||Call for Papers||

Collaborative Online Organizations (COOS) workshop 2013

May 6-7, 2013 | Saint Paul, MN, USA
In conjunction with AAMAS 2013
http://www2.cs.siu.edu/~mas

This workshop aims to bring together experts from scientists, researchers and engineers interested in the theory and practice of computational models of online, networked organizations. The objective is to advance understanding and crafting of online and virtual organizations. Substantial amount of research work is ongoing in distributed knowledge management. This workshop intends to emphasize the operational elements of social networks that facilitate elements of online organization. Papers describing advanced prototypes, systems, tools and techniques and position papers indicating future directions are also encouraged. Papers describing original work are invited in any of the areas listed below. Accepted papers must be presented at the workshop by one of the authors, and it will appear in the proceedings of AAMAS 2013 workshop. Acceptance will be based on quality, relevance and originality. Both full research reports and work-in-progress reports are welcome. High quality papers will be selected for extension and made ready for inclusion in a special issue of the “Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics”.

||IMPORTANT DATES||
· Deadline for submission: February 22, 2013 (Extended)

· Notification to authors: March 8, 2013

· Workshop: May 6-7, 2013

||WORKSHOP AREAS||
The following is a partial list of areas of interest. Papers may address one or more of the listed sub-topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related sub-topics are also acceptable, provided should fit in one of the following main topic areas:

· Cooperation and collaboration mechanisms
· Collaborative architectures and mechanisms
· Theoretical aspects of distributed collaboration
· Human-centric based group collaboration
· Agent-based collaborative environments
· Social networks and community discovery
· Computational Models of Organizations
· Networked Organizations
· Collaborative infrastructures
· Collaborative services
· Virtual Organizations
· Collaborative Filtering
· Networked Organizations
· Collective intelligence
· Crowdsourcing
· Network-centric warfare
· Networked individualism
· Computational Models of Organizations
· Human/robot collaboration
· Collaborative social networks and web-based collaboration
· Computer supported collaborative work with distributed systems
· Distributed technologies for group collaboration
· Collaborative games
· Social computing and inter-cultural collaboration
· Globalized networks
· Digital Communities
· Grid Alliances

Authors are required to submit their papers electronically, in .docx, .dox, .pdf format, and follow the submission guidelines, available at the workshop website. The submission system is accessible through the following link: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=coos2013.

||ORGANIZING COMMITTEE||
Saad Alqithami, Henry Hexmoor, Frank Dignum, Barbara Carminati, and Eric Matson

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Regards,
Workshop Chair
Collaborative Online Organizations workshop 2013
http://www2.cs.siu.edu/~mas