SCA 2016 - Special Issue "Symmetry in Cooperative Applications"

During recent years, many important technological components have emerged and we are facing a completely new computing landscape. These include the cloud computing technology, the ubiquitous broadband Internet, big data and the popularity of mobile devices, etc. This new computing landscape opens the possibility of wide access to social media, e?business, e?learning, e-finance, crowd-sourcing, and many other online services. The scale and popularity have reached to level that human society has never experienced. Therefore, cooperative design, visualization, engineering, and all the cooperative applications have to answer completely new challenges. To analyze the nature of these issues, the symmetry characteristics in cooperative applications becomes one of the active areas of research.
This Special Issue aims to gather original, state-of-the-art research, and development contributions concerning symmetry of all types of cooperative working applications, particularly in cooperative design, cooperative visualization, and engineering.
Submission
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. Papers will be published continuously (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.
Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are refereed through a peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Symmetry is an international peer-reviewed Open Access monthly journal published by MDPI.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 800 CHF (Swiss Francs).
Keywords
Symmetry in cooperative working team modeling
Symmetry in cooperative design
Symmetry in cooperative visualization
Symmetry in cooperative engineering
Symmetry in all other cooperative team work applications