[Iefac.list] Special Issue in IJCent

[Ali Kamrani]

Dear Colleagues: Please announce this to those interested. Thanks, Ali.

Regards,

Ali K. Kamrani, Ph.D., P.E.
Editor-in-Chief

International Journal of Collaborative Enterpirse - IJCent

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1. Special Issue on: "Collaborative Technologies and Applications"

 

 

2. Description [aims/objectives/content/readership/etc]

 

Collaboration has become more important to global organizations as they
handle the increasing dispersal of their activities across space, time, and
organizational boundaries. How to get dispersed teams of knowledge workers
and decision-makers to work together in more efficient and effective ways
has driven organizational adoption and use of collaborative technologies.
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. The proposed issue "Collaborative Technologies and Applications"
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. This special issue will include invited papers from experts from
academia, industry, and government as well as contributed papers describing
original work on the current state of research in collaborative
technologies, collaborative systems and all related issues. This issue aims
at presenting the state-of-the-art and future of collaborative technologies
and systems. Another aim of the upcoming issue is also the discussion of the
emergence of integrated collaborative environments, as well as other issues
and trends that are influencing the collaboration marketplace. 

 

 

3. Subject coverage

Suitable topics include but are not limited to:

.         Collaboration Enabling Technologies

*	Architectures and Design of Collaborative Systems

.         Collaboration Technologies in Industry and Businesses

.         Collaborative Technologies in Learning Environments

.         E-Transaction Systems

.         Distributed Collaborative Sensor Networks

.         Multi-Agent Systems and Collaborative Technologies

.         Agent Communication, Languages and Protocols

.         Agent Models and Architectures

.         Multi-Agent Coordination and Cooperation

.         Collaborative Human-Centered Systems

.         Mobile and Wireless Collaboration Systems

 

 

4. Deadlines for submission

 

Initial submissions due: August 20, 2010

Notification of review results: September 20, 2010

Camera-ready submissions due: October 20, 2010

 

5. Any specific instructions for submissions

 

Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently
under consideration for publication elsewhere. All papers are refereed
through a peer review process. A guide for authors, sample copies and other
relevant information for submitting papers are available on the Author
<http://www.inderscience.com/mapper.php?id=31>  Guidelines page.

 

6. Guest Editor(s) contact details, including email(s)

You may send one copy in the form of an MS Word file attached to an e-mail
(details in Author Guidelines <http://www.inderscience.com/mapper.php?id=31>
) to the following:

Dr. Athina Lazakidou
Lecturer in Health Informatics
University of Peloponnese
Faculty of Human Movement and Quality of Life Sciences
Department of Nursing
Sparti General Hospital Building Complex
GR-23100, Sparti, Greece
E-mail: lazakid at uop.gr



 

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