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                          COLLABORATECOM 2008
      The 4th International Conference on Collaborative Computing:
                 Networking, Applications and Worksharing
  Sponsored by, Create-Net and the Institute for Computer Sciences,
        Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering
                The Regal Sun Resort, Orlando, FL, USA,
                       November 13-16, 2008

                    EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO NOV.7

                   http://www.collaboratecom.org/

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Over the last two decades, many organizations and individuals have relied on
electronic collaboration between distributed teams of humans, computer appl-
ications, and/or autonomous robots to achieve higher productivity and produce
joint products that would have been impossible to develop without the contri-
butions 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 collabo-
ration 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 Fourth International Conference on Collaborative Computing (CollaborateCom
2008) 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.

Program Includes:

• Two Workshops (TrustCol and ConGN)

• Two Keynote Speech

  Speakers:

  Ravi Sandhu,
  University of Texas, San Antonio, USA (Nov 14)

  Taieb Znati,
  CNS Division Director, NSF &
  Professor, University of Pittsburgh, USA (Nov 15)

• 12 Technical sessions

• Three Tutorials

  [1] Applications of Self-organizing Social/Overlay Network in Widearea
      Collaborative Environments (Full Day)
      Dr. Renato J. Figueiredo, ECE, University of Florida
      (Nov 13)

  [2] Requirements Specification and Acceptance Testing of Collaborative
      Work Environments, Groupware, and CSCW Systems (Half Day)
      Dr. Hans-Ludwig Hausen, Fraunhofer, D-53754 St Augustin, Germany
      (Nov 16)

  [3] Countering Spam in Online Communities and the Social Web (Half Day)
      Dr. James Caverlee, Department of Computer Science Texas A&M University
      and Dr. Steve Webb, PureWire, Inc.
      (Nov 16)

• One Panel

  Collaborative Computing: Success and Challenges
  Moderators: Dr. Ling Liu, Dr. Calton Pu, Gerogia Institute of Technology

• One Industry Session

• ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chairs
• Calton Pu, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
• Heri Ramampiaro, NTNU, Norway

Technical Program Chairs

• Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA
• James Joshi, University of Pittsburgh, USA

Panel Chairs

• Ling Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
• Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, Telcordia, USA

Workshop Chairs

• Gail-Joon Ahn, University of North Carolina, Charollette, USA
• Lakshmish Ramaswamy, University of Georgia, USA

Industrial Program Chairs

• Yuecel Karabulut, SAP, USA
• Claudio Bartoni, HP, USA

Tutorial chair

• Barbara Carminati, University of Insubria, Italy
• Bugra Gedik, IBM T.J. Watson, USA

Publication Chair

• Anna Squicciarini, Pennsylvania State University, USA
• Marco Roncetti, University of Trent, Italy

Local Arrangement Chair

• Lotzi Boloni, University of Central Florida, USA

Publicity Chair

• Youna Jung, University of Pittsburgh, USA

Finance Chair

• Karen Decker, ICST USA

• STEERING COMMITTEE
• Imrich Chlamtac (Chair), Create-Net, Italy
• Tao Zhang (Vice Chair), Telcordia Technologies, USA
• Ken Birman, Cornell University, USA
• Nim Cheung, Telcordia Technologies, USA
• Arun Iyengar, IBM T.J. Watson, USA
• Pradeep Khosla, Carnegie Mellon Univ., USA
• Ling Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

• PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
• Gail-Joon Ahn, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA
• Boualem Benatallah, University of New South Wales, Australia
• Cui Bin, Peking University, China
• Lotzi Boloni, University of Central Florida, USA
• Athman Bouguettaya, Virginia Tech, USA
• Peter Brusilovsky, University of Pittsburgh, USA
• James Caverlee, Texas A&M University, USA
• Jyh-Cheng Chen, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
• Shu-Ching Chen, Florida International University, USA
• Bruno Crispo, Vrije University, Netherlands
• Isabel Cruz, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
• Kevin Curran, University of Ulster, UK
• Maria Luisa Damiani, University of Milan, Italy
• Prasun Dewan, University of North Carolina, USA
• Hans-Peter Dommel, Santa Clara University, USA
• Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
• Mohammed Eltoweissy, Virginia Tech, USA
• Elena Ferrari, University of Insubria, Italy
• Renato Figueiredo, University of Florida, USA
• Bugra Gedik, IBM T.J. Watson, USA
• Claude Godart, Nancy University, France
• Le Gruenwald, NSF, USA
• Patrick Hung, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada
• Paola Inverardi, University of L'Aquila, Italy
• Youna Jung, University of Pittsburgh, USA
• Vana Kalogeraki, University of California - Riverside, USA
• Murat Kantarcioglu, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
• Yuecel Karabulut, SAP Research, USA
• Minkoo Kim, Ajou University, South Korea
• Birgitta Koenig-Ries, Friedrich Schiller University at Jena, Germany
• Ibrahim Korpeoglu, Bilkent University, Turkey
• Chung-Sheng Li, IBM T.J. Watson, USA
• Dan Lin, Purdue University, USA
• Jorge Lobo, IBM T.J. Watson, USA
• Dennis McLeod, University of Southern California, USA
• Jean-Henry Morin, University of Geneva, Switzerland
• Maheswaran Muthucumaru, McGill University, Canada
• Surya Nepal, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia
• Erich J. Neuhold, University of Vienna, Austria
• Anne H. H. Ngu, Texas State University, San Marcos, USA
• Moira C. Norrie, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
• Federica Paci, Purdue University, USA
• Willy Picard, Poznan University of Economics, Poland
• Agostino Poggi, University of Parma, Italy
• Lakshmish Ramaswamy, University of Georgia, USA
• Indraskhi Ray, Colorado State University, USA
• Berthold Reinwald, IBM Almaden, USA
• Philippe Roose, University of Pau and Pays de l'Adour, France
• Weisong Shi, Wayne State University, USA
• Mei-Ling Shyu, University of Miami, USA
• Aameek Singh, IBM Almaden, USA
• Amy Soller, USA
• Michael B Spring, University of Pittsburgh, USA
• Mudhakar Srivatsa, IBM T.J. Watson, USA
• Damla Turgut, University of Central Florida, USA
• Qihua Wang, Purdue University, USA
• Kun-Lung Wu, IBM T.J. Watson, USA
• Xiaoxin Wu, Intel, China
• Danfeng Yao, Rutgers University, USA
• Vladimir Zadorozhny, University of Pittsburgh, USA
• Aoying Zhou, East China Normal University, China

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