Call for Papers

Research Papers

The conference invites original technical papers 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: August 7, 2009 [Extended].

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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 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

Publication

All submitted papers and posters will be rigorously reviewed by technical program committee members and the reviewers they invite. Currently, technical sponsorship is being proceeded with IEEE Computer Society. Upon approval of the IEEE sponsorship details will be included here. It will be similar to those of 2004, 2005, and 2006.

Best Papers will be invited for publication in international journals. Approval has been granted for a special issue on CollaborateCom'09 to be published on ACM/Springer MOBILE NETWORKS & APPLICATIONS (MONET). 4-6 papers on the themes related to MONET will be selected for publication on this issue. Other journal venues are being pursued.

Submission Guidelines

Research papers should be up to 10 pages in IEEE 2-column format. Please follow the instructions provided in the author's kit.

Submission of papers is through the EasyChair conference system at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=collaboratecom09. Authors need to have an account in the system or obtain one prior to submission.