ISSN: 2308-4227
ISBN: 978-1-61208-645-3

• Registered: with the Library of Congress of the United States of America (ISSN)
• Free Access: in ThinkMind Digital Library

COLLA 2018 is colocated with the following events as part of InfoWare 2018 Congress:

• ICCGI 2018, The Thirteenth International Multi-Conference on Computing in the Global Information Technology
• ICWMC 2018, The Fourteenth International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Communications
• VEHICULAR 2018, The Seventh International Conference on Advances in Vehicular Systems, Technologies and Applications
• INTERNET 2018, The Tenth International Conference on Evolving Internet
• COLLA 2018, The Eighth International Conference on Advanced Collaborative Networks, Systems and Applications
• INTELLI 2018, The Seventh International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Applications
• InManEnv 2018, The International Symposium on Intelligent Manufacturing Environments
• VISUAL 2018, The Third International Conference on Applications and Systems of Visual Paradigms
• HUSO 2018, The Fourth International Conference on Human and Social Analytics
• BRAININFO 2018, The Third International Conference on Neuroscience and Cognitive Brain Information

A collage of snapshots taken during the 2017 edition of this conference. Thanks to Laurent Antonczak for assembling this video.

COLLA 2018 conference tracks:

Hot topics on collaborative systems
Computer-drive design interaction; Model-driven GUI generation; Uncertain collaborative environments; Collaborative knowledge creation; Community-based participatory research; Emergency response user interfaces; Multimodal and multidevice user interfaces; Medical device interaction; Predicting cooperation behavior; Sentiment analysis; Quantifying controversy; Cooperative intents; Privacy loss estimation; Online social networks; Community question answering; Social mobility; Twitter discussion groups; Affective computing;  Perception models: emotion, rumors, persuasion; Leader-driven open collaboration platforms; Spontaneous emergence of consensus; Mining complaints; Big Data Privacy; Large Data Sets; Administrative models for collaborative management; Sustainable community participation; Collaborative visual analysis; Social-interaction based model; Deep recommendations; Online health communities; Social identities in home physiotherapy; Cooperative wearable technologies; Crowd-based social enterprise; Enterprise crowdfunding; Cooperative counseling; Persuasive impact of emoticons; Online service co-customization; Online product recommendation; Social commerce websites; Trust in e-commerce; Collaborating under constraints; Collaborative filtering-based recommendation; Challenges and opportunities of sharing economy; Online ethics; Ecological communities

Open collaborative research
Open collaboration research; Research via wikis and social media; Open research access; Open sources for collaboration; Open web and public data research; Education for Open research; Scientific trust and legal aspects in open collaboration

Cooperation and collaboration mechanisms
Collaborative computing; Cooperation as interface sharing; Collaboration as knowledge sharing; Ethics and trust in collaborative cross-domains; Cooperative emotion; Planning and managing collaborative applications and projects; Semantic and ontology challenges in collaborative environments; Cooperation and collaboration pitfalls; Groupware supporting single-display collaboration; Sharing data and decisions; Coalitions and negotiations in cooperative environments; Adaptive collaboration; Integrating cross-organizational applications; Cooperative data extraction and data integration; Secure collaboration; Dynamic cooperative environments; Visualization of cooperative processes

Collaborative architectures and mechanisms
Fundamental theoretical aspects of distributed collaboration; Methodologies and tools for design and analysis of collaborative user applications; Frameworks for human-centric based group collaboration; Distributed collaborative workflows; Architectures, protocols, and technologies for collaborative networks and systems; Collaboration and negotiation protocols; Quality of collaboration in collaborative networks, systems, and applications; Modeling for collaboration; Cloud-based collaboration; Agent-based collaborative environments; Collaboration techniques in resource intensive environments; Security, privacy and trust in collaborative networks, systems, and applications

Collaborative applications
Collaboration in pervasive computing applications; Collaborative e-education, e-learning, and collaborative computing in digital libraries; Models and mechanisms for real-time collaborative applications; Distributed technologies for group collaboration; Collaborative games; Web-based communities; New data distribution models to facilitate group collaboration; Social computing and inter-cultural collaboration;

Collaborative infrastructures
Collaborative, context-aware infrastructure; Collaborative mobile networks and infrastructures; Collaborative, location-aware mobile systems/applications; Collaborative sensor networks, unmanned air and ground vehicle networks and applications; ; Peer-to-peer and overlay networks, systems, and applications;

Collaborative services
Collaborative technologies for fast creation and deployment of new mobile services; Web services technologies and collaboration; Service-oriented architectures for collaborative networking and applications; Trusted collaborative services; Collaborative entertainment systems and services; Computer supported cooperative design; Adaptive content distribution; Semantic and ontology challenges in collaborative environments

Collaborative users
Human/robot collaboration; Collaborative social networks and web-based collaboration; Computer supported collaborative work with distributed systems; Human-centric ubiquitous collaboration; Social networks and community discovery; Markets, auctions, exchanges, and coalitions

Tools and benchmarking
Methodologies and tools for design and analysis of collaborative user applications; Simulation, performance evaluation, experiments, and case studies of collaborative networks and applications; Dedicated hardware and software enabling collaboration; Technologies for creating dynamic social networks; P2P platforms for supporting collaboration; Energy management for collaborative networks; Tools for collaborative decision making processes; Trustworthy collaborative business processing in groupware organizations; Visualization techniques and interaction devices; Visual languages for collaborative networks and applications; Workflow management for collaborative networks/systems

Deadlines:

Deadlines differ for special tracks. Please consult the conference home page for special tracks Call for Papers (if any).