Welcome to the CTS 2005

The 2005 International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems
(CTS 2005)

May 15-20, 2005
Adam's Mark Hotels & Resorts
Saint Louis, Missouri, USA

In technical cooperation with the IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, and IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society

Technical Papers

All papers in the proceedings will appear in the IEEE Digital Library Xplore^©.

SPECIAL SESSION: MOBILE COLLABORATIVE WORK

1. Usability of a Mobile, Group Communication Prototype While Rendezvousing

Jeff Axup, Stephen Viller, and Nicola J. Bidwell

(University of Queensland and James Cook University, Australia)

2. Optimized Communication Using the SOAP Infoset for Mobile Multimedia Collaboration Applications

Sangyoon Oh, Hasan Bulut, Ahmet Uyar, Wenjun Wu, and Geoffrey Fox

(Indiana University and Syracuse University, USA)

3. Collaborative Approach for Modeling and Performing Mobile Software Process Components

Pierre F. Tiako

(Langston University in Oklahoma, USA)

4. Mobile Peer-to-Peer Technology used to Promote Spontaneous Collaboration

Alf Inge Wang, Carl-Fredrik Sorensen and Thomas Fossum

(Norwegian Univ. of Science & Technology and the Norwegian Institute for Air Research, Norway)

SPECIAL SESSION: SECURITY AND ACCESS CONTROL IN COLLABORATION I

1. Personal Data Anonymization for Security and Privacy in Collaborative Environments

Anas Abou El Kalam, Yves Deswarte, Gilles Trouessin, Emmanuel Cordonnier

(LIFO-ENSIB, LAAS-CNRS, Ernst&Young, and ETIAM, France)

2. Efficient Directory Harvest Attacks

Boldizsar Bencsath and Istvan Vajda

(Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)

3. Job-Centric Security Model for Open Collaborative Environment

Yuri Demchenko, Leon Gommans, Cees de Laat, Bas Oudenaarde, Andrew Tokmakoff, Martin Snijders

(Universiteit van Amsterdam and Telematica Institute, The Netherlands)

4. NIDS Architecture for Clusters

Fabrice Gadaud

(LIFO Orleans and CEA/DIF, France)

SPECIAL SESSION: SECURITY AND ACCESS CONTROL IN COLLABORATION II

1. A Scalable Authorization Approach for Grid System Environments

Jiageng Li

(Department of Computer Science, University of West Georgia, USA)

2. Model Checking the Security of Multi-Protocol Systems

M. Panti, Luca Spalazzi, S. Tacconi and F. Pagliarecci

(DIIGA, Polytechnic University of Marche, Ancona, Italy)

3. Intrusion Detection and Security Policy Framework for Distributed Environments

Anas Abou El Kalam, Jeremy Briffaut, Christian Toinard, and Mathieu Blanc

(LIFO-CNRS, Orleans and Commissariat a l’Energie Atomique, France)

4. A Queue Model to Detect DDos Attacks

Shuang Hao, Hua Song, Wenbao Jiang, and Yiqi Dai

(Tsinghua University, Beijing, P.R. China)

5. Building an Inter-IDS Central Analysis Platform in the Network Center of China’s Central Bank

Zhen Zhao

(Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Drexel University, PA, USA) ? No Presentation

COLLABORATION ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES, GROUPWARE, ARTIFACTS

1. Investigating the Performance of Audio/Video Service Architecture I: Single Broker

Ahmet Uyar and Geoffrey Fox

(Syracuse University and Indiana University, USA)

2. Investigating the Performance of Audio/Video Service Architecture II: Broker Network

Ahmet Uyar and Geoffrey Fox

(Syracuse University and Indiana University, USA)

3. Adapting the Electronic Laboratory Notebook for the Semantic Era

Tara Talbott, Michael Peterson, Jens Schwidder and James Myers

(Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, WA, USA)

4. A Multiuser Groupware Calendar System based on Agent Tools and Technology

Alberto Grosso, Christian Vecchiola, Mauro Coccoli and Antonio Boccalatte

(University of Genova, Italy)

5. Collaborative Knowledge Management in e-Meetings

Chia Y. Han and Jerome Eric Luczaj

(University of Cincinnati and the College of Mount St. Joseph, Ohio, USA)

6. AI Workflow Management in a Collaborative Environment

Michelle Cheatham and Michael T. Cox

(Information Directorate, AFRL, Ohio, USA)

