The 4th International Workshop on Collaborative Online Organizations - Singapore: MAY 10, 2016 - http://www2.cs.siu.edu/~mas/coos16/ - Organized in conjunction with AAMAS 2016
- [ Scope ]: There is a strong ongoing trend for traditional organizations to adapt to socially networked nature of human population. This trend allows organizations to be transformed from brick and mortar to a more online nature. In the collaborative online organizations workshop, we aim to understand the current range of nascent network centric organizations. At one end of the spectrum, this includes human efforts to form collaborative units. On the other end of the spectrum, we seek to understand techniques and methodologies for constructing online agent organizations that represent interests of their human counterparts and take actions autonomously. This workshop will reflect the impacts of social network proliferation and start of agent systems that exploit and explore opportunities heralded by the social media and ever faster pace of interconnectivity. Agents must multitask. Beyond performing their design tasks, they must be aware of the social climate of their environment. They must account for interactions with other agents and humans so as to perform social acts in order to complement their physical and speech acts. Substantial amount of research work is ongoing in distributed knowledge management. Therefore, COOS workshop emphasizes the operational elements of social networks that facilitate elements of online organization. Since this is the growing workshop on this topic, we continue to generate interest for a more in depth and wider span of explorations into the future. Social as well as cognitive foundations surrounding collaborative organizations are of special interest and the focal theme for 2016. This theme includes nature of interactions among individuals engaged in meaningful exchange. Network of interactions in organizations generate and reflect social behaviors embedded in collaboration networks that play central role for their continued functioning and maintenance. Explorations of roles of social capital are within the scope. - [ Topics include but not limited to ]: * Agents-based collaborative environments * Architectures of cognitively reasoned interactions * Cooperation and collaboration mechanisms * Collaborative architectures, infrastructures, intelligence, services, filtering or games * Collaborative social networks and web-based collaboration * Cloud-based collaboration and crowdsourcing * Collective benefits of political fallouts and economic externalities * Computational models of organizations * Digital communities and virtual organizations * Distributed technologies for group collaboration * Globalized networks and grid alliances * Human/robot collaboration * Network-centric warfare * Networked individualism * Networked organizations * Social capital and human-centric based group collaboration * Social networks and community discovery * Social computing and inter-cultural collaboration * Theoretical aspects of distributed collaboration - [ Important Dates ]: Paper Submission: February 1, 2016 Author Notification: March 7, 2016 - For submission instructions and more information, visit: http://www2.cs.siu.edu/~mas/coos16/
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