Conference Program


Morning Coffee Break: 10:00AM - 10:30AM

Lunch Time: 12:30PM to 1:30PM

Afternoon Coffee Break: 3:00PM - 3:30PM

Wednesday 22nd - 08.45am - 5.00pm

Check the Workshop Programs

Tutorial 1 (3PM - 6PM): Nature-Inspired Cyber Defenses
Mohamed Eltoweissy,
Professor, Virginia Military Institute
Professor, Virginia Tech

Tutorial 2 (3PM-6PM): BigData Management and Mining
Latifur Khan, University of Texas, Dallas

Thursday 23rd - 08.45am - 09.00am

Opening Ceremony

Thursday 23rd - 09:00am- 10:00am

Keynote 1
Location: Regency Ballroom

Web-Scale Workflow and Analytics
Dr. M. Brian Blake
University of Miami

Thursday 23rd - 10:30am - 12:30pm

Session 1: Security
Location: Miramar North
Session chair: Murat Kantarcioglu, UT Dallas

An Access Control Scheme for Big Data Processing
Vincent C. Hu, Tim Grance, David F. Ferraiolo, Rick Kuhn
NIST (Invited Paper)

Defending Against Device Theft with Human Notarization
Alana Libonati (UNC Chapel Hill), Kelly Caine (Clemson University), Apu Kapadia (Indiana University at Bloomington), and Michael K. Reiter (UNC Chapel Hill)
(Invited Paper)

Role-Playing Game for Studying User Behaviors in Security: A Case Study on Email Secrecy
Kui Xu (Virginia Tech), Danfeng Yao (Virginia Tech), Manuel A. Perez-Quinones (Virginia Tech), Casey Link (Virginia Tech) and E. Scott Geller (Virginia Tech).
(Research Paper)

Preventing session hijacking in collaborative applications with hybrid cache-supported one-way hash chains
Amerah Alabrah
University of Central Florida
(Application Paper)

Thursday 23rd - 10:30am - 12:30pm

Session 2 - Collaborative Computing
Location: Regency Ballroom
Session chair: Balaji Palanisamy, University of Pittsburgh

A Software-Defined Framework for Collaborative High Performance Resource-Sharing for Scientific Computing
Moustafa AbdelBaky (Rutgers University), Michael Johnston (IBM), Vipin Sachdeva (IBM), Kirk E. Jordan (IBM), Manish Parashar (Rutgers University)
(Invited Paper)

Transferring Influence: Supervised Learning for Efficient Influence Maximization across Networks
Qingbo Hu (Univ of Illinois-Chicago), Guan Wang (LinkedIn Co.), Philip S. Yu (Univ of Chicago-Illinois)
(Invited Paper)

Performance Modeling of Computation and Communication Tradeoffs in Vertex-Centric Graph Processing Clusters
Amirreza Abdolrashidi, Lakshmish Ramaswamy and David Seamus Narron
(Research Paper)

Multi-sectoral Collaborative Open Data Applications
Paulo Alencar (University of Waterloo), Donal Cowan (University of Waterloo), Fred Mcgarry (Centre for Community Mapping), Mark Palmer (Greenland International Consulting Ltd.)
(Application Paper)

Thursday 23rd - 01:30pm - 03:00pm

Session 3 - Collaborative Software Development
Location: Miramar North
Session chair: Prasun Dewan, UNC Chapel Hill

Effects of Cohesion-Based Feedback on the Collaborations in Global Software Development Teams
Alberto Castro-Hernandez (University of North Texas), Kathleen Swigger (University of North Texas) and Mirna Ponce-Flores (Universidad Politecnica de Altamira)
(Research Paper)

A Collaboration Model for Community-Based Software Development with Social Machines
Dave Murray-Rust (University of Edinburgh, UK), Ognjen Scekic (Vienna University of Technology, Austria), Hong-Linh Truong (Vienna University of Technology, Austria), Dave Robertson (University of Edinburgh, UK) and Schahram Dustdar (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
(Research Paper)

Towards a Common Platform for the Support of Routine and Agile Business Processes
Michael Zeising (Universitat Bayreuth), Stefan Schonig (Universitat Bayreuth) and Stefan Jablonski (Universitat Bayreuth)
(Research Paper)