DISTRIBUTED TEAMWORK, COMMUNITIES & SOCIOCULTURAL DYNAMICS

1. A Case Study of Student Software Teams Using Computer-Supported Software

Kathleen Swigger, Robert Brazile, Bryan Harrington, Shawn Peng and Ferda Alpaslan

(University of North Texas, USA and Middle East Technical University, Turkey)

2. Context Informed Cross Cultural Collaboration in Stability and Support Operations

Mark A. Hoffman, Brian Kettler and Terry Padgett

(ISX Corporation, Marietta, GA, USA)

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS & AGENT-BASED TECHNIQUES IN COLLABORATION

1. An Agent-Base Supply-Chain Management

Maurizio Panti, Francesco Pagliarecci, and Luca Spalazzi

(DIIGA, Polytechnic University of Marche, Ancona, Italy)

2. Middleware-Level Collaborative Resource Discovery for Large Clusters

Jameela Al-Jaroodi, and Nader Mohamed

(Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, USA)

3. Path Planning for Altruistically Negotiating Processes

Deepthi Devalarazu and Daniel W. Watson

(Utah State University, Logan, UT, USA)

4. MASSE: Environment Supporting for Simulation and Analysis of Multiagent Systems

Tomomi Takashina, Bi Zhenbo, Damba Ariuna, Zhi Guilan, Kazuhide Tanaka, Hiroki Sayama, and Shigeyoshi Watanabe

(Nikon Systems Inc., and The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan)

COLLABORATIVE WORK PRACTICES AND SUPPORT

1. Achieving Groupware Flexibility Through Metamodel Mappings

Igor Hawryszkiewycz

(University of Technology, Sydney, Australia)

2. An Architectural Style for Supporting Work Practice: Coping with the Complex Structure of Coordination Relationships

Peter J. Kammer and Richard N. Taylor

(Endeavors Technology Inc. and University of California, Irvine, USA)

3. Visualization of Interactions in an Online Collaboration Environment

Robert Biuk-Aghai

(University of Macau, Macau S.A.R., China)

COLLABORATIVE NETWORKING INFRASTRUCTURE (SS)

1. Multicast Support for Collaborative Networking

Lori A. Flynn and Hans-Peter Dommel

(Bell Laboratories - Lucent Technologies and Santa Clara University, USA)

2. Network Lag Mitigation Methods in Collaborative Distributed Simulations

Shervin Shirmohammadi, Nancy Ho Woo and Sara Alavi

(University of Ottawa, Canada)

MODELING, SIMULATION AND PROTOTYPING FOR COLLABORATIVE ENVIRONMENTS

1. Ontology-based Virtual Assembly Model for Collaborative Virtual Prototyping and Simulation

Kyoung-Yun Kim, David G. Manley, Hyungjeong Yang, and Bart O. Nnaji

(Department of Industrial Engineering and NSF Center for e-Design, University of Pittsburgh, USA)

2. Virtual Environment for On-Campus Orientation

Robert Larmore, Matthew Knaus, Sergiu Dascalu and F.C. Harris, Jr.

(University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada, USA)

WEB INFRASTRUCTURE AND SERVICES FOR COLLABORATIVE APPLICATIONS AND PLATFORMS

1. RikWik: An Extensible XML Based Wiki

Richard Mason and Paul Roe

(Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia)

2. Developing an Open Knowledge Discovery Support System for a Network Environment

Claudia Diamantini, Domenico Potena and Maurizio Panti

(Universita Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy)

3. On a Collaborative Commerce Framework and Architecture for the Next Generation Commerce

Seung-yun Kim and Waleed W. Smari

(University of Dayton, Ohio, USA)

4. Advances in E-Business Collaboration: Semantic Web Services in SAP R/3 B2B Integration

Tomas Vitvar

(National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland)

MOBILE AND WIRELESS COLLABORATIVE SYSTEMS

1. A Clustering Prediction Scheme for Wireless Cellular Network

John Tsiligaridis and Raj Acharya

(Heritage University, Washington, USA)

2. Experiments on Mobile Context-Aware Instant Messaging

Mikko Perttunen, Jukka Riekki, Kirsi Koskinen and Marika Tahti

(University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland)

3. Visualizing Handheld-Based Classroom Activity

Deborah Tatar, Sirong Lin and Margaret Dickey

(Center for Human-Computer Interaction, Virginia Tech, Virginia, USA)

4. Technical Approaches for Achieving Multi-Resource Polymorphic Collaboration

Mike Matthews, Robert Hohne, and Shawn Orban

(Air Force Research Laboratory and Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Ohio, USA)

