Collaborative Software Systems (ISSN: 2032-9237)

Description

Collaborative software systems support networks of spatially dispersed actors (either humans or not) that play different roles and cooperate to achieve common goals, which are usually non-technological goals. On the other hand, collaboration is obviously enabled by the several technological building blocks that contribute to set up a collaborative software system.
Traditionally, most of the efforts in the context of collaborative software systems have mainly addressed technology issues, while collaboration issues have been dealt with at a very limited extent, more as a side effect of an innovative technology rather than as a driver that brings technology closer to people and organizational needs.
In this respect, the proposed journal fosters innovative research contributions addressing collaborative software systems that help to create the right conditions for effective cooperation and coordination, thereby boosting factors like productivity, innovation and creativity. The contributions must specifically address the impact on collaboration of the proposed solution.
Collaboration is a cross-domain issue and thus it is expected that the contributions will tackle collaborative software systems from different perspectives, such as collaborative development, collaborative learning, collaborative management, collaborative editing and tagging, collaborative modeling and simulation, collaborative gaming, etc.
From the system engineering point of view, collaborative systems should be investigated along the entire lifecycle, from requirements to operation and maintenance, by putting into evidence the collaboration enabling features of the research contributions.
In addition, collaborative software systems require multi-dimensional research approaches that encompass people, processes, products and their integration/interoperation.
Notwithstanding the multi-disciplinary nature of this research area, that spans from social sciences to organizational sciences, the journal specifically focuses on software-related research contributions. Nevertheless, contributions that put into evidence the multi-disciplinary aspects of collaborative software systems are also welcome.
An example short list of topics addressed by the proposed journal includes (but is not limited to): collaboration-aware software systems, collaboration services and their orchestration, collaboration platforms (e.g., P2P, agent-based, etc.), quality of collaboration, model-driven engineering of collaborative software systems, collaborative system requirements, ontology-driven collaboration, collaboration mining.
Keywords

Collaboration, collaborative software systems, collaborative technologies, collaborative working environments, shared workspace, groupware, virtual communities, quality of collaboration, autonomic collaboration, collaboration work-flow
Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Andrea D’Ambrogio is associate professor of computer science at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Rome (Italy). He has formerly been assistant professor at the same University and research associate at the Concurrent Engineering Research Center of the West Virginia University (USA). His research interests are in the software engineering field, specifically in the areas of engineering and validation of system performance and dependability, model‐driven system development and interoperability and distributed simulation.
Andrea D’Ambrogio has authored many journal and conference papers and has participated in several projects funded by national, European and overseas institutions. He has served as reviewer of international technical journals and is member of the editorial board of the IAENG International Journal of Computer Science and of the International Journal of Software Architecture. He is or has been a member of the program committees of several international conferences, and has been general chair of IEEE WETICE 2008 (IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructures for Collaborative Enterprises), program co‐chair of COPS’06 and COPS’07 (IEEE International Workshop on Collaborative Service‐oriented P2P Information Systems) and program co‐chair of the International Workshop on Middleware and Performance (WOMP’06). He is member of the IEEE, the IEEE Computer Society and the ACM.
Editorial Board
Social Environments, Collaborative Working Environments
Isidro Laso-Ballesteros
European Commission ? DG Information Society and Media, Belgium
Autonomic and Adaptive Collaborative Systems
Schahram Dustdar
Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Federated Collaborative Systems
Michael W. Sobolewski
Texas Tech University, USA
Peer-to-Peer Collaborative Systems
Michele Angelaccio
Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”, Italy
Protocols for CSCW (Computer Supported Cooperative Work)
Juan Quemada
Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
Large Scale Distributed Collaborative Systems
Ling Liu
Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Usability and Interaction Issues in CSCW (Computer Supported Cooperative Work)
Carl Gutwin
University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Social Semantic Collaboration
Sören Auer
Universität Leipzig, Germany
Collaborative Modelling and Simulation
Hans Vangheluwe
McGill University, Canada
Concurrent Engineering and Multimedia Technologies
Ramana Reddy
West Virginia University, USA
Integration Issues in Concurrent Engineering
Lennart Karlsson
Luleå University of Technology, Sweden
Theoretical Foundations of Collaboration and Learning
Robert O. Briggs
University of Nebraska, USA
Knowledge Representation and Information Integration
Leonid Stoimenov
University of Nis, Serbia