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: Ballroom CD
Session Chair: Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA

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

Session 1 - Security in Collaboration
Location: Ballroom CD
Session Chair: Philippe Roose, University of Pau and Pays de l'Adour

Transparent Security for Collaborative Environments
Ludek Matyska, Petr Holub, Eva Hladka, Daniel Kouril, and Michal Prochazka
CESNET (Full Paper)

Framework for Constrained Role/Permission Framework for Constrained Role/Permission Delegation in RBAC
Ritesh Kumar Tiwari
IIIT-Hyderabad (Full Paper)

Secure Scripting Based Composite Application Development: Framework, Architecture and Implementation
Tom Dinkelaker, Alisdair Johnstone, Yuecel Karabulut, and Ike Nassi
SAP Research (Full Paper)

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

Session 2 - Collaboration in Sensor Networks
Location: Scarsdale 1
Session Chair: Bugra Gedik, IBM T.J. Watson, USA

Cooperative Security in Distributed Sensor Networks
Oscar Garcia Morchon, Heribert baldus, Tobias Heer, and Klaus Wehrle
Philips Research Europe (Full Paper)

Target Coverage With QoS Requirements in Wireless Sensor Networks
Yu Gu
University of Science & Technology of China (Full Paper)

Collaborative Event Detection Using Mobile and Stationary Nodes in Sensor Networks
Theofanis Lambrou, and Christos Panayiotou
University of Cyprus (Full Paper)

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

Session 3 - Collaborative Editing
Location: Scarsdale 2
Session Chair: Pascal Molli, Loria, France

How a Structured Document Model Can Support Awareness in Collaborative Authoring
Stavroula Papadopoulou, and Moira Norrie
ETH Zurich (Full Paper)

Asynchronous Reconciliation based on Operational Transformation for P2P Collaborative Environments
Michelle Cart, and Jean Ferrié
Univeristy of Montpellier 2, LIRMM (Full Paper)

Shadow Document Sets for Synchronously-Aware Asynchronous Collaboration
Stavroula Papadopoulou, and Moira Norrie
ETH Zurich (Full Paper)

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

Panel 1: Collaborative Computing: From Network Management to Enterprise Systems and Web 2.0
Location: Ballroom CD
Mediator: Arun Iyengar, IBM TJWatson

Panel Statement:

This panel will focus on the role of collaboration in business computing areas and will consider both system and application issues. Enhancements to self-tuning and self-configuring capabilities of Network Management and Enterprise Systems as well as the emergence of Web 2.0 social network computing in recent years demonstrate different aspects of collaborative computing. This panel will present different perspectives on what role collaboration will play and how dominant collaboration will be in future computing environments.

Panelists:
  • Prasun Dewan - University of North Carolina
  • Dimitrios Georgakopoulos - Telcordia
  • Juan Quemada - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
  • Dorée Duncan Seligmann - Avaya Labs
  • Charles Wiecha - IBM Research

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

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

Session 4 - Potpourri
Location: Ballroom CD
Session Chair: Jean-Henry Morin, University of Geneva

The MicroOppnet Tool for Collaboration Experiments with Class 2 Opportunistic Networks
Zille Huma Kamal, Ajay Gupta, Leszek Lilien, and Zijiang Yang
Western Michigan University (Full Paper)

Designing an Interoperable Infrastructure for Synchronous Collaboration Edit
M. Antonia Martinez Carreras, Alejandro Piqueras, Alejandro Hernández, and Antonio F. Gómez-Skarmeta
Departamento de Ingeniera de la Informatica (Full Paper)

SYNG: A Middleware for Statefull Groupware in Mobile Environments
Mihail Ionescu
Rutgers University (Full Paper)

Multicasting in Groupware?
Sasa Junuzovic, and Prasun Dewan
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Full Paper)

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

Session 5 - Privacy & Trust in Collaboration
Location: Scarsdale 1
Session Chair: Bugra Gedik, IBM T.J. Watson

User-centric Privacy Management for Federated Identity
Gail-Joon Ahn
University of North Carolina (Full Paper)

An Efficient Fair Exchange Protocol that Enforces the Merchant to be Honest
Abdullah Alaraj, and Malcolm Munro
Durham University (Full Paper)

Countering Sparsity and Vulnerabilities in Reputation Systems
Li Xiong, Ling Liu, and Mustaque Ahamad
Emory University (Full Paper)

Privacy Protection on Sliding Window of Data Streams
Wei Ping Wang
Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Full Paper)

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

Session 6 - Collaborative Education
Location: Scarsdale 2
Session Chair: James Joshi, University of Pittsburgh