COLLABORATIVE ROBOTS AND AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES (SS)

1. An Extended Time Horizon Search Technique for Cooperative Unmanned Vehicles to Locate Mobile RF Targets

Daniel J. Pack and George W.P. York

(United States Air Force Academy, Colorado, USA)

2. Resource Allocation Strategies for a Multi Sensor Surveillance

K. Madhava Krishna and Henry Hexmoor

(Indian Institute of Information Technology, India and University of Arkansas, USA)

3. Fuzzy Petri Net for UAV Decision Making

Martin C. Lundell, Jingpeng Tang, and Kendall Nygard

(University of Minnesota ? Crookston and North Dakota State University, USA)

4. New Trajectory Generation Methods for Nonholonomic Mobile Robots

Wenjie Dong and Yi Guo

(University of Central Florida, Florida, USA)

5. Using Genetic Algorithms to Evolve the Control Rules of a Swarm of UAVs

Jaime Soto and Kuo-Chi Lin

(University of Central Florida, Florida, USA)

6. Constrained Search for a Moving Target

Don A. Grundel

(AFRL/MNGN, Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, USA)

COLLABORATION FUNDAMENTALS AND FRAMEWORKS

1. The Essential Ingredients of Collaboration

Roy Soliman, Robin Braun and Simeon Simoff

(University of Technology, Sydney, Australia)

2. Self-Service Collaboration Applications: A New Paradigm in the Development and Deployment of Collaborative Environments

Scott S.F. Tse, Gene Moore and Sangeeta Narang

(SplashNote Systems, Inc., Santa Clara, California, USA)

COLLABORATIVE DECISION MAKING, MODELING, AND SUPPORT

1. A Collaborative Distributed Privacy-Sensitive Decision Support System for Monitoring Heterogeneous Data Sources

Hillol Kargupta, Kakali Sarkar, Dipti Aswath and William D. Handy

(AGNIK, LLC, Columbia, Maryland, USA)

2. The JavaRank Decision Support Tool and the Benefits and Challenges of Converting an Existing Desktop Application into a Distributed Collaborative Tool

Tim Cox and Jerome Reaper

(Science Applications International Corp., Ohio, USA)

3. Advanced Collaborative Technologies Supporting the 21st Century Warfighter in a Network Centric Environment

Gary A. Whitted and Mary E. Just

(Ball Aerospace & Technologies, Corp. and the Air Force Research Laboratory, Ohio, USA)

4. Leveraging Collaborative Technologies to Support Integrated Human Based-Automated Command and Control Process Test and Evaluation in the Virtual Testbed for Advanced Command and Control

David Green, Jerome Reaper, Bradley Dunaway and Joel Dallaire

(Science Applications International Corp., Ohio, USA)

1.	Usability of a Mobile, Group Communication Prototype While Rendezvousing
	Jeff Axup, Stephen Viller, and Nicola J. Bidwell
	(University of Queensland and James Cook University, Australia)

2.	Optimized Communication Using the SOAP Infoset for Mobile Multimedia Collaboration Applications
	Sangyoon Oh, Hasan Bulut, Ahmet Uyar, Wenjun Wu, and Geoffrey Fox
	(Indiana University and Syracuse University, USA)

3.	Collaborative Approach for Modeling and Performing Mobile Software Process Components
	Pierre F. Tiako
	(Langston University in Oklahoma, USA)

4.	Mobile Peer-to-Peer Technology used to Promote Spontaneous Collaboration
	Alf Inge Wang, Carl-Fredrik Sorensen and Thomas Fossum
	(Norwegian Univ. of Science & Technology and the Norwegian Institute for Air Research, Norway)

1.	Personal Data Anonymization for Security and Privacy in Collaborative Environments
	Anas Abou El Kalam, Yves Deswarte, Gilles Trouessin, Emmanuel Cordonnier
	(LIFO-ENSIB, LAAS-CNRS, Ernst&Young, and ETIAM, France)

2.	Efficient Directory Harvest Attacks
	Boldizsar Bencsath and Istvan Vajda
	(Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)

3.	Job-Centric Security Model for Open Collaborative Environment
	Yuri Demchenko, Leon Gommans, Cees de Laat, Bas Oudenaarde, Andrew Tokmakoff, Martin Snijders
	(Universiteit van Amsterdam and Telematica Institute, The Netherlands)

4.	NIDS Architecture for Clusters
	Fabrice Gadaud
	(LIFO Orleans and CEA/DIF, France)

1.	A Scalable Authorization Approach for Grid System Environments
	Jiageng Li
	(Department of Computer Science, University of West Georgia, USA)

