SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES
Collaboration relies on distributed systems that combine different resources, often provisioned on-demand for the duration of the mission or project, and that typically interact through the Internet. Security is a fundamental aspect of collaboration systems in order to ensure normal un-interruptible reliable operation. Nowadays, collaborative systems use new technologies such as mobile devices, smartcards, wireless networks, high performance networks, cloud and grid computing, multi-agent systems. These environments introduce new needs, requirements and difficulties related to security. Hence, besides the well known threats of systems exposed on the internet, collaborative systems and technologies face several challenges in the field of security.

This Symposium on Security in Collaboration Technologies and Systems, to be held as part of the 2016 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS 2016), will focus on security issues related to collaboration systems with emphasis on secure and trustworthy distributed environments, Grid and Cloud based resource virtualization and on-demand provisioning, multi-agent systems, mobile and wireless cooperation, cybersecurity, privacy, and encryption for collaboration. The aim is to have a dedicated forum that fosters closer interactions among researchers and users communities, providing an excellent opportunity for them to meet and discuss their ideas. The symposium will address issues related to the security infrastructure and services design, implementation and operation. It intends to address new security challenges and present new ideas and solutions addressing modern security requirements, specific methods of access control that should allow large scale multi-organizational cooperation, use of mobile technologies and smartcards, enabling multi-level privacy, intrusion detection, system recovery and healing in the context of cooperative systems.

We invite original contributions from researchers in academia, research institutions and industry on these emerging and important cybersecurity areas of information technology.
The SECOTS Symposium topics include (but are not limited to) the following:

Fundamentals and Frameworks for Security in Collaboration Systems
Intrusion and Attacks Prevention and Detection in Collaboration Systems
Access and Usage Control in Collaboration Environments
Reputation and Trust Management
Cross Domain Identity and User Attributes Management Systems
Security Standards
Encryption and Cryptography Systems Supporting Cooperative Systems
Privacy and Privacy Preserving for Collaboration Systems
Trusted Operating Systems for Distributed Environments
Middleware Security
Security Metrics and Measures
Collaborative Security Monitoring Schemes and Systems
Usability, Social Engineering, and Security
Security and Information Assurance Education and Curriculum Issues
Security in Cloud Computing
Security in Collaborative Multi Agent Systems
Security Using Collaborative Agents
Botnet Analysis
Biologically Inspired Cyber Security and Defense
Security of Grid and Cluster Architectures Supporting Cooperative Applications
Security in Workflow Management Systems
Policy Driven SLA Negotiation
Security in Mobile and Wireless Networks for Collaboration
Security Models for Coalition Networks
Security in Social Networks
Virtual Organizations and Dynamic Security Associations
Web Services Security
Web Vulnerability Analysis
Use of Smartcards in the Context of Collaboration