Conference Program (preliminary)


Please note that the conference starts wiht the workshops MobCops and TrustCol on Nov. 12th.

The cofee breaks are between 10.30 and 11.00, and 15.30 - 16.00 every day.

The lunch is between 12.30 and 14.00 every day.

To read the Program Chair's Message, please click here.

Monday 12th - 09.00 - 16.00

Workshops and tutorials
Location: TBA

The workshops MobCops 2007 and TrustCol 2007. Please refer to the workshops homepages for more information.

Tuesday 13th - 09.00am - 09.15am

Opening Ceremony
Location: Ballroom CD

Tuesday 13th - 09:15am - 10:30am

Keynote I

Location:
Session Chair: Elisa Bertino, Purdue University USA

Group-Centric Information Sharing
Ravi Sandhu, University of Texas, San Antonio, USA

Tuesday 13th - 11:00am - 12:30pm

Session 1 - Architecture for Collaboration
Location:
Session Chair: Lotzi Boloni, University of Central Florida, USA

Serial vs. Concurrent Scheduling of Transmission and Processing Tasks in Collaborative Systems
Sasa Junuzovic, and Prasun Dewan
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Full Paper)

Location-based mapping services to support collaboration in spatially distributed workgroups
Eike Michael Meyer, Daniel Wichmann, Henning Büsch, and Susanne Boll
OFFIS - Intitute for Information Technology (Full Paper)

Smart Homes for All: Collaborating Services in a for-All Architecture for Domotics
T. Catarci, F. Cincotti, M. de Leoni, M. Mecella, and G. Santucci
Sapienza - Universita di Roma, Italy ()

Archer: A Community Distributed Computing Infrastructure for Computer Architecture Research and Education
Renato Figueiredo, P. Oscar Boykin, José A. B. Fortes, Tao Li, Jie-Kwon. Peir, David Wolinsky (University of Florida), Lizy John (University of Texas at Austin, David Kaeli (Northeastern University), David Lilja (University of Minnesota), Sally McKee (Cornell University), Gokhan Memik (Northwestern University), Alain Roy (University of Wisconsin-Madison), and Gary Tyson (Florida State University)
N/A ()

Tuesday 13th - 11:00am - 12:30pm

Session 2 - Security/Privacy in Sensor, Vehicular Mobile ad-hoc NETs
Location:
Session Chair: Isabel Cruz, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

A Hybrid Key Predistribution Scheme for Sensor Networks Employing Spatial Retreats to Cope with Jamming Attacks
Korporn Panyim, and Prashant Krishnamurthy
University of Pittsburgh (Full Paper)

Security through Collaboration in MANETs
Wenjia Li, James Parker, and Anupam Joshi
University of Maryland, Baltimore County (Full Paper)

Data Quality and Failures Characterization of Sensing Data in Environmental Applications
Weisong Shi, Guoxing Zhan, and Kewei Sha
Wayne State University (Full Paper)

Enhancing Privacy in Vehicle to Vehicle Communications
Eric van den Berg, and Tao Zhang
Telcordia ()

Tuesday 13th - 02:00pm - 03:30pm

Panel 1: Collaborative Computing: Success and Challenges
Location:
Mediator: Ling Liu and Calton Pu, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Panel Statement:

Collaborative computing has emerged as a promising paradigm for developing large-scale distributed systems. Social Networks and Clouding computing Initiatives represent a recent success of collaborative computing in the context of large scale social computing and distributed service computing. These domain specific successes have pushed the computing and communication to be more ubiquitous and more towards global collaboration, and have demonstrated that collaboration is and continue to be a fundamental capability of network computing.

In this panel, we will share some of the most successful collaborative computing stories in computing and communication research, and debate on what the three most important opportunities and challenges in collaborative networks, collaborative systems, and collaborative applications. We would also like the panelists to share their vision on where collaborative computing will go in the next 10

Panelists:
  • Elisa Bertino - Purdue Univ. USA
  • Dimitrios Georgakopoulos - CSIRO Australia
  • Tao Zhang - Telcordia USA
  • Ravi Sandhu - University of Texas at San Antonio USA

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

Tuesday 13th - 04:00pm - 06:00pm

Session 3 - P2P and Overlay Networks
Location:
Session Chair: Renato Figueiredo, University of Florida, USA

Minimizing Load Delays in P2P Distributed Virtual Environments Using Epidemic Hoarding
Ingo Scholtes, Jean Botev, Markus Esch, Hermann Schloss, and Peter Sturm
University of Trier (Full Paper)

