Conference Program (preliminary)


Please note that the conference starts wiht the workshops MobCops and TrustCol on Nov. 17th.

The cofee breaks are between 10.30 and 11.00, and 15.45 - 16.00 every day.

The lunch is between 12.30 and 14.00 every day.

Friday 17th - 09.00 - 16.00

Workshops and tutorials
Location: Mongolia and Lenox Room

The workshops MobCops 2006 and TrustCol 2006. Please refer to the workshops homepages for more information.

Saturday 18th - 09.00 - 09.15
Top

Opening Ceremony
Location: Piedmont Ballroom

Saturday 18th - 09.15 - 10.30

Keynote I

Location: Piedmont Ballroom
Session chair: Ling Liu

Enterprise Information Mashup and Real Time Business Assurance for Global Collaboration
Chung-Sheng Li, IBM TJWatson

Saturday 18th - 11.00 - 12.30

Session 1 Interaction Patterns and Meeting support
Location: Lenox Room
Session Chair: Enrico Blanzieri

Relevance-Based Context Sharing through Interaction Patterns
Robert Gombotz, Daniel Schall, Christoph Dorn and Schahram Dustdar,
Distributed Systems Group, Institute of Information Systems, Vienna University of Technology
(invited full paper)

How to Fit In Another Meeting
Rolf Klein, Institute of Computer Science  University of Bonn,
Doron Nussbaum, Jörg–Rüdiger Sack and Jiehua Yi School of Computer Science, Carleton University  (full paper)

Using Tasks and Semi-structured Messages to Support Decision Follow Up
Carla Valle RWTH Aachen,
Wolfgang Prinz, Matthias Jarke Fraunhofer FIT, Germany / RWTH Aachen (invited full paper)

Panel - Collaborative Computing: Killer Applications and Future Perspectives
Location: Piedmont Ballroom
Moderator: Ling Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology

Panel Statement:

As the world is moving towards unlimited connectivity, computing platforms are evolving from the centralized computation model to more distributed, open, and service oriented computation model. Collaboration as a fundamental capability of networks represents a significant step forward. Many predict that collaboration in computing will become a fundamental capability for eCommerce, eGovernment, and eScience and for managing and accessing information at global scale.

This panel consists of distinguished panelists from industry and governments, each will share their thought, experiences in real world and their vision on Collaborations in Computing, how distribution, service oriented computing play a role in promoting and enabling collaborative computing, and what are important research challenges and management challenges for collaborative computing vision to be successful.

Panelists:

  • Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, Telcordia, USA
  • Le Gruenwald, NSF CISE IIS (TBA)
  • Steven Poltrock, Boeing Phantom Works, USA

Panelists will give a short (10-15min) interactive introduction, followed by discussions.

Saturday 18th - 14.00 - 15.45

Session 2 Collaboration and Awareness
Location: Lenox Room
Session Chair: Dimitrios Georgakopoulos

Designing computational places for communities within organizations
Federico Cabitza, Marco Locatelli and Carla Simone
Dipartimento di Informatica, Sistemistica e Comunicazione, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca (full paper)

Increasing Awareness in Collaborative Authoring through Edit Profiling
S. Papadopoulou, C. Ignat, G. Oster and M. Norrie, Department of Computer Science, ETH Zurich (full paper)

Awareness-based Collaboration Driving Process-based Coordination
Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, Marian Nodine, Donald Baker and Andrzej Cichocki
Telcordia Technologies (full paper)

A Framework for Inter-referential Awareness in Collaborative Systems
Jeffrey W. Chastine, Ying Zhu and Jon Preston, Department of Computer Science, Georgia State University (short paper)

Session 3 Collaborative Ad-hoc Networking
Location: Piedmont Ballroom
Session Chair: Wu Chou

Managing Data Replication for Mobile Ad-Hoc Network Databases
Prasanna Padmanabhan and Le Gruenwald
University of Oklahoma and NSF (invited full paper)

