Special Session on Mobile Collaborative Work

Extended Submission Deadline: January 31, 2005

Brief Description: 

The Internet now has 350 million users.  It is expected to be more than 3 billion mobile phones world-wide in 2005, and 1/10 of these will have Internet access and be attached to powerful computers (source: IDC).  More and more companies are therefore working as virtual organizations, where people are distributed, and collaborate over several locations and time zones.  That is, distributed, collaborative, mobile and partly asynchronous technology enables sharing of documents and work plans.  The infrastructure and tools for carrying out projects in virtual organizations is improving but still immature.  We must deal with heterogeneity of tools, equipment (laptops, PDAs, mobile phones) and work models.  In addition, mobility of devices and partial lack of connectivity require regular synchronization of such devices against stationary servers and PCs. Hence, there are several challenges that must be faced.

This special session on Mobile Collaborative Work - to be held as part of the 2005 International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems (CTS'05) - will focus on the area of mobile collaborative computing, with emphasis on cooperative mobile devices, systems and work processes.  The aim is to have a dedicated session that fosters closer interactions among researchers and users communities, providing an excellent opportunity for them to meet and discuss their ideas.  We invite original contributions from researchers in academia and computer industry on these emerging and important areas of information technology. 

Topics of Interest include (but are not limited to):

* Cooperative mobile systems/devices

* Cooperative mobile modeling

* Characterization of mobile work

* Requirement analysis for mobile collaboration

* Mobile work process/workflow environments

* Mobile modeling frameworks

* Usability of mobile systems

* Mobile context-aware workflow

* Mobile databases

* Security in Mobile Collaborative environments

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Special Session on Collaborative Networking Infrastructure

Extended Submission Deadline: January 31, 2005

A Special Session on collaborative networking infrastructure is being organized under the 2005 Collaborative Technologies Symposium (CTS'05) to be held in St. Louis, Missouri May 15-20, 2005. 

This special session is planned to bring together people from industry, government and academia who are working to innovate, develop and use networking infrastructure for the purpose of collaborative work in various fields of knowledge.  Some of the recent examples of collaborative work via networking include SPARC that researchers in upper atmospheric and space physics from around the world are able to use.  SPARC provides the users with a set of online collaboration tools and workspaces that link together scientific instruments, data, and models.  Work is in progress to design and test portable mobile collaborative networks that can be created to deal with emergencies.

This special session looks at the hardware and software issues that are involved in providing a reliable, robust and ubiquitous networking infrastructure to build collaborative tools and services and the state of the art as well as experimental results and posters about ongoing work in this direction. 

Topics include, but not limited to:

* Protocols for Collaborative Networking
* High Speed Networking
* Design, Implementation and Management of Collaborative Websites and Services
* Tools and Techniques for Web based Collaborative Multimedia Communications
* Software Development for Data Visualization from Distributed Data Centers
* Technical Issues in Building Community Networks
* Wireless and Mobile Portable Collaborative Networking and Issues 

Paper Submission

Extended Paper Submission Deadline:  January 31, 2005

Brief Description:

Collaboration relies on distributed systems that provide the required security properties.  Virtual organizations often use the Internet to support collaboration.  The Internet, operating systems and distributed environments currently suffer from poor security support and cannot resist common attacks (spamming, worms, session hijacking, buffer overflow, denial of service, social engineering, etc.). 

Collaborative organizations require better security properties (strong authentication, efficient encryption, Mandatory Access Control, insurance of confidentiality, integrity, non-repudiation and availability).  Nowadays, collaborative organizations use new technologies such as mobile devices, wireless networks and grid computing.  These environments introduce newer needs and difficulties related to security.  Hence, collaborative organizations and technologies face several challenges in the field of security. 

This special session on Security and Collaboration – to be held as part of the 2005 International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems (CTS¨05) – will focus on security issues related to distributed systems with emphasis on collaborative environments, grid or clustering systems for cooperation, mobile and wireless cooperation.  The aim is to have a dedicated session that fosters closer interactions among researchers and users communities, providing an excellent opportunity for them to meet and discuss their ideas.

We invite original contributions from researchers in academia, research institutions and computer industry on these emerging and important areas of information technology. 

Topics of Interest include (but are not limited to):

*  Frameworks for Security in Collaborative Systems

*  Access Control in Collaborative Environments

*  Trusted Operating Systems for Distributed Environments

*  Security of Grid and Cluster Architectures

*  Honeypots

*  Intrusion and Attacks Detection

*  Role Based, Reputation, and Trust

*  Encryption and Cryptography

*  Security in Mobile and Wireless Work

*  Agent Based Security Solutions

*  Disclosure and Integrity Issues

*  Resistance to Denial of Service

*  Detection and Self-Recovery Schemes and Strategies

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Special Session on Collaborative Robots and Autonomous Vehicles

Extended Paper Submission Deadline:  January 17, 2005

Brief Description:

In the next decades, robots will be used in many areas.  The applications will shift from an individual robot that works independently to a group of robots that work collaboratively.  It will be more and more important to understand the interaction among a team of collaborative robots and between human and robots.  Here, the definition of robots also includes every type of unmanned and autonomous vehicles. 

This special session on collaborative robots - to be held as part of the 2005 International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems, May 15-20, 2005 in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA - will focus on the area of collaborative robots, unmanned air vehicles, unmanned ground vehicles, and unmanned underwater vehicles.  The aim is to have a dedicated session that fosters closer interactions among researchers and users communities, providing an excellent opportunity for them to meet and discuss their ideas. 

We invite original contributions from researchers in academia, research laboratories, and computer industry on these emerging and important areas of information technology. 

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): 

Collaborative Robots

    ，  Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles and Systems

    ，  Control of a Team of Robots in a Mission

    ，  Cooperating Autonomous Robots

    ，  Human-Robot Interaction

    ，  Robots in Crisis Management

Collaborative Unmanned Air Vehicles (CUAVs)

    ，  Control of a Swarm of UAVs or MAVs

    ，  Querying and Tasking of UAVs

    ，  Collaborative Signal/Information Processing/Fusion

    ，  Agent-Based Distributed Systems

Collaborative Unmanned Ground Vehicles (CUGVs)

    ，  UGVs in Counter-Terrorism Missions

    ，  Control of Multiple UGVs

    ，  Behavioral Robots

    ，  Autonomous Robots in Mission Systems

Collaborative Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (CUUVs)

    ，  Collaborative Planning and Maneuver

    ，  Network-based Collaborative Warfare

    ，  Distributed Sensors

    ，  Autonomous UUV in Military and Civilian Applications

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