Transcript CTS2013 Introduction May 21 2013 Sheraton San Diego Geoffrey Fox [email protected] http://www.infomall.org http://www.futuregrid.org School of Informatics and Computing Digital Science Center Indiana University Bloomington.

CTS2013 Introduction
May 21 2013
Sheraton San Diego
Geoffrey Fox
[email protected]
http://www.infomall.org http://www.futuregrid.org
School of Informatics and Computing
Digital Science Center
Indiana University Bloomington
The International Conference on Collaboration
Technologies and Systems
A Short History
1999
2000
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
Oakland, Michigan
Las Vegas, Nevada
San Antonio, Texas
Orlando, Florida (my first)
San Diego, California
Saint Louis, Missouri
Las Vegas, Nevada
Orlando, Florida
Irvine California
Baltimore, Maryland
Chicago, Illinois
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Denver, Colorado
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.