BFBR: A novel Bird Flocking Behavior based Routing for Highly Mobile Ad hoc Networks
Srinivasan T, Niranjan Babu T, Sairam Snehal, Sahitya Gollapudi
Department of computer science and Engineering, Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering (full paper)

Extending Real Time Mobile Collaboration Algorithm to Handle Membership Events in an Ad-Hoc Mobile Network
Sandy Citro, Jim McGovern, Caspar Ryan
School of Computer Science and Information Technology, RMIT University (full paper)

An Energy Level Based Routing Protocol in Ad Hoc Networks
Li Layuan College of Computer Science and Technology, Wuhan University of Technology,
Yuan Peiyan College of Computer Science and Technology, Wuhan University of Technology, College of Physical and Information Engineering Henan Normal University  (short paper)

Saturday 18th - 16.00 - 18.00

Session 4 (Invited Papers): Collaborative Networking, Trust and Security
Location: Lenox Room
Session Chair: Sven Krasser

Cooperative Data Placement and Replication in Edge Cache Networks
Lakshmish Ramaswamy, Arun Iyengar
UGA and IBM TJ Watson (invited full paper) 

Managing and Recovering High Data Availability in a DHT under Churn
Andreas Walmatcher, Predrag Knezevic
HFG, Germany (invited full paper) 

An Integrated Framework for Trust-Based Access Control for Open Systems
Michael Chuang, Suronapee Phoomvuthisarn, James B. D. Joshi,
University of Pittsburg (invited full paper)

Fast and Effective Spam Sender Detection with Granular SVM on Highly Imbalanced Mail Server Behavior Data
Yuchun Tang, Sven Krasser, Paul Judge
Secure Computing Corporation, Atlanta, GA(invited full paper)

Session 5 (Short Papers): Collaborative Applications
Location: Peidmont Ballroom
Session Chair: Heri Ramampiaro

Synchronous Collaborative Information Retrieval with Relevance Feedback
Colum Foley, Alan F. Smeaton and Hyowon Lee
Adaptive Information Cluster and Centre for Digital Video Processing, Dublin City University (short paper)

A “Collaborative Environment Integration Layer” for Activity Orientation
J. Quemada, J. Salvachua, T. Robles, E. Pastor, S. Pavon, G. Huecas,
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (invited short paper)

Towards Interoperability in Collaborative Environments
Martinez Carreras, A.F. Gomez Scarmeta,
Department of Information and Communication Engineering (invited short paper)

A Guide to Map Application Components to Support Multi-User Real-time Collaboration
Mauro Pichiliani and Celso M. Hirata, ITA (short paper)

An Empirical Study of Distributed Technologies Used in Collaborative Tasks at Statoil ASA
Anita Gupta, Odd Petter N. Slyngstad, Marianne Haavik Asperheim,  Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU),
and Harald Rønneberg  Statoil KTJ/IT  Forus (short paper)

A User-Centric Network Communication Broker for Multimedia Collaborative Computing
Chi Zhang, S. Masoud Sadjadi, Weixiang Sun, Raju Rangaswami, Yi Deng
School of Computing and Information Sciences, Florida International University (short paper)

A High Performance Strategy For Constructing Dynamic MIB
Jian Zhou, XiaoTong Zhang, Qin Wang , Li Hua
Song Information Engineering School, University of Science and Technology Beijing (short paper)

Saturday 18th - 19.00

Conference Banquet
Location: Peachtree

Sunday 19th - 09.00 - 09.15
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Conference Announcement
Location: Piedmont Ballroom
Sunday 19th - 09.15 - 10.30

Keynote II

Location: Piedmont Ballroom
Session Chair: Tao Zhang

Collaboration@work 2020: ubiquitous collaboration research perspectives
Isidro Laso-Ballestreros, European Commission

Sunday 19th - 11.00 - 12.30

Session 6 Collaborative Sensor Networks
Location: Lenox Roorm
Session Chair: Mads Nygård

An improved ant-based routing protocol in Wireless Sensor Networks
Ge Chen, Tian-De Guo, Wen-Guo Yang, and Tong Zhao
Dept. of Mathematics, Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (full paper)

Cost-based Solution for Optimizing Multi-join Queries over Distributed Streaming Sensor Data
Joseph Gomes, Hyeong-Ah Choi
Department of Computer Science, The George Washington University (full paper)

Redundancy-Aware Topology Management in Wireless Sensor Networks
Safwan Al-Omari and Weisong Shi
Wayne State University (full paper)

Session 7 EU program on Collaborative Working Environments Special Session
Location: Piedmont Ballroom
Session Chair: Antonio Gomez Skarmeta

ECOSPACE – Towards an Integrated Collaboration Space for eProfessionals
Wolfgang Prinz, Herman Löh, Marc Pallot and Hans Schaffers,
Fraunhofer FIT, CeTIM, EsoCeNet, Telematica
(invited full paper)

Supporting Distributed Collaborative Work in Manufacturing Industry
Campos, P. Pina and R. Neves-Silva,
UNINOVA, FCT Campus (invited full paper) 

WORKPAD: 2-Layered Peer-to-Peer for Emergency Management through Adaptive Processes
Tiziana Catarci, Fabio De Rosa, Massimiliano de Leoni, Massimo Mecella, Universit`a di Roma “La Sapienza”
Michele Angelaccio Universit`a di Roma “Tor Vergata”,; Schahram Dustdar, Technische Universitaet Wien,
Bego˜na Gonzalvez, Moviquity, Spain; Giuseppe Iiritano Regione Calabria - Dipartimento della Protezione Civile
Alenka Krek Salzburg Researc; Guido Vetere IBM Italia; Zdenek M. Zalis Software602. (invited full paper)

Sunday 19th - 14.00 - 15.45

Session 8 Collaboration and Security
Location: Lenox Room
Session Chair: James Joshi

Secure Communication and Cooperation via Shared Workspaces
Wolfgang Appelt, Sanjin Pajo, Wolfgang Prinz 
Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology
(invited full paper)

Secure and Private Collaborative Linear Programming
Jiangtao Li Intel Corporation and Mikhail J. Atallah
Department of Computer Science, Purdue University (full paper)

Supporting Ad-hoc Collaboration with Group-based RBAC Model
Qi Li Chinese Academy of Sciences,
Xinwen Zhang George Mason University, Fairfax
Sihan Qing Chinese Academy of Sciences
Mingwei Xu Tsinghua University (invited full paper)

Session 9 Wiki and P2P
Location: Peidmont Ballroom
Session Chair: Lakshmish Ramaswamy

Quality Analysis of Distribution Architectures for Synchronous Groupware
T.C. Nicholas Graham School of Computing, Queen’s University
W. Greg Phillips ECE, Royal Military College
Christopher Wolfe School of Computing, Queen’s University Kingston (full paper)

Best Practices on Delivering a Wiki Collaborative Solution for Enterprise Applications
Soobaek Jang IBM Corporation – Innovation Technology Group, Tonya Green
IBM Corporation – Global Employee IT Satisfaction (full paper)

A Scalable Index Architecture for Supporting Multi-Dimensional Range Queries in Peer-to-Peer Networks
Xiaoyu Yang and Yiming Hu,
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science University of Cincinnati (full paper)  

A Peer-to-Peer Framework for Collaborative Data Sharing over the Internet
A Vijay Srinivas, and D Janakiram
Dept. of Computer Science & Engg., Indian Institute of Technology (short paper)

Sunday 19th - 16.00 - 18.00

Session 10 (Short Papers): Collaborative Middleware and Systems
Location: Lenox Room
Session Chair: Mads Nygård

A Web Collaboration Architecture
Antonio Tapiador, Antonio Fumero, Joaquín Salvachúa, Sandra Aguirre
Department of Telematic Systems Engineering, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (short paper)

