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Joe (TCCC Chair) On 6/8/2012 8:51 PM, Jinpeng Wei wrote: > COLLABORATECOM 2012 Call for Papers > > The 8th International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, > Applications and Worksharing > Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society (pending), Create-Net and the Institute > for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications > Engineering > Pittsburgh, PA, USA, October 14-17, 2012 > (http://www.collaboratecom.org/) > > 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 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 > > 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. The papers can be submitted in regular track or > Industry/Application track. > > 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 > 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 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). > > 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. > 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). Special Issues of > CollaborateCom2012 has been confirmed for the following journals > - International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems > - Springer MONET Journal. > > > TIMELINE > > April 15, 2012 > Workshop and tutorial proposals due > > June 22, 2012 > Paper submission deadline > > June 29, 2012 > Posters and panel proposals deadline > > August 17, 2012 > Notification of acceptance > > August 31, 2012 > Camera-ready versions due > > > ORGANIZING COMMITTEE > > General Chairs > Calton Pu. Georgia Institute of Technology, USA > James Joshi, University of Pittsburgh, USA > > Technical Program Chairs > Barbara Carminati, Univ. Of Insubria, Italy > Lakshmish Ramaswamy, Univ. Of Georgia, USA > > Panels Chairs > Ling Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA > Mohamed Eltoweissy, Pacific Northwest National Lab and Virginia Tech, USA > > Publication Chair > Surya Nepal, CSIRO, Australia > > Industrial Chairs > Yuecel Karabulut, SAP, USA > Mudhakar Srivastav. IBM, USA > > Workshop Chairs > Lujo Bauer, Carnegie Mellon University, USA > Anna C Squicciarini, Pennsylvania State University, USA > > Sponsorship Chair > Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, CSIRO, Australia > > Publicity Chair > Jinpeng Wei, Florida International University, USA > > Local Arrangements Chair > Konstantinos Pelechrinis, University of Pittsburgh, USA > > Conference Coordinator > Matteo Fuoli, EAI, Italy > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > IEEE Communications Society Tech. 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