COLLABORATECOM 2008 The 4th International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing Sponsored by, Create-Net and the International Communication Sciences and Technology Association (ICST)) http://www.collaboratecom.org/ The Regal Sun Resort, Orlando, FL, USA, November 13-16, 2008

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: July 10, 2008.

===========================================================================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 Fourth International Conference on Collaborative Computing (CollaborateCom 2008) 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 * 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 network/system ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

PAPERS: We invite original research papers that have not been previously published and are not currently underreview 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 a maximum of ten pages in IEEE double column format. Best Papers will be invited for a special issue in ACM/Springer?MONET.

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 CollaborateCom08 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 panelists, to the Panel Chairs.

INDUSTRY SESSION: 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 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. Accepted papers and posters will be published by the IEEE in the conference proceedings and placed on IEEE Xplore. They will also be indexed by DBLP and the Engineering Information (EI). A selected number of best papers will be considered for publication in a leading journal. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

SUBMISSION DEADLINE July 10, 2008 : Paper submission deadline July 11th, 2008 : Posters and panel proposals deadline March 15, 2008 : Workshop proposal deadline September 26, 2008 : Notification of acceptance October 14, 2008 : Camera ready versions Due ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE * General Chairs - Calton Pu, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA - Heri Ramampiaro, NTNU, Norway * Technical Program Chairs - Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA - James Joshi, University of Pittsburgh, USA * Panel Chairs - Ling Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA - Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, Telcordia, USA * Workshop Chairs - Gail-Joon Ahn, University of North Carolina, Charollette, USA - Lakshmish Ramaswamy, University of Georgia, USA * Industrial Program Chairs - Yuecel Karabulut, SAP, USA - Claudio Bartoni, HP, USA * Tutorial chair - Bugra Gedik, IBM T.J. Watson, USA * Publication Chair - Anna Squicciarini, Pennsylvania State University, USA * Local Arrangement Chair - Lotzi Boloni, University of Central Florida, USA * Publicity Chair - Youna Jung, University of Pittsburgh, USA * Conference Organization - Zsuzsi Kazsab, ICST Europe * Finance Chair - Karen Decker, ICST USA

* 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 - Isidro Laso, D.G. Information Society and Media, EU

* TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE - Gail-Joon Ahn, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA - Boualem Benatallah, University of New South Wales, Australia - Cui Bin, Peking University, China - Athman Bouguettaya, Virginia Tech, USA - Peter Brusilovsky, University of Pittsburgh, USA - James Caverlee, Texas A&M University, USA - Jyh-Cheng Chen, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan - Shu-Ching Chen, Florida International University, USA - Bruno Crispo, Vrije University, Netherlands - Isabel Cruz, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA - Kevin Curran, University of Ulster, UK - Maria Luisa Damiani, University of Milan, Italy - 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 - Renato Figueiredo, University of Florida, USA - Bugra Gedik, IBM T.J. Watson, USA - Claude Godart, Nancy University, France - Le Gruenwald, NSF, USA - Patrick Hung, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada - Paola Inverardi, University of L'Aquila, Italy - Youna Jung, University of Pittsburgh, USA - Vana Kalogeraki, University of California - Riverside, USA - Murat Kantarcioglu, University of Texas at Dallas, USA - Yuecel Karabulut, SAP Research, USA - Minkoo Kim, Ajou University, South Korea - Birgitta Koenig-Ries, Friedrich Schiller University at Jena, Germany - Ibrahim Korpeoglu, Bilkent University, Turkey - Chung-Sheng Li, IBM T.J. Watson, USA - Dan Lin, Purdue University, USA - Jorge Lobo, IBM T.J. Watson, 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 Centre, 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 - Willy Picard, Poznan University of Economics, Poland - Agostino Poggi, University of Parma, Italy - Lakshmish Ramaswamy, University of Georgia, USA - Indraskhi Ray, Colorado State University, USA - Berthold Reinwald, IBM Almaden, USA - Philippe Roose, University of Pau and Pays de l'Adour, France - Mei-Ling Shyu, University of Miami, USA - Aameek Singh, IBM Almaden, USA - Amy Soller, USA - Mudhakar Srivatsa, IBM T.J. Watson, USA - Damla Turgut, University of Central Florida, USA - Qihua Wang, Purdue University, USA - Kun-Lung Wu, IBM T.J. Watson, USA - Xiaoxin Wu, Intel, China - Danfeng Yao, Rutgers University, USA - Vladimir Zadorozhny, University of Pittsburgh, USA - Aoying Zhou, East China Normal University, China

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