Thursday 23rd - 01:30pm - 03:00pm

Session 4 - Collaborative Sensing
Location: Regency Ballroom
Session chair: Murat Kantarcioglu, UT Dallas

A Framework for Component Selection in Collaborative Sensing Application Development
Jie Cao (Wayne State University), Lingmei Ren (Wayne State University), Weisong Shi (Wayne State University), Zhifeng Yu (MobiHealth Technologies)
(Invited Paper)

Towards Enabling Probabilistic Databases for Participatory Sensing
Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen (EPFL), Saket Sathe (IBM Melbourne Research Laboratory), Thang Duong Chi (EPFL) and Karl Aberer (EPFL)
(Research Paper)

Toward Energy Efficient Multistream Collaborative Compression in Wireless Sensor Networks
Tommy Szalapski (Missouri S & T) and Sanjay Madria (Missouri S & T)
(Research Paper)

Coffee Break: 3:00 - 3:20pm



Thursday 23rd - 3:30pm - 04:15pm

Plenary Talk

Speaker: Sidney Faber, SEI/CERT, CMU

Thursday 23rd - 04:15pm - 05:30pm

Panel 1:

Security and Privacy in Collaborative Environments
Moderator: Anna Squicciarini, Pennsylvania State University, USA

Panelists:
- Bogdan Carbunar, Florida International University, USA
- Mohamed Eltoweissy, Virginia Military Institute & Professor, Virginia Tech, USA
- Murat Kantarcioglu, University of Texas, Dallas, USA
- Vincent Hu, NIST, USA
- Kevin Butler, University of Florida, USA

Thursday 23rd - 05:30pm - 06:30pm

Poster Presentation and Light Reception

Location: Forum East 4

Model for collaborative and adaptive multimedia content delivery in a collaborative m-learning environment
Aleksandar Karadimche, Danco Davcev
University Ss Cyril and Methodius - Skopje, Republic of Macedonia

A Distributed Polygon Retrieval Algorithm using MapReduce
Qiulei Guo, Balaji Palanisamy, Hassan Karimi
University of Pittsburgh

Mobile Peer-Mentoring: An Approach to Make Veterans Seek Mental Health-Care Support a Normality
Rizwana Rizia, Marquette University
Zeno Franco, Medical College of Wisconsin
Katinka Hooyer, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Nadiyah Johnson, Marquette University,
A B M Kowser Patwary, Marquette University
G M T Ahsan, Marquette University
Bob Curry, Dryhootch
Mark Flower, Dryhootch
Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed, Marquette University

Direct transmission vs relay transmission for information dissemination in a MANET: an analytical study
Jonathan Ouoba (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland), Serge Chaumette (University of Bordeaux)

A Novel and Collaborative Network Channel Coded Mobile Communication Architecture
Marium Jalal Chaudhry (University of L'Aquila, Italy), Sandeep Narayanan (University of L'Aquila, Italy), Marco Di Renzo (Univ Paris), Fabio Graziosi (University of L'Aquila, Italy), Azhar Ul Haq (University of L'Aquila, Italy)

Hybrid Approach to Detect SQLi Attacks and Evasion Techniques
Abdelhamid Makiou (Télécom ParisTech), Youcef Begriche (IEEE), Ahmed Serhrouchni (Télécom ParisTech)

Friday 24th - 08.45am - 09.00am

Conference Announcement

Friday 24th - 09:00am- 10:00am

Keynote 2
Location: Regency Ballroom

A Decision Guidance Query Language Involving Collaborative Agents
Dr. X. Sean Wang
Fudan University

Friday 24th - 10:30am - 12:30pm

Session 5 - Security & Privacy
Location: Miramar North
Session chair: Panos Chrysanthis, University of Pittsburgh

Resilient Hybrid Mobile Ad-hoc Cloud Over Collaborating Heterogeneous Nodes
Ahmed Khalifa, Mohamed Azab, Mohamed Eltoweissy
(Invited Paper)

Security with Privacy - A Research Agenda
Elisa Bertino (Purdue University) and Bharath Samanthula (Purdue University)
(Invited Paper)

Evolving Stream Classification using Change Detection
Ahmad Mustafa, Ahsanul Haque, Latifur Khan, Michael Baron, Bhavani Thuraisingham
Univ of Texas-Dallas (Invited Paper)

