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                        COLLABORATECOM 2007
						
          The 3rd International Conference on Collaborative Computing: 
                   Networking, Applications and Worksharing
       Jointly sponsored by IEEE Computer Society, Create-Net and the International Communication Sciences and Technology Association (ICST)

       Crowne Plaza White Plains, New York, USA, November 12-15, 2007
                                       
                SUBMISSION DEADLINE: June 26th, 2007.

Over the last two decades, many organization 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 form general purpose tools to 
specialized collaboration grids. Future collaboration solutions that fully realize the promises of electronic collaboration requires advancements in networking, technology and systems, user interfaces and interaction paradigms, and interoperation with application-specific components and tools.

The Third International Conference on Collaborative Computing (CollaborateCom 2007) will continue to serve as a premier international forum for discussions among academic and industrial researchers, 
practitioners, and students interested in collaborative networking, technology and systems, and applications. 

TOPICS AND AREAS
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 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
    * Modeling for Collaboration
    * P2P platforms for supporting collaboration
    * Collaborative, location aware mobile systems
    * Collaborative sensor systems
    * Security an privacy in collaboration
    * Human/robot collaboration
    * Human-centric ubiquitous collaboration
    * Collaborative, context-aware infrastructure
    * Group-driven composition of systems from components
    * Technology and system for collaboration in real-time enterprises 

The conference will be hierarchically structured into 5 areas:

    * Collaborative applications
    * Networking
    * Collaboration technology and systems
    * Ubiquitous collaboration
    * Interfaces and protocols for team and man-machine collaboration 

The vice chairs that we choose to lead these areas will further refine the scope of the conference. 

PAPERS: The conference invites original technical 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, which will be a maximum of ten pages in IEEE double column format.

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 one page 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 five pages, including a biographical sketch of each instructor, to the Workshop. 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 five pages, including biographical sketches of the proposed panelists, to the 
Panel Chair.

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: All paper, poster, panel, and workshop submissions will be handled electronically. Please visit the conference website 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. They will also be indexed by 
DBLP. A selected number of best papers will be considered for publication in a leading journal.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
General Chairs
Juan Quemada, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Tao Zhang, Telcordia Technologies, USA

Technical Program Chairs
Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, Telcordia, USA
Bugra Gedik, IBM TJ Watson, USA

Publicity & Publication Chair
Heri Ramampiaro, NTNU, Norway

Workshops Chair
James Joshi, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Waleed Smari, University of Dayton, USA

Industrial Program Chair
Zhengyou Zhang, Microsoft Corp. Research Center, USA 

Conference Organization
Zsuzsi Kazsab, ICST Europe

Finance Chair
Karen Decker, ICST USA

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
Isidro Laso, D.G. Information Society and Media, European Commission

PROGRAM COMMITEE
Joon-Soo Bae, Chonbuk National University, South Korea
Roger S Barga, Microsoft Research, USA
Clifford Behrens, Telcordia, USA
Cui Bin, Peking University, China
Athman Bouguettaya, Virginia Tech, USA
James Caverlee, Texas A&M University, USA
Jyh-Cheng Chen, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Isabel Cruz, University of Illinois at Chicago	, USA
Kevin Curran, University of Ulster, UK
Peter Dommel, Santa Clara University, USA
Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Richard Fujimoto, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Claude Godart, Nancy University, France
Xiaohua Hu, Drexel University, USA
Paola Inverardi, University of L'Aquila, Italy
James Joshi, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Vana Kalogeraki, University of California - Riverside, USA
George Karabatis, University of Maryland - Baltimore County, USA
Yuecel Karabulut, SAP Research, USA
Birgitta Koenig-Ries, Friedrich Schiller University - Jena, Germany
Ibrahim Korpeoglu, Bilkent University, Turkey
Gabriele Kotsis, Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria
Manolis Koubarakis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Chung-Sheng Li, IBM TJ Watson, USA
Dennis McLeod, University of Southern California, USA
Jean-Henry Morin, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Erich J. Neuhold, University of Vienna, Austria
Anne H. H. Ngu, Texas State University, San Macros, USA
Oznur Ozkasap, Koc University, Turkey
Willy Picard, Poznan University of Economics, Poland
Agostino Poggi, University of Parma, Italy
Thomas E. Potok, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Wolfgang Prinz, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Calton Pu, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Lakshmish Ramaswamy, University of Georgia, USA
Berthold Reinwald, IBM Almaden, USA
Philippe Roose, University of Pau and Pays de l'Adour, France
Aameek Singh, IBM Almaden, USA
Antonio F. Gomez Skarmeta, University of Murcia, Spain
Amy Soller, Institute for Defense Analyses, USA
Mudhakar Srivatsa, IBM TJ Watson, USA
Nesime Tatbul, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Robert Tolksdorf, Free University of Berlin, Germany
Damla Turgut, University of Central Florida, USA
Kun-Lung Wu, IBM TJ Watson, USA
Philip S. Yu, IBM TJ Watson, USA

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