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COLLABORATECOM 2010

6th International ICST Conference on Collaborative Computing:
Networking, Applications and Worksharing

9-12 October 2010, Chicago, Illinois, USA

http://www.collaboratecom.org

CALL FOR PAPERS

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 28 May 2010

SPONSORS

Sponsored by ICST
Technically co-sponsored by CREATE-NET
In technical cooperation with IEEE Computer Society (pending)
Publication by IEEE

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SCOPE

Over the last two decades, many organizations and individuals have  
relied on electronic
collaboration between distributed teams of humans, computer  
applications, and/or autonomous robots
to achieve higher productivity and produce joint 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 grids. Future collaboration  
solutions that fully realize the
promises of electronic collaboration require advancements in  
networking, technology and systems,
user interfaces and interaction paradigms, and interoperation with  
application-specific components
and tools.

The 6th International ICST Conference on Collaborative Computing  
(CollaborateCom 2010) will continue
to serve as a premier international forum for discussion among  
academic and industrial researchers,
practitioners, and students interested in collaborative networking,  
technology and systems, and
applications.

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TOPICS

Topics 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 and cloud computing environments
Collaborative e-education, e-learning, and collaborative computing in  
large scale digital libraries
Collaborative mobile networks and infrastructures
Collaborative technologies for fast creation and deployment of new  
mobile services
Collaborative, location-aware mobile systems/applications
Collaboration techniques in data-intensive computing and cloud computing
Collaborative sensor networks, unmanned air and ground vehicle  
networks & applications
Collaborative, context-aware infrastructure
Collaborative social networks & web-based collaboration
Computer supported collaborative work with distributed systems
Distributed collaborative workflows
Data management and middleware support for collaborative information  
systems
Energy management for collaborative networks
Group-driven composition of systems from components
Human/robot collaboration
Human-centric ubiquitous collaboration
Methodologies and tools for design and analysis of collaborative user  
applications
Models & mechanisms for real-time collaboration
Multi-agent technology and software technologies for collaborative  
networking and applications
Peer-to-peer and overlay networks, systems and applications
P2P platforms for supporting collaboration
Security, privacy and trust management in collaborative networks,  
systems, and applications
Simulation, performance evaluation, experiments, and case studies 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
Tools for collaborative decision making processes
Trustworthy collaborative business processing in virtual organizations
Visualization techniques, interaction devices and visual languages for  
collaborative networks and applications
Web services technologies and service-oriented architectures for  
collaborative networking and applications
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PUBLICATION

All accepted papers will be made available in IEEE Xplore. A special  
issue on CollaborateCom 2010
will be published in ACM/Springer MOBILE NETWORKS & APPLICATIONS  
(MONET). 4-6
papers on the themes related to MONET will be selected for publication  
in this issue.
Other journal venues are also being pursued.

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SUBMISSION

We invite original research papers that have not been previously  
published and are not currently
under review for publication elsewhere. Contributions addressing all  
areas related to collaborative
networking, technology and systems, and applications are solicited.  
The submitted manuscript should
closely reflect the final paper as it will appear in the Proceedings.  
Submitted papers should be 10
pages in two-column IEEE proceeding format.

All submitted papers and posters will be rigorously reviewed by  
technical program committee members
and the reviewers they invite. All paper, poster, panel, and workshop  
submissions will be handled
electronically. Please visit the conference website for detailed  
submission requirements and procedures.

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WORKSHOPS

Proposals for half-day or full day workshops that focus on  
CollaborateCom 2010 related themes are
solicited. Workshop proposals should be at most five pages, including  
a biographical sketch of
each instructor, and submitted to the Workshop Chairs. Proposals will  
be evaluated based on the
expertise and experience of the organizers and the relevance and  
importance of the subject matter.

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POSTERS

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

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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 five pages, including biographical sketches of the  
proposed panelists to the
Panel Chairs.

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TUTORIALS

Proposals for full and half-day tutorials are solicited. Tutorials are  
intended to enhance the
technical program, and as such they should be relevant to  
collaborative computing, networking,
worksharing, and applications. Potential tutorial presenters should  
submit a tutorial proposal of
at most three pages, including: description of potential audience and  
background knowledge expected
from the audience, if any; tutorial description; biographical sketch  
of presenter(s).

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IMPORTANT DATES

Tutorial proposal submission deadline: 15 April 2010
Paper submission deadline: 28 May 2010
Posters and panel proposal submission deadline: 1 July 2010
Notification of acceptance: 1 August 2010
Camera-ready submission deadline: 15 August 2010

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STUDENT TRAVEL GRANT

Thanks to our sponsors, 8 Student Travel Grant Awards will be  
available for graduate students.
Preference will be given to those presenting their work at the  
conference.

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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

General Chairs
James Joshi, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Karl Aberer, EPFL, Switzerland

Technical Program Chairs
Le Gruenwald, NSF/ University of Oklahama, USA
Songqing Chen, George Mason University, USA

For a complete list of committee and board members, please visit
http://www.collaboratecom.org/organization/orgcomm.php