The 5th International Conference on Collaborative Computing:
Networking, Applications and Worksharing

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.

New features this year include:

• Awards
  • Best Paper Award
  • Student Travel Support -- Support for up to $500/student is available for 3-5 students who are first authors - we are trying to get support for more (check back for more details soon).
• Special Issue
  • Special journal Issue in Springer MONET
    (Note: four papers from CollaborateCom’08 are currently being worked towards a special issue in this journal)
  • International Journal of Cooperative Information System (IJCIS) - pending approval
• Inclusion in IEEE Xplore

Scope

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.

Contributions addressing all areas related to collaborative networking, applications and worksharing are solicited. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• 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

Important dates