<pre>COLLABORATECOM 2011<br>The 7th International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking,<br>Applications and Work sharing<br> Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society (pending), Create-Net and<br> the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and<br>
Telecommunications Engineering<br> Orlando, FL, USA, Oct 15-18, 2011<br><br>**** NOTE THE EXTENDED DEADLINE ****<br><br>Over the last two decades, many organizations and individuals have relied<br>
on electronic collaboration between distributed teams of humans, computer<br>applications, and/or autonomous robots to achieve higher productivity and<br>produce joint products that would have been impossible to develop without<br>
the contributions of multiple collaborators. Technology has evolved from<br>standalone tools, to open systems supporting collaboration in<br>multi-organizational settings, and from general purpose tools to<br>specialized collaboration grids. Future collaboration solutions that fully<br>
realize the promises of electronic collaboration require advancements in<br>networking, technology and systems, user interfaces and interaction<br>paradigms, and interoperation with application-specific components and<br>
tools.<br><br>The Seventh International Conference on Collaborative Computing<br>(CollaborateCom 2011) will continue to serve as a premier international<br>forum for discussion among academic and industrial researchers,<br>
practitioners, and students interested in collaborative networking,<br>technology and systems, and applications.<br><br>TOPICS OF INTEREST INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO:<br>* Architectures, protocols, and enabling technologies for<br>
collaborative<br>computing networks and systems<br>* Autonomic computing and quality of services in collaborative<br>networks,<br>systems, and applications<br>* Collaboration in pervasive and cloud computing environments<br>
* Collaborative e-education, e-learning, and collaborative<br>computing in<br>large scale digital libraries<br>* Collaborative mobile networks and infrastructures<br>* Collaborative technologies for fast creation and deployment of new<br>
mobile services<br>* Collaborative, location-aware mobile systems/applications<br>* Collaboration techniques in data-intensive computing and cloud<br>computing<br>* Collaborative sensor networks, unmanned air and ground vehicle<br>
networks<br>& applications<br>* Collaborative, context-aware infrastructure<br>* Collaborative social networks & web-based collaboration<br>* Computer supported collaborative work with distributed systems<br>
* Distributed collaborative workflows<br>* Data management and middleware support for collaborative information<br>systems<br>* Energy management for collaborative networks<br>* Group-driven composition of systems from components<br>
* Human/robot collaboration<br>* Human-centric ubiquitous collaboration<br>* Methodologies and tools for design and analysis of collaborative<br>user<br>applications<br>* Models & mechanisms for real-time collaboration<br>
* Multi-agent technology and software technologies for collaborative<br>networking and applications<br>* Peer-to-peer and overlay networks, systems, & applications<br>* P2P platforms for supporting collaboration<br>
* Security, privacy and trust management in collaborative networks,<br>systems, and applications<br>* Simulation, performance evaluation, experiments, and case studies of<br>collaborative networks and applications<br>
* Software design, testing, and experimentation technology for<br>collaborative networking and applications<br>* Theoretical aspects of distributed collaboration<br>* Theoretical foundations and algorithms for collaborative networks,<br>
applications, and worksharing<br>* Tools for collaborative decision making processes<br>* Trustworthy collaborative business processing in virtual<br>organizations<br>* Visualization techniques, interaction devices and visual<br>
languages for<br>collaborative networks and applications<br>* Web services technologies and service-oriented architectures for<br>collaborative networking and applications<br>* Workflow management for collaborative networks/systems<br>
<br>PAPERS: We invite original research papers that have not been previously<br>published and are not currently under review for publication elsewhere.<br>Contributions addressing all areas related to collaborative networking,<br>
technology and systems, and applications are solicited. The submitted<br>manuscript should closely reflect the final paper as it will appear in the<br>Proceedings. Submitted papers should be 10 pages in two-column IEEE<br>
