CTA 2011 - International Workshop on Collaboration Technologies and Applications, 2011 (CTA 2011)

International Workshop on Collaboration Technologies and Applications, 2011
(CTA 2011)

To be held in conjunction with the International Conference on
Conference on Computers, Networks, Systems, and Industrial Engineering
(CNSI 2011) ,
IEEE conference approval pending as IEEE CNSI and IEEE CTA.
Jeju, Korea, 23-25 May 2011

http://www.e-activity.org/cta2011

--Scope and Background
Collaboration Technologies have been widely studied and are becoming
an important, emerging area in the field of Autonomous Agents,
Multi-Agent Systems, Knowledge Management, and Communications. In
general, collaboration technologies can be useful to promote human
life and activities as application. And also, collaboration
technologies with communication and negotiation between agents are
promising technologies to enhance their performance in e-commerce,
e-learning, e-business and e-government. Software agents can support
automation or simulation on the behalf of their owners, and can
provide them with sophisticated services. To realize such useful
service applying collaborative technologies, we have to incorporate
advanced Artificial Intelligence technologies includes search, CSP,
graphical utility models, Bays nets, auctions, utility graphs,
predicting and learning methods. Applications could include e-commerce
tools, decision-making support tools, negotiation support tool
s,
collaboration tools, etc. We solicit papers on all aspects of
collaboration technologies, including but not limited to:

- Communication and Collaboration
- Agent-based Negotiations
- Knowledge Management
- Multiple Negotiations
- Electronic Commerce
- E-Business and E-Shopping
- Automated E-Support
- Negotiation and Cooperation Mechanisms
- Negotiation under Imcomplete Information
- Large Scale Negotiation and Collaboration
- Collective Intelligence
- Matchmaking and Brokering Mechanisms
- Auction and Groupbuy
- 2-sided Matching
- Multi-sided Negotiations.
- Knowledge Sharing
- Social Networking Services
- Automated Collaboration
- Applications

These issues are being explored by researchers from different
communities in Collaboration Techbologies. The goal of this workshop
is to bring together researchers from these communities to learn about
each other's approaches, form long-term collaborations, and
cross-fertilize the different areas to accelerate progress towards
scaling up to larger and more realistic applications.

--Important dates
FEBRUARY 15th, 2011 - Paper submission
MARCH 1, 2011 - Workshop paper acceptance notification
MARCH 20, 2011 - Workshop paper acceptance notification
MAY 23-25, 2011 - Workshop will take place in conjunction with CNSI 2011

--Paper Submission

Submission page : http://www.e-activity.org/cta2011/submission/

We encourage submission in IEEE CS style format. (See the IEEE CS home
page:). All submissions must include the author's name(s),
affiliation, complete mailing address, phone number, fax number and
email address. All papers must be submitted in PDF format.

The conference is soliciting Full papers (6 pages), and Short papers
(4 pages) on all aspects of the above research areas. Submitted papers
will be evaluated on significance, originality, technical quality, and
exposition. They should clearly establish the research contribution.
All accepted papers will be provided an oral presentation at the
conference.

Multiple submission policy for papers: Papers that are being submitted
to other conferences, whether verbatim or in essence, must reflect
this fact on the title page. Each paper needs to be reviewed by at
least three PC members or experts in the field.

--Publication:

CTA 2011 Proceedings will be published by IEEE and would be indexed by
EI, INSPEC, and DBLP
Selected papers that are also presented at the conference will be
published the expanded versions of their papers in an approved special
issue of the International Journal of Computer and Information
Science.

--Organization

Workshop Chair
Takayuki Ito (Nagoya Institute of Technology/University of Tokyo, Japan)

Program Co-Chairs
Katsuhide Fujita (Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan)
Minjie Zhang (University of Wollongong, Australia)
Tokuro Matsuo (Yamagata University, Japan)
Naoki Fukuta (Shizuoka University, Japan)

Program Committee Members
to be announced.

Katsuhide Fujita,
Nagoya Institute of Technology / Massachusetts Institute of Technology
E-mail : cta2011 at e-activity.org