Distributed and Mobile Collaboration 2009 (DMC)
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The 7th International Workshop on Distributed and Mobile Collaboration (DMC 2009)
General Information
Collaborations within networked enterprises and e-science have been more flexible, interconnected and complex. The latest trends in distributed and mobile collaboration technologies allow people to work across organizational boundaries, to collaborate among/in organizations and communities and to be part of the collaborative activities (human-in-the-loop. With the new paradigms, such as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and cloud computing, the ability to access the organization's distributed knowledge base and to cooperate with co-workers increases pervasiveness and mobility, enabling new scenarios and leading to higher complexity of systems. Furthermore, individual "collaboration" has become a hot issue. Individual professionals and virtual communities have enjoyed a tremendous popularity recently and are starting to require functionalities for collaboration in the broadest sense similar to those in business and e-science environments. The wide-spread availability of mobile devices makes support for mobility an arising topic in this domain as well. Today's collaboration is a complex process involved both software and humans.
Many questions to fully enable such scenarios are the subject of ongoing research and are attracting more attention still. For example: How to enable users to retain their ability to cooperate while not being in their home environment? What is the role of collaboration context and location in determining how cooperation can be carried out? How can resources be described semantically in a meaningful way to more efficiently exploit the limited resources in mobile environments by supporting better ways of providing data relevant to the user, enabling improved interoperability with the environment and with other mobile users, and deciding when and how to process data? How to provide support for ad-hoc cooperation in situations where the dedicated infrastructure is absent or cannot be used? How will service-oriented computing, cloud computing, and SaaS change collaborative software? How to support software in diverse, small devices such as PDAs and smartphones to access heterogeneous, large-scale resources, such as in the Grid, for large scale collaboration and teamwork, such as in disaster scenarios. How to provide interoperable collaboration services? Which is the shared vocabulary to be used to achieve a common understanding at the semantic level when the collaboration takes place over community or enterprise boundaries? How to ensure privacy and trust for different collaboration contexts in networked enterprises?
Workshop Activities and Goals
Software architectures for distributed and mobile cooperative communities must support the fundamental requirements for distributed cooperation: efficient and semantically enhanced information sharing across a widely distributed environment; constant and timely update of distributed knowledge bases with many different sites acting both as potential users and potential providers of information; shared access to a services; security and trust in these environments, different access modes to the same information, and so on. This workshop addresses the interdisciplinary issues of the domain and bring together researchers and practitioners from distributed systems, workflow, CSCW, mobile data management, databases, knowledge management/semantics, grid computing, and software engineering to discuss the common interests, share and exchange expertise and results, appreciate each other's results and contributions, and to provide application developers with facilities (middleware, infrastructures, architectures, tools) that enable the development and deployment of applications supporting distributed collaboration in mobile and pervasive environments.
Topics
- Coordination and interaction models, languages, and systems for distributed and mobile collaboration
- Ontologies for semantically rich information exchange between collaboration partners
- Models and architectures for loosely-coupled and large-scale teamwork
- Models and architectures for distributed and mobile adaptive collaboration
- SOA-based, pervasive collaboration services architecture and protocols
- Social-aware mobile and distributed collaboration support
- QoS, security, privacy, and trust in distributed and mobile collaboration
- Context model and management for distributed and mobile collaboration
- Middleware communications, infrastructure for semantically and rich data in mobile and distributed collaboration
- Enabling infrastructures to support collaboration in distributed and mobile environments
- Mobile and distributed collaboration tools in ad-hoc/virtual communities and networked enterprises
- Real-world case studies and experiences for distributed and mobile collaboration
Important Dates
- Full paper submission: March 6th, 2009
- Authors Notification: March 27th, 2009
- Camera-ready versions: April 10th, 2009
- WETICE advanced registration with discount: TBA
- WETICE workshops and on-site registration: June 29th, 30th, and July 1st, 2009
Paper submission
Papers should contain original contributions not published or submitted elsewhere, and references to related state-of-the-art work. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their views of the field at the oral presentation. Papers up to six pages (including figures, tables and references) can be submitted. Papers should follow the IEEE format, which is single spaced, two columns, 10 pt Times/Roman font. Papers should include a title, the name and affiliation of each author, an abstract of up to 150 words and no more than eight keywords. Authors should also provide contact addresses, if different from the submitting electronic address. All submissions should be electronic (in PDF) and will be peer-reviewed by a minimum of three programm commitee members.
Formatting Instructions and templates are available at
* ftp://pubftp.computer.org/Press/Outgoing/proceedings/IEEE_CS_Latex.zip * ftp://pubftp.computer.org/press/outgoing/proceedings/instruct.doc
Full papers accepted for the workshop will be included in the proceedings, published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Please note that each accepted paper should have at least one author register and present the paper at WETICE-2009 to get the paper published in the proceedings. Note that unlike previous editions, in this time the IEEE conference proceedings will be available at the workshop.
To submit your paper, please log into the EasyChair's DMC 2009 webpage.
Workshop Program
TBA
Committees
Program Chairs
- Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology (Austria)
- Harald Gall, University of Zurich (Switzerland)
- Gerald Reif, University of Zurich (Switzerland)
- Hong-Linh Truong, Vienna University of Technology (Austria)
Steering Committee
- Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology (Austria)
- Harald Gall, University of Zurich (Switzerland)
Program Committee (being updated)
- Marco Aiello, University of Groningen (NL)
- Farhad Arbab, Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI) (NL)
- Christoph Bussler, Merced Systems, Inc. (Analytics Engineering Group) (USA)
- Michael Grossniklaus, ETH Zurich (CH)
- Volker Gruhn, University of Leipzig (D)
- Manfred Hauswirth, DERI Galway (IR)
- Thomas Hildebrandt, IT University of Copenhagen (DK)
- Karin Anna Hummel, University of Vienna (A)
- Fei Li, Vienna University of Technology (A)
- Massimo Mecella, Universita' di Roma La Sapienza (I)
- Patrizio Pelliccione, University of L'Aquila, (I)
- Vassilios Peristeras, DERI Galway (IR)
- Jean-Marc Pierson, University Paul Sabatier (F)
- Stephan Reiff-Marganiec, University of Leicester, (UK)
- Gustavo Rossi, University of La Plata, (AR)
- Michael Sheng, The University of Adelaide (AUS)
- Andreas Wombacher, University of Twente (NL)
- To be updated
Contact
Chairs of DMC 2009 at dmc2009@vitalab.tuwien.ac.at
