Overview

The CollaborateCom 2015 Conference caters for a limited number of workshops on dedicated session topics. The aim of these workshops is to discuss work in progress and explore opportunities for new research related to a topic of interest within the context of the conference.

Proposals will be evaluated regarding relevance and anticipated interest, and should include Workshop title, presenter information, abstract, and intended audience.

Possible topics for the Workshops 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

A workshop proposal should contain:

• Title of the workshop
• A brief description of the specific technical issues that the workshop will address
• The reasons why the workshop is interesting and timely
• A draft call for papers, including the workshop submission deadlines
• Tentative composition of the organizing and program committees

Workshop co­‐chairs

Proposals for workshops should be at most four pages in length and must be submitted to Dr. Wenbin Jiang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China