The 2016 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS 2016) will be held on October 31-November 04, 2016 in Orlando Florida, USA. Under the theme of “Collaboration for the 21st Century,“ CTS 2016 will focus on a wide range of the state-of-the-art as well as emerging topics pertaining to cooperation, coordination, communication, and collaboration at both the client and backend (cloud) levels. Continuing the great success of previous CTS events, CTS 2016 is anticipated to attract a large number of high-quality submissions and stimulate cutting-edge research discussions among many pioneering researchers and scientists as well as industry engineers and leaders from all around the world.

The CTS 2016 program will feature a number of symposia, workshops, and special sessions, invited presentations, and exceptional keynote speakers. It will also include tutorials, demos, posters, doctoral dissertation colloquium, panels, exhibits. More information can be found at the conference website: http://cisedu.us/rp/cts16. Prospective authors are invited to submit original technical papers—up to 8 pages of length. Various CTS 2016 Symposia, Workshops and Special Sessions may have different deadlines and submission sites, as listed on the conference website and track pages.

The CTS 2016 Conference Proceedings will be available at the time of the meeting, and is projected to be included in IEEE Xplore Digital Library (pending) and indexed accordingly. Selected papers will be further considered for possible publication in special issues in ranked international journals.

We look forward to seeing you in Orlando.