proceeding format.<br>POSTERS: The conference will include a poster session that highlights<br>recent and on-going research, experiments, and provocative ideas that have<br>not been published elsewhere. Poster submissions will be reviewed and one<br>
page summaries of accepted posters will appear in the conference<br>proceedings.<br>WORKSHOPS: Proposals for half-day or full day workshops that focus on<br>CollaborateCom 2011 related themes are solicited. Workshop proposals<br>
should be at most five pages, including a biographical sketch of each<br>instructor, and submitted to the Workshop Chairs. Proposals will be<br>evaluated based on the expertise and experience of the organizers and the<br>
relevance and importance of the subject matter. Please refer to call for<br>workshop proposals for details.<br>PANELS: Proposals for panel discussions that focus on future visions for<br>collaborative networking, applications, and worksharing are preferred.<br>
Potential panel organizers should submit a panel proposal of at most five<br>pages, including biographical sketches of the proposed panellists to the<br>Panel Chairs.<br>TUTORIALS: Proposals for full and half-day tutorials are solicited.<br>
Tutorials are intended to enhance the technical program, and as such they<br>should be relevant to collaborative computing, networking, worksharing,<br>and applications. Potential tutorial presenters should submit a tutorial<br>
proposal of at most three pages, including: description of potential<br>audience and background knowledge expected from the audience, if any;<br>tutorial description; biographical sketch of presenter(s).<br>SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: All paper, poster, panel, and workshop<br>
submissions will be handled electronically. Please visit the conference<br>website <a href="http://www.CollaborateCom.org">www.CollaborateCom.org</a> for detailed submission requirements and<br>procedures.<br>PUBLICATION: All submitted papers and posters will be rigorously reviewed<br>
by technical program committee members and the reviewers they invite. All<br>accepted papers will made available in IEEE Xplore. Approval has been<br>granted for a special issue on CollaborateCom'11 to be published on<br>
ACM/Springer MOBILE NETWORKS & APPLICATIONS (MONET). 4-6 papers on the<br>themes related to MONET will be selected for publication on this issue.<br>Other Journal venues are being pursued.<br><br><br>ORGANIZING COMMITTEE<br>
<br>General Chairs:<br>Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, CSIRO, Australia<br>James Joshi, University of Pittsburgh, USA<br><br>Technical Program Chairs:<br>Calton Pu, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA<br>James Caverlee, Texas A&M University, USA<br>
<br>Panels Chairs:<br>Ling Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA<br>Barbara Carminati, University of Insubria, Italy<br><br>Workshop Chairs:<br>Mohamed Eltoweissy, Pacific Northwest National Lab and Virginia Tech, USA<br>
Lotzi Boloni, University of Central Florida, USA<br><br>Industrial Chairs:<br>Venu Vasudevan, Motorala Mobilty, USA<br>Heri Ramampiaro, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway<br><br>Publicity Chair:<br>Heri Ramampiaro, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway<br>
Konstantinos Pelechrinis, University of Pittsburgh, USA<br><br>Publication Chair:<br>Surya Nepal, CSIRO, Australia<br><br>Local Arrangements Chair:<br>Damian Dechev, University of Central Florida, USA<br><br>Conference Coordinator:<br>
Hugo Estrella ICST/EAI<br><br>STEERING COMMITTEE:<br>Imrich Chlamtac (Chair), Create-Net, Italy<br>Tao Zhang (Vice Chair), Telcordia Technologies, USA<br>Ken Birman, Cornell University, USA<br>Nim Cheung, Telcordia Technologies, USA<br>
Arun Iyengar, IBM T.J. Watson, USA<br>Pradeep Khosla, Carnegie Mellon Univ., USA<br>Ling Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA<br>James Joshi, University of Pittsburgh, USA<br><br><br>TIMELINE:<br><br>April 15, 2011<br>
Workshop and tutorial proposals due<br><br>July 1, 2011<br>Posters and panel proposals deadline<br><br>July 8, 2011<br>Paper submission deadline<br><br>August 14, 2011<br>Notification of acceptance<br><br>August 30, 2011<br>
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Konstantinos Pelechrinis<br>
Assistant Professor<br>
School of Information Sciences<br>Telecommunications and Networking Program<br>
University of Pittsburgh</div><div>Web: <a href="http://www.sis.pitt.edu/%7Ekpele" target="_blank">http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~kpele</a><br>
Tel : (412) 624 9417<br>
Fax : (412) 624 2788<br>
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