CDVE2014 Call for Paper

Contributions of the following areas are under call with the emphasis on answering challenges in the new computing landscape:

Cooperative Design (CD)
• Multiple user, multiple location collaborative design applications
• Concurrent design, collaborative editing, real time user interactions
• Demonstrating feasibility and applicability in CD
• Cooperative User Experience (UX) design
• Design for total life cycle support: from design to manufacturing or construction
• Cooperative design analysis, verification, integration and interoperability, standards
• Scenarios, case studies of cooperative design in mechanical engineering, aero-space engineering, building architecture, engineering and construction, automobile, microelectronics, software engineering, entertainment and other areas
• Special issues in cooperative design

Cooperative visualization (CV)
• Multiple user, multiple location visualization, concurrent visualization,
• System architecture, prototypes, user interfaces for CV: web applications, textual and multimedia 2D, 3D desktop interfaces, 3D virtual world environments, and multiple user embedded systems.
• Large scale, massive data storage, access, exploration, and manipulation, for cooperative visualization
• Multi-resolution and other efficient computer graphics, visualization algorithms for cooperative visualization
• Visualization in multiple user games, networked games, simulation visualization for multiple users

Cooperative Engineering (CE)
• Total life cycle support: from design to manufacturing and construction
• Collaborative process planning, scheduling, control, conformance testing and interoperability checking, cooperative decision making.
• Human-machine interfaces, frameworks, reference models, architectures, tools and systems for CE
• Concurrent prototyping, manufacturing and engineering.
• Concurrent process modeling, product modeling, reference models, business models, data representations and standards.
• Integration and interoperability, intelligent infrastructures and automated methods for integrating systems, multi-level integration, enterprise integration
• Long-term large scale project data archiving, access, concurrent data control for CE
• Smart grids
• Industrial scenarios, case studies of CE: in mechanical engineering, aero-space engineering, AEC (architecture, engineering and construction), automobile, microelectronics, and others

Basic Theories, methods and technologies that support CDVE (BT)
• Distributed systems, grid systems, real time systems, groupwares
• Cloud computing for cooperative  work
• Algorithms, architectures, frameworks, platforms for CDVE
• Data consistency, concurrent processing, middleware, agent based methods
• Collaborative and multimode working environment
• Design patterns, reusability and component-based methods
• Communication, transport, application protocols for CDVE
• Internet computing, web environment for collaborative working
• Knowledge management, information systems, large databases, data-mining
• Semantic Technologies for Information-Integrated Collaboration
• Ontology for information sharing, cooperative applications
• Security for CDVE
• Human machine interaction for CDVE

Cooperative Applications (CA)
• Cooperative learning
• Multiple user gaming
• Cooperative decision making
• Social networks
• Cooperative Internet of Things (IoT)
• Collaborative Information Seeking
• Information integration in sensor networks
• Collaborations in emergency response and disaster management
• Collaborative mobile systems, group interaction in mobile system and mobility communities
• Collaborative robots and human robot interaction
• Collaboration technologies and systems for healthcare
• Web based cooperation tools, cooperative web design such as Wiki's
• Other cooperative applications