We welcome contributions from the following fields:

General Topic

• Architectures, protocols, and enabling technologies for collaborative computing networks and systems
• Collaboration in social media
• Collaborative e-education, e-learning, and collaborative computing in large scale digital libraries
• Collaborative information seeking
• Collaborative mobile networks and infrastructures
• Collaborative technologies for fast creation and deployment of new mobile services
• Collaborative, context-aware infrastructure
• Computer supported collaborative work with distributed systems
• Energy management for collaborative networks
• Methodologies and tools for design and analysis of collaborative user applications
• Models and mechanisms for real-time collaboration
• Peer-to-peer and overlay 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 foundations and algorithms for collaborative networks, applications, and worksharing
• Tools for collaborative decision making processes
• Visualization techniques, interaction devices and visual languages for collaborative networks and applications

Topic 1. Internet of Things (IoT) and collaboration

• Collaboration in pervasive and cloud computing environments
• Collaborative sensor networks, unmanned air and ground vehicle networks and applications
• Collaborative, location-aware mobile systems/applications
• Cyber-physical systems
• Collaboration in health-care environments
• Participatory sensing, crowdsourcing, and citizen science

Topic 2. Collaborative Data and Workflow Management

• Big data and spatio-temporal data in collaborative environments/systems
• Collaboration in data-intensive scientific discovery
• Collaboration techniques in data-intensive computing and cloud computing
• Data management and middleware support for collaborative information systems
• Distributed collaborative workflows
• Workflow management for collaborative networks/systems
• Web services technologies and service-oriented architectures for collaborative networking and applications

Topic 3. Collaboration with artificial intelligence

• Autonomic computing and quality of services in collaborative networks, systems, and applications
• Group-driven composition of systems from components
• Human-centric ubiquitous collaboration
• Human-robot collaboration
• Multi-agent technology and software technologies for collaborative networking and applications

Topic 4. Security and Trustworthy

•  Security, privacy and trust management in collaborative networks, systems, and applications
• Trustworthy collaborative business processing in virtual organizations

All registered papers will be submitted for publishing by Springer and made available through SpringerLink Digital Library.

Proceedings will be submitted for inclusion in leading indexing services, such as Web of Science, Compendex, Scopus, DBLP, EU Digital Library, IO-Port, MatchSciNet, Inspec and Zentralblatt MATH.

Additional publication opportunities:

• EAI Transactions series (Open Access)
• EAI/Springer Innovations in Communications and Computing Book Series
  (titles in this series are indexed in Ei Compendex, Web of Science & Scopus)

This event is organized by EAI.

EAI – European Alliance for Innovation is a non-profit organization and a professional community established in cooperation with the European Commission to empower the global research and innovation, and to promote cooperation between European and International ICT communities.

EAI’s vision is to foster excellence in research and innovation on the principles of transparency, objectivity, equality, and openness. Our guiding principle is community cooperation to create better research, provide fair recognition of excellence and transform best ideas into commercial value proposition.

EAI‘s mission is to create an environment that rewards excellence transparently, and builds recognition objectively regardless of age, economic status or country of origin, where no membership fees or closed door committees stand in the way of your research career.

Through these shared values, EAI leads the way toward advancing the world of research and innovation, empowering individuals and institutions for the good of society to fully benefit from the digital revolution.