Call for Papers

Research Papers

The conference invites original technical papers, not exceeding 5000 words, that have not been previously published and are not currently under review for publication elsewhere. Contributions addressing all areas related to collaborative networking, applications and worksharing are solicited.

Deadline for submissions: July 11th, 2007. !EXTENDED BY A WEEK to JULY 18!

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Topics of interest

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, sensor networks, unmanned air and ground vehicle networks & applications
• Collaborative technologies for fast creation and deployment of new mobile services
• Computer Supported Collaborative Work with distributed systems
• Data management and middleware support for collaborative information systems
• Distributed technologies and architectures to support group collaboration, activity, and awareness
• Empirical studies on distributed collaboration
• Energy management for collaborative networks
• Methodologies and tools for design and analysis of collaborative user applications
• Multi-agent technology and software technologies for collaborative networking and applications
• Peer-to-peer and overlay networks, systems, and applications
• Security and trust management in collaborative networks, systems, and applications
• Simulation, performance evaluation, experiments, and trials 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
• Trustworthy collaborative business processing in virtual organizations
• Visualization techniques and visual languages for collaborative networks and applications
• Web services technologies for collaborative networking and applications
• Workflow technology and workflow management for collaborative network management
• Modeling for Collaboration
• P2P platforms for supporting collaboration
• Collaborative, location aware mobile systems
• Collaborative sensor systems
• Security an privacy in collaboration
• Human/robot collaboration
• Human-centric ubiquitous collaboration
• Collaborative, context-aware infrastructure
• Group-driven composition of systems from components
• Technology and system for collaboration in real-time enterprises

The conference will be hierarchically structured into 5 areas:

• Collaborative applications
• Networking
• Collaboration technology and systems
• Ubiquitous collaboration
• Interfaces and protocols for team and man-machine collaboration

The vice chairs that we choose to lead these areas will further refine the scope of the conference.

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 made available in IEEE Xplore, and then be indexed by DBLP and Engineering Information (EI). A selected number of best papers will be considered for publication in a leading journal.

Submission Guidelines

1. You should register on the conference management system: http://icst.org:8080/cocus/loadRegister.do
2. Shortly after completing the registration, you will get by e-mail with your password. Then, login to the system using this password at http://icst.org:8080/cocus/login/loadHome.do
3. Once logged, click to the "Submit Paper" menu and find "CollaborateCom 2007" from the list of events. Then click on the "Submit a paper" link.
   Altenatively, (if you are already logged on,) go directly to http://icst.org:8080/cocus/login/loadEventDetails.do?id=165
4. Follow the submission procedure wizard.

If you have any problems with the submission process, please contact Heri Ramampiaro - heri at computer.org, Bugra Gedik - bgedik at us.ibm.com and/or Dimitrios Georgakopoulos - dimitris at research.telcordia.com.