An Undo Framework for P2P Collaborative Editing
Stéphane WEISS (Nancy Université or Loria, France), Pascal Urso (George Mason University), and Molli Pascal (George Mason University)
N/A (Full Paper)

Replication in Overlay Networks: A Multi-Objective Optimization Approach
Osama Al-Haj Hassan, Lakshmish Ramaswamy, John Miller, Khaled Rasheed, and E. Rodney Canfield
University of Georgia (Full Paper)

A Distributed Collaborative Filtering Recommendation Model For P2P Networks
Jun Wang (Sichuan University), Jian Peng (University of Maryland), and and Xiaoyang Cao
N/A ()

Tuesday 13th - 04:00pm - 06:00pm

Session 4 - Trust, Privacy and Personalization
Location:
Session Chair: Anna Squicciarini, Penn State University, USA

Collaborative Search and User Privacy -- How Can They Be Reconciled?
Thorben Burghardt, Erik Buchmann, Klemens Bšhm, and Chris Clifton,
Universitat Karlsruhe, Purdue University ()

Defending against Attribute-Correlation Attacks in Privacy-Aware Information Brokering
Anna Squicciarini, Peng Liu, and Fengjun Li
Penn State University ()

Incentive and Trust Issues in Assured Information Sharing
Ryan Layfield, Murat Kantarcioglu, and Bhavani Thuraisingham
University of Texas at Dallas ()

Combining Social Networks and the Semantic Web Technologies for Personalizing the Access to the Web
Barbara Carminati, and Elena Ferrari
University of Insubria, Italy ()

Wednesday 14th - 09.00am - 09.15am

Conference Announcement
Location: Ballroom CD

Wednesday 14th - 09:15am - 10:30am

Keynote II

Location:
Session Chair: James Joshi, University of Pittsburgh USA

Wednesday 14th - 11:00am - 12:30pm

Session 5 - Security/Access Control in Collaborative Environments
Location:
Session Chair: William R. Claycomb, Sandia National Laboratories, USA

Access Control Model for Sharing Composite Electronic Health Records
Jing Jin, Gail-Joon Ahn, Michael J. Covington, and Xinwen Zhang
University of North Carolina at Charlotte (Full Paper)

A Constraint and Attribute Based Security Framework for Dynamic Role Assignment in Collaborative Environments
Isabel Cruz, Rigel Gjomemo, Benjamin Lin, and Mirko Orsini
University of Illinois at Chicago (Full Paper)

RiBAC: Role Interaction based Access Control Model for Community Computing
Youna Jung, Amirreza Masoumzadeh, James Joshi (University of Pittsburgh), and Minkoo Kim (Ajou University)
N/A (Full Paper)

Secure and Conditional Resource Coordination for Successful Collaborations
Dongxi Liu, Surya Nepal, David Moreland, Shiping Chen Chen, Chen Wang, and John Zic
CSIRO, Australia (Full Paper)

Wednesday 14th - 11:00am - 12:30pm

Session 6 - Collaborative/Group-based Systems & Applications
Location:
Session Chair: Kewei Sha, Oklahoma City University, USA

Informa: An Extensible Framework for Group Response Systems
Matthias Hauswirth
University of Lugano (Full Paper)

TeleEye: an Awareness Widget that Show the Focus of Attention in Collaborative Editing Systems
Mauro MC Pichiliani
ITA (Full Paper)

GroupBanter: Supporting Serendipitous Group Conversations with IM
Kori Inkpen
Microsoft Research (Full Paper)

Ontology Support for Managing Top-down Changes in Composite Services
Xumin Liu
Virginia Tech (Full Paper)

Wednesday 14th - 02:00pm - 03:30pm

Session 7 - Context, Situation, & Resource Awareness
Location:
Session Chair: Barbara Carminati, University of Insubria, Italy

The Effect of Personality on Collaborative Task Performance and Interaction
Sinéad G Mc Givney
Dublin City University, Ireland (Full Paper)

A Bayesian Approach to Personalizing Context Awareness in Ubiquitous Computing Environments
Yaser A Mowafi, and Dongsong Zhang
University of Maryland, Baltimore County ()

Evaluating Security Policies in Pervasive Mobile Environments Using Context Information
Carlos Sanchez (University of Oklahama),ÊMauricio Sanchez (University of Central Oklahama), and Le Gruenwald (University of Oklahama & NSF)
N/A ()

Access Control for Cooperation Systems based on Group Situation
Minsoo Kim (Ajou University - Korea), James Joshi (University of Pittsburgh), and Minkoo Kim (Ajou University - Korea)
N/A ()

