1. CollaborateCom 2005: San Jose, CA, USA

Distributed Collaboration in Mobile Computing

• Sunil Madhani, Miriam Tauil, Tao Zhang:
  Collaborative sensing using uncontrolled mobile devices.
  
• Hisayoshi Sugiyama, Tetsuo Tsujioka, Masashi Murata:
  Collaborative movement of rescue robots for reliable and effective networking in disaster area.
  
• Gautam Das, Maria Fazio, Massimo Villari, Antonio Puliafito:
  Distributed core assisted scalable data dissemination in mobile ad hoc networks.
  

Collaborative Enterprise Applications

• Gautam Shroff, Anish Mehta, Puneet Agarwal, Rajesh Sinha:
  Collaborative development of business applications.
  
• Tanja Klostermann, Dieter Spath:
  Design of a feedback control system for the optimization of technical customer service collaboration processes.
  
• Philip Robinson, Yücel Karabulut, Jochen Haller:
  Dynamic virtual organization management for service oriented enterprise applications.
  

Location Estimation and Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks

• A. S. Krishnakumar, P. Krishnan:
  The theory and practice of signal strength-based location estimation.
  
• Hassan Mahmood, Cristina Comaniciu:
  Location assisted routing for near-far effect mitigation in wireless networks.
  
• S. Pandey, P. Prasad, P. Sinha, P. Agrawal:
  Localization of sensor networks considering energy accuracy tradeoffs.
  

Panel

• Calton Pu:
  Collaborative Enterprise Applications (Panel).
  

Collaborative Framework in Education and e-Learning

• Hai Jin, Li Qi:
  ChinaGrid and its impact to science and education in China.
  
• Ron Stevens, Amy Soller, Alessandra Giordani, Luca Gerosa, Melanie Cooper, Charlie Cox:
  Developing a framework for integrating prior problem solving and knowledge sharing histories of a group to predict future group performance.
  
• M. Antonia Martínez-Carreras, Antonio F. Gómez-Skarmeta, Eduardo Martínez-Gracía:
  Designing collaborative environments and their application in learning.
  

Reputation and Trust Management

• Zhengqiang Liang, Weisong Shi:
  Performance evaluation of rating aggregation algorithms in reputation systems.
  
• Praveen Kumar, Srividya Gopalan, V. Sridhar:
  Q-Chain: building reputation based trust chains in decentralized peer-to-peer networks.
  
• Manuel Rodriguez-Perez, Oscar Esparza, Jose L. Muñoz:
  Analysis of peer-to-peer distributed reputation schemes.
  

Distributed Collaboration in Peer to Peer Computing

• Dietrich Fahrenholtz, Andreas Wombacher:
  A formal communication model for lookup operations in a hypercube-based P2P data store.
  
• Jonathan S. K. Chan, Victor O. K. Li, King-Shan Lui:
  Scheduling algorithms for peer-to-peer collaborative file distribution.
  
• James S. K. Newell, Indranil Gupta:
  The P2P MultiRouter: a black box approach to run-time adaptivity for P2P DHTs.
  

Security in Collaborative Systems and Applications

• Hermann Härtig, Michael Hohmuth, Norman Feske, Christian Helmuth, Adam Lackorzynski, Frank Mehnert, Michael Peter:
  The Nizza secure-system architecture.
  
• Steve Webb, Subramanyam Chitti, Calton Pu:
  An experimental evaluation of spam filter performance and robustness against attack.
  
• Fuwen Liu, Hartmut König:
  Secure and efficient key distribution for collaborative applications.
  

Localization in Wireless Sensor Networks

• Yan Sun, Peng Liu, Parviz Kermani, Thomas F. La Porta:
  An architecture and key management approach for maintaining privacy in location based group services.
  
• Saad Biaz, Yiming Ji, Prathima Agrawal:
  Impact of sniffer deployment on indoor localization.
  

Panel

• Ling Liu:
  Collaborative Computing: Issues and Challenges (Panel).
  

Collaborative Information Flow Systems

• João Eduardo Ferreira, Osvaldo Kotaro Takai, Calton Pu:
  Integration of collaborative information system in Internet applications using RiverFish architecture.
  
• Kai Lin, David Chen, R. Geoff Dromey, Chengzheng Sun:
  Maintaining multi-way dataflow constraints in collaborative systems.
  
• Frederic Montagut, Refik Molva:
  Enabling pervasive execution of workflows.
  

Collaborative Computing Applications

• Zebin Chen, Stephen Fickas:
  The plain old television in a smart apartment.
  
• Amina Tariq, Amna Basharat, Arshad Ali, Hafiz Farooq Ahmad, Hiroki Suguri:
  A collaborative multi-agent based conference planner application using Web and grid services.
  
