Special Issue on
Collaboration Services: Methodologies, Architectures, Technologies and
Protocols
https://www.vitalab.tuwien.ac.at/autocompwiki/index.php/SOCA08
Service Computing and Applications Journal (SOCA)
Springer London
http://www.springeronline.com/journal/11761
Guest Editors
Schahram Dustdar, Massimo Macella, and Hong-Linh Truong
Abstract due date: April 30, 2008
Manuscript due date: June 1st, 2008
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: September 30, 2008
Notification of acceptance: November 15, 2008
Submission of final manuscript: December 15, 2008
Tentative Publication date: January/February 2009
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
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. 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.
Guest Editors and Contact Information
Schahram Dustdar
Distributed Systems Group
Vienna University of Technology
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http://www.infosys.tuwien.ac.at/Staff/sd
Massimo Macella
Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica
Università di Roma "La Sapienza"
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http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/~mecella/
Hong-Linh Truong
Distributed Systems Group
Vienna University of Technology
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http://www.infosys.tuwien.ac.at/Staff/truong/ |
