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Contents 1 Special Issue on Collaboration Services: Methodologies, Architectures, Technologies and Protocols 1.1 Overview 1.2 Topics 1.3 Schedule 1.4 Accepted papers 1.5 Submission 1.6 CFP 1.7 Guest Editors 1.7.1 Schahram Dustdar 1.7.2 Massimo Macella 1.7.3 Hong-Linh Truong 1.8 Committee

Special Issue on Collaboration Services: Methodologies, Architectures, Technologies and Protocols

Overview

Distributed collaborations within networked enterprises, organizations and e-science have been changing rapidly over the last years. Enterprises and e-science environments demand increased flexibility, interconnectivity, and autonomy of involved systems as well as new coordination and interaction styles for collaboration among people. New paradigms such as service-oriented computing and Grid computing increase pervasiveness, and mobility enable new scenarios and lead to higher complexity of systems. The latest trends in distributed collaboration technologies allow people to work across organizational boundaries and to collaborate among/in organizations and communities. 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.

This special issue aims at presenting the latest research on collaboration services and protocols for distributed collaboration in networked enterprise and e-science. We are interested in presenting SOA-based and Grid-based collaboration services and protocols addressing the interoperability and integration issues among different organizations in distributed collaboration scenarios, services and protocols for virtual teams/communities-based collaborations, standard-based pervasive collaboration services architectures together with common, interoperable collaboration services and protocols, collaboration as well as services and protocols for ad-hoc cooperation in situations where the dedicated infrastructure is absent or cannot be used. Furthermore, the integration of collaboration services and protocols with existing SMEs and e-science tools and infrastructures is also relevant.

Topics

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:

• Collaboration services and protocols for loosely-coupled and large-scale teamwork
• Collaboration services and protocols for ad-hoc/virtual teams/communities and networked enterprises
• Context-aware , adaptive, autonomic collaboration services and protocols
• Peer-to-peer and pervasive Grid based collaboration services and protocols
• Semantic-based collaboration services and protocols
• SOA-based, pervasive collaboration services architecture and common, interoperable collaboration services and protocols
• Real-world case studies and experiences for distributed collaboration

Schedule

• Abstract due date: April 30, 2008
• Manuscript due date: June 1st, 2008
• First round notification: July 15, 2008
• Revised paper due: November 15, 2008
• Notification of acceptance: December 19, 2008
• Submission of final manuscript: Jan 15, 2009
• Tentative Publication date: Soon after the final manuscript due.

Accepted papers

• Collaboration Through Computation: Incorporating Trust Model into Service-Based Software Systems

Authors: Mohammad Gias Uddin, Mohammad Zulkernine , Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed

• POPEYE: providing collaborative services for ad-hoc and spontaneous communities

Authors: Juan A. Bota Blaya, Isabelle Demeure, Paolo Gianrossi, Pedro Garcia, Juan Antonio Martinez Navarro, Eike Michael Meyer, Patrizio Pelliccione,

• Pattern-based E-Service Modelling for Virtual Service Enterprises

Authors: Christian Zirpins and Wolfgang Emmerich

• CERA: A Collaborative Environment Reference Architecture for Interoperable CWE Systems

Authors: Vassilios Peristeras, Manuel Fradinho, Deirdre Lee, Wolfgang Prinz, Rudolf Ruland, Kashif Iqbal, Stefan Decker

Submission

Only original articles which have not been previously published or currently submitted for journal publication are considered for the review. An extended version of previous workshop and conference papers might be submitted under condition that the submission contains substantial new materials which are explained clearly in the submission.

To submit an abstract, authors just send an email attached with the abstract to Hong-Linh Truong. Full manuscripts should be submitted using the online system at:
http://www.editorialmanager.com/soca/
The author needs to indicate in the submission that the paper is for the special issue.

CFP

• Special issue CFP in TXT version and PDF version
• Related CFP: The 6th International Workshop on Distributed and Mobile Collaboration (DMC 2008).

Guest Editors

Schahram Dustdar

Distributed Systems Group Vienna University of Technology
dustdar@infosys.tuwien.ac.at

Massimo Macella

Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica Università di Roma "La Sapienza"
mecella@dis.uniroma1.it

Hong-Linh Truong

Distributed Systems Group Vienna University of Technology
truong@infosys.tuwien.ac.at

Committee

TBD