Group 2007 Submission Scope

GROUP ‘07 seeks to bring together researchers and practitioners from different areas working on the development, introduction, management, deployment, and analysis of computer-based collaborative systems. We particularly encourage submissions and participation from industry. Suggested topics include but are not limited to:

Organizational and Social Issues:

Experiences with the computing applications that support group or organizational processes
Organizational Change and its relationship to Information Technologies
Understanding and modelling of groups or organizations
Strategies and solutions for the integration of emerging Internet businesses
New computer-enabled forms of organization
Distributed work in outsourcing and off-shoring settings
Digital communities: experiences and evaluation
Collaboratories and distributed scientific work
Organizational re-use of information
Appropriation processes and technical support
Impacts of wireless, mobile and wearable technologies on cooperative work
New forms of Internet behavior, including peer-to-peer, blogs, and social network-based systems
New forms of education, entertainment and social relations based on cooperation technologies
Social aspects of globally distributed computing and new cooperative work technologies

Technical and Implementation Issues:

Organizational computing systems and infrastructure
Innovative groupware solutions and technologies
Coordination and workflow technology
Collaborative components in standard IT systems, such as ERP or CAD systems
Communityware and Social Software
Cooperative knowledge management, organizational learning and organizational memory
Tailorability and End User Developments
Highly flexible architectures, such as service- and component-based systems
Innovative forms of human-computer interaction for cooperative technologies