[Air-L] Call for Papers: CollaborateCom 2012

[David Nemer]

The 8th International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking,
Applications and Worksharing -
CollaborateCom 2012

Co-Sponsored by EAI and IEEE

14-17 October 2012
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
http://www.collaboratecom.org/
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HIGHLIGHTS

- The event is endorsed by the European Alliance for Innovation (www.eai.eu),
a leading community-based organisation devoted to the advancement of
innovation in the field of ICT
- All accepted and presented papers will be included in the conference
proceedings, made available in IEEE Xplore, as well as in the ICST's own EU
Digital Library (EUDL). IEEE Proceedings are submitted for inclusion to EI
Engineering Index (Compendex), Google Scholar, ISI Proceedings.
- Proceedings will be submitted for indexing by Google Scholar, ISI, EI
Compendex, Scopus and many more
- Springer MONET and IJCIS special issues have been confirmed for
CollaboratecCom 2012
- Best paper and Best Student paper awards
- Support for Student Travel grant has been confirmed from the University
of Pittsburgh and CSIRO, Australia (up to 10 confirmed)

CALL FOR PAPERS

[Scope]

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 eighth International Conference on Collaborative Computing
(CollaborateCom 2012) 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]

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 and cloud computing environments
-Collaboration in data-intensive scientific discovery
-Collaboration in health-care environments
-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
-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
-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 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

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.
The papers can be submitted in regular track or Industry/Application track

[Publications]

All submitted papers and posters will be rigorously reviewed. All accepted
papers will be made available in IEEE Xplore and other external indexing
services (DBLP database, ZB1Math/CompuServe, IO-Port, EI, Scopus, INSPEC,
ISI proceeding - pending approval). Approval is being granted for a special
issue on CollaborateCom'12 to be published on ACM/Springer MOBILE NETWORKS
& APPLICATIONS (MONET). 4-6 papers on the themes related to MONET will be
selected for publication on this issue. Springer MONET and IJCIS special
issues have been confirmed.

[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]

Proposals for half-day or full day workshops that focus on CollaborateCom
2012 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]

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.

[Tutorial proposals]

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).

[Paper submission]

All paper, poster, panel, and workshop submissions will be handled
electronically. Please visit the conference website
www.CollaborateCom.orgfor detailed submission requirements and
procedures.

[Important dates]

Abstract deadline: July 6th, 2012
Full Paper deadline: July 13th, 2012
Notification and registration opens: August 31st, 2012
Camera-ready deadline: September 20th, 2012

[Conference organising committee]

General Chair:
Calton Pu. Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
James Joshi, University of Pittsburgh, USA

TPC Co-Chairs:
Barbara Carminati, Univ. Of Insubria, Italy
Lakshmish Ramaswamy, Univ. Of Georgia, USA

Panels Co-Chairs:
Ling Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Mohamed Eltoweissy, Pacific Northwest National Lab and Virginia Tech, USA

Publications Chair:
Surya Nepal, CSIRO, Australia

Industry Co-Chairs:
Yuecel Karabulut, SAP, USA
Mudhakar Srivastav. IBM, USA

Workshop Co-Chairs:
Lujo Bauer, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Anna C Squicciarini, Pennsylvania State University, USA

Sponsorhsip Chair:
Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, CSIRO, Australia

Publicity Chair:
Jinpeng Wei, Florida International University, USA

Local Arrangments Chair:
Konstantinos Pelechrinis, University of Pittsburgh, USA

Finance Chair:
Natasa Milosevic, EAI

Conference Coordinator:
Erica Polini contact: erica.polini[at]eai.eu

[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
James Joshi, University of Pittsburgh, USA

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*David Nemer*
PhD Student in Social Informatics
School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University
Editor of the Social Informatics Blog - http://socialinformaticsblog.com
http://www.dnemer.com dnemer at indiana.edu