Scope
Internet has revolutionized the globalized society and enabled the growth of infrastructures, applications, and technologies that significantly enhance global interactions and collaborations that have significant impact on society. Unprecedented cyber-social, and cyber-physical infrastructures and systems that span geographic boundaries are possible because of the Internet and the growing number of collaboration enabling technologies. Individuals and organizations have increasingly relied on electronic and/or Internet-enabled collaboration between distributed teams of humans, computer applications, and/or autonomous robots to achieve higher productivity and produce collaboratively developed 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 from general purpose tools to specialized collaboration platforms. Future collaboration and Internet computing solutions that further the goal of achieving the full potential of global level collaboration require advancements in networking, technology and systems, user interfaces and interaction, cooperation and collaboration paradigms, and interoperation with application-specific components and tools.

IEEE CIC has been conceived as the key multidisciplinary venue to serve as a premier international forum for discussion among academic and industrial researchers, practitioners, and students interested in Internet technologies, applications and services, collaborative networking, technology and systems, and applications.


Topics
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Enabling Internet-scale collaborative networking & computing
Internet-based technologies & infrastructure for collaboration
From cloud to fog/edge for collaborative computing
Internet of Everything for collaboration
Data and service models for collaboration
Quality of service and experience
Service management and testing
System engineering, metrics and performance
Cyber science and Data science
Security, privacy and trust in collaborative computing
Resilient and trustworthy Internet
Big data analytics for data-driven collaboration
Social computing for collaboration
Cognitive collaboration
Web services and Service Oriented Architectures for Collaborative Internet services
Approaches to collaboration
Domain-specific social and collaborative applications
Crossover service computing
Collaboration in pervasive and cloud computing environments
Collaboration techniques in data-intensive computing and cloud computing
Collaborative technologies for fast creation and deployment of new mobile services
Collaborative sensor networks
Social networks and services
Human-provided and outsourcing of services
Collaborative search and question answering
Human computation and crowdsourcing
Participatory sensing, crowdsourcing, and citizen science
Collaboration computing between human and machine
Collaborative technologies for cyber-physical-human environments
Socio-technical and policy frameworks for collaboration and Internet computing
Influence of/on CIC on/from other fields (arts and sciences, engineering, law, cultures, management and economics, etc.)
Applications
Platforms for process, factory, and industrial applications
Vehicle networks and applications
Smart cities and smart territories
Collaborative robotics
Collaborative E-Commerce
Collaborative e-Learning environments
Collaborative health networks and services
Collaborative Science
Collaboration for disaster/crisis management
Collaborative manufacturing and supply chain management
Collaboration for resilient critical infrastructures
Collaboration for personalized services