CTS2013 Introduction May Sheraton San Diego Geoffrey Fox School of Informatics and Computing Digital Science Center Indiana University Bloomington

The International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems A Short History 1999 Oakland, Michigan 2000 Las Vegas, Nevada 2002 San Antonio, Texas 2003 Orlando, Florida (my first) 2004 San Diego, California 2005 Saint Louis, Missouri 2006 Las Vegas, Nevada 2007 Orlando, Florida 2008 Irvine California 2009 Baltimore, Maryland 2010 Chicago, Illinois 2011 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2012 Denver, Colorado 2013 San Diego, California

Conference Scope As usual this year’s conference spans collaboration technologies through HCI via social networking/computing, Big Data, P2P, devices/sensors, e-health, semantic web, security, robotics, gaming, crowd sourcing, emergency response, communities, design, innovation, learning and MOOC’s.

Big Data Ecosystem in One Sentence Use Clouds running Data Analytics Collaboratively processing Big Data to solve problems in X-Informatics ( or e-X) accessed with light weight clients X = Astronomy, Biology, Biomedicine, Business, Chemistry, Crisis, Energy, Environment, Finance, Health, Intelligence, Lifestyle, Marketing, Medicine, Pathology, Policy, Radar, Security, Sensor, Social, Sustainability, Wealth and Wellness Spans Industry (AHEAD?) and Science (research)

Social Informatics

Conference Statistics I There was a total of 153 paper submissions to main and all other tracks from 37 countries. The top five countries with most submissions were: the USA with about 36%, followed by Italy (9.6%) France (7.4%), Germany (4.8%), and Saudi Arabia (4%). In the main track, each manuscript underwent a minimum of four rigorous reviews plus two independent evaluations. The acceptance rate this year was about 34.21% (26 papers were accepted in the main track out of 76 submitted).

Conference Statistics II Sixty-one manuscripts were accepted in the symposia, workshops and special sessions, 8 invited talks, 4 poster papers, 3 doctoral dissertation colloquium abstracts, and 6 research posters abstracts. The Conference has ten symposia, workshops and special sessions, all with rigorously reviewed papers (a minimum of three reviews per manuscript). Each of the symposia, workshops and special sessions handled their papers separately but maintained similar standards for paper evaluation and acceptance as much as possible. The proceedings include a total of 104 contributions (regular papers, short papers, poster papers, extended abstracts, etc.), both invited and accepted from the submissions.