Call for Papers
Deadline for abstracts: December 11, 2006
CEPE2007 welcomes high quality paper and panel proposals in all areas of computer/IT ethics. This includes, but is not limited to, ethical issues relating to:
- Online communities, the virtual and the "real"
- Privacy, data protection, RFID, surveillance, CCTV, spam, phishing, and spyware
- Global computing and intercultural information ethics
- Information access, search engines, and the digital divide
- Democracy and the internet; computing technology and natural disasters
- Virtuality, simulation and reproduction
- Computing, identity and difference: gender, ethnicity, race, religion
- Open source; virtual ownership; intellectual property & copyright
- Emerging technologies, such as nanotechnology, supercomputing, Internet2, robotics, biomedicine, bioinformatics and bioengineering
- New military, security and law enforcement applications of IT
- New developments in artificial intelligence, artificial agents, embedded systems and artificial life
We particularly welcome papers from applied ethics fields other than computer ethics that focus on any of the above areas, as well as papers from computer science professionals who combine their state-of-the-art knowledge of IT with ethical analysis.
Papers will be accepted on the basis of a submitted abstract, which will be refereed.
An abstract must be between 1200 and 1400 words in length (references included) and submitted via email as embedded plain text or an attachment in RTF or WORD or PDF format.
Abstracts must be submitted no later than December 11, 2006 to CEPE2007@sandiego.edu. Authors will be informed of the decision of the referees by 30 January 2007. Full papers must be submitted by 1 May 2007.
Please see the Guidelines for Authors page for paper style information.