2.	Model Checking the Security of Multi-Protocol Systems
	M. Panti, Luca Spalazzi, S. Tacconi and F. Pagliarecci
	(DIIGA, Polytechnic University of Marche, Ancona, Italy)

3.	Intrusion Detection and Security Policy Framework for Distributed Environments
	Anas Abou El Kalam, Jeremy Briffaut, Christian Toinard, and Mathieu Blanc
	(LIFO-CNRS, Orleans and Commissariat a l’Energie Atomique, France)

4.	A Queue Model to Detect DDos Attacks
	Shuang Hao, Hua Song, Wenbao Jiang, and Yiqi Dai
	(Tsinghua University, Beijing, P.R. China)

5.	Building an Inter-IDS Central Analysis Platform in the Network Center of China’s Central Bank
	Zhen Zhao
	(Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Drexel University, PA, USA) ? No Presentation

1.	Investigating the Performance of Audio/Video Service Architecture I: Single Broker
	Ahmet Uyar and Geoffrey Fox
	(Syracuse University and Indiana University, USA)

3.	Adapting the Electronic Laboratory Notebook for the Semantic Era
	Tara Talbott, Michael Peterson, Jens Schwidder and James Myers
	(Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, WA, USA)

4.	A Multiuser Groupware Calendar System based on Agent Tools and Technology
	Alberto Grosso, Christian Vecchiola, Mauro Coccoli and Antonio Boccalatte
	(University of Genova, Italy)

5.	Collaborative Knowledge Management in e-Meetings
	Chia Y. Han and Jerome Eric Luczaj
	(University of Cincinnati and the College of Mount St. Joseph, Ohio, USA)

6.	AI Workflow Management in a Collaborative Environment
	Michelle Cheatham and Michael T. Cox
	(Information Directorate, AFRL, Ohio, USA)

1.	A Case Study of Student Software Teams Using Computer-Supported Software
	Kathleen Swigger, Robert Brazile, Bryan Harrington, Shawn Peng and Ferda Alpaslan
	(University of North Texas, USA and Middle East Technical University, Turkey)

2.	Context Informed Cross Cultural Collaboration in Stability and Support Operations
	Mark A. Hoffman, Brian Kettler and Terry Padgett
	(ISX Corporation, Marietta, GA, USA)

1.	An Agent-Base Supply-Chain Management
	Maurizio Panti, Francesco Pagliarecci, and Luca Spalazzi
	(DIIGA, Polytechnic University of Marche, Ancona, Italy)

2.	Middleware-Level Collaborative Resource Discovery for Large Clusters
	Jameela Al-Jaroodi, and Nader Mohamed
	(Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, USA)

3.	Path Planning for Altruistically Negotiating Processes
	Deepthi Devalarazu and Daniel W. Watson
	(Utah State University, Logan, UT, USA)

4.	MASSE: Environment Supporting for Simulation and Analysis of Multiagent Systems
	Tomomi Takashina, Bi Zhenbo, Damba Ariuna, Zhi Guilan, Kazuhide Tanaka, Hiroki Sayama, and Shigeyoshi Watanabe
	(Nikon Systems Inc., and The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan)

1.	Achieving Groupware Flexibility Through Metamodel Mappings
	Igor Hawryszkiewycz
	(University of Technology, Sydney, Australia)

2.	An Architectural Style for Supporting Work Practice: Coping with the Complex Structure of Coordination Relationships
	Peter J. Kammer and Richard N. Taylor
	(Endeavors Technology Inc. and University of California, Irvine, USA)

3.	Visualization of Interactions in an Online Collaboration Environment
	Robert Biuk-Aghai
	(University of Macau, Macau S.A.R., China)

1.	Multicast Support for Collaborative Networking
	Lori A. Flynn and Hans-Peter Dommel
	(Bell Laboratories - Lucent Technologies and Santa Clara University, USA)

2.	Network Lag Mitigation Methods in Collaborative Distributed Simulations
	Shervin Shirmohammadi, Nancy Ho Woo and Sara Alavi
	(University of Ottawa, Canada)

1.	Ontology-based Virtual Assembly Model for Collaborative Virtual Prototyping and Simulation
	Kyoung-Yun Kim, David G. Manley, Hyungjeong Yang, and Bart O. Nnaji
	(Department of Industrial Engineering and NSF Center for e-Design, University of Pittsburgh, USA)