Discovering Web Services Based on Functional Semantics
Lei Ye, Bin Zhang
School of Information Science and Engineering, Northeastern University (short paper)

Joint Degrees in E-Learning Systems: A Web Services Approach
Sandra Aguirre, Joaquin Salvachúa, Juan Quemada, Antonio Fumero, Antonio Tapiador
Department of Telematics Engineering, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid  (short paper)

Interface-based Web Service Syndication and its Application to a Collaborative Weblog Search Service
Ingo Scholtes and Daniel Görgen University of Trier, Systemsoftware and Distributed Systems,
Patrick Gratz University of Luxembourg, Facultė des Sciences, de la Technologie et de la Communication (short paper)

Multi-way Dataflow Constraint Propagation in Real-time Collaborative Systems
Kai Lin, David Chen Griffith University, Geoff Dromey School of Computing and Information Tech,
Sun Chengzheng Nanyang Technological University (short paper)

 Improving Automatic Data Structure Generation for e-Science Applications
Victor Guevara-Masis, Hakan Yakali, Adam Belloum
Faculty of Science, University of Amsterdam (short paper)

 Data Mediation Support for Triple Space Computing
Omair Shafiq
DERI Innsbruck (short paper)

Session 11 Collaborative Computing Applications
Location: Piedmont Ballroom
Session Chair: Weisong Shi

Source-centric Collaborative Ranking of the Web
James Caverlee
Georgia Tech (invited full paper)

Web Services for Service Oriented Communication
Wu Chou, Li Li and Feng Liu
Avaya Labs Research, Avaya, USA (invited full paper)

 On Effective Utilization of Wireless Networks in Collaborative Applications
Surekha Kanapuram, Hesham H. Ali Dept of Computer Science, University of Nebraska
Gert - Jan de Vreede Dept of Information Systems, University of Nebraska (full paper)

Supporting Mobile Collaborative Applications using Adaptable Transactional Framework
Heri Ramampiaro, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway (invited full paper)

Monday 20th - 09.00 - 09.15
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Conference Announcement
Location: Piedmont Ballroom
Monday 20th - 09.15 - 10.30

Keynote III
Location: Piedmont Ballroom
Session Chair: Enrico Blanzieri
Improving Collaboration Technology by Modeling Human Behavior
Steven Poltrock, Boeing Phantom Works, USA

Monday 20th - 11.00 - 12.30

Session 12 Collaborative Editing Systems
Location: Lenox Room
Session Chair: Wolfgang Appelt

Flexible Definition and Resolution of Conflicts through Multi-level Editing
Claudia-Lavinia Ignat, Moira C. Norrie, 
Institute for Information Systems, ETH Zurich (full paper)

 A Framework for Inter-referential Awareness in Collaborative Environments
 Jon A. Preston and Sushil K. Prasad
Department of Computer Science, Georgia State University (full paper)

Tombstone Transformation Functions for Ensuring Consistency in Collaborative Editing Systems
Gérald Oster Institute for Information Systems, ETH Zurich,
Pascal Molli, Pascal Urso, Abdessamad Imine Université Henri Poincaré, Nancy 1, LORIA (full paper)

Session 13 Software Engineering and Collaborative Systems
Location: Piedmont Ballroom
Session Chair: James Caverlee

Mining  Revision History to Assess Trustworthiness of Article Fragments
Honglei Zeng, Maher A. Alhossaini, Richard Fikes and Deborah L. McGuinness,
Knowledge Systems, AI Lab, Department of Computer Science, Stanford University (full paper)

Real-Time Collaborative Software Modeling Using UML with Rational Software Architect
Siyuan Liu, Yang Zheng , Haifeng Shen , Chengzheng Sun, and Steven Xia
School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University  (full paper)

Teaching Students How to Work in Global Software Development Environments
Kathleen Swigger, Robert Brazile, Brian Harrington, Xiabo Peng
Computer Science & Engineering University of North Texas,
Ferda Alpaslan Computer Engineering, Middle East Technical University (full paper)