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