Face2face social bookmarking with recommendations: WebQuests in the classrooms
Delfina Malandrino, Giuseppina Palmieri, Raffaella Grieco, and Vittorio Scarano
Dipartimento di Informatica ed Applicazioni, R. M. Capocelli, Universitˆ di Salerno (Full Paper)

Using Context to Assist the Adaptation of Protected Multimedia Content in Virtual Collaboration Applications
Hemantha Kodikara Arachchi, Maria Teresa Andrade, Jaime Delgado, Sabih Nasir, Safak Dogan, Halil Uzuner, Ahmet M. Kondoz, Eva Rodr’guez, Anna Carreras, Tim Masterton, and Rachel Craddock
University of Surrey (Full Paper)

COFFEE: Cooperative Face2Face Educational Environment
Ilaria Manno, Vittorio Scarano, Rosario De Chiara, and Antonio Emilio Di Matteo
Universitˆ degli Studi di Salerno (Full Paper)

Uncompressed HD video for collaborative teaching - an experiment
Andrei Hutanu, Yufeng Xin, Steven RThorpe, Petr Holub, Ravi Paruchuri, Daniel Eiland, and Milos Liska
Center for Computation & Technology (Full Paper)

Wednesday 14th - 09.00am - 09.15am

Conference Announcement
Location: Ballroom CD

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

Keynote II

Location: Ballroom CD
Session Chair: TBA

Perspectives on Social Computing
Dr. Wendy A. Kellogg, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

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

Session 7 - Industrial Session
Location: Ballroom CD
Session Chair: Zhengyou Zhang, Microsoft Research

Audiovisual Collaborative Communication Systems Research at Microsoft Edit
Zhengyou Zhang
Microsoft Research (Industrial Paper)

Collaboration Support Using Environment Images and Videos
Qiong Liu, Don Kimber, and Patrick Chiu
FXPAL (Industrial Paper)

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

Session 8 - SOA and Collaboration
Location: Scarsdale 1
Session Chair: Li Xiong, Emory University

Reacting to Functional Changes in Service-Oriented Enterprises
Xumin Liu and Athman Bouguettaya
Virginia Tech (Full Paper)

The SEMPA Prototype - Using XAML and Web Services for Rich Interactive Peer-to-Peer Applications
Ingo Scholtes
University of Trier (Full Paper)

Formal Verification of Composite Service Recovery Mechanisms Consistency
Sami Bhiri, Walid Gaaloul, Manfred Hauwirth, Mohsen Rouached, and Claude Godart
DERI Galway (Full Paper)

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

Session 9 - Security & Privacy in Collaboration
Location: Scarsdale 2
Session Chair: Bugra Gedik, IBM T.J. Watson

The TLC-PP Framework for delivering a Privacy Augmented Collaborative Environment (PACE)
Geoff DSkinner
Curtin University of Technology (Short Paper)

Dynamics of Commitment and Contribution Quality in Collaborative Communities
Markus Schaal, and Yavuz Eren
Bilkent University (Short Paper)

Modeling Trust in Collaborative Information
Sara Javanmardi, and Cristina Lopes
UCI (Short Paper)

Multi-Level Locks to Control Collaborative Modeling Sessions
Mauro C. Pichiliani, and Celso M. Hirata
ITA (Instituto de Tecnologia da Aeronática) (Short Paper)

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

Panel 2: Collaborative Computing and Service Oriented Computing
Location: Ballroom CD
Mediator: Dennis McLeod, University of Southern California

Panel Statement:

The panel will discuss the interactions between collaborative computing and service computing. We adopt a broad definition of both terms. Collaborative computing includes collaboration among humans and programs. Service computing includes request-response and automated composition of services. Will the interactions among collaborative components create new research challenges?

Panelists:
  • Prasun Dewan - University of North Carolina
  • Yuecel Karabulut - SAP Research
  • Li Zhang - IBM Research

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

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

Session 10 - Potpourri
Location: Ballroom CD
Session Chair: Athman Bouguettaya, Virginia Tech

API Design Recommendations for Facilitating Conversion of Single-user Applications into Collaborative Applications
Kai Lin, David Chen, Geoff Dromey, and Sun Chengzheng
Griffith University (Full Paper)

Maintaining Constraints Expressed as Formulas in Collaborative Systems
Kai Lin, David Chen, Geoff Dromey, and Sun Chengzheng
Griffith University (Full Paper)

Collaborative Motion Planning of Autonomous Robots
Takashi Okada
JAIST, NICT (Full Paper)

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

Session 11 - Performance and Scalability
Location: Scarsdale 1
Session Chair: Heri Ramampiaro, NTNU, Norway

