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                       1st CALL FOR PAPER

                       CollaborateCom 2006
     IEEE International Conference on Collaborative Computing:
Jointly sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society, Create-Net, and ICST
              Atlanta, Georgia, USA, November, 2006
       
              SUBMISSION DEADLINE: June 27th, 2006
         

Networks and user applications have evolved from centralized computing
platforms to distributed collaborative computing services. Collaboration
as a fundamental capability of networks represents a significant step
forward. Collaborative network nodes can jointly achieve advanced 
networking
goals beyond relaying packets. Collaborative user applications enable
people and computers to work together more productively. Collaboration
computing techniques can also be used to support intelligent 
reconfiguration
and performance tuning of collaborative computing software, systems, 
overlay
network architectures and topologies to meet diverse and evolving 
application
requirements.

The Second International Conference on Collaborative Computing
(CollaborateCom 2006) will continue to serve as a premier international 
forum
for discussions among academic and industrial researchers, 
practitioners, and
students interested in collaborative networking, worksharing, and 
applications.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited  to, the following:
 -  Architectures, protocols, and enabling technologies for collaborative
    computing networks and systems
 -  Autonomic computing and quality of services in collaborative 
networks, systems,
    and applications
 -  Collaboration in pervasive computing applications
 -  Collaborative e-education, e-learning, and collaborative computing 
in large
    scale digital libraries
 -  Collaborative mobile networks, sensor networks, unmanned air and ground
    vehicle networks & applications
 -  Collaborative technologies for fast creation and deployment of new 
mobile
    services
 -  Computer Supported Collaborative Work with distributed systems
 -  Data management and middleware support for collaborative information 
systems
 -  Distributed technologies and architectures to support group 
collaboration,
    activity, and awareness
 -  Empirical studies on distributed collaboration
 -  Energy management for collaborative networks
 -  Methodologies and tools for design and analysis of collaborative user
    applications
 -  Multi-agent technology and software technologies for collaborative 
networking
    and applications
 -  Peer-to-peer and overlay networks, systems, and applications
 -  Security and trust management in collaborative networks, systems, and
    applications
 -  Simulation, performance evaluation, experiments, and trials of 
collaborative
    networks and applications
 -  Software design, testing, and experimentation technology for 
collaborative
    networking and applications
 -  Theoretical aspects of distributed collaboration
 -  Theoretical foundations and algorithms for collaborative networks, 
applications,
    and worksharing
 -  Trustworthy collaborative business processing in virtual organizations
 -  Visualization techniques and visual languages for collaborative 
networks and
    applications
 -  Web services technologies for collaborative networking and applications
 -  Workflow technology and workflow management for collaborative 
network management
 
PAPERS: The conference invites original technical papers, not exceeding 
5000 words,
that have not been previously published and are not currently under 
review for publication
elsewhere. Contributions addressing all areas related to collaborative 
networking,
applications and worksharing are solicited.

POSTERS: The conference will include a poster session that highlights 
recent and
on-going research, experiments, and provocative ideas that have not been 
published
elsewhere. Poster submissions will be reviewed and the summaries of 
accepted posters
will appear in the conference proceedings.

WORKSHOPS: Proposals for workshops are solicited. Potential instructors 
are requested
to submit a workshop proposal of at most 5 pages, including a 
biographical sketch
of each instructor, to the Workshop Chair by June 27th, 2006. Evaluation 
of workshop
proposals will be based on the expertise and experience of the 
instructors, and on
the relevance of the subject matter.

PANELS: Proposals for panel discussions that focus on future visions for 
collaborative
networking, applications, and worksharing are preferred. Potential panel 
organizers
should submit a panel proposal of at most 5 pages, including 
biographical sketches of
the proposed panelists, to the Panel Chair by June 27th, 2006.

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: All paper, poster, panel, and workshop 
submissions will be
handled electronically. Please visit the conference website 
http://www.CollaborateCom.org
for detailed submission requirements and procedures.

PUBLICATION: All submitted papers and posters will be rigorously 
reviewed by technical
program committee members and the reviewers they invite. Accepted papers 
and posters
will be published by the IEEE in the conference proceedings and placed 
on IEEE Xplore.
A selected number of best papers will be considered for publication in a 
leading journal.

IMPORTANT DATES:

Abstract Submission (optional)...........June 20th, 2006
Paper Submission Due Date................June 27th, 2006
Notification of Acceptance...............September 18th , 2006
Camera Ready Versions Due................October 9th, 2006

CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION:

STEERING COMMITTEE
Imrich Chlamtac (Chair), Create-Net, Italy
Tao Zhang(Vice Chair), Telcordia Technologies, USA
Ken Birman, Cornell University, USA
Nim Cheung, Telcordia Technologies, USA
Arun Iyengar, IBM T.J. Watson, USA
Pradeep Khosla, Carnegie Mellon Univ., USA
Ling Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

GENERAL CHAIRS
Ling Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Carla Simone, Università di Milano Bicocca, Italy 

TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS
Enrico Blanzieri, Università di Trento, Italy
Tao Zhang, Telcordia Technologies, USA

PUBLICITY CHAIR
Heri Ramampiaro, NTNU, Norway

PANEL CHAIR
Vaidy Sunderam, Emory University, USA
Andreas Wombacher, Twente Univ. The Netherlands

WORKSHOP CHAIRS
James Joshi, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Marco Ronchetti, Università di Trento, Italy

TUTORIAL CHAIRS
Lakshmish Ramaswamy, University of Georgia, USA

LOCAL ORGANIZATION CHAIR
Brian Cooper, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA