committee and Workshop Officers

General Chair
Ming-Chien Shan, Hewlett-Packard, USA, shan at hpl.hp.com


Program Co-Chairs
Boualem Benatallah, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Claude Godart, INRIA-LORIA, Nancy, France, Claude.Godart at loria.fr



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Text by me above is hereby placed in the public domain

        Cheers,
        --MarkM

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