CollaborateCom 2009: Call for Participation

{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\cocoartf949\cocoasubrtf540 {\fonttbl\f0\fnil\fcharset0 Consolas;} {\colortbl;\red255\green255\blue255;\red0\green0\blue255;} \margl1440\margr1440\vieww9000\viewh8400\viewkind0 \pard\tx560\tx1120\tx1680\tx2240\tx2800\tx3360\tx3920\tx4480\tx5040\tx5600\tx6160\tx6720\ql\qnatural\pardirnatural \f0\fs26 \cf0 CollaborateCom 2009\ The 5th International Conference on Collaborative Computing:\ Networking, Applications and Worksharing\ Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society, \ Create-Net and the Institute for Computer Sciences, \ Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering\ \ Deouble Tree Hotel, Crystal City, \ Washington D.C., USA, November 11-14, 2009\ \ Register Soon ...........\ \ (URL: \cf2 \ul \ulc2 http://www.collaboratecom.org/\cf0 \ulnone )\ \ Program Highlights\ \ Keynotes\ \ 1. Haym Hirsh, Division Director of IIS program at NSF, \ Professor, Rutgers University\ \ \ Keynote Title: Socially Intelligent Computing\ \ \ 2. Nabil R. Adam, \ Fellow and Sr. Program Manager, IGD, \ US Department of Homeland Security\ \ Director of the Center for Information Management, \ Integration and Connectivity (CIMIC)\ \ Professor, MS/CIS, Rutgers University, USA\ \ Keynote Title: Research & Development at the Department of \ Homeland Security-Science and Technology\ \ 3. Cynthia K. Pickering, \ Director of the IT Collaboratory Research Lab, \ Intel Corporation, USA\ \ \ Keynote Title: Challenges and Advances in Enterprise Class \ Global Team Collaboration\ \ \ \ Technical program includes\ \ - 12 technical sessions\ - 2 tutorials \ - 2 Panels\ \ - 2 Workshops (inlcuding workshop Keynote, and panels)\ \ \ \ 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 Fifth International Conference on Collaborative Computing\ (CollaborateCom 2009) 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.\ \ \ \ CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION:\ \ 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\ \ GENERAL CHAIRS\ James Joshi, University of Pittsburgh, USA\ Tao Zhang, Telcordia Technologies, USA\ \ TECHNICAL PROGRAM CHAIRS\ Juan Quemada, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain\ EK Park, NSF/University of Missouri, USA\ Weisong Shi, Wayne State University, USA\ \ PANEL CHAIRS\ Isabel Cruz, UIC, USA\ Ling Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA\ Wolfgang Prinz, Frauenhofer-FIT, Germany\ \ WORKSHOP CHAIRS\ Gail-Joon Ahn, Arizona State University, USA\ Heri Ramampiaro, NTNU, Norway\ \ INDUSTRIAL PROGRAM CHAIRS\ Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, CSIRO, Australia\ \ TUTORIAL CHAIRS\ Barbara Carminati, University of Insubria, Italy\ Keke Chen, Wright State University, USA\ \ PUBLICATION CHAIR\ Heri Ramampiaro, NTNU, Norway\ James Caverlee, Texas A&M, USA\ \ LOCAL ARRANGEMENT CHAIR\ Songqing Chen, George Mason University, USA\ \ PUBLICITY CHAIR\ Heri Ramampiaro, NTNU, Norway\ Anna Squicciarini, Penn State, USA\ \ CONFERENCE COORDINATOR\ Gergely Nagy, ICST, USA\ \ WEBMASTER\ Amirreza Masoumzadeh, University of Pittsburgh, USA\ \ \ \ }