[DMANET] cfp: Last Mile, February 19 || COLLA 2014 || June 22 - 26, 2014 - Seville, Spain

INVITATION:

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Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results to COLLA 2014.

The submission deadline is February 19, 2014.

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended article versions to one of the IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org
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============== COLLA 2014 | Call for Papers ===============

CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS

COLLA 2014, The Fourth International Conference on Advanced Collaborative Networks, Systems and Applications

June 22 - 26, 2014 - Seville, Spain

General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/COLLA14.html

Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/CfPCOLLA14.html

Contributions:
- Regular papers
- Short papers (work in progress)
- Posters
- Ideas
- Demos
- Doctoral Forum submissions
and
- Symposia, see http://www.iaria.org/symposium.html
- Workshops, see http://www.iaria.org/workshop.html

Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/SubmitCOLLA14.html

Submission deadline: February 19, 2014

Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org
Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org
Print proceedings will be available via Curran Associates, Inc.: http://www.proceedings.com/9769.html
Articles will be archived in the free access ThinkMind Digital Library: http://www.thinkmind.org

The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.

All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress, Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels.

Before submission, please check and comply with the editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html


COLLA 2014 Topics (topics and submission details: see CfP on the site)

Open collaborative research
Open collaboration research; Research via wikis and social media; Open research access; Open sources for collaboration; Open WEB and public data research; Education for Open research; Scientific trust and legal aspects in open collaboration

Cooperation and collaboration mechanisms
Collaborative computing; Cooperation as interface sharing; Collaboration as knowledge sharing; Ethics and trust in collaborative cross-domains; Cooperative emotion; Planning and managing collaborative applications and projects; Semantic and ontology challenges in collaborative environments; Cooperation and collaboration pitfalls; Groupware supporting single-display collaboration; Sharing data and decisions; Coalitions and negotiations in cooperative environments; Adaptive collaboration; Integrating cross-organizational applications; Cooperative data extraction and data integration; Secure collaboration; Dynamic cooperative environments; Visualization of cooperative processes

Collaborative architectures and mechanisms
Fundamental theoretical aspects of distributed collaboration; Methodologies and tools for design and analysis of collaborative user applications; Frameworks for human-centric based group collaboration; Distributed collaborative workflows; Architectures, protocols, and technologies for collaborative networks and systems; Collaboration and negotiation protocols; Quality of collaboration in collaborative networks, systems, and applications; Modeling for collaboration; Cloud-based collaboration; Agent-based collaborative environments; Collaboration techniques in resource intensive environments; Security, privacy and trust in collaborative networks, systems, and applications

Collaborative applications
Collaboration in pervasive computing applications; Collaborative e-education, e-learning, and collaborative computing in digital libraries; Models and mechanisms for real-time collaborative applications; Distributed technologies for group collaboration; Collaborative games; Web-based communities; New data distribution models to facilitate group collaboration; Social computing and inter-cultural collaboration;

Collaborative infrastructures
Collaborative, context-aware infrastructure; Collaborative mobile networks and infrastructures; Collaborative, location-aware mobile systems/applications; Collaborative sensor networks, unmanned air and ground vehicle networks and applications; ; Peer-to-peer and overlay networks, systems, and applications;

Collaborative services
Collaborative technologies for fast creation and deployment of new mobile services; Web services technologies and collaboration; Service-oriented architectures for collaborative networking and applications; Trusted collaborative services; Collaborative entertainment systems and services; Computer supported cooperative design; Adaptive content distribution; Semantic and ontology challenges in collaborative environments

Collaborative users
Human/robot collaboration; Collaborative social networks and web-based collaboration; Computer supported collaborative work with distributed systems; Human-centric ubiquitous collaboration; Social networks and community discovery; Markets, auctions, exchanges, and coalitions

Tools and benchmarking
Methodologies and tools for design and analysis of collaborative user applications; Simulation, performance evaluation, experiments, and case studies of collaborative networks and applications; Dedicated hardware and software enabling collaboration; Technologies for creating dynamic social networks; P2P platforms for supporting collaboration; Energy management for collaborative networks; Tools for collaborative decision making processes; Trustworthy collaborative business processing in groupware organizations; Visualization techniques and interaction devices; Visual languages for collaborative networks and applications; Workflow management for collaborative networks/systems

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Committee: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/ComCOLLA14.html

COLLA Advisory Committee
Lasse Berntzen, Vestfold University College - T�nsberg, Norway
Mohamed Eltoweissy, Virgina Military Institute/Virginia Tech, USA
Howard Spoelstra, Open University in the Netherlands, Netherlands
Pascal Salembier, University of Technology of Troyes, France
Atsuo Hazeyama, Tokyo Gakugei University, Japan
Wendy Lucas, Bentley University - Waltham, USA
Henric Johnson, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
Christophe Thovex, University of Nantes, France
Alessandro Campi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Anna Kocurova, University of West London, United Kingdom

COLLA Industry/Research Chairs
Anna Divoli, Pingar Research, New Zealand
Jin-Hee Cho, U.S. Army Research Laboratory (USARL) - Adelphi, USA
Holger Kett, Fraunhofer IAO - Stuttgart, Germany
Byoung Uk Kim, Ridgetop Group Inc. - Tucson, USA
Raymond A Liuzzi, Raymond Technologies - Whitesboro, USA
J�r�me Dantan, Esitpa, France

COLLA Publicity Chairs
Dapeng Dong, University College Cork, Ireland
Benjamin Knoke, BIBA � Bremer Institut f�r Produktion und Logistik, Germany
Mateusz Adamczyk, University of Warsaw, Poland
Kenji Takagi, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
Yann Veilleroy, Universit� Catholique de Lille, France
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