The 4th International Conference on Collaborative Computing:
Networking, Applications and Worksharing
Jointly sponsored by ACM SIGCHI, Create-Net,
the International Computer Sciences, and Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering (ICST)

The Regal Sun Resort, Orlando, FL, USA, November 13-16, 2008

Over the last two decades, many organization 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 form general purpose tools to specialized collaboration grids. Future collaboration solutions that fully realize the promises of electronic collaboration requires advancements in networking, technology and systems, user interfaces and interaction paradigms, and interoperation with application-specific components and tools.
Scope
The 4th International Conference on Collaborative Computing (CollaborateCom 2008) will continue to serve as a premier international forum for discussions 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, 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

Important dates

May 1nd, 2008
Workshop Proposal Submission Deadline.

July 31th, 2008
Papers, panel proposals, tutorial proposals, and posters Submission Deadline.

September 26th, 2008
Author notification

October 14th, 2008
Conference registration (authors) and Camera Ready Versions Due.

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 published be a well-recognized publisher, 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.

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