Organizing
The 2011 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems
(CTS 2011)
May 23-27, 2011
The Sheraton University City Hotel
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
CTS 2011 Organizing Committee
Conference Honorary General Chair
Bill McQuay, Air Force Research Laboratory, WPAFB, Ohio, USA
Conference General Co-Chairs and Organizers:
Geoffrey C. Fox, Indiana University, Indiana, USA
Program Co-Chairs:
Giorgio De Michellis, University of Milano Bicocca, Italy
Xiaoqing (Frank) Liu, Missouri University of Science & Technology, Missouri, USA
Mads Nygård, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Symposia, Workshops and Special Sessions Co-Chairs:
Yuri Demchenco, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Hilda Tellioglu, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Tutorials Co-Chairs:
Claudia Diamantini, Universita' Politecnica delle Marche, Italy
Nada Matta, University of Technology of Troyes, France
Dissertation Colloquium Co-Chairs:
Andrew Johnson, University of Illinois at Chicago, Illinois, USA
Carla Simone, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Gerry Stahl, Drexel University, Pennsylvania, USA
Panels Co-Chairs:
Carlos Castillo, Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain
Susan Gasson, The iSchool, Drexel University, PA, USA
Wolfgang Prinz, Fraunhofer FIT, Germany
Posters Co-Chairs:
Xia Lin, Drexel University, Pennsylvania, USA
Domenico Potena, Universita' Politecnica delle Marche, Italy
Haibin Zhu, Nipissing University, North Bay, Canada
Demos Co-Chairs:
Alessandra Agostini, University of Milano Bicocca, Italy
David Coleman, Collaborative Strategies, CA, USA
Marlon Pierce, Indiana University, Indiana, USA
Industry Tracks Co-Chairs:
Ammar Rayes, Cisco Systems, Inc., California, USA
James Spohrer, IBM Almaden Research Center, CA, USA
Min Wu, Oracle Corporation, CA, USA
Industry Liaisons and Sponsorships Co-Chairs:
Gregorio Convertino, Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), California, USA
Antonietta Grasso, Xerox Research Center Europe (XRCE), France
Nanbor Wang, Tech-X Corporation, Colorado, USA
Exhibits Co-Chairs:
Brian Drabble, On Target Tech, Eugene, Oregon, USA
Alex Ho, Anabas, Inc., San Francisco, California, USA
Darrell L. Talley, GeoEye Analytics Inc., McLean, VA, USA
Government Liaisons:
Nabil Adam, Department of Homeland Security, Washington, D.C., USA
Glenn A. Fink, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Washington, USA
Richard M. Keller, NASA Ames Research Center, CA, USA
Leonid Perlovsky, Air Force Research Laboratory, Massachusetts, USA
Publications Co-Chairs:
David Barnett, St. Louis University, Missouri, USA
Junaid A. Zubairi, State University of New York at Fredonia, New York, USA
Assistant Editor:
John McIntire, Air Force Research Laboratory, Ohio, USA
Awards Co-Chairs:
Gert-Jan De Vreede, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Nebraska, USA
Prasun Dewan, University of North Carolina, North Carolina, USA
Igor Hawryszkiewycz, University of Technology - Sydney, Australia
Registration Co-Chairs:
Lindsey K. McIntire, Air Force Research Laboratory, WPAFB, Ohio, USA
Andy McKinley, Air Force Research Laboratory, WPAFB, Ohio, USA
Publicity Co-Chairs:
Tom Gross, Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany
Yong Liu, NCSA, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA
Carlos Westphall, UFSC - Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
Local Arrangements Co-Chairs:
Felicia Harlow, Air Force Research Laboratory, WPAFB, Ohio, USA
Anna Squicciarini, Penn State University, Pennsylvania, USA
Local Support and Social Events Co-Chairs:
Felicia Harlow, Air Force Research Laboratory, WPAFB, Ohio, USA
Daniel Hyde, Bucknell University, Pennsylvania, USA
Accounting & Finances:
Shelley L. Denney, Clayton, Ohio, USA
Conference Software System & Web Master:
Abdul Habra, Technology Exponent LLC, Ohio, USA
Committee Members at Large and International Liaisons:
Ahmad Zaki Abu Bakar, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Johor, Malaysia
Flávio Soares Corrêa da Silva, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Elsa Estevez, IIST – United Nations University and Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina
Jianxun Liu, Hunan University of Science and Technology, China
Nader F.J. Mohamed, United Arab Emirates University, Al-Ain, UAE
Vesa Salminen, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland
Weiming Shen, National Research Council, London, Ontario, Canada