COSYS 2013 - Cooperative Systems

The technical track on Cooperative Systems (COSYS) of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2013) will be held in Coimbra, Portugal, March 18-22, 2013.
Scope
The deployment of many applications in distributed systems is often underpinned by cooperative schemes, across dynamic and heterogeneous environments. The cooperative behaviour of dynamic entities is often motivated by the need to achieve a specific objective and is facilitated by a mediation framework. Cooperative systems are characterised by their degree of distribution, the underlying mode of interaction and the level of autonomy of the entities. Client-server architectures, P2P systems, GRID systems, multi-agent systems (MAS), Cloud platforms as well as foundational systems such as the Web identify different models of cooperative behaviour.
Within the scope of cooperation, architectural frameworks in e-commerce, e-government, e-learning and computer supported cooperative work (CSCW) have been successfully introduced in order to generate synergy between humans and systems. Interoperability, resource and process management, configuration, adaptation and negotiation define a wide spectrum of cooperation, from reactive behaviour to proactive intervention.
Topics of Interest
The aim of this track is to provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of issues related to cooperative systems across multiple disciplines and to encourage participation of researchers and practitioners from academia and industry. The track seeks original contributions on cooperative behaviour and cooperative systems related but not limited to the following topics:
Resource management and brokering in cooperative systems
Data and process mediation in cooperative systems
Personalisation and recommendation systems
Implicit and explicit profile generation in cooperative schemes
Collaborative and content-based interaction
Modes of interaction in cooperative systems
Role of mediation in cooperative systems
Ontologies and ontology mapping in cooperative systems
Arbitration and negotiation in cooperation
Hypermedia systems in cooperation
Context-awareness in cooperative systems
Self-configuration and adaptivity in cooperative systems
Autonomous and emergent behaviour in cooperative systems
Service management in cooperative systems
Heterogeneity management in cooperative systems
Aggregation of cooperative services
Security, trust and reputation in cooperative systems
Patterns of cooperative behaviour
Formal aspects of cooperation
Formal verification of cooperative systems
Information management models in cooperative systems
Policy management in cooperative systems
Protocol management in cooperative systems
Models and model transformation in cooperative systems
Domain specific languages (DSL) in cooperative systems
Load sharing in cooperative systems
Cooperation in ubiquitous and pervasive environments.
Cooperation in social and P2P community systems
Cooperation in foundational systems
Mobile contexts for cooperation
Architectural frameworks for cooperation
Cooperative systems in e-science, e-commerce, e-government and e-learning
Case studies and experiences of cooperative systems