Workshop on “Framing the Digital Territories”

Workshop Organisers

Prof. Dimitris Gritzalis, Athens University of Economics and Business, Hellas
Prof. Achilles Kameas, Hellenic Open University, Patras, Hellas
Dr. Vagelis Papakonstantinou, PKpartners & Univ. of Patras, Hellas

Scope and objectives

Ambient Intelligence (AmI) is a vision that places human beings at the centre of the emerging development of the knowledge-based society and ICT. AmI space consists of a set of technologies, infrastructures, applications, and services operating seamlessly across physical environments (e.g. neighbourhood, home, car, etc.), and thus spanning all the different spheres of everyday life. Physical space becomes augmented with digital content, thus transcending the limits of nature and of direct human perception. A new term is needed for this new kind of space, which captures its dual nature. The term “Digital Territory” (DT) has been coined in an attempt to port a real world metaphor into the forthcoming synthetic world. This new term carries certain assumptions and gives rise to sub-concepts; it requires a certain level of technology and will be realised at a pace affected by specific factors; once adopted, it shall cause an imbalance to existing personal and social structures.
Living in AmI space requires a proper balance between a complex diversity of interests and values related to freedom of speech, access to information, protection of the individual sphere, trust, security and protection against discrimination, protection of identity, and protection against intrusions by public and private actors.
The aim of this workshop is to bring forward discuss issues relating to privacy, security and trust in the “Digital Territories” of the near future. These include open or closed spaces, private or public uses, processes or data, etc. The workshop organisers welcome contributions on any related topic, including but not limited to:

Technologies for enforcing security in AmI
Boundary marking and management in AmI
Legal aspects in AmI space
Access control in Digital Territories
Social disruption and identity management in AmI
Privacy safeguards in Digital Territories
Research roadmaps and agendas for AmI space Policies for realising Digital Territories
Workflow security technologies in AmI
Security and privacy strategies for AmI space
Context-specific Digital Territories
Content protection in AmI space

Submitted papers must discuss aspects, concepts, ideas or present applicable metaphors or practices. The aim of the workshop is to raise awareness and to stimulate discussion; therefore prospective authors must be able to support their opinion. Contribution of attendants is important, thus a set of discussion topics will be distributed beforehand.

Submission Instructions
Those wishing to present a paper are requested to submit their manuscript, via email, to Prof. Dimitris Gritzalis (dgrit@aueb.gr), not later than April 28, 2006. Formatting guidelines can be found at the conference site. The papers will be reviewed by the Workshop PC. Papers selected for presentation will be included in the conference proceedings to be published by Institution of Engineering and Technology. (http://www.theiet.org/).