Collaborative systems became a norm due to the globalization of services and infrastructures and to multinational corporation branches. While organizations and individuals relied on collaboration for decades, the advent of new technologies (Web services, Cloud computing, Service-oriented architecture, Semantics and Ontology, etc.) for inter- and intra- organization collaboration created an enabling environment for advanced collaboration.

As a consequence, new developments are expected from current networking and interacting technologies (protocols, interfaces, services, tools) to support the design and deployment of a scalable collaborative environments. Innovative systems and applications design, including collaborative robots, autonomous systems, and consideration for dynamic user behavior is the trend.

COLLA 2011 initiates a series of events dedicated to advanced collaborative networks, systems and applications, focusing on new mechanisms, infrastructures, services, tools and benchmarks.

We welcome technical papers presenting research and practical results, position papers addressing the pros and cons of specific proposals, such as those being discussed in the standard fora or in industry consortia, survey papers addressing the key problems and solutions on any of the above topics short papers on work in progress, and panel proposals.

Industrial presentations are not subject to the format and content constraints of regular submissions. We expect short and long presentations that express industrial position and status.

Tutorials on specific related topics and panels on challenging areas are encouraged.

The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.

All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions.

Cooperation and collaboration mechanisms

Collaborative computing
Cooperation as interface sharing
Collaboration as knowledge sharing
Ethics and trust in collaborative cross-domains
Cooperative emotion
Planning and managing collaborative applications and projects
Semantic and ontology challenges in collaborative environments
Cooperation and collaboration pitfalls
Groupware supporting single-display collaboration
Sharing data and decisions
Coalitions and negotiations in cooperative environments
Adaptive collaboration
Integrating cross-organizational applications
Cooperative data extraction and data integration
Secure collaboration
Dynamic cooperative environments
Visualization of cooperative processes

Collaborative architectures and mechanisms

Fundamental theoretical aspects of distributed collaboration
Methodologies and tools for design and analysis of collaborative user applications
Frameworks for human-centric based group collaboration
Distributed collaborative workflows
Architectures, protocols, and technologies for collaborative networks and systems
Collaboration and negotiation protocols
Quality of collaboration in collaborative networks, systems, and applications
Modeling for collaboration
Cloud-based collaboration
Agent-based collaborative environments
Collaboration techniques in resource intensive environments
Security, privacy and trust in collaborative networks, systems, and applications

Collaborative applications

Collaboration in pervasive computing applications
Collaborative e-education, e-learning, and collaborative computing in digital libraries
Models and mechanisms for real-time collaborative applications
Distributed technologies for group collaboration
Collaborative games
Web-based communities
New data distribution models to facilitate group collaboration
Social computing and inter-cultural collaboration

Collaborative infrastructures

Collaborative, context-aware infrastructure
Collaborative mobile networks and infrastructures
Collaborative, location-aware mobile systems/applications
Collaborative sensor networks, unmanned air and ground vehicle networks and applications
Peer-to-peer and overlay networks, systems, and applications

Collaborative services

Collaborative technologies for fast creation and deployment of new mobile services
Web services technologies and collaboration
Service-oriented architectures for collaborative networking and applications
Trusted collaborative services
Collaborative entertainment systems and services
Computer supported cooperative design
Adaptive content distribution

Collaborative users

Human/robot collaboration
Collaborative social networks and web-based collaboration
Computer supported collaborative work with distributed systems
Human-centric ubiquitous collaboration
Social networks and community discovery
Markets, auctions, exchanges, and coalitions

Tools and benchmarking

Methodologies and tools for design and analysis of collaborative user applications
Simulation, performance evaluation, experiments, and case studies of collaborative networks and applications
Dedicated hardware and software enabling collaboration
Technologies for creating dynamic social networks
P2P platforms for supporting collaboration
Energy management for collaborative networks
Tools for collaborative decision making processes
Trustworthy collaborative business processing in groupware organizations
Visualization techniques and interaction devices
Visual languages for collaborative networks and applications
Workflow management for collaborative networks/systems



INSTRUCTION FOR THE AUTHORS

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions to one of the IARIA Journals.

Publisher: XPS (Xpert Publishing Services)
Archived: ThinkMindTM Digital Library (free access)
Submitted for indexing:
- ISI Thompson Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI)
- Elsevier's EI Compendex Database, EI’s Engineering Information Index
- DBLP, IET INSPEC, and other relevant specialized indexes.
- Other indexes are being considered

Important deadlines:

Submission (full paper) February 5, 2011
Notification March 15, 2011
Registration March 31, 2011
Camera ready April 5, 2011