Discovering and Analyzing Deviant Communities: Methods and Experiments
Napoleon Paxton, Dae-Il Jang (Arizona State University), Ira S. Moskowitz (U.S. Naval Research Laboratory), Gail-Joon Ahn, Stephen Russell (Arizona State University) and Myong Kang (U.S. Naval Research Laboratory)
(Research Paper)

Friday 24th - 10:30am - 12:30pm

Session 6 - Users, Usability, and Collaboration
Location: Regency Ballroom
Session chair: Prasun Dewan, UNC Chapel Hill

The Impact of User Corrections To Crawl-Based Digital Libraries: A CiteSeerX Perspective
Jian Wu, Kyle Williams, Madian Khabda, C. L. Giles
Penn State University (Invited Paper)

SAGE2: A New Approach for Data Intensive Collaboration Using Scalable Resolution Shared Displays
Thomas Marrinan, Jillian Aurisano, Arthur Nishimoto), Krishna Bharadwaj, Victor Mateevitsi, Luc Renambot, Lance Long, Andrew Johnson and Jason Leigh
Univ of Illinois-Chicago
(Research Paper)

The effect of interaction models on multi-user usability of collaborative virtual environments
Aida Erfanian, Yaoping Hu
University of Calgary (Application Paper)

Enhancing Message Collaboration through Predictive Modeling of User Behavior
Biswajyoti Pal (Avaya Labs Research), Anupama Pasumarthy (Sreenidhi Institute of Science and Technology), Krishna Kishore Dhara (Avaya Labs Research), Venkatesh Krishnaswamy (Avaya Labs Research)
(Application Paper)

Friday 24th - 01:30pm - 03:00pm

Session 7 - Data Management & Collaboration
Location: Miramar North
Session chair: Karl Aberer, EPFL

A user-friendly framework for database preferences
Roxana Gheorghiu, Alexandros Labrinidis, Panos K. Chrysanthis
University of Pittsburgh (Invited Paper)

HConfig: Resource Adaptive Fast Bulk Loading in HBase
Xianqiang Bao (National University of Defense Technology), Ling Liu (Georgia Institute of Technology), Nong Xiao (National University of Defense Technology), Fang Liu (National University of Defense Technology), Qi Zhang (Georgia Institute of Technology) and Tao Zhu (Georgia Institute of Technology)
(Invited Paper)

Automatic Mapping Rules and OWL Ontology Extraction for the OBDA Ontop
Fayez Khazalah (Wayne State University), Zaki Malik (Wayne State University), Abdelmounaam Rezgui (New Mexico Tech)
(Application Paper)

Session 8 - Networks and Social
Location: Regency Ballroom
Session chair: Balaji Palanisamy, University of Pittsburgh

Multi-Objective Optimization Based Location and Social Network Aware Recommendation
Makbule Gulcin Ozsoy (Middle East Technical University), Faruk Polat (Middle East Technical University), Reda Alhajj (University of Calgary)
(Invited Paper)

Impact of Socio-Technical Network on Process Performance
Rong Liu (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center) and Akhil Kumar (Penn State University)
(Research Paper)

Autonomy in Collaborative Manufacturing Networks
Yun Guo and Amihai Motro
George Mason University (Application Paper)

Friday 24th - 03:30pm - 05:00pm

Panel 2:
Panel 2: BigData - Challenges and Opportunities
Moderator: James Joshi, University of Pittsburgh, USA

Panelists:
- Karl Aberer, EPFL, Switzerland
- Panos Chrysanthis, University of Pittsburgh, USA
- Taghi Khoshgoftaar, Florida Atlantic University, USA
- Latifur Khan, University of Texas at Dallas, USA

Saturday 25th - 08.45am - 09.00am

Conference Announcement

Saturday 25th - 09:00am- 10:00am

Keynote 3
Location: Regency Ballroom

Cloud Based Assured Information Sharing
Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham
UT Dallas

Saturday 25th - 10:30am - 12:30pm

Session 9 - Cloud Security & Data Quality
Location: Miramar North
Session chair: Balaji Palanisamy, University of Pittsburgh

Role and Attribute-Based Collaborative Administration of Intra-Tenant Cloud IaaS
Xin Jin, Ram Krishnan, Ravi Sandhu
Univ of Texas-San Antonio (Invited Paper)

