The IEEE SYSCO Conference is a scientific event that aims to bring together researchers and industrialists to present and discuss new research venues in the design and the use of information and communication technologies for “Collaborative Systems”. Collaborative systems encompass both technical and social challenges to support the collaboration among organisations. Since a few years, these systems have become crucial in different areas and situations such as e-health, social networks, crisis management etc. SYSCO aims at defining methods, architectures and techniques to design and carry out high quality collaborative systems. It will provide a forum to report the development and the application of new technologies that offer new ways of working together and coordinating activities.

The third edition of this conference will be held on November 28-29 in Casablanca, Morocco. Original contributions as well as experience papers on the principles, design, implementation, modelling, analysis, verification, and application of collaborative systems are solicited. Specific concepts common to different forms of such systems are most welcome.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

- Collaborative systems and social networks
Workflow Management Systems.
Enterprise Resources Planning.
Customer relationship management.
Innovative systems to support collaborative activity.
Emergency planning systems and large-scale rapid deployment.
Multi-agents systems and architecture to support the groupware.
Computer-Supported Collaborative Work.
Theories and techniques for social networks.
Analysis and simulation tools of social networks.
Support meeting for mixed mediums and face-to-face discussion.
Collaborative workspaces.
Collaboration through social media.
Group interactions monitoring and analysis.
Social aspects of the work of group, virtual groups and virtual worlds.
- Collaborative systems, new technologies and security
Cloud computing for the collaborative systems.
SOA and collaborative Systems.
Mobicloud for the collaborative systems.
Collaborative systems for pervasive and ubiquitous computing.
Security management in collaborative systems.
Data access control during collaborative systems.
- Engineering of the collaborative processes
Methods, techniques, models and languages for processes management.
Verification and validation of collaborative processes.
Flexibility of the collaborative processes.
Quality of the collaborative processes.
Ontologies and collaborative processes.
Methodologies and tools for the design and the analysis of the collab. practices.
Big data for collaborative systems.
Big data and collective intelligence/collaborative learning.
- Applications and case studies
Web applications to support the groupware: Education, Health, E-government.
Appli. of social sciences methods to study the collab. experiments and practices.
Big data analytics and healthcare/medical applications.

Important dates

- Registration of the abstract: July 10, 2016
- Submission of the paper: July 22, 2016
- Notification of acceptance: September 20, 2016
- Camera ready copy due: October 10, 2016
- Early Registration: October 20, 2016
- Conference: 2016 November 28-29

Paper submission

Full papers should be written in English and submitted in standard IEEE 10pt double-column format for conferences. Six pages are allowed for each paper. Standard IEEE Transactions templates for Microsoft Word or LaTeX formats can be found at: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html.

The full papers should be submitted in PDF format to the SYSCO’16 EasyChair online submission website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sysco2016.


General Co-chairs

Mohammed OUZZIF, ouzzif@gmail.com, Hassan II University, Morocco.
Zahi JARIR, jarir@uca.ma, Cadi Ayyad University, Morocco.