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 20th International Conference on Collaborative Computing (CollaborateCom 2024) will be held in Wuzhen, China, and 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.

We welcome contributions from the following fields:

General Topic

    Architectures, protocols, and enabling technologies for collaborative computing networks and systems
    Collaboration in social media
    Collaborative e-education, e-learning, and collaborative computing in large scale digital libraries
    Collaborative information seeking
    Collaborative mobile networks and infrastructures
    Collaborative technologies for fast creation and deployment of new mobile services
    Collaborative, context-aware infrastructure
    Computer supported collaborative work with distributed systems
    Energy management for collaborative networks
    Methodologies and tools for design and analysis of collaborative user applications
    Models and mechanisms for real-time collaboration
    Peer-to-peer and overlay networks, systems, and applications
    Simulation, performance evaluation, experiments, and case studies of collaborative networks and applications
    Software design, testing, and experimentation technology for collaborative networking and applications
    Theoretical foundations and algorithms for collaborative networks, applications, and worksharing
    Tools for collaborative decision making processes
    Visualization techniques, interaction devices and visual languages for collaborative networks and applications

Topic 1. Internet of Things (IoT) and collaboration

    Collaboration in pervasive and cloud computing environments
    Collaborative sensor networks, unmanned air and ground vehicle networks and applications
    Collaborative, location-aware mobile systems/applications
    Cyber-physical systems
    Collaboration in health-care environments
    Participatory sensing, crowdsourcing, and citizen science

Topic 2. Collaborative Data and Workflow Management

    Big data and spatio-temporal data in collaborative environments/systems
    Collaboration in data-intensive scientific discovery
    Collaboration techniques in data-intensive computing and cloud computing
    Data management and middleware support for collaborative information systems
    Distributed collaborative workflows
    Workflow management for collaborative networks/systems
    Web services technologies and service-oriented architectures for collaborative networking and applications

Topic 3. Collaboration with artificial intelligence

    Autonomic computing and quality of services in collaborative networks, systems, and applications
    Group-driven composition of systems from components
    Human-centric ubiquitous collaboration
    Human-robot collaboration
    Multi-agent technology and software technologies for collaborative networking and applications

Topic 4. Security and Trustworthy

     Security, privacy and trust management in collaborative networks, systems, and applications
    Trustworthy collaborative business processing in virtual organizations