ACM SAC Cooperative Systems (COSYS)

The technical track on Cooperative Systems (COSYS) of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2014) will be held in Gyeongju, Korea, March 24-28, 2014.

Topics of Interest

The aim of this track is to provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of issues related to cooperative systems across multiple disciplines and to encourage participation of researchers and practitioners from academia and industry. The track seeks original contributions on cooperative behaviour and cooperative systems related but not limited to the following topics:

• Resource management and brokering in cooperative systems
• Data and process mediation in cooperative systems
• Personalisation and recommendation systems
• Implicit and explicit profile generation in cooperative schemes
• Modes of interaction in cooperative systems
• Role of mediation in cooperative systems
• Ontologies and ontology mapping in cooperative systems
• Arbitration and negotiation in cooperation
• Hypermedia systems in cooperation
• Context-awareness in cooperative systems
• Agents in cooperative behaviour
• Self-configuration and adaptivity in cooperative systems
• Autonomous and emergent behaviour in cooperative systems
• Service management in cooperative systems
• Heterogeneity management in cooperative systems
• Aggregation and composition of cooperative services
• Security in cooperative systems
• Trust and reputation in cooperative systems
• Patterns of cooperative behaviour
• Formal aspects of cooperation
• Information management models in cooperative systems
• Policy management in cooperative systems
• Protocol management in cooperative systems
• Models and model transformation in cooperative systems
• Domain specific languages (DSL) in cooperative systems
• Load sharing in cooperative systems
• Cooperation in ubiquitous and pervasive environments.
• Cooperation in social and P2P community systems
• Cooperation in foundational systems
• Mobile contexts for cooperation
• Architectural frameworks for cooperation
• Cooperative systems in e-science, e-commerce, e-government and e-learning
• Case studies and experiences of cooperative systems

Publication

The proceedings of the symposium will be published by ACM and will be available through the ACM Digital Library