Participatory sensing, crowdsourcing, and citizen science

Architectures, protocols, and enabling technologies for collaborative computing networks and systems

Autonomic computing and quality of services in collaborative networks, systems, and applications

Collaboration in pervasive and cloud computing environments

Collaboration in data-intensive scientific discovery

Collaboration in social media

Big data and spatio-temporal data in collaborative environments/systems

Collaboration techniques in data-intensive computing and cloud computing

Collaborative e-education, e-learning, and collaborative computing in large scale digital libraries

Collaboration in health-care environments

Collaborative information seeking

Collaborative mobile networks and infrastructures

Collaborative technologies for fast creation and deployment of new mobile services

Collaborative sensor networks, unmanned air and ground vehicle networks and applications

Collaborative, context-aware infrastructure

Collaborative, location-aware mobile systems/applications

Computer supported collaborative work with distributed systems

Cyber-physical systems

Distributed collaborative workflows

Data management and middleware support for collaborative information systems

Energy management for collaborative networks

Group-driven composition of systems from components

Human-centric ubiquitous collaboration

Human-robot collaboration

Internet of Things (IoT) and collaboration

Methodologies and tools for design and analysis of collaborative user applications

Models and mechanisms for real-time collaboration

Multi-agent technology and software technologies for collaborative networking and applications

Peer-to-peer and overlay networks, systems, and applications

Security, privacy and trust management in collaborative networks, systems, and applications

Simulation, performance evaluation, experiments, and case studies of collaborative networks and applications

Software design, testing, and experimentation technology for collaborative networking and applications

Theoretical foundations and algorithms for collaborative networks, applications, and worksharing

Tools for collaborative decision making processes

Trustworthy collaborative business processing in virtual organizations

Visualization techniques, interaction devices and visual languages for collaborative networks and applications

Web services technologies and service-oriented architectures for collaborative networking and applications

Workflow management for collaborative networks/systems