Many organizations 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 from general-purpose tools to specialized collaboration grids. Future collaboration solutions that fully realize the promises of electronic collaboration require advancements in networking, technology and systems, user interfaces and interaction paradigms, and interoperation with application-specific components and tools.

The 21th International Conference on Collaborative Computing (CollaborateCom 2025) will be held in Shanghai, China, and will continue to serve as a premier international forum for discussion among academic and industrial researchers, practitioners, and students interested in collaborative networking, technology and systems, and applications.

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
• AI-Powered Information Seeking and Sensemaking
• Collaborative Intelligence: Humans and AI Joining Forces
• AI-Driven Learning Analytics in Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL)
• Edge-Cloud Generative AI in Mobile Networks
• Combining Multi-Agent Systems and Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT)

Topic 4. Security and Trustworthy

• Trust and Explainability in AI
• AIoT Security and Privacy
• Collaborative Trust Evaluation in AIoT Networks
• Intelligent Secure Trustable Things (InSecTT)
• AI Trust, Risk, and Security Management (AI TRiSM)
• Security, privacy and trust management in collaborative networks, systems, and applications
• Trustworthy collaborative business processing in virtual organizations

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version to:

• Springer Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET) Journal (IF: XX) 

or Springer Wireless Networks (WINET) Journal (IF: XX)

All accepted authors are eligible to submit an extended version in a fast track of:

• EAI Endorsed Transactions on XX (Open Access)
• EAI Endorsed Transactions on Scalable Information Systems (ESCI-WoS, Scopus, Compendex)
• EAI Endorsed Transactions on Industrial Networks and Intelligent Systems (Scopus, Compendex)
• EAI Endorsed Transactions on Internet of Things (Scopus)
• EAI Endorsed Transactions on Smart Cities 
• EAI Endorsed Transactions on AI and Robotics
• EAI Endorsed Transactions on Context-aware Systems and Applications
• EAI Endorsed Transactions on Mobile Communications and Applications
• EAI Endorsed Transactions on e-Learning
• EAI Endorsed Transactions on Cloud Systems
• EAI Endorsed Transactions on Creative Technologies
• EAI Endorsed Transactions on Security and Safety
• EAI Endorsed Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Machine Learning Applications
• EAI Endorsed Transactions on Sustainable Manufacturing and Renewable Energy (Google Scholar, Crossref)

By paying an additional $150, authors can publish their articles in the EAI Endorsed Transactions journal selected by the conference (Scopus and Ei-indexed). 

• EAI Endorsed Transactions on Pervasive Health and Technology (Scopus, Compendex)
• EAI Endorsed Transactions on Energy Web (Scopus, Compendex)

The article’s publication is subject to the following requirements:  

• It must be an extended version of the conference paper with a different title and abstract. In general, 30% of new content must be added.
• The article will be processed once the conference proceedings have been published.
• The article will be processed using the fast-track option.
• Once the conference proceedings are published, the corresponding author should contact us at [email protected] with the details of their article to begin processing.

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)

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Link for Transaction to be picked from https://eudl.eu/journals

IF – Impact Factor is updated annually. Use the most recent number, and update upon annual reevaluation.

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The journals that will have APC are Pervasive Health and Technology, and Energy Web. You can find the journals selected according to each conference on the ML.

The text to place on the conference website can be the following:

*By paying an additional $150, authors can publish their articles in the EAI Endorsed Transactions journal selected by the conference (Scopus and Ei-indexed). The article’s publication is subject to the following requirements:  

•  It must be an extended version of the conference paper with a different title and abstract. In general, 30% of new content must be added.
•  The article will be processed once the conference proceedings have been published.
•   The article will be processed using the fast-track option.
• Once the conference proceedings are published, the corresponding author should contact us at [email protected] with the details of their article to begin processing.

1. Go to Confy+ website.
2. Log in or sign up as a new user.
3. Select your desired track.
4. Click the ‘Submit Paper’ link within the track and follow the instructions.

• All papers must be submitted in English. 
• Previously published work cannot be submitted, nor can it be concurrently submitted to any other conference or journal. These papers will be rejected without review. 
• Papers must follow the Springer formatting guidelines (available in the Author’s Kit section). 
• Authors must read and agree to the Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement.
• As per new EU accessibility requirements, going forward, all figures, illustrations, tables, and images should have descriptive text accompanying them. Please refer to the document below, which will assist you in crafting Alternative Text (Alt Text)

HOW TO WRITE GOOD ALT TEXT

Papers should be submitted through EAI ‘Confy+‘ system, and have to comply with the Springer format (see Author’s kit section).

• Regular papers should be up to 12-15+ pages in length.
• Short papers should be 6-11 pages in length.

All conference papers undergo a thorough peer review process prior to the final decision and publication. This process is facilitated by experts in the Technical Program Committee during a dedicated conference period. Standard peer review is enhanced by EAI Community Review which allows EAI members to bid to review specific papers. All review assignments are ultimately decided by the responsible Technical Program Committee Members while the Technical Program Committee Chair is responsible for the final acceptance selection. You can learn more about Community Review here.

Papers must be formatted using the Springer LNICST Authors’ Kit.

Instructions and templates are available from Springer’s LNICST homepage:

• LaTeX2e Proceedings Templates (zip)
• Microsoft Word Proceedings Templates (zip)

Please make sure that your paper adheres to the format as specified in the instructions and templates.

When uploading the camera-ready copy of your paper, please be sure to upload both:

• a PDF copy of your paper formatted according to the above templates, and
• an archive file (e.g. zip, tar.gz) containing the both a PDF copy of your paper and LaTeX or Word source material prepared according to the above guidelines.