Many organisations 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-organisational settings, and from general-purpose tools to specialised collaboration grids. Future collaboration solutions that fully realise the promises of electronic collaboration require advancements in networking, technology and systems, user interfaces and interaction paradigms, and interoperability with application-specific components and tools.

The 22nd International Conference on Collaborative Computing (CollaborateCom 2026) will be held in Hong Kong, 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
• 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

Conference Proceedings

All registered and presented papers will be submitted for publishing by Springer – LNICST series and made available through SpringerLink Digital Library: CollaborateComm proceedings. This series is indexed in leading indexing services, such as Web of Science, Compendex, Scopus, DBLP, EU Digital Library, Inspec, SCImago and Zentralblatt MATH.

Available journals

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

• Springer Wireless Networks (WINET) Journal (IF: 2.1(2024))

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

• EAI Endorsed Transactions on Mobile Communications and Applications
• EAI Endorsed Transactions on e-Learning

Authors have the opportunity to publish their articles in the EAI Endorsed Transactions journal selected by the conference (Scopus, Ei-indexed, ESCI-WoS, Compendex) by paying an additional $250, discounted from the standard $400 rate for conference authors.

• EAI Endorsed Transactions on Scalable Information Systems (ESCI-WoS, 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)

EAI is an open community dedicated to creating an environment where every member receives the same opportunities and benefits to develop and grow their research mission and career. As the largest free professional research society in the world, EAI offers a complete range of conference proceedings publication opportunities. Based on the qualification of the conference and the conference scope, EAI provides the possibility to publish the proceedings for every sponsored conference. Consistent with its mission to support developing communities, all EAI sponsored conferences appear in EUDL, the European Union Digital Library (EUDL). EUDL is Open Access and free for EAI members, reaching a community of 250,000 subscribers and providing the visibility that allows the conference organisers to develop the conference into a fully fledged indexed proceedings publication in subsequent years.

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

• Full/ Regular papers should be 16-20 pages in length. (Excluding appendices, references, appreciation, etc.)

*Please note that additional pages will be subject to an extra charge for each extra page uploaded.

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.

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. 

• Submitted PDFs should be anonymized.

• 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

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Exceptions:

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

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