Abstract :
Summary form only given, as follows. Internet has become the ubiquitous fabric that enabled the growth of infrastructures, applications, and technologies that significantly enhance global interactions and collaborations with significant and increasing impact on society. Unprecedented cyber-social and cyber-physical infrastructures, systems, and applications that span geographic boundaries are becoming reality. Technology has evolved from standalone tools to open systems supporting collaboration in multi-organizational settings, and from general purpose tools to specialized collaboration platforms. Increasingly, individuals and organizations have relied on Internet-enabled collaboration between distributed teams of humans, computer applications, or autonomous robots to achieve higher productivity and produce collaboratively developed products that would have been infeasible just a few years ago. This panel will explore and debate on the challenges and research directions related to Collaboration and Internet computing areas. Some key issues that will be discussed in this panel are, but not limited to: (1) What are new key challenges in systems, applications and networking areas related to CIC? Are there specific limitations in these areas that need a fundamental redesign? (2) How are the global safety, security and privacy issues reshaping within the context of the CIC area? (3) What are potential transformative, killer applications that CIC can enable and what are the challenges towards achieving them? A record of the panel discussion was not made available for publication as part of the conference proceedings.
Keywords :
"Collaboration","Internet","Open systems","Computer applications"
