16. ICST Transactions on Collaborative Systems
Dr. Andrea D'Ambrogio
Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering
University of Roma, Italy
dambro@info.uniroma2.it
Scope:
Collaborative systems support networks of spatially dispersed actors (either humans or not) that play different roles and cooperate to achieve common goals, which are usually non‐technological goals. On the other hand, collaboration is obviously enabled by the several technological building blocks that contribute to set up a collaborative system. Traditionally, most of the efforts in the context of collaborative systems have mainly addressed technology issues, while collaboration issues have been dealt with at a very limited extent, more as a side effect of an innovative technology rather than as a driver that brings technology closer to people and organizational needs.
In this respect, the proposed journal fosters innovative research contributions addressing collaborative systems that help to create the right conditions for effective cooperation and coordination, thereby boosting factors like productivity, innovation and creativity. The contributions must specifically address the impact on collaboration of the proposed solution. Collaboration is a cross‐domain issue and thus it is expected that the contributions will tackle collaborative systems from different perspectives, such as collaborative development, collaborative learning, collaborative management, collaborative editing and tagging, collaborative modeling and simulation, collaborative gaming, etc.
From the system engineering point of view, collaborative systems should be investigated along the entire lifecycle, from requirements to operation and maintenance, as well as at the different system architecture layers (networking, OS platform, middleware, application and services), by putting into evidence the collaboration enabling features of the research contributions. In addition, collaborative systems require multi‐dimensional research approaches that encompass people, processes, products and their integration/interoperation.
Notwithstanding the multi‐disciplinary nature of this research area, that spans from social sciences to organizational sciences, the journal specifically focuses on ICT‐related research contributions. Nevertheless, contributions that put into evidence the multi‐disciplinary aspects of collaborative ICT systems are also welcome. An example short list of topics addressed by the proposed journal includes: collaboration‐aware systems, collaboration services and their orchestration, collaboration platforms (e.g., P2P, agent‐based, etc.) , quality of collaboration, model‐driven engineering of collaborative systems, collaborative system requirements, ontology‐driven collaboration, collaboration mining.
EIC’s keywords:
collaboration, collaborative systems, collaborative technologies, collaborative working environments, shared workspace, groupware, virtual communities, quality of collaboration, autonomic collaboration, collaboration workflow
Editor in chief:
Dr. Andrea D'Ambrogio
Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering
University of Roma, Italy
dambro@info.uniroma2.it
Andrea D'Ambrogio is associate professor of computer science at University of Roma "Tor Vergata", Roma (Italy). He has formerly been assistant professor at the same University and research associate at the Concurrent Engineering Research Center of the West Virginia University (USA). His research interests are in the software engineering field, specifically in the areas of engineering and validation of system performance and dependability, model‐driven system development and interoperability and distributed simulation.
Andrea D’Ambrogio has authored many journal and conference papers and has participated to several projects, funded by national, European and overseas institutions. He has served as reviewer of international technical journals and is member of the editorial board of the IAENG International Journal of Computer Science and of the International Journal of Software Architecture. He is or has been member of the program committee of several international conferences, and has been general chair of IEEE WETICE 2008 (IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructures for Collaborative Enterprises), program co‐chair of COPS’06 and COPS’07 (IEEE International Workshop on Collaborative Service‐oriented P2P Information Systems) and program co‐chair of the International Workshop on Middleware and Performance (WOMP’06). He is member of the IEEE, the IEEE Computer Society and the ACM.
Editorial Board:
Isidro Laso-Ballesteros
European Commission - DG Information Society and Media, Belgium
Area: Social environments, collaborative working environments
Schahram Dustdar
Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Area: Autonomic and adaptive collaborative systems
Michael W. Sobolewski
Texas Tech University, USA
Area: federated collaborative systems
Michele Angelaccio
Università di Roma TorVergata, Italy
Area: peer-2-peer collaborative systems
Juan Quemada
Universidad Politecnica de Madrid,Spain
Area: Network and application architecture/protocols for CSCW (Computer Supported Cooperative Work)
Ling Liu
Georgia Institute of Technology,USA
Area: Large scale distributed collaborative systems
Carl Gutwin
University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Area: Usability and interaction issues in CSCW (Computer Supported Cooperative Work)
Sören Auer
Universität Leipzig, Germany
Area: Social semantic collaboration
Hans Vangheluwe
McGill University, Canada
Area: Collaborative modeling and simulation
Ramana Reddy
West Virginia University, USA
Area: Concurrent engineering and multimedia technologies
Lennart Karlsson
Luleå University of Technology, Sweden
Area: Integration issues in concurrent engineering
Robert O. Briggs
University of Nebraska,USA
Area: Theoretical foundations of collaboration and learning
Leonid Stoimenov
University of Nis, Serbia
Area: Knowledge representation and information integration