• M. Afzal, J. Zubairi, A. Akram, S. Ahmad, S. Kausar:
  Enabling technologies for AgriKiosk project in reaching out remote area farmers.
  

Collaborative Interaction in e-Education and e-Learning

• Michael Rappa, Sarah E. Smith, Alex Yacoub, Lauri Williams:
  OpenSeminar: Web-based Collaboration Tool for Open Educational Resources.
  
• Steven Xia, David Sun, Chengzheng Sun, David Chen:
  Supporting workspace-mediated interaction in collaborative presentations with CoPowerPoint.
  
• Juan Ramón Acosta, Dimiter R. Avresky:
  Dynamic network reconfiguration in presence of multiple node and link failures using autonomous agents.
  

Collaborative Computing in Overlay Networks

• Cheng-Jia Lai, Richard R. Muntz:
  On-demand overlay networking of collaborative applications.
  
• Lakshmish Ramaswamy, Jianxia Chen:
  Efficient delivery of dynamic content: the cooperative EC grid project.
  
• Loubna Mekouar, Youssef Iraqi, Raouf Boutaba:
  Free riders under control through service differentiation in peer-to-peer systems.
  

Floor Control for Collaborative Applications

• Juan Quemada, Tomás de Miguel, Santiago Pavón, Gabriel Huecas, Tomás Robles, Joaquín Salvachúa, Diego Andres Acosta Ortiz, Vicente Sirvent, Fernando Escribano, Javier Sedano:
  Isabel: an application for real time collaboration with a flexible floor control.
  
• Shankar M. Banik, Sridhar Radhakrishnan, Tao Zheng, Chandra N. Sekharan:
  Distributed floor control protocols for computer collaborative applications on overlay networks.
  
• J. J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves, Patrick E. Mantey, Sireesh N. Potireddy:
  Floor control alternatives for distributed videoconferencing over IP networks.
  

Potpourri

• Lorenzo Lazzari, Marco Mari, Agostino Poggi:
  A collaborative and multi-agent system for e-mail filtering and classification.
  
• Siddhartha Bose, Anuraj Ennai, Subodh Sohi:
  Portable enterprise collaboration contexts.
  

Collaborative Monitoring, Discovery, and Dissemination

• Ryota Egashira, Akihiro Enomoto, Tatsuya Suda, Hiroshi Sasaki, Hirotoshi Iwasaki:
  Distributed service discovery using preference.
  
• Man-Hon Chan, King-Shan Lui, Vincent Tam:
  Efficient event and query distribution in sensor networks.
  
• Tin-Man T. Kwan, Kwan L. Yeung:
  On overlay multicast tree construction and maintenance.
  

Collaborative Editing and Writing Systems

• Steven Xia, David Sun, Chengzheng Sun, David Chen:
  Collaborative object grouping in graphics editing systems.
  
• Haifeng Shen, Chengzheng Sun:
  Syntax-based reconciliation for asynchronous collaborative writing.
  
• Steven Xia, David Sun, Chengzheng Sun, David Chen:
  Object-associated telepointer for real-time collaborative document editing systems.
  
• Rui Li, Du Li:
  Commutativity-based concurrency control in groupware.
  

StoDiS 2005: 1st Workshop on Stochasticity in Distributed Systems

• Balaji Prabhakar:
  Network Hardware Algorithms (Keynote).
  
• Kenji Leibnitz, Naoki Wakamiya, Masayuki Murata:
  Symbiotic multi-path routing with attractor selection.
  
• Ramsés Morales, Indranil Gupta:
  Providing both scale and security through a single core probabilistic protocol.
  
• Romit Roy Choudhury:
  Brownian gossip: exploiting node mobility to diffuse information in ad hoc networks.
  
• Robbert van Renesse:
  Using randomized techniques to build scalable intrusion-tolerant overlay networks (Keynote).
  
• Alfredo Garcia, Enrique Campos, Chenyang Li:
  Distributed on-line Bayesian search.
  
• David Hales, Stefano Arteconi, Özalp Babaoglu:
  SLACER: randomness to cooperation in peer-to-peer networks.
  
• Anwitaman Datta, Martin Hasler, Karl Aberer:
  Stochasticity of probabilistic systems: analysis methodologies case-study.
  
• Xinjie Li, Monica Brockmeyer:
  Server selection with arbitrary distribution.
  
• David A. Miller, Sameer Tilak, Tony Fountain:
  "Token" equilibria in sensor networks with multiple sponsors.
  
• Jim Dowling, Dominik Dahlem, Jan Sacha:
  Matching distributed systems to their environment using dissipative structures.