Message Replication in Unstructured Peer- to-Peer Network
Osama Al-Haj Hassan, and Lakshmish Ramaswamy
University of Georgia (UGA) (Full Paper)

Index Distribution in a Group-Based Resource Sharing Applications
Nicklas Beijar
TKK Helsinki University of Technology (Full Paper)

A Random Projection Approach to Subscription Covering Detection in Publish/Subsribe Systems
Duc A Tran
University of Massachusetts (Full Paper)

Load Balancing in a Hierarchical DHT-based P2P System
Stefan R Zoels
Munich University of Technology (Full Paper)

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

Session 12 - Potpourri
Location: Scarsdale 2
Session Chair: Bugra Gedik, IBM T.J. Watson, USA

Service-Oriented Architecture for Mobile Collaboration
Yuri Natchetoi, Viktor Kaufman, and Yuecel Karabulut
SAP Labs (Short Paper)

A quantitaive analysis of collaborative tags: Evaluation for information retrieval--a preliminary study
Judith Gelernter
Rutgers University (Short Paper)

Kademlia for data storage and retrieval in enterprise networks
Natalya Fedotova, Luca Veltri, and Stefano Fanti
University of Parma (Short Paper)

Semantic Overlay for Scalable Service Discovery
Brahmananda Sapkota
Digital Enterprise Research Institute (Short Paper)

Active Notifications
Prasun Dewan
University of North Carolina (Short Paper)

Thursday 15th - 09.00am - 09.15am

Conference Announcement
Location: Ballroom CD

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

Session 13 - Industrial Session
Location: Scarsdale 1
Session Chair: Zhengyou Zhang, Microsoft Research

Why Tag Conversations?
Dorée Duncan Seligmann, Ajita John, and Shreeharsh Kelkar
Avaya Labs (Industrial Paper)

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

Session 14 - Collaborative Applications
Location: Scarsdale 1
Session Chair: Heri Ramampiaro, NTNU, Norway

POPEYE: a simple and reliable collaborative working environment over mobile ad-hoc networks
Patrizio Pelliccione, Hoa Dung Ha Duong, Christian Melchiorre, Eike Michael Meyer, Ignacio Nieto, Marcel Arrufat, and Frederique Tastet-Cherel
University of L'Aquila (Full Paper)

Collaborative Panel Administrator: A Framework and Implementation for Expert Panel Lifecycle Management
Clifford Behrens
Telcordia (Full Paper)

Peer2Schedule - A Peer-to-peer Application to Support Present Collaboration
Alf Inge Wang
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Full Paper)

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

Session 15 - Collaborative Apps., Case Studies
Location: Scarsdale 2
Session Chair: Bugra Gedik, IBM T.J. Watson, USA

Evolving a Text-Based Conferencing System: An Experience Report
Fabio Calefato, Filippo Lanubile, and Mario Scalas
University of Bari (Short Paper)

Developing Collaborative Technology for Neuro-Science
Sharon Lloyd
University of Oxford Computing Laboratory (Short Paper)

Videoconferencing Design for Remote Groups
Pavel Troubil, Petr Slovak, and Eva Hladka
Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University (Short Paper)

Technology Adoption and the Mobile Worker: The Case of the Field Journalist
Michael Er
University of Technology, Sydney (Short Paper)

Thursday 15th - 02:00pm - 03:30pm

Session 16 - Collaborative Modeling
Location: Scarsdale 1
Session Chair: Bugra Gedik, IBM T.J. Watson, USA

Collaborative Practice-oriented Business Processes
Olivera Marjanovic
University of Sydney, Australia (Full Paper)

Effects of Agendas on Model-based Intention Inference of Cooperative Teams
Martin Giersich
University of Rostock (Full Paper)

A Model Transformation Framework to Boost Productivity and Creativity in Collaborative Working Environments
Andrea D'Ambrogio, and Michele Angelaccio
University of Rome "Tor Vergata" (Full Paper)

Thursday 15th - 02:00pm - 03:30pm

Session 17 - Collaborative Editing
Location: Scarsdale 2
Session Chair: Alf Inge Wang, NTNU

A Comparison of Optimistic Approaches to Collaborative Editing of Wiki
Claudia-Lavinia Ignat, Gérald Oster, Molli Pascal, Michelle Cart, Jean Ferrié, Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Pierre Sutra, Lamia Benmouffok, Jean-Michel Busca, Marc Shapiro, and Rachid Guerraoui
INRIA Lorraine (Full Paper)

SemCW: Semantic Collaborative Writing using RST
Charbel Rahhal
loria (Full Paper)

Read, Write, and Navigation Awareness in Realistic Multi-View Collaborations
Sasa Junuzovic, Prasun Dewan, and Yong Rui
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Full Paper)