[Scope]

The Tenth International Conference on Collaborative Computing (CollaborateCom 2014) serves as a premier international forum for discussion among academic and industrial researchers, practitioners, and students interested in collaborative networking, technology and systems, and applications.

The selection of the papers have been completed. This year's acceptance rate for the Regular Research Papers is 20%.

[Keynote Speeches]

Dr. M. Brian Blake, Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Graduate School at the University of Miami
Keynote Title: Web-Scale Workflow and Analytics

Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham, Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Cyber Security Research Center, University of Texas at Dallas
Keynote Title: Cloud Based Assured Information Sharing

[Tutorials]

Tutorial #1: Nature-Inspired Cyber Defenses By Dr. Mohamed Eltoweissy,
Professor of Computer and Information Sciences at The Virginia Military Institute

Tutorial #2: Big Data Management and Mining
By Dr. Latifur R. Khan
Professor of Computer Science, University of Texas at Dallas

[Topics]

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Participatory sensing, crowdsourcing, and citizen science
• 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
• Collaboration in data-intensive scientific discovery
• Collaboration in social media
• Big data and spatio-temporal data in collaborative environments/systems
• Collaboration techniques in data-intensive computing and cloud computing
• Collaborative e-education, e-learning, and collaborative computing in large scale digital libraries
• Collaboration in health-care environments
• Collaborative information seeking
• Collaborative mobile networks and infrastructures
• Collaborative technologies for fast creation and deployment of new mobile services
• Collaborative sensor networks, unmanned air and ground vehicle networks and applications
• Collaborative, context-aware infrastructure
• Collaborative, location-aware mobile systems/applications
• Computer supported collaborative work with distributed systems
• Cyber-physical 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-centric ubiquitous collaboration
• Human-robot collaboration
• Internet of Things (IoT) and collaboration
• Methodologies and tools for design and analysis of collaborative user applications
• Models and 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
• 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 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
• Workflow management for collaborative networks/systems

[Venue]

Featuring sugar-sand beaches, glistening waters and world-class attractions Miami Beach Resort is nestled in America's most colorful destinations. This distinctive Miami Beach hotel is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean and the Intracoastal Waterway.

Registration is open

Program Overview

[Conference Organizing Committee]

General Co-Chair
Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA
Shu-Ching Chen, Florida International University, USA

Program Co-Chairs
Karl Aberer, EPFL, Switzerland
Prashant Krishnamurthy, University of Pittsburgh, USA Murat Kantarcioglu, University of Texas at Dallas, USA

Panels Chair
Calton Pu, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Anna C. Squicciarini, Pennsylvania State University, USA

Industrial/Gov Program Co-Chairs
Aameek Singh, IBM Research Almaden, USA
Surya Nepal, CSIRO, Australia
Mei-Ling Shyu, University of Miami, USA

Workshop Co-Chairs
Jinpeng Wei, Florida International University, USA Sangeetha Seshadri, IBM Research Almaden, USA Burga Gedik, Bilkent University, Turkey

Sponsorship Co-Chairs
Ling Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, CSIRO, Australia

Local Arrangements Chair
Tao Li, Florida International University, USA

Publications Chair
Balaji Palanisamy, University of Pittsburgh

Publicity Chair
Amirreza Masoumzadeh, University of Pittsburgh, USA

[Steering Committee]

Imrich Chlamtac (co-chair), Create-Net, Italy
James Joshi (co-chair), University of Pittsburgh, USA
Calton Pu. Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA
Arun Iyengar, IBM, USA
Tao Zhang, Cisco, US
Dimitrios Gerogakopolous, CSIRO, Australia

Co-Located WORKSHOPS

C-IOT 2014 - 2nd International Workshop on Internet of Things

TrustCol 2014 - The 9th IEEE International Workshop on Trusted Collaboration

CollabCloud 2014 - 3rd International Workshop on Collaborative Cloud

C-Big 2014 - International Workshop on Collaborative Big Data