ProvenanceLens: Service Provenance Management in the Cloud
Tao Li (Wuhan University of Science and Technology), Ling Liu (Georgia Institute of Technology) , Xiaolong Zhang (Wuhan University of Science and Technology), Kai Xu (Wuhan University of Science and Technology), Chao Yang (Hubei University)
(Invited Paper)

CATT: A Cloud Based Authorization Framework with Trust and Temporal Aspects
Ehtesham Zahoor (National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences), Olivier Perrin (Université de Lorraine, LORIA), Ahmed Bouchami (Université de Lorraine, LORIA)
(Application Paper)

DQS-Cloud: A Data Quality-Aware Autonomic Cloud for Sensor Services
Abhishek Kothari, Vinay Boddula, Lakshmish Ramaswamy, Neda Abolhassani
University of Georgia (Application Paper)

Saturday 25th - 10:30am - 12:30pm

Session 10 - Crowdsourcing
Location: Regency Ballroom
Session chair: Paulo Alencar, University of Waterloo

A Web-Based Task-Tracking Collaboration System for the Florida Public Hurricane Loss Model
Raul Garcia, Diana Machado, Hsin-Yu Ha, Yimin Yang, Shu-Ching Chen, Shahid Hamid
Florida International University (Invited Paper)

Combining Human and Machine Computing Elements for Analysis via Crowdsourcing
Brian Blake (University of Miami), Julian Jarrett (University of Miami), Iman Saleh (University of Miami), Rohan Malcolm (University of Technology, Jamaica), Sean Thorpe (University of Technology, Jamaica), Tyrone Grandison (Proficiency Labs)
(Application Paper)

Rafiki: A Semantic and Collaborative Approach to Community Health-care in Underserved Areas
Primal Pappachan (Univ of Maryland Baltimore County) and Roberto Yus (University of Zaragoza), Anupam Joshi (Univ of Maryland Baltimore County), Tim Finin (Univ of Maryland Baltimore County)
(Application Paper)

Programmer-Controlled Application-Level Multicast
Prasun Dewan (Univ of North Carolina-Chapel Hill).
(Research Paper)

Saturday 25th - 01:30pm - 04:00pm

Session 11 - Collaboration Applications
Location: Miramar North
Session chair: James Joshi, University of Pittsburgh

Audio Retrieval Based On Perceptual Similarity
Teng Zhang (Tsinghua University), Ji Wu (Tsinghua University), Dingding Wang (Florida Atlantic University), Tao Li (Florida International University)
(Invited Paper)

Towards Composable Prediction of Contact Groups
Andrew Ghobrial, Jacob Bartel, Prasun Dewan
Univ of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
(Application Paper)

SideBar: Videoconferencing System Supporting Social Engagement
Morten Esbensen, Paolo Tell and Jakob E. Bardram
University of Copenhagen (Research Paper)

Making Your Programming Questions Be Answered Quickly: A Content Oriented Study to Technical Q&A Forum
Yi Wang
(Application Paper)

Distribution, Correlation and Prediction of Response Times in Stack Overflow
Preeti Arunapuram (Oracle), Jacob Bartel (University of North Carolina), Prasun Dewan (University of North Carolina)
(Application Paper)

Saturday 25th - 01:30pm - 04:00pm

Session 12 - Sensors and iOT
Location: Regency Ballroom
Session chair: Tao Li, Florida International University

Location-based Timely Cooperation over Social Private Network
Youna Jung, Renato Figueiredo and Jose Fortes
University of Florida (Research Paper)

Energy Efficient and Quality-Driven Continuous Sensor Management for Mobile IoT Applications
Lea Skorin-Kapov, Kresimir Pripuzic, Martina Marjanovic, Aleksandar Antonic and Ivana Podnar Zarko
University of Zagreb (Research Paper)

MACNET: Mobile Adhoc Collaborative NETworks
Jawwad Shamsi, Ali Raza, Hassan Farid, Taha Munir, Abbas Mehdi
National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Karachi
(Application Paper)

PSO-HC: Particle Swarm Optimization Protocol for Hierarchical Clustering in Wireless Sensor Networks
Riham Elhabyan (Univ of Ottawa) and Mustapha Yagoub.
(Research Paper)

Performance Evaluation of Spectrum Sensing in Cognitive Radio for Conventional Discrete-time Memoryless MIMO Fading Channel Model
Dipak Patil (SGBAU Amravati) and Vijay Wadha
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