Due to multiple requests, the deadline for submitting Papers to CRIWG 2018 has been extended to May 6, 2018 (May 6 24:00 UTC-11 / May 7 11:00 GMT)

CRIWG 2018 – 24th International Conference on Collaboration and Technology

September 5-7, 2018
Costa de Caparica, Portugal
http://criwg2018.csites.fct.unl.pt/

We invite you to participate in the 24th International Conference on Collaboration and Technology (CRIWG 2018). The Conference is a major forum for academic researchers to exchange their experiences related to the development and use of collaboration technology, and it has a strong focus on technology design and development.
Most published papers propose innovative technical + human + organizational approaches to expand collaboration support, often backed up by theory brought from various disciplines including computer science, management science, design science, cognitive sciences and social sciences. However, the Conference also seeks papers with theory, models, design principles, methodologies, and case studies that contribute to better understand the complex interrelations between collaboration and technology. Considering the heterogeneity of research in collaboration and technology, researchers may address the validation of their work through multiple approaches including laboratory experiments, fieldwork, analytic evaluations, case studies, prototyping, and empirical tests.

TOPICS
The conference seeks research contributions in the following key areas (but not limited to):

Organization design and engineering:
- Work analysis, work modeling and process management
- Group decision-making and negotiation
- Group-oriented knowledge management
- Collaboration engineering
- Virtual, had-hoc, mobile organizations
- Organization resilience
- Measuring team performance

Collaboration through social media
- Online communities
- Crowdsourcing
- Serious games
- Behavioral incentives
- Social media analytics
- Digital inclusion using social media

Collaboration technology
- Multi-user interfaces
- Collaboration frameworks, toolkits and design patterns
- Multi-agent systems supporting collaboration
- Mobile, physically-embodied collaboration
- Work-on-demand platforms
- Design principles for collaboration support
- Supporting meta-design

Collaboration in specific application domains
- Collaboration in education
- Collaboration in research
- Collaboration in healthcare
- Collaboration in software engineering
- Collaboration in emergency management
- Collaboration in safety management
- Case studies

IMPORTANT DATES
Title & Abstract Submission: April 25, 2018
Paper Submission Deadline: April 29, 2018
Notification of Acceptance: May 29, 2018
Camera Ready Papers: June 22, 2018
Conference: September 5-7, 2018
All deadlines are at 11:59PM NUT (Niue Time Standard Time)

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Accepted papers will be published by Springer as part of their Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. Electronic paper submissions are accepted in two categories: full papers and work in progress papers. Full papers have a length of up to 16 pages, while work in progress papers have a maximum length of 8 pages. Both full and work in progress papers appear in the proceedings.
Papers should follow the Springer LNCS templates at:
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs/lncs+authors?SGWID=0-40209-0-0-0.

We use a double-blind reviewing process. Please, do not include the author’s name and affiliation or any other type of information that may disclose the authors in the submitted paper itself. As a result of the reviewing process, the Program Committee may suggest changes in the format and/or the contents of the paper, including the category of the paper. In this case, a paper will be conditionally accepted. The Program Committee Chairs will decide on the final acceptance or rejection based on a second analysis of the revised paper. The papers should be submitted via EasyChair at:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=criwg2018.

JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE
The authors of the best papers presented at the Conference will be invited to submit extended versions to a journal special issue. In the past, Special issues were published in the Journal of Universal Computer Science (open access), Information Systems Frontiers, International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems, and E-Services Journal.

Organizing Committee
Contact - criwg2018@campus.fct.unl.pt

Armanda Rodrigues - Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal General chair
Cédric Grueau - Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal, Portugal
Carmen Morgado - Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal
Claúdio Sapateiro - Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal, Portugal
Nuno Preguiça - Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal

Program Committee
Nuno Preguiça - Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal
Armanda Rodrigues - Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal General chair
Benjamim Fonseca - University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal

PC Members
Adriana Vivacqua - DCC-IM/UFRJ
Alberto L. Morán - UABC
Alejandra Martínez - University of Valladolid, Spain
Alejandro Zunino - CONICET-ISISTAN, UNICEN
Ana Respício - Universidade de Lisboa
Andres Neyem - Department of Computer Science, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Aurora Vizcaíno - Universidad de Castilla - La Mancha
Barbara Wasson - University of Bergen
Carmen Morgado - Universidade NOVA de Lisboa
Cédric Grueau - Research Center for Informatics and Information Technologies
Cesar A. Collazos - Full Professor
Christoph Rensing - TU Darmstadt
Claudia-Lavinia Ignat - INRIA
Claudio Sapateiro - EST-IPS
Elvira Popescu - University of Craiova
Flavia Santoro - NP2Tec / UNIRIO
Francisco J. Gutierrez - Computer Science Department, University of Chile
Gerald Oster - LORIA, Université de Lorraine, Inria Nancy-Grand Est
Gj De Vreede - University of South Florida
Gustavo Zurita - Universidad de Chile
Gwo-Jen Hwang - National Taiwan University of Science and Technology
Hideyuki Nakanishi - Osaka University
Hugo Paredes - INESC TEC and UTAD
Ivica Boticki - FER UNIZG
Jesus Favela - CICESE
João Paulo Pereira Sousa - Polytechnic Institute of Bragança
Joerg Haake - FernUniversitaet in Hagen
Jose A. Pino - Universidad de Chile
José Martins - Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro
Kimberly García - Siemens
Liana Razmerita - Copenhagen Business School
Luis Carriço - Universidade de Lisboa
Marc Jansen - University of Applied Sciences Ruhr West
Marcela Rodriguez - UABC
Marco Gerosa - Northern Arizona University (NAU)
Marcos R. S. Borges - Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Micaela Esteves -
Michael Koch - Bundeswehr University Munich
Mikhail Fominykh - Independent researcher
Nikolaos Avouris - University of Patras, Electrical & Computer Eng. Dept., HCI Group
Orlando Erazo - Universidad Técnica Estatal de Quevedo
Pascal Molli - University of Nantes - LS2N
Ralf Klamma - RWTH Aachen University
Ramiro Gonçalves - INESC TEC and Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro
Ramon Hervas - Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, MAmI Research Group
Raymundo Cornejo - CONACYT-UACH
Roc Meseguer - Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Rodrigo Santos - Universidad Nacional del Sur - Bahía Blanca
Seiji Isotani - University of São Paulo
Sergio Ochoa - University of Chile
Sonia Mendoza - CINVESTAV-IPN
Stephan Lukosch - Delft University of Technology
Tomoo Inoue - University of Tsukuba
Tun Lu - School of Computer Science, Fudan University
Ulrich Hoppe - University Duisburg-Essen
Valeria Herskovic - Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Vaninha Vieira - Federal University of Bahia (UFBA)
Wolfram Luther - University of Duisburg-Essen
Yannis Dimitriadis - University of Valladolid