May 17 - 21, 2010
The Westin Lombard Yorktown Center
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Special Session on Role-Based Collaboration
(RBC 2010)
CALL FOR PAPERS
As part of
The 2010 International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems (CTS 2010)
http://cisedu.us/cis/cts/10/main/callForPapers.jsp
Submission Deadline: January 18, 2010
SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES
Role-Based Collaboration (RBC) is an emerging computational methodology to facilitate
well-defined organization structures, provide conceptualization, abstraction,
classification, interaction, separation of concerns, orderly system behaviour, and
consolidate system security for both human and non-human entities that collaborate and
coordinate their activities with or within systems. RBC is a promising candidate
methodology to support adaptive collaboration. Many challenges are open to
investigate.
The concept of role has been adapted from diverse fields including behavioural science,
management, sociology, and psychology. Distributed system architectures have
utilized roles to anthropomorphize software agents and systems so they can integrate and
interact more seamlessly with their human counterparts. By providing role
conceptualizations we can improve complex system understanding and management by providing
the end user a modelled environment they are more accustomed to, resembling objects and
activities they are exposed to daily like authority and organizational structures,
responsibilities, functions and interactions between peers and management.
The session will present techniques, methodologies, and architectures focusing on issues
inherent to implementing Role-Based Collaboration for specific environments.
Collaborative Systems mentioned here include Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW),
Groupware, Group Support Systems (GSS), Computer Mediated Communication (CMC), Social
Computing Systems, Workflow Systems, Distributed Intelligent Systems, Multi-agent systems,
and Collaborative Games.
Topics of Interest include (but not limited to):
Solicited topics are welcomed to address roles from the viewpoint of collaboration and
include, but are not limited to:
- Fundamental Concepts of Roles
- Role Specification and Presentation
- Constraints, Rules, Policies and Regulations for Role Assignment
- Role-Based Design
- Role-Based Adaptation
- Role-Based Management
- Role-Based Personalization
- Role-Based User Interface Design
- Role-Based Interaction
- Role-Based Trust
- Role-Based Autonomic Computing
- Role-Based Conflict Resolution
- Role-Based Services Composition/Collaboration
- Roles in Social Networks
- Visualization of Role-Based Groups
- Applications of Role-Based Approaches
- Role-Based Game Design
- Human-Factors Related to Roles
- Improvement to Model E-CARGO
PAPER SUBMISSION
You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on above and other
topics related to Adaptive Collaboration. Submitted papers must not have been
published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere. Submission should include a cover
page with authors' names, affiliation addresses, fax numbers, phone numbers, and email
addresses. Please, indicate clearly the corresponding author and include up to 6
keywords from the above list of topics and an abstract of no more than 400 words.
The full manuscript should be at most 10 pages using the two-column IEEE format.
Additional pages will be charged at additional fee. Some papers can be accepted as
short papers, with a total length reduced to 5 pages. Please include page numbers on
all submissions to make it easier for reviewers to provide helpful comments. Submit
a PDF copy of your full manuscript via email to the Workshop organizer at
roles@nipissingu.ca
and
haibinz.zhu@gmail.com
. Paper reception will be acknowledged by e-mail within 2 days.
Only PDF files will be accepted, sent by email to the workshop organizers. Each
paper will receive a minimum of three reviews. Papers will be selected based on
their originality, relevance, technical clarity and presentation. Submission implies
the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper, if
accepted. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be
registered and presented at the workshop.
Accepted papers will be published in the Symposium proceedings. Instructions for
final manuscript format and requirements will be posted on the CTS 2010 Symposium web site
later. It is our intent to have the proceedings formally published in hard and soft
copies and be available at the time of the conference. The proceedings is projected
to be included in the IEEE Digital Library and indexed accordingly.
IMPORTANT DATES
| Paper submission Deadline |
|
January 18, 2010 |
| Notification of Acceptance |
|
February 9, 2010 |
| Registration and Camera Ready Manuscript Due |
|
March 1, 2010 |
SESSION ORGANIZER
Haibin
Zhu
Department of Computer Science and Mathematics
Nipissing University, 100 College Drive
North Bay, ON P1B8L7, Canada
Email: haibinz@nipissingu.ca
URL: http://www.nipissingu.ca/faculty/haibinz/
Technical Program Committee:
All submitted papers will be rigorously reviewed by the special session technical program
committee members.
- Giacomo Cabri, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
- Luca Ferrari, Independent Researcher, Italy
- Bill Gruver, Intelligent Robotics Corp., Canada
- Keith Harrison-Broninski, Role Modellers Ltd, UK
- Michelle Joab, Université Montpellier 2, France
- Shin-Jie Lee, National Central University, Taiwan
- Xinjun Mao, National University of Defence Technology, China
- Vincent T. Y. Ng, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
- Yong Tang, South China Normal University, China
- Shaohua Teng, Guangdong University of Technology, China
- Yan Xiao, University of Maryland at Baltimore, USA
- Bin Xu, Zhejiang Gongshang University, China
- MengChu Zhou, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
For information or questions about the special session and the paper submission procedure,
please contact the special session organizers.
For information or questions about Symposium's paper submission, tutorials, posters,
workshops, special sessions, exhibits, demos, panels and forums organization, doctoral
consortium, and any other information about the conference location, registration, paper
formatting, etc., please consult the Symposium's web site at URL:
http://cisedu.us/cis/cts/10/main/callForPapers.jsp
or contact one of the Symposium's Co-Chairs: Bill McQuay at
William.McQuay@us.af.mil
and Waleed W. Smari at
Smari@arys.org
.