CollaborateCom 2009 The 5th International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society, Create-Net and the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering
Crystal City, Washington D.C., USA, November 11-14, 2009
EXTENDED DEADLINE: AGUST 7, 2009
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Over the last two decades, many organizations and individuals have relied on electronic collaboration between distributed teams of humans, computer applications, and/or autonomous robots to achieve higher productivity and produce joint products that would have been impossible to develop without the contributions of multiple collaborators. Technology has evolved from standalone tools, to open systems supporting collaboration in multi-organizational settings, and from general purpose tools to specialized collaboration grids. Future collaboration solutions that fully realize the promises of electronic collaboration require advancements in networking, technology and systems, user interfaces and interaction paradigms, and interoperation with application-specific components and tools.
The Fifth International Conference on Collaborative Computing (CollaborateCom 2009) will continue to serve as a premier international forum for discussion among academic and industrial researchers, practitioners, and students interested in collaborative networking, technology and systems, and applications.
TOPICS OF INTEREST INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO:
- Architectures, protocols, and enabling technologies for collaborative computing networks and systems
- Autonomic computing and quality of services in collaborative networks, systems, and applications - Collaboration in pervasive computing applications - Collaborative e-education, e-learning, and collaborative computing in large scale digital libraries - Collaborative mobile networks and infrastructures - Collaborative technologies for fast creation and deployment of new mobile services - Collaborative, location-aware mobile systems/applications - Collaboration techniques in data-intensive computing and cloud computing - Collaborative sensor networks, unmanned air and ground vehicle networks & applications - Collaborative, context-aware infrastructure - Collaborative social networks & web-based collaboration - Computer supported collaborative work with distributed systems - Distributed collaborative workflows - Data management and middleware support for collaborative information systems - Distributed technologies and architectures to support group collaboration, activity, and awareness - Energy management for collaborative networks - Group-driven composition of systems from components - Human/robot collaboration - Human-centric ubiquitous collaboration - Methodologies and tools for design and analysis of collaborative user applications - Modelling for collaboration - Models & mechanisms for real-time collaboration - Multi-agent technology and software technologies for collaborative networking and applications - Peer-to-peer and overlay networks, systems, & applications - P2P platforms for supporting collaboration - Security, privacy and trust management in collaborative networks, systems, and applications - Simulation, performance evaluation, experiments, and case studies of collaborative networks and applications - Software design, testing, and experimentation technology for collaborative networking and applications - Theoretical aspects of distributed collaboration - Theoretical foundations and algorithms for collaborative networks, applications, and worksharing - Tools for collaborative decision making processes - Trustworthy collaborative business processing in virtual organizations - Visualization techniques, interaction devices and visual languages for collaborative networks and applications - Web services technologies and service-oriented architectures for collaborative networking and applications - Workflow management for collaborative networks/systems
PAPERS: We invite original research papers that have not been previously published and are not currently under review for publication elsewhere. Contributions addressing all areas related to collaborative networking, technology and systems, and applications are solicited. The submitted manuscript should closely reflect the final paper as it will appear in the Proceedings. Submitted papers should be 10 pages in two-column IEEE proceeding format.
POSTERS: The conference will include a poster session that highlights recent and on-going research, experiments, and provocative ideas that have not been published elsewhere. Poster submissions will be reviewed and one page summaries of accepted posters will appear in the conference proceedings.
WORKSHOPS: Proposals for half-day or full day workshops that focus on CollaborateCom09 related themes are solicited. Workshop proposals should be at most five pages, including a biographical sketch of each instructor, and submitted to the Workshop Chairs. Proposals will be evaluated based on the expertise and experience of the organizers and the relevance and importance of the subject matter. Please refer to call for workshop proposals for details.
PANELS: Proposals for panel discussions that focus on future visions for collaborative networking, applications, and worksharing are preferred. Potential panel organizers should submit a panel proposal of at most five pages, including biographical sketches of the proposed panellists to the Panel Chairs.
TUTORIALS: Proposals for full and half-day tutorials are solicited. Tutorials are intended to enhance the technical program, and as such they should be relevant to collaborative computing, networking, worksharing, and applications. Potential tutorial presenters should submit a tutorial proposal of at most three pages, including: description of potential audience and background knowledge expected from the audience, if any; tutorial description; biographical sketch of presenter(s).
INDUSTRY PROGRAM: We are soliciting industry papers describing innovative applications, case studies and best practices with a goal of fostering collaboration between the research community and the private sector. Industrial submissions may be either full-length papers or extended abstracts up to 4 pages, and should be submitted to the Industrial Program Chairs.
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: All paper, poster, panel, and workshop submissions will be handled electronically. Please visit the conference website http://www.CollaborateCom.org for detailed submission requirements and procedures.
PUBLICATION: All submitted papers and posters will be rigorously reviewed by technical program committee members and the reviewers they invite. All accepted papers will be published as IEEE proceedings (pending approval of technical sponsorship from IEEE CS) and made available in IEEE Xplore. Best Papers will be invited for publication in an international journal (TBD).
