==================== Call for Papers ========================== Cooperative Systems (COSYS) http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~rza/cosys/cosys13/ Technical Track of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2013) http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2013/ Coimbra, Portugal, March 18-22, 2013 The proceedings of the symposium will be published by ACM =============================================================== ----- Scope ----- The deployment of many applications in distributed systems is often underpinned by cooperative schemes, across dynamic and heterogeneous environments. The cooperative behaviour of dynamic entities is often motivated by the need to achieve a specific objective, and is facilitated by a mediation framework. Cooperative systems are characterised by their degree of distribution, the underlying mode of interaction and the level of autonomy of the entities. Client-server architectures, P2P systems, GRID systems, multi-agent systems (MAS), Cloud platforms as well as foundational systems such as the Web identify different models of cooperative behaviour. Within the scope of cooperation, architectural frameworks in e-commerce, e-government, e-learning and computer supported cooperative work (CSCW) have been successfully introduced in order to generate synergy between humans and systems. Interoperability, resource and process management, configuration, adaptation and negotiation define a wide spectrum of cooperation, from reactive behaviour to proactive intervention. ------------------ Topics of interest ------------------ The track seeks original contributions on cooperative behaviour and cooperative systems related but not limited to the following topics: - Resource management and brokering in cooperative systems - Data and process mediation in cooperative systems - Personalisation and recommendation systems - Implicit and explicit profile generation in cooperative schemes - Modes of interaction in cooperative systems - Role of mediation in cooperative systems - Ontologies and ontology mapping in cooperative systems - Arbitration and negotiation in cooperation - Hypermedia systems in cooperation - Context-awareness in cooperative systems - Self-configuration and adaptivity in cooperative systems - Autonomous and emergent behaviour in cooperative systems - Service management in cooperative systems - Heterogeneity management in cooperative systems - Aggregation of cooperative services - Security, trust and reputation in cooperative systems - Patterns of cooperative behaviour - Formal aspects of cooperation - Formal verification of cooperative systems - Information management models in cooperative systems - Policy management in cooperative systems - Protocol management in cooperative systems - Models and model transformation in cooperative systems - Domain specific languages (DSL) in cooperative systems - Load sharing in cooperative systems - Cooperation in ubiquitous and pervasive environments. - cooperation in multi-agent systems - Cooperation in social and P2P community systems - Cooperation in foundational systems - Mobile contexts for cooperation - Architectural frameworks for cooperation - Cooperative systems in e-science, e-commerce, e-government and e-learning - Case studies and experiences of cooperative systems --------------- Important Dates --------------- - Submission deadline: September 28, 2012 - Author notification: November 10, 2012 - Camera-ready copies: November 30, 2012 - Symposium/Track dates: March 18-22, 2013 ----------------- Program Committee ----------------- Richard Anthony, University of Greenwich, UK Irfan Awan, University of Bradford, UK Luciano Baresi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Nick Blundell, University of Birmingham, UK Behzad Bordbar, University of Birmingham, UK Jen-Yao Chung, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Calabria, Italy Mourad Debbabi, CIISE at Concordia University, Canada Larbi Esmahi, Athabasca University, Canada Robert J. Hendley, University of Birmingham, UK Pilar Herrero, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain Mohan S. Kankanhalli, National University of Singapore, Singapore Akimitsu Kanzaki, Osaka University, Japan Axel Legay, IRISA, France Massimo Mecella, University of Rome, Italy Minoru Nakayama, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Gethin Norman, University of Glasgow, UK Chris Peters, Coventry University, UK Hongyang Qu, Oxford University, UK Stephan Reiff-Marganiec, University of Leicester, UK Jose Raul Romero, University of Cordoba, Spain Weiming Shen, National Research Council of Canada Timothy K. Shih, Asia University, Taiwan Hong-Linh Truong, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Rainer Unland, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Hamdi Yahyaoui, Kuwait University, Kuwait Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK Murat Yuksel, University of Nevada, USA --------------- Track Co-Chairs --------------- For any inquiries please contact the track organisers: Rachid Anane Faculty of Engineering and Computing Coventry University, UK r[dot]anane[at]coventry[dot]ac[dot]uk David Parker School of Computer Science University of Birmingham, UK d[dot]a[dot]parker[at]cs[dot]bham[dot]ac[dot]uk -----------------------------------------------------------------