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
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Awards: Best Paper Award / Student Travel Support
Special Issues: Special journal Issue in Springer MONET / Int'l
Journal of Cooperative Information System (IJCIS) (pending approval)
Proceedings: IEEE - inclusion in IEEE Xplore
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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 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 July 10, 2009
Posters and panel proposals due July 10, 2009
Notification of acceptance August 20, 2009
Camera ready versions due September 5, 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