Wednesday 14th - 02:00pm - 03:30pm

Session 8 - Workflows, Business Process & Service Oriented Architecture
Location:
Session Chair: Youna Jung, University of Pittsburgh, USA

A Contract Language for Service-Oriented Dynamic Collaboration
Surya Nepal, John Zic, and Shiping Chen Chen
CSIRO, Australia (Full Paper)

Towards Continuous Workflow Enactment Systems
Panickos Neophytou, Alexandros Labrinidis, and Panos Chrysanthis
University of Pittsburgh ()

The RiverFish Approach to Business Process Modeling: Linking Business Steps to Control-Flow Patterns
Devanir Zuliane, Marcio K. Oikawa, Simon Malkowski, José Perez Alcazar, and and Jo‹o Eduardo Ferreira
University of Sao Paulo ()

Wednesday 14th - 04:00pm - 06:00pm

Session 9 - Security in Virtual Environments
Location:
Session Chair: Shouhuai Xu, University of Texas, San Antonio, USA

Monitoring Contract Enforcement within Virtual Organizations
Anna C Squicciarini (Pennsylvania State University), and Federica Paci (Purdue University)
N/A (Full Paper)

Protecting Sensitive Information in Directory Services using Virtual Directories
William R Claycomb (Sandia National Laboratories), and Dongwan Shin (New Mexico Tech)
N/A (Full Paper)

The New Method For Creation of Efficient Security Policies in Virtual Private Network
Mohammad Mehdi Gilanian Sadeghi (UPM - Malaysia), Hossein Pedram, Mehdi Deghan, and Masoud Sabaei (Amirkabir University - Iran)
N/A (Full Paper)

Web Canary: A Virtualized Web Browser to Support Large-Scale Silent Collaboration in Detecting Malicious Web Sites
Jiang Wang, Anup Ghosh, and Yih Huang
George Mason University ()

Wednesday 14th - 04:00pm - 06:00pm

Session 10 - Composition/ Management in Collaboration
Location:
Session Chair: Danfeng Yao, Rutgers University, USA

Automatic Categorization of Tags in Collaborative Environments
Qihua Wang, and Hongxia Jin
IBM Almaden Research Center (Full Paper)

Mashup Model and Verification using Mashup Processing Network
Ehtesham Zahoor, Olivier Perrin, and Claude Godart
Loria, France (Full Paper)

Analytics and Management of Collaborative Intranets
Peter Geczy
AIST, Japan (Full Paper)

CalSWIM: A Wiki--based Data Sharing Platform
Yasser Ganjisaffar, Sara Javanmardi, Stanley Grant, and Cristina Lopes
University of California, Irvine ()

Thursday 15th - 09.00am - 09.15am

Conference Announcement
Location: Ballroom CD

Thursday 15th - 09:15am - 10:30am

Session 13 - Industrial Session
Location:
Session Chair: TBA, TBA

Thursday 15th - 09:15am - 10:30am

Session 14 - Tutorial 2 and Tutorial 3
Location:
Session Chair: TBA, TBA

Tutorial 2 - Requirements Specification and Acceptance Testing of Collaborative Work Environments, Groupware, and CSCW Systems
Dr. Hans-Ludwig Hausen
Fraunhofer, D-53754 St Augustin, Germany ()

Tutorial 3 - Countering Spam in Online Communities and the Social Web
Dr. James Caverlee (Department of Computer Science Texas A&M University), and Dr. Steve Webb (PureWire Inc.)
N/A ()

Thursday 15th - 11:00am - 12:30pm

Session 11 - Collaborative Security Mechanisms
Location:
Session Chair: John Zic, CSIRO, Australia

A federated Digital Identity Management Approach for Business Processes
Elisa Bertino, Rodolfo Ferrini, Andrea Musci, Federica Paci, and Kevin J. Steuer
Purdue University ()

SelectAudit: A Secure and Efficient Audit Framework for Networked Virtual Environments
Tuan Phan, and Danfeng Yao
Rutgers University ()

Collaborative Attack vs. Collaborative Defense
Shouhuai Xu
University of Texas at San Antonio ()

Thursday 15th - 11:00am - 12:30pm

Session 12 - Mobile/Smart Environments
Location:
Session Chair: TBA, TBA

Collaborative Graphic Rendering for Improving Visual Experience
Xiaoxin Wu
Intel China Research Center (Full Paper)

A Battery-aware Algorithm for Supporting Mobile Collaborative Applications
Sami Rollins, and Cheryl Chang-Yit
University of San Francisco (Full Paper)

Learning Models of the Negotiation Partner in Spatio-Temporal Collaboration
Yi Luo and Ladislau Boloni
University of Central FloridaÊ ()