Scope

Over the last two decades, 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 14th International Conference on Collaborative Computing (CollaborateCom 2018) will be held in Shanghai, People’s Republic of 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.

Publication

All registered papers will be published by Springer and made available through SpringerLink Digital Library.

CollaborateCom proceedings are indexed in leading indexing services, including EI, Scopus, CrossRef, Google Scholar, DBLP, as well as EAI’s own EU Digital Library (EUDL).

Authors of selected best accepted and presented papers will be invited to submit an extended version to:

Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET) Journal (IF 3.259)
IEEE Transaction on Computational Social Systems (ESCI), Special Issue on Blockchain-based Secure and Trusted Computing for IoT (bottom of the webpage) Submission deadline: 31 December, 2018.
Sensors, Privacy and Security in Resource-Constrained Environment in IoT (IF 2.677) Submission deadline: 31 December, 2018.
International Journal of Engineering Business Management (IJEBM)
IEEE ACESS（SI：Mobile Service Computing with Internet of Things）

All accepted authors are eligible to submit an extended version to:

EAI Endorsed Transactions on Collaborative Computing

And are also eligible for publication in:

Topics

General Track

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

Track 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

Track 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

Track 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

Track 4. Security and Trustworthy

Security, privacy and trust management in collaborative networks, systems, and applications
Trustworthy collaborative business processing in virtual organizations