Collaborative systems have raised to become an inherent part of our lives, supported by global infrastructures, technological advancements and growing needs for coordination and cooperation. While organizations and individuals relied on collaboration for decades, the advent of new technologies (e.g. from wikis to real-time collaboration, groupware to social computing, , service-oriented architecture to distributed collaboration) for inter- and intra- organization collaboration enabled an environment for advanced collaboration.

As a consequence, new developments are expected from current networking and interacting technologies (protocols, interfaces, services, tools) to support the design and deployment of scalable collaborative environments. Current trends include innovations in distributed collaboration, collaborative robots, autonomous systems, online communities or real-time collaboration protocols.

COLLA 2023 aims to gather an interdisciplinary spectrum of researchers around collaboration technologies. It has high quality contributions and wide dissemination of its results due to its Open Access nature, complemented with special issues to reputable journals. COLLA continues a series of events dedicated to advanced collaborative networks, systems and applications, focusing on new mechanisms, infrastructures, services, tools and benchmarks.

We solicit both academic, research, and industrial contributions. We welcome technical papers presenting research and practical results, position papers addressing the pros and cons of specific proposals, such as those being discussed in the standard fora or in industry consortia, survey papers addressing the key problems and solutions on any of the above topics short papers on work in progress, and panel proposals.

Industrial presentations are not subject to the format and content constraints of regular submissions. We expect short and long presentations that express industrial position and status.

Tutorials on specific related topics and panels on challenging areas are encouraged.

The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.

All topics and submission formats are open to both research and industry contributions.

COLLA 2023 conference tracks:

Hot topics on collaborative systems
Computer-drive design interaction; Model-driven GUI generation; Uncertain collaborative environments; Collaborative knowledge creation; Community-based participatory research; Emergency response user interfaces; Multimodal and multidevice user interfaces; Medical device interaction; Predicting cooperation behavior; Sentiment analysis; Quantifying controversy; Cooperative intents; Privacy loss estimation; Online social networks; Community question answering; Social mobility; Twitter discussion groups; Affective computing; Perception models: emotion, rumors, persuasion; Leader-driven open collaboration platforms; Spontaneous emergence of consensus; Mining complaints; Big Data Privacy; Large Data Sets; Administrative models for collaborative management; Sustainable community participation; Collaborative visual analysis; Social-interaction based model; Deep recommendations; Online health communities; Social identities in home physiotherapy; Cooperative wearable technologies; Crowd-based social enterprise; Enterprise crowdfunding; Cooperative counseling; Persuasive impact of emoticons; Online service co-customization; Online product recommendation; Social commerce websites; Trust in e-commerce; Collaborating under constraints; Collaborative filtering-based recommendation; Challenges and opportunities of sharing economy; Online ethics; Ecological communities

Open collaborative research
Open collaboration research; Research via wikis and social media; Open research access; Open sources for collaboration; Open web and public data research; Education for Open research; Scientific trust and legal aspects in open collaboration

Cooperation and collaboration mechanisms
Collaborative computing; Cooperation as interface sharing; Collaboration as knowledge sharing; Ethics and trust in collaborative cross-domains; Cooperative emotion; Planning and managing collaborative applications and projects; Semantic and ontology challenges in collaborative environments; Cooperation and collaboration pitfalls; Groupware supporting single-display collaboration; Sharing data and decisions; Coalitions and negotiations in cooperative environments; Adaptive collaboration; Integrating cross-organizational applications; Cooperative data extraction and data integration; Secure collaboration; Dynamic cooperative environments; Visualization of cooperative processes

Social robots and cognition
Human-robot interaction; Robot-robot interaction; Perception of a humanoid robots; Humanoid robots mediating social Interaction; Socially assistive robots; Conversational robots; Verbal Interaction; Human-robot touch interaction; Expressive interactions; Social emotions; Arts by humanoid robots; Collaborative social robots; Game approaches; Human-robot interactive games; Robots co-worker partners; Healthcare companion robots; Socially assistive robots; Robot-assisted rehabilitation therapy; Child-robot interaction; Mobile assistive robots; Robots in public spaces; Shopping mall robots; Home utility robots; Robot-assisted cognitive training; Robot-based multimodal emotion recognition; Advertizign robots; Telepresence robots; Robot teleoperation; Robots' social credibility

Collaborative architectures and mechanisms
Fundamental theoretical aspects of distributed collaboration; Methodologies and tools for design and analysis of collaborative user applications; Frameworks for human-centric based group collaboration; Distributed collaborative workflows; Architectures, protocols, and technologies for collaborative networks and systems; Collaboration and negotiation protocols; Quality of collaboration in collaborative networks, systems, and applications; Modeling for collaboration; Cloud-based collaboration; Agent-based collaborative environments; Collaboration techniques in resource intensive environments; Security, privacy and trust in collaborative networks, systems, and applications

Collaborative applications
Collaboration in pervasive computing applications; Collaborative e-education, e-learning, and collaborative computing in digital libraries; Models and mechanisms for real-time collaborative applications; Distributed technologies for group collaboration; Collaborative games; Web-based communities; New data distribution models to facilitate group collaboration; Social computing and inter-cultural collaboration;

Collaborative infrastructures
Collaborative, context-aware infrastructure; Collaborative mobile networks and infrastructures; Collaborative, location-aware mobile systems/applications; Collaborative sensor networks, unmanned air and ground vehicle networks and applications; ; Peer-to-peer and overlay networks, systems, and applications;

Collaborative services
Collaborative technologies for fast creation and deployment of new mobile services; Web services technologies and collaboration; Service-oriented architectures for collaborative networking and applications; Trusted collaborative services; Collaborative entertainment systems and services; Computer supported cooperative design; Adaptive content distribution; Semantic and ontology challenges in collaborative environments

Collaborative users
Human/robot collaboration; Collaborative social networks and web-based collaboration; Computer supported collaborative work with distributed systems; Human-centric ubiquitous collaboration; Social networks and community discovery; Markets, auctions, exchanges, and coalitions

Tools and benchmarking
Methodologies and tools for design and analysis of collaborative user applications; Simulation, performance evaluation, experiments, and case studies of collaborative networks and applications; Dedicated hardware and software enabling collaboration; Technologies for creating dynamic social networks; P2P platforms for supporting collaboration; Energy management for collaborative networks; Tools for collaborative decision making processes; Trustworthy collaborative business processing in groupware organizations; Visualization techniques and interaction devices; Visual languages for collaborative networks and applications; Workflow management for collaborative networks/systems