Organizing

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

The 2012 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems

(CTS 2012)

May 21-25, 2012

The Westin Westminster Hotel

Denver, Colorado, USA

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

Waleed W. Smari, Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Ohio, 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:

Antonietta Grasso, Xerox Research Center Europe (XRCE), France

Wolfgang Prinz, Fraunhofer FIT and RWTH Aachen, Germany

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

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Doctoral Dissertation Colloquium Co-Chairs:

Todd Davies, Stanford University, California, USA

Rex E. Gantenbein, University of Wyoming, Wyoming, USA

Shivakant Mishra, University of Colorado - Boulder, Colorado, USA

Panels Co-Chairs:

Monica Divitini, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

Susan Gasson, The iSchool, Drexel University, Pennsylvania, USA

Andrew Johnson, University of Illinois at Chicago, Illinois, USA

Posters Co-Chairs:

Domenico Potena, Universita' Politecnica delle Marche, Italy

Anna Ursyn, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, Colorado, USA

Chuan Yue, University of Colorado - Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA

Demos Co-Chairs:

Sergiu Dascalu, University of Nevada – Reno, Nevada, USA

Yuri Demchenco, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Christian Vecchiola, IBM Research-Melbourne, Australia

Awards Co-Chairs:

Luis M. Camarinha-Matos, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

Gert-Jan De Vreede, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Nebraska, USA

Igor Hawryszkiewycz, University of Technology - Sydney, Australia

Industry Tracks Co-Chairs:

Ammar Rayes, Cisco Systems, Inc., California, USA

Thomas J. Osborne, Jr., Hamilton, DeSanctis & Cha LLP, Colorado, USA

Hamid Motahari, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, California, USA

Industry Liaisons and Sponsorships Co-Chairs:

Abhijit Sur, Cricket Communications Inc., Colorado, USA

Min Wu, Oracle Corporation, California, USA

Nanbor Wang, Tech-X Corporation, Colorado, USA

Exhibits Co-Chairs:

Brian Drabble, DMM Ventures, Inc., Oregon, USA

Darrell L. Talley, GeoEye Analytics Inc., McLean, Virginia, USA

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Government Liaisons:

Glenn A. Fink, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Washington, USA

Stuart Rubin, SPAWAR, California, USA

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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:

Li Bai, Temple University, Pennsylvania, USA

Registration Co-Chairs:

Alessandra Agostini, University of Milano Bicocca, Italy

Barbara Frantom, Air Force Research Laboratory, WPAFB, Ohio, USA

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Publicity Co-Chairs:

Tom Gross, Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany

Yong Liu, NCSA, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA

Mukaddim Pathan, Telstra Corporation Limited, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Carlos Westphall, UFSC - Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil

Local Arrangements Co-Chairs:

Felicia Harlow, Air Force Research Laboratory, WPAFB, Ohio, USA

Sudhanshu K. Semwal, University of Colorado – Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA

Local Support and Social Events Co-Chairs:

Felicia Harlow, Air Force Research Laboratory, WPAFB, Ohio, USA

Biswadip Ghosh, Metropolitan State College of Denver, CO, USA

Accounting & Finances:

Shelley L. Denney, Clayton, Ohio, USA

Conference Software System & Web Master:

Abdul Habra, Technology Exponent LLC, Michigan, USA

Committee Members at Large and International Liaisons:

Cesar Collazos, Universidad del Cauca, Popayán, Colombia

Flávio Soares Corrêa da Silva, University of São Paulo, Brazil

Elsa Estevez, IIST – United Nations University and Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina

Bo Helgeson, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden

Hideaki Kuzuoka, University of Tsukuba, Japan

Sandy Liu, National Research Council & University of New Brunswick, NS, Canada

Nader F.J. Mohamed, United Arab Emirates University, Al-Ain, UAE

Andrew Yeh-Ching Nee, National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore

Al-Sakib Khan Pathan, International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM), Malaysia

Naomi Yamashita, Communication Science Lab, NTT, Japan