Preface

It is our great pleasure to present to you the proceedings of the 8^th IEEE International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing (CollaborateCom 2012) held in Pittsburgh, PA, USA on Oct 14 –17, 2012. CollaborateCom 2012 has been co-sponsored by the European Alliance for Innovation (EAI) and by the IEEE Computer Society, and technically co-sponsored by Create-Net.