IMPORTANT DATES: Workshop proposals due May 10, 2009 Paper submission deadline August 7, 2009 [Extended] Posters and panel proposals due August 7, 2009 [Extended] Notification of acceptance September 7, 2009 Camera ready versions due September 25, 2009
CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION:
STEERING COMMITTEE
Imrich Chlamtac (Chair), Create-Net, Italy Tao Zhang (Vice Chair), Telcordia Technologies, USA Ken Birman, Cornell University, USA Nim Cheung, Telcordia Technologies, USA Arun Iyengar, IBM T.J. Watson, USA Pradeep Khosla, Carnegie Mellon Univ., USA Ling Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
GENERAL CHAIRS James Joshi, University of Pittsburgh, USA Tao Zhang, Telcordia Technologies, USA
TECHNICAL PROGRAM CHAIRS Juan Quemada, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain EK Park, NSF/University of Missouri, USA Weisong Shi, Wayne State University, USA
PANEL CHAIRS Isabel Cruz, UIC, USA Ling Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Wolfgang Prinz, Frauenhofer-FIT, Germany
WORKSHOP CHAIRS Gail-Joon Ahn, Arizona State University, USA Heri Ramampiaro, NTNU, Norway
INDUSTRIAL PROGRAM CHAIRS Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, CSIRO, Australia
TUTORIAL CHAIRS Barbara Carminati, University of Insubria, Italy Keke Chen, Wright State University, USA
PUBLICATION CHAIR Heri Ramampiaro, NTNU, Norway James Caverlee, Texas A&M, USA
LOCAL ARRANGEMENT CHAIR Songqing Chen, George Mason University, USA
PUBLICITY CHAIR Heri Ramampiaro, NTNU, Norway Anna Squicciarini, Penn State, USA
CONFERENCE COORDINATOR Robert Varga, ICST, USA
WEBMASTER Amirreza Masoumzadeh, University of Pittsburgh, USA
PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Claudio Bartolini, HP Labs, USA Cui Bin, Peking University, China Lotzi Boloni, University of Central Florida, USA Athman Bouguettaya, Virginia Tech, USA Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, USA James Caverlee, Texas A&M University, USA Shu-Ching Chen, Florida International University, USA Xueqi Chen, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Kevin Curran, University of Ulster, UK Hongmei Deng, Intelligent Automation Inc., USA Prasun Dewan, University of North Carolina, USA Hans-Peter Dommel, Santa Clara University, USA Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Mohammed Eltoweissy, Virginia Tech, USA Elena Ferrari, University of Insubria, Italy Eric Freudential, University of Texas, USA Claude Godart, Nancy University, France Xiaolin Gui, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China Vana Kalogeraki, University of California - Riverside, USA Murat Kantarcioglu, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Yuecel Karabulut, SAP Research, USA Irwin King, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China Birgitta Koenig-Ries, Friedrich Schiller University at Jena, Germany Ibrahim Korpeoglu, Bilkent University, Turkey Chung-Sheng Li, IBM T.J. Watson, USA Du Li, Nokia, USA Xiaolin Li, Oklahoma State University, USA Zhengqiang Liang, Wayne State University, USA Dan Lin, Purdue University, USA Jorge Lobo, IBM T.J. Watson, USA Maria Luisa Damiani, University of Milan, Italy Zaki Malik, Virginia Tech, USA Dennis McLeod, University of Southern California, USA Jean-Henry Morin, University of Geneva, Switzerland Maheswaran Muthucumaru, McGill University, Canada Surya Nepal, Networking Technologies Laboratory, CSIRO ICT Cen, Australia Erich J. Neuhold, University of Vienna, Austria Anne H. H. Ngu, Texas State University-San Marcos, USA Moira C. Norrie, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Federica Paci, Purdue University, USA Patrizio Pelliccione, University of L'Aquila, Italy Willy Picard, Poznan University of Economics, Poland Agostino Poggi, University of Parma, Italy Lakshmish Ramaswamy, University of Georgia, USA Philippe Roose, University of Pau and Pays de l'Adour, France Kewei Sha, Oklahoma City University, USA Haiying Shen, University of Arkansas, USA Mei-Ling Shyu, University of Miami, USA Aameek Singh, IBM Almaden, USA Michael B. Spring, University of Pittsburgh, USA Mudhakar Srivatsa, IBM T.J. Watson, USA Damla Turgut, University of Central Florida, USA Nong Xiao, National Defense University of Science and Technology, China Qihua Wang, Purdue University, USA Xiaoxin Wu, Intel, China Kun-Lung Wu, IBM T.J. Watson, USA Danfeng Yao, Rutgers University, USA Yafei Yang, Qualcomm Inc., USA Qi Yu, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA Vladimir Zadorozhny, University of Pittsburgh, USA Quenwei Zheng, University of Alabama, USA