COLLABES 2016 - Fourth International Workshop on Collaborative Enterprise Systems (COLLABES-2016)

The emergence of large scale distributed computing paradigms, such as Cloud Computing and Mobile Computing Systems, has opened up many opportunities for Collaborative Enterpise Systems (CES). Collaboration services are at the core of any Enterprise System, aiming to support collaboration among individuals, inter-teams and intra-teams within an enterprise. While most CES sytems have focused on using groupware systems (shared workspaces, video-conferencing, etc.) to support sharing and collaboration within one administrative domain in a rather fragmented way, the trend is to develop CES systems capable to support CES at large scale integrating multi administrative domains and different organizational and hierarchical structures to increase productivity, business value and innovation. The objective of CES is thus to support efficient collaboration at inter-enterprise level at large scale by addressing mobility features of workforce, heterogeneity of resources, multi-domain nature, availability of resources, system reliability, etc.
The aim of COLLABES workshop is to gather innovative academic research results and business experiences and best practices related to all aspects of collaborative enterprise systems. Topics of interest for the workshop include, but are not limited, to the following:
Emerging Technologies for Collaborative Enterprise Systems
Multi-Enterprise Collaborative Systems
Big Data based Collaboration
Massive Processing for Autonomic Collaborative Enterprise Systems
Mobile Collaborative Systems
Social Networking for Collaborative Enterprise Systems
Replication & Synchronization for Collaborative Enterprise Systems
Engineering Collaborative Enterprise Systems
Supply Chain Collaboration and Optimization Processes
Convergence and Integration Issues in Collaborative Enterprise Systems
Failure-free Collaboration at Enterprise Systems
Secure Collaboration at Enterprise Systems
Emerging Trends and Applications