2nd International Workshop on
Collaborative P2P Information Systems
(COPS 2006)

15th IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies:
Infrastructures for Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE-2006)

University of Manchester, Manchester (UK) 26th-28th June 2006

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Workshop Program

List of Accepted Papers

Workshop Theme

The workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners in the field of P2P (Peer-to-Peer) systems and Collaborative Information systems to exploit the emerging idea of Collaborative P2P Information Systems.

P2P Systems are popular because of the many benefits that they offer: adaptation, self-organization, fault tolerant and massively distribution and replication of large amount of resources.

The P2P environment is particularly challenging to work in Collaborative Information Systems because of the scale of the network and fault-tolerance nature of peers characterizing most P2P systems today. However, research community of P2P Systems has focused on search and security aspects. Collaboration has mainly viewed as an architectural paradigm instead of an application framework for P2P systems. The COPS'06 workshop is at its second edition and aims to discuss new research ideas and applications exploiting Collaborative P2P Information Systems that can highlight new potential architectures for Collaborative Information Systems itself and that can contribute to clarify limits and potentials of this emerging technology. This year in particular, the workshop aims to exploit the design and development of Collaborative P2P Information Systems based on service-oriented architectures (SOA) and their impact on QoS, QoBiz and QoE issues. People can present and discuss their results to contribute to the development of a technology and of a shared vision of the field.

Papers presented at the previous edition (COPS'05) can be found here.

Workshop Topics

We seek high-quality and original contributions on the general theme of "Collaborative Information Systems and P2P Computing". The following is a non-exhaustive list of topics of special interest:

Important dates

Program Committee Co-Chairs

Program Committee

Submission Details

COPS 2006 intends to bring together researchers and practitioners to discuss the key issues, approaches, open problems, innovative applications, and trends in this research area.

Papers should contain original contributions not published or submitted elsewhere, and references to related state-of-the-art work. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their views of the field at the oral presentation. Papers up to six pages (including figures, tables and references) can be submitted. Papers should follow the IEEE format, which is single spaced, two columns, 10 pt Times/Roman font. Papers should include a title, the name and affiliation of each author, an abstract of up to 150 words and no more than eight keywords. Authors should also provide contact addresses, if different from the submitting electronic address. All submissions should be electronic (in PDF) and will be peer-reviewed by at least three program committee members.

Full papers accepted for the workshop will be included in the proceedings, published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Note that  at least one author from each accepted paper should register to attend WETICE06 to get the paper published in the Post-conference Proceedings

If you have further questions or remarks, please do not hesitate to contact the workshop co-chairs.

Please submit your paper through this link.